Disquiet Junto Project 0595: Filter Progression
The Assignment: Make music by processing a static sound.

This project is the second of three that are being done in collaboration with the 2023 Musikfestival Bern, which will be held in Switzerland from September 6 through 10. The topic this year is « √ » — as the organization explains: “the radical, or square root symbol and the power of its symbolism are central to the festival and these will be translated into music in multifarious ways.” All three projects will engage with the work of Éliane Radigue, who is the Composer-in-Residence for the 2023 festival.

We are working at the invitation of Tobias Reber, an early Junto participant, who is in charge of the educational activities of the festival. This is the fifth year in a row that the Junto has collaborated with Musikfestival Bern.

Select recordings resulting from these three Disquiet Junto projects may be played and displayed throughout the festival.

Step 1: Choose a static sound, such as a field recording of a specific place, or a held tone, or a recording of noise.

Step 2: Experiment with animating the static sound selected from Step 1 by slowly, subtly, manually modulating it, using only filter frequency and resonance.

Step 3: Record a track resulting from the techniques you developed in Step 2.

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, May 29, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, May 25, 2023.

More on this 595th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Filter Progression (The Assignment: Make music by processing a static sound), at: https://disquiet.com/0595/

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Disquiet Junto Project 0595: Filter Progression

[disquiet0595] Minority

For this project I used a short orchestral sample and  stretched it x 1000 with PaulXStretch which resulted in a pretty constant hum. I then used three consecutive filters in AUM to shape the sound. As you (I) can only do so much (in a planned and coordinated way) with two hands and six knobs, I did several takes and chose one, that seemed closest to the task. I have to admit I probably failed the “slowly” and “subtly” parts of the task. The first because I manipulated the filters too fast, the second also because unexpected things happened.

Alas, the resulting track now consists of three parts of roughly one minute:
Part 1, truth, one filter (lp)
Part 2, good, an additional filter (2hp+lp)
Part 3, useful, an additional lpf.

More on this 595th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Filter Progression (The Assignment: Make music by processing a static sound), at: https://disquiet.com/0595/

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Disquiet0595 - Socrates

Recorded the undulating movement of washing rice in a bowl. Processed it with various resonating filters, flutter and saturation.

More on this 595th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Filter Progression (The Assignment: Make music by processing a static sound), at: https://disquiet.com/0595/

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Ricewash (disquiet0595)

A simple sine wave of 130 hz undergoes a series of resonant effects.

More on this 595th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Filter Progression (The Assignment: Make music by processing a static sound), at: https://disquiet.com/0595/

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Resonant Range (disquiet0595)

I saw organist Frédéric Blondy play Éliane Radigue's first work for organ, 'Occam Ocean XXV' at the Union Chapel, Islington in 2018, it was an incredible piece to hear played live. That performance and piece inspired me for an earlier Disquiet Junto (https://soundcloud.com/leonclowes/kept-an-octave-apart-disquiet0564) and this one too (https://soundcloud.com/leonclowes/disquiet0554).

So it was a delight to strip this back even further this week. Playing just the note F I recorded and panned this same note five times using the cinematic preset Still Moment on Logic Pro X, slowly manually adjusting the filter, filter gate, panner and harmonics for 111 bars at a 120 tempo. While it's all about the magic numbers (111) for me, I heard a glitch at just under 30 seconds in when I saved the track as a WAV file and opened it up on Audacity to add in a fade in and fade out (I don't know how to do that yet on Logic... tiny steps self training...)

More on this 595th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Filter Progression (The Assignment: Make music by processing a static sound), at: https://disquiet.com/0595/

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Filter Progression (disquiet0595)

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[disquiet0595] Filter Progression

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