Swayzak (11/2/23)

nExow - Midnight Road [Out Now]

I figured this would be a simple composition exercise - something to get my mind back in the mode of composing. I thought about what I could do with a recording of ice in a glass, and I remembered some ChucK (http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/) scripts that tracked pitch. That's where I started.

The initial sound was recorded using my Android phone. Audacity was used to convert the file from 3GP to WAV.  

A total of six ChucK scripts were used to create this piece.

The "workhorse" script was based on a set of pitch trackers created by Rebecca Fiebrink and Ge Wang. The scripts were initially designed to take in microphone input, so I modified it so that it could use audio files as input. I refactored the code so that I could use the same sample multiple times and set the pitch created by the tracker's oscillator to use intervals of a third, fifth, or seventh.

I also refactored a ChucK demo script to create a function that played the sample file at 2% normal speed for a duration equal to 100 times the number of samples.

Playing the composition consisted of calling scripts to 
1) read the audio sample,
2) play three instances of the pitch tracking oscillator at three different intervals at different times, and 
3) play the slowed version of the audio file.

Recording consisted of running another ChucK script to record the piece for 230 seconds, fade out, then stop. I used Audacity again to adjust the volume of the final rendering.

Hope you enjoy!
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More on this 157th Disquiet Junto project — “Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something of it.” — at:

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Migration[disquiet157 - Icemusic2015]

Electromagnetic pulses emitted by Crab Nebula Pulsar (B0531+21), transposed to audible frequencies
IMAGE SOURCE: hubblesite.org
DATA SOURCE: European Pulsar Network Database Browser http://www.jb.man.ac.uk

Pulsar sonification

Voice generated from midi music sheet and lyrics in raw text format.

Shallow Midi2Voice

"Now class, open your books to page 32. We’re ‘bout to learn the fundamentals of 'THE BANGER'."

Here's one of the originals I made for SiIvaGunner's DJ Professor K takeover radio stream, under Jet Set Radio Evolution. I wanna give a HUGE shoutout to the big dude @nib-roc for letting me remix The Sound, one of the tracks he did for the SiIvaGunner King for a Day Tournament: https://soundcloud.com/nib-roc/the-sound
as seen on silvagunner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKq_uP0Gxjg

The Sound (Rude Lee Remix)

This is the second random chord progression from the article on Scribbletune.com https://scribbletune.com/examples/random-chords

Random Chord Progression 2

Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/K. Arcand, M. Russo & A. Santaguida

Chandra X-ray Observatory: Cassiopeia A, Silicon

Chandra X-ray Observatory: Galactic Sonification

Hey guys! This was my submission for the Skybreak Sample Competition and it got 6th place! I really tried to make something mindblowing and unique - so that's the result :)
I hope you'll all enjoy ^^
btw. the violin is self-recorded

Track on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/4xY6QycUS7LMH5IhuLxK91?si=vHu6G910QIuXMyI91IF5Hw

Also a big thank you to @iktorraus for giving me detailed Feedback <3

@skybreakofficial

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Snowflake (Skybreak Sample Competition)

Programmer, Poet, Science Fiction/Anime Geek - not necessarily in that order.
I think I know enough about music to be dangerous. 

I write poems and songs with science fictional elements. 
I write music with whatever software or code I can find or write myself. 
I use whatever musical genre works for the piece.
I am always searching for the "sense of wonder" and am amazed at where I find it.

Migration[disquiet157 - Icemusic2015]

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