Condensation is a form of change, but this is only half of the story. Condensation is what happens when vapor transforms to a liquid state; evaporation is what happens when liquid changes back to vaporous form. It’s a constant, cyclical form of reclaiming what was lost.

Michael John Harris, author of the book The End of Absence, has an interesting perspective on loss vs. gain: “My child will never know the value of learning to read a map without GPS. This is the problem with losing lack: it’s nearly impossible to recall its value once it’s gone.“ 

Some cognitive scientists argue that digital media has rendered our brains into mush. Others believe that, like how the clouds above manage moisture content, it’s simply a matter of displacing one form of cognitive processing with another.

For this Junto project, Suss Müsik explored the cyclical nature of something being there and then not there. The original photo was scanned and rendered to high-contrast, which revealed two distinct patterns: the first a reasonably formed outline comprising a circle (we’ll call that v.1), the other a series of amorphous blobs (v.2). 

v.1 became the basis for a cyclical riff played on fake bass and a DIY synth device. v.2 was played by tracing a finger across a DIY piezo mic resonator (constructed from old hard drive enclosures) and passing the signal through a Meng Qi Wingie 2. Some sloppy piano was overdubbed; interruptions were designed per interpretation of the “score.”

The piece is titled after Hieronimo Squarciafico, the 15th-century Venetian editor who warned that the invention of the printing press would inhibit humankind’s ability to remember things. 

More on this 557th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Condensation Is a Form of Change (The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score that depicts four phases) — at: https://disquiet.com/0557/

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Squarciafico [Disquiet0557]

This is an experiment with Aphex Twin's new software Samplebrain. 

I used the following samples from freesound.org:
march warbler DeNoise 1149AM 210702_0300.wav by klankbeeld
Exotic Creature Song, 01.wav by InspectorJ
04845 andean flute short melody.wav by Robinhood76


More on this 561st weekly Disquiet Junto project – Samplelicker (The Assignment: Rework environmental sound recordings with Aphex Twin’s new software) – at: https://disquiet.com/0561/

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Flute Loop [Disquiet 0561]

Disquiet Junto Project 0561: Samplelicker
The Assignment: Rework environmental sound recordings with Aphex Twin’s new software.

Step 1: There’s a new piece of freely available software called Samplebrain. It was designed by Aphex Twin and developed by Dave Griffiths of Then Try This. Download Samplebrain and read up at:

https://gitlab.com/then-try-this/samplebrain 11

Step 2: Create a piece of music using Samplebrain. For source audio, only use sounds tagged “bird” or “rain” or “night” from freesound.org 4. Use as many as you like. Be sure to credit the source material when posting your finished track.

Track notes: 

I decided to use only two samples for this samplebrain composition: "Rain.wav" from idomusics as my 'brain' sound and the delightfully named "French men in the deep night.wav" from satoration as my target. 

Having been listening to a lot of Rolf Julius' small music lately, I'm impressed with the variances in pitch and dynamic to these textures and how interesting they might sound broadcast at very low volumes or with the stereo field separated out. I'm looking forward to experimenting more with the app!

Disquiet Junto

[Disquiet_Junto_0561] Glitched men in the deep night

Using Samplebrain I loaded seven clips of bird sounds from my own recordings with a short percussion track as the 'target'.

More on this 561st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Samplelicker (The Assignment: Rework environmental sound recordings with Aphex Twin’s new software) — at: https://disquiet.com/0561/

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Birdbrain Bash (disquiet0561)

freesound gave the most peaceful sounds:

1. 237729__flathill__rain-and-thunder-4
2. 608154__geri92__open-window-and-birds-singing-in-the-morning
3. Corona spring city 5am NL 200314_0119

then came samplebrain....
that's evil
thanks aphex

samplebraindisquiet0561marceisenschinknordstream

deep mess(disquiet0561)

Created using Samplebrain (https://gitlab.com/then-try-this/samplebrain) by feeding it several samples from Freesound: 
https://freesound.org/s/531947/
https://freesound.org/s/243629/
https://freesound.org/s/476202/
https://freesound.org/s/237729/

[disquiet0561] Brainfood

Created for the Disquiet Junto 0561:

"Create a piece of music using Samplebrain. For source audio, only use sounds tagged “bird” or “rain” or “night” from freesound.org 6. Use as many as you like. Be sure to credit the source material when posting your finished track."

Freesound samples:

Nightingale Session - https://freesound.org/people/Martineerok/sounds/242709/
Night Dogs - https://freesound.org/people/SubUnit_FieldRec/sounds/126948/
Jungle night dark atmo: https://freesound.org/people/szegvari/sounds/577790/
Motor in calm city: https://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/622153/
Long Night Violin Strings Sad Mood Dark Thriller Atmo Cinematic: https://freesound.org/people/szegvari/sounds/618143/
Rain Against the Jeep From the Interior 9-20-22: https://freesound.org/people/Fredbjammin/sounds/650969/
Tin roof rain: https://freesound.org/people/cemagar/sounds/120352/
Huge Thunderclap: https://freesound.org/people/Fission9/sounds/576041/
Rain From Under An Umbrella: https://freesound.org/people/jordanrainer325/sounds/534929/ 



Arranged / Mixed in Ableton

Samplelicker (disquiet0561)

[disquiet0563] One Day

20221202 MIDI Piano Variations [disquiet0570]

Months of hearing my kids playing bits of Rush E (Andrew Wrangell) on and off of the piano have inspired a couple MIDI piano pieces.  This second one uses a few different modes and/or keys and is in the style of a duet that has simple beginnings.

Auxy 6 project: https://app.auxy.co/projects/1RuCBtKRqKdqqhvVylJIuA==
Image:  Wombo dream
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More on this 570th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Key Change (The Assignment: Make music that changes keys) — at: https://disquiet.com/0570/

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20221202 MIDI Piano Variations [disquiet0570]

A drum/percussion track for Disquiet Junto 0572: Rhythm Kit. Instruction: Record a beat with the intension that someone other than yourself will add something to it at a later date. 

These sounds were recorded during live jam with Creatures Once bandmate Monstrosus on Dec 10. We played live on some iOS apps conrolled by Korg nano keys, the Alesis e-drum kit, and Drumbrute Impact. We're both drummers as a first instrument so we always have fun with the drums. Had some other instrument sounds going in the jam, but took those out for this rhythm kit version. Arrangement kinds of follows how the jam played out, with M going off on the e-drums to cap things off. Hope someone in the Junto enjoys this beat! 
My family baked biscotti while I edited this, then we had a nice cuppa chai to go along.

More on this 572nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Rhythm Kit (The Assignment: Make a beat that someone else will add to) — at: https://disquiet.com/0572/

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Biscotti and Chai Rhythm Kit - [disquiet0572]

The Pepper Jelly and HNY samples make the majority of rhythm in this piece. The “Autista 3” sample is a little buried in the middle, where there is less percussion. 

The "lyrics" were randomly generated by WriterBot at http://writerbot.com/lyrics and synthesized at http://www.fromtexttospeech.com/  I had hopes of matching the monotone vocals to a melody of keyboard notes but that is beyond Garageband for now.

The final vocals are a synthesized Thomas Piketty quote from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2016/feb/16/thomas-piketty-bernie-sanders-us-election-2016 -- I wanted something a little more "statement" oriented but running out of time. 

The guitars throughout are from guitar stems I recorded months ago in order to use for textures, and not recorded while working on this project. The protesters at the end are from a free field recordings site, SoundTransit: http://archive.turbulence.org/soundtransit/search/sounds.php

I come back over and over again to an idea of using sound samples, generated text, and synthesized voices to make deconstructed pop songs. I want to make them more "catchy" than the results, which to me sound like someone trying to manually recreate AI song generation, lol

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More on this 233rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Make one track from three different netlabels, courtesy of a Creative Commons license” — at:  http://disquiet.com/0233/

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http://disquiet.com/junto/

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http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Manipulating a Machine

Glance Back For An Instant

Buy it on Bandcamp

Glance Back For An Instant [disquiet0233]

Support our music on bandcamp! Out now: 
"Manipulating a Machine" - Late-night headphone music - August 2019:
https://cryptohelix.bandcamp.com/album/manipulating-a-machine?mysrc=sc

"Future Funerals", just released Nov. 2018 - 5 songs:
https://cryptohelix.bandcamp.com/album/future-funerals?mysrc=sc

3 more songs on a single, from 2015:
https://cryptohelix.bandcamp.com/album/3-song-45?mysrc=sc

"Traveling back/in time/from our best/future imaginations."

Glance Back For An Instant [disquiet0233]

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