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Images associated with this project drawn from Flickr.com and used thanks to a Creative Commons license allowing for non-commercial adaptation:

Lars Hammar
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Marc West
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Tom Coates
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Stuart
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Pedrik
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Babak Fakhamzadeh
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Tom Blackwell
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Simon Bierwald
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Chris Maytag
https://flic.kr/p/BgSC

Alan
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verysubmm
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Smallbrainfield
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inkelv1122
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Disquiet Junto Project 0453: Dial Up

Disquiet Junto

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More on this 515th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Talking Cure (The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room) — at: Disquiet Junto Project 0515: Talking Cure

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Image credit: Lamont Hall, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Waiting room, 1956. Public domain.

look after yourself (disquiet0515)

More on this 516th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Outside In (Co/Exist 1 of 3) (The Assignment: Record a minute or two of nature) – at: https://disquiet.com/0516/ 1

This is the first of a three-part project sequence. You can participate in all three parts, or any two of the three, or even just any one of them. Part one began on November 18, part two will begin on November 25, and part three will begin on December 2. Thanks to Alan Bland and Mark Lentczner for having proposed the project.

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Walthamstow Wetlands (disquiet0516)

More on this 517th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Inside Out (Co/Exist 2 of 3) (The Assignment: Record a minute or two of nature) – at: https://disquiet.com/0517/

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Piccadilly Circus, London (disquiet0517)

More on this 524th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Sunset Waveform (The Assignment: Read a photo like a graphic score) – at: https://disquiet.com/0524/

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(disquiet0524)

Field recordings, OP-1, Beads and Mimeophon.

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Major thanks to Eanna Butler for helping come up with this project:

More on this 529th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Squared Off (The Assignment: Explore the number 23) – at: https://disquiet.com/0529/

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(disquiet0529)

In this project, I imagine a 'first contact' scenario where a distant species uses technology to communicate their existence to us.  There are 100 instances of a chord here.  Most are just the basic 5th but the top end of the chord is played to mark the prime numbers.  This seems a good way to communicate intelligence through sound, and the sound source is a relatively simple sine wave that would be the most utilitarian thing to use.

The chord is somber though because in the scenario I imagine, the human species is long extinct before the signal reaches earth.  There is no intelligent species left capable of recognizing prime numbers.  

I also added a large spacey reverb because it sounds nice and fits the theme.

disquiet0453 Seti

The SETI Institute posts an artistic challenge this month. This month’s was issued by the organization’s co-founder, Dr. Jill Tarter. (portrayed as Dr. Ellie Arroway in Contact). 
- In brief, the idea is to consider that First Contact between humans and extraterrestrials will likely be technologically mediated. “We use technology as a proxy for intelligence, and then we go looking with various types of telescopes and detectors to see if we can find evidence that somewhere else someone or something else has used technology to modify their environment in ways that we can sense over vast differences.”
-Consider what First Contact might be like elsewhere in the universe in light of Dr. Tarter’s challenge.
- Produce a piece in music/sound that responds to the challenge.

Synthesizers
Orchestral samples
Field recordings (explosions, space sounds)

Photo by @NASA

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Morse (Interstellar Chat) - disquiet0453

Field recordings of this world's technology processed electronically imagining an other world's technology.

More on this 453rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Dial Up (The Assignment: Imagine the technologically mediated First Contact through sound), at:

https://disquiet.com/0453/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

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First Contact [disquiet0453]

The envelope for the tones is provided by the Ornament & Crime module running its Viznutcracker program, so the aliens may recognize the "hope" equation (created by Royal Paw) that generates the pattern:

t*3&(t>>10)|t*12&(t>>10)|t*10&((t>>8)*55)&128

It sure looks alien to me! I also included frequencies below 40hz in case the aliens' hearing range is deeper than ours. You could also listen to this as though it's the kind of pop music that aliens might write...

More on this 453rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Dial Up (The Assignment: Imagine the technologically mediated First Contact through sound), at:

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Disquiet 0453

murmurer - Homage à Gordon Shumway [disquiet0453]

I like the idea that any intelligence we do detect won't be interested in us and just pass us by (see Arthur C. Clarke (don't want to spoiler the specific book), ʻOumuamua) so I imagined this piece as a sparse collection of different contacts across the vastness of space passing by from a distance.

I used contact mic, coil pickup and other field recordings with added reverb, delay and bit crushing along with sounds from 0-Coast and Jogging House's sample pack.

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More on this 453rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Dial Up (The Assignment: Imagine the technologically mediated First Contact through sound), at:

https://disquiet.com/0453/

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ʻOumuamua (disquiet0453)

David Stelfox