Dirty live recording from the vaults. Improv on Roland 626 and Macbeth M5N with Optigan overdubs. August 2008.

Accident on 678 (2008)

VIDEO: https://vimeo.com/253374575

This is the third in a series of Disquiet Junto exercises, completing a trio
disquiet.com/2018/01/25/disquiet-junto-project-0317-triadic-awareness/

building on
disquiet0315 - Le Berger - soundcloud.com/leberger/violas-are-brown-disquiet0315
disquiet0316 - Total Energy - soundcloud.com/total_energy/violas-paw-disquiet0316-collab-wle-berger

custom drum pipeline in Bitwig 
with samples + synthesis 
using both humanized timing patterns
& algorithmic randomness
routed through analog video synthesizer
recorded live 2018-01-29

disquiet0317 - triadic awareness - feat. Total Energy and Le Berger

Quickly assembled out of field recordings made at the Firefly Arts Festival by @remixfirefly
Monarch caterpillar source photo CC-BY Sid Mosdell

Keep Your Temper, Said the Caterpillar

Keep Your Temper, Said the Caterpillar (Remix Firefly 2018)

After following the Junto for most of the year, I'm very happy to finally participate for the first time.  Since we're back at the starting project, I made a conscious decision to make what seemed like the simplest, most naively obvious choices, starting at 8pm EST on Monday.

Recorded 4 minutes of audio & video while shaking a 2" square ice cube in a large mason jar with a Zoom Q3 handheld recorder.

The recording is used unedited as a backing track. Small bits were pulled out to populate an Ableton drum rack and instrument.  The drum rack samples were trimmed and filtered; the instrument sample was trimmed and pitched.  No other edits were made to the audio. 

This piece employs three ValhallaDSP effects:  ÜberMod on the backing track with feedback automation, Room on the drum rack, and Shimmer on the melody. The MIDI Drum sequence was generated with Audio Damage Tattoo (sequencer only.)  Some additional effects are used in the last minute or so to avoid boredom.

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More on this 53rd Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/01/03/disquiet0053-ice2013/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Cannery Fog [disquiet0053-ice2013]

This was much less successful than my last Junto exercise, and I was a bit late, but, well, I put myself in a position where I had less than an hour to get it done.  

My plan could theoretically have been executed quickly: use my monome remix app Bigwing to record two live tracks, one playing Do in beat slice mode, the other playing Re in segment slice mode. Done in ten minutes!  Unfortunately this strategy could have benefited from some practice and refinement time.  There are still a few interesting moments, I hope.

Bigwing uses the Echo Nest analyzer API to automatically detect song events for remixing.  More about Bigwing:
http://docs.monome.org/doku.php?id=app:bigwing

I kept a running diary; here's how it went down:

11:23 Listen to the two source tracks and download the AIFFs.
11:30 Create Live set.  Import AIFFs and add a "metronome" track.
11:35 Realize the AIFFs are larger than the Echo Nest upload size limit. The MP3 archive is too slow to download.  Load the AIFFs into iTunes to encode them as M4A.  Wrestle with iTunes 11 considerably to achieve what used to be a simple operation.
11:48 Load Do.m4a into Bigwing.
11:50 Receive Echo Nest analysis in Bigwing. Set up Max to Live audio routing through Soundflower.
11:51 Play around with Do on the keys of the monome.
11:54 Insert reverb plug to smooth out stutters.
11:55 Hit record.
11:59 Load Re.m4a into Bigwing.  Set to slice by segments.
12:01 Receive analysis. Record Re segment improvisation.
12:07 Set levels and add master track FX.
12:09 Playback and rudimentary fader automation.
12:14 Export and upload.

The title comes an episode of Parks and Recreation that I'd watched the previous night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt3rEJrRDjE

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More on this 55th Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/01/17/disquiet0055-twoscrews/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

More on the Frahm project at:

http://reworked.nilsfrahm.com/

jazz + jazz = jazz [disquiet0055-twoscrews]

Three sine waves on a Macbeth M5N, recorded live.

More on this 60th Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/03/07/disquiet0062-lifeofsine

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Dewb