Disquiet Junto Project 0296: Clustered Primes

Created for Disquiet Junto Project 0296: Clustered Primes
the source material for this week’s project is a list of prime numbers. The list is the result of a contest that novelist Robin Sloan Ran recently.
I noticed that the prime numbers with more than one digit always end with 1-3-7 or 9. I decided to make some kind of pattern out of that;
So I took a 3 bar groove with three different time signatures; 3/4 + 7/4 + 9/4
Downloaded from freesound.org a human voice counting numbers, by mistake my first download was in Japanese, I couldn’t help keeping it. The JP voice is combined with an English human metronome counting down the irregular signature.
Then gradually transformed the mood of the groove (without altering the 3-7-9 beat pattern) to make it a more sequential-repetitive little track. The drums come back in the end but are superfluous for the most of the tracks IMHO.

Electric piano, samples, drums, synth bass, synths.
Created in Paris, France, 1st September 2017.


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379 grooving by (prime) numbers (disquiet0296)

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similar to a recent junto this is comprised of text-to-speech-to-music

just pasted the prime numbers into audition speech generation and then had a load of fx applied: delay, echo, guitar fuzz, chorus, convolution reverb, mastering

i wanted the numbers to be on the cusp of liminality

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Disquiet Junto Project 0296: Clustered Primes
Make music inspired by a prime-number query initiated by novelist Robin Sloan.

Step 1: The source material for this week’s project is a list of prime numbers. The list is the result of a contest that novelist Robin Sloan ran recently. In advance of the release of his new novel, Sourdough, which will be published on September 5, Sloan asked readers of his email newsletter to compete for an advance copy by submitting a prime number. The people who submitted the lowest prime numbers — and this next bit is important — that no one else submitted won a copy of the book. With that in mind, take a gander at the resulting CSV file of prime numbers here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1l9r1uncsmos0u0/primecountsmay2017.csv?dl=0

smallest primes -disquiet0296-

A Mersenne prime is a prime number that is one less than a power of two. It was developed in the 1600s by a French monk named Marin Mersenne. The Mersenne prime subsequence begins with the numbers 3, 7, 31, 127 and 2047, with 67108863 being the largest known Mersenne prime. Now you know.

Prime numbers have a special place in music history. Marin Mersenne himself was referred to as the "father of acoustics" for his seminal work on string vibrations. More recently, Three Dog Night sang Harry Nilsson's famous lyric "one is the loneliest number that you'll ever do," exactly twenty years before De La Soul reminded us that three is the magic number.

Suss Müsik studied the two columns of numbers in search of hidden dynamics. It would have been a delicious coincidence if the total number of submissions (1371) had been a prime, but the total went over by ten (the same number of participants who submitted the "magic number" three). 

We determined a semantic derived from Mersenne primes and programmed those figures into three drum machines at a tempo of 111 BPM. The modulations were coupled with a simple piano polyrhythm played in threes and sevens at counts of ten and twenty-two. It got a bit confusing after a while, so we packed it in at exactly 3:53.

The piece is titled Mersenne. The image shows three nuts from a hickory tree, of which there are 19 species.

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Mersenne [Disquiet0296]

Studying the SV file of prime numbers a while, I noticed that there two triplets of prime numbers which submitted each from 11 people:

103			313			
107			317
109			331

Thinking about, I decided to go further with these 6 x 11 = 66.

And than the cosmos explodes when you're looking for interpetation and meaning for 66!!!

I create a 6/4 beat with elastic drums on my ipad played guitar with samplr and 66 comes up....have fun!!

66 (disquiet0296)

Questionable accompanying video- https://youtu.be/OcqNmtHeOiU
Nineteen in B(disquiet0296)
Spreadsheets and large groups of numbers give me a headache, but one thing that stood out before I was incapacitated, nineteen people picked the number 19. This was obvious sign to stop looking at numbers on a grid and make some noise. I thought an experiment in Cubasis utilizing nineteen different synths could be interesting and answer some questions about limitations with Inter App Audio in iOS. Okay, actually only eighteen and a drum kit from Cubasis. After fifteen it got a little painful loading new track instruments and honestly, it was getting tough adding complimentary sounds as well. But with track freezing, placement and mixing board work, something that resembles all the sounds that make you grit your teeth was born! 
I T ’ S   A L I V E !!
Stuff used:
Animoog
Alchemy
Crystal XT
FM4
mood
SynthQ
Sunrizer
Thor
Waldorf Nave (2 patches, one bounced)
Yonac KASPAR
Yonac Magellan
Nanologue
Microcoque (2 different MIDI patches)
iVCS3 
TF7Soundscaper
Thereminator
B major was the root and a modified and distorted Nine EFX kit made the beats.
Hope the pain inflicted is only temporary, I’ll let you know when mine clears ;-D

More on this 296th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Clustered Primes: Make music inspired by a prime-number query initiated by novelist Robin Sloan — at:

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Season of our Disquiet

Nineteen In B(disquiet0296)

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a longer and complete version is on you Tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jRQUEEspUA
Being ill this week, I perhaps am not in the best shape for this task. I started off with the ambient track running through this track, recording a guitar-riff in prime time intervals: 3 - 5 - 2 - 7 - 1.  Then I wanted to record some drums and bass to it....and I ended up deleting the guitar-riff, and  attempting to play on the guitar notes in likewise intervals in the midsection.
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3.9.17 W:I:L - Prime-Time Clusters[disquiet0296]

4:09 (disquiet0296)

I made a series of Pure Data patches that read through sections of the CSV data and used it to create several audio files, which were then arranged in Reaper and treated with EQ, saturation, and reverb.

More on this 296th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Clustered Primes: Make music inspired by a prime-number query initiated by novelist Robin Sloan — at:
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https://disquiet.com/junto/

More from Robin Sloan at:
https://www.robinsloan.com/

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Primary Colors (disquiet0296)

Started with some primes for the parameters, then messed around. The picture is about the Riemann zeta function which is important in the study of primes. 

More on this 296th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Clustered Primes: Make music inspired by a prime-number query initiated by novelist Robin Sloan — at:
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disquiet.com/junto/

More from Robin Sloan at:
www.robinsloan.com/

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Primes(disquiet0296)

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.