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Disquiet Junto Project 0412: One Chord Wonder

m4l mt.sev sequencing Konkakt instruments

Disquiet Junto Project 0412: One Chord Wonder
The Assignment: Play an extended chord where the instrumentation of each note changes as the piece proceeds.

Step 1: Choose a chord, any chord.

Step 2: Make a list of the notes that the chord is comprised of.

Step 3: Record a piece of music in which each of the notes in the chord are played by different instruments (more broadly: different sound sources).

Step 4: As the piece proceeds, change each of the instruments/sources, while never altering the notes that make up the chord.

Seven More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0412” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your track.

Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0412” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation of a project playlist.

Step 3: Upload your track. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your track.

Step 4: Post your track in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co:

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Step 5: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: If posting on social media, please consider using the hashtag #disquietjunto so fellow participants are more likely to locate your communication.

Step 7: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Additional Details:

Deadline: This project’s deadline is Monday, November 25, 2019, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, November 21, 2019.

Length: The length is up to you.

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Upload: When participating in this project, post one finished track with the project tag, and be sure to include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

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More on this 412th weekly Disquiet Junto project — One Chord Wonder / The Assignment: Play an extended chord where the instrumentation of each note changes as the piece proceeds:

https://disquiet.com/0412/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

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There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this track is by Juan Carlos Bulas Osorio, and is used (image cropped, text added) via Flickr thanks to a Creative Commons license:

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112019001 disquiet0412

The chord is A7 sus 4; the music is played by 21 STK instruments in ChucK. The overall gain gradually cycles via an LFO. On each pass, each instrument is randomly assigned a note. The LFO also influences the overall velocity for each note, which is drawn from a random distribution for each instrument on each play of the chord. The placement in the stereo field is also randomized. The length of each chord is also subject to a small degree of randomness. I run multiple overlapping versions of the code that use various inversions. 

code here: https://github.com/charliekramer/ChucK/blob/master/disquiet0412.ck

More on this 412th weekly Disquiet Junto project — One Chord Wonder / The Assignment: Play an extended chord where the instrumentation of each note changes as the piece proceeds:

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More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

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There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this track is by Juan Carlos Bulas Osorio, and is used (image cropped, text added) via Flickr thanks to a Creative Commons license:

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Disquiet0412 One Chord Wonder

One 6 note chord, played in arpeggio (and a couple of times strummed) on 7 different instruments, both real and virtual.
Huge Lexicon reverb glues everything.

Paris, Friday 22nd November 2019 (happy birthday to me)

Disquiet Junto Project 0412: One Chord Wonder
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One Chord - disquiet0412

disquiet0412

This turned into a pretty fun little minimal techno jog.  The chord here is E major add 9, although it really isn't because the voices and oscillators are not tuned to E.  The joys of quantized sequencing plus Modular (VCV in this case).  I wanted to do everything in VCV Rack, because its self contained and easy for me to get something out, so you are hearing 8 plaits, which are all in tune.  The Pitch and Gates are being sent out via the new browser based version of Orca (the live coding tool).  Befaco rampage providing envelopes for percussion.  

My 4 instruments here are 4 voices provided by the Vocal and speech synthesis modes of Plaits.  Some compression, mixing, recording and reverb applied to taste.

Hula_Hu_Hulu_disquiet0412

Disquiet Junto Project 0412: One Chord Wonder
The Assignment: Play an extended chord where the instrumentation of each note changes as the piece proceeds.

Step 1: Choose a chord, any chord.

Step 2: Make a list of the notes that the chord is comprised of.

Step 3: Record a piece of music in which each of the notes in the chord are played by different instruments (more broadly: different sound sources).

Step 4: As the piece proceeds, change each of the instruments/sources, while never altering the notes that make up the chord.

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Track notes: What a horrendously bleak week it's been. I'm a bit haunted and depressed by the climate change-induced bushfires which are currently burning my country (AU) alive at the moment. Not to mention the complete lack of action/leadership from our government. In particular, the viral video footage of a koala being rescued and literally screaming in agony is one of the most devastating things I think I've ever watched/heard. I feel like the country I grew up in - cultural, spiritual, environmental - is disappearing rapidly. So, I'm pretty down at the moment. Very down.

With that in mind, I approached this week's assignment by taking a bunch of instruments (vibes, wurli, mellotron, horns) and grafted them to a Fmaj7/9 chord (FACEG) with instruments coming and going across their assigned notes. I then processed them slightly, exported and then crudely tuned the track down in Audacity by an octave. It's a pretty accurate sonic representation of my state of mind at present.

[disquiet0412] down, down

One chord on onechord. Dminor. A good November Chord :)

Several versions of una corda piano plays different parts of an arpeggio over the single chord - with added rythms and effects from (very) different sources. At the end - a human voice drops in to lay the chord to rest...

This a response to the weekly disquiet challenge.

More on this 412th weekly Disquiet Junto project — One Chord Wonder / The Assignment: Play an extended chord where the instrumentation of each note changes as the piece proceeds:

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disquiet0412 - oneone

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One Chord [disquiet0412]

The writing prompt at https://disquiet.com/2019/11/21/disquiet-junto-project-0412-one-chord-wonder/ tickled my interest; and I've been listening to "(no pussyfooting)" a lot lately so thought of a little tribute to that record over my favorite chord, "F/G" (or F, A, C over a G pedal) which I use all the time before I resolve.

The track was made in two parts. The core synthesis were three configurations of (mostly) surge-for-rack in VCV Rack (using a few plugins from other packs). Then render that out and drop it into logic and play a guitar over it.

Rack patch here : https://patchstorage.com/disquiet412-backing-tracks/

One Chord (disquiet0412)

Disquiet Junto Project 0412: One Chord Wonder. The Assignment: Play an extended chord where the instrumentation of each note changes as the piece proceeds.

I really just threw in notes until it felt halfway good at some point. It's GmM7, a minor major seventh chord. Here it's always G,B♭,D, F♯ without inversion, to stay true to the assignment (but I did not change the octave range of the selected instruments). 

Track cover based on a photo by Adrian Swancar:
https://unsplash.com/photos/-1h4WjV_OY4

More on this 412th weekly Disquiet Junto project — One Chord Wonder / The Assignment: Play an extended chord where the instrumentation of each note changes as the piece proceeds:
https://disquiet.com/0412/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0412-one-chord-wonder/

A Stumpy Chord [disquiet0412]

Three soft-synths, each playing a separate note of Csus4, with modulated waveshapes, filter frequency and resonance gradually sent into delays and reverbs. Then, converted to half speed (the best speed) with the PaulStretch algorithm.
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More on this 412th weekly Disquiet Junto project — One Chord Wonder / The Assignment: Play an extended chord where the instrumentation of each note changes as the piece proceeds:

https://disquiet.com/0412/ 1

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

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There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Csus4 (disquiet0412)

I used 4 instruments: Granular II, Grand Piano, Electric Bass (recorded)and adornable, all of them playing the chord Cmaj7#5 in different octaves. I love this chord and the mystery around it.

Photo by Sasha Freemind on Unsplash

One Way - disquiet0412

More on this 412th weekly Disquiet Junto project — One Chord Wonder / The Assignment: Play an extended chord where the instrumentation of each note changes as the piece proceeds:

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one note tell me not disquiet0412

Sines and Wonders [Disquiet412]

The chord is Asus4 each note (AEADE based on the open position guitar chord) is played by a swapping arrangement of the following instruments:
-ebowed electric guitar
-tuning fork
-a patch on the digital Skulpt synth
-Protools db-33 organ plug in.
The tuning forks have a lot of delay added to make a more continuous drone.

The whole mix is put through a filter gate pulsing the amplitude. The depth of this increases as the track progresses. The speed of the pulsing also ramps up from around 80 to 122bpm.. 
I tried for a subtle shifting of textures within a full wall of sound, while mixing I did struggle to find and deal with a lot of the peaking frequencies.
More on this 412th weekly Disquiet Junto project — One Chord Wonder / The Assignment: Play an extended chord where the instrumentation of each note changes as the piece proceeds:
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Sines and Wonders [Disquiet0412]

A Chord Of Sorts • disquiet0412

made from a flute, piano, and double bass sample - notes A, C, E
i adjust the pitch of each sample as the track goes along so you get a nice degradation over time
accidentally started to play it in reverse and liked how that sounded as a way of closing the track. added reverb for cohesion.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0412: One Chord Wonder
The Assignment: Play an extended chord where the instrumentation of each note changes as the piece proceeds.

Step 1: Choose a chord, any chord.

Step 2: Make a list of the notes that the chord is comprised of.

Step 3: Record a piece of music in which each of the notes in the chord are played by different instruments (more broadly: different sound sources).

Step 4: As the piece proceeds, change each of the instruments/sources, while never altering the notes that make up the chord.

monophony disquiet0412

Submission for the disquiet junto project 0412.

It's a D# min 11+ chord with a different sound source for each note of the chord.  MIdi patterns are different lengths to create a dynamic sound and each sound source is changed during the song.

Recorded live in Brainmodular Hollyhock 3 using in-built modules, Rob Papen synths and a range of Eventide effects.

Eleventh Wonder (disquiet0412)

My entry for the 412th Disquiet Junto project, "One Chord Wonder". All sounds from Ableton Live sample instruments. I chose ACE - A minor - for my chord as it's my go to chord when I start projects and I owe it recognition. I've always liked that it spells ace. It's a dirt simple chord, but it holds up.

I recorded this Saturday morning, then listened again Sunday...thought it was messy in the middle, so didn't post it. Monday morning I decided I need to judge my own work less harshly, so I'm posting it. It's messy in the middle, but like ACE - it holds its own.

More on this 412th weekly Disquiet Junto project — One Chord Wonder / The Assignment: Play an extended chord where the instrumentation of each note changes as the piece proceeds:

https://disquiet.com/0412/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

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There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

[disquiet0412] Press the Button, Forget

A quick take on this weeks Junto project, One chord wonder "disquiet0412"
Simple diminished F chord, 3 takes on the juno 60 with 3 voices and different ways to manipulate the sound of each note.

Disquiet0412 -(((one chord - Aural Antithesis

For the “One Chord Wonder”,challenge, I set out to build a drone in Supercollider, so I started with a EMF recording of an induction coil as a broad spectrum sound source.  This was then layered up to 37 times on top of itself, each pass randomly tuned using a band pass filter to one of the 5 notes of an Amajor9 chord – and each pass subjected to a slight randomly chosen change in rate and filter parameters to build a choral effect. I was hoping that the beats and harmonics generated by the layering would make it interesting.  In any case, here is the result!

Chordate(disquiet0412)

Disquiet0412

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.