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Disquiet Junto Project 0580: Evo Evol Evolve

The Assignment: Record a piece of music that develops like an organism evolves.

Step 1: You’re going to record a piece of music informed by evolution. Think of stages of evolution, perhaps choosing a specific animal or other life form that evolved over time.

Step 2: Record a piece of music that evolves as it proceeds, based on the patterns (phases, stages) you explored in Step 1. And yes, animals that went extinct are a potential subject.

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Track notes:

I took my inspiration from the long evolution of insect species on the planet, considering the vast scale of evolution from primordial epochs up to the present, where insect species are front-and-centre in the Sixth Great Extinction of the late Anthropocene.

SuperCollider came to mind again as a tool for realisation, since I had ‘traditional’ forms of ‘computer music’ in mind - especially Bernard Parmegiani’s epic La Creatione De Monde (1984)

Now, obviously I don’t have a) a year up my sleeve; and b) the coding faculty in SC to pull off such a gargantuan feat, but I thought it might be a cool point of reference that I could fold into my current understanding (as a beginner) in the SC environment.

Recently I got to grips with buffering audio samples and using sequences to control various patterns - both melodic and percussive. I created a couple of dictionaries of short percussive samples (kalimba, woodblock and guiro) as well as instantiating a couple of Synth objects that produce pure waves. The percussive sounds turned out well when triggered, sequenced and manipulated and I liked the interplay with the pure waves.

My track is a bit longer than my usual submissions (~6 mins) but I thought I needed a decent span of time to realise a time compression of a few hundred million years of evolution.

For the realisation, I live-coded from the initial script (see GitHub link below) and then adjusted various parameters, arguments and variable throughout. The idea was to start amongst the matter of the cosmos and then gradually render a semblance of life on Earth. Eventually, an abundance takes form, before the insect population starts to diminish at the close. It not strictly a linear progression; rather, a fairly wobbly negative exponential progression. I’m still getting to grips with controlling instruments on the fly in SC, but I think I’m improving.

I was happily surprised when I saw the spectrogram of this track. Its progression of blobs, smears and flurries of activity over a time series seemed fitting!

https://github.com/TristanLouthRobins/Supercollider/blob/main/junto0580-evo_compressor.scd.scd

[Disquiet_Junto_0580] Evo Compressor (w/SuperCollider)

I got the Buchla gateway drug, also known as the Korg Volca Modular for my birthday, and I'm hooked! This piece is entirely Volca Modular, including the reverb. I just added a little delay via the Korg NTS-1.

Phantom Oscillator - Westward Expansion

Grabado el 28 de julio de 2023, en Kam Estudio, La Plata, Argentina.

Grabación, mezcla y mastering: Javier Fraccione.
Arte: Juan Manuel Tejeda.

Batería: Cochi
Guitarra: Mariano

Resurgir

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Hallowed Hearts - Open Your Eye
Hangwire - This Fun Machine
Bootblacks - Traveling Light

Break

Black Rose Burning - Night Terror
Lathe Of  Heaven - At Monment Edge
Actors - Like U Want 2
Cold Showers - Silver
Creux Lies -Portal
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Black Rose Burning - Lightspeed
Syd dePalma - Cuerpo, Sombra, Y Espalda
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NOIR - Fallen
Fearing - When Night End (M!R!M Remix)

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Black Rose Burning - Black Sun Saturday
Urban Heat - Have you Ever?
Fall Shock - Synthetica
Kite - Jonny Boy
Slowdive - The Slab
Dead Leaf Echo - Heartland

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Black Rose Burning - Under Twin Sun (Remix)
Lovely Eddie - Knife
Horohaus - Heartland
A Cloud Of Ravens - Parable

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Social Order - Ready To rewind

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Latest album release from Forgotten Sectors!

Face Your Fears

British shoegaze phenoms BDRMM crush GIFT’s “Pez” into a million pieces in a new remix out August 17.
 
“Pez (BDRMM Remix)” grinds the Momentary Presence deep cut into pixie dust with trace elements of TJ Freda’s dreamy vocal melodies emulsified in a solution of energizing abstract electronica.
 
“This song is about shedding old baggage,” says Freda. “It’s such a freeing feeling.”
 
GIFT—“Pez (BDRMM Remix)” is out August 17, 2023—only on Dedstrange.

GIFT - Pez (BDRMM Remix)

A Sexy banging new  track from Face Dada, one for dem naughty ladies out there...LOL....Pls Listen and enjoy.

Freaky(Bring It Come Here) - FACE DADA

Taken from my 3rd Mixtape // Hold U 2 Something
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Presented by Shut Up, Nakiah Records
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Recorded and Produced by @Nakiahs
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Silver Dreams // BREAKING U [Single]

Silver Dreams // BREAKING U

Always On My Mind

Excerpt from the upcoming and unfortunately, the last EP by Music For Sleep, titled "Neo-Romantic."
"Neo-Romantic" will be available for pre-order (10" lathe cut vinyl / Digital) on October 27, 2023.
Release date: November 3, 2023.

Copyright © 2023 ROHS! RECORDS, All Rights Reserved

excerpt - Music For Sleep - Wings Of A Wish | MFS

Naviar Haiku 510

in pre-dawn darkness
the avant-garde soundtrack
of orchestral rainfall

Elliot Carson is a teacher living in Japan who doubles as an artist/designer/translator in his free time. He writes haiku under the pen name EKC and is currently working to self-publish his first book of haiku.

To participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Haiku by Elliot Carson https://www.instagram.com/i.write.haiku/

Picture by Lazarescu Alexandra https://unsplash.com/photos/vRiylUiR6ew

The Soul's Rainy Night

The Soul's Rainy Night (NaviarHaiku510)

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