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Mutable Cicada_3 (disquiet0580)

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halF evolvE [disquiet0580]

Disquiet Junto Project 0580: Evo Evol Evolve
The Assignment: Record a piece of music that develops like an organism evolves.

Out of curiosity, I had just bought a sequencer called ZOA, so I decided to go with the "Game of Life" approach of this sequencer (chances are I'm not alone in this). In case you're not familiar with the concept: Conway's Game of Life is a cellular model of evolution in which the life of each cell depends on the life of neighboring cells. In ZOA, each cell is a note and four sequencers play these notes according to additional rules. ZOA adds features like MIDI, and I liked that a lot. 

What I didn't like was the randomness of the melodies, but hey, isn't life random in the first place? (Big debate… let's say: Sometimes it feels random...) I had pushed the development by changing the probability of the notes by hand. If the game of life had come to a halt with some dead pattern, I would have used that, but I didn't want to force it.

I played with many instruments and patterns, but in the end I reduced it to two tracks of eighth notes. For the beginning and the end I chose a cheap fade-in, fade-out, because life came quietly and very slowly out of nowhere, and I think that according to current scientific knowledge, one day it will end like that and just fade out.

Self verdict: The track is soulless and meaningless, like the evolution of life, which need not mean that listeners could not hear either soul or meaning in it if they felt like it.

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ZOA (Mac/iOS)
https://www.audiosymmetric.com/zoa.html
I'm in no way affiliated with it and there are many alternative MIDI tools doing "life" patterns. ZOA is not without its limits, but I found it a very interesting addition to my pattern park.

LIFE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life

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What Comes Up Must Come Down [disquiet0580]

This was my contribution for the Disquiet Junto Project 0580:Evo Evil Evolve.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0580 discussion thread:
This is my interpretation of the evolution of plant communities through the ages – from the smallest of flora to massive forests. It's also an imagining of photosynthesis beginning with the first rays of morning sunlight.

I initially created this over a year ago but ended up totally reworking most of it for this project. The final couple minutes is a little too over-the-top than what I would have liked, but I decided to keep it rather than rework that section. 

Main audio was created on an iPad using Spectrum Modal, Zoa and Xynthesizr apps, and imported into Ableton Live. Supporting tracks were added using FRMS, Pigments, and Minifreak V software instruments. Forest image by Casey Horner via Unsplash.

More on this 580th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Evo Evol Evolve (The Assignment: Record a piece of music that develops like an organism evolves), at: Disquiet Junto Project 0580: Evo Evol Evolve – Disquiet
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Sifting Morning Light [disquiet0580]

The life of a plant kept springing to mind, full of life, growing new shoots breaking then eventually changing colour and beginning a slow decay into lifelessness, returning to the earth.

I recorded a short organ loop to cassette, ran that into the CalSynth Rangoon, split into ALA cumulus and used 4x LFOs to vary amplitudes over time.

Tascam ministudio DS -> Split into CalSynth Rangoon + ALA Cumulus + one dry signal. All outputs into ALM Tangle quartet with 4x LFOs applied to the CV inputs. Some light master FX applied in Ableton.
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Death and technicolor [disquiet0580]

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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Because of this prompt I have been grappling more than usual with half-baked wonderings such as: how might individual-level agency, curiosity and desire eventually contribute to the sum total of evolution if even at all? What does it mean to think of mutations as risky miniature acts of selective rebellion? And how does it feel subjectively for each life form to find themselves as tiny unwitting participants within vast unfolding and unfathomable processes? 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

I decided that mainly I wanted to use the prompt as an excuse to try to take the perspective of an emergent proto octopus - I love that they are some of our most distant and mysterious evolutionary relatives. Well the resulting track is my emotional response to some of these vague, re-volving and unresolved themes anyway. It is perhaps one of the most amorphous things I have ever allowed myself to create so far.

Animoog Z was the only synth I used this time. Oh and I used some aquatic samples to modify a few of my timbres too. This was a fun feature to tinker with.

I dabbled with ZOA generative sequencer in iOS, and incorporated factors of 8 wherever possible, in an attempt to embed some kind of simplistic nod to evolutionary processes. I have also obviously tried to layer my sounds incrementally, to suggest emerging and merging mutations and complexity. But in the end this was all just a jumping-off point for something more intuitive and emotionally exploratory. I enjoyed this prompt, even though the results feel unfinished to me.

Image credit: NOAA Ocean Exploration & Research from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Proto Octopian disquiet0580

I love the water drip sound of the original sample - I hear it as "tapati" and used it as is as the center of the piece. Just riffed on it on GarageBand. So, not a partita but a tapatita...

More on this 581st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Helsinki Downspout (The Assignment: Use a rhythmic field recording as the foundation for a new track), at: https://disquiet.com/0581/

Thanks to Scott Fletcher for having provided the original material. It is used thanks to a Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0). Original track at: https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/helsinki-downspout/

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SF Tapatita (disquiet0581)

All the sounds in this track are generated from the original field recording.

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Downspout Drone (disquiet0581)

Track released in 2021. I forgot but I really like it. So I upload it here. Enjoy !
You can download it / "Name your price" here : https://leonardlampion.bandcamp.com/track/white-monday-in-a-can

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White Monday In a Can

Composed with Edith Progue & Humans by billions
Voices & whispers by Jean-Yves Leloup, Aline Can Dance, Héloïse Blume
Text taken from "Discours de Suède" (Albert Camus) 

Quiet Voices (with Edith Progue) - Slow Fall (2025) (final version - unmastered - unreleased)

Dark ambient soundscapes for your pleasure, relax, chillout and enjoy.

Proto Octopian disquiet0580

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