I've been messing with some some self similar melody ideas, thanks to Tom Johnson's book of the same name. These patters are built on brief self similar melodies. 

More on this 169th Disquiet Junto project — “Make a track using only an HTML5 drum machine” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/03/26/disquiet0169-html505/

More on the drum machine at:

http://html5drummachine.com/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/


C63874e2 - 2ff5 - 4bc2 - B892 - 7497b7d50725 [disquiet0169-html505]

World Premiere and Commissioned by American Composers Orchestra at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 9, 2015, Conductor George Manahan

Sanctum, for orchestra and recorded sound, explores the sound of improvisation in Holiness-preaching traditions. I draw inspiration from recorded sermons, The Praying Slave Lady by Pastor Shirley Caesar, The Eagle Stirs His Nest by Reverend C. L. Franklin, and Reverend Charles Albert Tindley’s hymn, Stand By Me. Included are the voices of Marlene Pinnock and of activists in Ferguson, Missouri from 2014. Sanctum is my artistic response to recent events of police brutality. By employing techniques of layered repetition, rhythmic intensity, sounds of moaning and whooping, and voices of the past and present, Sanctum invokes solace found in the midst of persecution and tribulation.


Sanctum was commissioned and premiered by American Composers Orchestra with the generous support of The Jerome Foundation and The Peter Heller Fund.

http://acosoundadvice.blogspot.com/2015/03/courtney-bryan-native-of-new-orleans-is.html 

Sanctum for orchestra and recorded sound

Friday morning came and I had a busy weekend ahead of me, so I kinda decided that this weeks Junto had to be without me... but then came Monday morning and Leslie Rollins AKA 337is had uploaded the video and music to YouTube so I had to give it a go...
Leslie used an iOS app: Tunetrace and I remembered having downloaded Nature - Oscillator an iOS app by Alexander Zolotov http://www.warmplace.ru/soft/nosc/ a while ago, but never really used it.... so I had the video playing on my computer while recording with the app.. put the two together in Ableton with a little syncing - voila
The result can be viewed here: https://vimeo.com/138505301

Disquiet Junto Project 0192: Psycatdelic Loop
Record a 10-second loop to accompany an insane cat GIF.

Step 1: You are going to compose 10 seconds of music. First, view the insane animated GIF at this page:

http://disquiet.com/2015/09/03/disquiet0192-psycatdelicloop/

Step 2: Now record 10 seconds that sync to that animation. (Alternately, record an extended piece of music that is intended, every 10 seconds, to sync with the animation.)

Step 3: Upload your completed track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud. (Bonus points if you manage to sync the audio and animation and upload to a video service.)

Step 4: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This assignment was made in the afternoon, California time, on Thursday, September 3, 2015, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, September 7, 2015.

Length: The length of your finished work will likely be 10 seconds, but could be longer depending on the choice you make in Step 2 above.

Upload: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, only upload one track for this assignment, 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.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0192-psycatdelicloop” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting the track, please be sure to include this information
More on this 192nd Disquiet Junto project (“Record a 10-second loop to accompany an insane cat GIF”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/09/03/disquiet0192-psycatdelicloop/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

Source of the animated image associated with this project uncertain, but used at the suggestion of Brian Biggs.

Catcrazed“disquiet0192-psycatdelicloop”

Ambient Loop For Vancouver is a hypnotically lyrical 54 minute composition featuring Alan Licht, Christian Marclay and William Hooker.
Packaged in a heavy duty screen printed Arigato Pack. Printed at Imprec in an edition of 400.

Lee Ranaldo Ambient Loop For Vancouver (excerpt) Christian Marclay, Alan Licht, William Hooker CD

"Make something playful and sweet? But how can I stroke my goatee pensively while listening to THAT?"

I tried to channel Ligeti in this piece, because some of his most amazing pieces also showed such a sense of fun and playfulness.

To make this piece, I wrote a mostly monophonic melody on piano and recorded it as MIDI in Ableton.  Then I moved the MIDI performance to a new track with a sampler in it.  I went to freesound,org and found a recording of the clock from a MIG fighter jet's cockpit (thanks Mortifreshman!), and sped it up to four times its original speed to remove the "silence" between ticks.  Then I dumped that into the sampler, knowing that the way changes in pitch affect playback speed would create some interesting results.

As it turns out the "silence" between clock ticks was a really interesting static sound, so I took the same sample and then slowed it down to a fourth of its original speed to extend the "silences."   Then I used Ableton's MIDI pitchshift tool to try it in different octaves - turns out 3 octaves below the original produced an interesting result.  The static worked best mixed pretty low, but it's in there.

Original sample is here: http://www.freesound.org/people/Mortifreshman/sounds/237210/

* * * * * 
More on this 194th Disquiet Junto project (“Record the sound of a clock and make something playful and sweet out of it”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/09/17/disquiet0194-clockplay/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

Image associated with this project by Brian Biggs, who drew it specifically for this project, and who provided the project’s timely creative nudge.

Russian Clockpit (Disquiet0194-Clockplay)

3.11 [disquiet0194 - Clockplay]

a piano from a nord wave, through a custom patch on a lexicon PCM81. autumn decays.

october 12, 2015 (a piano in autumn)

The field recording at the beginning is a Bombe (designed by Alan Turing) running at Bletchley Park. The ticking is a vintage Swatch watch clipped to a Mikrophonie contact mic, run through an analogue delay. The main drone is coming from a Moog BFAM, with the filter slightly modulated by a Batumi sine LFO. The KR-55 drum machine is being clocked at audio rate from the BFAM's clock output, which itself is being modulated via a square wave from the Batumi. The KR-55's hi-hat, bass drum, and snare are blended in and out manually. The BFAM's sequencer is finally engaged at the end to produce the bleeps. Additional delay and reverb by Strymon.

More about the Bletchley Park Bombe rebuild:
http://www.bletchleyparkresearch.co.uk/research-notes/the-enigma-busting-bombe-machine/
http://www.bomberebuild.webspace.virginmedia.com/rebuild1.htm

Bruce: Moog BFAM, Korg KR-55, modular, live mixing
Karin: Sony PCM-M10, recording

Recorded live at The Library.

Bombe photo by Bruce.

Number Cruncher

I. 2c 
II. Flutter
III. Moments in Love

out 04.28.17 https://boomkat.com/products/grafts

GRAFTS

Honey Soundsystem Potcast

HNYPOT 376: Jake Muir's Bathhouse Blues

Formerly @douglownote, Doug's a trombonist with an appreciation for the digital manipulation of sounds. He also does a radio show called Endless Possibilities on WRSU-FM and would love to hear your new music for consideration on the air. Just follow through to the website for contact information.