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i'm lucky enough to have had some excellent classes in my time, the audio for this is taken from one of them, we spent half an hour creating vocal drones, which I had permission to record. for this project i took two layers, one a heavily fx treatment (pitch hack and portal) the other using vector grain for the choppy edits. I realize I'm cheating a bit because it's my voice and others but the results please me enough that i wanted to share. forgive me


More on this 548th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Drone Vox (The Assignment: Make a drone using just your voice) – at: https://disquiet.com/0548/

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Image by Nevit Dilmen used thanks to a Creative Commons license (cropped, text/color added), according to which this reworking is also available for reuse by the same terms:

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Class Drone Stutter [disquiet0548]

For this assignment I focused on creating something in the style of the pioneers at GRM in France and to a certain extent the Radiophonic Workshop (which will always be dear to my heart when I think of pioneers of Electronic music).

I began using granular synthesis to create a selection of textures and "raw" electronic sounds. I then used a selection of techniques including the reversing of sounds and tape emulation to fill the audio and attempt an "authentic" sound even though my medium is digital rather than analog sounds. Finally I panned the seperate sections hard left and hard right to emulate early stereo mixes.

As vintage electronic sounds is a particular love of mine I may submit several pieces for this assignment. I would like to attempt something in the style of Bruce Haack or maybe the more cinematic 70s electronic sounds. Stay tuned!! : )

Forelight

More on this 137th Disquiet Junto project — “Produce an original piece of music that fits the genre ‘old-time electronica’″ — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/08/14/disquiet0137-oldtimeelectronica/

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Photo associated with this track, of a working Babbage Engine, by Larry Johnson, courtesy of a Creative Commons license at:

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GeRM Style - Electronique Musique [disquiet0137 - Oldtimeelectronica]

Fireworks field recording from http://www.freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/

More on this 164th Disquiet Junto project — “Create music that emerges from the sound of fireworks” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/02/19/disquiet0164-juntofireworks/

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Image associated with this project by Carl Guderian, used via Creative Commons license:

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Fireworks - Disquiet0164 - Juntofireworks

 I converted the gif into an MP4 file (using https://cloudconvert.com/gif-to-mp4) and then loaded the file up in Ableton. From there I found some cat samples and generated some noise to accompany the fantastic visuals.

video available here: https://vimeo.com/138458990

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/

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Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

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

Our Psychic Overlords - disquiet0192-psycatdelicloop (video @ https://vimeo.com/138458990)

“Science is Copernican, but society remains Ptolemaic. Our behavior is self-centered. Our culture is bigoted, our politics tribal. Society needs a Copernican revolution. If we are to survive, we need to recognize that we are not special. If we are to have a peaceful relationship with one another and our planet, we must become humble. A Copernican revolution is achievable, but will not be accomplished through scientific education alone. Only culture has the potential to put us in touch with our cosmic insignificance, and to bring about a cultural paradigm shift. The Copernican revolution in culture will be realized with Copernican music.” - Jonathon Keats

For this Disquiet assignment (my first in quite some time), I explored the articles on space.com that concerned Jonathon Keats' work, when i stumbled across "The show had its own soundtrack, too, which was tweaked to match the entropy of the universe. Keats randomized 25 percent of the notes in Johann Sebastian Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier," because, he said, the universe is one-quarter of the way to "heat death," or total disorderliness." (https://www.space.com/14701-keats-copernican-art-manifesto.html)

The idea of using maths to create, organize or manipulate music is nothing new, yet a theme i constantly find myself exploring within my own work, whether using hard or soft synced LFOs to manipulate musical parameters, or just faced with the grid based interface of Ableton.

So adapting the idea of a quarter of chaos, and wanting to contrast this with romantic ideas of cosmic order, i found a decent set of MIDI parts for Gustav Holst's Planets Suite and then applied various randomizations to both the notation and instrumentation to "Jupiter", which resulted in something quite distinct to the original work.

Note: I apologize for the occasional pops of sound - nothing speaker destroying, but it annoys me and it shouldn't be there.



More on this 373rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Copernican Music / The Assignment: Record a piece of music intended for an alien species — at:

https://disquiet.com/0373/

This week’s project was made as a proposition by the artist Jonathon Keats.

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

The image associated with this project is from one of Keats’ own instruments related to his Copernican artwork, a gravitational radio. Photo credit: Dora Tsui.

On The Revolutions Of The Celestial Spheres: Jupiter - Disquiet0373

I wanted to get back to my drone works after what seems like a long time working on more rhythmic sound and getting frustrated. This piece is entirely sample based and consists of evolving textures, percussion and found sounds




More on this 435th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0435: Woodshed Report — The Assignment: Share something you’ve been working on (and respond to what others post) — at:

https://disquiet.com/0435/

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Image associated with this track is by Josh Self, used thanks to a Creative Commons license and Flickr. The image has been cropped, colors shifted, and text added.

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Meditation 30 04 2020 [disquiet0435]

explorer of random functions, textures and tones

Many thanks for all those who take the time to listen

Open for interesting collaborations, projects and gigs

NEW RELEASE:

https://forelight.bandcamp.com/album/collected-electronic-works-2021-2024


previous releases:


Various Erosions (available on cassette and digital download at):
https://couriersound.bandcamp.com/album/various-erosions

Earthquake relief charity compilation:

https://aquietroom.bandcamp.com/album/50000-charity-for-earthquake-victims

#saveukraine charity compilation contribution: https://aquietroom.bandcamp.com/album/saveukraine-charity-for-unicef

Soundcloud EPs 1-3 
https://forelight.bandcamp.com/album/soundcloud-eps-1-3

Meditation I&II: https://forelight.bandcamp.com/album/meditation-i-ii

gossamer single (name your price): https://forelight.bandcamp.com/album/gossamer 

Liminal Noise - 10 Years Of Culture As A Dare compilation
https://liminalnoiserecords.bandcamp.com/album/ln015-culture-as-a-dare-compilation

Courier Sound - Silhouette Cameo 3 Compilation(4//lIGhT appears on Digital Release Only): https://couriersound.bandcamp.com/album/silhouette-cameo-3

A/V set broadcast as part of Culture As A Dare! Festival 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcGuUrFb8pU&t