Ambush | Hindsight

I play the drums so this disquiet assignment appealed to me. 

I decided that complex for me meant complex timing. I wanted to play something in odd time signatures, and I feel like the number 23 is underrepresented in music. Here was my process:

1. I improvised a 4 bar drum beat in 23/8 time (which I really counted as 8/8, 5/8, 7/8, 3/8), and recorded it in Ableton. 

2. I experimented with a few ways to “accrue” the beat, and decided to accrue by time rather than by part.

3. In Ableton Live, I edited the beat to repeat, but only play a section before repeating. I chose Fibonacci numbers for the length. For the first repeat only 1 8th note of the 4 bar 23/8 repeat plays. Second repeat, 2 8th notes. Third repeat, 3 8th notes. Fourth repeat 5 8th notes, etc until the entire beat is revealed. It took on the feel of a breakbeat.

4. For more accrual, I copied the original 4 bar beat to another track, and used a filter slowly introduce it beneath the Fibonacci cut breakbeat. They are not aligned at first, so there is a kind of beating that takes place between the two until the last full repeat where they are completely aligned.

broke beat

Broke Beat [disquiet0619]

Following last week's 0619 entry, I took Lee Evan's Euclidean Dub and made a story of it. I wanted to experiment with foley and recording voices, and all I could think about when I heard the song was going to a creepy doctor. I was channeling Fear's "I'm a Doctor a bit"

Please, Try to Relax - Lee Evans Euclidean Dub Story [disquiet0620]

an 8 year old idea finally found a home. Its not like me at all, but what really is

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Submission for disquiet 0628 

Separation follows dissolution. This is the third gate.

The Third Gate - disquiet0628

Jigsaw BitBlit - disquiet0629

What Deep Space Sounds Like If You Were Born In 1982.

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Mr Pepperman - Test Mix

Grant Muller - It will all go on without you

Saturday morning sketch with a Casio sk-1, monome norns (Foulplay and Earthsea). 1 Overdub.

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Norns: Kayan melody, clipped to individual notes, foulplay for the euclidean treatment.

grant lucas muller

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