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Anticipation Of Loss (disquiet0549)

Inspired by the image posted on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/p/CgCrL52rd4k/

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burlap haft

halF abrupT [disquiet0550]

There was an incident at Suss Müsik headquarters this past week. During the overnight hours, a bird appeared to have met its abrupt demise as the result of an encounter with another animal—a cat or raccoon, perhaps. Nature is cruel and often mysterious. “[It is] in the womb of nature,” wrote the artist Paul Klee, “at the source of creation, where the secret key to all lies guarded.”

Dunno about that … but whatever took place, Suss Müsik’s porch was the stage for an ornithological unvermittelt featuring a random arrangement of blood, feathers, and at least one disembodied talon. Darwin might have described the scene as one species demonstrating “injurious variations” over another; in other words, natural selection at work. For Suss Müsik, it was an unexpected opportunity to test the garden hose’s pressure-jet feature.

(Apologies to squeamish readers. There’s no way to describe this creative process without a few gory details).

For this week’s project, Suss Müsik began with a photograph of the debris described above. The image was rendered for high-contrast in order to isolate the lines of the porch floor and placement of organic matter. The blood splatters comprised a basic three-part chord structure. Ten feather clumps were divided into two sets of five; one was used to design an arpeggio for piano, the other as a motif for grain synth and second piano using particle refactoring.

The piece is titled Tatort, which translates to “crime scene” in German. It was recorded quickly to 8-track in July 2022. The bird deserved a better epitaph. 

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More on this 550th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Abrupt Probability (The Assignment: Make music based on a chance graphic score) — at: https://disquiet.com/0550/

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https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/
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Tatort [Disquiet0550]

1. The starting point was a photo of random rust patterns on a piece of wreckage found on a local beach (part of which is the cover picture of the track).
2. From this image I generated a rolling monochrome video sequence to serve as a pictorial score.
3. The musical interpretation is an electronic sequence created in Pure Data & edited in Audacity. The creation of both video & sound  involved elements of randomness or indeterminacy.
4. I also combined all the elements into a video which can be accessed at: https://vimeo.com/730561794
or: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjmTgE1DI7M
More on this 550th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Abrupt Probability (The Assignment: Make music based on a chance graphic score) – at: https://disquiet.com/0550/

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/

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Score (disquiet0550)

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Song From The Junk Drawer (disquiet0550)

Graphic score based on interpretation of drained tea leaves.

Patch on my modular system is built on a repeating sequence of 8 triggers from which the pitch is also derived (Turing Machine) - on/off state initialised from the graphic score shown. Sequence flips in and out of double speed (intrinsic to patch, not part of score).

3 latching gates (gt1, gt2 and gt3) and two control voltages (cv1 and cv2)are used to control various parameters of the patch. These are also as shown in the graphic score and determined by arrangement of tea leaves.

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Music Thing Modular Turing Machine, Control
Erica Synths Black Hole DSP
Addac Manual Latches

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disquiet0550 - tea leaves

This track was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0550 on finding a score for a track in the random pattern of nature.
Looking into a bowl of my favourite muesli (https://www.hubermuehle.de/shop/de/Traum-Muesli-Mischung-500g.html) I was intrigued to interpret one strip of cereals as score of a track. Each different ingredient is represented by a sound.
Then I associated the cereals with the pebbles in the bed of a brook and added a field-recording I made during a hike (soon available on freesound). 

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https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/ 1

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A Brook Ripples Over A Bed Of Muesli (Disquiet0550)

for Disquiet Junto Project 0550: Abrupt Probability
The Assignment: Make music based on a chance graphic score.

The process: 
found this random pile of objects, looked at them and tried to express what I see using synths and sample arrangements.
Partly it is the material, the angle or the imagined sound of those objects falling.

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More on this 550th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Abrupt Probability (The Assignment: Make music based on a chance graphic score) — at: https://disquiet.com/0550/

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just as it is [disquiet0550]

As an open water swimmer, I encounter randomness on a daily basis when I compare the tide & currents chart to the actual experience of swimming in the San Francisco Bay.

When I went for a swim on Saturday morning around 9:30AM, the current chart showed that slack was at 9:42 and max flood of 1.9 knots at 12:54. The information on the chart allows me to plan my course (e.g. head out before the flood tide becomes too strong and ride it back on my return) and prepare me psychologically. But the chart never holds the full picture. Us swimmers always collect information from those who just came back from the water and ask, “Is it coming in?” “Is it going out?” “How strong is the flood?” etc.

Then, you get in the water. And no matter what was on the chart and whatever other bay creatures said, your experience is always unique. So, that’s my daily randomness made into this piece.

I used the numbers from the chart and the letter F for flood to sketch out my melody, starting on the pitch F as 1, the starting point. Then, I set 9x 1 beat counts, 4x 2 beat counts, and 2x 3 beat counts moving 2, 5, and 4 half-steps. I set my starting bmp at 80 by dividing 190 (1.9F) by 2. I also recorded the sound of the water and swimmers’ conversations.

The piece starts with information gathering from the chart (melody & counterpoint) and a comment, “it’s moving pretty good,” meaning that the flood current is strong. The drum comes from the rhythm of the words, “it’s moving pretty good.” The swimmer’s words, “funny,” “obviously,” and “certainly” demonstrate his thought process as he takes in the information on the strong flood he’s about to face. There was a fog horn in the background of this recording. So I exaggerated that on the strings.

The final 1/3 of the piece is swimmer heading out, “Have a good swim!” “We’ll keep an eye out for that orange hat.” And the sound material develops into the swimmer’s own experience, remnants of information from the chart and all transformed into something familiar but different as you swim.

Disquiet Junto Project 0550: Abrupt Probability

More on this 550th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Abrupt Probability (The Assignment: Make music based on a chance graphic score) – at: https://disquiet.com/0550/

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Take a chance on fear (disquiet0550)

Score derived from a photograph of a blanket we have on our bed for our two cats. The photograph was then pixelated to represent an octave, then the pixels lightened until the white pixels were knocked out to leave chords. The image was then converted to MIDI with velocities based on the darkness of the pixels. The MIDI was also inverted. Once instance played through Felt Instruments Helenko and the inverted one through Ciemno. Both were processed by Unfiltered Audio's Silo. Meanwhile, the lowest notes of the original pixelation were played through Softube Monoment.
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cat blanket (disquiet0550)

Fender Rhodes (w/wah wah)
Electric Guitar (w/wah wah)
Electric Bass
Lead Bass
Drum Beat
Synthesizer (Micro Korg)

Recorded October 2010, mixed and shared July 2022 for this challenge:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0551-the-bends

October Groove N°2 (disquiet0551)

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halF abrupT [disquiet0550]

halF unusuaL