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Disquiet Junto Project 0553: Break That Cycle
The Assignment: Record in a steady tempo but break it on occasion.

This is a one-step project: Record in a steady tempo but break it on occasion. For example, you might record a piece of music in 4/4 at a steady pace, but occasionally break it by including an extra bar or a stray three-bar sequence, or a segment that’s notably faster or slower.

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More on this 553rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Break That Cycle (The Assignment: Record in a steady tempo but break it on occasion) — at: https://disquiet.com/0553/

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Disquiet Junto Project 0553: Break That Cycle

Disquiet0553 Embracing Contradiction - Break The Cycle: Three unique guitar tracks, migrating from 4/4 to 3/4 with breaks and counter melodies

Disquiet0553 Embracing Contradiction - Break That Cycle

More on this 553rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Break That Cycle (The Assignment: Record in a steady tempo but break it on occasion) — at: https://disquiet.com/0553/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0553-break-that-cycle/

The image shows a detail of a mural painted by the artist Pablo “Raíz” Ruiz Arroyo at the record store Noise in San Francisco.

chyle calf

halF cyclE [disquiet0553]

Great, a one step task, on vacation
spend a few days at the baltic sea
i played my guitar through Steinberg UR 22mkII
recorded in aum
added some granular effects
there were actually only two tempi
one slower, one faster

inner circle/outer circle(disquiet0553)

Any break or interruption in tempo might classify as a form of bond fission. To compose a piece that celebrates fracture as a creative element, Suss Müsik sought to understand how to locate bonds in non-musical terms. Enter Colorado School of Mines geochemistry professor Mark Eberhart, author of the book Why Things Break:

“Picture yourself flowing in space. Off the right and left are atomic nuclei. Neither can be seen, however, as each is surrounded by a dense cloud of electrons. Move up or down, backward or forward and, as if you were descending through a cloudbank, the fog diminishes. Alternatively, move toward one of the nuclei, and the electronic fog engulfing you becomes denser. Follow the path to the nucleus along with the electronic fog is densest and you are moving along the bond.”

That’s the approach Suss Müsik took with this weird piece for piano, fake strings, and rudimentary homemade synth. A simple, repetitive chord sequence was twinned on two instruments in 4/4 time. An occasional blip of piano arpeggios exceed the time signature while staying relatively in tempo. 

Things bust loose midway through the piece, as the strings succumb to excessive glitch refactoring at a much higher tempo (moving toward the “nuclei” of the arpeggio tempo). Meanwhile, an electronic gadget burps in approval at the same rate. In true Sun Ra fashion, the piano tries to hold it all together before the primary chords resume their respective places, this time accompanied by a fake cello mirroring the arpeggios. 

The piece is titled Homolysis, a form of fission by which each broken part of a bond retains fragments of the other.

More on this 553rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Break That Cycle (The Assignment: Record in a steady tempo but break it on occasion) — at: https://disquiet.com/0553/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0553-break-that-cycle/

The image shows a detail of a mural painted by the artist Pablo “Raíz” Ruiz Arroyo at the record store Noise in San Francisco.

Homolysis [Disquiet0553]

This started as a generative modular patch run with a varying clock. The results were kinda wallpapery and the tempo shifts not that obvious, I needed something with a steady pulse to give context and contrast. I dug out an old drumloop from a project from 10 years ago which I abandoned cuz I wasn’t happy with the rigidity of the beat. I had the file playing while adjusting the tempo of the modular track. This led to a warbly tape like effect that reminded me of badly wound cassettes where the b-side would faintly bleed through



More on this 553rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Break That Cycle (The Assignment: Record in a steady tempo but break it on occasion) — at: https://disquiet.com/0553/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0553-break-that-cycle/

The image shows a detail of a mural painted by the artist Pablo “Raíz” Ruiz Arroyo at the record store Noise in San Francisco.

Temporal Distortion (disquiet0553)

My submission to the #DisquietJunto 553 with the assignment: Record in a steady tempo but break it on occasion. It's a simple 8-step sequence. Gates from the 5th and 7th step are sent through a Bernoulli gate, which is set to 10%, to the reset intput. So on avarage 1 in 10 times step number 5 and 6 are played and 1 in 100 step 7 and 8. The gate from step 8 is connected to the Stop-input and a cymbel-sound, so after on avarage 100 cycles the piece will end with a crash. Every first step moves the second sequence which moves the bass and the melody and chords with it. The result is a simple tune that would nicely disappear into the background, except every now and then something happens that makes you look up.

More on this 553rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Break That Cycle (The Assignment: Record in a steady tempo but break it on occasion) — at: https://disquiet.com/0553/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0553-break-that-cycle/

Break thet cycle (disquiet0553)

Break That Cycle (disquiet0553)

This is my first experiment with the VCV Rack virtual modular synthesizer. (This is fun!) (This is BIG fun!!)

First experiment with VCV Rack

This is two assignments in one. First we have the Disquiet Junto 372 in which we were asked to do something with our latest instrument, which, in my case, is VCV Rack. On the other hand there is VCV Rack's inventor/main programmer Andrew Belt (Infinitely many thanks, Andrew!!)who states: "I personally recommend that you attempt to push the Fundamental modules to their limits before moving on to other official or third-party plugins." So this is my attempt. Did I succeed? Well, as you can see in the picture, there's still one module unused, so probably next up will be More Fundamental Limits, Further Fundamental Limits and possibly even Extreme Fundamental Limits. That is, if I can bring up the patience to keep away from other plugins.
About the patch: I am rather pleased with the idea of getting two melodies from one sequencer by putting it upside down with 8verter and transposing it a third. I also liked experimenting with the timbre of the bass by means of hard sync and an LFO. The rest is pretty much straight forward, I guess.

More on this 372nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Honeymoon Phase / The Assignment: Record a piece of music with (only) your most recently obtained instrument or music/sound tool — at:

https://disquiet.com/0372/

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https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0372-honeymoon-phase/

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

Fundamental Limits

Fundamental Limits (disquiet0372)

Two years ago I made this very sad piece https://soundcloud.com/henklasschuit/glimpse-of-hope-disquiet0271 , in which I alternated the a minor and C major scales. I tripled the speed of this, effectively transposing the piece to e minor with a G major fragment. I added the same rhythm as last week and a bassline in G major. And then it turned out to be a quite happy ditty! Obviously I played a ritardando near the end and one weekend was too short a time for me to solve that. Maybe next time...
More on this 390th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Pace Quickens / The Assignment: Take an old song (or field recording), and make it faster, and add then something — at:

https://disquiet.com/0390/

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https://disquiet.com/junto/

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https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0390-pace-quickens/

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

Pace Quickens (Disquiet 0390)

Pace Quickens (disquiet0390)

Seven years ago I made this thunderstorm in SuperCollider ( https://soundcloud.com/henklasschuit/discovering-supercollider02 )and ever since I discovered VCV Rack, I've been contemplating the idea of doing the same thing in the virtual modular system. This week's Disquiet Junto gave me the perfect opportunity to realize this plan, so here it is!
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u8E1PBmxL0
More on this 398th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Rauschen Bern / The Assignment: Make music by making a collage of noises — at:

https://disquiet.com/0398/

This week’s project is the first of three being done in collaboration with Musikfestival Bern, which runs in Switzerland from September 11 – 15, 2019. More details at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

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

Disquiet0398

Modular Thunderstorm

Modular Thunderstorm (disquiet0398)

The Assignment: Write a short piece of music that gets slower and slower as it proceeds
I used two melodies (that may have been slightly inspired by fragments from Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon), some percussion and noise. I like the way the different layers come to the front successively. I used a simple LFO as a clock and it was controlled by a slow envelope generator.

More on this 462nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Vade in Pace (The Assignment: Write a short piece of music that gets slower and slower as it proceeds), at:

https://disquiet.com/0462/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Vade in Pace

Vade in Pace (disquiet0462)

There was a time when I was involved in Science! But that was a mistake. My Passion is music. I play the pipe-organ and synthesizer, I play the organ in a few bands and I like Apple computers. I discovered SuperCollider and VCV Rack: great ways of making sounds. Enjoy them on SoundCloud!

Break That Cycle (disquiet0553)

Henk Lasschuit