Some time ago a did a thing on a series of numbers ( https://soundcloud.com/henklasschuit/discovering-supercollider03 ), that, as I learned later, was officially called the Collatz problem and it can be found on the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences: http://oeis.org/A070165 . One day I was playing with those numbers on a keyboard and I had the impression, that some notes occur more frequent than others. This implies some kind of tonality. So I rewrote the code to use notenumbers in stead of frequencies. And here is the result. The fourth step, which coincidentally is a C, is dominant and the 10th, F# follows. There is quite some A, B flat, C#, E and G and very little E flat. A flat, B, D, and F are almost absent. So I guess the Collatz scale is: C, C#, E, F#, G, A, B flat, C and you can use E flat as some kind of Blue note or something.

Sourcecode: http://sccode.org/1-4Vx

Discovering the Collatz scale

Duende

Windharfe

So the Disquiet Junto assignment this week was simply to make a piece of music in 29/16 time. This is a super weird time signature. I remembered fooling about with Dilla-type beats using quintuplets (where you count 5s between every beat) and I figured exploring groups of 5 16ths might be worth it. It's a strange feeling to try and take a very mathsy approach, like fitting beats tightly on a fixed grid of 29 steps, and try to replicate some kind of "real" shuffle.

In the second half of the track I use this sample pack from Freesound. A Korean instrument that sounds like a koto. https://freesound.org/people/spt3125/packs/1534/

More on the 664th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mother Beat — The Assignment: Record a piece of music in 29/16 time — at https://disquiet.com/0664/

Jet Jaguar - Kāo [disquiet0664] (free download)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 20/21 Sep 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

Tools used - FL Studio, Nimble Tools Misstortion 2, Puremagnetik Pastfabric, Ozone 9 Exciter & Equalizer, native FL Studio effects, Moog MF-104S Delay, kHs Resonator & Ring Mod, Output Portal, samples of rain & electric bass, FL Sakura, Ableton Live and Live native devices, PaulXStretch and the kick sample I used in this week’s Disquiet Junto.

This original version of "It's Umbrella Time Again" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 559, Misty Spring Rain

misty spring rains...
umbrellas high and low
aboard the ferry

by: Masaoka Shiki

Regarded as the father of contemporary haiku, Masaoka Shiki was a poet and literary critic during the Meiji period Japan.

He advocated realistic observation by “sketching” (shasei) poems and going out into nature with notebooks, thus abandoning the traditional subjects of haiku of the time. His advice for an aspiring poet was, “Use both imaginary pictures and real ones, but prefer the real ones.”

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

It's Umbrella Time Again  (naviarhaiku559)

Credits: Ángel L. Martínez: electronic music

More on the 664th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mother Beat — The Assignment: Record a piece of music in 29/16 time — at https://disquiet.com/0664/

Image source: Indymedia UK ( https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447507.html )

Read more about the mothers on the beat for the Mother's Day March of 1968, Resurrection City, DC:

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/poor-peoples-campaign-began/

Mothers on the Beat (disquiet0664)

Playing with a 29/16 time signature.
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More on the 664th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mother Beat — The Assignment: Record a piece of music in 29/16 time — at https://disquiet.com/0664/

prime time (disquiet0664)

This track was created for the 665th Disquiet Junto, a weekly music challenge. This week the challenge was to listen to the first Clicks + Cuts compilation and create something inspired by it. With the exception of the 808 drums all sounds are from field recordings I made around the house.

More on the 665th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Clicks + Cuts Music Factory — The Assignment: Record a track in honor of the late Achim Szepanski — at Disquiet Junto Project 0665: Clicks + Cuts Music Factory – Disquiet 1

Disquiet Juntos

Kicks and Kluts (disquiet0665)

A sespuzzle pausan_02

Zumped

02Jan25
My naviarhaiku574 track;
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/771489855436963840/naviarhaiku574-on-new-years-day
:D

on New Year's Day [naviarhaiku574]

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!

Discovering the Collatz scale

Henk Lasschuit