This week's Disquiet Junto project is about interpreting a graphic notation score by musician and composer Franziska Baumann.

More on the 654th weekly Disquiet Junto project at https://disquiet.com/0654/

The cover image for this project is a detail of a graphic score, titled True Glimpses 1, by Franziska Baumann, used with her permission and the support of Musikfestival Bern. More on Baumann at franziskabaumann.ch.

Disquiet Junto Project 0654: Just Notation

More on the 654th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Just Notation — The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score by Franziska Baumann — at https://disquiet.com/0654/

The image of the graphic score was inverted and sonified in the Metasynth image synth, the result of which was fed into a RAVE model trained on recent halF unusuaL tracks using Cocoon within Morpho from the wonderful people at Neutone ... This is the result and you can enjoy the accompanying visuals at https://youtu.be/GWVLIyx5kMM 

The cover image for this project uses detail from a graphic score, titled True Glimpses 1, by Franziska Baumann, used with her permission and the support of Musikfestival Bern. More on Baumann at http://www.franziskabaumann.ch/en/

visuals (YouTube)

halF noteD [disquiet0654]

An intuitive response to the graphic score derived from visual glimpses, as the title suggests. It comprises a series of atonal or microtonal sound clusters structured horizontally and vertically. The track was created in Pure Data with some additional reverb, etc.

More on the 654th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Just Notation — The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score by Franziska Baumann — at https://disquiet.com/0654/

The cover image for this project is a detail of a graphic score, titled True Glimpses 1, by Franziska Baumann, used with her permission and the support of Musikfestival Bern. More on Baumann at franziskabaumann.ch 2.

Just Glimpses (disquiet0654)

‘ordo ab chao’
Track created for the Disquiet Junto Project. http://www.disquiet.com
0654 =  Just Notation. Interpret a graphic score by Franziska Baumann.

Luna is a little atonal piece of improvised music for the piano, reflecting the stochastic character of this notation made up of lines, strokes, dusts, stains and transparencies.

Tools :
UAD Ravel Grand Piano.
NE Ruina, Waves Abbey Road Chambers, UAD Lexicon 224, and a few little 'prepared' fx :)
Recorded live, mixed and mastered with Logic Pro X.

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Associated image : Petrus Major.

Luna [disquiet 0654]

Content note: there are two mentions of self-harm in this track.

The invitation for this week's Disquiet Junto (#0654, "Just Notation") was to interpret a piece of graphic notation sheet music, a composition titled "True Glimpses" by Swiss experimental musician Franziska Baumann. 

The sheet music is organized into 5 rows of 7 staves. I interpreted the rows as vertically stacked layers and the columns as divisions of time. You can see the notation here: https://disquiet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/TrueGlimpes-1-Franziska-Baumann-scaled.jpg

My interpretative performance consists of 5 layers of instrumentation (percussion, bass, synth pad, keys, and ebow guitar) exploring a sonic space divided into 7 tableaus. All tracks were recorded as improvised single takes without edits while following along with the score.

Self-reflection works best in stereo, so please enjoy "True Glimpses (Self-Portrait) with an empathetic pair of headphones. Recorded at NOSIGNAL Multimedia Lab in The Shambles. Chicago, USA.

More about this week's Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0654

Disquiet Junto

True Glimpses (Self-Portrait) (disquiet0654)

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The Spirit Of The Thing Itself (disquiet0654)

walk by your hand

The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score by Franziska Baumann.

See the feature-reel here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C9iXpNfMHa9/

There were many options with this particular graphical notation. Since I had an academic background, I initially planned to make 7 x 5 tiny piano movements. 

But – this time together with my girlfriend – we focused on the artistic quality of the notation. The inner images of a little story of a trip from New Jersey to Manhattan emerged. 

With and beyond all the noise of life, there is a deep trust.

By musically connecting many of her field recordings through a trip from New Jersey to NYC, we orchestrated many different impressions together while maintaining contact with the former academic, now cacophonous expression of notation.

Taking the staves into account, accelerations and rhythmically inappropriate situations underlined our approach.

Enjoy!

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More on the 654th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Just Notation — The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score by Franziska Baumann — at https://disquiet.com/0654/

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The cover image for this track contains a detail of a graphic score, titled True Glimpses 1, by Franziska Baumann, used with her permission and the support of Musikfestival Bern. More on Baumann at franziskabaumann.ch

The Spirit Of The Thing Itself (disquiet0654)

Hugh G Three