somewhere in between bladrunner and the thing, like it!

..."trying for a melancholy hoping Spring returns soon feeling"...you nailed it... :)

This was great,  makes me think of floating on the ocean very relaxing.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0372: Honeymoon Phase

I'm a big fan of the EMS Synthi and was surprised to see the ipad app for the iVCS3. This thing is lovely - Was not expecting how many sounds and how richly "analog" this app sounds and behaves. Recorded over the weekend, adding a moment here and there, until about ten minutes were put together. 

All sounds generated from within the iVCS3, played through a midi controller to a digital 8-track. Processed with Moog mf104 delay near the ending half.

Ten Minutes with the iVCS3

Step 1: Locate the latest instrument, piece of music/sound software, or related technology that has come into your possession. 
Step 2: Employ only the single thing identified in Step 1 to compose and record a short track.

My latest purchase was a Tibetan Bowl you see in the photo, I bought it last Sunday in a garage sale here in Paris.  It was a deal and included 100 incense sticks ....
Now: my previous purchase was, like a year ago, another Tibetan Bowl, so I did many recordings using that one  in the past year. But the challenge forces me to go back into the bronze age. Again.

I used the two sound you make with this thing, _Tap_ that's a "hit" on the edge of the bowl with the fat wood stick/mallet and a _Rub_ drone turning the stick around the bowl's edges.
Then I just pitched up and down to several different notes and constructed this soundscape. But the source is just that single bowl. And 40 sec Lexicon Reverbs with Wah Wah...

No synth used off course, nothing but the bowl.

Friday 15th February 2019 in the morning.

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Valentine's Bowl (disquiet0372)

i think the last instrument i got was art pyrite softsynth. i try not to get too much new stuff; work with what i've got (depth v breadth / necessity is the mother of invention etc)

i played for a few minutes and turned up the depth and feedback on the drone setting throughout. weirdly when i looked at the recording it said i'd been playing for over 9 minutes. just did a little limiting and normalized it. 
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pulsar love (disquiet0372)

Disquiet Junto Project 0372: Honeymoon Phase

The Assignment: Record a piece of music with (only) your most recently obtained instrument or music/sound tool.

Disquiet0372

Drei Monstrum (disquiet0372)
 I had two choices for this weeks prompt, VCV Rack and Sugarbytes Aparillo. Time was going to be short and mobile so Aparillo won by default. This app is quite appropriately named and the title of this weeks piece plays on that. I haven’t made many of my own patches yet and so I started monkeying with presets and came up with some interesting bits. This has so many perimeter adjustments, automations and options I’ll be busy for ages. And that’s without touching the orbit panel.
 Three instances of Aparillo were loaded in Aum along with Rozeta Cells. I tried to use more, but the old pad was starting to crackle and hum. I played a pattern into Cells which routed midi into two instances of Aparillo, the lead sequence and the bass sequence. The third are what I labeled as accents, a crazy sounding percussive whale song transformation. The third part was played live while adjusting faders and tweaking the first two synths perimeters. That sounds way more impressive than it is.
 I was trying for a melancholy hoping Spring returns soon feeling. This weather is making me crazy. Crazier, anyways. Cheers :-)

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Drei Monstrum (disquiet0372)

i was inspired by valentine's day with my love
and also the arrival of a microphone with which i could vocoder

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Til All Thats Left Is Bones [disquiet0372]

money

halF honeymooN [disquiet0372]

All source sound in this small (and experimental) piece is from "leftover" eurorack modules - conforming to the few kinds, that this weeks challenge from the Disquiet Junto, #381, allows. 

The sequence/sound has then been imported into ableton and MANGLED like crazy - and a few drums then added...

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disquiet0381 - short con/fused

Disquiet tempted me, and lured me away from the blessed hilltops of analogue signal flow, down into the unholy valley of virtual modular instrumentation. This exercise in wretched debauchery began with almost an hour of confusion and frustration, untilled I finally discovered how these cursed devices operate.

Joking aside. I do like what some digital modular can do, but good gravy is it unintuitive. I am planning on finding a way to add some virtual tools to my tangible rack someday, but this won't be it. I found the setup strange and restrictive.

Oh well. I can't say I didn't try.

Heathen Offering [disquiet0381]

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0383-interstellar-ambience/22125/9?u=eptc

The Orbiting Space Station's Daily Routine (Disquiet0383)

I figure it might be kind of noisy in a typical spacecraft apartment--noise abatement = weight and cost. The apartment depicted here is in the cheap part of the spacecraft--buried deep in a warren of vents, pipes and driveshafts. But it's cozy and the price is right!

The ambience here comes from:

--5 separate noise generators, each run through a low-pass filter featuring a different cutoff frequency and modulated at a different rate by a LFO. The high-frequency filters used fast modulation (up to 10 hz) while the lower ones were low (down to 0.001 hz!). 
-a 'struck bar' generator (randomly chosen preset)
-a 'shaker' generator (randomly chosen preset)
-background sounds; I ran the microphone through a 10-second delay and reverb

except for the background sound (which is always on), everything is triggered at random for random lengths, with a bit of randomness in stereo panning, reverb and volume. The background sound is pretty random too; I stuck the laptop in the basement and went about doing housework and so on. My only interventions: at one point I played a Nixon speech on my phone, and then played "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by the Portsmouth Sinfonia (a wink to "2001" ). 

I ran the main bit for 30 minutes but in principle it could run any arbitrary length (in the main loop in the code change "30::minute" to "1::week" or "1000::weeks" as you wish).

It gets quite loud at points and very soft at others. I didn't do any post-processing; I don't know how Ableton would deal with a file this length.

If I had world and time I'd probably think of some correlation structure for the noises (human behavior tends to be positively autocorrelated at short horizons, I suppose) and add some 60 cycle hum.  

here's the code:

https://github.com/charliekramer/ChucK/blob/master/disquiet0383.ck

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Disquiet0383 Interstellar Ambience

sorry ive been gone so long, new ep coming very soon.

forgetting you

DREAMWORLD EP. Samples from final fantasy, Super Mario Bros. 3, and Demon Blue

dream

gold

victory!

Dark, Electronic, Ambient, Experimental, Retro, Post and Drone.
HypoidSound@YouTube

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

Drei Monstrum (disquiet0372)

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