Fantastic write up and you've illustrated that elusive element at play in consciousness.

hell yeah ,brilliant intro and a well set pause

really dark and intriguing soundscape,amazing

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Disquiet Junto Project 0264: Time Travel

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

was thinking about space dilating as i imagined speeding through time.

i got some cello samples and put them thru the protoplasm tsm synth, lots of oscillation, then had dimension expander and crystal reverb automated so they'd get bigger throughout. 
pulled into audacity and sliding time stretch applied so gradually speeds up
audition - duplicated track, stereo widened, then crossfaded with previous track to gradually get wider. mastered

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Disquiet Junto Project 0264: Time Travel
Record a piece of music that plays with the perception of time.

Step 1: Recorded music is, generally speaking, a fixed object. It’s a document. It proceeds linearly, over time. It is, in the terminology of fine art, “time-based.” That said, music has the power to change one’s perception of time. Slowing and speeding tempo alone can alter a listener’s understanding of what is happening. Backward masking, sublimated hints of themes yet to come, the sound of a tape in fast forward mode — those are just a few ways that a composer can suggest that time is not moving linearly. Now, consider for a moment the tools available to give an impression of time doing things other than proceeding in a steady forward motion.

Step 2: Record a short piece of music that takes time travel as its theme, using ideas that resulted from the consideration in Step 1.

Five More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: If you hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to include the project tag “disquiet0264″ (no spaces) in the name of your track. If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to my locating the tracks and creating a playlist of them.

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Step 3: In the following discussion thread at llllllll.co please consider posting your track:

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Step 4: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 5: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This project’s deadline is 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, January 23, 2017. This project was posted in the morning, California time, on Thursday, January 19, 2017.

Length: The length is up to you, but two to three minutes sounds about right.

Title/Tag: When posting your track, please include “disquiet0264″ in the title of the track, and where applicable (on SoundCloud, for example) as a tag.

Upload: When participating in this project, post one finished track with the project tag, and be sure to include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

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temporal pulse (disquiet0264)

This is a tough one to describe.  I knew I couldn't do time travel with just an instrumental.  There had to be a voice involved.  Some kind of narrative.

The voice sample (not me) is altered.  Pitch-shifted up on the left and lowered on the right, but the duration was preserved on both to avoid phasing.  A bit of reverb.  The two samples were panned.  You should really listen to this piece with headphones.

Was the voice recording cut up and re-ordered or is it a continuous rant?

The subject matter does the time traveling in my mind:  Beach Boys, David Lynch movie, minute steaks with sunnyside up eggs, Edgar Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Vyvanse, swinging bachelor pad, dress pants and dress shoes, shaved head, Mannix, Ironside, The White Album, Revolution #9, Long Long Long, Revolution #1, sleep, swagger, "the same feeling that night I drank", "the shield of armor" (which is Ephesians 6:10-18), AA talk, "and then Laura told me to Sit In That Feeling."

Book-ending it with talk about "a David Lynch movie" and "Laura told me to sit in that feeling" was intentional.  Or was it?

Was I trying to make the voice sound like a cheap version of The Man From Another Place, or did it just turn out that way?

Now you're thinking about the Twin Peaks reboot.  This isn't about the Twin Peaks reboot.  Or is it?

Music added includes bits of "We Meet Again" by Ambient Matyk (to be released soon), "Feather Ridge", "Kad", and "Shunting" by me, and some extra sounds.

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Sit In That Feeling (disquiet0264)

One Percent Disjunction [disquiet0264]

I thought I’d approach this by exploring the inside of a stretch, rather than just absorbing the overall drone effect. Not sure if it worked, but it was fun.

I took a 3 second sample from a piece I was working on. I used Audacity’s Sliding Time Scale effect on it. This stretches the sample unevenly, pulling only from one end, as it were. When the result was just over three minutes long, I reversed it. 

I duplicated the track and then pitched it down by 1% - that is by 0.01 of a tone. This helps create the phasing and movement you hear in the track. I also mixed these together and laid the mix as another track, but out of phase by 0.01 of a second.

A reverb version of the mixed tracks was also laid (in phase).

The ending was made by stretching the original sample out 12x using Audacity’s simplified version of Paulstretch.

The track image was made by applying similar principles to Marc’s email image, using paint.net



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Disquiet Junto Project 0264: Time Travel

Record a piece of music that plays with the perception of time.

Step 1: Recorded music is, generally speaking, a fixed object. It’s a document. It proceeds linearly, over time. It is, in the terminology of fine art, “time-based.” That said, music has the power to change one’s perception of time. Slowing and speeding tempo alone can alter a listener’s understanding of what is happening. Backward masking, sublimated hints of themes yet to come, the sound of a tape in fast forward mode — those are just a few ways that a composer can suggest that time is not moving linearly. Now, consider for a moment the tools available to give an impression of time doing things other than proceeding in a steady forward motion.

Step 2: Record a short piece of music that takes time travel as its theme, using ideas that resulted from the consideration in Step 1.

Five More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: If you hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to include the project tag “disquiet0264″ (no spaces) in the name of your track. If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to my locating the tracks and creating a playlist of them.

Step 2: Upload your track. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your track.

Step 3: In the following discussion thread at llllllll.co please consider posting your track:

http://llllllll.co/t/music-for-time-travelers-disquiet-junto-project-0264/6157/

More on this 264th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Time Travel: Record a piece of music that plays with the perception of time”:

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One Percent Disjunction [disquiet0264]

God: You can never change the future. The past, yes, but not the future.

Lucifer: How do you change the past?

God: Why, the past is always changing—nobody remembers anything. But the future can no more be turned away than the light flowing off the moon.

This bit of dialogue is from Arthur Miller’s underrated play The Creation of the World and Other Business. It comes at a crucial point in the narrative where Lucifer admits to God that he compelled Eve & Adam to partake of the forbidden fruit, an act that ultimately banished God’s children from the Garden of Eden.

Time travel is not impossible; we are always revisiting past events in our efforts to understand the present, and our attempts to predict the future often arise from moments of stagnate contemplation. Anyone who has experienced the feeling of traveling by air or rail understands the dichotomy between moving and not moving, not unlike how a great piece of music rewards the listener’s investment by making time stand still.

For this short piece, Suss Müsik literally went back in time—ten years, to be exact. The source material is an eight-bar guitar phrase played with a Danelectro 12SDC 12-string in 2007. The sample was chopped through a Korg ToneWorks 411X processor and recorded live from a Vox AD30VT. The binaural motion cycles for about two minutes or so before the reverse reverb winds it down, coming almost to a halt. The momentary respite allows for a calming pause before the cymbals announce their arrival.

The piece is entitled Trammel, a word to describe something that restricts or impedes one’s freedom of action.

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Trammel [Disquiet0264]

My Music Videos - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc_iQ5JFusPt9EIwKIZ5rew
Semi-cheat. My song this week began several weeks ago and so was not inspired by this Junto but has many attributes pertaining to time and seemed fitting as such. Since  mortality and time are so intertwined and thoughts of both surround this world, I began a piece to portray the shroud of mortality in life and dreams, a nod to time haunting the mortal and even immortal if that were possible. Dreams are a illegitimate form of time travel, imprecise, inaccurate and deceiving. Memories are thought to be the closest step but as time passes they can inherit the same manners and forms as dreams, becoming tangled and morphic. And while everyone from Uncle Rico to H.G. Wells to Einstein has had a moment they want to stop, turn back, hurry through or relive, we can only superficially play with time in dreams, memories and music. The intro of this song is the arena before sleep when the cacophony of thoughts culminate. I had originally thought rolling tympani or even tribal toms but a simple beat with some elements reversed was put through Duplicat tape emulator and each head added to build a crescendo. The first layer a sequence in Alchemy, the second chords in FM4 and the third chords in Animoog. This was mixed down and duplicated with one being reversed, eq'd, nonlinear delayed and pan/tremelo added while the other only widened. Then three spoken tracks were added into Samplr and subject to all sorts of random speed, direction and grain effects. All of these went to Cubasis for final mixing.  A long winded explanation but I hope you comment if you make it through ;-)

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Season of our Disquiet

Et Sudarium Mortale(disquiet0264)

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...

More on this 381st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Shared System / The Assignment: make music using a free software synth assembled by Scanner — at:

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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.
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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.

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