Disquiet Junto Entries

AUM session with Aparillo being driven by Fugue Machine and processed through Discord4

Fugue Machine

More on this 377th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Algorithms Assemble / The Assignment: Have fun with rules applied to scales, in coordination with the Algorithmic Art Assembly — at:

https://disquiet.com/0377/

The project is lightly adapted from one proposed by Junto member Charlie Kramer (aka NorthWoods).

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0377-algorithms-assemble/

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

Image associated with this project is from the graphics for the Algorithmic Art Assembly, “a brand new two day conference and music festival, showcasing a diverse range of artists who are using algorithmic tools and processes in their works.” It’s being held in San Francisco on March 22 and 23, 2019. More information at aaassembly.org.

Disquiet Junto Project 0377: Algorithms Assemble

Sonations, part 3 [disquiet0339]

Disquiet Junto Project 0366: Ice Breaker

https://disquiet.com/0366/

The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something of it.

I wanted to create a Kurosawa-esque soundscape. The name comes from the name of Toshirō Mifune's first ever film role, from the film Snow Trail, which was written by Akira Kurosawa.

Recorded sample of various sizes of ice cubes in various types of glasses on Tascam DR-40, processed with granular mangler in Reaktor, added Valhalla reverb in Audacity, mastered in Ozone.

disquiet0366 - Eijima

Apologies to the original artist (https://soundcloud.com/premiere-etape), who's original track appears panned left. I've been listening to a lot of Opal Tapes recently. I wanted to make it into dark techno but had a hard time discerning the tempo so I hand played (?) some euclidian rhythms on the organelle in a close tempo. I figured the polyrhythm would help cover up the slight discrepancy in tempo. It works kinda. I also added some sounds from a strange and mysterious organelle patch at -22db. All in all a pretty fun project to work on.

More on this 368th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Disquiet Junto Project 0368: Engage Duo) at:

disquiet.com/0368/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0368-engage-duo/19077

011919 Disquiet0368 Blind Date Ice Cream

I used Disquietude (by gentil & encym) as my "final" piece. I was really moved by it, and hope that I was able to add some finality to it's fragile beauty. I used a kind of reverse string patch in Arturia Pigments and thought the tones sat nicely. It was a pleasure to work with, so many thanks to the original artists.

More on this 369th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Final Solo / The Assignment: Record the final third of a trio, adding to a pre-existing track, based itself on a prior pre-existing track) at:

https://disquiet.com/0369/ 1

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0369-final-solo/ 2

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

#disquiet0369 Restive

I followed these lines:

1st Line: Northwoods drum initiate - https://soundcloud.com/north_woods/disquiet0367-trio-initiate?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0367

2nd Line: Carlin McClellan's droney drummy duo - https://soundcloud.com/carlin-mclellan-751824513/northwoods-droney-drone-disquiet0368?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0368

3rd Line: MtnViewMark-Bits drummy droney bass - https://soundcloud.com/mtnviewmark-bits/drummy-droney-bass-disquiet0369?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0369

I took the original line (Northwoods drums) and doubled it to get more of a stereo image, and added some ping pong to the right side which was EQ'd brigher. I took the drone from the second line and added a gate sidechained to the drums. Lastly, I weaved Mark's bass in with some distortion and reverb which made it end up having more of a drone quality than the original drone, which became percussive. Was a fun project, many thanks and kudos to the original artists.

Disquiet Junto Project 0370: Through Lines
The Assignment: Follow a single strand in the accumulated material resulting from a multi-part, multi-thread collaborative endeavor.

Step 1: This week’s Disquiet Junto project is the fourth in our ongoing trio sequence. (That might seem contradictory, a fourth in a trio.) The plan is for you to record a short piece of music using only material from the previous three projects. In case you are coming upon this effort for the first time, here is some background: the previous three projects enabled the collaborative creation of numerous musical trios, each containing work by three different musicians. In the first project (0367), musicians each recorded a solo line in the left channel. In the second project (0368), musicians selected a solo line from the first project and added another line in the right channel. In the third project (0369), just this past week, a third musician finished the trio. You can locate the three previous projects and there related links here:

Solo: disquiet.com/0367/
Duo: disquiet.com/0368/
Trio: disquiet.com/0369/

Step 2: The next step is to find a “through line” amid the accumulated audio. It can help to work backward from a final trio (project 0369), and to then listen to the duo that led to it, and to see if another trio was created from that same duo — and to then go back further to the left channel’s solo rendering in the first project, and see if any alternate duos were created from it. In other words: locate a single original solo piece of music in however many subsequent pieces as possible.

Step 4: Listen to the various pieces of music that resulted from the search in step 2. There may be as few as three, but there may be more than that.

Step 5: Construct a single piece of music that follows that one “through line” amid its various contexts (solo, duo and possible alternate duos, trio and possible alternate trios). Do not add audio to the source audio tracks at all; filtering and processing is fine.
More on this 370th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Through Lines / The Assignment: Follow a single strand in the accumulated material resulting from a multi-part, multi-thread collaborative endeavor) at:

disquiet.com/0370/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…0370-through-lines/

Disquiet Junto 0370: Through Lines

Finally got a new iPad this weekend. Sent a Keystep sequence to 3 different synths in AUM.

021819 AUM Keystep

Playing with Patterning mutilation from Turnado modulated by ApeMatrix LFOs

021919 ApeMatrix Turnado Patterning

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022119001 Fugue Machine Aparillo

Fugue Machine sequencing Aparillo, processed by Discord4 on iPad.

Disquiet Junto Project 0373: Copernican Music
The Assignment: Record a piece of music intended for an alien species.

This week’s project was made as a proposition by the artist Jonathon Keats:

Step 1: Compose a work of music for sentient beings elsewhere in the universe. Aside from sentience, assume nothing about your audience culturally or cognitively. Make a connection by modulating frequency and amplitude over time.

Step 2: Share your work with the cosmos.

Here’s some additional background from Keats on his general premise: “Science is Copernican, but society remains Ptolemaic. Our behavior is self-centered. Our culture is bigoted, our politics tribal. Society needs a Copernican revolution. If we are to survive, we need to recognize that we are not special. If we are to have a peaceful relationship with one another and our planet, we must become humble. A Copernican revolution is achievable, but will not be accomplished through scientific education alone. Only culture has the potential to put us in touch with our cosmic insignificance, and to bring about a cultural paradigm shift. The Copernican revolution in culture will be realized with Copernican music.”

And here’s some additional background from Keats on his Copernican music: “Copernican music affords the opportunity to encounter something that we cannot directly experience, but that could potentially be experienced by beings other than us. It provides a means of getting outside of ourselves. We recognize that we are not special, that our position is not privileged. We perceive ourselves as average. Simultaneously we find ourselves to be part of a continuum, and therefore part of something greater than ourselves. This adjustment to our ego can change our behavior by making us less self-centered, more aware of others, and more aware of our larger selves.”

More on this 373rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Copernican Music / The Assignment: Record a piece of music intended for an alien species — at:

https://disquiet.com/0373/

This week’s project was made as a proposition by the artist Jonathon Keats.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0373-copernican-music/

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

Disquiet0373 Copernican Music

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AUM - DAW Cassette and FAC Maxima on master, Discord4 on Aparillo

022119003 Aparillo Fugue Machine

022119004 Aparillo Fugue Machine

022119005 Quanta Rozeta Scaler Fugue Machine

C Phrygian scale. Used Fugue machine driving Korg Module and Cyclops. I wanted to use Fugue Machine to introduce more movement and variety without straying too far from the guidelines. All of the play heads are playing different octaves at different speeds and directions and are introduced gradually throughout the piece. I introduced Cyclops towards the end to add another voice. Not super happy with it, but it was the best out of my experiments. Good brain exercise though.

Disquiet Junto Project 0377: Algorithms Assemble
The Assignment: Have fun with rules applied to scales, in coordination with the Algorithmic Art Assembly.

This week’s project is being done with the Algorithmic Art Assembly, “a brand new two day conference and music festival, showcasing a diverse range of artists who are using algorithmic tools and processes in their works.” It’s being held in San Francisco on March 22 and 23, 2019. More information at aaassembly.org 6. The project is lightly adapted from one proposed by Junto member Charlie Kramer (aka NorthWoods).

Step 1: Define a scale of 8 notes (or sounds).

Step 2: Create a melody with 4 notes from the scale resulting from Step 1.

Step 3: Replace note 2 in the melodic sequence from Step 2 with an unused note (selected deterministically or randomly). Then do this for note 4, then for note 3, and then for note 1.

Step 4: Reintroduce the first melody as counterpoint to the result of Step 3. This establishes a pair of notes at each point in time.

Step 5: Repeat the algorithm on these pairs. Repeat to create triplets.

Step 6: Sequence variations to create a piece of music.

More on this 377th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Algorithms Assemble / The Assignment: Have fun with rules applied to scales, in coordination with the Algorithmic Art Assembly — at:

https://disquiet.com/0377/ 2

The project is lightly adapted from one proposed by Junto member Charlie Kramer (aka NorthWoods).

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0377-algorithms-assemble/ 2

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

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032219001 #Disquiet0377 C Assembly

I started with 12 glass bottles filled with different amounts of water.  Rolled a d12 8 times to get my 8 note scale. From here I rolled a d8 4 times to get my 4 main melody notes. The remaining notes were the replacement notes. Then I played each note in 4  different patterns. I rolled a d4 for the pattern and a d8 for the note in the specific pattern for all note selections..

Glass Bottle Algorithm (Disquiet0377)

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0377-algorithms-assemble/20779/25?u=eptc

TV ANNOUNCEMENT: A House That is Neglected is a House That May Be Doomed! (disquiet0377)

“The most indubitable respect in which ideas have helped mankind is numbers,” wrote the philosopher and logician Bertrand Russell. “We have become, in certain respects, progressively less like animals [in] that forethought more and more dominates [our] impulses.”

Russell believed that all human knowledge was, at most, a best guess based upon knowledge attained to that point. In his 1903 book The Principles of Mathematics, Russell argued that mathematical concepts were immune from doubt because they were constructed entirely of logic. An algorithm is really nothing more than a process — a set of rules to be followed in order to achieve a result.

The logic breaks down because life and language are slippery, inexact and subjective. A famous example of Russell’s Paradox is the barber who shaves everybody in town except those who shave themselves. Who shaves the barber? If he shaves himself, then he doesn’t shave himself; if he doesn’t, then he does. Groucho Marx once remarked that he would never join a club who would have him as a member. Suss Müsik doesn’t really make music, nor do we do much sussing. Paradoxes abound.

For this piece, a simple four-note phrase was played on piano utilizing a scale of 8 notes. The 2431 algorithm was applied not only to note sequences, but also to sustain levels and attack times. This created a weird phasing effect during transitions. The algorithm was also applied to a “scale” of wordless vocal recordings by Suss Müsik friend, collaborator and mentor Wm. Wolfgang Allen. Expect more such collaborations from this team in the very near future. 

The piece is titled Russellian. Many thanks to NorthWoods for contributing this inventive and interesting assignment to the Disquiet Junto community.

More on this 377th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Algorithms Assemble / The Assignment: Have fun with rules applied to scales, in coordination with the Algorithmic Art Assembly — at:
https://disquiet.com/0377/ 2

The project is lightly adapted from one proposed by Junto member Charlie Kramer (aka NorthWoods).

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0377-algorithms-assemble/ 2

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

Russellian [Disquiet0377]

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More on this 377th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Algorithms Assemble / The Assignment: Have fun with rules applied to scales, in coordination with the Algorithmic Art Assembly — at:

https://disquiet.com/0377/ 2

The project is lightly adapted from one proposed by Junto member Charlie Kramer (aka NorthWoods).

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0377-algorithms-assemble/ 2

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

032219001 #Disquiet0377 C Assembly

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