Disquiet Junto Project 0580: Evo Evol Evolve

The Assignment: Record a piece of music that develops like an organism evolves.

Step 1: You’re going to record a piece of music informed by evolution. Think of stages of evolution, perhaps choosing a specific animal or other life form that evolved over time.

Step 2: Record a piece of music that evolves as it proceeds, based on the patterns (phases, stages) you explored in Step 1. And yes, animals that went extinct are a potential subject.

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Track notes:

I took my inspiration from the long evolution of insect species on the planet, considering the vast scale of evolution from primordial epochs up to the present, where insect species are front-and-centre in the Sixth Great Extinction of the late Anthropocene.

SuperCollider came to mind again as a tool for realisation, since I had ‘traditional’ forms of ‘computer music’ in mind - especially Bernard Parmegiani’s epic La Creatione De Monde (1984)

Now, obviously I don’t have a) a year up my sleeve; and b) the coding faculty in SC to pull off such a gargantuan feat, but I thought it might be a cool point of reference that I could fold into my current understanding (as a beginner) in the SC environment.

Recently I got to grips with buffering audio samples and using sequences to control various patterns - both melodic and percussive. I created a couple of dictionaries of short percussive samples (kalimba, woodblock and guiro) as well as instantiating a couple of Synth objects that produce pure waves. The percussive sounds turned out well when triggered, sequenced and manipulated and I liked the interplay with the pure waves.

My track is a bit longer than my usual submissions (~6 mins) but I thought I needed a decent span of time to realise a time compression of a few hundred million years of evolution.

For the realisation, I live-coded from the initial script (see GitHub link below) and then adjusted various parameters, arguments and variable throughout. The idea was to start amongst the matter of the cosmos and then gradually render a semblance of life on Earth. Eventually, an abundance takes form, before the insect population starts to diminish at the close. It not strictly a linear progression; rather, a fairly wobbly negative exponential progression. I’m still getting to grips with controlling instruments on the fly in SC, but I think I’m improving.

I was happily surprised when I saw the spectrogram of this track. Its progression of blobs, smears and flurries of activity over a time series seemed fitting!

https://github.com/TristanLouthRobins/Supercollider/blob/main/junto0580-evo_compressor.scd.scd

[Disquiet_Junto_0580] Evo Compressor (w/SuperCollider)

After owning this app for over 6 years, I have finally completed a song using it. Because most of my iPad music was made with Nanostudio, now I understand why I  don't make music on it often. There's no zoom on the piano roll! It was fun making the song, though, and the tones were inspired by YMO and PC Engine music.

It's sad to know that this app is gone as of 6/28.

Goodbye, DS-10 (iDS-10 song)

Entry for KVR One Synth Challenge 178
All sounds made with Vaporizer2 synth by Vast Dynamics

Zarf & Carl_saved - Dark Light Dub Steps

Created in Ableton using only Serum

Basically, i didn't know what to make so I played some notes and the first thing that came out, I built the song around it. 

42 instances of Serum

Utility 
Auto Filter
Comressor
Eq8
ChannelEq
SerumFx x1

Poor Resolution


This is AuroraFM. 32 instances using Reaper 6.83
6 Transient Shaper (kiloheartz)
24 Raum
4 ProQ3 (Fabfilter)
3 A1Trigger Gate
1 Replika
1 JS Saturator

Master: A1 StereoControl, Master_me and LoudMax.
Wow, almost no EQ. 

I discovered AuroraFM this month, thanks to Elvicente. I love it. Really underrated synth. FYI I made 9 tracks just with it this month. in those 9 tracks some sounds are dx7 patches I found online, some factory, some Elivicente, some tweaked, some mine. Maybe some dexed patches but I doubt it... I don't recall exactly for each track. This track was entered based on the discord consensus from 5 I posted there. 

Critical feedback very much appreciated. 

Hidden Oasis OSC 179 (AuroraFM) 21/57 37%

Eauson KvR The Speed Of Science

Butterfly Surge

dstr - Butterfly Surge (One Synth Challenge #179 Surge XT)

KVR OSC submission
https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/2024/osc-179-any-one-synth

Galvanic Field

YouTube version has better streaming quality: https://youtu.be/eg5BJeniN9w

Submission for One Synth Challenge #179 (Any Synth)
Contest thread: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8820437#p8820437

Created with "CA2600" virtual synthesizer from Cherry Audio. 31 instances used to create a track.

This instrument is an emulation of a very famous and rare ARP2600 semi-modular synthesizer from the 70's. It allows the creation of some very interesting and complex sounds, mostly inspired by retro sci-fi movies and electronic music of the era.

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***Additionally, you can find download links on my Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/infravolt. The links for this track will be available for public till the end of February. After that, they will be available to purchase in the shop.***

Above The Dunes

Infravolt - Above The Dunes (OSC#179)

Entry for KVR One Synth Challenge #179
All sounds made from init with Audio Nebula's AuroraFM (Thank you so much Ryan!)

Well... Maybe Tomorow (AuroraFM)

Corybulbin

Always trying to make the best of everything and everywhere I go!

Goodbye, DS-10 (iDS-10 song)

Jack Frost

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