Just some swell chords

60 BPM

Emin, Eb, Emin, C#
Caug, Bb #4, Caug, Fmin
Gsus, F #4

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Disquiet0591 SwellChords

I added a track to @cjmcgregor 's submission

I recorded an improvisation in response to the initial track and then chose a 12 bar loop to cycle against the original 10 bar loop. To break the repetition I manipulated my loop with cableguys shaperbox. To top it off I added some depth with a bit of delay and a hint of vocoder.
C minor
117 BPM

Disquiet0592 CJM JZ Cm 117bpm

I'm still getting to know the Osmose but wanted to force myself to create a patch and record a piece with the instrument. In this patch two static oscillators, slightly detuned, are fed into two filter banks panned hard left and right. The key pressure contracts the spread of the resonant frequencies of the filter banks. This performance consists of a single slow key press moving as smoothly as possible given my aging joints.

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Disquiet0595 One Press

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Thanks this week to Jason Richardson and Klaus-Dieter Hilf.

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disquiet0606 A Quarter Of Everything

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disquiet0607 ZeroToForty

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Disquiet0609 60bpm

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Disquiet0610 Speedlimit2

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Thanks to Mahlen Morris for having proposed this project.

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Pulsar Paths

Disquiet0612 Pulsar Paths

For these pieces Sigmund Freud’s essay “The Uncanny” is rewritten using Google Translate and MS Word ‘s Auto Summarize function. Logically, the resulting texts are sung through a vocoder.

The Bizarre

Obvious Difference Scary

And Perforation

Language as Dust is an essayistic sound poem exploring the consequences of electronic mediation within spoken and written language. The investigation is divided into three meditations exploring relations between: 1) sound and meaning, 2) pattern and noise, and 3) presence and absence. 

The text of the piece freely repurposes textual sources relating to the history of vocal technologies as well as psychoanalytic and philosophical theories of the voice, including: Aristotle's De Anima, Thomas Edison's anticipated use of audio recording, abstracted lyrics of "How High the Moon," misheard vocoder communications, and transcriptions of Electronic Voice Phenomena.

Meditation On Presence And Absence

Meditation On Pattern And Noise

Meditation On Sound And Meaning

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Disquiet0613 Harshnoodles

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Disquiet0614 Drums First: The Key to Unlocking Your Potential

Disquiet Junto Project 0619: Beat Accrual

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Disquiet0619 Demiscentbent

Clock divisions selected by bi-directional router
Some tones with delay and more delay

Jamuary 02 - 2024

Playing around with global harmonizing and transposing in Bitwig

Jamuary 09

Jamuary 10

For jam 15 I wrote a normal-ish tune and then remade the instruments with Synplant2's resynthesis engine. I then warped it to noise by modulating the grow parameter. Apologies for stray high freqs. I tried to come up with a clean way to tame some of the highs that resulted from the growing the sound.

Jamuary 15 - synplant decomposition

Simple Serge patch, cross modulated DTGs ringing a Reseq. Processing with parallel fx layers in Bitwig.

Jamuary 22 - processing some serge impulses

Jamuary 23 - Town for a Mystery

Multi-timbral fm mpe patch on the Essence Fm mkII

Jamuary 24 - elephant transport

Jamuary 25 - phaser feedback and some odd stereo imaging

Jamuary 25 - phaser feedback

long tones on clarinet, flute, cello, alto sax, and voice run through frequency shifters

Jamuary 26 - freq shift jam

Jamuary 27 - osmose swells

Subharmonics from a DTG suspended in heaps of reverb

Jamuary 28 - reverberant subharmonics

Jamuary 29 - Pulsar23 Screams

Jam with my Serge system over a bed of sputtering Pulsar 23.

Jamuary 30 - serge and pulsar23 jam

Jamuary 31 - C15 and Pulsar23 jam

<em>Untitled for double bass and computer </em>is an open form composition in which a solo instrumentalist freely explores a computer generated, interactive sound environment. The computer listens for specific notes, which act as switches, turning elements of the composition on and off. Groups of switches trigger subsequent layer of switches. This layering renders certain parts of the composition more difficult to activate than other parts, imparting an inherent, yet flexible, sequence and structure to an otherwise open form.
double bass - Jonathan Zorn

untitled for double bass and computer

Jonathan Zorn works as a composer, performer, and curator of experimental, electronic, and improvised music. His electronic music pairs improvising musicians with interactive computer systems to create hybrid, human-machine ensembles. Zorn's interest in vocal utterance has resulted in a series of pieces in which spoken language is interrupted by electronic forces, drawing attention to the gap between speech and sound. Zorn has been active as an improvisor on bass and electronics for 15 years and has performed at Red Cat, the Walker Art Center, the Verona Jazz Festival, the Library of Congress, the Seattle Festival of Improvised Music, Line Space Line Festival, and the Chelsea Art Museum. His work has been published in Ord und Bild, the SEAMUS Journal, Notations 21, and UbuWeb. 

Jonathan Zorn

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