Name: Obvious Difference Scary by Jonathan Zorn
Duration: 11 min 20 s
Description: 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.

Stumbled in via Ableton. That's a quirky collection you've got here. Nice.

Vocal Sample - Patricia Edwards - I Do - Today Is The Day [
https://www.looperman.com/acapellas/detail/14802/i-do-today-is-the-day-by-patriciaedwards-128bpm-house-acapella ]

Re- Sequencing - X I I I X X I via XiiixxiQ

More on this 591st weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Loneliest Number (The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0591/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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The Loneliest Number

Disquiet Junto  | The Loneliest Number - disquiet0591

More on this 591st weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Loneliest Number (The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0591/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/ 1

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 1: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0591-the-loneliest-number/

[disquiet0591] The Loneliest Number tt16tt

117 BPM 

More on this 591st weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Loneliest Number (The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0591/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 1: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0591-the-loneliest-number/

The Loneliest Voices (disquiet0591)

This trio for one alto and two C flutes was inspired by a lecture titled "Georgia O'Keeffe's Radical Abstraction" in which one of O'Keeffe's works — Abstraction White Rose — was described as existing on a spectrum between realism and abstraction...or perhaps it is paradoxically both at the same time?

“Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.” — Georgia O'Keeffe

Lecture available here: https://www.okeeffemuseum.org/georgia-okeeffes-radical-abstraction/

Sheet music available upon request.
All are welcome to use this piece as a basis for improvisation.

Abstraction Cactus Flower © 2023 by Alyce Santoro is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Abstraction Cactus Flower (disquiet0591)

It was great listening to all the different tracks starting off this challenge, I'm looking forward to working with what others have been coming up with. I thought I'd offer a rhythm track to the mix, created from preset drum sounds on Logic Pro, live looping and quantizing each of the 9 parts, panning them out then cutting and moving various patterns to spice it up a little.

More on this 591st weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Loneliest Number (The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0591/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0591-the-loneliest-number/

The Loneliest Number (disquiet0591)

See the accompanying (explanatory) visuals @ https://youtu.be/sglaEZlQwcg

Making use of two files from Marcus Fischer: 600_nacre_voit-mfischer.wav (which begins and ends the track) and 600_PSU_stairs-mfischer.wav. Each was used with the max/msp nn~ object, with AI models of a human voice and sounds from NASA.

More on this 600th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reaching Out (The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer), at: https://disquiet.com/0600/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0600-reaching-out/

This project’s cover image is a detail of a photo by Marcus Fischer.

visuals (YouTube)

halF reacH [disquiet0600] with Marcus Fischer and AI (see description)

I love Rodrigo Constanzo's use of the word "tickly" as applied to sounds and processes in this conversation: https://youtu.be/26jz6cdNhEQ Was curious to explore this theme on Hikari Duos. 

Live improvisation on Hikari Duos. Light reverb was applied in post. 

Disquiet Junto Project 0602: Choice Words
The Assignment: Make a piece of music that strives to express a specific word.

Step 1: Choose a word — either a favorite word, or one at random from a dictionary, a book your reading, or any such source.

Step 2: Compose a short piece of music that expresses that word as best you can. Perhaps it communicates an underlying concept, or follows the shape of the word when spoken, or utilizes it as an extremely short lyric. Come up with your own approach, which might be determined by the word, rather than imposed on the word.


Photo by Girl with red hat on Unsplash.

Tickly [disquiet0602]

For the last project I decided to work with pauses instead of silence because I felt you rarely actually listen to silence in music, even if there is no audio signal. This time, there is no cheating and I recorded some guitar chords with three parts silence to one part guitar. The recording was done with a Zoom audio recorder. My “studio” was very very quiet but unfortunately not completely silent, so I’m unsure about the notes to silence ratio. You will hear what I mean by this.

More on this 606th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Three to One (Compose a piece of music with three times as much silence as sound), at: https://disquiet.com/0606/

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

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Disquiet0606 - Very very very silent

played at a gallery opening yesterday
My goal was to create absolutely free, momentary music with my new Soma Terra and Soma Cosmos and a bit of guitar.
I started and after 18 minutes the journey was over and I had a very dry mouth

mixed on TE´s TX-6, recorded on TE's TP-7
Mastered in LIVE

Sounds from terra to heaven/hell(disquiet0613)

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.

Obvious Difference Scary

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. 

Obvious Difference Scary

Jonathan Zorn

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