MR COMMODORE.

My wife has a Ukrainian heritage, so nesting dolls were a part of her childhood, and you can see one of her sets in this picture. She helped me with the compositional concept and suggested that each doll should represent a larger or smaller resonant space in relationship to the other dolls. I chose to limit my sound sources to pingable, resonant filters and fed each a clock pulse at their respective audio inputs. I also added a rhythmic element to the concept by having each doll represented by its own unique clock multiplication between one and six. Each doll is introduced one at a time in order from the smallest, least ringing, to the largest and longest ringing. Once they've each said hello, they join together and sing as a family. I slowly add a bit of spring reverb to emphasize the open space they enter once they are completely un-nested. The voicings and clock divisions are as follow:

Doll 6 (smallest) - Wasp Filter, clock multiplier at x6, shortest ring
Doll 5 - QMMG Filter in dual Low Pass, clock multiplier at x5, slightly longer ring than 6
Doll 4 - Dr. Octature II Filter, clock multiplier at x4, slightly longer ring than 5
Doll 3 - Pittsburgh Modular Low Pass Filter, clock multiplier at x3, slightly longer ring than 4
Doll 2 - STG Sea Devils Filter, clock multiplier at x2, slightly longer ring than 3
Doll 1 (largest) - Synthesis Technology E440 OTA Filter, clock multiplier at x1, longest ring

*Note: Her doll set has five dolls, this project suggested using six. So in the picture, the Sea Devils filter does not have a corresponding doll resting on it. All other filters have their respective doll in front of it. 

More on this 180th Disquiet Junto project — “Use the Russian nesting dolls as a model for a musical composition” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/06/11/disquiet0180-matryoshkamusic/

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Image associated with this project by James Jordan used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

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MR COMMODORE.

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