Electronic and Experimental Sketchbook

Holy crap you guys. Ok so I don't know if this counts, this was done ALL MANUAL, but basically I played all the piano keys one octave at a time, so starting on A, then A then A then A, etc to the highest one. Then I saved that track as A. Then the same with B and so on to G. So seven tracks corresponding to seven letters. Each track was a little over a minute long. 

And I had this giant list of alphabetical verbs on my computer so I carved out only what started with A through G AND had A-G in the second letter, and then had Alex the male computer record it. (I had Samantha the female do it too but their timing was different and it was too hard to weave. Maybe some other day.)

So then with the spoken verb track leading the way, I place the appropriate first letter and second letter and let it play. 

Any time it the second letter changed I brought in the letters (it was more interesting bringing in both than just the changing letter), and likewise anytime the first letter I brought in the corresponding two tracks for the first two letters. 

So this got really bulky in the BE-CE section, and pretty full most of the time but winds up and winds down. 

Some interesting notes:

I have no idea what "AFK" is. I left it in there. It's probably a mistake.
My bottom E key is dead so you hear the percussion of me trying to get a sound out of it.
Left other ambient sounds in.

I'm uploading one with and without voice. 


(This is the version with the computer voice, Alex.)

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More on this 611th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Music That Listens to Itself (The Assignment: Record a piece of music that repurposes itself as it proceeds), at: https://disquiet.com/0611/

Some of the music resulting from this project may be included in a September 29, 2023, event at the Berkeley Alembic in Berkeley, California: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/expanded-listening-music-that-listens-to-itself-tickets-712124101357 1

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Disquiet0611 - Abate Cackle Get (with voice)

From the #AnotherGreenWorld project, this a response to Sombre Reptiles. Guitar and rhythm, not my strong suit, so this playful, semi-loud response. The "Anarchestra" is place in Providence, Rhode Island with dozens of homemade percussion instruments. Originally this track featured some of them but they got erased with time. Also the drumtrack is a stolen 9/8 from youtube, originally at my wife Leela's request, for a song she was doing for the Brian Eno school of song assignments. I took the distorted chords and percussion back for this track.

Anarchestra

From the vaults (ca. 1990): this is a sketch for an ambient piece for three guitars based on a simple aleatory structure: I overdubbed three short melody lines, more-or-less in C, and recorded them "blind" -- that is, without listening to how each line interacted with the other two in terms of rhythm or harmony.

3-Guitar Composition (sketch)

short composition built out of a single recording of ice rattling in a glass. An assignment for the Disquiet Junto Project, which you can find by searching Soundcloud.

Ice - Disquiet Junto 0471

Improvisation on solo electric guitar (left channel only) for disquiet junto 0472 or anyone else to reuse or chop or adapt.
90bpm
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Final Frontier - disquiet0472

Black Randy & Metrosquad - I Slept in an Arcade
Chinaboise - Girl, You Got It (So Go Get It)
Hartley C. White - Bicycle Lady
Skeleton Crew - Learn to Talk
Mansion - Fleshed Out
No Trend - Family Style
Scissor Girls - Omens
Nervous Gender - Scandinavian Dilema
Silver Abuse - We Smile, You Pay
John Cale - Sabotage
The Flying Luttenbachers - Life of Grime
Harry Pussy - Superstar excerpts
Palberta - Meistro's Minestrone
Teenage Jesus & the Jerks - The Closet
MATH - Robot

No-Wave & Adjacent Past & Present Jan 24, 2021

Simple loops based on only @mattmadd's original recording: https://soundcloud.com/mattmadd/final-frontier-disquiet0472

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Disquiet Junto

mattmadd & gentil - Effronté [disquiet0473]

This week's Disquiet Junto prompt was to create the second part of an asynchronous trio. These are always fun because you never know what you're going to get!

I used a random number generator and got the track "Final Frontier" by Matt Madden (https://soundcloud.com/mattmadd/final-frontier-disquiet0472).  I thought about chopping it up and having Mr. Madden duet with himself, but then I lay down an improvised electric piano accompaniment and it all seemed to work pretty well, so I went with that. I nudged a few of my MIDI notes around to synchronize with the guitar and to give the impression we had planned it!

I EQ'd and compressed Matt's guitar, and EQ'd my electric piano also. I added a bit of delay for flavor at dramatic times (mostly the end). I accidentally added an amp sim to the keyboard, and hey it sounded nice! I also added a little flanger to hit a fairly high-frequency to move a little motion to the "fuzzy" static sound of the keyboard. The weirdest thing I did is sidechain-compress the guitar to be a little quieter when the electric piano played...and then sidechain-compressed the electric piano to be a little quieter when the guitar played! It actually works out pretty well, I think, for an experiment. Maybe because both instruments have pretty intense transients and because there's a lot of back and forth. 

This was fun! If you dig this, feel free to sign up for the Disquiet Junto mailing list and add something to somebody's track for Week 3! (You don't need to have participated in the previous weeks!)  Everyone is always welcome.

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Rift and Like (disquiet473)

This is the second phase of a three-part collaborative project for the Disquiet Junto. From a list of almost 70 short tracks, I chose this piano piece by @ChrisLedwidge and came up with an accompanying guitar part. Next week a third person might choose to add a part to complete the trio. Even if that doesn't happen, I'm pretty happy with how this turned out.

Original piece by @ChrisLedwidge here: https://soundcloud.com/chrisledwidge/no-34-in-am-disquiet0472

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Du(o J)et No. 34 in A minor [Disquiet0473]

Broody ambient/soundtrack piece made up of a variety of found sounds: a local building's ventilator, a clip from a documentary about Brian Eno, and snippets from some old, unused guitar recordings of mine.

NOTE:This is a revised version of a song I uploaded earlier. Shout-out to  @michael-ash-sharbaugh for pointing out a technical glitch which, it turned out, was easy enough to fix.

Time No Radar On Emit

Submission for Disquiet0474 - took Matt Madden's and Chris Ledwidge's quite beautiful piano and guitar duet (https://soundcloud.com/mattmadd/duo-jet-no-34-in-a-minor-disquiet0473) and attacked it with a distorted organ drone.

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Piano Guitar & Lonely Broken Church Transistor Organ - Disquiet0474

I took https://soundcloud.com/mattmadd/duo-jet-no-34-in-a-minor-disquiet0473
which was a duet between https://soundcloud.com/ChrisLedwidge and https://soundcloud.com/mattmadd and added some field recordings that were treated a bit.

Walk in the forest in the am in a-minor - Disquiet0474

This week's Disquiet Junto is the third and final week of collaboration. I used a random number generator to select a track from last week's playlist and got number 73, a beautiful duet in A minor on piano and guitar performed by @MattMadd and @ChrisLedwidge. 

Initial track by @ChrisLedwidge (his part panned L): https://soundcloud.com/chrisledwidge/no-34-in-am-disquiet0472

Second track by @MattMadd (his part panned R): https://soundcloud.com/mattmadd/duo-jet-no-34-in-a-minor-disquiet0473

My goal in adding was to complement the beautiful piece they'd made. I played a 4ms Ensemble with a 16N faderbank, which ran through Mimeophon into Qpas (both of which were also tweaked with 16N). This ran into a shimmer reverb on Blue Sky with Valhalla Supermassive in stock Gemini mode for additional diffusion. I think I did alright.

triad no. 34 in a minor (disquiet0474) feat Matt Madden & ChrisLedwidge

https://soundcloud.com/user-859240368/piano-guitar-lonely-broken-church-transistor-organ-disquiet0474

The Lonely Vicar (Junto Remix See Description)

This a remix of https://soundcloud.com/mattmadd/duodronedrumtrio-disquietjunto0474-revised-and-corrected which was the third part of a triadic collaboration with joyneski and melondruie for last weeks Disquiet Junto. As recommended in this weeks junto assignment, I dug into all three of the contributions to find parts to use, then added more of my own. I heard a latent shoegazing droney noise rock vibe in so I went in that direction, doing what I can to do what needs to be done. As I mix, conceive, arrange, chop and tweak, (and wonder what the heck is happening), I'm reminded that I know nothing. Not exactly true, I probably (maybe) know something. Just as our ego tells us we're pretty darn smart and cool, we're reminded we don't actually know all that much. So keep learning, you fool. 
As I was browsing Disquiet.com to find info for this week's post, I stumbled on this 50th anniversary tribute to Allen Ginsberg's Fall of America album (https://allenginsberg.bandcamp.com/album/allen-ginsberg-s-the-fall-of-america-a-50th-anniversary-musical-tribute), and the track "Elegy for Neal Cassidy." Was great to hear that (thanks for sharing that Marc). I love that word, elegy. So since I know nothing, this week can be an elegy for the presumed knowledge it's time to let go of, and a reminder to learn something. 
The image: Someone took some smashed asphalt at the park and made some cairns. Thank you person, for making my walk special today. 
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Elegy For False Knowledge - [Disquiet0475] - Remix of Matt Madden, Joyneski & Melondruie

What is there left to do?
Can't we do something new?
I found my old guitar,
I'll tune it up and play for you.

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