Ah - this is great! Excellent idea, great interpretation of the Junto brief 👍

Disquiet Junto Project 0596: Phylogeny Junto
The Assignment: Depict genres’ evolution over time in music.

Step 1: “Phylogeny is,” per the American Heritage Dictionary, “The evolutionary development and history of a species or trait of a species or of a higher taxonomic grouping of organisms.” Consider how such a concept can be applied to genre.

Step 2: Think about how genres change and develop over time, spawning and merging with other genres.

Step 3: Record a piece of music that depicts, charts, or otherwise expresses an example of how genres might follow the model of phylogeny.

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, June 5, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, June 1, 2023.

More on this 596th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phylogeny Junto (The Assignment: Depict genres’ evolution over time in music), at: https://disquiet.com/0596/

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-0596-phylogeny-junto/

Disquiet Junto Project 0596: Phylogeny Junto

theater music for a play i was working on
i played electic oud (godin electic oud) then guitar with microcosm then the kick came along
i invented the genre of love music for the piece
my goal was to sound from very old to modern, i hope I succeeded!

love theme for a play from ancient regimes to today's modern age(disquiet0596)

More on this 596th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phylogeny Junto (The Assignment: Depict genres’ evolution over time in music), at: https://disquiet.com/0596/

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

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The First 3 (disquiet0596)

Evolution (disquiet 0596)

An evolving electronic sequence, created in Pure Data then undergoing a series of changes.

More on this 596th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phylogeny Junto (The Assignment: Depict genres’ evolution over time in music), at: https://disquiet.com/0596/

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

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Branching Out (disquiet0596)

Snippet from the bass solo from Sonny Stitt's 1964 release of 'Now's the Time' - Bass Richard Davis, Drums Connie Kay ...

Iterative limiting (towards the left) and distortion (towards the right) ...

More on this 596th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phylogeny Junto (The Assignment: Depict genres’ evolution over time in music), at: https://disquiet.com/0596/

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

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halF phylogenY [disquiet0596]

Disquiet Junto Project 0596: Phylogeny Junto
The Assignment: Depict genres’ evolution over time in music.
More info on Disquiet Junto: disquiet.com/0596

For this assignement I took Gute Nacht, o Wesen from BWV 227 Jesu, Meine Freude and tried to depict a kind of evolution starting from mellotron, to ARP 2600 to Ableton's Voice Box. Not much of a genre but I wanted to focus on electronic redention of a vocal score.
I first thought of two voice inventions inspired by this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm4tBnUGW1M) but then I thought of recording a chorale singing a part and blending the other instruments in, but then I thought of outlining this kind of possible technological evolution within this "genre" in the XXth century. I am in a hurry today so I recorded everything without taking patch notes. 

I first copied the part with Dorico, exported single voices MIDI files and full score MIDI. Used a Mellotron emulation, my Arp 2600 clone and then Ableton Voice Box Choir preset. Added a bit of Shimmer Plate reverb (Hybrid Reverb Preset).

Switched on Bach (disquiet0596)

60bpmb • G# /  Ab

A dubby modular type composition using a Dannysound En-129 TZFM VCO as the a mid-freq synth voice, sequenced/performed by the Moog Grandmother arpeggiator. There were some filter pings from Serge Variable Q VCF as a rhythmic element.

Then I stumbled into a strangely interesting formant-y bass sound by manipulating Ableton's Warp settings and using M4L 'Envelope Midi' to shape the filter controlling it. The drums are one-hits sampled from modular and then resampled + rechopped using Twisted Wave and Ableton, and programmed with Drum Rack.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0609: Speed Limit Pt 1
The Assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it.

More on this 609th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 1 (The Assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it), at: disquiet.com/0609/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…9-speed-limit-pt-1/

Transient Melter • 60bpm [Disquiet 0609]

Having some looping fun with Audio Damage's wonderful Enso tool!

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

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-0611-music-that-listens-to-itself/

more halF unusuaL

halF selF [disquiet0611]

Originally made for disquiet0611, but discarded in favour of https://soundcloud.com/winterer/the-cosmos-listens-to-itself-disquiet0611

The idea was to use a lot of recycling echos and granulars on a PD piano sample, in this case Sampler, Silo, Fragments, SpaceCraft, Small Winters, Valhalla Delay.

Infinity Piano Mirror

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/

Where The Wind Makes A Curve (disquiet0611)

For this project I recorded a few guitar picks and looped the recording. To this I added some spare synth notes. The whole thing then went into a granular reverb. I gradually raised the effect level and finally removed the input entirely.

My goal - as to the prompt - was to put the listener into a meditative state. For this reason, the track is rather long and well above my usual two minute goal. The last few minutes are pretty meditative and I recommend listening only in company of a trained meditation guide so that you don’t get lost forever. You have been warned!

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 2
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-0611-music-that-listens-to-itself/

Disquiet0611 - Don’t Get Lost

pitched down sample being played back repeatedly via a filter and granular delay/reverb, going into two feedback loops
- one immediately feeds output back to input of rings, which dumps its output back into the filter
- another copy runs via a high pass filter into a delay, with envelope opening at regular intervals, again back into the main signal

recording gradually hands over more emphasis to the feedback signals away from the original sample loop 

some editing in ableton live

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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 3

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-0611-music-that-listens-to-itself/

disquiet0611 - riemann loops

Electronic percussion sequences created in Pure Data with a touch of reverb & additional noise.

More on this 612th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Drum Vector (The Assignment: Walk the listener through variations on the same percussive instrument), at: https://disquiet.com/0612/

Thanks to Mahlen Morris for having proposed this project.

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

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Drum & Hum (disquiet0612)

Something I've been meaning to do is explore the (electric) upright bass, which has hardly been used over the years it's been in the house. A disquiet YouTube video is also well overdue and I have also been meaning to experiment with a bottleneck on bass ... So, this is a triple whammy of stuff I've been wanting to get around to ...

Check out the accompanying video @ https://youtu.be/dJRC3Uw-EhQ

More on this 613th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Test Drive (The Assignment: The Assignment: Do something you’ve been meaning to do), at: https://disquiet.com/0613/

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visuals (YouTube)

halF tesT [disquiet0613]

1. Amedeo Tommasi - Radiazioni 
2. Bruno Nicolai - Diffidenza 
3. Daniele Patucchi - La Dimostrazione 
4. Giuliano Sorgini - Fabbrica Spaziale 
5. Piero Umiliani - Danza Magica 
6. Silvano Chimenti [Awake] - Colori 
7. Mario Nascimbene - Rito Pagano 
8. Gerardo Iacoucci - Alchemie & Alambics
9. Amedeo Tommasi [Di Jarrell] - Mondo Industriale 
10. Amedeo Tommasi - Bollicine
11. Alessandro Alessandroni & Romolo Grano [Gisteri & Santany] - Per Un Eroe Caduto
12. Ennio Morricone - Alternance 
13. Armando Sciascia - Calm Sea 
14. Floriana Bozzalla - Vento Cosmico 
15. Giorgio Carnini [Zanagoria] - Diorama e Recitativo
16. Piero Umiliani - Arabian Synthesizer
17. Nico Fidenco [Donimak] - Industrial Feeling
18. Bruno Nicolai - Giano 
19. Fabio Fabor - Caronte
20. Amedeo Tommasi & Stefano Torossi [Farlocco] - Superpotenza
21. Romano Rizzati - Azimut 
22. Piero Umiliani - Pellegrinaggio al Totem
23. Alessandro Alessandroni - SOS Spaziale 
24. Egisto Macchi - Chanson de la Nuit
25. Guglielmo Papararo & Vittorio Montis - Jonosfera

Selected and curated by Heroin In Tahiti, summer 2012

Heroin In Tahiti present: Musica Per Sonorizzazioni - Italian Library Music 1969-1976

Live at the Gloucester New Arts Festival, Gloucester, MA, September 27, 2009

Under the Paving Stones, the Beach!

Explorer of sound world(s).

This profile is for my Disquiet Junto submissions
More info: https://disquiet.com/2012/01/27/the-disquiet-junto/

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

Switched on Bach (disquiet0596)

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