A set collecting the tracks from the 50th weekly project from the Disquiet Junto group. 

The Assignment: Encode a word or phrase in Morse Code and employ that as a track's rhythm.

More on the specific project at:

http://disquiet.com/2012/12/13/disquiet0050-morsebeat/

More information on the group at: 

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info/

Photo by Chris Dlugosz, via http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisdlugosz/3403746950/.

Disquiet Junto Project 0050: -…….–.-..-…-

Junto Disquiet

This track began with Jason, both as the author and the Morse Code beat thumping throughout: J A S O N  

You'll hear this joined by a drone and then broken beats and some echo on a synth playing the intro to a Black Sabbath tune, then it drones a bit more and ends.

More on this 50th Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2012/12/13/disquiet0050-morsebeat/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Morse Beats + Pieces [disquiet0050-morsebeat]

for Disquiet Junto Project 0050: -…….–.-..-…-


"Junto till you drop"

&rarr; (http://morsecode.scphillips.com/jtranslator.html) (thanks!)

&rArr; ".--- ..- -. - --- / - .. .-.. .-.. / -.-- --- ..- / -.. .-. --- .--."

&rarr; <pre>(
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;~morsedurs = { |morsestring|
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;var durs;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;morsestring.do{|x| 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;durs = durs.add(switch (x.asString, 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;".", {1/16},
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"-", {1/8},
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;" ", {1/4},
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"/", {1/4}, {} ));
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;};
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;durs;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;};
)</pre>

&rArr; [ 1/16, 1/8, 1/8, 1/8, 1/4, 1/16, 1/16, 1/8, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/4, 1/8, 1/4, 1/8, 1/8, 1/8, 1/4, 1/4, 1/4, 1/8, 1/4, 1/16, 1/16, 1/4, 1/16, 1/8, 1/16, 1/16, 1/4, 1/16, 1/8, 1/16, 1/16, 1/4, 1/4, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/8, 1/8, 1/4, 1/8, 1/8, 1/8, 1/4, 1/16, 1/16, 1/8, 1/4, 1/4, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/16, 1/4, 1/16, 1/8, 1/16, 1/4, 1/8, 1/8, 1/8, 1/4, 1/16, 1/8, 1/8, 1/16 ]

Those are my beats (for aesthetic reasons i ended up adding a \stretch of 2, so everything's twice as long; bar length 2 * 9.8125 seconds).

There are two voices playing these beats:

↻ turntable sounds recorded with http://soundcloud.com/random-coil (for <a href=http://disquiet.com/2012/08/16/disquiet0033-turntable>Junto # 33 & 1/3</a>) (http://soundcloud.com/all-n4tural/random-coil-all-n4tural-my // http://soundcloud.com/random-coil/all-n4tural-random-coil-i-don )

↻ http://soundcloud.com/ecut/aeolian-hang-of-ecut-free -- impossible to count the countless hours of fun this recording has provided me. thanks, http://soundcloud.com/ecut !


Disquiet Junto Project 0050: -…….–.-..-…-
This week’s project explores Morse Code for its rhythmic content. The instructions are as follows: Select a word or phrase. Encode that word or phrase by the Morse method. Record a rhythmic foundation in which the dash is represented by a long beat and the dot by a brief one. Use that rhythmic foundation as a loop for the length of your track, at the speed you desire — speed can vary over the length of the recording. Record accompanying drone/melodic material that takes the underlying rhythm as its compositional foundation.

More on this 50th Disquiet Junto project at: http://disquiet.com/2012/12/13/disquiet0050-morsebeat 

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto

junto till you drop [disquiet0050-morsebeat]

This was created in Particularity, edited in Audacity.  More specifics below the Junto links.

More on this 50th Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2012/12/13/disquiet0050-morsebeat/
More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

The base text is "QST", which is a Ham Radio Q code, a shorthand expression for "Here is a broadcast message for all amateurs."  "QST" in Morse Code is dash dash dot dash/dot dot dot/dash.  

I added to the title "Hog Morse", a pejorative expression for miskeyed or misread Morse Code, as I came into this more interested in messing around the basic rhythm than conveying it.  

But even my use of that term is a misnomer as the Morse Code has been fairly well encoded via Particularity***.  As many as three oscillators are playing out the rhythm pretty faithfully.  One rather slowly, another at medium speed and yet another rather quickly.  The oscillators do shift in pitch as well and the overall effect is not so clearly informative.

While patterns and basic pitches were set up ahead of time, I used the mixer feature to alter the pitches and improvise on what had been set forth.  This a two minute excerpt of that.

About Particularity:
http://chrisjeffs.com/blog/?page_id=191

Morse info, aka Blesséd be Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_code

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hog_morse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code#Representation.2C_timing_and_speeds

[***The math of that, mostly observed here, is that a dot equals one unit of time, a dash 3 units.   A space within a character is 1 unit, a space within a word is 3 units, and a space between words ("QST" would be a word) is 7 units.]

Hog Morse QST [disquiet0050-morsebeat]

This week’s project explores invokes Morse Code for its rhythmic content. The instructions are as follows: Select a word or phrase. Encode that word or phrase by the Morse method. Record a rhythmic foundation in which the dash is represented by a long beat and the dot by a brief one. Use that rhythmic foundation as a loop for the length of your track, at the speed you desire — speed can vary over the length of the recording. Record accompanying drone/melodic material that takes the underlying rhythm as its compositional foundation.

CQ CQ CQ CQ DE KA0KAD KA0KAD KA0KAD CQ CQ CQ CQ

I got my first amateur radio license, the "novice" license as it was known in the day, in 1980 when I was about 13.  This was in Des Moines, Iowa, and the local radio amateur club met at the Science Center.  My call sign was KA0KAD (Kilo Alpha Zero Kilo Alpha Delta).  I had to comprehend Morse code at 5 wpm and take an exam that dealt with antennas, power, and various customs.  I got a rig and built antennas from shielded copper pairs.  Soon after, I passed the then-second level license, the "Technician" license.  The "Tech" license allowed me to speak on HF bands.  At one point I thought about going for the "General" license, but the 13 wpm Morse Code requirement seemed a bit steep and anyway I was happy hanging out in the 2 meter HF bands, talking to local people, triggering distant repeaters, and calling home via phone patches, a nascent "cell phone-like" simplex telephone setup that was downright exotic in 1981.

Over time, interest waned.  Especially once I was able to get a DJ spot on my school district's public radio station (KDPS 88.1 FM).  I kept my ICOM 2AT 2-meter mobile, largely unused, until about 1993 when I sold it.  Over the years I have renewed my license, but have done nothing with it.  I am proud of my geeky past.  It was fun.  Pre-internet.  Pre-anything.  I took classes with my old friend Jeff O'Neal, was encouraged by a lawyer, James Cooney (now deceased), built antennas thanks to the generosity of Bob Heitman, and talked gadgets, electronics, and music with a blind student, Carl Owens.  And of course my dad who collected old radios of different varieties, including those with shortwave bands on them.

My favorite piece of music of all time is David Sylvian & Holger Czukay's "Plight & Premonition" - Plight more than Premonition.  Czukay working that shortwave.  Picking up the Morse.  I have certainly listened to Plight well more than 1000 times and it never gets old.  There's always something new appearing.

Now that I've gone on a bit, how about I get to the recording?

Initially, I did the Morse in sub-bass, but that didn't work out, so I switched it to a bass drum and kick sample.  "CQ" has a wonderful consistent beat.  The "DE" ("this is" in shorthand) hints at a change.  And my callsign KA0KAD, when tapped out on a desk or a Morse keypad, has a memorable jazz-like beat.

The layered amateur radio voice sounds come via HamSphere, an iOS app I downloaded to my iPad.

The atmospheric electronics are largely from recordings I've made using the Samplr iPad app in recent weeks, along with other recordings done in Ableton triggered with my Akai MPK Mini.

This was a lot of fun to create.

More on this 50th Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2012/12/13/disquiet0050-morsebeat/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

KA0KAD (disquiet0050-morsebeat)

Disquiet Junto Project 0050: -.......--.-..-...-

For the morse code I used SuperCollider to generate it. Dash is pink noise with a "square" envelope which is varied between 0.03 and 0.07secs long, dot is a very short sine envelope. The spacing between each sound has a varied length to give it some movement, there are general minimum times.

This was then moved in Ableton Live mixed and the other sounds added. 

More on this 50th Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2012/12/13/disquiet0050-morsebeat/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Code [disquiet0050-morsebeat]

More on this 51st Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2012/12/20/disquiet0051-audiojournal/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/


twenty twelve [disquiet0051-audiojournal]

I found this one really hard and have struggled with it, but here it is.

Method: 
1. End of the cat in the ocean, which went into SuperCollider, this code cuts it up and replays it in a random order with different samples left and right.

2. The intro of broken robots, this went straight into Ableton live and was messed up in there.

3. A 2.17 second sample from broken robot, this went into SuperCollider and I used code to cut it up into micro-sounds and to also generate the beat track.

All this went into Ableton where is was arranged and fx's applied.

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This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Bump Foot netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally released on Bump Foot: "Bongo" off the Aguas Tonicas album titled Los Desposeídos, "Broken Robots" off the Gridline album titled Red Music, and "The Cat in the Ocean" off the Pics Frunk album titled Low Voltage. More on the Bump Foot netlabel, and the original versions of these tracks, at http://www.bumpfoot.net/.

More on this 52nd Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2012/12/27/disquiet0052-bumpcc/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/


the mat sat on the cat [0052-bumpcc]

Question: What if I cut Re into 3 second sections, let the software re-sequence the sections into a new order, shape with a sine envelope and put through a reverb and delay effect (with varying delay time and amount)?

Answer: Above.

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More on this 55th Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/01/17/disquiet0055-twoscrews/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

More on the Frahm project at:
http://reworked.nilsfrahm.com/

Re: question [disquiet0055-twoscrews]

With this one I wanted to create not just a rhythm track but have some texture in it, I used only Ableton Live and its built in effects.

Sound was recorded with a contact mic.

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More on this 56th Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/01/24/disquiet0056-matteroftime/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/


Code [disquiet0050-morsebeat]

mint loader