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More on this 481st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Capsule Time (The Assignment: Record a time capsule for yourself in the future) — at:

https://disquiet.com/0481/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

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There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is by Christoph Kummer, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

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Disquiet0481 Sometimes You're The Ghost

sound of staircase creaking, pitch shifted and echoed in ChucK:

https://github.com/charliekramer/ChucK/blob/master/disquiet0487.ck

More on this 487th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Carillon Quotidian (Assignment: Turn a recurring sound from your life into music) – at: https://disquiet.com/0487/

This project was developed by Marty Petkovich (aka K Joule) as part of the celebration of the upcoming 500th consecutive weekly Disquiet Junto project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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The image associated with this project is by Jade, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

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Disquiet0487

AmD7

Staggerbeat

Polarb

Beatcenter

Equationoftime

drum loop switcher / drum stereo LFO echoes v2 / equationoftime

Sloth

Inspiral

Pan Arp

Obfuscation1

Heartbeat2

moon

Moon2

Standing

trinote

tri2

Red-Green 1

Red->Green2

smeared

tonesmear 2

"Dark Star Crashes" => librosa stretch => 3rd and 5th delayed and panned

From Winterland, October 25, 1969

dark_star

from https://www.dead.net/30daysofdead

San Francisco, CA, Winterland Arena
October 25, 1969

Dark Star Edit--Source Material

impulse launch 2

Midicontrol impulse launcher v2 with saxofony

Cave/breath

randomized note clusters, experiment with beat fractions (n-1)/n

depth of field

beach

ITMF

moca

Cover of the Pretenders song with a lot of guitars :) especially towards the end

A Very Kramer Holiday IV

I'll Stand By You

Remix of Nixon's second speech on watergate, featuring 

Martin Secrest on Guitar!
Bigfoot
LCD
John Bonham
Curtis Mayfield (well, his drummer)
Richard Nixon on lead vocals

Coverup (featuring Martin Secrest)

A gentleman at work was playing an Indonesian instrument at an event, a mallet instrument with 10 notes. I recorded the scale (with his permission) and I asked a group of friends to generate strings of integers between 0 and 9 (without playing them them scale), then used those strings as melodies. The result was the track "crowdsource gamelan" (the scale, incidentally, is F major pentatonic). 

To repurpose this track, I shortened all the strings to six digits (six notes)--reflecting the hexagonal structure of a beehive) and re-played the clips in Ableton(re-creating the song from scratch). In triggering the clips i tried to balance symmetry and structure with randomness--much as in the structure of an actual beehive. The synth is a Live mallet-instrument patch, with some panning and EQ to create a bit of layering.

More on this 304th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Let’s Buzz: Create a piece of music by thinking of the structure of a bee hive) at:

https://disquiet.com/0304/1

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/1

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co1:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0304-lets-buzz/

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disquiet0304 hivesource gamelan

the main loop comes from Hypoid's wonderful remix of three Ceylonese songs in the context of Disquiet0305 

https://soundcloud.com/hypoidsound/nari-lata-veladisquiet0305?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0305

It brings to mind deep blues. 

I did some mild manipulations to the main loop (heard at the intro) e.g.  doubled or tripled with some pitch spreading but otherwise just overlaid some percussion. I had meant to overlay some guitars and bass but it's hard to match the feel of the original loop, or improve on it.

ceylon blues

overlapping pads in ascending and descending loops with 3 notes spaced by i and 2i-1, 2i-2, 2i*rand(0,3), 2i-rand(0,3). Code at my GitHub: https://github.com/charliekramer/ChucK/tree/master/chuck

Pad Bee Three

three song demo, December 2018. Found sound, drum samples, ChucK-native synths, MIDI-controlled sample granulator

Youtube channel (live performance at Electronica Fest, November 2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pw6xA52i4o

Performance on TOPLAP 15th anniversary stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7-i_dPj7IU&t=22s

Glitch Vector

Saxophone and cello models do call and response on a simple melody, each altering the melody each time via random draws from an underlying scale and set of note durations. Written in ChucK, code is here:

https://github.com/charliekramer/ChucK/blob/master/Melody%20call%20and%20response.ck

Call and Response

This piece was written for someone close to me who experienced a terrible loss when very young. It's meant to evoke my acknowledgement of their pain and my hope for their recovery.

It's based on a single piece of audio--a harmonic played on an acoustic guitar. I alter the pitch and produce overlapping instances, and eventually bring up the reverb and fade. Produced in ChucK (code here: https://github.com/charliekramer/ChucK/blob/master/disquiet0380.ck)

More on this 380th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Ears Only / The Assignment: Record a piece of music for an audience of one — at:

https://disquiet.com/0380/

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https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0380-ears-only/

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Image associated with this project adapted (cropped, colors changed, text added, cut’n’paste) thanks to a Creative Commons license from a photo credited to Andrew West:

https://flic.kr/p/2bg8zN

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disquiet0380 Ears Only

Thanks Marc for the prompt, and thanks @bassling for the great samples!

I downloaded the individual samples from  big-guitar.com/download, dropped a couple into Ableton Live Simpler along with a percussion loop, then set up my Casio MIDI guitar to play the samples.  "S1F12-mic3" comes in first, on the bass-- eerily reminiscent of a DX-7 FM bass, with a nice percussive edge. "S1F4-mic3"  then comes in on the rhythm, sounding a bit like a subdued Hammond B-3. Last comes another copy of "S1F4-mic3" on the solo. I added a bit of chorus and reverb to make it stand out a little. 

More on this 395th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Acoustic Expanse / The Assignment: Make music with (samples of) the biggest guitar in the southern hemisphere — at:

https://disquiet.com/0395/ 1

Thanks to Jason Richardson for having proposed this project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

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disquiet0395 bigguitar

This piece is based around the infamous 18-minute gap in the Watergate Tapes (from the Watergate scandal of the Nixon Administration: see here for an excellent discussion and analysis: www.forensicmag.com/article/2011/02…8-12-minute-gap) 
President Nixon regularly taped White House Oval Office conversations, and the gap is the part of one tape that was mysteriously erased right around the time of the Watergate investigation. The gap is a really interesting piece of audio--it's not really silence; it's full of clicks and buzzes and hisses. It's also interesting for what it tells. It's quite clear it was deliberately erased, and in more than one session, so the cover story that it was accidentally deleted is obviously false. In that way, the gap speaks pretty loudly.

The piece is coded in ChucK, and I first wrote a program that picks a random spot on a loop of the gap audio, then plays it through a low-pass filter and a volume (ADSR) envelope at random speed (I coded a switch to link the filter to the envelope, too). I liked what I heard when I altered the filter cutoff while playing with it--sounds a bit like robot cello or something. But it needed some background accompaniment. 

So, I decided that during lunch today I would record the sounds as I walked from the Watergate Hotel to the White House-the two locations most associated with the scandal. Upon arriving at the Watergate, I came upon a waterfall that I hadn't seen before (shown in the picture), so I started my recording there. I walked to the White House, recording the whole way. Walking into the park across from the White House, I spied a fountain, so I thought a recording of the fountain would make a nice sonic bookend. I created a "backing track" that starts with the Watergate waterfall and ends with the White House fountain. I panned it from right to left to give a sense of travel and the historical arc from one location to the other.

To make the submission, I had one ChucK program run the backing track while I launched versions of the 18-minute gap program mentioned above, altering the filter cutoff, the duration of the code, and the filter-envelope switch with each version. 

The ChucK code is available in my Github: 

https://github.com/charliekramer/ChucK/blob/master/disquiet0398%20nixon%20rauschen.ck

https://github.com/charliekramer/ChucK/blob/master/disquiet0398%20nixon%20walk.ck

The audio is too big to upload to Github but I'm happy to send it to you if you like--just message me.

More on this 398th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Rauschen Bern / The Assignment: Make music by making a collage of noises — at:

https://disquiet.com/0398/

This week’s project is the first of three being done in collaboration with Musikfestival Bern, which runs in Switzerland from September 11 – 15, 2019. More details at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/ 1

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

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disquiet0398 nixon rauschen

the sound of creeping' round my back stair

thanks Davis for creative inspiration

Sundowner

combination of glitchy FM synth, falling bell sounds, and weird Rhodes chords, all coded in ChucK (all in my Git Hub https://github.com/charliekramer/ChucK) Happy Halloween!

Disquiet0409 Spooky 3

Vega lap steel -> Boss compressor -> volume pedal -> TC Electronics delay -> Alesis reverb. Thanks to Greg Wells who gave me the Vega lap steel so many years ago! It opened up new sonic worlds to me.

More on this 413th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Objective Thankfulness / The Assignment: Highlight one piece of musical equipment for which you are particularly grateful:

https://disquiet.com/0413/

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The image associated with this track is by julochka, and is used (image cropped, text added) via Flickr thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/jS32DD

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disquiet0413 objective thankfulness

took the fantastic track by @akstuhl https://soundcloud.com/andykstuhl/dispersal-foundry-disquiet0429 and added some guitar with quite a few effects (see the picture)--gnarliest is a Vaux Flores DOSWave which comes in about half way thru, along with a Fuzz Factory.

disquiet0430 solitary ensembles x2

traffic-noise clouds, coded in ChucK. code here:

https://github.com/charliekramer/ChucK/blob/master/houston%20noise%20clouds.ck

More on this 476th weekly Disquiet Junto project — IAH Forecast (The Assignment: Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it.) — at:

https://disquiet.com/0476/

The image that is the source of this project is by Robert Boyd (www.thegreatgodpanisdead.com) and has been used with his permission.

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Disquiet0476 Houston Noise Clouds

Ambient/drone/experimental, live coding, EDM, Nixon.

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