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More on this 377th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Algorithms Assemble / The Assignment: Have fun with rules applied to scales, in coordination with the Algorithmic Art Assembly — at:

https://disquiet.com/0377/

The project is lightly adapted from one proposed by Junto member Charlie Kramer (aka NorthWoods).

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0377-algorithms-assemble/

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

Image associated with this project is from the graphics for the Algorithmic Art Assembly, “a brand new two day conference and music festival, showcasing a diverse range of artists who are using algorithmic tools and processes in their works.” It’s being held in San Francisco on March 22 and 23, 2019. More information at aaassembly.org.

Disquiet Junto Project 0377: Algorithms Assemble

disquiet0283: rooms

disquiet0284: bells

took the first three things I found in the pantry--happened to be cookies, cocoa and coffee (!), loaded three drum racks (not thinking about it too much) and eyeballing the barcodes turned them into 3 ableton live clips. then copied each clip and assigned it to a different synth (Synth1, obxd and Tyrell). In the beginning I introduced the clips 1 by one then sped up and slowed down the clips to form a few different scenes. No effects besides compression.

sounds like coffee and cookies! I wonder if corporate america knows something

disquiet 0285: barcode coffee cookies cocoa

Here's a transliteration/transmogrification of "One" by Metallica.

The song is transformed a couple ways:

Guitars transformed into pianos
Metal song turned into trap song
Guitar solo transformed into baroque-isa piano solo
Vocalist transformed from James Hetfield to Richard Nixon (I have a thing for sampling Richard Nixon-I have about a half dozen "Nixonia" tracks). The 'lyrics' are the from 1969 "Vietnamization" speech.

Whole thing done in Ableton Live. I re-used a trap drum and bass track that I was fooling around with. A little reverb, a lot of compression--the bass and drums are driving limiters pretty hard to try to get that "trap" sound. Nixon has some reverb going on.

one war one peace one nixon (disquiet0286)

#disquiet0287 this week's project is cut and paste. I used four tracks as source material:

Grand Banks Live 4-20-17 https://grand-banks.bandcamp.com/album/grand-banks-live-4-20-2017

John Lindaman, Black Gold https://johnlindaman.bandcamp.com/album/black-gold

Deral Fenderson, Pigaholics in the Tubanonymous March https://fendersonia.bandcamp.com/album/echoes-of-a-new-age-dawning-13th-anniversary-edition

Happy Flowers, live version of Mull of Kintyre from some radio show we did a long time ago

I tried to create something kind of atmospheric but rhythmic but it came out different than I expected-at one point, John and Grand Banks are dueling, and then there's something about pirates.

disquiet0287 Deral's Gold Banks

I set up a sequence like this:

set up 8 notes and 8 note durations in two separate vectors
sample without replacement four notes and durations
play those notes / durations using a Rhodes sound, then joined by an organ sound
replace the second note, play altered notes on Rhodes and original on organ
replace the fourth note, play altered notes on Rhodes and original on organ
replace the first note, play altered notes on Rhodes and original on organ

bring back the original melody; Rhodes and organ are joined by vibraphone

repeat the whole sequence (I have it set up to repeat four times--feel free to download it 
and change it to repeat 50,000 times, or maybe zero times)

code is available here: https://github.com/charliekramer/ChucK/blob/master/disquiet0377.ck

Disquiet0377 Algorithmic Assembly

I started with 12 glass bottles filled with different amounts of water.  Rolled a d12 8 times to get my 8 note scale. From here I rolled a d8 4 times to get my 4 main melody notes. The remaining notes were the replacement notes. Then I played each note in 4  different patterns. I rolled a d4 for the pattern and a d8 for the note in the specific pattern for all note selections..

Glass Bottle Algorithm (Disquiet0377)

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0377-algorithms-assemble/20779/25?u=eptc

TV ANNOUNCEMENT: A House That is Neglected is a House That May Be Doomed! (disquiet0377)

“The most indubitable respect in which ideas have helped mankind is numbers,” wrote the philosopher and logician Bertrand Russell. “We have become, in certain respects, progressively less like animals [in] that forethought more and more dominates [our] impulses.”

Russell believed that all human knowledge was, at most, a best guess based upon knowledge attained to that point. In his 1903 book The Principles of Mathematics, Russell argued that mathematical concepts were immune from doubt because they were constructed entirely of logic. An algorithm is really nothing more than a process — a set of rules to be followed in order to achieve a result.

The logic breaks down because life and language are slippery, inexact and subjective. A famous example of Russell’s Paradox is the barber who shaves everybody in town except those who shave themselves. Who shaves the barber? If he shaves himself, then he doesn’t shave himself; if he doesn’t, then he does. Groucho Marx once remarked that he would never join a club who would have him as a member. Suss Müsik doesn’t really make music, nor do we do much sussing. Paradoxes abound.

For this piece, a simple four-note phrase was played on piano utilizing a scale of 8 notes. The 2431 algorithm was applied not only to note sequences, but also to sustain levels and attack times. This created a weird phasing effect during transitions. The algorithm was also applied to a “scale” of wordless vocal recordings by Suss Müsik friend, collaborator and mentor Wm. Wolfgang Allen. Expect more such collaborations from this team in the very near future. 

The piece is titled Russellian. Many thanks to NorthWoods for contributing this inventive and interesting assignment to the Disquiet Junto community.

More on this 377th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Algorithms Assemble / The Assignment: Have fun with rules applied to scales, in coordination with the Algorithmic Art Assembly — at:
https://disquiet.com/0377/ 2

The project is lightly adapted from one proposed by Junto member Charlie Kramer (aka NorthWoods).

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

Subscribe to project announcements here:
http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0377-algorithms-assemble/ 2

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

Russellian [Disquiet0377]

vcv rack      release date: 24_ 03_ 2019     
More on this 377th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Algorithms Assemble / The Assignment: Have fun with rules applied to scales, in coordination with the Algorithmic Art Assembly — at:

https://disquiet.com/0377/ 2

The project is lightly adapted from one proposed by Junto member Charlie Kramer (aka NorthWoods).

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0377-algorithms-assemble/ 2

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

Algorithms (disquiet0377)

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