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XIII (Tarot)

Track 4 from "All this trouble for nothing"
https://glisteningexamples.bandcamp.com/album/all-this-trouble-for-nothing
This is Grisha's second appearance on Glistening Examples, following his 2013 "leave/trace" LP. 

Grisha Shakhnes - Hectic Light (allemagne - Palestine)

https://glisteningexamples.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-what-i-do-volume-eight

Free download from THIS IS WHAT I DO - VOLUME EIGHT

FREE DOWNLOAD

Jason Lescalleet - That's Forever

Crack Deez Nuts - The Nutcracker At 130 Bpm

Available on "Axis/Atlas" from Clandestine Compositions or buy direct from the artist. 
http://brokendiorama.com/discog.html
https://clandestinecompositions.bandcamp.com/releases

 It began as an earworm - a melody I could not get out of my head from the Bulgarian folk song Dragano Draganke. I thought it would be interesting to creatively describe the process of trying to forget the melody. Reel-to-reel tape and washes of microcassette noise shape a tapestry of layered and speed-shifted flute sounds. Made in New York City, 2015.

Dragano Earworm

Say You Will (Ft. Caroline Shaw)

TRACKLIST + VIDEO THIS WAY ⤅ http://blrrm.tv/SOTL

Stars Of The Lid Boiler Room NYC Live Show

This experiment sonified a buckyball molecule’s mass spectrum.

Mass spectrometry measures a chemical mixture's components by plotting the charge intensities of its various ions, creating a characteristic spectrum. I took the spectrum of buckminsterfullerene, C60, a molecule nicknamed “buckyball” that resembles Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes and was named after him. I scaled an analysis of its mass-to-charge ratio plot to show frequency vs. amplitude, creating a matching spectrum in the audible domain.

I then made a wavetable from a short excerpt of Fuller saying the words “mathematical possibilities” and assigned a bank of oscillators to read through it, creating a timbre directly from Buckminster Fuller’s voice and the molecule that bears his name (which, incidentally, is one of the largest objects to display wave/particle duality). I sequenced multiple layers of this texture, with filters, panning, and reverb added.

molecule spectrum adapted from this data (converted to frequency/amplitude pairs from JCAMP-DX format): http://webbook.nist.gov/cgi/cbook.cgi?ID=C99685968&Mask=200

sample taken from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6yaSLipeWg

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More on this 226th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Compose music for a fictional greatest-hits collection of the electronic music of R. Buckminster Fuller”) at:

http://disquiet.com/0226/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

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Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

Project inspired by a dream that C. Reider of Vuzh Music had:

http://vuzhmusic.com/

Image of album cover created for this project is by Brian Scott of Boon Design:

http://boondesign.com/


buckyball spectrum [disquiet0226]

Additional vocal samples by Becca Chambers, Melanie O'Brien, Lizzy Hayes, and Zach Bernstein

Driving Over Diamonds (Barbary Allen)

Patrick McMinn is a sound artist living in Baltimore, MD.

get in touch:
patrickryanmcminn@gmail.com