More on this 376th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Pi Filling / The Assignment: Celebrate Pi Day — at:

https://disquiet.com/0376/

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https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

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 Emily:

https://flic.kr/p/82D1bt

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Disquiet Junto Project 0376: Pi Filling

Bits of Disquiet

I made this piece for Pi day based on this weeks disquiet assignment

multiple different methods at play here using the numerical values of pi - whether used sequentially to create the speed of an lfo or the parameters on an effect, or as the parameters for a euclidean drum pattern generator i found online http://www.groovemechanics.com/euclid/. I also used the dialogue of a reading of the pi sequence from mushino on freesound https://freesound.org/people/mushino/sounds/455169/. Note data was taken from the MIDI files found at http://www.hlxx.de/hp/pifoengl.htm

NOTE: I really wasn't happy with the original mix so i re-jigged it a bit, made it so it didn't make me sad listening to it : )


More on this 376th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Pi Filling / The Assignment: Celebrate Pi Day — at:

https://disquiet.com/0376/

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-0376-pi-filling/

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

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 Emily:

https://flic.kr/p/82D1bt

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Pi's Big Blunder - disquiet0376

for this track I used the first 20 digits of pi to create a sequence of four-note chords. I established a base note and then added the successive digits of pi to that base note in groups of four, as 

[base + 3, base+1, base+4, base+1] = first chord
[base + 1, base+4, base+1, base+5] = second chord

and so on. The individual notes are FM voice synthesis; I modulated the phoneme for each note randomly and played each voice for a randomized length of time. The chords are run through three delays set to different times and a reverb. The piece is coded in ChucK, available at my GitHub here:

https://github.com/charliekramer/ChucK/blob/master/disquiet0376%20PiPad.ck



More on this 376th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Pi Filling / The Assignment: Celebrate Pi Day — at:

https://disquiet.com/0376/

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-0376-pi-filling/

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

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 Emily:

https://flic.kr/p/82D1bt

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/




More on this 376th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Pi Filling / The Assignment: Celebrate Pi Day — at:

https://disquiet.com/0376/

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-0376-pi-filling/

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

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 Emily:

https://flic.kr/p/82D1bt

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

disquiet0376 PiPad

My contribution to the Disquiet Junto project "Pi Filling". 
Recorded with Cubase Pro 9.5, Universal Audio Apollo Twin.

Dreams Of Pi

For my submission I took the first 12 numbers of pi and used them to create 4 groups of 3 note chords (314, 159, 265, 359). I then used those first 12 numbers to decide on key centres in which to play these 4 groups in...arbitrarily choosing A as 1 gave me C#, A, D, A, E, B, B, F#, E, C#, E, B. So the piece is just me playing guitar going through the four 3 note chord groups in order, through each of those keys in order, and then it ends. Repeating motifs naturally emerge using this method but I used variations in voicings, voice leading, and right hand picking to give it some structure. 

I had some slightly grander schemes in mind, but in the end I knew that I would not have any other time before Monday to record anything, so I kept it fairly simple. Too much reverb is used to somewhat disguise the fact that the only guitar that I have to hand today has ancient strings and a few tuning issues! 

More on this 376th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Pi Filling / The Assignment: Celebrate Pi Day — at:
https://disquiet.com/0376/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://disquiet.com/junto/

disquiet0376: pi filling

A piece for Pi...

The main theme is made up of the first 30’ish digits of Pi - played by a virtual Buchla at 314bpm. The theme is doubled through different instances of more orchestral instruments with very different envelopes - and finally everything is sprinkled with a little effects and rythmical elements.

More on this 376th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Pi Filling / The Assignment: Celebrate Pi Day — at:
disquiet.com/0376/

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disquiet0376 - pi 4 ip

Found floating amongst the stars, initially though to be an alien satellite, a yalpian blackstone organ was found in 1972 by Major Tom & Eva. 

After several years of experiments, Professor Spleet Von Gingle finally succeeded in taping a few minutes of it's song, after which (she claims) it broke completely. 

Rumour has it, though, that pieces and parts as well as some of the oscillating blackstones has been seen on stage or in the studios of some of the biggest bands throughout the '70'ies and '80'ies.

More on this 385th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Audubonus Instrumentum / The Assignment: Imagine a fake instrument, and make music with it — at:

https://disquiet.com/0385/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

disquiet0385 - etude for yalpian fields

This is part of the "disquiet junto" challenges (see more below).
For this months challenge,  choose 3 random instruments, I decided to do a quick “in the box” experiment. Amongst my, admittedly, too many plugins, I let google cast the dice. What I hadn’t foreseen was, of course, that my plugins are a mix of instruments and mixing/mastering tools… so I was given with the following three numbers: 15, 53 and 51 - giving me the following three plugins:

15 - Arturia Piano V2
53 - iZotope Stutter Edit
51 - iZotope Ozone 7 Vintage Tape

The title is an anagram of "more random" - but feels somehow relevant to the result...

More on this 388th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Random Less / The Assignment: Make a single piece of music with very few tools, all selected at random — at:

https://disquiet.com/0388/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

disquiet0388 - mr marooned

This was an old experiment with some minimal house - where I, in response to this weeks Disquiet Junto challenge, took a serious dive in tempo compared to the original, shaved off a lot of stuff, put in a few experimental bleeps - which gave everything a very dubby feeling, I think. The original (called "Old House"), is maybe 10 years old...

Hope you like and find a nice summer spot to enjoy!

More on this 389th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Long Then / The Assignment: Take an old song, and make it (much) slower, and add something — at:

https://disquiet.com/0389/

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https://disquiet.com/junto/

disquiet0389 - since then (old house)

This track is based on an old industrial loop I made a while ago - but sped up considerably in response to this weeks “Disquiet Junto” challenge. I’ve build a new arrangement around the track and even, just to try it out, speed up the piece by a total of 7bpm during the short run of the track. 

It’s primarily “in the box”, with a few field / modular samples thrown in. Big up to Output’s Exhale plugin in this one, by the way.

More on this 390th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Pace Quickens / The Assignment: Take an old song (or field recording), and make it faster, and add then something — at:

https://disquiet.com/0390/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

disquiet0390 - run with It

This is a response to the Disquiet Junto challenge "Front Page"; a small sentence is taken from a headline (CNN; France just had its hottest day ever recorded!) and mangled... 

I've created a "voice avatar" at LyreBird, and had that AI voice (that to me sounds like a digital ghost of myself) read a single line of the news bit. Then it has been mangled and a few extra sounds added. It's a short piece. But... an important subject.

More on this 391st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Front Page / The Assignment: Make music that fills in where the news trails off — at:

https://disquiet.com/0391/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

disquiet0376 - pi 4 ip

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