Name: Modular 1 A by qrux
Duration: 3 min 22 s
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Modular 1 A

i got last week's track and stretched it to 225 million years to represent one orbit of the milky way
then i went through and recorded a 'tick' every so often (i didnt listen to all of it) 
then blurred it into itself

http://llllllll.co/t/music-for-the-galactic-tick-disquiet-junto-project-0248/4744

Disquiet Junto Project 0248: Galactic Tick
Celebrate the new celestial holiday in music.

Project Steps:

Step 1: Read up on the Galactic Tick, a new proposed holiday exploring, as described by Popular Mechanics, “how people’s perceptions would change if they really realized the one fixed point in their celestial understanding, the mighty sun, was also in flux.”

http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/news/a22492/galactic-tick-day-september-29/8

http://galactictick.com/2

Step 2: Devise a short piece of music in celebration of the Galactic Tick. Perhaps you’ll explore the distance of 225 million years, which is how often the Earth fully circles the center of the Milky Way. Perhaps you’ll find cosmic meaning in 1/129,600,000, which is the “centi-arcsecond” employed by the Galactic Tick planners to make the period of time more human-comprehensible. Perhaps you’ll find meaning in 633.7, which is the number of days between celebrations of the Galactic Tick here on Earth, or 1.74, which is the number of years.

Galactic Orbit |disquiet0248|

My Music Videos - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc_iQ5JFusPt9EIwKIZ5rew
With this project I wanted to create a sense of scale and 225 million years was an intriguing number. What I came up with was 1 second and in this case 1 beat equals 1 million years. So 225 beats = 225 seconds = 3:45 minutes of length(plus a smidge of tail). For the steady count of time I went to Patterning for a punchy hit that would cut through the Animoog patch I had in mind. Using a metallic texture base I played with frequency, resonance, crush and drive over a longer session and then arranged different parts over four separate tracks in Cubasis. Underneath I added a field recording of a counterweight-cable elevator equipment room pushed through FluxFx and finally added some Micrologue for the bottom. A little eq for two tracks and a small verb for the master channel finished it off! A little longer than prompted but makes a fun way to count through the millions of years ;-)   @disquiet

More on this 248th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Celebrate the new celestial holiday in music” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0248/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

http://llllllll.co/t/music-for-the-galactic-tick-disquiet-junto-project-0248/4744

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

The image associated with this project is borrowed from the website galactictick.com

Season of our Disquiet

One Is A Million(disquiet0248)

my first entry to disquiet junto weekly semi-score composition. i focused on the sun, movements of the sun and our cyclic movement around the sun. ticking. incremental movement yet some aspect of a celebration therein/thereby. quartal movement progression often feels like space. harmonious celebratory feelings amidst vastness. dichotomy and beyond.

4thal celebal (disquiet0248)

Space - beyond all human measure
Vocals/Operator/Convolution Reverb/Watersamples (space and flow)
Tempo set to 63,37 bpm -->  633.7, the number of days between celebrations of the Galactic Tick here on Earth, or 1.74, which is the number of years.

More on this 248th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Celebrate the new celestial holiday in music” — at:
http://disquiet.com/0248/

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

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
http://llllllll.co/t/music-for-the-galactic-tick-disquiet-junto-project-0248/4744

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

Turning (disquiet0248)

Disquiet Junto Project 0248: Galactic Tick

Typically I have about 3-4 hours on a Friday morning to work on a Disquiet project. The response to this weeks project has a slightly longer genesis in that it started some weeks ago as a response to Project 0246: Double, Quadruple, Sextuple, which, due to work constraints, I wasn't able to finish in time.

The original piece started with a short sample, which was then time stretched to create new samples at 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8 times the original length. These were then layered and manipulated until I had what I thought was a pleasing result. And then I had to stop.

For me the two projects have similarities in that they both deal with periodicity and division. I used a short sample from a scene from the TV series Versailles, a transition between a scene of a performance of 18th century dance music and someone walking down a corridor, loud footsteps with incidental music. The connection with Versailles? Louis XV was a keen student of Astronomy and the Passemant Astronomical Clock is located at Versailles. 

For this weeks project, I revisited the abandoned piece, reworking the durations of the derivative samples. I started by going back to the original sample, cutting it down to 1.74 seconds and then creating new versions multiplied by 1.74 seconds (3.03s, 5.27s, 9.12s). These were layered and manipulated per the original project with some added bass, rhythm and hidden melody.

APOB - Versailles [disquiet0248]

A modular piece. Rene, Tides, Clouds, Warps, Peaks, Shelves, Maths, Dixie II+ in no particular order.

Tick(tock){Disquiet 0248}

Description coming later...

More on this 248th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Celebrate the new celestial holiday in music” — at:
http://disquiet.com/0248/

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

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
http://llllllll.co/t/music-for-the-galactic-tick-disquiet-junto-project-0248/4744

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

The image associated with this project is borrowed from the website galactictick.com

Pulsar (disquiet0248)

Disquiet Junto 0248 - Galactic Tick

http://llllllll.co/t/music-for-the-galactic-tick-disquiet-junto-project-0248

Taking my cues from Marc's original post to the Disquiet Junto group above, I used the numeric values in the project link above.

Each number in the article appeared close to being a meaningful Hz number.
225 million light years - 220Hz
1/129,600,000 of seconds - 1129Hz
633.7 days - 634Hz
1.74 years - 174Hz

Set four instances of the (super-useful) MOscillator VSTi to those Hz settings, you get a nice microtonal chord...

I started the track with each MOscillator set to the average of the four frequencies - average of 225, 634, 1129, 174 = 540Hz
Then automated each MOscillator from it's starting 540Hz to its Hz value (174, 225, 634, 1129). 
Added movement using Rhythmic Gates (A1TriggerGate free vst - great plugin), and Delays and Distortions on Sends.
Went for a nice heavy beat here, at a good foot-tapping BPM (132). 

Maybe the Galactic Tick after-party would use this track... :-)

Modular 1 A

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