Great floaty, drifty feeling that puts me miles above the ground, with the occasional glimpse of a star.

I like experiencing that sound pressure level, at seaside, on a mild autumn evening. Nice abstraction!

Disquiet Junto Project 0671: In the Air Tonight
The Assignment: Make an atmosphere of your own.

Step 1: Rather than record music, in the traditional sense, you are going to spend time assembling a sonic environment, what might be thought of as an atmosphere. Think about what that might entail. Please begin this process with the understanding that you will create the atmosphere from scratch, which is to say: not using field recordings of existing environments.

Step 2: Think about the sort of atmosphere you want to make. It might help to experiment by first making some quick rough drafts, in order to see what sorts of atmospheres your skills and equipment lend themselves to.

Step 3: Now record the atmosphere you decided upon in Step 2, adhering to the directions mentioned in Step 1.

Deadline: Monday, November 11, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0671

Disquiet Junto Project 0671: In the Air Tonight

Solicitude

This piece explores the concept of algorithmic improvisation, asking the question: "Why do we want our computers to improvise?" It was generated using a Python algorithm that constructs a sequence of 3-note cells. These cells can mutate over time but also return to previous states. The sequence is initiated by a single random seed and a parameter that controls the probability of variation. The timbre parameters of the instruments, on the other hand, are constantly changing, also triggered by a single random seed.
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More on the 651st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Why Compute? — The Assignment: Respond to a prompt from George E. Lewis — at https://disquiet.com/0651/

The cover image for this project uses a photo by Ioan Sameli, thanks to a CC BY-SA 2.0 license; it’s been cropped and text has been added to it.

Thy CPU Meow - Disquiet0651

July 20, 2024
for progettosonoro - Marco Mascia
painting by Thomas Sander

PIOMBINO

More on the 671st weekly Disquiet Junto project, In the Air Tonight — The Assignment: Make an atmosphere of your own — at https://disquiet.com/0671/

Into the Cybernest - disquiet0671

Enter the danger zone! ... See the accompanying visuals and download the patch at https://youtu.be/wNy9nG9AaQU ... Create your own version of a volatile bytebeat atmos in VCV Rack! 😁

More on the 671st weekly Disquiet Junto project, In the Air Tonight — The Assignment: Make an atmosphere of your own — at https://disquiet.com/0671/

visuals & patch

halF volatilE [disquiet0671]

Disquiet Junto # 0671 was an invitation to create an atmosphere from scratch. "Other People's Dreams" features three intertwined vignettes, guiding the listener through mysterious spaces that are lying in wait for their stories to begin. 

A lot of the sounds, including the rattling engine in part 1, came out of torturing drum kit samples with filters, ring mods, and arpeggiators. I live-sculpted high pass and low pass filters on layers of pink noise to create the ocean swells. I recently acquired a Nektar Panorama control surface for Logic Pro, which gives me tactile control over parameter automation. For this piece, I was able to record a live performance involving shaping and filtering in real time. It's been very freeing creatively.

Recorded at NOSIGNAL Multimedia Lab in The Shambles, Chicago. True to the instructions for the prompt, no field recordings were used.

More about this week's Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0671

Other People's Dreams (disquiet0671)

Toaster Dreams Of Pinball (disquiet0671)

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data and Audacity with numerous effects, etc. 
More on the 671st weekly Disquiet Junto project, In the Air Tonight — The Assignment: Make an atmosphere of your own — at https://disquiet.com/0671/



1013.25 Millibars (disquiet0671)

Emplaze unight

2024-11-29

NLS - 2024 - 11 - 29 - 1

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0674: Cerberus Sample. The assignment: Make a song not just with but from just one sample.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0674 discussion thread on Lines:

This gave me the opportunity to get more experience in learning the Rossum Panharmonium, a module I picked up second hand a few months ago. I setup a small 64hp modular skiff, and recorded a melody originally created in Ableton live, into Morphagene, then into Panharmonium, and finally to Monsoon. Modulation and other parameters were changed manually. Output was through Make Noise XOH into a Focusrite Scarlett interface, then into Ableton. Effects added were Valhalla Delay and Cableguys ShaperBox 3. The beginning 8.5 seconds is the actual sample. 

More on the 674th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Cerberus Sample — The Assignment: Make a song not just with but from just one sample — at https://disquiet.com/0674/ T

Open Air [disquiet0674]

Zizz -        8 - 12 - 2024

midnight moon

Echoes of Formica Extended Remix

11. Eritque Arcus Geminus

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

Abstract Sound Structures, Musique Concrète & Live Electronics.
Experimental abstract animation videos.
It is my aim to create and/or edit my tracks & videos using free or open-source software only.
Influences include: J.S. Bach, John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Giacinto Scelsi, Mauricio Kagel, Conlon Nancarrow, Christian Wolff, Harry Partch, Luc Ferrari, Morton Feldman, Cornelius Cardew, Bernard Parmegiani, Ana-Maria Avram, David Tudor, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Renaissance Polyphony.
All my work is published under a Creative Commons licence & can be freely downloaded (as wav) or remixed.

1013.25 Millibars (disquiet0671)

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