Disquiet Junto Project 0704: Right on Cumulus

The Assignment: Compose 8-bit music inspired by a Cory Arcangel / Super Mario video.

Step 1: You’re going to record 8-bit music (or something approximately like it). If you’re not familiar with means by which to do so, read up a bit. Also, there may be some discussion on the Lines (llllllll.co) message board for those new to it.

Step 2: In 2002, the media artist Cory Arcangel created a work of art titled Super Mario Clouds, which removed everything from the 1985 Super Mario Bros. video game except the blue sky and passing clouds. This means that Arcangel’s video was silent, because also excluded was Koji Kondo’s classic score. Read up about the work, which is well-documented.

Step 3: Part of the reason that the original Super Mario Bros. music wasn’t included in Super Mario Clouds may have been to do with how it, naturally, wasn’t aligned with how sedate the Arcangel hack turned out to be. Please now record very sedate 8-bit music that does feel aligned with Super Mario Clouds.

Deadline: Monday, June 30, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: https://disquiet.com/0704/

Disquiet Junto Project 0704: Right on Cumulus

A 'sedate' 8 bit track to soundtrack Cory Angel Super Mario Clouds ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCmAD0TwGcQ)

Recorded for  Disquiet Junto Project 0704: Right on Cumulus

The Assignment: Compose 8-bit music inspired by a Cory Arcangel / Super Mario video.

Step 1: You’re going to record 8-bit music (or something approximately like it). If you’re not familiar with means by which to do so, read up a bit. Also, there may be some discussion on the Lines (llllllll.co) message board for those new to it.

Step 2: In 2002, the media artist Cory Arcangel created a work of art titled Super Mario Clouds, which removed everything from the 1985 Super Mario Bros. video game except the blue sky and passing clouds. This means that Arcangel’s video was silent, because also excluded was Koji Kondo’s classic score. Read up about the work, which is well-documented.

Step 3: Part of the reason that the original Super Mario Bros. music wasn’t included in Super Mario Clouds may have been to do with how it, naturally, wasn’t aligned with how sedate the Arcangel hack turned out to be. Please now record very sedate 8-bit music that does feel aligned with Super Mario Clouds.

More on the 704th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right on Cumulus — The Assignment: Compose 8-bit music inspired by a Cory Arcangel / Super Mario video — at https://disquiet.com/0704/

Going out for chips [disquiet0704]

Disquiet Junto 0704 introduced me to a piece of multimedia art called "Super Mario Clouds," an installation by artist Cory Arcangel consisting of a hacked N64 console playing a version of Super Mario Brothers that had been stripped down to a silent loop of pixelated clouds drifting by in a blue sky. Our assignment was to record a piece of music to accompany it.

Designed to loop endlessly and seamlessly, in case you want to drift off to sleep with 8-bit clouds. Room mic, organic vocal, four tracks of synthesizers (three analog and a sampled clav), stereo delay and speaker simulator (convolution reverb).

You can read about Super Mario Clouds on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Clouds

More on the 704th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right on Cumulus — The Assignment: Compose 8-bit music inspired by a Cory Arcangel / Super Mario video — at https://disquiet.com/0704/

The Cloud Gate Loop (disquiet0704)

An electronic sequence created using BeepBox and Audacity.

More on the 704th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right on Cumulus — The Assignment: Compose 8-bit music inspired by a Cory Arcangel / Super Mario video — at https://disquiet.com/0704/

Chippy Combo (disquiet0704)

A minimal live recording session with Commodore 64, Cynthcart and Zoom recorder. Performed today on the C64 keyboard.
More on the 704th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right on Cumulus — The Assignment: Compose 8-bit music inspired by a Cory Arcangel / Super Mario video — at https://disquiet.com/0704/

C64 Clouds For Carpenter (disquiet0704)

This is for the latest disquiet junto https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0704-right-on-cumulus/72333

a sound track to the Cory Arcangel installation Super Mario Clouds

It's meant to be 8 bit music - I couldn't dedicate the time to learning actual 8 bit trackers or whatever so I made a generative Max patch in the spirit of 8 bit music - there is only one sound source playing at any one time and the sound is degraded to 8 bit. Kind of playing with the chiptune idea of chords as arpeggios too 

there is another big influence here but I'll let you spot that for yourselves 

[disquiet0704] that which passes

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.

Chippy Combo (disquiet0704)

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