a good friend of mine painted a series of images based on descartes' "meditations on first philosophy."

https://www.lowwintersun.org/work/descartes-meditations

i took painting number 6, sliced it into five strips, fed the images into photosounder, the converted the resulting .wav files to MIDI (quantized to 16ths). i used the MIDI clips separately to trigger various samples: kick; snare; low tom; floor tom; hi-hat. i added a steady hi-hat pedal to help navigate the slightly offbeat rhythms.

finally, i layered in a live guitar piece (played through VCV rack, which i first encountered through disquiet junto, many moons ago...)

some possible questions: how can we think about the relationship between something rhythmic (the "beat") and something a-rhythmic (the "ambient" guitar)?
do they feel like two utterly separate streams, or do they somehow inform each other?
also, my track is only one minute long - can something so short be called 'ambient'?
more generally, can such a brief composition claim to establish a mood or atmosphere?

(wittgensteinian thought: i can claim to have felt sad for one minute, but not to have been depressed for one minute. certain moods or states require longer stretches of time to operate.)

all the best, htnc

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[disquiet0544] cartesian drummer

Thoughts of.... [14]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
461 week haiku
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2022/11/02/naviarhaiku461-the-sound-of-rain/

2022-11-04

The Sound Of Rain  (Naviarhaiku 461 )

naviarhaiku461:
the sound of rain
on a cold spring morn
the town is quiet

haiku: Craig Lincoln https://twitter.com/Clpoetry
image: Vincent Camacho https://unsplash.com/@joyousdevil
for the Naviar Records Haiku Music Challenge www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Rain on a Cold Spring Morn [NaviarHaiku461]

This track is a token of gratitude to the creators of the open source software I use in my work. It was constructed using Pure Data, Samplebrain, Audacity & various vst's.

More on this 569th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Think Thank (The Assignment: Make music inspired by something or someone you’re thankful for) – at: https://disquiet.com/0569/

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The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2, where “open door, party inside, digital art” was the prompt.

Soundforest (disquiet0569)

An electronic sequence added to: https://soundcloud.com/red_robin/disquiet_junto_0572-yr-squelchy-lyfe, partially looped.

More on this 573rd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Float Mode (The Assignment: Add material atop a pre-existing beat to form a complete track) – at: https://disquiet.com/0573/

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Squelchy Grains - with Tristan Louth-Robins(disquiet0573)

AND  THEN   I   CAME  TO  THE  BIRDS   --  2

A moment  of your time please [117]

DESERT OUT  -   2

A song about the light...

Here are the lyrics:

Don't you know it's OK
don't you know it's alrigh
don't you know it's only you 
boy you got to turn on the light

She was so dark inside
with the devil by her side
Oh God please show me the way
well i got to get back in line

What else could i do back then?
It was nine out of ten
I had no chance to do it right
hiding into the night

Lord you got to show me
brother do you see the light?
On a Sunday morning
man i'm gonna win the fight

Girl you know 
i'll never give up
watch my step 
i know it's a trap

Yes i know she
couldn't stay
What was given
is taken away

Up and down, right and left
sounds around but i am deaf
i only live for one thing now
i 'm gonna get to it somehow

The Light

Here is an open collaboration. Acoustic rhythm guitar and a drum track in E at 110bpm. Download and do whatever you like with it and let me know so that I can listen. 
Send me some stems if you like and I will try to mix them : )
Merry Christmas!

Father Christmas's New Year Blues (Open Collab)

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.

Squelchy Grains - with Tristan Louth-Robins(disquiet0573)

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