Name: Thus it Falls (naviarhaiku506) by ray_cobley
Duration: 5 min 14 s
Description: A live electronic composition created in Pure Data.

A live electronic composition created in Pure Data.

Thus it Falls (naviarhaiku506)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 27 Nov 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

This piece is a section of a longer generative improvisation. Using a patch I created earlier in the evening on Arturia Prophet V3 in the VS mode, I started in Bitwig with a few sequenced notes, Nitwig’s own random elements, CodeFN42 RandArp & iZotope’s Neoverb. I chose a small section to replicate across four tracks in Ableton Live and committed some variation with Live’s native devices and some other iZotope plugins. 

This original version of "Ion Exchange & Found" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 569, Resplendent. 

Resplendent
the kite soaring up above
the shanty town

by: Kobayashi Issa

Among the four great masters of Japanese haiku, Kobayashi Issa was the most prolific: during his lifetime he wrote over 20,000 haiku, hundreds of tanka, and several haibun. 

Art/photography by Jim Lemanowicz, 07 Nov 2009, Massapequa, NY, USA
©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Ion Exchange & Found  (naviarhaiku569)

The Assignment: Record a drone that goes from simple to complex to simple.
 
Step 1: You may, yourself, be experienced recording drone music, or you may never have recorded any. You may not even be sure what drone music is, in which case read up a bit. Not matter your experience and familiarity, please give some thought as to what constitutes drone music.

Step 2: Now think about what makes a drone simple and what makes a drone complex.

Step 3: Now record a piece of drone music that begins simple, gets complex, and then gets simple again. And note: The simple drone at the end needn’t necessarily be the same sort of drone with which the piece opens.

Edits: 
* Print 2: Reprint to remove clock errors in the outro. Less low end roll-off. 
* Print 3: Removed some Lexicon ticks

Notes:
* Clicky drone: Arturia Microfreak “Cliched Things” into Lexicon PCM 41, full square wave modulation, fed to a spring reverb by a Radial Tank Driver.
* Pad: Waldorf Blofeld “Sonnenaufgang”.
* Piano: Roland MP-600 into Memory Man Deluxe.

More on the 675th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Arc of the Drone — The Assignment: Record a drone that goes from simple to complex to simple — at https://disquiet.com/0675/

This track is free to download and modify, provided due credit is given to the original artist aka "Schmerzwelt".

Horspielstreifen

Horspielstreifen - (Disquiet0675) - Print 003

More on the 676th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Sub Melody — The Assignment: Bury a slow melody deep inside a drone — at https://disquiet.com/0676/

Drone From Burkon's Basement (disquiet0676)

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 571:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku571-stillness/
Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!

Photo by zenbytes (Vosges Mountains, France, 2014)


petals sifting down - Naviarhaiku571

The opening hit represents the strong trunk of the tree from which the wind strips the tree of its leaves and flowers where the high notes of the piano thru a delay represent the sound of the petals sifting down together. There's a drastic 'ping' that occurs that's meant to symbolize a pebble thrown into a still pool of water and how the ripples bounce back and forth and mix together but ultimately calm is once again restored.

Stillness (naviarhaiku571)

More on the 677th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Jeux d’enfants — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a children’s toy or game — at https://disquiet.com/0677/

Slinky & Spectrum (disquiet0677)

A new game for new children in a new century, echoes of old mistakes, history on repeat, maybe next time! Lets go to the moon, but not without anticipation, passion, wonder, and regret. Would they recognise themselves as children?

A tribute too Georges Bizet's Op 22 for piano, go listen.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeux_d%27enfants_(Bizet)

This piano is electric, as is the bass, the found sounds are eclectic: cornwall and NASA, in flight, and in repose. The space inhabited is by Sean Costello/Valhalla DSP.

NASA recordings used by permission, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, https://freesound.org/people/DudeAwesome/sounds/386070/

Moire on the 677th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Jeux d’enfants — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a children’s toy or game — at https://disquiet.com/0677/

Jeux d'Enfants Nouveaux - La Fusée

Jeux d'Enfants Nouveaux - La Fusée (disquiet 0677)

Very Sexy Girl (disquiet0677)

The sounds used in this track are borrowed from an upcoming video from YouTube.com/@paintbrushasmr ...

More on the 677th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Jeux d’enfants — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a children’s toy or game — at https://disquiet.com/0677/

more halF unusuaL

halF plaY [disquiet0677]

This week's Disquiet Junto prompt recalled the Jeux d'enfants ("Games for Children") compositions of George Bizet, and suggested creating our own work inspired by a toy or game. I decided pretty quickly on that childhood favorite, the ouija board. 

The seed of the song came from a rambling piano improvisation over a simple placeholder 4-note bass line. I chopped and arranged the interesting parts of the piano to form sections, then recorded fresh performances for each one. I was too lazy to play my actual bass but I spent a long time recording and refining the synthetic bass part. The percussion is handful of simple hand-rolled patterns on a modeled Roland CR-78.

I went back and forth on whether to include samples, and to what degree. I settled on the scrape of the planchette and the ghostly voice of the girl in the ouija board, responding to the unheard questions from the person whose hands are on the planchette. My hope is for the listener to place themselves in that role and enter into dialog with the spirit.

Enjoy with headphones in a candle-lit room.

More about this week's Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0677

The Girl from the Ouija Board (disquiet0677)

Abstract Sound Structures, Musique Concrète & Live Electronics.
Experimental 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.

Thus it Falls (naviarhaiku506)

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