love it and discovering both your inspirations that are new to me, thanks for that!

This is so peaceful. Really organic blending of the sounds

Brook (small stream)

Messing with the nn~ operator in MAX/MSP and two pre-trained RAVE AI models resulted in this uncanny voice recording. Strangely stuttering, but almost language. If you'd like to see exactly how it was created, check out the accompanying video @ https://youtu.be/WwNYD3Sm4H4

More about RAVE models @ https://github.com/acids-ircam/RAVE

Huge thanks to Intelligent Instruments Lab for making their RAVE models available @ https://huggingface.co/Intelligent-Instruments-Lab/rave-models

visual explanation

halF inflectioN

Meditation Nation

Forest Girl

For this project I wanted to re-record my Jamuary track “Glitched Guitar / Lots of Ripples”. I chose this track because I thought it was just a simple guitar melody and a bit of knob twisting with effects and therefore easy to reproduce with voice.

Alas the original track was made with Norns Glitchlooper - a five track asynchronous looper with a mind of its own - fed into Norns RPLS, which can be a delay, a looper or anything in between. So it was really impossible to get the same result. Also pitched voices don’t have the same appeal as pitched guitar plucks. My submission sounds a bit like a birdhouse after you handed out the wrong birdseed. Still, it was a fun challenge to try and do this based on just voice.

More on the 633rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Voice Swap — The Assignment: Rerecord all or part of one of your tracks using just your voice — at https://disquiet.com/0633/

Disquiet0633 - Glitched Voice / Lots of Ripples

Shapes

Made exclusively on iPad using Koala Sampler.

DKODA - Incognito

More on the 643rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Stone Out of Focus — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a poem — at https://disquiet.com/0643/

This week’s project is based on a text by Yoko Ono, originally published in her book Grapefruit60 years ago, back in 1964.

A Stone Aging (disquiet0643)

NOTES:

Slow AF
Long 
Single note or theme 
Structure
Formula 
Dusty 
Meandering 
Smooth 

Instruments

Sax
Sub Bass 
Cello 
Bell 
Crash Cymbal 

Eventually built a slow dance

The Aging Of Stone - disquiet0643

Wow & Flutter

Disquiet Junto Project 0439: Self Less
The Assignment: Compose music combining the styles of two musicians you admire.

Step 1: Think of two musicians, preferably ones with different styles, whose music you admire.

Step 2: Consider ways elements from both musicians might be combined. Elements doesn’t mean copyrighted material. It is intended to mean stylistic. (Yes, recent legal decisions have, shall we say, blurred these lines. Try to put that thought aside.)

Step 3: Compose a piece of music exploring the combination (the grafting, the hybridization) of styles you considered in Step 2.

Step 4: You may when posting your track elect to identify the musicians that served as inspiration, or you may choose to keep it to yourself.

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Track notes:

I decided to draw from the inspiration of a long-time favourite and new favourite: German sound artist, Rolf Julius; and Japanese ambient composer, Hiroshi Yoshimura.

I've been listening to Julius' work for many years and his 'small music' - consisting of elaborate sonic textures (often connoting to physical objects, spaces and colour has been a huge inspiration on my practice and general approach to working with sound and listening. Yoshimura, on the other hand, I'd only come across this year, and I've been astonished at the subtlety and beauty of his work: especially 1982's Music For Postcards and 1986's Green. Both of which have been recently reissued by the Seattle label, Light In The Attic.

With this melding of styles in mind, I wanted to work quickly and away from the computer or modular synth, so as to not get distracted by too many possibilities.

I set up two loop pedals on the floor of my studio space with a couple of microphones connected. I then grabbed some small percussion items and a handful of 'percussive junk' and made several successive loops - shuffling, scraping, rattling and rubbing things together. The core loops were created on a Boss double looper, then re-looped/broken up/pitched/filtered via an EHX Memory Man. This output was then fed through my main mixer and into Logic.

With the textured 'Julius layers' done I set about responding/grafting to this with a sparse keyboard accompaniment ala Yoshimura, following the scattered tonalities that I heard in the texture layers. I used a Korg iOS bank of Rhodes and delicate synth pads.

The structure of the track begins with the textures. I was thinking of a cluttered path of junk, stones or maybe hundreds of tiny crabs or ants going about their business. Then, the keyboard accompaniment comes in and gradually becomes a focal point. The two elements blend for awhile, before the texture give way completely leaving a clear, open space.

[disquiet0439] clearing a path

Tristan Louth-Robins is a South Australian artist working principally in the medium of sound art and field recording. Ideas of sound and its signification are key elements in Louth-Robins' practice, traversing the space between the visual and aural his work is realised through the mediums of recordings, installation, visual art and performance. He is interested in sound and its associative implications - including its relationship to objects, technology, urban space, memory and the natural world. 


Since 2005, Louth-Robins has presented work in Australia and internationally as a solo artist, whilst also collaborating with artists, writers, researchers, musicians and performers. 

Working across a vast array of activities encompassing composition, sound design, installation art, field recording and workshops, his work has been featured in events such as the Adelaide Festival of Arts (2006), The National Regional Arts Festival (2012), Mildura-Wentworth Arts Festival (2013), Fairfax Festival (2013) and Adelaide Fringe Festival (2014); and selected works exhibited at galleries including The Australian Experimental Art Foundation (2009), SASA Gallery (2012, 2015), Light Square Gallery (2012) and FELT Space (2015). His audio works have been broadcast on radio including Radio National, Classic FM, The BBC (UK), Acoustic Frontiers (USA) and RBB (Germany).

[disquiet0439] clearing a path

Tristan Louth-Robins

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