I expected some massive sounds after having read the descriptions. This was a nice surprise. Well automated.

Disquiet Junto Project 0589: Auto Play

The Assignment: Automate something manual — or vice versa

Step 1: Think about things you’re used to doing when you make music, habits you take for granted.

Step 2: Record a track in which you automate something you usually do manually, or manually do something you usually automate — or both.

This project was inspired by recent conversation in the Disquiet Junto Slack.

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, April 17, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, April 13, 2023.

More on this 589th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Auto Play (The Assignment: Automate something manual — or vice versa), at: https://disquiet.com/0589/

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Disquiet Junto Project 0589: Auto Play

My submission for Disquiet Junto Project 0589: Auto Play
The Assignment: Automate something manual — or vice versa
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Automated Unautomated (disquiet0589)

A live electronic sequence created in Pure Data, with automated irregularity.

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Autobash (disquiet0589)

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Auto Play

Disquiet Junto | Auto Play - disquiet0589

Visuals on YouTube @ https://youtu.be/5ChKLbMuPWA ... please subscribe! 🤗

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visuals (YouTube)

halF automaT [disquiet0589]

Random patch and sequence on Korg Opsix, processed by Max4Live Xformer, Sonic Charge Permut8 and Vallhalla SuperMassive with parameters from the plugins automated by Max4Live LFO random
Drums from Maschine processed with Max4Live Xformer automated by Max4Live LFO random.

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Automata (disquiet0589)

Usually when I record something, I do everything by hand - especially mixing and recording. So for this project, I decided to automate mixing and recording in a semi-random manner (with Drambo and AUM) and do the rest manually.

First I tried this with singing but it turned in too much of a mess. So in the end I jamed with some percussion instruments with the help of my five year old daughter.

We played into several loopers, with automated recording and overdubbing of the loops. For recording we simultaneously used four mics or rather a mic, a Zoom audio recorder (via line out), the built in Organelle mic with the Cannabits effect and Microfreak Vocoder. The looper channels went into a master channel with four effects that randomly were turned on and off (same pattern as loops).

We recoded one messy session and then overdubbed it with a second take. The result is one automated manual percussion mess (with some spoken instructions).

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Disquiet0589 - Percussive Automation

Tell Yall Bout My Friends (disquiet0589)

Instruments: iKaossilator App, Synth One App, SpaceCraft App
Plugins: 2-C Kaleidoscope, CromoVerb, Valhalla Uber Mod

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Purchasing a Canopy (disquiet0589)

Disquiet Junto Project 0590: Concrète Roots 
The Assignment: Make music combining field recordings and feedback

I was in Paris and brought my recorder along. Our hotel was right outside of Gare de l’Est. The little four note tune that’s at the start of the French Railroad service announcements was in the room about every two minutes, and so became somewhat emblematic of the trip. Also, there was this fluorescent tube light in the hotel bathroom that had a… je ne said quoi. Perhaps it’s the sound of arriving in a work place — a garage, storage space or studio — in the very early morning, still dark, at an hour when no one who has any choice in the matter is not in bed, everything quiet, all alone, and then this tingling, almost glitchy tone as the lights come on. You don’t see/hear them as much as you used to. 
So those recordings, together with a recording of a departing train, became the basis of this track.

The field recordings are accompanied by a feedback part, which was inspired by things I read in the llllllll cybernetic music thread: https://llllllll.co/t/cybernetic-music-roland-kayn-feedback-systems-ai/40635. 
I suppose it is a take on work by Jaap Vink. The audio signal goes into a delay, is then sent through some effects (in Vink’s setup, a ring modulator and a filter, if I recall correctly), then a reverb, and then sent back to the input, with some form of attenuation that is controlled by an envelope follower. The result is an audio signal loop that keeps its feedback in check automatically.
In my case everything was made on an iPad, which is surprisingly good and versatile for creative audio routing. Instead of a ring modulator, I used an app that has a bunch of resonators that you can actually ‘play’ using a keyboard: playing a note on the keyboard will activate the resonator tuned to that note. Playing the resonators subtly shifts/nudges the feedbacking audio into different parts of the frequency spectrum (in a way that is roughly analogous to what the ring modulator and filter do in Vink’s setup).

More on this 590th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Concrète Roots (The Assignment: Make music combining field recordings and feedback), at: https://disquiet.com/0590/

Disquiet Junto

Concrète Roots- disquiet0590

More on this 590th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Concrète Roots (The Assignment: Make music combining field recordings and feedback), at: https://disquiet.com/0590/

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Concrete Roots

Disquiet Junto | Concrete Roots - disquiet0590

An old fence, a gate making noises and the lawn mower of the neighbour. Field recordings with feedback in honour of Éliane Radigue.

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Concrète Gate [Disquiet0590]

Stickleback & Feedback (disquiet0590)

Fieldback (disquiet0590)

A walk through my mother's parking garage; a short elevator ride; snippets of a preacher's sermon; radio static; mysterious voices and glorious feedback from an Enner and a PolyD. This and more found its way into my Polyend Tracker and then into Logic with a few feedback loops using a bus trick I learned from Youtube. Hallelujah!

Disquiet0590

An original field recording made with stones & pebbles on the shore, with additional feedback.

More on this 590th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Concrète Roots (The Assignment: Make music combining field recordings and feedback), at: https://disquiet.com/0590/ 1

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Shore Stones (disquiet0590)

MENACE! - Anti Da Menace - Lil Rae - type beat Prod. Skull beats

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.

Electronic Musician, Percussionist, Guitarist and Composer. Modular Synth Enthusiast
http://rupertlally.bandcamp.com 
http://www.rupertandespen.com

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