Name: String Trio: Adagio by saneLIV
Duration: 5 min 41 s
Description: a light flicks off and on in the basement

Composed in 2013 for the violin - and a first for me as a composer - the Shinrin-yoku (forest bathing) project involves the Augmented Violin System (developed at IRCAM), an Interactive Computer System, and an Interactive Audio/Visual component that will manipulate images that I have snapped hiking in various places.

The title is a Japanese word that involves visiting a forest for relaxation and recreation while breathing in wood essential oils regarded as being similar to natural aromatherapy - a recognized relaxation and/or stress management activity in Japan.

Shin-rin Yoku (Forest Bathing) fragment of music for violin and interactive computer system

Sistemann Ut

a light flicks off and on in the basement

String Trio: Adagio

One Percent Disjunction [disquiet0264]

I thought I’d approach this by exploring the inside of a stretch, rather than just absorbing the overall drone effect. Not sure if it worked, but it was fun.

I took a 3 second sample from a piece I was working on. I used Audacity’s Sliding Time Scale effect on it. This stretches the sample unevenly, pulling only from one end, as it were. When the result was just over three minutes long, I reversed it. 

I duplicated the track and then pitched it down by 1% - that is by 0.01 of a tone. This helps create the phasing and movement you hear in the track. I also mixed these together and laid the mix as another track, but out of phase by 0.01 of a second.

A reverb version of the mixed tracks was also laid (in phase).

The ending was made by stretching the original sample out 12x using Audacity’s simplified version of Paulstretch.

The track image was made by applying similar principles to Marc’s email image, using paint.net



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Disquiet Junto Project 0264: Time Travel

Record a piece of music that plays with the perception of time.

Step 1: Recorded music is, generally speaking, a fixed object. It’s a document. It proceeds linearly, over time. It is, in the terminology of fine art, “time-based.” That said, music has the power to change one’s perception of time. Slowing and speeding tempo alone can alter a listener’s understanding of what is happening. Backward masking, sublimated hints of themes yet to come, the sound of a tape in fast forward mode — those are just a few ways that a composer can suggest that time is not moving linearly. Now, consider for a moment the tools available to give an impression of time doing things other than proceeding in a steady forward motion.

Step 2: Record a short piece of music that takes time travel as its theme, using ideas that resulted from the consideration in Step 1.

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More on this 264th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Time Travel: Record a piece of music that plays with the perception of time”:

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One Percent Disjunction [disquiet0264]

God: You can never change the future. The past, yes, but not the future.

Lucifer: How do you change the past?

God: Why, the past is always changing—nobody remembers anything. But the future can no more be turned away than the light flowing off the moon.

This bit of dialogue is from Arthur Miller’s underrated play The Creation of the World and Other Business. It comes at a crucial point in the narrative where Lucifer admits to God that he compelled Eve & Adam to partake of the forbidden fruit, an act that ultimately banished God’s children from the Garden of Eden.

Time travel is not impossible; we are always revisiting past events in our efforts to understand the present, and our attempts to predict the future often arise from moments of stagnate contemplation. Anyone who has experienced the feeling of traveling by air or rail understands the dichotomy between moving and not moving, not unlike how a great piece of music rewards the listener’s investment by making time stand still.

For this short piece, Suss Müsik literally went back in time—ten years, to be exact. The source material is an eight-bar guitar phrase played with a Danelectro 12SDC 12-string in 2007. The sample was chopped through a Korg ToneWorks 411X processor and recorded live from a Vox AD30VT. The binaural motion cycles for about two minutes or so before the reverse reverb winds it down, coming almost to a halt. The momentary respite allows for a calming pause before the cymbals announce their arrival.

The piece is entitled Trammel, a word to describe something that restricts or impedes one’s freedom of action.

More on this 264th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Time Travel: Record a piece of music that plays with the perception of time”:

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Trammel [Disquiet0264]

I had been mucking around with midifx and knob twiddling. Tiring of that and wanting something more live I found this sound and jammed for a few minutes whole recording. I am excited if anyone can use it and looking forward to dueting myself with someone else. Love the "live" idea for the Junto and the idea of collaborating.

More on this 269th weekly Disquiet Junto project, “Duet Portion: Record half of a live duet” at:

http://disquiet.com/0269/

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Image associated with this project is by Tony Tsang. It’s used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

flic.kr/p/6565DF

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Live at Black Bear (disquiet0269)

Started out with extended midi penciling the pattern in over 15 bars. Started cossfading in different sounds, found some cool sentence palindromes here https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/oddsends/palinsen.htm
More on this 281st weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Pattern Interruption: Create a pattern, loop it, and intersperse alterations” — at:

https://disquiet.com/0281/

This week’s project was proposed by Lin Mu.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

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Image associated with this project is from Wikipedia:

By James atmos – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7821536

String Trio: Adagio

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