i like how it kind of morphs into a different beat so subtlety that I almost didn't notice

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Disquiet Junto Project 0169: HTML505

While working on a documentary project in Addis Ababa, I was lucky enough to visit several natural sites in Ethiopia. This is a recording from Lake Langano, where many birds and other animals live. 

I was recording on the shore near the fishing village, which you can hear softly in the background. At that time, children were bathing and having fun.

March 2021. Recorded together with Lucia Nimcova.

Early morning on Lake Langano, Ethiopia

one thing i wish the html5drummachine had would be mute buttons, but then again it's about the limitations in this case

(another limitation i discovered by pressing Backspace before i saved)

additional limitation was not using perc1, perc2 and crash sounds from the techno pack as i couldn't fit them in any way

some programming on the fly and also since it can switch between 2 patterns i took advantage of that

no layering, no additional processing, direct output from the browser

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Disquiet Junto Project 0169: HTML505
Make a track using only an HTML5 drum machine.

Step 1: Go to the following webpage in a browser that supports HTML5:
http://html5drummachine.com

Step 2: Create an original track using only this tool.

Step 3: Upload your track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 4: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This assignment was made in the evening, California time, on Thursday, March 26, 2015, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, March 30, 2015.

Length: The length of your finished work should be roughly between one and four minutes.

More on this 169th Disquiet Junto project — “Make a track using only an HTML5 drum machine” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2015/03/26/disquiet0169-html505/

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http://html5drummachine.com/

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Single live track = Sound of 12 FireFoxes battling for CPU cycles. Minimising the windows doesn't stop them, but has drastic effects on the tempo. Maximising them all makes them glitch along eccentrically, in a manner I found satisfying.

OK - so it's mobile and cross-platform (if it works with your browser at all...) but, sheesh, 8-bit micro's sure did it better!

Wasted couple of hours trying to reverse engineer a local cached version of the app; to apply own sound sets, or modulate the controls algorithmically. Concluded there was no point.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0169: HTML505
Make a track using only an HTML5 drum machine.

Step 1: Go to the following webpage in a browser that supports HTML5:

http://html5drummachine.com

Step 2: Create an original track using only this tool.

Step 3: Upload your track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 4: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This assignment was made in the evening, California time, on Thursday, March 26, 2015, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, March 30, 2015.

Length: The length of your finished work should be roughly between one and four minutes.

Upload: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, only upload one track for this assignment, and include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0169-html505” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

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HTML12 [Disquiet Junto Project 0169: HTML505]

Created using the Techno drum machine at http://html5drummachine.com/, played live and recorded into Audacity. No other processing.

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HTR909 - disquiet0169-html505

I don't usually work with beats or drum machines - so I found this week's assignment a bit challenging. I played with the app for a while, to figure out what to do... recorded a few live performances and tried tweaking it to it's limits fast/slow/high&low pitches... But I really wanted to make a poly rhythmical piece, so I ended up oppening Firefox and Chrome each with the HTML505 drum machine, playing the same beat at the same tempo - 120...that happened not to be exactly the same tempo, so the rhythm goes from in sync slowly shifting to out of sync and then back into sync after a while.... quite lovely I think. 
The title is a homage to Steve Reich who composed a few pieces with a similar ideas... 

Disquiet Junto Project 0169: HTML505
Make a track using only an HTML5 drum machine.

Step 1: Go to the following webpage in a browser that supports HTML5:

http://html5drummachine.com

Step 2: Create an original track using only this tool.

Step 3: Upload your track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 4: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This assignment was made in the evening, California time, on Thursday, March 26, 2015, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, March 30, 2015.

Length: The length of your finished work should be roughly between one and four minutes.

Upload: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, only upload one track for this assignment, and include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0169-html505” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting the track, please be sure to include this information:

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“disquiet0169-html505” I'm Clapping in the Rain

I've been messing with some some self similar melody ideas, thanks to Tom Johnson's book of the same name. These patters are built on brief self similar melodies. 

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C63874e2 - 2ff5 - 4bc2 - B892 - 7497b7d50725 [disquiet0169-html505]

Piano I: Paul Çelebi
Piano II: Olivier Rabu

"Neige" d'Anne Hebert: http://www.barapoemes.net/archives/2016/09/07/34290920.html

Program Note:
Cent traces, sur de vastes plaines was inspired by Anne Hébert's poem "Neige" (snow). Submerged in its poetic image, the music follows its emotional trajectory and attempts to embody it through a language of resonance, harmony, and temporalities. The work was also peripherally influenced by the novel "Kamouraska" by the same author. Both texts depict a wintery dream-scape that devolves into a fever dream peopled with hazy memories. The opening five minutes contain three musical dreams composed using a collection of altered paraphrases from other piano pieces 'about' snow. These quotations appear the way characters in these dreams do: one might have an idea of who they represent from daily life (memory) even if for some reason they do not fully resemble that person. Over the course of the piece the boundaries between dreams erode and the recurring characters' identities become increasingly distorted. Musical memories appear, disappear and intermingle, culminating in a blurred mass and then a rupture.

Commissioned by the Luba Zuk Piano Duo Composition Competition.
Performed November 11th, 2019, Tanna Schulich Hall, McGill.
Composed January-May 2019 (Montreal/Baltimore).

Note de Programme:
Cent traces, sur de vastes plaines est inspiré du poème "Neige" d'Anne Hébert. Submergée dans son image poétique, la musique suit sa trajectoire émotionnelle et tente de l'incarner dans un langage de résonances, d'harmonies, et de temporalités. L'oeuvre a aussi été influencée par le roman "Kamouraska" de la même écrivaine. Les deux textes décrivent des rêves hivernaux qui s'écroulent et deviennent des rêves fiévreux éveillant d'ambigus souvenirs. Les cinq premières minutes contiennent trois rêves musicaux, chacun composés d'une citation altérées d'autres pièces pour piano 'au sujet de' la neige. Ces citations incarnent la façon dont ces personnages habitent ces rêves: on sait qui ils représentent dans notre vraie vie même s'ils ne se ressemblent pas exactement. Au fur et à mesure les frontières séparant ces rêves se déconstruisent et les identités de ces personnages se tordent. Les souvenirs musicaux apparaissent, disparaissent et se mélangent, menant à une masse nuageuse puis une rupture.

Pièce commandée par le concours de composition pour duo de piano Luba Zuk. 
Interprétée le 11 Novembre 2019, Salle Tanna Schulich, McGill. 
Composée janvier-mai 2019 (Montréal/Baltimore).

Cent traces, sur de vastes plaines (2019)

unity.projections[001=>2]  - for accordion and cello (2020)
/live recording/

Branko Džinović (accordion)
Aleksandar Latković (cello)

Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra Hall
10 March 2020

unity.projections[001=>2]  - for accordion and cello (2020)

My Submission for the OneSynthChallenge #137 using the virtual synth HY-Poly (Free Version)

Track made with Ableton Live 10.1 and Hy-Poly free

Using: 39 separate instances of Hy-Poly free as well stock plugins from Live including:
Utility
EQ Eight
Compressor
Glue Compressor
Limiter
Reverb
Delay

Patterns

H-Man - Patterns

Wherever I Go

Second single by Philadelphia's indie-pop band Heliocentric Overdrive
Dedicated to all those explorers pushing the boundaries of human space exploration!
lyrics
Counting down
A million thoughts
now hold on
for dear life
cleared for launch
all systems go
the instruments
all come to life
final checks
ready for launch
t-minus zero
time to blast off
rocket thrust
it lifts off
Shake, Vibrate, accelerate

Ripping through the atmosphere
feel the thrill of being here
weightless, floating in space.

Out in space
traveling fast
exceed the limits
while hoping that
these very moments
forever last
so many dangers
but can’t look back

going further
than anyone
take precautions
but follow none
of the our steps
we leave the trace
Shake, Vibrate, accelerate

Ripping through the atmosphere
feel the thrill of being here
weightless, floating in space.
credits
released October 1, 2020
Anthony Gatta- Drums
Tom Lugo- Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Arrangements, and Production
https://pateticorecordings.bandcamp.com/track/weightless

Heliocentric Overdrive - WEIGHTLESS

Violence Is The Refuge

ASMR II single available at:
http://smarturl.it/FloatingIntoInfinity

"ASMR II," the lead single from their forthcoming LP, "Floating Into Infinity" (Feb. 2021). A companion piece to 2019's "ASMR," an “arresting instrumental piece inspired by the inexplicable chills that sometimes run down your back" (NPR's All Things Considered), "ASMR II" invites deep listening into its sublime soundworlds made up of ambient textures that combine post-rock and modern minimalism.

Follow Benjamin Louis Brody:
Bandcamp: https://benbrodymusic.bandcamp.com/tr...
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BENJAMIN LOUIS BRODY & IAN CHANG began their collaboration with, “Floating Into Infinity,” originally composed as a ballet in 2017. The work is a unique composition that utilizes a new sampling software for drummers called Sensory Percussion. Developed by Sunhouse, it’s a true leap forward in drumming technology, combining the nuance and control of an acoustic drum and the limitless possibilities of digital sound. The technology allows Brody and Chang to push the boundaries of the drum set, bringing a vast enormous soundscapes to the composition. Later in 2017, they continued their collaboration with the spine-tingling cut, "ASMR,” from Chang’s debut solo EP, Spiritual Leader. NPR’s All Songs Considered described the track as an “arresting instrumental piece inspired by the inexplicable chills that sometimes run down your back.” Bandcamp Daily describes the piece as “a perfect example” of the use of Sensory Percussion where “various textural and melodic samples merge to create an atmospheric, almost ambient piece.”

Floating Into Infinity

ASMR II

ASMR II (Single Edit)

planeride

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.

i write music and code that writes music. all tracks with a very few exceptions are under CC license and downloadable, so remixes / overdubs / collaborations are always encouraged.

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