Name: Bilvavi Mishkan Evneh (71) -Wow, part of me really wants what YOU want - Rabbi Shlomo Katz by Shlomo Katz
Duration: 42 min 50 s
Description: three processes taking place simultaneously in each and every one of us

As much as I may filled with holy adrenaline and desires, there is a time I must rest. The question is, what is the point of that rest?

Shabbos - Retreating To My Source - Rav Shlomo Katz

What do you do when the story you are reading ends abruptly, and the calming closing line is not what you expected it to be? 18 minutes of Emuna, based on an idea from Rav Erez Moshe Doron.

Emuna in the Heart, Mind and Soul (2) - Rav Shlomo Katz

Terminal

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This week's prompt was to compose music that listens to itself.

So glad you asked! I have been wanting to make a project like this for years as part of my interest in structured improvisation.

I'd still like to do something clever with MAX/MASP and MIDI, but for now I kept myself quite busy with using audio processing in Ableton Live.

Basically, I tried to construct effects chains that would grab short snippets of audio (from a piano improv and also from each other!), process them, and and repeat them much later in the piece (via gates, envelope followers, or LFOs mapped to the inputs of delays and pitch-shifters). I altered the musical material using pitch-shifters (Cableguys, Ableton's Shifter) or delays with very short settings to make percussive sounds.

I also really tried to prioritize changing pitches, with the idea that altering the source tonal material would be a fun nod to classical music's idea of theme and development.

Then I loosely grouped them into things that generated low pitches, medium pitches, and high pitches.

I had a *lot* of material at the end, so I ended up cutting out a few tracks completely. 

Beyond that, my editing was minimal. I managed to volume spikes, and I also cut out some parts of the piano improv, because the generative devices were making their own musical material!

I'm happy with this one - I think it could be done at about 2 minutes and 40 seconds, but I figure this is a good audience for a slightly longer version of the piece.

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More on this 611th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Music That Listens to Itself (The Assignment: Record a piece of music that repurposes itself as it proceeds), at: https://disquiet.com/0611/

Some of the music resulting from this project may be included in a September 29, 2023, event at the Berkeley Alembic in Berkeley, California: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/expanded-listening-music-that-listens-to-itself-tickets-712124101357

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0611-music-that-listens-to-itself/

Soliaudium (disquiet0611)

Submission for KVR One Synth Challenge #176 - Wavetable

Rendezvous With Arcturus

A response to Disquiet Junto 0630: Creative Sufficiency, a challenge to choose, in advance, a limit on the number of pieces of equipment, instruments, software, or plugins that will be used in the piece.

I chose 9 components: Logic, keyboard controller, piano, bass, drum kit, 8th triplet stereo delay, 8th stereo delay, room reverb, and a StepFX plugin. The polyrhythms are the result of automating the send amounts to the auxiliary channels with the competing stereo delays.

I wanted the overall feel to be a film noir carnival chase scene played on a Korg M1.

Recorded and produced at NOSIGNAL Multimedia Labs, The Shambles, Chicago, IL USA.

About Disquiet Junto 0630: https://disquiet.com/2024/01/25/disquiet-junto-project-0630-creative-sufficiency/

Disquiet Junto

Casting Out The Nines (disquiet0630)

Disquiet Junto Project 0631, "In a Silent Waveform". The assignment: take one held tone and make it dance slowly.

This was a chance to revisit something I'd done a few years back, rhythmically sequencing the drawbars of a Hammond B-3. This piece has a single chord held throughout, with the only variation in sound coming from the drawbars (and at the end, the Leslie speed).

The assignment: https://disquiet.com/2024/02/01/disquiet-junto-project-0631-in-a-silent-waveform/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0631-in-a-silent-waveform/

Hammond Eggs (disquiet0631)

Jupiter 6 patch midi from Ableton. layered. & post processing with various effects phasing etc...

Jupiter - 6 Phased Noise Pulse For Disquiet0636

Recorded in AUM with generative MIDI from ZOA feeding three synths.  Lightly post-processed in Audacity.

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