Name: Not Greensleeves by stephenseifert
Duration: 2 min 25 s
Description: Jerry Rockwell challenged me to use the chord progression of Greensleeves without the listener recognizing it. I'm turning this assignment in and I'm taking the day off! But, seriously, good lesson, Jerry.

It's sure isn't Greensleeves!!!!  Love it, Stephen!

First movement of the Concerto for Mountain Dulcimer, written for Stephen Siefert, to be premiered in February 2016

Dulcimer Concerto Movement 1

Dulcimer Concerto MOVT 2

Indian Classical Cover for 'Game of Thrones' (HBO) Theme Score by Ramin Djawadi 

Game Of Thrones Theme - Indian Classical Version (iPad And ROLI Seaboard Rise)

Created for the Disquiet Junto Project 0239: Code Requiem 
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To mark the passing of Soundcloud's Groups, this project asked the artist to “Compose a short composition in memoriam for a piece of recently deceased software” 

Is a program truly "dead" if it still exists on your hard drive? If it hasn't been updated since 2009, and is no longer distributed... then probably so. This is my rather dreamy requiem in and for the lamented Tuareg 2 by Bram Bos. Flaws, pops, and crackles in the audio engine and all, I'm still fond of it to this day. RIP (and thrive on, as long as my hard drive lasts).

(a few additional production notes...) Most of the piece is based on a sample from another improvised piece tentatively called Coup Tourist, which may eventually see the light of someday. A 5x Paulstretched version of that riff is looped directly near the end, while in the rest of the piece the sample is manipulated through Tu2's Bliss 2 virtual sampler and my favorite gating/slicing effect possibly of all time - the Variator. The high bell-like melodies are Tu2's Halo FM synth, and the bass is it's Amber animated modeling synth.

Pops, crackles and artifacts are just part of the charm with this software - it is not gentle with it's phrase looping points. But if you're open to it, it can lead to some great noise patterns along the way.

More on this 239th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Compose a short composition in memoriam for a piece of recently deceased software” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0239/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place on a Slack (send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for inclusion) and at this URL:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

Requiem For A Tu [disquiet0239-coderequiem]

Almost a 3-part round now, this is one of those typical country waltzes to which I've added a little bit more harmonic color. The whole thing is oriented around a ground bass line, which is recorded on two electric dulcimers basically doubling the part. The lead is also electric dulcimer.

Cabbage Country Waltz

Created for the Disquiet Junto Project 0264: Time Travel
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The project: Record a piece of music that plays with the perception of time.

The first thing I thought of... well, was delay. Close on it's heels, though, was the relationship between time and distance, and how in sound it can be expressed through pitch. I've looped a small part of a field recording of a distant ice cream truck - the natural Doppler effect adding a bit of wistful interest, along with some some added delay (DDLY)and filtering (FabFilter Volcano). I also Paulstretched & filtered the truck chime melody to create the growing dread sound heard in the middle of the song. The rest is a sine-base patch (Transine) from my Yamaha CS2X, processed and recorded live through an Earthquaker Avalanche Run delay/reverb pedal. For one of the passes, I played with sweeping the delay time on the pedal, creating the pitch dips, rises, and glitches as the track was recorded. It was a nice bit of serendipity having the ice cream truck sample at hand - a sound that generates memory time travel all on it's own.

(nice note: the repeated high D motif near the end is reminiscent of a track I worked on with a friend at college - more time travel!)

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

http://disquiet.com/0264/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

llllllll.co/t/music-for-time-travelers-disquiet-junto-project-0264/6157/

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

No Time For Old Memories [ disquiet0264 - timetravel ]

Jerry Rockwell challenged me to use the chord progression of Greensleeves without the listener recognizing it. I'm turning this assignment in and I'm taking the day off! But, seriously, good lesson, Jerry.

Not Greensleeves

A duet with Daphne Oram using her stem 'Wool' for the Science Museum OraMix Project 
I found this quite a poignant thing to do and used my virtual avatar JaNa KYoMooN - something I'm sure Daphne would appreciate. Here's to all musical explorers in THe iLLuSioN oF ReaLiTY - JaN PuLSFoRD 01-16-12
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Oram


THe PaST THaT NeVeR WaS - a DueT WiTH DaPHNe oRaM

Acoustic instruments by day, crazy synths by night.

Not Greensleeves

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