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I wrote three short texts that begin with the phrase “This morning I had a sense that …” and recorded them.  I mixed them together with some slowed-down trombone playing.  I tried to channel a bit of William S. Burroughs and failed miserably...

Background: This week’s project originated as part of the Oulipo Sound Workshop that was included in the Subtle Channels series of events held in San Francisco earlier this month (November 2013). The three-hour workshop provided an opportunity to explore the role that Oulipo literary constraints play in the restricted rules of the weekly Disquiet Junto projects. There were four projects that day, including a listening exercise, a word-based one based similar to last week’s Junto project, and a subtractive one along the lines of the 7th Disquiet Junto project from back in February 2012. The fourth was a simpler version of this week’s Junto.

More on this 98th Disquiet Junto project, in which three original spoken texts are combined into one track, at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/11/14/disquiet0098-wovenaudiobio/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

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

welcome to the next level [disquiet0098-wovenaudiobio]

I created a phasing piece in the style of Steve Reich with the notes E, G and D.  The sound source was a pulse wave created with an emulation of the Commodore 64's SID chip (using Plogues Chipsounds softsynth).  I could've used one of my C64 as the sound source, but my studio is a mess and this was the path of least resistance.

The project instructions were as follow: Record a piece of music with an 8-bit flavor. It should begin with a replication of that same three-note Xbox One pattern (E G D), repeated several times, and then veer off into whatever direction you desire. As the track goes along, feel free to add common video game sounds like explosions, karate chops, crowd noises, engines revving and so forth. Try to keep the whole thing under 90 seconds.

More on this 99th Disquiet Junto project (Compose an 8-bit melody based on the "E G D" startup sound of the Xbox One) at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/11/21/disquiet0099-EthenGthenD/

Background: This project was informed by a post on Kotaku.com by Kirk Hamilton:

http://goo.gl/OpjWSg

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto

8-bit Phase [disquiet0099-EthenGthenD]

I took an icicle that formed on my house and recorded some sounds it made rattling around in a glass jug.  I isolated a couple samples and used Plogue's Sforzando for playback.  I generated the midi messages that triggered the sampler with Common Music 3.8.  I pitch-shifted the samples and repeated the process four times.  I mixed the resulting four versions together to include progressively more voices.

More on this 105th Disquiet Junto project (“Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something of it”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/01/02/disquiet0105-ice2014/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Photo associated with this project found via Creative Commons at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaukay/384109969

Icicle Shuffle [disquiet0105-ice2014]

Vocal Sample - Patricia Edwards - I Do - Today Is The Day [
https://www.looperman.com/acapellas/detail/14802/i-do-today-is-the-day-by-patriciaedwards-128bpm-house-acapella ]

Re- Sequencing - X I I I X X I via XiiixxiQ

More on this 591st weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Loneliest Number (The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0591/

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-0591-the-loneliest-number/

The Loneliest Number

Disquiet Junto  | The Loneliest Number - disquiet0591

This composition was made for Disquiet Junto Project 148: Peripheral Listening

The Assignment: Make music inspired by and suitable for listening to while reading William Gibson’s novel The Peripheral.

I selected the following sentence from the book as a starting point:
Chapter 6 (“Patchers”): “The square filled with a low moaning, the island’s hallmark soundscape.”

I interpreted the humming sound described in the sentence as the electrical ambiance that would surround "patchers".  I used the following two sounds exclusively:
https://www.freesound.org/people/jameswrowles/sounds/248217/
https://www.freesound.org/people/EdEditz/sounds/165562/

I accounted for the "island" part of the quote by using island rhythms played by two groups of three instruments.  Each instrument of the first group play clave rhythm out of phase with each other.  The instrument of the second group play cinquillo rhythm out of phase with each other.

humming with the wiring [disquiet0148-peripherallistening]

UPDATE (20 Aug 2015): What made the comet sing? Scientists working on Rosetta's RPC instrument have found out why 67P/C-G was singing. Via http://wp.me/p46DHN-1nN
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ORIGINAL Citation (Oct 2014): Rosetta’s Plasma Consortium (RPC) has uncovered a mysterious ‘song’ that Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is singing into space. The comet seems to be emitting a ‘song’ in the form of oscillations in the magnetic field in the comet’s environment. It is being sung at 40-50 millihertz, far below human hearing, which typically picks up sound between 20 Hz and 20 kHz. To make the music audible to the human ear, the frequencies have been increased in this recording. This sonification of the RPC-Mag data was compiled by German composer Manuel Senfft (www.tagirijus.de).  Read full details in ESA's Rosetta blog: http://wp.me/p46DHN-Li 

Copyright Notice

Original Data Credit: ESA/Rosetta/RPC/RPC-MAG
Sonification: TU Braunschweig/IGEP/Manuel Senfft, CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Thumbnail image credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0

A Singing Comet

This is probably so much into 'What Means Solid, Traveller' and Splattercell's 'Oah', it should be illegal. As you guessed, I can't help it.
C'est tellement inspiré de "What means Solid, Travelher" et de Oah de Splattercell que ce devrait être illégal. Vous avez deviné: je n'y peux rien.

I Can't Help Running After David Torn, But The Gap Remains So Large

Short loop made with my meta-trombone: http://no-insects.blogspot.ca/2014/10/meta-trombone-on-ios.html

Background:
Disquiet Junto Project 0153: Groove Lock
The Assignment: Record a short sound intended to be set on repeat.

SoundCloud recently introduced the ability for a track to be looped on the website. That is, the listener can hit a button (details at disquiet.com/QVvCF) and the track will play over and over. This week’s project will make use of that feature. This week’s project will also, I should note, inform next week’s project. But you can do next week’s without doing this week’s, and vice-versa.

Step 1: Record a short, original piece of music/sound of between roughly 3 and 9 seconds intended to be set on repeat.

Step 2: Upload the finished track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 3: Listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Length: Your finished work should be between roughly 3 and 9 seconds long.

Bleep bop [disquiet0153-groovelock]

Disquiet Junto Project 0168: Three of a Kind
Create an original, multi-part piece with a single audio source.

Step 1: You will be making a single track with three different parallel lines. It might be easiest to think of them as melody, rhythm, and an ambient foundational bed, but you might also do three counterposed rhythms, or a drone of three varying ambient beds. It’s up to you.

Step 2: Select a single source of audio. Perhaps it’s a segment of pre-existing track, or a single note on a favorite instrument, or a short recording of you humming or breathing.

Step 3: Transform that single source of audio to produce each of the three separate lines you plotted in Step 1.

Step 4: Record the track with those three lines running simultaneously.

Step 5: Upload your track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 6: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

whistling roaring sound going past my head  [disquiet0168-threeofakind]

Miniature 2

An experimentation based on a radio stream By In Mobile (Olivier Malhomme) and The Lucid brain integrative project (Emmanuel Reveneau), performed live the 15 november 2015 at the Loop Jubilee.

A radio-based experimentation

An improvisation as a test for the Zoom H1, low-fi, radio running in the background, morning, sun outside.

Piano Solo 29 03 2018

This is a Phaser Filter and Voice version of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "Underwear" (with permission). Created in 2009 by Max Mathews and Laurie Amat for CCRMA's April 4, 2009 Modulation v2.1 concert at The Compound, San Francisco, CA

Underwear 1

A philosopher by training, Sylvain Poitras explores circularity and self-reference in the fields of video, comics and electroacoustic music: that he uses images, words or sounds, he primarily seeks to blur the boundaries between the object and its designation. Software designer and trombonist, it was only natural that he invented the "meta-trombone", a sophisticated processing system which curiously leads him to the origins of free jazz.

welcome to the next level [disquiet0098-wovenaudiobio]

Sylvain Poitras

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