[disquiet0606] Outer Space

Three times as much silence as sound.

Recorded, mixed & mastered somewhere between 10pm and midnight on 11 Aug 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. Raw recording is from 11 Aug 2019.

©2023 Jim Lemanowicz

Synths & effects

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This original version of "Spaces In Transition" was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0606: Three to One. The Assignment: Compose a piece of music with three times as much silence as sound.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

Discussion took place on https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0605-fifty-fifty 

Artwork/photo by Jim Lemanowicz, 31 May 2017, Boston, MA, USA

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A newer mix of this piece was included on the 2024 album All Roads Lead To Jimmy Lem
https://music.blisterpop.com/album/all-roads-lead-to-jimmy-lem 

This track was originally released under the artist name "Lumber Mart."

Spaces In Transition (disquiet0606)

Disquiet Junto Project 0606: Three to One 
Compose a piece of music with three times as much silence as sound.

More about this week's Disquiet Junto Project: https://disquiet.com/2023/08/10/disquiet-junto-project-0606-three-to-one/

Process notes: I used a probability gate (Count Modula's Chances module)to block 75% of clocks to the voices, on average over time. I took it as ok to let reverb tails count as silence. The resulting clip was brought into Reaper where I used a limiter on the master channel.

chances are (disquiet0606)

disquiet0606
Trilateral to Alone
    • Key: n/a     BPM: 42.222     Time signature: 4/4     DAW: Reaper
    • Instruments: n/a
    • Plug-ins: Ozone 10
    • IDEA: Compose a piece of music that is 75% silence and 25% sound. 
    • PROCESS: Decided to make the piece 3 minutes long or 180 seconds. 25% of 180 would be 45 seconds. Used a random number generator to get 45 random numbers between 1 and 180. Used random samples between 1 second and 3 seconds long ( mostly 1 second).Placed them on the timeline at the random numbers generated from the generator.
    • RESULT: 3 minutes piece with sounds playing randomly over 3 minutes.

More on this 606th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Three to One (Compose a piece of music with three times as much silence as sound), at: https://disquiet.com/0606/

Thanks this week to Jason Richardson and Klaus-Dieter Hilf.

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

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Trilateral to Alone

Disquiet Junto Project 0606: Three to One 
Compose a piece of music with three times as much silence as sound.

I took PSR K0606+20230813 as a starting point, a quasar in the constellation Tomofon (see image 1). The rotating quasi-stellar object is an exception because it emits seemingly irregular radio signals, unlike most other quasars. Also the rotation frequency and the loop cycle of the signal seem to be different. (You are listening to the unaltered recording from the Krakenkraft Observatory in the Atacama Desert.)


More on this 606th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Three to One (Compose a piece of music with three times as much silence as sound), at: https://disquiet.com/0606/

Thanks this week to Jason Richardson and Klaus-Dieter Hilf.

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0606-three-to-one/

PSR K0606+20230813 [disquiet0606]

use a 25% high, 75% low sequence as the gate for the main audio output
- end of sequence trigger into rotating clock multiplier + multed into turing machine
- clock multiplication controlled by turing machine cv - determining clock rate for that run of the sequence
- main gate also going into marbles X side for pitch
- main voice is sine oscillator into a wavefolder into a low pass filter
- some modulation by running through beads prior to gating

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More on this 606th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Three to One (Compose a piece of music with three times as much silence as sound), at: https://disquiet.com/0606/ 1

Thanks this week to Jason Richardson and Klaus-Dieter Hilf.

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

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disquiet0606 - quarter gate

Couldn't pass up using Ableton's TR-606 drum kit. Added to that is a Foil 2 FM synth, a XILS4 generating square waves, and my own DI bass, along with some noise from AudioThing's Noises.

I chose to manually automate the quarter of the time with sound, despite spending a rather ridiculous amount of time messing with a Max for Live effect to achieve similar ends.

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More on this 606th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Three to One (Compose a piece of music with three times as much silence as sound), at: https://disquiet.com/0606/ 

Thanks this week to Jason Richardson and Klaus-Dieter Hilf.

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

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 1: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0606-three-to-one/

quart (disquiet0606)

COMPANIONABLE SPACE : lyric: Robin Migala  Composed: Daniel Burke 
©2023 FinteMaterialContext (BMI)
#disquietjunto #postrock #neoclassicalmusic #ambientmusic #piano #singersongwriter #poetry 

another wonderful weekly assignment. 
Disquiet Junto Project 0606: Three to One
Compose a piece of music with three times as much silence as sound.

my goal for some time has been to incorporate more and more space and actual silence in all my music. it is especially striking in the context of song. This is my second completed song in singer-songwriter mode. Lyrics are from my poet friend Robin Migalla. I feed her a thought, she presents it to her muse. and words are brought forth. It was liberating to compose the music to these odd phrases (compared to the lyrics I have been writing anyway) which i have altered very minimally. They really lent themselves to keeping the music spare and spacious, So the piece as I have been playing it at a few open mic’s around here has been 4 minutes max. I always play it a bit too fast, ideally it will be around 5 minutes +/- in its final form. But this take I did with this assignment in mind, and it was enlightening & helpful to make more silence happen, nothing like a good boundary to help with things. was surprised to see the final length when i stopped. nothing like immersion in the moment for losing your mind and time…Not sure I achieved the required ratio of sound-silence, but its close enough and whats done is done. Cheers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SLVN6IJjpU

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More on this 606th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Three to One (Compose a piece of music with three times as much silence as sound), at: https://disquiet.com/0606/

Thanks this week to Jason Richardson and Klaus-Dieter Hilf.

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Companionable Space Disquiet0606 -Daniel Burke

I’ve felt quite a strong horror vacui discomfort trying to fulfill this week exercise. I’ve tried with a sparse very basic triadic harmonic theme, preceded and followed by an off-tempo pattern that obeys the 1/3 rule by spreading the silence irregularly throught the bars.

Made with Synthstrom Deluge

More on this 606th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Three to One (Compose a piece of music with three times as much silence as sound), at: https://disquiet.com/0606/ 1

Thanks this week to Jason Richardson and Klaus-Dieter Hilf.

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Staccatissimo (disquiet0606)

This track is my contribution to the Disquiet Junto Project 0606, and I am proud to have partially inspired this project:
"Compose a piece of music with three times as much silence as sound".

I have tried to create a piano melody in which the anticipation of what is to come fills the listener's imagination, and the silence is there so as not to disturb this process. The silence is not nothing - it is the anticipation. It is more than the sound...



More on this 606th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Three to One (Compose a piece of music with three times as much silence as sound), at: https://disquiet.com/0606/ 1

Thanks this week to Jason Richardson and Klaus-Dieter Hilf.

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Anticipation (Disquiet0606)

I ended up going entirely percussive with this one, which I have been wanting to do more of for ages, but hadn’t got around to until now.

At first I liked the idea of experimenting with ‘micro silences’. I had wondered whether it would be possible to insert granular particles of silence into sampled sound, like tiny air bubbles - but soon realised this half-baked notion vastly exceeded my current severely restricted technical capabilities!

Instead I made a custom Ableton drum rack, using a collection of different watery sounds. 

I used a step sequencer with 20 steps and made 5 steps active - (so 25% beats, 75% silence) 

I set the time signature as 5/4 so that any repeats would sound more seamless. 

Then I ran the sequencer and let the resulting sounds bubble and glitch away merrily. 

Even after much fiddly sample micro chopping and many gating experiments, I still didn’t quite manage to adhere devoutly to the 75% silence challenge. This was as close as I could get. But I found that the limitation did gradually make me listen in a far more detailed way than I normally would - not just to the sounds I was working with, but to the sounds all around me too. Even the local seagulls are sounding oddly melodious today…

Image Credit: https://flickr.com/photos/franbar11/13986180257

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Disquiet Junto Project 0606: Three to One
Compose a piece of music with three times as much silence as sound.

There’s just one step to this project:

Compose a piece of music that is 75% silence and 25% sound.

Background: Jason Richardson (@bassling) proposed a previous project 2, which was 50/50 in terms of the radio of silence to notes. As that project unfolded, Klaus-Dieter Hilf (aka @RabMusicLab) commented 1 that maybe the instruction should have read “sound” in place of “notes.” Since the project went well, this time around the amount of silence has been increased, and Hill’s proposal has been implemented.
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More on this 606th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Three to One (Compose a piece of music with three times as much silence as sound), at: https://disquiet.com/0606/ 

Thanks this week to Jason Richardson and Klaus-Dieter Hilf.

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

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Disproportionate Silence disquiet0606

Disquiet Junto Project 0606: Three to One
Compose a piece of music with three times as much silence as sound.

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0606-three-to-one/63610

I took a piece of music I recorded previously and let it play while triggering an envelope. Modulated the clock division to get varying amounts of silence between bursts of sound sampled from the continuous hidden music.  

In the 50/50 challenge, I played parts by hand and noted the anticipation that built up as I held off the urge to play.  Here I wasn't in direct control so each wait kept building the suspense until the next burst.  

Named for something funny my daughter (6) said once about a scary story we were reading.

Disquiet 0606 - Suspensing

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Thanks this week to Jason Richardson and Klaus-Dieter Hilf.

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disquiet0606 A Quarter Of Everything

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Sinny: door knob, door slams, stair stomps, metal percussion

More on this 606th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Three to One (Compose a piece of music with three times as much silence as sound), at: https://disquiet.com/0606/

Thanks this week to Jason Richardson and Klaus-Dieter Hilf.

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The Empty Majority (disquiet0606)

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