A field recording of our dehumidifier passed through several filters: FabFilter Volcano 3, AudioThing FilterJam and Felt Instruments Rysy.

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Disquiet Project 0595:

Step 1: Choose a static sound, such as a field recording of a specific place, or a held tone, or a recording of noise.

Step 2: Experiment with animating the static sound selected from Step 1 by slowly, subtly, manually modulating it, using only filter frequency and resonance.

Step 3: Record a track resulting from the techniques you developed in Step 2.

This project is the second of three that are being done in collaboration with the 2023 Musikfestival Bern, which will be held in Switzerland from September 6 through 10. The topic this year is « √ » — as the organization explains: “the radical, or square root symbol and the power of its symbolism are central to the festival and these will be translated into music in multifarious ways.” All three projects will engage with the work of Éliane Radigue, who is the Composer-in-Residence for the 2023 festival.

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Filter Progression [Disquiet0595]

My entry to Disquiet Junto Project 0595: Filter Progression.

I took this as an opportunity to use every Eurorack filter module I have.

The source is the sound of our back garden last Saturday evening, recorded in mono on my iPhone, which was wrapped in a microfibre cloth to reduce wind noise. It was left near the bird feeding table, as I was hoping the jays and crows and pigeons and magpies and sparrows and goldfinches would come along and make a racket. No such luck! :)

The source sound is being played by an Expert Sleepers disting mk4, using the I-1 Audio Playback algorithm. The audio is being sent to four places: two Ripples, which feed their respective outputs into the two filters on Blades, and two Shelves. The outputs of the two Blades filters are being sent directly to the left and right main outputs. The four bandpass filters from the two Shelves are being mixed into a left and right pair via the Veils, and then being sent to left and right main outputs.

A Stages is being used to modulate the filter frequencies of the other modules. All six Stages segments are set to "orange" / step mode, which output between zero and eight volts dependent on the position of the slider.

The first Stages segment modulates the frequency of the first Ripples and first Blades filter, the second segment modulates the second Ripples and second Blades filter, and the final four segments modulate the two pairs of parametric filters on the two Shelves.

I manually moved all six sliders around during the recording, and the output voltage was slewed a bit by Stages as well to make the frequency changes a bit smoother.

All filters were in bandpass mode, or as near as possible.

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[disquiet0595] Filter Progression

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Filter Progression
Disquiet Junto Project 0595

### The Assignment: Make music by processing a static sound

Done with SuperCollider.

I have generated two arrays with band limited impulse oscillators (Blip.ar), each of them starting with random frequency values 
in an exponential range between 100 to 5000Hz.  Those result in a steady micropolyphonic cluster sound.

In addition, a bank of 16 resonant low-pass filters (RLPF.ar) were collected in an another array with controls for frequency and RQ. 
To address each oscillator and filter independently, I wrapped them into NodeProxies with Ndef´s.

A last filter was added to the final mixing stage to emphasise the overall sound and prevent filters and oscillators from 
"blowing up".

In a Tdef I change filter frequencies and q-levesls at rather regular intervals - I tuned this by ear and "taste". I added lag times, so these would slide to new stochastic frequency values rather than jump around and I offset the two oscillator banks against each other by roughly 2 seconds, creating interesting harmonic modulation and distortion by-product artefacts and glissandi.

I let it run for maybe 28 minutes and just recorded it to disk. While doing so, I created an automatic document, storing all the array values in it, so if certain combinations were especially interesting, I could reuse them and hard code them later, in case I wanted to come back to it another time.

There are some glitches, but I left them in, because I liked them.

Code is on GitHub.

Filter Progression disquiet0959

disquiet0595 Fp

Participation in the "Disquiet Junto" project led by Marc Weidenbaum: Filter Progression.
The Assignment: Make music by processing a static sound.
https://disquiet.com/0595/
From a field recording of bees in a vine:
https://soundcloud.com/gerard-paresys/abeille2
With a Pure Data patch:
https://github.com/gerardparesys/ARGOPd/tree/master/ExMM/ExMM196-4Flt-BP

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Participation au projet "Disquiet Junto" de Marc Weidenbaum: Filtrage progressif.
Faire une musique en travaillant un son statique.
A partir d'un enregistrement d'abeilles dans une vigne:
https://soundcloud.com/gerard-paresys/abeille2
Avec un patch Pure Data:
https://github.com/gerardparesys/ARGOPd/tree/master/ExMM/ExMM196-4Flt-BP

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Bee - Disquiet0595

Inspired by this interview with Eliane Radigue https://youtu.be/dByqwi7Jvbo in which she talks about her unique approach to sound and listening, I set out to incorporate the following very deliberate intentions in this week's Disquiet ‘Filter Progression’ challenge:

*listening with focused attention to the way sounds evolve as I interact with them
*consciously doing things more slowly than I usually would attempt to
*holding in mind the idea of 'inhabited silence' - which was a wonderful phrase that emerged from the above interview 
*investigating and exploring hidden colours within the sounds
*paying attention to parallel inward and outward listening - how does my body react to the discovered sounds as they unfold?

The 'held sound' that I chose to work with was a recording of a running tap, recorded on a houseboat where I am staying on the river Thames for a few days at the moment.

I fed the audio through VCV rack via the Chronoblob delay module to add a bit more spectral material to modulate. I then assigned the cutoff frequency and Q controllers from the VCV Sinensis module to a couple of knobs on my Microfreak hardware so that I could interact more physically with the sounds as I modulated the frequencies in real time.

This was a fairly massive deviation from the way I habitually approach listening and sound creation but I found it hugely fun and rewarding to engage with this particular challenge and to discover more about Eliane and her quietly radical work.

More about the challenge here:

Disquiet Junto Project 0595: Filter Progression
The Assignment: Make music by processing a static sound.

This project is the second of three that are being done in collaboration with the 2023 Musikfestival Bern, which will be held in Switzerland from September 6 through 10. The topic this year is « √ » — as the organization explains: “the radical, or square root symbol and the power of its symbolism are central to the festival and these will be translated into music in multifarious ways.” All three projects will engage with the work of Éliane Radigue, who is the Composer-in-Residence for the 2023 festival.

We are working at the invitation of Tobias Reber, an early Junto participant, who is in charge of the educational activities of the festival. This is the fifth year in a row that the Junto has collaborated with Musikfestival Bern.

Select recordings resulting from these three Disquiet Junto projects may be played and displayed throughout the festival.

Step 1: Choose a static sound, such as a field recording of a specific place, or a held tone, or a recording of noise.

Step 2: Experiment with animating the static sound selected from Step 1 by slowly, subtly, manually modulating it, using only filter frequency and resonance.

Step 3: Record a track resulting from the techniques you developed in Step 2.

Eight Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

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Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0595” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation of a project playlist.

Step 3: Upload your tracks. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your tracks.

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Partially Forgotten Fundamentals disquiet0595

My submission for the Disquiet Junto Project 0595: Filter Progression assignment:

"Step 1: Choose a static sound, such as a field recording of a specific place, or a held tone, or a recording of noise.

Step 2: Experiment with animating the static sound selected from Step 1 by slowly, subtly, manually modulating it, using only filter frequency and resonance."

I took a field recording of cicadas that I captured near Ojochal, Costa Rica in January 2023. I processed the recording with the Norns script OOOOOO, An Elta Music PF-3 Polivoks Filter, and a Bastl Ikarie filter modulated slowly, by hand, and recorded in one take with no overdubs.

Process:

I captured a field recording of cicadas near Ojochal, Costa Rica in January 2023. I took that recording and recorded different chunks of it into 3 loops on the OOOOOO Norns script. I pitched one of them down to -12.5%, one to 12.5% and one at 50% speed so that they made a kind of pad or chord. I passed the signal through a Meng Qi Wingie 2 in polyphonic mode with a very small amount of the resonator coming through, then into the Elta Music PF-3 Polivoks Filter in stereo bandpass mode, and finally into the Bastl Ikarie with a good amount of gain and the envelope follower on “fast” mode. I played the Polivoks cutoff and resonance, the mod depth, spread control, cutoff, and resonance on the Ikarie.

Tasting notes:

Geiger counters that are also helicopters
Water at a heavy boil in a metal pot with the lid on
A natural gas stove burner you left on by accident
Wet timpanies
What else?

Ojochal [disquiet0595]

Dedicated to Eliane Radigue. This is a short live performance using white & pink noise from a frap tools sapel filtered by an Instruo I-ō47 filter in low-pass mode. a little delay and reverb added for subtle enhancement. Nothing special!

Noise > I - Ō47 Study disquiet0595

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Point (disquiet0595)

Disquiet Junto projects and other sonic experimentations. For additional compositions, check out my main account, https://soundcloud.com/sinnyseven.

waivestate explores intuition, physicality, and the emergent properties of complex systems to create unique improvised electronic music.

Bernd Schurer is a computer music composer.

mikey_a is an ambient and soundscape artist living in Melbourne, Australia.
Though now producing mainly in the box with a mix of VST and field recordings he still likes to occasionally crank out some of the physical treasures he's owned since the '80s: a Korg MonoPoly, a Roland TR-606, TB-303, S-10 and D-110 along with a TEAC 3440 reel-to-reel.
He is a frequent contributor to the Naviar Records' Haiku Challenge and Disquiet Junto projects.

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