This is part of Disquiet Junto Project #0727: Polar Strategies. See more at https://llllllll.co/t/73513/5.

Polar Strategies

Oblique Strategies is not something I have ever heard of and was interested to see what it is. Having had a fairly superficial look, I am not sure if I have missed very much. 
I came across an alphabetical list of quotes and selected a couple of contiguous ones more or less at random: 'Imagine the music as a moving chain or caterpillar' and 'Imagine the music as a set of disconnected events'. The resulting track is an electronic composition which started with a sequence of sounds created using Pure Data, then modifying and expanding them by the use of selected filters and additions.

More on the 727th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Polar Strategies — The Assignment: Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Oblique Strategies card deck — at https://disquiet.com/0727/.

Caterpillar Events (disquiet0727)

sound art for disquiet0727.

More on the 727th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Polar Strategies — The Assignment: Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Oblique Strategies card deck — at https://disquiet.com/0727/.

The cards drawn were "Do we need holes?" & "Reverse".

reverse trepanning (putting the demons back in) [disquiet0727]

This week, the challenge was to take two random strategies from Eno's Oblique Strategies deck, and reconcile them.  I got 'Cascades' and 'Don't stress one thing more than another'. For the cascades element, I took a sequence and had it cascade through a sequencial switch to three different voices, with each voice being triggered at different points as the sequence progressed, making for three independent lines with a sequence that feels longer than it is. I also added another voice with two sequences added to give a bed sound to tie everything together a bit. For the second strategy, I mixed everything to make it all sit fairly consistently together, with no voice taking the lead. Over the top of this I played a plinky line on the Bassstation2 to have another layer that just plays along without taking the lead.  More on the 727th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Polar Strategies — The Assignment: Celebrate the 50th anniverary of the Oblique Strategies card deck — at https://disquiet.com/0727/.

 

Unstressed Cascades (Disquiet0727)

Disquiet Junto 0727 asked us to pull two cards from the Oblique Strategies deck, and record the piece that they inspire. 

I interpreted my first card, “You don’t have to be ashamed of using your own ideas”, as encouragement to go with my instincts and not second-guess myself. So I kept the first improvisation I conceived for each instrument, without self-censoring or editing. I had to retake the lead guitar to fix a technical issue but I did not stray from my original inspiration for any of the tracks.

The second card I drew was “Twist the spine”, which I took as an invitation to “twist” the pitches of the guitars (courtesy of the Walrus Audio Slo reverb pedal on the repeating figure, and a nice tremelo from the Eventide Harmonizer for the higher guitar). They sound a little nervous and uncertain, and I like the atmosphere that resulted from that decision.

Features live electric guitar and bass, digital piano, synth, TR-08 drum machine, spoken word, and acousmatics.

More on the 727th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Polar Strategies — The Assignment: Celebrate the 50th anniverary of the Oblique Strategies card deck — at https://disquiet.com/0727/.

Twisting the Spine (disquiet0727)

[disquiet0727] Happy Trails

Disquiet Junto Project 0727: Chord of Omnis
The Assignment: Celebrate the 50th anniverary of the Oblique Strategies card deck.

Step 1: Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt published the first edition of their Oblique Strategies card deck in 1975, which makes 2025 the deck’s 50th anniversary. Note the milestone — and if you’re not familiar with the deck, read up a bit.

Step 2: Select at random two cards from the deck. If you don’t have a deck, there are various free web and mobile apps that reproduce it.  [Cards I got: Embrace repititions + simple subtractions]

Step 3: Record a piece of music that somehow combines or reconciles the two directions that resulted from Step 2.

More on the 727th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Polar Strategies — The Assignment: Celebrate the 50th anniverary of the Oblique Strategies card deck — at https://disquiet.com/0727/.

longitude [disquiet0727]

More on the 727th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Polar Strategies — The Assignment: Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Oblique Strategies card deck — at https://disquiet.com/0727/

nothing is boring is nothing [disquiet0727]

Track created for disquiet challenge  0727.  This track started out on my ipad and was finished on the PC DAW, Studio One. The piece consists of 4 tracks improvised straight through with no edits. 

The inspiration started with drawing two random prompts from Oblique Strategies; 
1. Breath Deeply
2. Don't avoid what is easy

I focused on my breath while performing and adjusting the track parameters. The rhythm comes from two sequences , 8 step and 5 step. The easy part was finishing a piece I've been working on in my ipad for a couple of weeks.

ios synths used in AUM:  Dixie, Bleass Monolit, House Mark 1, J6 Synth One
Sequencer used:  Polybud

As I listened to the piece, I had images of dancing at night with the butterflies in the glitchgarden.

More on the 727th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Polar Strategies — The Assignment: Celebrate the 50th anniverary of the Oblique Strategies card deck — at https://disquiet.com/0727/

night garden dance_disquiet0727

Armed with the oblique strategies of "abandon normal instruments" and "look at the order in which you do things", this is what I came up with.
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nodnaba (disquiet0727)

Artist and non-musician making sound art with found objects.

I create original electronic, postpunk, and experiential music from my studio in Chicago. The Hard Times described my work as "creepy, haunted, but also a little bit uplifting." Prolific.

During the early 1990s I studied Mathematics and Computer Science. The world wide web was still largely text-based and mostly empty. Today things are obviously different, though I still thoroughly enjoy art, design, cinema and music in all its forms. I have traveled all over the world for nearly two decades, visiting just over 140 countries. Japan is my favorite. All of this I attempt to incorporate into my music and art.

Abstract Sound Structures, Musique Concrète & Live Electronics.
Experimental abstract animation videos.
It is my aim to create and/or edit my tracks & videos using free or open-source software only.
Influences include: J.S. Bach, John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Giacinto Scelsi, Mauricio Kagel, Conlon Nancarrow, Christian Wolff, Harry Partch, Luc Ferrari, Morton Feldman, Cornelius Cardew, Bernard Parmegiani, Ana-Maria Avram, David Tudor, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Renaissance Polyphony.
All my work is published under a Creative Commons licence & can be freely downloaded (as wav) or remixed.

This will be my place for Naviar Haiku and Disquiet Junto entries.
-Experiments may appear on YouTube from time to time: 
https://www.youtube.com/user/ikjoyce
-Albums will be released on Bandcamp: 
https://ikjoyce.bandcamp.com/

New album "The Endless Solitude Of A Skylark's Song" now available:
https://ikjoyce.bandcamp.com/album/the-endless-solitude-of-a-skylarks-song

Album 'Selene' now available on Cassette / Download from Naviar Records: 
https://naviarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/selene 

**Albums now available on iTunes, Amazon, Deezer, Spotify, and Google Play**  

I make electronic ambient and drone music using modular synthesis to explore themes of nature, space, isolation, man/machine interaction, and the borders of the sleep/wake cycle.

New tracks tagged #disquiet0727