Coded in ChucK; pad class, random selection of diatonic chords.

Cloud Forest

Off To Lands Unknown (livecode set)

Live coded in chuck, bar into stereo delays randomized

Glass Lake

over

This piece is based around the infamous 18-minute gap in the Watergate Tapes (from the Watergate scandal of the Nixon Administration: see here for an excellent discussion and analysis: www.forensicmag.com/article/2011/02…8-12-minute-gap) 
President Nixon regularly taped White House Oval Office conversations, and the gap is the part of one tape that was mysteriously erased right around the time of the Watergate investigation. The gap is a really interesting piece of audio--it's not really silence; it's full of clicks and buzzes and hisses. It's also interesting for what it tells. It's quite clear it was deliberately erased, and in more than one session, so the cover story that it was accidentally deleted is obviously false. In that way, the gap speaks pretty loudly.

The piece is coded in ChucK, and I first wrote a program that picks a random spot on a loop of the gap audio, then plays it through a low-pass filter and a volume (ADSR) envelope at random speed (I coded a switch to link the filter to the envelope, too). I liked what I heard when I altered the filter cutoff while playing with it--sounds a bit like robot cello or something. But it needed some background accompaniment. 

So, I decided that during lunch today I would record the sounds as I walked from the Watergate Hotel to the White House-the two locations most associated with the scandal. Upon arriving at the Watergate, I came upon a waterfall that I hadn't seen before (shown in the picture), so I started my recording there. I walked to the White House, recording the whole way. Walking into the park across from the White House, I spied a fountain, so I thought a recording of the fountain would make a nice sonic bookend. I created a "backing track" that starts with the Watergate waterfall and ends with the White House fountain. I panned it from right to left to give a sense of travel and the historical arc from one location to the other.

To make the submission, I had one ChucK program run the backing track while I launched versions of the 18-minute gap program mentioned above, altering the filter cutoff, the duration of the code, and the filter-envelope switch with each version. 

The ChucK code is available in my Github: 

https://github.com/charliekramer/ChucK/blob/master/disquiet0398%20nixon%20rauschen.ck

https://github.com/charliekramer/ChucK/blob/master/disquiet0398%20nixon%20walk.ck

The audio is too big to upload to Github but I'm happy to send it to you if you like--just message me.

More on this 398th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Rauschen Bern / The Assignment: Make music by making a collage of noises — at:

https://disquiet.com/0398/

This week’s project is the first of three being done in collaboration with Musikfestival Bern, which runs in Switzerland from September 11 – 15, 2019. More details at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/ 1

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/ 2

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disquiet0398 nixon rauschen

gravel

Bells-Leaves

Look At Those Trees

cascade5

code >> https://github.com/lwlsn/tidal_codes/blob/master/BodyLang/github.tidal

flirting in the git commit

git commit -m "what is going on here"

Ambient/drone/experimental, live coding, EDM, Nixon.

@_@ tidal cycles + renoise
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