Name: Scat (yeah!) by the blank holidays
Duration: 44 s
Description: Let's Break Things is the first full length album by The Blank Holidays. This album was composed using a second hand acoustic guitar, another from a dumpster, a pact with the devil and top secret technology.

Let's Break Things is the first full length album by The Blank Holidays. This album was composed using a second hand acoustic guitar, another from a dumpster, a pact with the devil and top secret technology.

Let's Break Things!

Scat (yeah!)

“Science is Copernican, but society remains Ptolemaic. Our behavior is self-centered. Our culture is bigoted, our politics tribal. Society needs a Copernican revolution. If we are to survive, we need to recognize that we are not special. If we are to have a peaceful relationship with one another and our planet, we must become humble. A Copernican revolution is achievable, but will not be accomplished through scientific education alone. Only culture has the potential to put us in touch with our cosmic insignificance, and to bring about a cultural paradigm shift. The Copernican revolution in culture will be realized with Copernican music.” - Jonathon Keats

For this Disquiet assignment (my first in quite some time), I explored the articles on space.com that concerned Jonathon Keats' work, when i stumbled across "The show had its own soundtrack, too, which was tweaked to match the entropy of the universe. Keats randomized 25 percent of the notes in Johann Sebastian Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier," because, he said, the universe is one-quarter of the way to "heat death," or total disorderliness." (https://www.space.com/14701-keats-copernican-art-manifesto.html)

The idea of using maths to create, organize or manipulate music is nothing new, yet a theme i constantly find myself exploring within my own work, whether using hard or soft synced LFOs to manipulate musical parameters, or just faced with the grid based interface of Ableton.

So adapting the idea of a quarter of chaos, and wanting to contrast this with romantic ideas of cosmic order, i found a decent set of MIDI parts for Gustav Holst's Planets Suite and then applied various randomizations to both the notation and instrumentation to "Jupiter", which resulted in something quite distinct to the original work.

Note: I apologize for the occasional pops of sound - nothing speaker destroying, but it annoys me and it shouldn't be there.



More on this 373rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Copernican Music / The Assignment: Record a piece of music intended for an alien species — at:

https://disquiet.com/0373/

This week’s project was made as a proposition by the artist Jonathon Keats.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0373-copernican-music/

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this project is from one of Keats’ own instruments related to his Copernican artwork, a gravitational radio. Photo credit: Dora Tsui.

On The Revolutions Of The Celestial Spheres: Jupiter - Disquiet0373

A short alternate-tuning piece for somewhere in the continuum. Made using Transformer by Alternate Tonality. 

More on this 373rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Copernican Music / The Assignment: Record a piece of music intended for an alien species — at:

https://disquiet.com/0373/

This week’s project was made as a proposition by the artist Jonathon Keats.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0373-copernican-music/

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this project is from one of Keats’ own instruments related to his Copernican artwork, a gravitational radio. Photo credit: Dora Tsui.

Continuum1 -- [disquiet0373]

(Sharbaugh)
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: synthesizers and sequencer programming, drums and drum machine programming, and 'found sounds'
Composed and Recorded ca. February 21, 2019.
sm3 [2023 REMASTER] [DOLBY Thunder at 23p] [__AIF].

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"As per 'Copernican,' Jonathon Keats' and Marc Weidenbaum's disquiet junto [ https://soundcloud.com/disquiet ] experimental assignment this week, "record a piece of music intended for an alien species," I opted to not spend a lot of time on the project; I opted for two to three hours, thereby removing Myself from 'romancing,' 'massaging,' and 'logisticizing' this work into a 'Western-Earth-music,' dead-end corner, thereby dismissing the call of the assignment.

I -- in My most experimental mindsets -- have always explored the time constituent of musics; that is, I have always been interested and mystified by hearing the harmonic structures, rhythms, and secret surprises that await one when music is slowed down on a tape-based recording and, albeit with sonic artifacts, time-expanded grossly.

It's inspiring to hear what lay just 'in-between the cracks' of a familiar, or unfamiliar, recording; hence, I began by creating a random short phrase of 'music' from a synth, layering it, and time-expanding it by 230%.

From there, I just flowed: I added, and subtracted, and judged, and hated on over 60% of what I laid down; it was either too 'Earth-musical,' or expected, or ubiquitous, Earth-music-wise. [LOL!!!]

I wanted to imagine, and record, what a sentient and aesthetic, alien species would consider an orchestral-trap piece of music.

As for the technical aspects of the process, I exaggerated EQ boosts and cuts, imagining that aliens' hearing apparatus might be unique from ours; I veered away from Earthly musical scales, and even-numbered time-signatures.

I did, however, realize (or, rather, assume ... [mistake?!]) that an alien species would experience the dimension of time similarly to us humans.

I named the piece after a favourite electronic music pioneer, Milton Babbitt, whom I met after His performance at Swarthmore University in the state of Pennsylvania, United States of America, in the early '90s.

Here is the result: "Babbitt ['Copernican']" ..."

~ Michael

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"More on this 373rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Copernican Music / The Assignment: Record a piece of music intended for an alien species — at:

https://disquiet.com/0373/

This week’s project was made as a proposition by the artist Jonathon Keats.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0373-copernican-music/

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this project is from one of Keats’ own instruments related to his Copernican artwork, a gravitational radio. Photo credit: Dora Tsui. "

~ Marc Weidenbaum

Babbitt (Copernican)

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"Babbitt ['Copernican']" [ disquiet0373 ] [2023 REMASTER] - Michael Ash Sharbaugh

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0373-copernican-music/19974/30?u=eptc

Ending drum component (last ten seconds) and some other static via Soma's THE ETHER SONG, https://somasynths.com/ether/

Meanwhile, Her Neighbor Privately Speaks with His Beige Venetian Blinds (disquiet0373)

Floating amongst space debris - this electronic combination of random EuroRack modular synth noise and Una Corda Piano is inspired by the task of creating a Copernican piece of music for future alien encounters...

More on this 373rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Copernican Music / The Assignment: Record a piece of music intended for an alien species — at:

disquiet.com/0373/

This week’s project was made as a proposition by the artist Jonathon Keats.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…3-copernican-music/

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

disquiet0373 - eva with the major

Explorations in contacting non human sentient intelligences

Disquiet0373 2019 - 02 - 24

Pain And Boredom - Mirela

From the Nicholas Langley album 'Final Wave' out November 8th 2019.

Flywork

Kevin Costner - Backyard [2 Dads 2 Sons Emoji Remix]

Making music in my lofi home studio since 2016. No specific genre.

theblankholidays@gmail.com

Scat (yeah!)

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