Disquiet Junto Project 0182: Diverge Converge
Do a rendition of Ethan Hein’s laptop orchestra score by yourself.

I’ve been reading the Andrew Hodges biography of Alan Turing which includes descriptions of the Turing Bombe, an electro-mechanical logic machine conceived by Turing at Bletchley Park, England to help crack the German Enigma code during World War II. When operating it was described as sounding like a battery of knitting needles.

I started with a simple square wave and played with the frequency to imitate the sound of logic signals. Passed this through a modulation effect and improvised with the settings using liberal amounts of feedback and regeneration. Created with Thor on an iPad. 

There is a second, over-the-top version on my Soundcloud page.

More on this 182nd Disquiet Junto project (“Do a rendition of Ethan Hein’s laptop orchestra score by yourself”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2015/06/25/disquiet0182-divergeconverge/

The piece is based on Ethan Hein’s score, more on which here:
http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/brahmss-third-racket/

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

Image by Antoine Taveneaux from Wikimedia Commons


The Turing Bombe [disquiet0182-divergeconverge]

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