From 'Year Zero'

Weird drums on this one which feel like they're falling apart a little bit.

Synchrobanking

An intuitive response to the graphic score derived from visual glimpses, as the title suggests. It comprises a series of atonal or microtonal sound clusters structured horizontally and vertically. The track was created in Pure Data with some additional reverb, etc.

More on the 654th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Just Notation — The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score by Franziska Baumann — at https://disquiet.com/0654/

The cover image for this project is a detail of a graphic score, titled True Glimpses 1, by Franziska Baumann, used with her permission and the support of Musikfestival Bern. More on Baumann at franziskabaumann.ch 2.

Just Glimpses (disquiet0654)

Graphic scores can be so beautiful as graphics, and also, sometimes, so very evocative as scores. I agree with the idea mentioned by @XHG that the main use of a score of any type is to allow music players to perform what the composer was imagining. In the case of a graphic score the directions are more ambiguous than a traditionally notated score. Thus we have all the beautiful interpretations submitted for this Junto, so varied, yet all inspired in some way by the same beautiful score by Franziska Baumann.

I don't know how to read western notation, and I can't play the piano, but I tried to perform the piece I imagined based on this score live with a grand piano patch from Roli's Equator while sending into FX in my modular which I tweaked to produce the echoes and scratchy fills which were responding to the pitches and levels of the performance in real time. I also used some plug-ins to shape the sound in Pro Tools. Modular FX included resonance, filters, PLL, modulators, delays. Pro Tools plug-ins included EQ, dynamics, tremolo, delay, and mastering tools.

So, after practicing and a lot of parameter tweaking, I recorded an improvisation of 35 short performance bursts, trying to capture the clusters of kinetic energy in the score, along with its layers and ambiguities and interconnections.

In the end I felt I needed to tighten up the spaces between the clusters after recording. Then quick mastering, and here you are..

Thanks to Mark, Tobias, and Franziska!

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More on the 654th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Just Notation — The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score by Franziska Baumann — at https://disquiet.com/0654/ 2

The cover image for this project is a detail of a graphic score, titled True Glimpses 1, by Franziska Baumann, used with her permission and the support of Musikfestival Bern. More on Baumann at franziskabaumann.ch 7.

Just Glimpses zoundsabar disquiet0654

The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score by Franziska Baumann.

More on the 654th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Just Notation — The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score by Franziska Baumann — at https://disquiet.com/0654/

The cover image for this project is a detail of a graphic score, titled True Glimpses 1, by Franziska Baumann, used with her permission and the support of Musikfestival Bern [you can see the image at disquiet.com/0654/]. More on Baumann at franziskabaumann.ch.

The image used for this song is one of my paintings. © Don MacKeen 2024

graphic design [disquiet0654]

More on the 654th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Just Notation — The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score by Franziska Baumann — at https://disquiet.com/0654/

The cover image for this project is a detail of a graphic score, titled True Glimpses 1, by Franziska Baumann, used with her permission and the support of Musikfestival Bern. More on Baumann at franziskabaumann.ch.

True Glimpses 1 Cluster Burn (disquiet0654)

More on the 654th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Just Notation — The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score by Franziska Baumann — at https://disquiet.com/0654/

The cover image for this project is a detail of a graphic score, titled True Glimpses 1, by Franziska Baumann, used with her permission and the support of Musikfestival Bern. More on Baumann at franziskabaumann.ch

Another Glimpse [Disquiet0654]

Disquiet Junto Project 0654: Just Notation
The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score by Franziska Baumann.

This project is the second of three that are being done over the course of as many months in collaboration with the 2024 Musikfestival Bern, which will be held in Switzerland from September 4 through 8 (details at musikfestivalbern.ch). We are working at the invitation of Tobias Reber, an early Junto participant, who manages the festival’s educational activities. This year is the sixth in a row that the Junto has collaborated with Musikfestival Bern.

Step 1: Spend time observing this graphic score by Franziska Baumann, the Swiss composer and musician who is part of this year’s Musikfestival Bern. It is titled True Glimpses 1. There is a larger version available for download 12. More on Baumann at franziskabaumann.ch 7.

Step 2: Consider how the image in Step 1 can be interpreted as a graphic score. (If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of graphic notation, read up and join the conversion at the llllllll.co 3 link below.)

Step 3: Record a piece of music that interprets the graphic score from Step 1.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0654” (no spaces/quotes) in the name of your track.

Upload: Post your track to a public account (SoundCloud preferred but by no means required). It’s best to focus on one track, but if you post more than one, clarify which is the “main” rendition.

Share: Post your track and a description/explanation at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0654-just-notation/

Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you.

Deadline: Monday, July 15, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

About: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

Newsletter: https://juntoletter.disquiet.com/ 1

License: It’s preferred (but not required) to set your track as downloadable and allowing for attributed remixing (i.e., an attribution Creative Commons license)

WOT NO TABS! -disquiet0654

I took Franziska Baumann's score and chose to read it left-to-right, top-to-bottom. However, I restricted myself to the first row of seven ideograms, mostly due to time constraints. I took each and transcribed the notes into Ableton and considered each to represent a bar. I then repeated the sequence six times with various instruments. I interpreted the smudges as harmonic distortion.

6 fifths (disquiet0654)

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The Illusion of Choice (Reprise)- Stereolithica 624

Dreams of Toraja is an atmospheric release composed of collected sound recordings from Tana Toraja (Sulawesi, Indonesia), live instruments and futuristic soundscapes. It is not an album built from a concept conceived beforehand, but a flow of expression where sound led the way and meaning revealed itself after. In this way, it is a deep dive into the subconscious.

Memory, dreams, death, ritual, ancestral symbols - flows the music not as distant echoes but as living patterns shaping creation. The stream carries you, shaping perception, memory, and the whole itself. Creating Dreams of Toraja is an act of synchronizing with that current. All in all, as it opens a portal where memory, dreams, and ritual align and guide towards death, it is an invitation from sound itself to shed the old skin and reveal the endless life force of creation - where symbols of the ancestral flow emerge naturally, weaving sacred harmony to find ourselves in the now, between the ancient memory & future vision.

- Gratitude to the people of Tana Toraja for accepting to their community in the most welcoming, true and warm way. May the Spirit of Nature guide and protect us all

released June 29, 2023

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Sheppard's Dream

Electronic music, field recordings and weird electroacoustic sounds.

True Glimpses 1 Cluster Burn (disquiet0654)

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