I added to @encym's excellent, guitar-based, track, Frugality (https://soundcloud.com/encym/the-loneliest-number-disquiet0591?si=c7a742bc48e04018b5249a736278acdb&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing). I used this as an exercise in MIDI processing in Ableton. I used a MIDI pitch tracker on a filtered version of the original track (to reduce the range of notes), then passed the MIDI to two tracks with Arturia's Augmented Strings (both with a bass pizzicato patch, with slight variations). The MIDI was processed with MIDI echo and note length changes and arpeggiated in both cases. In one case the scale was forced into a Hungarian Minor.

snake eyes (disquiet0592)—with encym

More on this 619th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beat Accrual (The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch), at: https://disquiet.com/0619/

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Flourish Disquiet0619

I play the drums so this disquiet assignment appealed to me. 

I decided that complex for me meant complex timing. I wanted to play something in odd time signatures, and I feel like the number 23 is underrepresented in music. Here was my process:

1. I improvised a 4 bar drum beat in 23/8 time (which I really counted as 8/8, 5/8, 7/8, 3/8), and recorded it in Ableton. 

2. I experimented with a few ways to “accrue” the beat, and decided to accrue by time rather than by part.

3. In Ableton Live, I edited the beat to repeat, but only play a section before repeating. I chose Fibonacci numbers for the length. For the first repeat only 1 8th note of the 4 bar 23/8 repeat plays. Second repeat, 2 8th notes. Third repeat, 3 8th notes. Fourth repeat 5 8th notes, etc until the entire beat is revealed. It took on the feel of a breakbeat.

4. For more accrual, I copied the original 4 bar beat to another track, and used a filter slowly introduce it beneath the Fibonacci cut breakbeat. They are not aligned at first, so there is a kind of beating that takes place between the two until the last full repeat where they are completely aligned.

broke beat

Broke Beat [disquiet0619]

[disquiet0619] Ritm

Disquiet Junto Project 0619: Beat Accrual
The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch.

I created this beat using my voice, finger snaps, hitting the mic, etc. After chopping up all the components, I began layering them and playing with syncopation as well as eq and effects to create a sort of inhuman soundscape. 

This piece incorporates words I find myself using a lot either to please others or to show that I'm listening and empathizing. By creating an intentional rhythm with them, I'm exploring the mechanical quality these words can take when they're said out of habit or a sense of obligation.

More on this 619th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beat Accrual (The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch), at: https://disquiet.com/0619/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0619-beat-accrual/

empathy factory (disquiet0619)

GD Beat Accrual (disquiet0619)

Disquiet Junto Project 0619: Beat Accrual
The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch.

I defined complicated as not too complicated and everything in a 16th note grid, but outside of a 4 bar grid. I only used tuned percussion because I kind of liked that. I added the organ just to have some kind of track and made half of it percussive. Because it was an Organ, I went to a Blues scale. All in all, it certainly doesn't fit the prompt, but it kind of worked out.

Image: Dall-E

More on this 619th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beat Accrual (The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch), at: https://disquiet.com/0619/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0619-beat-accrual/

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Disqbeat [disquiet0619]

Taking a drum sequence, applying a spectral shift on it every bar, and perpetuating the previous state with a tape echo plugin.

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More on this 619th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beat Accrual (The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch), at: https://disquiet.com/0619/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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spectral echoes (disquiet0619)

Time Well Bent is a piece composed for the disquiet Junto challenge, Beat Accrual.  I used Tabla software from NI to construct the simple beat heard at the beginning of the piece which evolved into a more complex arrangement thanks to two tape-loops employed to triple the beat density offset by replay times.  The harmonium/bellows were added as some gentle guitar to finish the piece.

Time Well Bent(disquiet0619)

This was my initial entry for the Disquiet Junto 0619 contest. The prompt was to create a complex beat by successively accruing elements on top of one another.
A more elaborate version is in progress, as a follow-up to the first part of that contest.

In the meantime, if you feel like listening to more fully-fledged and finalised work, please check my main account on Soundcloud: @goingmodular

Disquieting Polyrhythm (disquiet619)

16 years old

This is the secondary account of Pierre Carles where rough ideas, draughts of future pieces, submissions to online contests and other quirky things are gathered. To hear Pierre's fully-fledged, finalised music, check https://soundcloud.com/goingmodular .

Disquieting Polyrhythm (disquiet619)

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