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dancing in oblivion (disquiet0649)

The assignment: write a piece of music informed by the concerto form 

The "generalbass" roots the original form of the concerto. Everything is carried out musically around this. I focussed upon this impression. Good to connect and remind one's own "generalbass".

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More on the 649th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Concerto for — The Assignment: Write a piece of music informed by the concerto form — at https://disquiet.com/0649/

dancing in oblivion (disquiet0649)

Don't Buy Anything Today

23 5 27

Veils And Souls

photo - https://www.pexels.com/photo/green-fern-plant-884547/

Verdigris Part Two

Recorded for the Naviar Haiku challenge #545.

I wanted to illustrate the deceptive calmness under the stormy surface; our elusive memories, the petals as both wild sea foam and gently floating flower petals.

Both piano and Buchla are heavily affected by the Space Echo. Most of what you hear is the wet signal from the tape echo. In fact, when playing the piano I had no direct signal at all, resulting in me hearing what I had played half a second ago, not what I was playing at the time...

Main players:
Vintage Vibe
Buchla Music Easel
Roland Space Echo

Recorded in Logic Pro X with a Soundcraft MTK22.

floating [naviarhaiku545]

Humans create tools to make tasks easier. When the tool no longer works as intended, we discard or repurpose it for another utility. Our relationship with technology is like a transactional ouroboros, our behaviors influenced by human imperfections that machines were designed to eliminate. 

Computers distort the human-tool relationship, possibly due to their ephemerality in form factor and intended purpose. In merely a few decades, a machine that once encompassed an entire tabletop now rests comfortably in a jacket pocket. Tasks that once required several specialized instruments now reside in a single device. Such is the nature of our digital existence. 

(If there were a moment in this narrative to insert a casual reference to AI, here it is).

We want our computers to improvise because humankind is always improvising, and we need our tools to respond to our shifting priorities. “Everything is always turning into something else,” wrote the poet Kenneth Koch. “As we’re sitting here talking, monkeys are jumping around in the trees, and waves are going across the Hudson, and new poets are being born, and covers are coming off books … I mean, all sorts of things are going on.”

For this piece, Suss Müsik interpreted form and structure through improvisational reconstitution. Handmade electronic devices, built from discarded 1990’s computer hardware and a hacked Glitch Storm bitmap sequencer, manipulated acoustic timbres from plucked cellos to create unpredictable looping patterns. These were iteratively refactored until the tonic and non-tonic diffused, suggesting a "broken" musicality that transgresses common assumptions of sonic beauty.

The piece is titled Ultracrepidarians, a word to describe a group of people who express strong opinions about something beyond their expertise.

More on the 651st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Why Compute? — The Assignment: Respond to a prompt from George E. Lewis — at https://disquiet.com/0651/

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Ultracrepidarians [Disquiet 0651]

More on the 651st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Why Compute? — The Assignment: Respond to a prompt from George E. Lewis — at Disquiet Junto Project 0651: Why Compute? – Disquiet

Electric Dreams (disquiet0651)

sound art for disquiet0651.

manual cassette tape collage recorded through the lid of a pedal bin with a contact mic.


More on the 651st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Why Compute? — The Assignment: Respond to a prompt from George E. Lewis — at Disquiet Junto Project 0651: Why Compute? – Disquiet

redundant technology will save us (disquiet0651)

More on the 651st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Why Compute? — The Assignment: Respond to a prompt from George E. Lewis — at https://disquiet.com/0651/

The cover image for this project uses a photo by Ioan Sameli, thanks to a CC BY-SA 2.0 license; it’s been cropped and text has been added to it.

nawak

Druidic random sampling_disquiet0651

The 651st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Why Compute?
The Assignment: Respond to a prompt from George E. Lewis
Disquiet Junto Project 0651 – https://disquiet.com/0651/

The cover image for this project uses a photo by Ioan Sameli, thanks to a CC BY-SA 2.0 license; it’s been cropped and text has been added to it.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intel_8742_153056995.jpg

Druidic random sampling_disquiet0651

Debroc