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µ-Ziq - Phragmal synthesis

My heart dropped when I saw this image. I find the conduct of the States in international affairs disgraceful. But then looking at the layered flags I reflected on more positive aspects: on the beautiful people I've known and the inspiring culture.

I used my mountain dulcimer which is a genuine North American instrument (although with fitting irony my instrument is made in Pakistan which I found gently subversive). I played based on american primitivism and eastern influences (listen to https://soundcloud.com/deanmcphee/glass-hills for a better example of this approach) and then layered the sound with lots of ambient echo.

Underneath it all is the first note of Hendrix's star spangled banner which I stretched 10,000% and pitched down to fit into the track. 
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Created for the EXTROSPECTION Group, June 2015.

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Layers {mountain dulcimer echo} [Extrospection June 2015]

Wanted to accentuate the ambient and play around with real time filtering. then playing around with glitch1.3 random settings and cloned,underlaid that so it didnt take over. that kinda missed the point of what i was doing as it created more rhythm but the beats still less prominent

µ-Ziq - Hi-Q (MaskFilterglitchFilter mix)

My track for ambient online one sample dare 30. the original sample here: https://soundcloud.com/lighthugger/pipes-ao-osd-30

i wanted this to sound like a summer storm brooding, a muggy humid feel, and it being a long ago memory.

In audacity i took the whole sample paulstretched it to ~8 minutes and really smoothed out (cos there's loads of elements in the sample that i wanted to create gradual shifts and depth) then increased the volume of the low end rumble. then time stretched it down by half so the tonal shifts are more pronounced (and cos i'm running out of time on my sc account!)

then i recorded it to cassette on my teac tape deck and then recorded this back onto pc with a sony ex505 walkman to give a bit of hiss and warmth (and for that long ago memory feel).

Summer Storm (memory)

so, weird synchronicity again; this track https://soundcloud.com/sevenism/summer-storm-memory i did the other day fits the bill perfectly it was about a childhood memory of a summer storm. rather than just add that though i used the same method so it's kind of like a part 2

i remembered when i was a kid a bunch of at a birthday party in our garden were jumping on my poor dad.. at the time it was so much fun but i'm guessing it wasnt for him!

i associate the harmonica with dad, its the first instrument i think i fell in love with and dad was gonna give me his harmonica a few yrs back but it's lost somewhere, but he got me a new one which can hear on here.. so that represents dad.. then i slowed it down and blurred it righht out for the passage of time feel

then the other sounds are a guitar with loads of reverse delay; that's us bothering him, again blurred a bit.

then like summer storm i recorded to tape and then back onto pc via walkman, i like the warp at the start and the wow n flutter but not enough hiss!

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Disquiet Junto Project 0185: Memory Music
Summon up a memory, and then summarize it in sound.

This week’s Junto is project proposed by Robert Thomas, a longtime participant. Having proposed the project, he’ll also listen to and comment on various posted tracks as the project unfolds.

A bit about him: Robert Thomas creates procedural music and sound systems. In 2010 he worked on Inception the App (5 million downloads), while at RjDj. He has worked with Hans Zimmer, Imogen Heap, Junkie XL, Air, Carl Craig, Jimmy Edgar, and Bookashade. His current projects are systems for VR, AR, health, meditation, and AI/robotics.

These are the steps for this week’s project:

Step 1: Remember a key moment in your life. It could be anything at any age.

Step 2: Conjure the sound of that moment in your mind, how you remember it, how you have come to remember it.

Step 3: Recreate that sound and feeling through sound design and music.

More on this 185th Disquiet Junto project (“Summon up a memory, and then summarize it in sound”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/07/16/disquiet0185-memorymusic/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

This project was proposed by Robert Thomas, more from whom at:

http://dizzybanjo.com/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

summer : impermanence (disquiet0185-memorymusic)

for me complexity is a conceptual endeavour, it's more about the process than the outcome. at the moment, i see complexity as an integration of disparate elements: subjective-objective, creative-analytical, individual-communal, present-past etc. i'm aware that every piece of music i do follows on from another, they are related to each other in some (small?) way. working intuitively allows this to come out i think, but in addition i always combine conscious conceptual elements from previous efforts - my hope is that my soundcloud timeline provides a natural progression track to track. 

i've been working a lot with samples on my last few tracks, so i didn't add anything else. i just went through and isolated small sounds i liked then stretched them and blended in over the course of track (like in sleeping church) but here i was more interested in getting a balance between texture and frequency. i've been working with dronefx on my mixcloud pieces so i used that to generate some note progressions and changed the pitch of the low end sounds. i wanted to make an ambient piece that gradually develops with more texture (again like in all my recent pieces) and i used the concepts of the last two disquiet projects to complement this: i recorded the piece to tape as in summer:impermanence (& fortuitously coz it was the same decrepit old tape a little snippet of that track comes through right at the start!) then i faded between the tape version into the 'clean' version as the track progresses (like in last weeks project).

i wanted the finished piece to sound completely different to the source but still retain something of the spirit of it. i tested this by fading in and out my favourite section of the original  right at the end and i think it works pretty well.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0188: Complex Complex
Take a provided track and make it more complex.

This project was proposed by Guy Birkin and Jay Bodley (aka Sun Hammer). It extends the thinking that went into their album Complexification, released by the record label Entr’acte. (http://entracte.co.uk/projects/guy-birkin–sun-hammer-e187/)

These are the steps for this project:

Step 1: Pick one of the two tracks at the following URL: https://goo.gl/tN4Oit.

Step 2: Modify that one track in any way, using as much or little of it as you like, to make a new piece that sounds “more complex” than the original. You may add other sounds. (Note: You are free to use any definition or measure of “complexity.” You should be sure to describe your process and how it “increases” the complexity of the original track.)

Background: The album Complexification by Guy Birkin and Sun Hammer “explores musical complexity through a collaborative process based on a set of rules.” Those rules involved the two musicians swapping successive copies of a track in order to make it progressively more “complex.” For their purposes, they defined “complexity” as follows: “In this project, complexity is understood in terms of the quantity and variety of musical elements or patterns. The result is two parallel threads of music, each representing a progression of increasing complexity.”

More on this 188th Disquiet Junto project (“Take a provided track and make it more complex”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/08/06/disquiet0188-complexcomplex/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/


hidden complex (summer mix) (disquiet0188)

loved this track https://soundcloud.com/adamintilia/burning-into-time-2010 wanted to hear it blurred at first and gradually getting more intricate and detailed

Adam Intilia - Burning Into Time (sevenism blurring into time mix)

when i was 12 or 13 my music teacher at school was horrible: mean and impatient - she'd grab kids fingers and press them hard into the 'right' keys when we made mistakes. there was no relationship between my burgeoning love of music and what i had to contend with at school. i never learnt to read music, and looking at this image reminds me of sitting in front of a keyboard thinking 'what the fuck?'

so i sat in front of my electric piano and just played what i felt. then i've hidden this playing in a number of ways - i've cloned the track and blurred it with paulstretch, reverb, echo a few times.

and i used amazing midi to convert the recording to midi to add some random variance and then created 3 separate soundscapes with different fx in live 8

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Disquiet Junto Project 0205: Superposition
Interpret boxed-up music-education materials as a graphic-notation score.

This week’s project falls broadly into the category of “graphic notation.” It uses a found assemblage as its starting point.

Step 1: Look at this image associated with this project, and imagine it as a score in the tradition of graphic notation:

http://disquiet.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20151203-560×560.jpg

Step 2: Record a piece of music based on that score in Step 1.

More on this 205th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Interpret boxed-up music-education materials as a graphic-notation score”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/12/03/disquiet0205-superposition/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

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thanks for all the listens! please follow me @sevenism.. reposts and comments are always welcomed

a load of remixes i've done, nominally mixed

1. boc/nevermen - mr mistake [ambientstrumental] @nevermenmusic
2. ? - ? obstructed mix
3. afx - avril 14th [rndm velocity] @user18081971
4. jedrzej borowski- 3 switches x3 @jborowski
5. technohead - accelerator 1 [deceleratedecholocated]
6. cdek - res 13 2 (sev/ered) @c-dek
7. MyklH - Transmitting from space (sev visual echoes) @MyklH
8. loess - f4 {gravity echoes}
9. adam intilia - burning into time (blurring into time) @adamintilia
10. hideyuki - teian (minor edit) @kuromiya-hideyuki
11. westy reflector / benn demole - c-swellowed @thereflectors @benn-demole

thanks to the original artists for the wonderful music

sevenism -- ambient re//mix/one

Trike - µ-ziq

guitar lost in echo. glacial warmth. a soundtrack to the tenderness of wolves by stef penney

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Clear lake ripple

https://www.twine.fm/sevenism/crei90/saline-echelon

guitar lost in echo. glacial warmth. a soundtrack to the tenderness of wolves by stef penney

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Saline echelon

https://www.twine.fm/sevenism/creia0/tardy-finney

guitar lost in echo. glacial warmth. a soundtrack to the tenderness of wolves by stef penney

µ-Ziq - Hi-Q (MaskFilterglitchFilter mix)

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