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Disquiet Junto Project 0451: Ursula’s Silences

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Hearken Beach

The colour of this song is blue, unblue.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g75nwr4o4mI

blue, unblue

Rejectic

aural flush

halF ursulA [disquiet0451]

I made a piece of sounds and silences. Silences because there are many kinds of silence:
"Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very well to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps." (Samuel Beckett: The Unnamable)
The sounds modify the silences and the silences modify the sounds. The sounds are not more significant than the silences and vice versa. There is interdependence in the continuum of sound and silence. Apart from Ursula K. Le Guin I want to dedicate this piece also to Samuel Beckett and John Cage.
More on this 451st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Ursula’s Silences (The Assignment: Make music inspired by a line from A Wizard of Earthsea), at:

https://disquiet.com/0451/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

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There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Glockenspiel [disquiet0451]

The Assignment: Make music inspired by a line from A Wizard of Earthsea: “For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.”

Also on album "Hearken Beach".
https://krakenkraft.bandcamp.com/album/hearken-beach

Originally I just wanted to make five minutes of interchanching deep pad and noisy something, with a lot of non-silent space between them. I added some ambient field recordings in these spaces, because the name of the track was intended to be 'The Impossibility of Being Silent'.

But then my mi clouds produced some sounds of it's own and I liked it. At the end I had to reintroduce silence to all parts. All in all I hope this to be considered as a tentative approach to silence, with an increase towards the end.

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More on this 451st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Ursula’s Silences (The Assignment: Make music inspired by a line from A Wizard of Earthsea), at:
https://disquiet.com/0451/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0451-ursulas-silences/

Album: Hearken Beach

A Tentative Approach To Silence [disquiet0451]

A resonator triggered with multiple gates and control voltages, modulated with wavetables, then processed with a granular processor to create spaces real and imagined.

More on this 451st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Ursula’s Silences (The Assignment: Make music inspired by a line from A Wizard of Earthsea ), at:

https://disquiet.com/0451/

inre (Disquiet0451)

I recorded the ambient sounds sat by my open back door for the length of time it took me to read an essay. I then made a drone from the car horn at just before 3 minutes (using Sampler, Echo, Valhalla Reverb and a little compression in Ableton) and layered this over in ever decreasing lengths and increasing pitches.

homedrone (disquiet0451)

Disquiet Junto Project 0467: Toolbox Show & Tell. The Assignment: Share a tip for making music that you learned during the pandemic.

80% of my music started on a cheap android DAW app called "Caustic". The sound is not perfect, but I like the workflow. Anyway, since 1 year or so I try to switch to Ableton Live. Because of the lockdown I had a lot of time to flatten the learning curve with this DAW.

My tip is about "Follow Action", to bee seen in the Clip Editor. Follow Action allows a clip to trigger other clips by probability, in the screen example of the track cover there is "play again" with prob 1, "play any other" with prob 2. The clip is one of of many clips which only contains some note on a scale or a chord.

Normally I somehow reject pure generative music, although I place a lot of value on chance in my own. It always seemed dishonorable to me to let a software (that I didn't write myself) generate music and claim this music to be "mine".

However, with "Follow Action" I have the possibility to achieve an (in my opinion) honorable mix of probabilities and composition.

In this case, there are different tracks with different signatures and different Gongs in A minor. I even added "empty" clips to get some "silence" into it. The probabilty for the different tracks differs, one could for example use one track to establish sequencial clip triggers, to include motives that are bigger than inside a bar.

(And please consider "honorable" a way to big word here…)

More on this 467th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Toolbox Show & Tell (The Assignment: Share a tip for making music that you learned during the pandemic), at:

https://disquiet.com/0467/

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Generative Gongs [disquiet0467]

Thanks to https://soundcloud.com/peter-hostermann for Bangkok field recordings.

Tape Memory #3

Ambient electronica, Berlin School, Chillout & Kosmische Space Musik from Munich, Germany. ► Soundcloud is my musical diary - expect lightfooted drafts, soundchecks, playthings & misfits here. ► Go Bandcamp for finished pieces & more serious musical works.

A Tentative Approach To Silence [disquiet0451]

Krakenkraft & Etherkraken