The wobbly resonant synth part is so nice and full of quiet movement. Is the modulation controlled by hand (eg mpe)?

Wirklich gespannte drückende Atmosphere! Packend! Irgendwie der Anfang einer Geschichte...

Concert version for brass quintet and live electronics, commissioned by Shriver Hall. (Installation version for overhead wavefield synthesis and video projection commissioned by EMPAC.)

[there are subwoofer bass frequencies present - use good headphones or larger speakers for best effects, not earbuds]

Audio documentation of the world premiere performance.  American Brass Quintet at Shriver Hall, December 8, 2019. (P.S. this was premiered on my birthday, and it was basically the best birthday present ever - thank you ABQ!)

Program Note:
Spending time in the chambers of ancient ruins and the cavities of basilicas and churches has led to a fascination with the interaction of architecture, light, and acoustics in relation to the human spectator. The different window types (from oculus to clerestory to stained glass) guide our relationships with the spaces, recanting visual stories as they divert beams of light in paths of illumination throughout the course of the day. The same is true of the sonic qualities of these, often vast, spaces. Within "The Glow that Illuminates, The Glare that Obscures" I take the brass performance tradition of the madrigals and motets of Renaissance polyphony and pass sourced quotations through a compositional prism. The resultant fragments are illuminated and obscured in the composition through the use of antiphonal and heterophonic writing, density and silence.  Fragments of Josquin's Miserere, a spare and austere motet setting of Psalm 51, jostle our memory as they are stretched and ornamented throughout the ritualistic sonic space.

The Glow that Illuminates, the Glare that Obscures (2019) for brass quintet + elec (concert version)

Improvised piano and Minitaur over my heartbeat

Cardio#2 (Blood-wise)

A moment of your time please [42]

Should of been home by now		
Could be with my kids by now
Instead you had your way with things

Should of been home by now		
Could be having steak and wine
Instead you had to break it

Shoulda woulda coulda somehow		
Think you might have tempted fate
You’re telling me it’s really named ‘HAL’?

HAL nine zero zero one			
Could have been home by now
we didn’t have the patience

Chin up, we’ll figure it out

HAL nine zero zero one
Forever lost in darkest space

[Words & Music - The Feckless]

one human at a time

HAL Nine Zero Zero One

disquiet 0562
Record something to help someone fall asleep


This track I created today is supposed to help somebody fall asleep *and* have nightmares. That's licit right?

I had this piano track recorded this summer using a guitar pick on my upright piano, along with some regularly played notes and chords. Very simple , very spacious and lovely natural sound.
Just added some synth noises and Valhalla Supermassive. Easy and rewarding Thursday afternoon.
Cheers
DD

Composed and recorded by dd in paris, Oct 6th 2022

photo by jaroslav devia

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0562-sheep-music/

Yes, You Are Asleep (disquiet0562)

Disquiet Junto Project 0564: Octave Lept
The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music.

I used a track on which I was already working on and added automatic tools to randomly add or substract up to two octaves to all tracks. The probability was chosen so that the octave jumps should go unnoticed.

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Track cover based on image from Dall-E2 prompting "Sudden jumps, not too hefty, edward hopper". This tool is so much fun!

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More on this 564th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Octave Lept (The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music) — at: https://disquiet.com/0564/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0564-octave-lept/

Krakenkraft-Disquiet

Sudden Jumps, Not Too Hefty [disquiet0564]

Cautious Approach

I was listening through the tracks and hit "The Lonely Pelican Has a Friend" and it absolutely wowed me with its gorgeousness combined with just a bit of glitchyness. The delay on the guitar made me think about setting up a Frippertronics-like loop and playing that over top.

I loaded the original track into AUM's file player on the iPad, fired up the iOdyssey app, and found a suitable fluty/chirpy patch; I've been itching to try it out more, and this seemed like just the right thing for it.

I added the K7D audio effects unit to give me a panning looper for the Odyssey, and recorded two takes of the original plus the Odyssey. Neither of which was quite what I wanted -- just a little thin...so I decided, why not try both? 

I loaded both takes and the original track into AUM, and played it all back in sync to record the final track. This slightly emphasized the grittiness in spots, but I decided that I liked the effect...partly because it is interesting, and partly because getting two more isolated takes was more time than I had to spend.

This was definitely couch (actually bed) synthesis; I did the whole performance, recording,  and mixing on the iPad. I only needed to move the final track to the Mac to MP3 encode and add the track metadata before uploading.

Downloaded the final track, as noted, and tagged the file with Fission, generating a quick bit of art with ML.

Lonely Pelican No More [disquiet0593]

I used the track:  HalF frugaL ( https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-frugal-disquiet0593-featuring-marc-eisenschink-and-encym). Having downloaded the solo (twice), the duet & the trio, after carefully adjusting the dynamics, I arranged them in a canon-like sequence & then added a degree of reverb.

More on this 594th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Threemix (The Assignment: Remix an asynchronously produced trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0594/

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-0594-threemix/

Frugality Canon (disquiet0594)

Submission to the Machina Ad Noctem tribute album to Stanislaw Lem

https://machinaadnoctem.bandcamp.com/

In the final pages of Lem's novel Solaris psychologist Kris Kelvin leaves the station to fly his first journey over the Solaris ocean with the hope of encountering his dead wife, previously resurrected by the strange powers of the planet beneath.

Out to the old mimoid in the hope of a cruel miracle

Soundtrack to indie feature film "Ana & Mia" by Black Revel Productions

Enter The Woods

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.

Sudden Jumps, Not Too Hefty [disquiet0564]

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