Norns Chaos Operator into four Plaits into Norns Blndr.

Chaos Operator is a chaos theory based noise/sound generator for norns that can send its chaos via midi. You can choose from one of nine chaos theory based maps and manipulate those in various ways.

Contains a field recording from Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea, CC BY 4.0 DEED - BMORENO/Freesound. Thank you very much for letting me use this!

Blended Chaos Operator

This is my submission to this week's Disquiet Junto assignment. 

More on the 674th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Cerberus Sample — The Assignment: Make a song not just with but from just one sample — at https://disquiet.com/0674/ 

241129 [disquiet0674]

Connect with your inner heron! 😜 ... An abstract take on a beautiful haiku, making good use of Virsyn's wonderful Cube 2 resynthesising synth ... Enjoy! ☺️

Amongst the rushes,
a stillness comes over us -
Heron in winter.

roekin is a mark of gratitude; an attribution to all that is; kin.
Dependently arising, from a life lived simply, peace+haiku is the growing collection of poetry and writings attributed to roekin.
The collection can be found at roekin.com.
 
Haiku by roekin: https://www.roekin.com

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

more halF unusuaL

halF stillnesS [naviarhaiku576]

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku580-quiescence/

quiescence!
touching not the blossoms,
temple bell's voice

Kawakami Fuhaku was a tea master and the founder of the Edosenke, a school of tea ceremony. He was also an accomplished haiku poet.

Haiku by Fuhaku

Picture by Ming Han Low

What's the Shock of One Bell Ringing? [ naviarhaiku580 ]

An interpretation of:

here and there
upon scorched fields
wild violets

Naviar haiku challenge 582, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

Assembled using a combination of Voltage Modular and Bento, the noise synth from Giorgio Sancristoforo; https://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net (Bento is about 2/3 of the way down the list).

I started out with Bento, got it set up worked out which controls I wanted to manipulate the moved onto Voltage Modular and patched together the other elements I'd need. Although a bit of a fiddle, I'd assigned all my physical controls to Bento so had to control all the VM components with the mouse, everything was manipulated and recorder in a single live take.

Scorched Fields - (Naviarhaiku - 582)

Ukwane

This week's Disquiet Junto prompt instructed us to find a piece of wood with interesting grain, and interpret it as a graphical music score.

My music desk is a pretty solid piece of furniture, and the dark stain makes the wood grain stand out prominently. I noticed that the grain on one side of the desk contained two interlocking swirls, and the radiating pattern reminded me of a magnetic field. So I decided that this week's composition would be played with wood and magnets.

I used a contact mic to record the percussion part, playing the top of the desk like a hand drum. Then I recorded three layers of guitar played with an ebow: an electromagnetic "guitar pick" characterized by infinite sustain. Ebow has the drawback of making dynamics difficult but I was able to make it growl and howl enough to get some texture and noise out of the performance. 

The bass layer was played on a Schecter Damien 7-string guitar with an altered tuning. I managed to play the bottom string freehand with the ebow, floating rather than resting on surrounding strings, which required multiple takes unfortunately. I just really, really needed that low B♭. The other two guitar layers were played on the St Vincent guitar. 

Offboard, the guitars went through my standard bank of stomp boxes, including an Eventide Harmonizer, Keeley Halo, ARP-87 and Julia pedals from Walrus, and a trusty RAT distortion pedal. DAW effects were mainly reverb and Chromaglow, plus a stereo delay and EQ on the percussion part.

More on the 690th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Knot Bad — The Assignment: Interpret wood grain as a graphic score — at https://disquiet.com/0689/

Lost in the Ironwood (disquiet0690)

started in response to Haiku by Marc Sheridan,"  a splash of colour
cherry tree petals drifting
silently falling" NaviarHaiku https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/.    Track features sample instruments using recording of  playing the  'fins' of a computer heatsink and springs from an old couch.

bandcamp single

Life Inside A Drifting Petal (NaviarHaiku 585)

Through the tear_02

Ravel from the 1920s, timestretched in ableton, then converted to midi and combined, fx etc

More on the 691st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Un-Ravel — The Assignment: Make a recording of a string quartet fall apart — at https://disquiet.com/0691/

un-ravel +3 mix [disquiet0691]

only sound source is a recording from my firepace, from a disquiet junto prompt.

i had a fireplace recording from recent months. for this one, some few minutes of fireplace crackle is the only sound source, as in the fire few seconds. sampled and sliced, then some heavy and not-so-heavy manipulation. i tried to let the spirit of the recording come through enough here and there.

Blended Chaos Operator

xhg

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