Disquiet Junto

Disquiet Junto Project 0570: Key Change
The Assignment: Make music that changes keys

Step 1: There’s been news of how, in the past decade, the newest most popular music doesn’t change keys as often as the most popular music used to. (I’m being cautious by being specific that this is about the most popular music, because the data relates specifically to No. 1 singles.) Read about it here:

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/25/1139232684/why-the-key-change-has-disappeared-from-top-charting-tunes

https://tedium.co/2022/11/09/the-death-of-the-key-change

Step 2: Record a piece of music that does change keys. (Don’t feel required to record music that aspires to mass popularity.)

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Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, December 5, 2022, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, December 1, 2022.

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More on this 570th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Key Change (The Assignment: Make music that changes keys) — at: https://disquiet.com/0570/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0570-key-change/

The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2, where “key change into another key” was the prompt.

Disquiet Junto Project 0570: Key Change

XiiixxiQ - Track History [ 2022 -      ]

More on this 570th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Key Change (The Assignment: Make music that changes keys) – at: https://disquiet.com/0570/

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: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0570-key-change/

The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2, where “key change into another key” was the prompt.

Flora & Jam (disquiet0570)

Step 1: There’s been news of how, in the past decade, the newest most popular music doesn’t change keys as often as the most popular music used to. (I’m being cautious by being specific that this is about the most popular music, because the data relates specifically to No. 1 singles.) Read about it here:

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/25/1139232684/why-the-key-change-has-disappeared-from-top-charting-tunes 1

https://tedium.co/2022/11/09/the-death-of-the-key-change

Step 2: Record a piece of music that does change keys. (Don’t feel required to record music that aspires to mass popularity.)

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Track notes: It's been a long, long year so I thought I'd have a whole lot of silly fun with this. Of course - as always - it all started out quite serious.

For some reason, Stereolab's middle-to-late recorded era came to mind (Cobra, Sound Dust) which consists of a heap of tunes that take all kinds of unexpected left turns with key changes. Then I thought of Bowie..then I thought of Eno's nonsense melodies and lyrics..then it became this.

My rationale was to compact the semblance of a catchy song into two minutes with interesting development and shift between the keys of E to Bb to C and D in a relatively brief span of time. The lyrics are simply what came into my head at the time, but the reference to the leaking pipe under the sink is autobiographical. By far the silliest thing I've recorded for the Junto but it was a great deal of fun to knock together.

[Disquiet_Junto_0570] "Step Away"

" Record a piece of music that does change keys"

This one I'm sharing is a track I've been working on since July 2022, eventually a week ago I decided to drop this take and start all over with a solo piano version. It has some key changes, not really sections but there's a permanent "unstable key" feel throughout.

Piano
Classical guitar
Drums (brushes)
Acoustic bass guitar
Wine glasses (background sequence)
Celesta (from sample library)
Synth pad
Key changes go like this:
1st bar E minor 
4th bar A minor
5th bar F# minor
8th bar B minor
9th bar G major
and then back to E minor for the coda.
All repeated twice in this version, with an extended coda.

Photo by DD, Carilo, Argentina.

For this @disquiet junto, December 2nd, 2022
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0570-key-change/


Second version, January 2023 here:
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/silencio-version-2

Silencio (first demo version) - disquiet0570

Key Change

The Euclidean Chromaticon | Key Change - disquiet0570

Electronic composition, sounds created in Pure Data.

Shifting Sands (disquiet0570)

Undercurrent

Just a Whisper in the Wind ...

More on the 692nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Combust a Move — The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track — at https://disquiet.com/0692/

Disquiet Junto | Combust a Move - disquiet0692

More on the 694th weekly Disquiet Junto project, 5/4ify — The Assignment: Add a beat to a pre-existing piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0694/

The original track can be found here [ https://soundcloud.com/xiiixxi/angelfish-or-unicorn?si=f9729764e685412aad5efce4e494ff09&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing ]

Disquiet Junto | 5/4ify - disquiet0694

More of these temporal phase tracks can be found here [ https://soundcloud.com/xiiixxi/sets/temporal-phase ]

More on the 695th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0695: Clean After Each Use — The Assignment: Put a piece of music through the dryer — at https://disquiet.com/0695/

Disquiet Junto | Clean After Each Use - disquiet0695

More on the 696th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Layers — The Assignment: Make music change by altering its layers — at https://disquiet.com/0696/

11 samples created from looping short sections taken from a pre-existing piece entitled 'Narrative' [ https://soundcloud.com/xiiixxi/narrative ]. The volume of each continuously sounding loop is auto-faded in and out using a pair of linked oscillators in addition to being shaped to bring each to the front once at least once throughout the duration of the piece.

Disquiet Junto | Chain of Layers - disquiet0696

Vocal Sample - Patricia Edwards - I Do - Today Is The Day [
https://www.looperman.com/acapellas/detail/14802/i-do-today-is-the-day-by-patriciaedwards-128bpm-house-acapella ]

Re- Sequencing - X I I I X X I via XiiixxiQ 
Tempo : 120bpm.

More on the 697th weekly Disquiet Junto project, First Third — The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0697/

Disquiet Junto | First Third - disquiet0697

All here, in reality, are works in progress and are therefore apt to change at any time. All those except XIII Sisters and RAW which, as many of you may have done, I literally gave away in return for their placement in a library. Something I won't be doing again any time soon. If you have a use for something you hear here please just ask.

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ChatGTP said of AI Music...
'Creative AI tools can be seen as sophisticated plagiarism software, as they do not produce genuinely original content but rather emulate and modify existing works by artists subtly enough to circumvent copyright laws'

Sometimes it takes a dispassionate, independent view to actually see the truth of it ...

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There are links to XiiixxiQ below. Your mileage may vary as to whether it decides to work on your system or not. It only runs on a Mac because I really don't have time to do all the necessary work to make it compatible with anything other than my 2015 MacBook Pro :-(. It is still being developed (for my own use) and improved, and I may yet get round to doing another release if I can find the time to tidy it all up.

The Euclidean Chromaticon | Key Change - disquiet0570

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