Amateur recordings of VO practice throughout the course of 2 years at VCU's Brandcenter

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Secular Hymns

Tango Till They’re Sore

This song is about the fact that we are all one but some people decide to raise themselves way too high above people and consequently fuck up many lives.


You know, I think about this a lot
Especially when I’m driving in the city
Seeing the miserable people on the way to work
Wishing I could shake them or hug them
Just do something to wake them from their 
9 to 5 nightmare.. Just show them something beautiful
Thant reminds them of what we truly are
And what we could really be

I want to connect all the scattered pieces
Gather the missing links that seek allegiance 
Align the isolated, fresh shine for eyes faded
Make a path for the afraid and their related
I want you to see its easier than breathing
To leave all your pain that you think you’ve been needing
No need to cling to beliefs that are impeding 
Your importance to a collective heart beating

We are all  in this together
Whether or not you acknowledge the tether
That ties and binds us -  birds of feather
Words  to help you remember 
 A time beyond time
Wrapped in forever 
Of beginnings ending never
In this ephemeral temporal temple 
We tamper with mental tendencies 
 and maladies - adapting to 
 Tragedy, calamity, insanity
 attempting to claim a sense of individuality 

But is an individual really that free?
Isolated from his own extended family tree
Hiding high in towers from those down beneath
 Keeping position of power and his heart far out of reach
 I’m usually not the type to write out and give a speech
 But if I have something to say I might as well start to preach
 If I have any wisdom it  would be wrong not to teach  
Anything thats mine was never all mine to keep

I want to connect all the scattered pieces
Gather the missing links that seek allegiance 
Align the isolated, fresh shine for eyes faded
Make a path for the afraid and their related
I want you to see its easier than breathing
To leave all your pain that you think you’ve been needing
No need to cling to beliefs that are impeding 
Your importance to a collective heart beating

You say you are free but I hear your chains rattle
Walking to and from no different than a common cattle 
Somethings wrong if you don’t know its a battle 
For your mind and soul so find a way to stay agile 
Any moment they can shut down your revenue 
Take your house and cars and kids so easily  from you
With just one command machine kicks into gear 
Making damn sure you know exactly who to fear 

So keep telling me about your liberation
when you’re in a prison nation
This is not a fantasy you’re living in
Giving your  identity to a massive entity
Working hard for pennies for the price all your energy
And the Empathy is lost in these monsters 
Honestly I’m convinced they have no conscience
Constantly crossing boundaries no one should ever reach
With all that money they probably feel like everyone is the enemy

 they hire  entire armies  to keep us tired on our knees
 legions of swat teams, federals  and the police  
Any civil unrest is a punishable crime
Just Keep your head down off the radar and in line
You have the right to remain silent, if you’re violent
They will silence you, open fire with no chance to make it though
If you want to rise they got devices  spying the sky
Gps trackers an cameras have you in their sight

I want to connect all the scattered pieces
Gather the missing links that seek allegiance 
Align the isolated, fresh shine for eyes faded
Make a path for the afraid and their related
I want you to see its easier than breathing
To leave all your pain that you think you’ve been needing
No need to cling to beliefs that are impeding 
Your importance to a collective heart beating

Allegiance

Pigments Not

More on this 373rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Copernican Music / The Assignment: Record a piece of music intended for an alien species — at:

https://disquiet.com/0373/

This week’s project was made as a proposition by the artist Jonathon Keats.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0373-copernican-music/

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

The image associated with this project is from one of Keats’ own instruments related to his Copernican artwork, a gravitational radio. Photo credit: Dora Tsui.

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halF copernicaN [disquiet0373]

“Science is Copernican, but society remains Ptolemaic. Our behavior is self-centered. Our culture is bigoted, our politics tribal. Society needs a Copernican revolution. If we are to survive, we need to recognize that we are not special. If we are to have a peaceful relationship with one another and our planet, we must become humble. A Copernican revolution is achievable, but will not be accomplished through scientific education alone. Only culture has the potential to put us in touch with our cosmic insignificance, and to bring about a cultural paradigm shift. The Copernican revolution in culture will be realized with Copernican music.” - Jonathon Keats

For this Disquiet assignment (my first in quite some time), I explored the articles on space.com that concerned Jonathon Keats' work, when i stumbled across "The show had its own soundtrack, too, which was tweaked to match the entropy of the universe. Keats randomized 25 percent of the notes in Johann Sebastian Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier," because, he said, the universe is one-quarter of the way to "heat death," or total disorderliness." (https://www.space.com/14701-keats-copernican-art-manifesto.html)

The idea of using maths to create, organize or manipulate music is nothing new, yet a theme i constantly find myself exploring within my own work, whether using hard or soft synced LFOs to manipulate musical parameters, or just faced with the grid based interface of Ableton.

So adapting the idea of a quarter of chaos, and wanting to contrast this with romantic ideas of cosmic order, i found a decent set of MIDI parts for Gustav Holst's Planets Suite and then applied various randomizations to both the notation and instrumentation to "Jupiter", which resulted in something quite distinct to the original work.

Note: I apologize for the occasional pops of sound - nothing speaker destroying, but it annoys me and it shouldn't be there.



More on this 373rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Copernican Music / The Assignment: Record a piece of music intended for an alien species — at:

https://disquiet.com/0373/

This week’s project was made as a proposition by the artist Jonathon Keats.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0373-copernican-music/

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

The image associated with this project is from one of Keats’ own instruments related to his Copernican artwork, a gravitational radio. Photo credit: Dora Tsui.

On The Revolutions Of The Celestial Spheres: Jupiter - Disquiet0373

Step 1: Take a recording. Glitch it.

Step 2: Glitch it a second time, in some different manner, and try to have moments where the initial glitch remains evident and untarnished (well, un-further-tarnished

For this piece i took a field recording of a electromagnetic squeal i had recorded, which i fed into Ableton's sampler, which was automated by random LFO's to create the first stage of glitch processing. The next layer of glitching involved running that sound source through randomly triggered fx (Glitch2 and Ableton's Ping Pong delay) with randomly determined values for the paramaters. This results in a stuttering of on/off functions sometimes revealing the source material and sometimes totally rearranging it).

More on this 374th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Glitch Glitch / The Assignment: what happens when you glitch something that’s been glitched? — at:

https://disquiet.com/0374/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0374-glitch-glitch/

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

Image associated with this project adapted (cropped, colors changed, text added, cut’n’paste) thanks to a Creative Commons license from a photo by Ario:

https://flic.kr/p/9ptbkR

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Electromagnetic Variations - disquiet0374

for this one I re-glitched this following glitchy track:

https://soundcloud.com/north_woods/glitch-vector?in=north_woods/sets/three-song-demo

itself glitched using a piece of code written in ChucK that sweeps filter frequencies around a fuzzed-out oscillator. 

I put this track into a sample granulator I wrote in ChucK which allows me to use a MIDI controller to control eight parameters: grain length, grain position in the sample, pitch of the sample, degree of randomness in pitch, degree of randomness in position, reverb level, echo level, and gain. I then manipulated these parameters and recorded the result. I never play the full original sample (it would make the piece too long) but you can hear hints of it here and there.


More on this 374th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Glitch Glitch / The Assignment: what happens when you glitch something that’s been glitched? — at:

https://disquiet.com/0374/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0374-glitch-glitch/

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

Image associated with this project adapted (cropped, colors changed, text added, cut’n’paste) thanks to a Creative Commons license from a photo by Ario:

https://flic.kr/p/9ptbkR

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

disquiet0374 glitchglitchvector

Uploaded as part of the Disquiet Junto 0387. Entirely made up of instruments I wouldn't normally use :)

Full process description here: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0387-everything-and-more/22900/12?u=mdh

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