Superb track. Thanks for bringing the Eloi and Morlock dinasty back from the fog of memories, loved the movie when I was a kid.

Love that you fit your methods to the physical description of the time machine itself.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0264: Time Travel

For this week's Disquiet we've been asked to imagine a path through fragile vegetation. Two synths hooked up to Stochas provide the "vegetation" and another synth provides the "path", echoed by a guitar.

More on this 528th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Landscape Architecture (The Assignment: Forge an unobtrusive path through musical flora) — at: https://disquiet.com/0528/

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keep to the path [disquiet0528]

Synths, sampled drums & sampled strings, electric guitars experiment inspired by this challenge:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0529-squared-off

DD, Paris Friday 18th February 2022.

Twenty Three (disquiet0529)

A live electronic sequence created in Pure Data. The tempo is based on units of 230 ms (around 130 bpm).

Major thanks to Eanna Butler for helping come up with this project:

More on this 529th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Squared Off (The Assignment: Explore the number 23) – at: https://disquiet.com/0529/

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23x10 (disquiet0529)

[disquiet0529] The Grid

For Disquiet Junto 0529, the square root of 529 = 23. I used this number to set the duration(2:30 long) and to divide my track into 23 mini slices (around 6.5 seconds each) for various automations and pacing - they become rather subtle - you'd never know they are there...

after using my voice, and counting, I ended up humming into a Chase Bliss Audio Mood pedal which conjured harmonious moments that I ended up playing like a small instrument.

Last night, the sounds of my family at a Hibachi grill prompted me to capture some audio with my phone my shirt pocket.  I squared the intensity off with some in my back yard recording bamboo in the breeze.  Family time.  Alone time.  Always need both.

appreciate it / Squared Off(Disquiet0529)

Short piece tuned to 23edo, made using Aalto.

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l'humeur du poisson gris - disquiet0529

This week's Disquiet Junto prompt was to consider the various interesting aspects of the number 23. In this track, you'll hear sections of 5/4 time, a percussion pattern of 5 and then 2, and scales/arepeggios constructed of alternating minor 2nds and minor 3rds. Also, many of the sections modulate up by minor 2nds and minor 3rds. This was a fun challenge, I really enjoyed it!

Sounds provided by AudioThing's Noises and Spitfire Lab's new "Glass Piano" samples.

Octagons and Squares (disquiet0529)

Major thanks to Saga Söderback for having come up with this project.

More on this 530th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Minimally Viable Music (The Assignment: How much less is just shy of too little?) – at: https://disquiet.com/0530/ 

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Snow & Cereal Box (disquiet0530)

# Credits

* Charlie Parker
    * [Solo on "Onithology"](https://jazzomat.hfm-weimar.de/dbformat/synopsis/solo61.html)

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Major thanks to Saga Söderback for having come up with this project.

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Minimally Viable Music - disquiet0530

The phrase minimally viable music reminded me of listening to The Caretaker's Everywhere At The End of Time. It's a harrowing listen as over six and a half hours what starts as wistful, joyful melodies become stripped of timing, tuning and coherence. Towards the end you're disoriented by a grey sonic plaque of scratches, pops and detritus.
I took a very abbreviated route and took a simple loop from my 2hpPluck and ran it on successive passes through more and more destructive fx until almost all pitch, timing and timbre information was removed. The end result plays at the beginning before the original loop fades in and starts to be messed with.
Major thanks to Saga Söderback for having come up with this project.

More on this 530th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Minimally Viable Music (The Assignment: How much less is just shy of too little? ) — at: https://disquiet.com/0530/

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Non Viable (disquiet0530)

was thinking about space dilating as i imagined speeding through time.

i got some cello samples and put them thru the protoplasm tsm synth, lots of oscillation, then had dimension expander and crystal reverb automated so they'd get bigger throughout. 
pulled into audacity and sliding time stretch applied so gradually speeds up
audition - duplicated track, stereo widened, then crossfaded with previous track to gradually get wider. mastered

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Disquiet Junto Project 0264: Time Travel
Record a piece of music that plays with the perception of time.

Step 1: Recorded music is, generally speaking, a fixed object. It’s a document. It proceeds linearly, over time. It is, in the terminology of fine art, “time-based.” That said, music has the power to change one’s perception of time. Slowing and speeding tempo alone can alter a listener’s understanding of what is happening. Backward masking, sublimated hints of themes yet to come, the sound of a tape in fast forward mode — those are just a few ways that a composer can suggest that time is not moving linearly. Now, consider for a moment the tools available to give an impression of time doing things other than proceeding in a steady forward motion.

Step 2: Record a short piece of music that takes time travel as its theme, using ideas that resulted from the consideration in Step 1.

Five More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: If you hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to include the project tag “disquiet0264″ (no spaces) in the name of your track. If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to my locating the tracks and creating a playlist of them.

Step 2: Upload your track. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your track.

Step 3: In the following discussion thread at llllllll.co please consider posting your track:

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Step 4: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 5: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This project’s deadline is 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, January 23, 2017. This project was posted in the morning, California time, on Thursday, January 19, 2017.

Length: The length is up to you, but two to three minutes sounds about right.

Title/Tag: When posting your track, please include “disquiet0264″ in the title of the track, and where applicable (on SoundCloud, for example) as a tag.

Upload: When participating in this project, post one finished track with the project tag, and be sure to include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

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temporal pulse (disquiet0264)

This is a tough one to describe.  I knew I couldn't do time travel with just an instrumental.  There had to be a voice involved.  Some kind of narrative.

The voice sample (not me) is altered.  Pitch-shifted up on the left and lowered on the right, but the duration was preserved on both to avoid phasing.  A bit of reverb.  The two samples were panned.  You should really listen to this piece with headphones.

Was the voice recording cut up and re-ordered or is it a continuous rant?

The subject matter does the time traveling in my mind:  Beach Boys, David Lynch movie, minute steaks with sunnyside up eggs, Edgar Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Vyvanse, swinging bachelor pad, dress pants and dress shoes, shaved head, Mannix, Ironside, The White Album, Revolution #9, Long Long Long, Revolution #1, sleep, swagger, "the same feeling that night I drank", "the shield of armor" (which is Ephesians 6:10-18), AA talk, "and then Laura told me to Sit In That Feeling."

Book-ending it with talk about "a David Lynch movie" and "Laura told me to sit in that feeling" was intentional.  Or was it?

Was I trying to make the voice sound like a cheap version of The Man From Another Place, or did it just turn out that way?

Now you're thinking about the Twin Peaks reboot.  This isn't about the Twin Peaks reboot.  Or is it?

Music added includes bits of "We Meet Again" by Ambient Matyk (to be released soon), "Feather Ridge", "Kad", and "Shunting" by me, and some extra sounds.

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Sit In That Feeling (disquiet0264)

One Percent Disjunction [disquiet0264]

I thought I’d approach this by exploring the inside of a stretch, rather than just absorbing the overall drone effect. Not sure if it worked, but it was fun.

I took a 3 second sample from a piece I was working on. I used Audacity’s Sliding Time Scale effect on it. This stretches the sample unevenly, pulling only from one end, as it were. When the result was just over three minutes long, I reversed it. 

I duplicated the track and then pitched it down by 1% - that is by 0.01 of a tone. This helps create the phasing and movement you hear in the track. I also mixed these together and laid the mix as another track, but out of phase by 0.01 of a second.

A reverb version of the mixed tracks was also laid (in phase).

The ending was made by stretching the original sample out 12x using Audacity’s simplified version of Paulstretch.

The track image was made by applying similar principles to Marc’s email image, using paint.net



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Disquiet Junto Project 0264: Time Travel

Record a piece of music that plays with the perception of time.

Step 1: Recorded music is, generally speaking, a fixed object. It’s a document. It proceeds linearly, over time. It is, in the terminology of fine art, “time-based.” That said, music has the power to change one’s perception of time. Slowing and speeding tempo alone can alter a listener’s understanding of what is happening. Backward masking, sublimated hints of themes yet to come, the sound of a tape in fast forward mode — those are just a few ways that a composer can suggest that time is not moving linearly. Now, consider for a moment the tools available to give an impression of time doing things other than proceeding in a steady forward motion.

Step 2: Record a short piece of music that takes time travel as its theme, using ideas that resulted from the consideration in Step 1.

Five More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: If you hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to include the project tag “disquiet0264″ (no spaces) in the name of your track. If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to my locating the tracks and creating a playlist of them.

Step 2: Upload your track. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your track.

Step 3: In the following discussion thread at llllllll.co please consider posting your track:

http://llllllll.co/t/music-for-time-travelers-disquiet-junto-project-0264/6157/

More on this 264th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Time Travel: Record a piece of music that plays with the perception of time”:

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One Percent Disjunction [disquiet0264]

God: You can never change the future. The past, yes, but not the future.

Lucifer: How do you change the past?

God: Why, the past is always changing—nobody remembers anything. But the future can no more be turned away than the light flowing off the moon.

This bit of dialogue is from Arthur Miller’s underrated play The Creation of the World and Other Business. It comes at a crucial point in the narrative where Lucifer admits to God that he compelled Eve & Adam to partake of the forbidden fruit, an act that ultimately banished God’s children from the Garden of Eden.

Time travel is not impossible; we are always revisiting past events in our efforts to understand the present, and our attempts to predict the future often arise from moments of stagnate contemplation. Anyone who has experienced the feeling of traveling by air or rail understands the dichotomy between moving and not moving, not unlike how a great piece of music rewards the listener’s investment by making time stand still.

For this short piece, Suss Müsik literally went back in time—ten years, to be exact. The source material is an eight-bar guitar phrase played with a Danelectro 12SDC 12-string in 2007. The sample was chopped through a Korg ToneWorks 411X processor and recorded live from a Vox AD30VT. The binaural motion cycles for about two minutes or so before the reverse reverb winds it down, coming almost to a halt. The momentary respite allows for a calming pause before the cymbals announce their arrival.

The piece is entitled Trammel, a word to describe something that restricts or impedes one’s freedom of action.

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Trammel [Disquiet0264]

Back to Weena [disquiet0264- Time Travel]

"In the 1960, film version, The name "George" was given to the time traveller. Travelling through different times, George reaches AD 802701 where he finds a girl drowning in the shallow, and the Elois are indifferent. He rescues her and comes to know her name – Weena. Unlike the novel, George does not leave Weena dead. He rescues the Elois and Weena and eventually returns to the future to be reunited with her. Weena was played by Yvette Mimieux." (wikipedia abridged)

Track made in Pro tools 11 using the  in-house drum and organ. Lots of subtle tempo changes and loops slightly off from the beat. used the elastic audio in both the rhythm and varispeed mode. The time machine is depicted as a mechanical device with rotating discs and this is in part why I used overlayed fast clicking rhythms. A small school choir sample loops through the second half subject to filter sweeps out of synch with the loop length.

I did struggle with the mix and capturing that odd dislocating time feeling.  I  feel that the last minute was the most successful.

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Back to Weena [disquiet0264- Time Travel]

Interested in collaborative projects -  The more inappropriate the better.  London based. home built noise toys and circuits, broken tape recorders, hex bugs in biscuit tins. Field recordings of air conditioning outlets.broken cassettes. and maybe the odd bit of class gear.

maxims:

If you dont like the sound of out of tune guitars  then you dont like the sound of  guitars.

Try again, fail better


My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

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