chaos meets melody
September 18, 2018 at 05:05PM
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[img] chaos meets melody
[img] Saturday Night On The Outskirts Of Town
Photo: @catmthomas. Thx to everyone who deemed me, and then The Tell, worthy of Saturday night. Had a blast. Until the next time!
May 21, 2017 at 01:35AM
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[dream journal] 0517-0518: The Endless Sky Store
On a quest to find a guitar pedal I’d read about called the “Endless Sky.” It creates large ambient washes and textures from playing only one note on the guitar. Features a cowboy boot on the hand-painted graphic with lazy clouds around the six dials and three foot switches. One knob is labeled “reality fade,” the rest I don’t recall.…
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[track] split seconds [disquiet0194-clockplay]
PROCESS
I do not own a clock (or any time keeping device) that makes operational noise, so I used a CC-Attribution sample at freesound.org of 4 one-second clock ticks that looped perfectly without any cutting at 120 BPM. This juggled me a bit, since the 60 BPM clock ticks were playing in double-time to be in real-time at half-time to the track time.…
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[track] chasing flight
ambient.drone.guitar
CHAIN
Pigtronix Infinity Looper –Small Sound / Big Sound Sparkle Motion –SS/BS Mini F*ck –Electro-Faustus EF107 Regurgitator (send/receive: tc electronic flashback –Earthquaker Grand Orbiter) –electro-harmonix SuperEgo (send/receive: EQD Arpanoid –Diamond Tremolo) –EQD Afterneath –Strymon blueSky –Line6 Fender Blackface emulator…
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[track] c swells [disquiet0189-tonelayer]
PROCESS
Single notes in the key of C, staggered and stacked to move through different chords. “Attack” was eliminated using a combination of my trusted E-bow fed through an EHX POG2 with its attack setting jacked all the way up for max swell. Tape Delay, Phaser, Reverb added for space travel (or ocean travel as the case may be here).…
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night flight: le rêve de fabien [disquiet0181-instrumentaldream]
My latest guitar is named Fabien, after the pilot in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s “Night Flight.” It has quickly become my fav instrument. I read him the passage below from the book last night and woke up to this track in my DAW. Seems Fabien dreamed me reading to him in French.…
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a child’s doll reflection [disquiet0180-matryoshkamusic]
PROCESS
A loose adventure in nested loops. There are a few drones (each 1 note) underneath respective two, three, four, five and six note loops. the main section consists of the two note and six note loop played together with some variation, looped six times. Everything else fades in and out.…
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San Jose Museum Momentum Follow-Up
Disquiet.com’s Marc Weidenbaum and the other participants in the San Jose Museum Momentum Installation talk about their respective interventions.
Weidenbaum’s description:
…The San Jose Museum of Art has uploaded this eight-minute video featuring the various folks who, like me, contributed works as “interveners” for its current Momentum exhibit, which celebrates the museum’s 45th anniversary.
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Space Walk [disquiet0152-comet67pcover]
PROJECT
Record your own cover version of the “song” sung/emitted by Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
PROCESS
The comet’s rhythmic oscillations took me to a droning arpeggiation space. With this “cover,” wasn’t replicating the comet so much as evoking its spirit.
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Copyright Notice: Original Data Credit: ESA/Rosetta/RPC/RPC-MAG.…
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Particle Theory
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16 November 2014
Drifting Moon/Spinning… |
Turnaround, Annie
she didn’t feel suspicious – or paranoid
she didn’t see the distance – into the void
she learned to play with all the memories – like toys
she said it made it easier to drown the noiseshe worked for years – to create confusion
as she waited for life to reveal itself as an illusion
along the way she learned not to search for conclusionsas we drove the roads around my house
she wasn’t gonna stop until she broke down
all those angry hoursshe said, “don’t tell me when to turn around…
“i’ll tell you when we turn around
“just keep driving towards the moon
“don’t you dare turn around6am underneath the subway tracks
she said if that train was a plane I’d jump right on its back
then she rolled her eyes and taught me how to fade to blackas we drove the roads around my house
she wasn’t gonna stop until she broke down
all those angry hoursshe said, “don’t tell me when to turn around…
“i’ll tell you when we turn around
“just keep driving towards the moon
“don’t you dare turn around
San Jose Museum Momentum Installation
The Momentum exhibit runs through February at the San Jose Museum Of Art. Sound artist, writer and Junto founder Marc Weidenbaum curated the sound (as an “intervention”) for one of the installations, the video Untitled #8 (2004) by Josh Azzarella. Back in August, Marc sent out the silent video as project Disquiet0138-videosonicvoid, and challenged us to create a looping piece:
…Compose a 2.5-minute soundtrack to complement the silent video “Untitled #8, 2004″ by the artist Josh Azzarella.
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132 Frets [disquiet0147-slightnoise]
PROCESS
Every frettable note (incl. harmonics) on Jolie (my Gibson ES-335 DOT reissue), granulated and held through an Electro-Harmonix SuperEgo synth engine and then fleshed with infinite feedback through a TC Electronic Flashback tape delay. Both pickups were active and thrown out of phase to broaden the aural spectrum.
PROJECT
Step 1: Record 8 seconds of white noise in your own personal style.…
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Vertical Lyfe [disquiet0146-swypingsilence]
PROCESS
Transposed the swype into notes by turning the QWERTY keyboard into a musical keyboard:
1. Correlated the major scale to the letters following G by repeating the octave pattern though the alphabet (e.g., J=C, N=G, V=A, etc…)
2. Assigned low octave (1) and high octave (3) to the bottom and top rows, respectively, of the qwerty keyboard.…
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Truth Is A Lonely Place (Lee Rosevere Remix) [disquiet0138]
Collaboration with Lee Rosevere, wonderful (and prolific) Canadian producer and musician.
leerosevere.bandcamp.com
happypuppyrecords.ca
Lee’s liner notes:
…When this project was launched, I emailed my online buddy Westy Reflector @thereflectors to see if he’d be up for a collaboration and I was thrilled he agreed. I’ve wanted to do a big huge ambient landscape with his glorious guitar tracks and this seemed like a perfect opportunity.
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truth is a lonely place [disquiet0138-videosonicvoid]
PROJECT
Compose a 2.5-minute soundtrack to complement the silent video “Untitled #8, 2004″ by the artist Josh Azzarella. The video is intended by the artist as a “Never Ending Loop,” as is this audio accompaniment.
Untitled #8, 2004 from Josh Azzarella on Vimeo.
If not visible above, view the video here:
vimeo.com/21678371…
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The Fourth Of IX [Disquiet0134-MusicFromChoreography]
My Disquiet Junto contribution to soundtrack 03:00-03:59 of the film [IX] by Cori Marquis.
PROCESS
Pulled out aces through nines from a deck of cards.
Shuffled. Cut twice. Drew the top card.
4 of hearts.
So, fourth minute of nine (03:00 – 03:59).
At ~01:47 in the original 9 minute film, the dancers tapped their shoulders with their fists for a couple seconds.…
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