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After (naviarhaiku111 -After the Dancing) by noimspartacus

Longer version of junto project 214 - Tempered

I chose pitches of 250hz and 1000z and applied the 569/512 and 567/512 ratios. I had 6 instances of logic's test oscillator running each variant and ran these through individual instances of Kuvert with different gate settings. The tracks were muted and unmuted to create patterns (e.g. root - incorrect, root-correct, incorrect-correct-root) and a simple drum loop was added. More reverb was added u...

I loaded four instances of the test oscillator into Logic and set the the frequencies to 484hz, 242hz,121z and 968hz. These were then ran through separate instances of Kuvert, each with a gate that ran over differing numbers of beats to creat a shifting beating pattern. 8 bars of this were bounced down and fed into Flesh and the spectral and transient information was used to generate a percussive...

The two clips were recorded live at midnight on Thursday / Friday this week. One clip was me standing on the patio after a fall of snow that was rapidly thawing. In the distance you can hear faint cry of a fox. The other recording was taken inside my kitchen at the same time. I was hoping to have captured the gurgles and sighs of my fridge but what I got instead was a steady hum and the clock tick...

Playing around with a drumloop fed through Flesh

I think this is 4th time I've attempted the New Year Ice assignment and I'm still using the original audio clip. I ran it through some granular effects and also loaded the original clip into Flesh. Flesh is a Reaktor instrument that uses the transient and spectral information of the sample to create rhythmic and melodic patterns. It's kinda unpredictable and you can can get lost in a wormhole as y...

This was my 2nd attempt at the assignment, originally I'd sat in my utility room with the tumble drier on but it didn't work out. I took the iPad up into the local woods and loaded an audiobus patch with fieldscaper and flux loaded. I recorded a minute clip and then loaded it into fields caper and tweaked the playback. I began to turn up the fx mix in flux and this was the result, all done live an...

I've been playing around with an envelope plugin, Kuvert so it seemed right to employ it for this assignment. I took 3 loops (16bar, 6 bar and 2 bar) and ran them through separate instances of kuvert set to play a volume envelope over 7 beat divisions. Each instance peaked and dipped at separate points and the irregular beat division caused the clips to peak and mute at different points of there l...

The image for the graphical score reminded me of the mechanism of a musical box. I imagined the drum rotating and alternating the visible and obscured musical phrases. I entered the visible phrase (note-note-note-rest) into Fugue Machine on the iPad and played it back at different tempos and transpositions. I used delay and gate plugins running at a different bpm to process the iPad output and cre...

Imperfect Response by noimspartacus

I inputted the notes off the image into numerology and got it to play the pattern at different speeds through different instruments and this is what it produced ;) Disquiet Junto Project 0196: Whole Lotta Whole Sight-read the whiteboard notation from a children’s music class. Step 1: Read the music notation in the following image (note that the photograph was taken at a music class for elementary...

Jamming with a volca keys and a numerology drum patch

I'm stuck in a hotel room during a heavy thunder storm, no access to a computer and a shonky wifi connection. I recorded a patch from Thor on the iPad (seemed appropriate because of the storm raging outside) and recorded different pitches into loopy and faded them in and out for a little over a minute. I'm pleased I was able to produce something without access to any fancy equipment or software. U...

This happened a few years ago. I was at a holiday complex and the main entertainment centre was housed in a massive domed structure. There were rows of air hockey tables and the clink clunks of the pucks reverberated around the structure and the echoes started to weave themselves into phasing patterns. The sounds seemed to build up to a crescendo and I started to feel a mounting sense of dissociat...

I recorded a 1 bar drum loop, a 4 bar synth line and an eight bar chord progression. I programmed a numerology sampler patch to divide each loop into sixteen equal sections (1/16, 1/4bar, 1/2 bar) and set the segments to trigger with a random possibility that the sampler would be muted. The result was mixed down and then I played the original loops back with the octave, the beat divisions changed...

I took a simple loop of a guitar strum and fed it through delay, resonator and reverb effects on the iPad. Whilst recording a live take I didn't realise I was capturing the sound of my dog and the clock on the wall but I left them in because I liked the sound. I flipped the recording and played it along with the original from the midway point. I enjoyed the process of gradually warping the guitar...

I love my Evolver, it's a fascinating little synth. I'm still exploring it's capabilities and feel like I'm only just scratching the surface of what it can do. I spent a pleasant afternoon mucking around with it whilst thinking about the project brief and the idea of the dreams flickering in the circuits. I used 2 presets, one to process an unconnected audio input and the other was a rhythmic sequ...

For this project I took the concept of the matryoshka dolls and imagined six concentric circles, with the same musical phrase played on each but the octave and the note length varied on each layer. The length of the phrase is also shortened by 2 notes as you move towards the centre circles. I cobbled together a simple numerology patch and let it run on its own, fading the tracks in and out (they a...

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