#29

One can never have too many toys, so yes!

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#30

Yeah, well I promised not buying any new toy for a while, not to mention a 300+ € toy, but couldn’t help hearing you.
Just checked the Verlag site, I’m amazed that just a few of the Music Boxes are sold out. I my Zodiac sign isn’t.
Damn it seems here I go again.

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#31

Excellent track, great “spy-70’s-music” bongos.

Now, a “sandwich within the sandwich”?, wow. This series is getting mental.

Can I suggest the name for it? “Inception Sandwich” ?

Guess that’s a remarkable sandwich; no argue.

Must be delicious. Should try it at home, mind. One sandwich at the time to start , then the “Inception”.

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#32

This was another Junto that really intrigued me…the title comes from an Oblique Strategies card that came to mind as I was reading the brief (honour thy error as a hidden intention). I was also talking about the topic with the guy who sits next to me at my workplace, as he is a font of knowledge on art history. He raised the subject of Wittgenstein’s ladder & the idea that one should throw away the ladder when it has been climbed.

With these concepts in mind, I started the piece with a layer that I had no intention of using & built all the layers around it then removed it, keeping only the other elements. I have faded this element in at the end, to reveal the “hidden intention”. I’m now looking forward to listening to the other entries to the Junto.

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#33

Hey all, I kinda went in reverse order on this. I started with the heavily arped synth with drums. I added two more tracks, one more simplified arp organ sound and a straight piano track with no arp which used the same midi file as the original. When I recorded I only heard the heavy arp so it was cool to find out exactly what notes I was actually playing. It was kinda bluesy which is a result of a childhood spent banging on the piano at home. I used to play the same damn blues scale all the time cause that is all I knew. Later when I got a synth and started a band it was more 80’s synth pop since it was the actual 80’s.I used a lot of volume changes to get the layers to show in and out of each other. They were also offset so they are not playing the same notes at the same time.

peace, Hugh

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#34

With the focus on pentimento, I really wanted to make use of real-time dynamic processing to hide and reveal layers of sound. In a sense I went very basic, as there’s no traditional musical material in this one or even complicated processing. The governing audio is a pitched-down recording of my brewing coffee pot, played once forward and once in reverse. I then added three layers of shortwave radio noise with varying degrees of intended signal peaking above the noise floor. These three layers are then moved forward and backward (or alternately obscured and revealed) by the coffee pot via side-chained compressors and gates.

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#35

https://soundcloud.com/geoffrey-waterman-76060124/oh-shenandoah-disquiet0328

I’ve been playing around with incorporating familiar melodies and songs in my modular music for a while, and Shenandoah has been a mainstay in this rotation. When the Mannequins module W/ came out, I thought of several immediate uses for it in my music, and when the Disquiet project for “pentimento” came up, I thought the two would be a perfect fit because of the ways that W/ can emulate tape degradation in live performance. Thus the water of the music, the imagery portrayed in the song, overtakes the song itself, having been painted in our minds and hearts for so long already.

Primary modules used were: Verbos Touchplate Keyboard, Pittsburgh Micro Sequence, Feedback Two59, Mutable Sheep, Mutable Streams, Befaco Spring Reverb, Mannequins W/

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#36

Thanks. I was considering calling it a Shakespearian Sandwich, for the way the bard would put a play within a play.

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#37

Wrote a nice song with strings and brass. Cut it up into 4 loops. Played those loops from qu-bit wave. Manually played faders brings loops in and out. Recorded that all into Ableton. Buried the loops in the mix. Wrote a generative piano part overtop. Added effects to wash out sounds.

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#38

3 loops from relatively well known pieces of music. covered over with digital processing to make new music. if you listen hard you might be able to hear what they were originally. pentimento.

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#39

Approach to “sonic pentimento”: Add multiple layers of new sounds to cover old sounds, iterate. The result isn’t true anymore, because contributors, forgers and restaurators did neither have the correct colours nor did they unterstand the meaning of the original sonic image. Add some ‘trumpet’ to honour Jon Hassell.

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#40

https://soundcloud.com/glsmyth/pentimento-disquiet0328

Pentimento was written in response to Disquiet Junto Project 0328: Sonic Pentimento.

Step 1: This week’s Disquiet Junto project involves recording a piece of music inspired by a term from painting. That word is “pentimento,” which is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “a reappearance in a painting of an original drawn or painted element which was eventually painted over by the artist.” Familiarize yourself with the term.

Step 2: Think about how the term “pentimento” can be borrowed from painting and applied to sound.

The original section comes from the Vibraphone and four accompanying chords. As melodies are introduced the original section remains the same, though parts of it are altered and at times covered up, but they are always there.

Pentimento was written for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, two Violins, Viola, and Cello.

The score is available at http://bit.ly/2H2NSbY

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#41

https://soundcloud.com/ohm-research/desmotis-disquiet0328

1)Mannequins Mangrove + Synthesis Technolgy E355 + Intellijel Dixie (sine LFO)
2)Behringer Xenyx 1202fx no input mixing.

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#42


I recently say the Modigliani exhibition at the Tate - and was really struck by the way you could see faces and body parts from abandoned paintings peeking out from many of the finished works.

To try and emulate this musically I built a kind of sonic wash out of samples from an old piece and then recorded on top of it. The top phrase is also being looped through w/ - and gradually overwriting older iterations. So there are multiple layers of Pentimento going on here.

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#43

Today’s new vocabulary word is pentimento: a reappearance in a painting of an original drawn or painted element which was eventually painted over by the artist. This week’s Disquiet Junto music project is about applying pentimento to music.

While thinking about pentimento, my mind came up with the rhyming word sentimental, which led to the old classic song Sentimental Journey. So I decided to take musical cues from the classic song to come up with my rendition, called Pentimento Journey.

I started with the chord progression from the classic song. I added a seventh to all the chords and slowed it way down. The notes in the chords come and go, alternately revealing and hiding the components of the chords. The melody from the original song is scattered throughout the piece in two separate lines, one obscured by an arp, the other recognizable if you’re really listening for it.

The artwork for the track contains elements of two pieces of art I previously created for other projects, along with a recent photo of a tulip, blended together in a pentimento style.

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#44

https://soundcloud.com/vonna-wolf/cover-strange-pentimento I took album covers that I had taken my hand drawing and colored on old record covers, then I spray painted them, and photographed. I then took these images and ran them thru photo sounder. From there I modulated the sounds a little. Then I utilized a MAX patch I built to mix together. I then took them and made 3 duplicate tracks. I EQ’ed the High/Low and Mid of each. Then on the one that contained the Highs I added the 3rd angel picture back in. I then grouped it with the other two tracks, I then recorded, reversed the track, lined it up and EQ’d them all together. Vonna Wolf

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#45

really like the word pentimento, not come across it before

i saw mark’s painting as looking down on a pond with unknown things underneath. when we were kids there was a swamp with dark water close by; we scared ourselves with stories of what lurked underneath.

recently read that it takes days for a body of water to become still

blurred zither sample played around with in protoplasm. lots of different gentle echo ripples from podfarm, audacity, audition.

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#47

Initially, I re-recorded an old heavily sequenced track I wrote 20 years ago, by playing the original recording and manually playing each line manually over the top, leaving the original in place so it could show through at times. I wasn;t happy with that, so tonight I recorded a sample of myself speaking into Clouds, froze the audio into the buffer, and set about recording a few takes with it being sequenced and modulated. Ocassionally, you catch snippets of the words I am saying, which is like the original “showing through” the overpainting.

It doesn’t feel like a complete track, but I am sure someone will have some fun with it, it’s creative commons after all!

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#48

After a few software setbacks…


Thanks for watching! :slight_smile:

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#49

More on this 328th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Sonic Pentimento: Record a piece of music inspired by a term from painting) at:

disquiet.com/0328/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

http://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr%E2%80%A68-sonic-pentimento/

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

Photo by kyle smith on Unsplash

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