#36

How might a lonely robot, disconnected from the network, try to communicate with other robots? By singing in ASCII code, of course! This song was created by taking the ASCII code for the phrase “I am all alone.” as well as other variants capitalized differently, and using them as MIDI note numbers. The robot sings that encoded phrase over and over in melody and chords to any other robots that may be within hearing range.

You may be puzzled why this song does not sound sad. It doesn’t sound sad to you because you are not a robot (unless you’ve been lying every time you fill out a captcha form). If you are a robot, this song will sound very sad. To my human ears, it sounds more frantic than sad.

I briefly went down the cheese-covered path of a heavily synthesized robotic voice rapping B.B. King-inspired lyrics I rebooted this morning to a 12-bar blues progression. You should be grateful I deleted that effort early on

I wrote a more thorough description of how this piece came together on my blog at composed-bits.org/2018/05/i-am-all-alone/

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#37

weird that this project came up when it did… bought a new external audio interface this week, a super cheap budget one (hey, i’m poor and broke) and i got what i paid for - it hates me and my machine and refuses to interact with my programs. i opened one of my old junto projects to test it and this was the best it could do. paraphrased title courtesy of the almighty Captain Beefheart. doing everything in my power to ensure the hardwares become friends but until then, the fight continues…

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#38


my robot controls Three Sisters and Phonogene
source: Three Sisters
seq: monome grid / meadowphysics
VCA: Ornament+Crime / 4MS VCA Matrix
sample: MakeNoise Phonogene (broken echo mode)
reverb: Mutable Instruments Clouds

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#40

Behringer Model D
Meris Polymoon
iPad: AUM, Rozeta(Phasemaker/Particles/Collider), Kosmonaut

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#41


All sounds from MiniBrute 2S + external effects.
My very first contribution to Disquiet Junto Project and my very first track with this new synthesizer.
Enjoy!

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#42

I share your thoughts on both Westworld S02 and Lost In Space. At least both served to spark your creativity, great! The intro of ‘glitch’ and the ‘robert johnson’ track are my favourites.

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#43

https://soundcloud.com/ohm-research/keph-disquiet-0331

Mutable Instruments Shelves driven to oscillation and the resulting sine waves modulating a resonator module.
When an android is feeling blue…

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#44

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#45

The machine hesitates each step, with a coin toss controlling progress or regression.

Chance stepped random maybe triggering 4ms peg clocked envelope. End of envelope pushing rene X forward, chance smooth random picking rene’s Y path. Soft mangrove into dld with slow modulations.

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#46

Actually I was surprised that Marc didn’t choose his image for this project.
Ant first glance I thought it was another “sine wave” project like 0326 then I got the word-play.
But Marvin is the proto-depressive robot, he’s the Alma-Matter of this week’s challenge.

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#47

I thought seriously about trying to combine the pentatonic scale and sounds atypical for the blues genre. But, I’ve been pretty set on attempting to make pieces approximating music that use no traditional instrumentation or generally “musical” sources (admittedly a rather amorphous rule). So, I started with a recording of my car engine - slowed down about 4x. I then grabbed a long recording I captured from my window of an outdoor concert. I found a loop within the recording that established a rhythm without revealing anything particularly melodic or harmonic in nature. From there it was a matter of pitching and slowing the pieces to work nicely together, along with some sidechained gating and compression. I imagine it might sound a bit like a factory robot, despairing of its plight and beginning to intone its misfortune.

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#48

Here’s mine: https://soundcloud.com/plusch/positronic-blues-disquiet0331

Obscurium for sequencing and modulation, Synplant and Aalto for sounds. Also used some ValhallaRoom, and Unfiltered Audio’s Zip.

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#49

when you’ve been on your ship for a few million years with only some tardigrades for company it’s good to have a project, take your mind off things. armed with just a 24 string guitar, and making use of the ship’s acoustics, this robot plays the blues.
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12 string guitar close mic’d thru podfarm fx (synth harmony>sin chorus>random chorus>random s&h>analog square chorus>analog delay>reverse delay>tape echo>medium hall reverb / tweed b-man amp>bronze master>echo platter>sine chorus>stereo delay>cavernous reverb) duplicated, pitched up, paulstretched.

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#50

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#51

The playlist is now rolling, 37+ musicians and counting:

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#52

tickled to see my track first! I hope it makes a good intro.

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#53


I was hoping I would have a chance to get this one in! I attempted to use a Locrian mode played on KORG SV1 to Live. From there I used the MIDI to find some sounds I liked. I recorded 2 instances with an 808, Yayaya and Kimbal at different speeds. I then reversed it and speed up the reversal. I then took an additional instance of the reversal and blended that back in. I added tons of compression.

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#54

It’s 38 right now.
Close it!

Numerology : Number 38 Meaning:
Teamwork, pulling together, companionship, cooperation — all are in the number 38’s realm.
The number 38 is a natural teamworker

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#55

disquiet0331 my robot has the blues
bpm 88-time signature 4/4 key signature C blues scale
analog lab vacuum pro minibit alter ego
form intro verse chorus verse, not a 12 bar blues

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#56

Here is my track for this week! I’m just kind of getting back into music making, so please forgive me if it’s a little basic. I interpreted this topic as a poor little robot who is really sad he’s not alive (hence the vocoder and droning). Other than that I tried to fill the space with some mechanical feels to make the track. Hope you enjoy!

EDIT: the file I upload was corrupted. This should be fixed now.

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