#30

https://soundcloud.com/ohm-research/lotto-disquiet0332

Maryland Pick 4- 05.12.2018: 6878
A modular piece that involves 6, 8, 7, and 8 beat patterns syncing and unsyncing. A possible audio image of lottery ping pong balls.

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#31

i was pretty wary about submitting anything for this week’s Junto 'cause it’s another that uses words that i’m uncomfortable with - key among them “musical” & “composition” - but i had a simple idea that i wanted to hear so i got involved anyhow.

It seems to me that the key aspect of a lottery is it’s arbitrariness & the disjunction between the numbers * i * pick & the numbers spat out by the organiser’s overly complicated &, let’s be generous and assume, effectively random number generators.

With that in mind i generated a run of numbers on random.org and used those as a key for which files i’d extract from my handheld recorder, and how long each extract would run - eg. seven seconds of track seven, eight seconds of track eight &c

Then, after waiting overnight for the * actual * result of the UK’s National Lottery [shout out to the Major administration¹] i did the same again, using those Winning™ numbers as a key for files to extract & duration of extract.

I cobbled these sounds together, panning the results from * my * numbers² to the left & the actual numbers to the right.

It hasn’t really informed anything that I’ve done here, but I would still like to take this moment to recommend Jackson Lears’ Something for Nothing: Luck in America

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¹eye roll³

²i declined to buy a ticket though had half a mind to maybe go & fetch one; save a couple of quid, huh?

³apparently a couple of weeks after Autechre’s Amber was released & a few days after the US release dates of Tical & CrazySexyCool ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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#32


Oönskade(disquiet0332)
A lottery winner has lost out on a £63.8m windfall after missing the deadline to claim the prize. The missing ticket holder matched all five numbers 5, 11, 22,34,40 and the lucky star numbers 9 and 11.
That’s what this week started with.
Sidetracked.
Did the ticket get lost or just forgotten? Unintentionally or intentionally? Was the holder blessed or cursed with a change of luck and circumstance? Was it someone who couldn’t or didn’t want the inherent troubles that might follow? The most unfortunate or fortunate person that day?
Sidetracked.
My piece started properly, following the prompt, with 5 being used for a 5/4 time, 40 for the duration in bars and the rest for instrument notes or timing or something.
Sidetracked.
Then, along the way it changed and slowed, becoming more introspective. Things forsaken or unwanted coincided with the world at large and this is the result. A short part in 5/4 for 22 measures using 5 instruments in Cubasis, the other numbers might be there somewhere.
Sidetracked.
Frightened Rabbit and Owl John, regulars on my iPod.
Such a sad way to find peace, I hope Scott Hutchinson at least found it now.

oönskade…Swedish for unwanted

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#33

Ok thanks for the heads up. No problem. I assumed it was automatic based on the tag.

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#34

https://soundcloud.com/glsmyth/lucky-rounds-disquiet0332

Looking at winning lottery numbers in Maryland, I found the list 11, 16, 38, 50, 69, 19. By multiplying the first number by 40, the result is the standard 440 hz for the note A, so I multiplied the other numbers by 40, yielding 640, 1520, 2000, 2760 and 760. Of course, none of these frequencies fall on notes in the well tempered system, and not being into micro-tonality, I selected the note closest to each frequency, the full row being A, E, G, C, F, G.

To reinforce the sequence in the piece I decided to make the composition a round, and titled it Lucky Rounds, partially due to the nature of the note selection, and partially because after numerous attempts to get the piece to work, it finally just fell into line with what I was looking for.

Lucky Rounds was written for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello and String Bass.

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

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#35

the closest lottery to me i could find was the robin hood lottery. i assumed there was only national ones not sure why

i used the android app kosmische because the notes are represented by numbers up to 122. i pressed random to get a patch: wasn’t that lucky unfortunately. hid the mild unpleasantness with gradually increasing reverb and played around with cutoff and resonance.

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#36

Disquiet0332
I. Used the lottery results for the Euro millions game on Tuesday 08 May 2018.
II. https://www.lottery.ie/dbg/results/view?game=euromillions
III. The winning numbers were 17,25,35,39,44 2 and 5.
IV. I decided to use these numbers as the notes on an 88 note keyboard.
V. The note names are C#2, A2, G3, B3, E4, A#0, C#1.
VI. BPM 88, Time signature ¾
Used the free Sample-science Player preset entitled Tone-wheel organ. Author of the sound is Hammondman and it is a public domain preset. Used a synth bass from Sample-science Player for the A#0 note. The bass synth preset is by Anilogic it is in the public domain. Added some cello by Virharmonic. Added some strings from the Syntronik synth from IK Multimedia.

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#37

Yeah, I have a search saved as a bookmark and I go in once a day, sometimes more often, to update the playlist. (Thanks, @mzero.)

#38

Nice a lot going on there :eyeglasses::tada:

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#39

Nice, I wanted to use midi numbers also but some were to low to be heard :grinning:

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#40

What are the odds that I would pick the same numbers as you! I never looked at this page before I posted here today :globe_with_meridians::us:

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#41

Sounds more like the lottery was rigged :rofl:

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#43

@George_Smyth a wonderful relaxing pentatonic piece, really enjoyed listening

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#44

Nice, that Roland sounds great. :tada:

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#45

10 28 21 72 49 (Italy, Milan, Thursday Lotto, 10/05/2018).
I used different step sequencers: 10 28 21 49 pattern lengths for different sounds, the number 72 was discarded, altought I think is present somewhere :slight_smile:
All sounds are coming from Axoloti, processed through an Analog Heat. Custom patch wrote from scratch and can be downloaded here. Recorded on cassette.

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#46

https://soundcloud.com/user-863178836-956583768/disquiet0332-9-13-16-17-25-37-24

The Belgian “Lotto” has six numbers and one “extra number”. The most recent numbers were 9, 13, 16, 17, 25, 37 (24).

My goal was to make this as mechanical and automatic as possible, without any influence of musical taste or skill. To achieve this, I created six midi channels in Ableton and filled them as follows:

  • CH1: I made a six beat clip for drums, representing six-bit binary numbers (which is enough to get to 37, the highest number). I then converted all numbers to binary and allocated them to separate percussion instruments (a 1 is a hit, a 0 is silence). As 24 is an “extra” number, I added it only two out of four repetitions of the rhythm.
  • CH2: I made a six note midi clip for a bass synth, adding the numbers as midi note numbers in the order presented. I then shifted the whole thing up a couple octaves so all notes were audible.
  • CH3: I copied CH2, made it faster and transposed it up a couple more octaves
  • CH4: I added midi note number 24, the extra note, as a constant droning note. I transposed this up a couple of octaves too
  • CH5: I made a three bar midi clip in 16th notes, and added a sound effect to counts 9, 13, etc.
  • CH6: I made a slow midi clip for drums, using the midi note numbers to hit six percussion instruments in sequence.
  • I then set the sends to the inverse (negative value) of each number from left to right for reverb and from right to left for delay (so CH1 has a reverb send of -9db, for instance)
  • I then copied all clips to the arrangement view. The clip for CH1 will play for 9 bars, and then be absent for 9 bars, then play again, etc. CH2 will do the same in periods of 13 bars, etc.
  • The entire piece is 120 bars long, because that’s a multiple of 24 and I had to end it somewhere.
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#47

Cool:cowboy_hat_face:

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#48

Here’s mine: https://soundcloud.com/plusch/changing-luck-disquiet0332

I used the Michigan Keno numbers from Fri, May 11, 2018:
6 8 10 11 12 15 16 27 28 29 34 37 40 44 45 51 56 62 67 68 72 78

I used different modulos (4, 5, and 11) on the list, and entered the results into various parameters (scale step, key select, velocity) of BlueARP. A C major 7th chord (C, E, G, B) activated BlueARP, which drove various custom Zebra patches. I arranged the pieces in Bitwig and applied EQ, reverb, compression, and normalization.

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#49

Mine neither. SAD FACE.

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#50

Pro 77 is a great number. Cool Process to get a “Chance”

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