In my mother tongue âthorough composed musicâ is officially translated as: âPieĹĹ przekomponowanaâ which translates back to english as âovercomposed songâ so I decided to go overboard with composition.
All sounds are sampled from Harry Partch - Daphne of the Dunes and mangled beyond recognition using ableton sampler and reaktor effects.
All midi comes from four midi tracks. These tracks were generated by genetic algorithm sequencer that I developed some time ago but I added condition that same 16 step pattern can occur only once so the base pattern is constantly changing every 16 steps. I also added a little randomization that same midi note on same channel can trigger different samples.
Wow⌠itâs been so long since Iâve done a Junto⌠I often do something similar to âthrough-composingâ when I improv on the piano, but since we had to use samples, I did something a little different, just to see how it would sound.
I just took a selections of songs from a Spotify playlist of mine - about 15 different bits, edited randomly ranging in 4 bars to 8 bars.
One sample starts off alone, and then the second sample starts 4 bars in, and the 3rd sample starts 4 bars after that⌠but to eliminate repetition, the sample that started 8 bars earlier ends when the 3rd sample starts⌠and then the 2nd sample ends when the 4th sample starts, and so on.
No two samples are played together at the same time for more than the length of the sample (8 bars maximum), therefore each time it plays is unique.
I also added a few beats in the backround to keep everything together, but they also change every 4 bars.
My fave bit happens around 1:22, and it gets almost vaporwavey after that.
Iâm making this track private and BY-NC-ND as I donât own these sounds - remix at your peril!
Lots of character in those silent moments.
Love how little you can get away when taking a snippet from a well-known song.
ALL BYE MYSELF
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The playlist is now rolling:
Samples from Roswell, Zion, and a couple of bike rides in Regina.
Hello All. Here is my submission. I really look forward to listening to the others that have been posted. These are all sounds I recorded in Morocco. There is more info in the soundcloud description about how this one came about. All the best,
Darren
Hi there,
I took me a while this time, but I finally decided how to proceed. I decided to use a sample from traditional chanting of the Purusa Suktam, a hymn from the Rig Veda. Although the verses are composes by a metric system, in this case anustubh and tristubh meters are used, the actual combination tones used when chanting them depend on several rules, mainly ruling the position of the different syllables. That results in every verse being uniquely different, just as a through composed piece would be.
South Indian have even a more complex way to chant these hymnsâŚ
That being said, the other samples are mainly gamelan, a phone tone pcm, celesta, string chords, etc.
All of these samples are sequenced and treated with filters, fx and more, with the help of my trusted Electribe 2 Sampler.
Very nice! Thanks for posting this.
I utilized Musescore to compose the initial arrangement. I imported to Live copied the MIDI reversed it and removed some of the notation.I then used samples I recorded for some of the instruments. I then recorded the piece a few times on itself. I then grouped the âBassâ style instruments together and processed with some spatialization.
Added some doppler and reverb, EQâd compressed and manipulated the high and low end until, I was satisfied with the tones. I recorded vocals, chopped them up into samples and then played them back into the mix.
Samples I recorded and used to replace instruments:
Maracas-metal checkerboard game
Claps- metal checkerboard game
Snaps - Tape measure puling out and retracting
Mirimbu- Sampled a few notes from a mirimbu
I really like the though composing when I am working on a more story like lyric. I liked the challenge of creating rhythm when no repetition is defined.
Scared ThroughComposed Disquiet 0337 .pdf (1.7 MB)
This would be a cool movie to watch. It would be cool to see these ran thru jitter to see the new film.
I like the way you were able to get a water like beach sound going. It gave me images of a tiny dancer on the sand jumping around getting down. 2:45-3:00 would have any mother happily enjoying a show with her kid. Multigenerational Bliss!
Vocals can be so strange! Nice work. I am obsessed with Diana Deutsch work http://deutsch.ucsd.edu/psychology/pages.php?i=101
I enjoyed my cigarette in this alleyway where the sounds of the different clubs fill the night air.
I couldnât stop looking at the star boy the whole time. I think his story is working out.
Awesome, travels do well with music!
A quick-and-dirty last minute entry.
Reading about through-composed music, I realized that I had written a folk song without repeating stanzas for February Album Writing Month 2011: âI May or May Not Be the Prince of Darknessâ â which probably would have worked well for Disquiet Junto Project 0333: Half Evil.
So I sampled myself, converting my song demo on YouTube to an mp3. I added orchestral samples which I didnât think Iâd ever end up using, a snare drum loop, samples of spoken numbers for a earlier Disquiet Junto project I never completed (0332: Lucky Numbers), and used some glitchy effects.