#14

https://soundcloud.com/aftertrace/careful-palindromes-disquiet0344

My first ever junto project.

I wrote a piece called “Palindromes” as part of an electro-acoustic installation on board a submarine at the Australian National Maritime Museum in 2014/15. This one was acoustic in performance, but each cell was recorded separately and then a little bespoke app on a Raspberry Pi in the sub has been remixing them according to various chance principals for 4 years since.

In this case, I grabbed the MIDI from the original score, dropped each cell into Ableton, recorded a performance intuitively, and then spent a day playing around with new softsynths I’d bought from Korg, recording lots of automation over the top… fun.

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#15

Too late at night to write much about it now, but here’s mine: https://soundcloud.com/plusch/necromancers-mirror-disquiet0344

https://soundcloud.com/plusch/necromancers-mirror-disquiet0344

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#16

Beautiful! Love the harmonics on the delay :slight_smile:

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#17

I like it. The glitchyness is tasty. What is the synth?

#18

Cheers! Most of the synth sounds are from an old free plugin called Synth1. The more pizzicato sounds with reversed delays etc. are a Kaivo.

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#19

0308201881028030 [disquiet0344]

I used 2 samples from 2 works in progress, both made from a vst syth improve recorded on 03082018, which gives this its title.

Sample 1 was reversed and appended to itself, creating the initial palindrome. This was stretched and expanded.

Sample 2 was similarly appended, then treated 3 different ways and multitracked to create the deep palindrome(!) which underlies the central section.

The unstretched Sample 1 palindrome was doubled and expanded to match the first iteration in length, then lowered in pitch and treated with reverb. This provides a double palindromic accompaniment to the first. I hope. It’s tired and I’m getting late…

(The picture hints that the palindrome may not be perfect…)

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#20

This is basically a two-minute jam performance with the Moog DFAM (with trying to do some kind of symmetric knob setting, which didn’t work out), recorded, streched, mirrored and layered in different variations, always symmetric, including stereo and phase symmetry and looking into the mirror in the bathroom (for shaving).

https://soundcloud.com/winterer/there-is-something-wrong-with-susy-disquiet0344

There is something wrong with SUSY, i.e. supersymmetry. The more I tried to symmetry this, the less I liked it. So what you hear is not the final version, which was perfect symmetric but dumb, it is the version before. Less symmetry, more fun to hear (if you like listening to this kind of sound).

In terms of achieving goals, for me that was a mistake; however, the journey was highly instructive and worth the failure.

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#22

https://soundcloud.com/swhic/nested-parables_disquiet0344

a: e1 e2 e3
b: ne1 ne2 ne3
c: a+b
a: e1 e2 e3
b: ne1 ne2 ne3

nested pallindromes

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#23

https://soundcloud.com/vgmrmojo/0344disquietjunto-08062018

Disquiet 0344
Holy Palindrome Batman
• Started by checking out and using this website. https://www.dcode.fr/palindromes-generator
• Used tarot cards to choose a key signature and 8 notes to create the project.
• The tarot cards came up with the key signature of F Major and the following 8 notes : D C C F B flat C C F
• The palindrome website came up with following: F C C B flat F C C D
• Created the project in Reaper with the above information

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#24

https://soundcloud.com/gbel/palindrone-burroughs-and-me-disquiet-0344

My take was phonetic palindromes so I chopped up a chord progression, got Burroughs to say his piece forward and backwards and added some portuguese palindromes to mix.

All done using Elektron Digitakt some samples from a palindrome track, William S Burroughs alleged phonetic palindromes and some portuguese phonetic palindromes spoken by yours truly.

Sorry about the roughness on sample transitions. It was somewhat intended.

I “performed” the track while recording mostly the vocal samples and some of the chords – on top of a short sequence with an LFO changing play direction for randomness.

It made the Digitakt feel like an SP-404 but way more advanced :slight_smile:

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Disquiet Junto Project 0351: Selected Insomniac Works Volume II
#25

https://soundcloud.com/klaatuberada/apob-pallindrome-disquiet0344

Late, Im late!

I started working on this track last month and called it “Pallindrome”, coincidence. I finished it off for this weeks project. The track is the result of recording multiple “takes” of Reaktor generative ensembles, and the Riff Generator Kontakt library into Logic Pro X. For the “chords” (really note clusters) I specified a key for each single line “take”, and then 5 takes were recorded. Each note or non note occurred every quarter note. The resultant minute or so of MIDI was reversed and added to the end of the original to create the first palindrome. A second layer was created by using the first as a seed. the MIDI from the first part was fed into Riff Generator as an arpeggio to trigger note shifts in the generated riff. The generated MIDI was then reversed per the first step. The pad drone was created from the first two parts with the notes “merged”, that is, that all the notes in the MIDI part were selected and then joined, to create long held notes.

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#26

Welcome, @JamesHumbers. So glad you could join in.

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#27

https://soundcloud.com/yawha/dammit-im-mad-disquiet0344

I usually do the Junto over two nights. I only had tonight to do this Junto, so I brought this together pretty quickly tonight, starting late in the evening!

Five instances of AAS String Studio - four patches from the new Stranger Strings pack I picked up early tonight. Four vocal loops from a pack by Ghosthack. A loop from Glitchmachines Chimera, a loop from Origin Sounds Elysian, and a loop from Iris 2 factory bank of wavs. Finally, a Drum Rack from the Core Ableton 10 pack Skitter and Step called Pico Dilly Kit.

All elements (midi and audio) played forward, then play backwards.
The Arrangement itself is pallindromic - as you can see in the track art, stuff comes in and is pulled back out in order - a LIFO (last in, first out) Stack datastructure.

Hope you enjoy…

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#28

https://soundcloud.com/ho66it/r3fl3ct000

Three tracks that are palindromic as far as note progression. Each track has a sequence running in Repro 1 synth. Two of the sequences are palindromic. One is not. Background sounds are from Space Craft app (iOS).

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#29

https://soundcloud.com/morgulbee/robot-v-tobor-disquiet0344

For this piece, I use note pitches and overall song structure as palindromes. I did not attempt to reverse audio or audio effects, so if the audio were played in reverse it would not sound identical, although the pitches would be the same forwards and backwards.

Every instrument is played as a palindrome in some form. Short phrases, such as the violin melody and drum part, are stand-alone palindromes lasting a few measures long. The melody repeats in different chords, with the chord structure being a palindrome. The longer xylophone phrases are part of one large palindrome that lasts the entire duration of the piece. It reverses at the midpoint of the composition.

I consider this piece unfinished. I intended to do more but ran out of time. I think it needs a bass line, some more variability while still fitting within the palindrome structure, and perhaps different instrumentation.

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#30

Hope I managed to put in a correct link here… A last-minute contribution.

https://soundcloud.com/ymeynard/rraddaar-disquiet344

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#31

Cheers everyone!
https://soundcloud.com/hypoidsound/abda-disquiet0344
AbdA (disquiet0344)
Palindromesque, Mirrorish and Sorta Done!?
I’ve been experimenting with two new apps lately, Spacecraft and Patterning2, so they became the first instruments for this weeks Junto. Patterning2 is a monster update of the original that is a must have for beatmaking, the added features are brilliant. An interesting pattern was made at 82 bpm and sent to Cubasis. Spacecraft is an interesting granular synth and is so easy to get amazing sounds from, but it’s integration(none) and import/export features really fall short. Nonetheless, it made a really nice contribution with the wind like drones underlying this piece.
I wasn’t going for the full on palindrome musically, but instead used the mirrored title for a chord set with a similar feature. My Spacecraft work sounded…spacey, but with some Discord4, Roomverb and eq became more like an alien ocean or windy planet textured sound. Waldorf Nave is running a sweeping pad playing in the root notes and leading to the gritty breakdown in the middle where a pair of Micrologue sawtooth synths are playing the A B D A major chords ascending in the first half and A D B A minor chords descending in the second half. The drum track has a bit of tape delay and a second single hit drum track was created using a long verb tail that was reversed, eq’d with some panning, that leads into the hits of the original. Not sure this helps…seems like sometimes my explanations take longer and make even less sense than the track itself, oh well ;-D
Track art: The Flatirons become a foreboding face :open_mouth:

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#32

https://soundcloud.com/vonna-wolf/vonnaannov-disquiet0344
I love palindromes! I wanted it to look like it was forward and backward also. I used a Rolii as MIDI in to 808 Drum Rack and played then reversed the end. I did this on a few layers while adjusting tempo. EQ’d and compressed. Hope it loads in time and enjoy! This one was fun!

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#33

Very interesting process and back story that results in a wonderful piece! Auspicious beginning to the Junto, welcome :smiley:

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#34

I really like how you obtained the sucking sound in Bass. Rev’d up. Nice work.

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