#14

Rhythm is a strong, regular, repeated pattern and blues can be thought of as feelings of melancholy, sadness, or depression. As winter approached and I mentally prepare for my fingers being continually cold for the next several months, this was not difficult to envision and write for.

Blue Rhythm was written for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Vibraphone, Violin, Viola, Cello and String Bass.

The score is available at http://bit.ly/2T1xPlc

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#15

tried to imagine if i hadnt really heard music before. rhythm i think would be linked to my heart beat conceptually. i looked up the etymology of blue. this too might be linked to the heart: the idea of a bruised heart. since about 1400 blue has been linked to low spirits.

i had some simple flute basoon and tuba samples loaded and those thru a tremolo for a pulse. in audacity i had some echo 5 semitones higher. the emotional tone is a bit more variable listening back

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#16

I decided to treat rhythm in genre name as literal as possible so I have very short repeated rhythms and I interpreted blue as this kind of blue that is associated with anxiety, depression etc. it turned out much sinister than I planned :wink:
Technically it is 1.5second of some radio song chorus spliced in to 23 even fragments and then slowed down to around 10% and played by hand. Title if anyone is interested can be translated as “Swans the band plays the futurist manifesto”.

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#17

Well, it was a difficult week for me, so I think this rather upbeat pop song came about as a way to cheer myself up. I used steely beats, a prefab drummer, piano, space bass, tin whistle, strings and a resonant pattern arpeggiator.

Rhythm beats the blues!

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#18

Some filtered reverberant piano, using morphagene - i was thinking of a non (‘blue’) sound, like reverb, that could have rhythm ‘imprinted’ on it …

Have a lovely week!

h u :slight_smile:

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#19

https://soundcloud.com/ethanhein/literal-rhythm-literal-blues-disquiet0358

This was a fun one, produced quickly during a session at Ableton Loop. (Listening to people talk about music production fills me with the urge to go produce some music.) I considered the term "rhythm and blues,” taken literally like an alien. The blues: samples of two tunes by Duke Ellington, “Misfit Blues” and “Lay-by”, both from Suite Thursday. The rhythm: a drum synth, a sample of “Soul Pride” by James Brown, and a recording of a pen tapping on a table. I’m quite interested in the rhythmic dissonance between Ellington’s heavy eighth note swing, James Brown’s light sixteenth note swing, and the straight rhythms of the rest of the track.

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#20

Processed rain sounds and undulating electronic rhythms working together.

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#21

a primitive notion of rhythm and blues–heavy sodden beat with wailing in the background.

Here, heavy guitar, dank drums,and a vocal loop cribbed from Hypoid’s amazing remix of the Disquiet 305 samples (I used the same loop in another non-Disquiet song: North_woods – Ceylon-blues)

all recorded in Ableton Live using the included amp plug-ins, two drum loops, and the strat copy shown here (a kit that my daughter and I built together when she was about 5 years old).

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#22

Love Swans. Love this!!

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#23

I’ve been thinking of selling my Digitakt, so I promised myself I’d give it one more solid go for this piece. TL;DR: Digitakt is staying. Some piano sample manipulation, some generative/glitch drums, some Satchmo. I went with a somber read of blue and the let the machine run wild on the rhythm.

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#24


I looked at the term thinking what I could do – electronic rhythms and blues scales.

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#25

Hi,
Sorry to have missed the last two weeks. Great challenge as always!

Swedish folk music has its own blue notes. In the old folk tradition I even believe I’ve heard they use quarter-tones. Anyway, so I figured I’d find some folk and fit it to rhythm.

Kulning is an old traditional singing that women up North sang to call their cattle home for the night. I found some kulning on youtube and set it to rhythm.

I happened to be examining wah-pedals last night and decided to record the plugging/unplugging and static noises. I chopped it up, improvised randomly and quantized hard to 16ths, chose a loop. I also added some 808-drums that I have downsampled with a zoom sampletrak.

The piano is AfroDJMacs 100yearold-piano sample set that he gave away for free (last week?) I have a handy app called Keyfinder which suggested the kulning sample was in G minor. So I worked from that.

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#26

here is mine!

I thought a lot about “Blue Notes” and rhythms.This was recorded live in one take. This is ciat-lonbarde’s sidrax and Norns Foulplay through cocoquantus2 into an ER-301 for reverbs and loops, then RIP :sweat:

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#27

https://soundcloud.com/ohm-research/a-bad-sine-disquiet0358

A Ladik R-120 throwing out the random voltages of a blues scale, triggering a Doepfer A-110-4, then processed by Clouds and an RT-60.

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#28

I figured I should finally post again since it was my suggestion. :wink:

This is the first thing I have done in VCV that I think is “complete.” It’s a simple soundscape: the pads are a standard blues progression, albeit broken down and taken apart. The bassline uses a blues drum loop into an envelope follower to trigger the synth.

I thought of the idea of “rhythm in blues” to get started. I…think it was successful? There’s certainly some occasional wailing.

Here’s a screenshot of the patch.

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#29

I started with a sequence in 7/4 beat (because it seemed so odd), went on with a very standard blues scale on a very basic CFG blues scheme and followed my instincts … until I lost interest. Because of that, I hated it for a while – now I like it very much.

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#32

Rhythm with the color blue. I attempted an idiot blend of those two ideas.

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#33

RRR&B - Raga, Reggae, Rhythm & Blues.

I didn’t really follow through on the ‘had you never previously heard “rhythm and blues” music’. It’s like i can’t unsee it;) I used a 12 bar blues for this piece, and focussed on layers of rhythms from different genres: Indian, Reggae, Funk, and the Blues. In keeping with Marc’s MO of applying constraints, I made this with BeatHawk on an iPhone. The stems were moved to Logic for a little polish.

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#34

Hey! I just started out focusing on the rhythm, hoping to add some blueish chord stabs down the line, but then I hit upon a vibe and just went with that - developing it as much as I could in the time given - resulting in this track. Another great experience!

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#35

What is Blue? Man, could go on and on and there is no time…still thinking about this.

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