#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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#36

NON_SUBMISSION Hey All, A little ditty using some of the Junto tracks I enjoyed so far. Just for anyone interested-it is pretty short. (TWSS) Peace, Hugh

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