hey I love this idea! what do you think about licensing?

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I’m not an expert on licensing, I admit. I was just reading “Choose an open source license”. Maybe GNU GPLv3. Or the MIT License. I really don’t have a strong opinion on that. I’ve always chosen something that doesn’t allow commercial use unless you give permission just on the off-chance that R.E.M. decides to use it.

Wow. I’ve been sick with the coronavirus for the past 10 days or so. It was a “mild” case but that doesn’t mean the symptoms were actually mild. I’m finally recovering, and today is the first day I’ve felt well enough to play music, just in time to submit a track for the Junto! This is an electronic blues piece recorded on a modular synth. The noise-generating modules used are Basimilus Iteritas Alter and E352 Cloud Terrarium.

Hope all of you are healthy and isolating!

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I’m so sorry to hear you’ve been hit by this. It really brings it home, I have to say. I hope you didn’t stress your system to get this done in time. Get some rest, and keep us informed as you recuperate.

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Except for a lingering cough it was a good, symptom-free day. Making some music was just the stress relief I needed, and I kept it simple. Now it’s time for some cold medicine and an early bedtime.

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@morgulbee Just glad you’re recovering my friend

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I got Orac (fantastic project) running on my Raspberry Pi today and had a fun time running a Monotribe through a few reverb-y modules in it. Here’s a simple synth and hi-hat (plus kick, past the halfway mark) track that resulted. Best wishes to everybody in these scary times.

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Just got a like from a bot complimenting me on the “nice tune”. It’s a drone.

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will sōderberg… @risk

just some acoustic guitar recorded later, after those @risk who o am caring for are asleep…

maybe the last couple of minutes are more open… feel free to dissect, invert, fold, invoke distance…

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@GLSmyth - I really like the droning strings throughout. The texture is really nice support for fairly light orchestral instrumentation; I can’t wait to hear the completed piece.

@howthenightcame - the concept here is interesting, but I often find myself uninspired by such algorithmic approaches, but in this case it really worked. It had a feel of interesting, varied polymetric drumming. Great concept and execution.

@pfig - Really interesting work; such a minimal feeling with emotional content but lots of space to work with. I’m looking forward to see where this gets taken.

@gusp - Really nice rhythms and an interesting meter. It’s always so tempting to record and edit to really locked in time. This was a refreshing change and nicely played.

@Zedkah - For me this works way better than I imagined it would given your description. Its simple approach yielded so much movement, rhythm and texture! Really nice work.

@modus_pony - I really enjoyed the feeling of randomness and the hollow and metallic tones. It has enough substance not to feel sparse and unfinished but enough space to work around: a surprisingly hard balance to reach.

@pineyb - I liked the bass tone a lot, it has a sort of “drum membrane” attack and a rounded but plucky character. It feels like something that can effectively be built around.

@vgmrmojo - A simple form with just the right sounds: it all sits together so nicely. I’m trying to picture how I’d layer on top of it without diminishing the impact. I’m looking forward to seeing what people can do with it!

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I had to read that twice. At first, I thought that you’d been complimented by a drone.

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REM is cordially invited to use one of my grinding atonal suites! :slight_smile:

let me come back to this, work is a bit hectic right now. But I like the idea of a code base, not least because it would inspire me (and others, I reckon) to try new things.

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https://github.com/baconpaul/disquiet I set up a repo for my various dumb disquiet hacks. I chose gpl3 which is what I usually use for music software (the one exception being the surge c++ tuning library which I made mit).

Sharing a repo for the idiosyncratic and High speed nature of the Thursday to Saturday disquiet hacks may be inconvenient but I wonder if perhaps some sort of github repo which lists everyone’s disquiet repos, or some sort of convention for naming and tagging code in GitHub May serve the same idea if everyone seeing the disquiet code easily?

edit: One thing we could do is just put a tag ‘disquiet’ as a repo topic in github. (In your repo click ‘manage topics’). Then you can find all the repos where people have disquiet related code? I tagged the above as disquiet and now you can find all the repos that have that tag. Which is that repo only. But you know…

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This was really lovely, and so full of possibilities. Just perfect for the prompt.

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Thank you very much!

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Field recording of waves made while my father was dying, far away, of a lung disease due to COVID-19. A sad and pensive time for me. And a difficult time for all of us. Listening can be a balm and a means of grounding in this temporarily much quieter world.

I recorded this binaurally, then converted to MS and just picked the M channel for this piece. It’s a short excerpt of a much longer piece. It starts with about two minutes of complex crashing waves, and then into a lull of less energetic sloshier waves. Note the crows.

I look forward to hearing the various combinations we all come up with of the remarkably diverse submissions this week.

As instructed, this is a mono file with all the sound on the left side of a stereo pair.

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Bb drone. Electric bass low string tuned as low as possible without flopping around and clicking on the frets. Reverse swell into each note and layered so the sounds are continuous. There is some beating between the 2 tracks.

Feel free to chop this bass up into something rhythmic or loop some of the internal rhythms from the tones clashing.

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it’s very kind of you to offer such positive encouragement to us all - thank you

This is fantastic. Do you know the duo called ZOMBI? Bass / keys player and drummer. You might like this:

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Has anyone attached MIDI files to their submission last week (0429) (or could they)? I’m learning Magenta for a presentation next week, and I could use MIDI files from last week’s project as input for this week’s (0430) project. Kill two birds with one stone.

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