#41

What a week. What a strange, surreal week. Our neighbour described it yesterday as “the slowest week”. Things are okay here in South Australia and Adelaide. My thoughts and best wishes are with those in similar, and far graver situations. Furthermore, I’d like to convey love and solidarity to the global arts community in this time of crisis.

Ok, the track itself. I constructed a rhythm pattern using a flexible Eurorack patch I’ve been experimenting with for the past week. The sequence is driven by an Korg SQ-1 and the CV and gate are routed to a low-tuned oscillator and EG respectively. The noise is shaped by another gate output, but the same EG output is inverted. One of the cool things about the SQ-1 is the way the ‘slide’ (aka portamento) function behaves at various duty cycles and low CV range. 2-3 sequencer steps have the ‘slide’ active and this creates the long, slurred pulses, which affect both the oscillator tones and noise. Additionally, the noise has been passed through a filter which is sweeping through the frequency range and is then routed to both inputs of a Dual Looping Delay. Everything has been mixed down to the hard-left channel.

A note on the photo: this is an element of a performance/installation meta-work by Australian artist, Josh Foley. It was a project entitled, “Calculating Infinity” and was staged at the Queen Victoria Art Gallery in Launceston as part of the MONA FOMA program in January 2020.

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#42

Subtle chaos - but so human!

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#43

my track, a merging of 4 very out of tune guitar loops. Just goes on for 4 minutes no compositional shape as such. Sorry, unpanned but do with it whatever you like. here on soundclouds:

best wishes to everyone living through strange times…

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#44

That’s fantastic! Very nice sounding drums.

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#45

Hey All!
Band Looking To Form in the Junto Garage. Must like to rock out but must be tuned into Mother Nature. Also must be vegan, should be into Yoga, drug-free(meaning no money passes hands but drugs can freely). Drum circle experience is favorable for consideration. No baldies but hair not important. Please if you have tripped on LSD more than 100 times seek help not to be in this band. Kids are ok if old enough to help set up on stage.Sex is a broad spectrum of possibilities.Musical tastes must include obscure bands whose name you make up on the spot.Gigs are not a possibility but we will be videotaping our practices on VHS and sending them to NPR Tiny Desk and Joe Rogan.

This is the track,

and here it is with drums I hate to use cause I had the metronome sound. The BPM is 91.

Hope all are well.Look forward to the field recording stuff becoming available. Peace, Hugh

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#46

I found a synth patch I liked and made a bass hit and chord with some delay. It’s panned left, but the delay isn’t. Hope that’s fun. As it progresses I start stacking major 3rds on top where they fit the key.

d# phrygian
77bpm

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#47


Finally let myself have an excuse to get around to plugging my newish Microfreak into my little old modular rack. Hope it inspires! 83 bppm and Aminor if it helps.
Thanks

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#48


Improvisation on virtual piano using Keith McMillen K-board to control the piano sound, panned to the left side. I tired to leave space and to keep it open at the end.

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#49

ios construction, aum, d1, @brambos ’ midi generators
natural becoming supernatural

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#50

I wanted to do something simple, old-fashioned, straightforward and saw this is my chance to (finally!) become a member of a berlin school group!

Hopefully another disquiet member will follow this invitation …

It’s straight:

  • 120 bpm
  • 4/4
  • the chord progression is: C F C’ G# D
  • every chord is repeated 4 times
  • so one chord progression takes 20 bars (4x4 bars)
  • the chord progression is repeated for five times (=100 bars)
  • every 4 chords have an extra base note, more or less a wake-up call for mellotron improvizers …

Everything else is filter sweeps and realtime modulation of the waveform.

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#51

I tried many things. But in the end, sitting down at the piano and playing on a very slow and open micro-theme for 2 minutes was what I was happiest with. I look forward to seeing what if anything the community is able to do with this track. If you want it in any other form (midi, logic file, on a different instrument, whatever) just DM me here.

And be well and be safe.

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#52

Here is my track, done on my electric guitar (tabletop) with ebow and some electronics (Thingamagoop and Cracklebox) run through some stompboxes. Noisy and only partially tonal (therefore the title)…

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#53

Thank you so much for the compliment. It genuinely is appreciated.

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#54

I picked some kind of weird chords and my guitar may be a little out of tune, but I like how the tension keeps increasing.

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#55

This note is just a reminder to folks to set their tracks to be available for download. And if you do one that isn’t on SoundCloud (as has @bassling), lemme know. Thanks!

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#56

For this one I wrote a little bit for the cello and then used a piezo pickup to amp it through a tiny little amp then I set it in the other room and recorded it with the door closed. Then, I played with the sound a little with Fracture XT and a filter and that’s pretty much it. The reverb send bleeds into the right channel, but I loved the spacial quality of that so I didn’t want to change it.

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#57

A base for collaboration at the end of the world.

A simple, but slippery, modular sequence for others to fill out. I panned the bass line entirely to the left and left some note stabs in the right. The stabs in the right side are kind of loud, so watch your ears on headphones. You can choose to use some of each by cutting up in your DAW. Sounds like a fun assignment.
120 BPM… but a little wacky at the top as the delay catches up to the clock…

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#58

Happy to see someone has gone for the video file.

Recent versions of Ableton Live can export a video edit.

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#59

Was playing all day with some Roland synths from the 80s. As a kid during those years, I remember being conscious of the constant threat of nuclear war. It is a strange feeling to see the news today, listening to these oh-so familiar sounds, mixing nostalgia with apprehension.

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#60


Hello everyone. I hope you all are well. I am writing from Berlin in Germany. The COVID 19 situation has put us all in quarantine, but still we are allowed to leave the house for walks. This weekend has been sunny but cold. After some days of too much news consumption and paranoia I reduced my intake of info a bit and focus on family and music. This recording here was the first thing I did after breakfast. Then I recorded acoustic guitars for a piece of music from a very old friend in spain. Then I had a videoconference with people from the choir that I participate in - we were testing if there is any kind of interaction or singing we can do in a jitsi-video-call (doesn´t really work, actually).
Then I went for a bike ride with my two boys (11 and 6 yr old). When I came back I had a nap and now I had a listen to this piece of music I started the day with. I found it to be good enough for an upload. I am really looking forward to hear what happens next with it.
I am sending love and good hope around the globe to all of you. Stay safe and stay sane.

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