#30

@RPLKTR thanks for such a nice comment. I’m deeply interested to this positive-negative types of energy and emotions in music, opposed and coexisting with dynamics and timbre, I read with a lot of interest @SussMusik ‘s text and Clifford Nass’ idea, personally I always thought about this sort of 4D graphic to represent emotion in music (4 axes loud-soft-peaceful-angry or whatever).
I tried to keep it “calm” and “soft” in terms of dynamics and sound but play around with dissonance for discomfort.
Thanks a lot for your quality listening.

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#31

Well done and captivating, a set of drones that leaves room for imagination.

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#32

Continuing the experimentation with the freshly acquired Microfreak, I’m starting to really enjoy letting go of placing exact midi notes and, instead, just playing along with a patch and tweaking the sound by turning knobs in realtime, as I am recording. Low, slow and dissonant with high, fast and equally dissonant regions to finally arrive at the lush calm of the golden zone. And our spaceship is let in after a jubilant confirmation.

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#33

i used a number of devices with interactions that require finding the “goldilocks zone.” these interactions are:

  • utilizing ribbon controller of the korg monotron. i want to play a very specific note and its very tricky to make sure your finger gets and stays in the right place. any stray movement can lead to weird pitches i want to avoid.
  • modulating the rate knob for the lfo on the sh-01a. this rate knob is not quantized to the beat so i have to carefully dial it in with sub-mm precision it seems to make sure that the lfo sounds close to on beat.
  • hitting the play button on everything. i am not using any ext clk/sync here so everything has to be pressed in sync, which is tricky. too slow or too fast means it will be off beat.

of course i could record all of these separately in their own time, but i prefer to create a performance out of almost every composition. its a test of patience when one thing goes out of the goldilocks zone and crushes a perfectly reasonable performance… here is a video of my (3rd attempt at this) composition (also featuring a new in-progress norns script).

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#34

Gliese 1061 is supposed to have 3 planets a, b and c, orbiting around he star itself, partly in the circumstellar habitable zone.

The track uses mainly three sounds, which try to meander beetween habitable and inhabitable, more in terms of rhythm then of noise and dissonance.

It maybe could have been more inhabitable, but for me it really feels perfectly inconvenient. :wink:

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#35

https://soundcloud.com/ohm-research/3-ursi-disquiet0461

2 Mangroves, 4 lfo’s, and an Oliverb

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#37

Hunting Goldilocks: A collaboration between myself and Jon Siemasko (Schemawound) for the Oct 29th-Nov2 Disquiet Junto.

This track takes the listener on a journey from outside a solar system, past large planetary bodies, asteroid fields, and cosmic debris in search of a Goldilocks Zone. The Goldilocks Zone found briefly (around the 4:20 mark), but the journey takes an unfortunate turn as the listener is pulled in to the star.

DAW: Bitwig
Most melodic sounds are from NI and Bitwig VSTs
Jon’s Modular Rig used for drones, sound fx, etc.

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#38

I took this, perhaps, a little too literally and imagined moving from deep space to the centre of a solar system and back again until a hospitable spot was found.

Too cold was created with an ARP2600 VST and the Sinevibes Albedo plugin, to give it a deep space feel.

Too hot was created with the ARP2600 plugin generating something between white and pink noise them processed through various filters and effects including the Albedo, the Wavesfactory Echo Cat, Arturia M12 filter and Softube Saturator.

Just right involved the recording from Disquiet0436 two instances of the Echo Cat, the Albedo and Sinevibes’ Luminance reverb. It also included occasional notes from yet another ARP2600 through Echo Cat, Shaper Box and Albedo.

The gain of each of the tracks was automated along with panning and plugin parameters.

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#39

I don’t understand anything. That’s good :headphones: :grin:

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#40

Great! Jolly composition.

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#41

Nice. The nature sounds at the end is a nice touch.

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#42

Beautiful track. loved the flute performance. nice work.

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#43

In July, I did a track on leaving the Goldilocks Zone, which was a sliding-microtonal/polytonal dirge with Godfleshian sensibilities. This one starts where that one ended (which was actually its beginning since I sequenced it backwards), and attempts to move to a less-entropic state. Multiple threads are explored, intertwined, and abandoned along the way, but what is arrived at in the end is almost a farce.

I’m of the impression that we’ve started gradually moving away from the hospitable zone, based on human behavior over the past 12,000 years or so. If the messages cut into megaliths, left buried at Gobekli Tepe (interpreted as a literal or metaphorical Eden gate) at the beginning of that period are any indication, we’ve left the proverbial garden and are in an age of predation. It’s hard to conceive of a zone where life could flourish where it doesn’t self-destruct, but maybe there’s a way. Meanwhile in politics…

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#44

It begins a couple of billion years ago and goes up to some time in the 80’s where the sunsets were eternal and the DX7 ruled the world.

A star system is born and planetoids and planets are created out of chaos. Most of them end up in the wrong neighborhoods. Billions of years are gradually speed up, which we hear through orbital movement and silent space. We end up in our own Goldielocks Zone with all the ingredients for sustainable life.

It’s a bit rough around the edges slight_smile:

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#45

@wasabicube Nice track and sweet ending!

@krakenkraft Crisp and intriguing. I imagine listening to this on the surface of planet A.

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#46

Welcome! You tell me if you have followed the instructions :smiley:

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#47

This is a fantastic piece and strongly within the theme of this week’s project, I’m impressed.

Strong Vangelis vibes there. “Heaven and Hell” mostly, with the cinematic heavy synth brass contrasted with the DX piano. Also some “Blade Runner”.

This kicked me right in the feels.

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#48

Glad you could join in.

#49

Thank you very much. It makes me happy knowing someone got something out of it, I did so myself :: It was a fun assignment.

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#50

Ha, you did take it literally, but it’s perfect! Stands out as a very different and beautiful track… i really like it when a track inspires a full-on visual movie in my head. Really great work here :raised_hands: :beers:

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