#11

should have read this before posting :crazy_face:

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#12

I have no idea why - maybe it’s a non-native English language barrier - but for this week’s Junto project, I settled on a [claptions]-caption, and integrated eerie reversed claps with some piano and other different effects and notes. Also, you might hear a reversed Scottish crow recorded by Kenneth Young - found in the “MyHome” field-recording project from Tim Nielsen.

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#13

In one scene of this old war movie, the man is saying goodbye to go to another well-founded, short and successful war, and his wife is deeply worried.

The bells call to battle, the wife struggles to find parting words, and even the worn-out VHS tape is deeply moved.

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#14

Merry Yule! Doubtful I will be able to participate this week, but it occurred to me that boiling your musical cues down to short descriptions provides an easy way to use the cut-up technique to scramble them with different scenes for potentially interesting effects. Perhaps the description would consist of {mood, style, instrument} assigned to a scene at random. Who knows – you may discover a new audio-visual language, along the lines of…

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#15

Thanks!

I should mention it was composed with two 303 emulators, a 606, an 808 and a Oberheim emulation.

The parts were edited to fit the length of the video, which shows a blackbird my son found on the driveway.

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#16

fantastic! love the layering. perfect summary of 2020

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#17

t’s technically holiday music–today is a holiday. This is my double neck Danelectro (baritone/six), baritone neck tuned to open G, through a couple fuzz pedals and an EHX Ocean’s 11 Reverb. The reverb has a cool ‘hold’ feature on it that I use a couple times during this.

This is a tough holiday, for lots of us, for lots of reasons, and I guess that comes through. Hope you and your loved ones are well.

Thank you @disquiet Marc and the Junto for shedding light and warmth into a dark and cold year.

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#18

The playlist is now rolling:

#19

Alright, I threw something together that was already brewing. My neighborhood is such an evocative place, I just imagined a Ken Burns stroll and the captions it might generate to express dereliction, desolation, decay… and thank god the bars are open! These are snatches of Scriabin and Mozart and some controlled chaos I won’t try to describe apart from the captions provided. This is a technique I think I may systematize in the future.

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#20

Using a few ios apps (zeeon, mellowsound, and garageband) I composed a piece for a film depicting Ancient Greece. I tried to create a sound that was uncanny with its use of acoustic instruments, contemporary electronic sounds, and a vaguely “pagan” melody. My closed caption was “DRAMATIC WHIMSICAL MUSIC”

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#22

‘Strange planet music begins’ when a civilian passenger starship makes an emergency landing on an unexplored planet and the crew and passengers emerge to take a look around…

Created with Equator 2 and Iris 2 vst’s. Happy holidays, have a great Yule :slight_smile:

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#23

I found inspiration for this assignment by browsing all the comments here. It seems there is rarely any discussion about music description in TV captions - so the assignment was a tough one for me. Then reading further I was wondering if those captions can also evoke the feeling they describe. So I put all captions available to me at my track:

The VCV Rack patch uses the Starling modules a lot - inspired by the video by @bassling. The “Captions” I found following the link by @SussMusik. Adding captions as part of a soundcloud track is a great idea by @JochenEdmund. Thank you all!

And I want to especially thank Marc @disquiet for allowing me to push using captions to it’s limits :wink: .

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#24

Wonderful elastic sounds here, Torsten. In reference to captioning, I was thinking of using something like Ross Goodwin’s neuralsnap to caption my summer vacation pics this year, which was sadly canceled. But it would be a trifle to adapt this to generate musically suggestive captions, similar to what Ross has done here and especially here.

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#25


the embodied mind’s cognitive process :slight_smile:

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#26

I like the idea of applying work of Andrej Karpathy (e. G. Char-RNN) to augment creative works. Unfortunately the non-availability of big corpora of TV captions will make it harder to train the networks. Maybe it’s easier to find corpora of photo tags. Or another idea would be using an already trained model and using your own captions to generate more text. Exciting idea @JochenEdmund.

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#27

The caption reads “manic clown car bongo disaster music playing” mainly because I would like to see that caption sometime… it would have fit in with a number of news items from the last couple of months.
Played this on my old Hammond S6. All tube chord organ and sorta mono synth. With the 1 and the 5 on the two bass pedals.

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Had to take this down and re upload to Soundcloud. I was in a hurry and didn’t listen to the bounce out of ProTools. It really was a disaster from a plugin that messed with the time… which was already shaky from the whacked bongo loop that I made. :crazy_face:

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#28

Really lovely… and oddly very Beach Boys.

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#29

Hey All,
(Angry Teen Angst Music Playing)
Angela,13, sits at the table angrily chewy a strawberry with frosting and sprinkles poptart scrolling on her smartphone. She throws the pop tart down angrily and begins furiously texting. Her father, Frank, looks out the window watching 28 squirrels raiding the bird feeder he just replenished a few minutes earlier. He ponders all his failed attempts to prevent the squirrels’ raiding parties . He had asked his wife last night if he could electrify the bird feeder pole but she had said no rather firmly out of concern for the youngest boy who is a walking trip to the emergency room. The mother, her name will never be said aloud the entire movie, screams for the oldest boy to come down for breakfast. He angrily stomps down the stairs with his headphones blaring with his long hair completely covering his face. He slams the front door and leaves on his bike without breakfast or saying anything to his parents. He is angry with them for taking the car away because he is failing 3 classes and is not doing anything to improve his grades. The mother looks out the window and watches him riding the bike down the driveway. She remembers when she taught him to ride a bike and how he was so excited to be able to do it. She wonders what happened to that bright happy child and will soon ask her husband if he will reconsider the punishment they had agreed to impose on him. She knows the father will relent if she lets him electrify the bird feeder pole. She smiles into her coffee as she takes a sip.

Peace, Hugh

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#30

Wow really? I grew up listening to The Beach Boys, but I’ve never made a conscious effort to show that influence. Thanks though. That actually makes me really happy :slight_smile:

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#31

A reflection on 2020. I am not sure it can be summed up by a single caption.
Electronic composition with sounds created in Pure data.

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