#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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#32

I wanted to focus on “the promise of a better tomorrow” which is a fittingly trite caption I think. I came to this when reflecting on the moment we find ourselves in globally, the desire for everything to return to normal & the unwillingness to accept that its the reason we find ourselves in this situation.

I wanted the sound to be a mixture of hope and slight melancholy. Towards the end it falls out of tune a bit, though not much

I decided to go for a totally new & different approach this time since I’m at my parents away from all my usual stuff. I’d been looking at ORCA recently and exploring some patches on patchstorage.com

I came across ways to create melodies using shift registers and decided to base this weeks project off

this patch by ezbot: patchstorage.com/8-channel-shift-register/

ORCA is sequencing a single instance of Pigments

I recorded it using soundflower, OBS, ffmpeg & iMovie. I realised that when switching to Pigments ORCA stopped refreshing the display - so I decided to add a static image that was taken by an ex-girlfriend a few years back while we visited WA, USA (not long after Trump had been elected).

I would’ve liked to gradually fade towards the acid kind of effect I put on the image, but my skills in iMovie are non existant :smiley:

Finally I used ffmpeg to rip the mp3 audio from the video file:

[I’ve only had a chance to hear all of this through macbook speakers, I hope its okay on a real system / headphones!]

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#33

netflix keep pushing a scifi film at us
the caption [gentle music continues] stood out
partly because it incongruously described a radiohead track

i made this with iris 2 and paulstretch

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#34

Here is mine. Using the sonic lab ‘test equipment oscillator’ plugin, Fundamental.

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#35

Incompetent jazz music for screen.

Some jazz chords and a somewhat disconnected drum track. Arturia B-3 V, Solina V providing the harmony and Sonivox Orchestral Companion and Arturia Mini V providing the bassline. Quickly this is torn apart by Puremagnic Pastfabric and Eventide Blackhole plugins and an Ableton Resonator.

Would have liked to spend more time on this but probably would have benefited by spending less!

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#36

Swingin!

Can’t go wrong with jazzy organ.

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#37

[synthetic orchestral music]
or:
[ominous yet hopeful music]

a loop for hope blossoming from the ash

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#38

Disquiet0469
Classical Modern Space
• Key: Eb BPM: 120 Time signature: 4/4 DAW: Reaper
• Instruments: Synths, Strings
• Plug-ins:Massive X, Reaktor 6, Absynth, Studio Strings
• Created 4 tracks added plugins added some volume automation. Mixed and mastered.

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#39

One flippant use of the phrase ‘sexy robot’ and now its a thing…

#40

for your consideration:

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