Disquiet Junto Project 0596: Phylogeny Junto

disquiet · 2023-06-01T02:22:19.651Z

This post popped up at disquiet.com/0596 the morning of June 1, Pacific Time, around 6am. (It was supposed to do so at 12:10am, but my website’s backend automation failed, which it does once in a while, and I have no idea why.) I was asleep at the time. The email containing those instructions went out via tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto in the morning (after I woke up), and then I posted them here, on the Junto Slack, and my Mastodon account, and Instagram, etc. (I’m taking a Twitter break at the moment.) And if you’re on a platform, like Mastodon or Instagram, that uses hashtags, please use the #DisquietJunto tag. Much appreciated.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0596: Phylogeny Junto
The Assignment: Depict genres’ evolution over time in music.

Step 1: “Phylogeny is,” per the American Heritage Dictionary, “The evolutionary development and history of a species or trait of a species or of a higher taxonomic grouping of organisms.” Consider how such a concept can be applied to genre.

Step 2: Think about how genres change and develop over time, spawning and merging with other genres.

Step 3: Record a piece of music that depicts, charts, or otherwise expresses an example of how genres might follow the model of phylogeny.

Eight Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0596” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your tracks.

Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0596” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation of a project playlist.

Step 3: Upload your tracks. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your tracks.

Step 4: Post your track in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0596-phylogeny-junto/

Step 5: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: If posting on social media, please consider using the hashtag #DisquietJunto so fellow participants are more likely to locate your communication.

Step 7: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Step 8: Also join in the discussion on the Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

Note: Please post one track for this weekly Junto project. If you choose to post more than one, and do so on SoundCloud, please let me know which you’d like added to the playlist. Thanks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you.

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, June 5, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, June 1, 2023.

Upload: When participating in this project, be sure to include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

Download: It is always best to set your track as downloadable and allowing for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution, allowing for derivatives).

For context, when posting the track online, please be sure to include this following information:

More on this 596th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phylogeny Junto (The Assignment: Depict genres’ evolution over time in music), at: https://disquiet.com/0596/

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disquiet · 2023-06-01T13:34:50.402Z

The project is now live. Email goes out in a moment.

DeVis · 2023-06-01T16:58:48.310Z

https://soundcloud.com/user-507251108/phylogeny-0596disquiet

DeDe · 2023-06-01T17:14:28.811Z

Phylogeny…I like Merrian-Wevster’s concise definition “the history or course of the development of something”
I though about making a reggaeton version of “Something” the song but I love George too much for that…

Instead I decided to mix this track I created earlier this year for the same proto-jazz proyect that generated my track for junto0584 this was intended to be a jazz-lounge jam, I recorded the electric piano part over a jazz drum loop and a walking upright bass, then decided that I wanted a more lounge/funky beta and grabbed a different loop. I clicked on the wrong loop-file an dI got this weird electro-beat that completely destroyed the track’s jazz feel. I tried to re record the bass, with a fretless bass, more soul-funk groovy but it didn’t work, it was too hybrid.

So as the track evolved from a jazz jam to…well, this; I decided to tweak a couple of things, mix it and share it with you as my example of Phylogeny.

Recorded early 2023 by DD in Paris, FR,
Fretless bass guitar
Electric piano
Drum loops and synthesizers.

Photo by myself, [Achilleion Palace, Corfu, Greece some years ago]

RandomShuffle · 2023-06-01T21:45:21.884Z

theater music for a play i was working on
i played electic oud (godin electic oud) then guitar with microcosm then the kick came along
i invented the genre of love music for the piece
my goal was to sound from very old to modern, i hope I succeeded!

samarobryn · 2023-06-02T05:50:47.390Z

I was listening to a podcast recently about the disintegration of boundaries between musical genres, and how that was part of the new evolution of music. Which also made me wonder - what happens when sounds just…disintegrate? So I constructed a track from some samples and sent the track through a sonic washing machine.

euclidian · 2023-06-02T12:41:50.294Z

Aethyr · 2023-06-02T15:13:44.337Z

hello.

i don’t (yet?) have an entry for this week’s project, but i wanted to post anyway, firstly because it’s my birthday, and secondly because i just released a new record. as far as i know it’s still okay for junto members to post about their releases, but if something has changed please feel free to delete. (i tried to contact @disquiet about this but i guess he’s been too busy.)

anyway, the record is called “journey to the spirit world” and i describe it as a magick spell, with the title also being a statement of intent for its effect. the music itself is long ambient drone textures without any beats or vocals, which made me think it’d fit in well with the general junto vibe.

it would mean a lot to me if people could check this out.

-a

ray_cobley · 2023-06-02T15:14:00.186Z

An evolving electronic sequence, created in Pure Data then undergoing a series of changes.

he_nu_ri · 2023-06-02T18:55:08.837Z

As a casual bird watcher, I’m constantly observing birds and listening to their calls and songs. Especially when I’m hiking in a pine forest near our home. Here at the house at night, there are Great Horned Owls that occasionally call to each other. This is my interpretation of the evolutionary development of the song of a large extinct bird species through thousands of years.

This repeating and subtly evolving sequence was recorded into Ableton Live using Make Noise 0-CTRL controller/sequencer and 0-Coast synthesizer. I slowly manually manipulated the parameters and filters on the two instruments. Used Strymon Big Sky, Aqusmatiq Dedalus Delay and Cableguys ShaperBox 3 for effects. Forest photo by Jachan DeVol on Unsplash.

gis_sweden · 2023-06-03T09:04:44.548Z

Maybe I did not follow the instructions… I gaved an AI the following task; “Write a poem with three verses about phylogeny and music”. For this poem I made music in post-stone-age-trance-style.

The tree of life is a symphony
Of branches and leaves and roots
Each species plays a melody
That echoes through the shoots

The notes are shaped by history
By genes and traits and cues
Each variation is a harmony
That enriches the tunes

The song is sung by diversity
By forms and colors and moods
Each expression is a beauty
That inspires the moods

disquiet · 2023-06-03T15:31:29.729Z

The playlist is now rolling:

orbit_f · 2023-06-03T15:35:35.173Z

For this assignement I took Gute Nacht, o Wesen from BWV 227 Jesu, Meine Freude and tried to depict a kind of evolution starting from Mellotron, to ARP 2600 to Ableton’s Voice Box.
Not much of a genre but I wanted to focus on electronic redention of a vocal score paying a little tribute to the great Wendy Carlos.
I first thought of two voice inventions inspired by this but then I thought of recording a chorale singing a part and blending the other instruments in, but then I thought of outlining this kind of possible technological evolution within this “genre” in the XXth century.
I am in a hurry today so I recorded everything without taking patch notes.

Details

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I first copied the part with Dorico, exported single voices MIDI files and full score MIDI.
Used a Mellotron emulation, my Arp 2600 clone and then Ableton Voice Box Choir preset.
Added a bit of Shimmer Plate reverb (Hybrid Reverb Preset).

DeDe · 2023-06-03T16:12:58.642Z

Hey @disquiet my track is missing (my fault, there was a typo on the title’s disquiet)
cheers
dd

Hugh_Prat · 2023-06-03T17:36:58.761Z

Hey All,
I was looking around on an old hard drive from 2011. It has stuff from when I was just learning how to use a DAW. Specifically when I first got the Akai APC 20 and suddenly I understood the session view in ableton and I never have left it since. I still didn’t know much but I spent a lot of time working with it. I think this track hit some developments in those early years.

In the summer of 2011 I was in Japan visiting with my wife’s parents. I made an album using 2pac’s acapellas and the soft synth Sylenth. The first bit is from that.
The next is from a actual CD I made and when I started sampling CDs and chopping them up.
Then it mellows out and me experimenting with knob twiddling on fxs.
The drum part is when I was really into launching scenes to change things up.
I found an old tape recorder mic and used that to start recording my own voice.
I found this impersonation of Scott Walker singing will.i.am and added the backing track.
The next is some driving beats.
I think it shows some evolution but I basically still use the same set up. I just added an APC40 to it.
I look at these tracks as a kind of journal cause I can remember making these tracks and I really enjoyed and continue to enjoy doing this stuff.
Hope all are well.

Peace, Hugh

ossimuratore · 2023-06-03T18:13:06.905Z

A suspended chord (stacked fifths, kind of ambient) turns into an old fashioned cadenzal, narrative harmony.

Made with NI Maschine+ and ASM Hydrasynth.

disquiet · 2023-06-04T00:29:55.146Z

Thanks for the alert. I’ve added it.

Aethyr · 2023-06-04T03:10:26.940Z

hello again.

i still don’t have a piece for this - i’ve been a combination of busy and sick - but i was sure something seemed familiar about the prompt. i went digging and it looks like it’s pretty close to Disquiet Junto Project 0580: Evo Evol Evolve – Disquiet. not to say that it’s a deliberate repeat, or even that there’s anything particularly bad (or otherwise) about exploring the same kind of territory, it just struck me as interesting.

i’m pretty stuck for an idea, though. i don’t want to just rehash 0580.

Rprecht · 2023-06-04T19:10:06.435Z

I recorded a traveling subway whose sound created a natural rhythm. I created a loop of the the sound, added an 808 Kick sample, and topped it off with a pipe organ playing a sustained C major chord. Stream Music for Subway, 808, and Pipe Organ (disquiet0596) by Rob Precht | Listen online for free on SoundCloud

XHG · 2023-06-04T20:15:23.279Z

I’ve been thinking about this prompt since Thursday and am ready to give up. My idea was to do a “what if” track in the sense of “what if genre X would have evolved into Z instead of Y”. As I could not come up with anything plausible on my own, I did some further research into evolution of musical styles, with music map, among others. Doing this, I figured I knew too little technical details (like typical rhythmic patterns, tempos or the like) about most genres to branch off a plausible alternative version of ghettotech or whatever. As I do not want to produce septuple Ska or 60 bpm unplugged Breakcore, I throw in the towel and give up.