#29

First thanks to Marc and later congratulations on your birthday!!!
My Eclipse track based on two chords, Cmaj7 for the sun and Fminor for the moon. I recorded some ebow tones with my acoustic guitar, 6 tones for each chord. Than I put each tone in samplr, one project with the c tones and one for the f tones. Worked that out and recorded in cubasis on my IPad. Simple story!! The noise comes from the ebow recordings.
Have fun!!

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#30

this is ¶radio hummingbird’s contribution to this week’s disquiet junto with the serial number 0292. in short, the requirement for this contribution was to record a piece of music which ponders on the first full solar eclipse in 99 years in the US.

99 years is a long time so please forgive me for the overall length of this piece. also, the coming 28 years until the next such event will have to be covered adequately…

i have witnessed a full solar eclipse in my early adolescence years in europe and it has been magic. on a badly overcast day, right in the centre of the core shadow of this spectacle, driving on a remote motorway int he middle of nowhere. no signs of the sun anywhere. more likely a shower of rain. but then the unexpected happened: the clouds opened up a whole just as big as the sun the moment the event started. i and everybody else pulls over. no more traffic. silence. a feeling of dusk is covering the landscapes. even the birds mute their calls. quiet. still. peaceful. and then the golden disc is starting to reappear. slowly but persistently. there is no stopping. light is finding its way over the landscape and eventually the clouds are closing up again. the daily noise returns - everything as if nothing would have happened…

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#31

The last US eclipse near me was back in 1984.

Improvised a line, then replicated/layered many Korg soft synths of various permutations. Because, 1980s.

(Welcome to the future)>

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#32

Cheers all!

Fate Of Rahu(disquiet0292)
I knew there would be a eclipse prompt at some point, but only gave it a passing glance thought. In between all the busy bits of life I have been making patches in apesoft’s Mood synth, which is a brilliant and expansive 3 oscillator beast with unbelievable controls and automation. Two of these patches found their way into this weeks noise, and both use an additional oscillator to change frequencies and wave shapes. As I said, not much planning but working with hints of forethought, so no real significance of length, but a sense of serene apprehension during the second contact. Multiple recordings of both patches were overlaid into four tracks and with some minor eq and separation adjustments. A fifth track using Micrologue runs an almost sub synth with pitch automation at the ecliptic epoch. The name references the Hindu demon responsible for eclipses and is in my opinion the most interesting and plausible explanation of this rare occurrence!

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Every knob on this beast can be controlled by varying oscillators(wave 2 and 3 in this shot…what fun :smile:
Another video-

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#33

2017 Solar Eclipse [disquiet0292]
Disquiet 0292 Eclipse Music

My interpretation of the 2017 solar eclipse (includes Baily’s Beads at 2:00).
Created with Braids, FMVDO, Clouds, Ripples, and delay. Edited with Audacity.

Photo by: Arief R. Sandan (Ezagren)

More on this 292nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Eclipse Music: In coordination with St. Louis Art Hack Day, make some solar-inspired tunes — at: https://disquiet.com/0292/

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#34

i immediately thought of the opening theme of six feet under. the sudden shift between dark and light in the music - weirdly, i remember there being an eclipse in the opening credits but watching again there isn’t (reality eclipsing memory).

my track didnt turn out how i anticipated. the music is cloudier and obscured, not as sharp or sudden. i used an older track, ‘in aura’, played through a synth with reverse delay and other guitar fx

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#35

I imagined a solar eclipse in the time and place when people didn’t understand astronomy the way we do today. A bit like that scene in King Solomon’s Mine or A Conneticut Yankee or Tintin. I made the mood and arrangement follow the transition of the sun and the people’s reaction. A normal sunny day, then the panic as the sun disappears, complete darkness, then the relief as the sun reappears followed by celebration (and cheesy guitar solos).

I used a Yamaha DX7 and TX816, a Serge modular, a thumb piano, a 28" gong, a bass guitar and an electric guitar.

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#36

https://soundcloud.com/ohm-research/1970-marz-07disquiet-0292

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#37

A sort of ceremonial rite. using guitar feedback and hurdy gurdy .

richard

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#38

Sorry, a bit long and metaphorical :slight_smile:

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#39

In thinking about the prompt, I adapted and honed a sprawling patch to build the sort of feeling that I would imagine peoples with no scientific explanatory power for the event of a solar eclipse would have felt. Some combination of terror, excitement, awe, and ominous foreboding washing over a gaping, rapt crowd; a collective feeling of significance for having witnessed the event mixed with idea that the caprice of nature – with no regard for how we interpret the transit – is rather showing us our own insignificance.

To wit, a simple chord progression was recorded into Morphagene, fed out into combinations of Rings, Three Sisters, and Clouds with Kammerl Beat Repeat mode. Tempi unites everything and provides the clock for polygomé played with a 128 through an SQ-1 into Elements and a basso Shapeshifter.

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#40

Hello hello, Finally able to participate again this week…

I was just about to have a quick saxophone practice when I read the instructions for this weeks Disquiet Junto. Then the idea of doing a response just with the sax appeared. I set up some mics and started playing with the thought to record a bunch of stuff then layer/loop it later. So each layer was recorded without listening to the others.
The basic idea that evolved whilst playing was to start with a bunch of loops playing symbolizing the chaotic busy world with everyone doing their thing, then all slowing and becoming aware of the eclipse and having a time of reflection and release, then as the light returns getting back into the day yet a bit lighter and more in tune with each other. Minor before the eclipse changing to Major during and after.

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#41

https://soundcloud.com/hxdk/once-upon-a-time-there-was-light-in-my-life-but-now-theres-only-love-in-the-dark-disquiet0292

made with multiple loops from a short sample of a church organ which were pitch shifted and/or put through granular filters. I was going for a quasi religious “apocalyptic” feel as the sun is blotted out and the world is (momentarily)plunged into darkness.

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#42

Hi, “my” eclipse is the tremor of my eyes that try to see the slow and constant eclipsing of the sun till the end, when I’m able to open my eyes again.
I’ve used: a Boss RE-20 Space Echo for fx, Nord Electro 5D and iSEM for the loops and a trumpet sample taken from the Fairlight for iOS, resampled and played with an OP-1.

Thanks a lot for your initiatives

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#44

Having witnessed the full solar eclipse in Europe in August 1999 I tried to capture the mood.

I stood on a field in the middle of nowhere and a bright and sunny day got damped down. One could see the sun getting covered more and more until it was dark and only a bright ring was visible. Only schemes of my surroundings were visible, it was windy and the temperature dropped noticeably. When it was over the day seemed even brighter than before.

The track was performed and recorded in one take on a 6U/90HP modular synthesizer.

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#45

HI there, I started with a simple overly neat idea of layers sound revealing and obscuring each other of course the actual process revealed other connections with associations to solar activity and the passing of decades of time…or something like that… custom 'instruments’junk and old harmonium as processed and sampled instruments
https://soundcloud.com/edmundio1/solar-wash

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#47

my little offering is kind of uninspired compared with what I’ve seen thus far but at least I’m back to contributing after a few weeks of being completely offline. Missed you folks… this is basically taking the idea of the moon shutting off the sunlight and leaving only light around the rims… here the sunlight is the spectral footprint of extremely fast counterpoint… the middle voices are gradually attenuated until for 1 second they are totally silent and you only hear the extreme upper and extreme lower voice… then they fade back in until the full volume at the end of the piece.

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#48

Here’s mine: https://soundcloud.com/plusch/day-and-night-and-day-disquiet0292

I tried a few approaches that didn’t bear fruit, including trying to sonify a data table of the eclipse’s path across the USA. Finally, just working quickly and intuitively, I came up with this piece.

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#49

Well, I was keen in this being a “walk” of some sort. Back in 2015, I a SW radio sweep during the full solar eclipse,listening in on how the progression if the eclipse affected SW radio propagation.

For this, I selected a number of interested samples from that sweep. Then, I sequenced them using Conway’s Game of Life algorithms in Pure Data.
(Only an 8X8 cell canvas I’m afraid, so it was mostly small-population oscillators.)

And here it is:

RadioWalk #00: Conway Eclipse (Disquiet0292)

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#50


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