Music for the Galactic Tick (Disquiet Junto Project 0248)

klaatuberada · 2016-10-03T00:38:03.105Z

https://soundcloud.com/klaatuberada/apob-versailles

Disquiet Junto Project 0248: Galactic Tick

Typically I have about 3-4 hours on a Friday morning to work on a Disquiet project. The response to this weeks project has a slightly longer genesis in that it started some weeks ago as a response to Project 0246: Double, Quadruple, Sextuple, which, due to work constraints, I wasn’t able to finish in time.

The original piece started with a short sample, which was then time stretched to create new samples at 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8 times the original length. These were then layered and manipulated until I had what I thought was a pleasing result. And then I had to stop.

For me the two projects have similarities in that they both deal with periodicity and division. I used a short sample from a scene from the TV series Versailles, a transition between a scene of a performance of 18th century dance music and someone walking down a corridor, loud footsteps with incidental music. The connection with Versailles? Louis XV was a keen student of Astronomy and the Passemant Astronomical Clock is located at Versailles.

For this weeks project, I revisited the abandoned piece, reworking the durations of the derivative samples. I started by going back to the original sample, cutting it down to 1.74 seconds and then creating new versions multiplied by 1.74 seconds (3.03s, 5.27s, 9.12s). These were layered and manipulated per the original project with some added bass, rhythm and hidden melody.

SussMusik · 2016-10-03T01:18:18.149Z

Cheers and thank you!

Hypoid · 2016-10-03T02:06:48.425Z

Thank you! Many things collide and make noise in my universe

plusch · 2016-10-03T02:59:57.639Z

This is the result of a Pure Data patch I put together. I’ll try to give more details later.

Paul

pangaeanpermafaction · 2016-10-03T07:33:01.192Z

https://soundcloud.com/pangaeanpermafaction/galactic-tick-disquiet0248

“633.7, which is the number of days between celebrations of the here on Earth”

Is there a reason for walking on gravel and bumping the fence? Is it a cosmic metaphor for the field of stars and boundary of orbit? Is it just the natural way to spend a public holiday?

Junto meets exquisite corpse style collab - Breakdown: Built out from a field recording chunk - added a 6(G/Gmaj7): 3(Em): 3(Em): 7(Cmaj7) beat thing with some holiday cheer. (Perhaps the chords got screwed up keying in guitar licks onto the MIDI roll…) Then the 6:3:3:7 for the calendar, melted into a slow sliding bassline, orbiting the black hole at galactic centre. Sliced it up a bit and a glued a few small bits together for a playful short mix, a bit mid/high heavy - towards the sky! Early mix was longer - 90 sec is enough for a Junto…

pangaeanpermafaction · 2016-10-03T09:57:10.025Z

Superb wordless story.

sevenism · 2016-10-03T11:08:51.651Z

thanks jason, i agree… someone thought it was light and bright though!

YaWha · 2016-10-03T11:36:30.389Z

https://soundcloud.com/yawha/galactic-party-disquiet0248

Taking my cues from Marc’s original post, I used the numeric values in the article link about Galactic Tick day.

Each number in the article appeared close to being a meaningful Hz number.
225 million light years - 220Hz
1/129,600,000 of seconds - 1129Hz
633.7 days - 634Hz
1.74 years - 174Hz

Set four instances of the super-useful MOscillator VSTi to those Hz settings, you get a nice microtonal chord…

I started the track with each MOscillator set to the average of the four frequencies - average of 225, 634, 1129, 174 = 540Hz
Then automated each MOscillator from it’s starting 540Hz to its Hz value (174, 225, 634, 1129).
Added movement using Rhythmic Gates (A1TriggerGate free vst - great plugin), and Delays and Distortions on Sends.
Went for a nice heavy beat here, at a good foot-tapping BPM (132).

Maybe the Galactic Tick after-party would use this track…

111wuest · 2016-10-03T11:43:47.861Z

read one comment about this Junto, i absolute agree with it.
so this is the track,you can get it here.

https://https://hearthis.at/wust/nonsense-tick

https://soundcloud.com/wust/nonsense-tick-disquiet0248

More on this 248th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Celebrate the new celestial holiday in music” — at:

disquiet.com/0248/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

disquiet.com/junto/

apvague · 2016-10-03T18:07:12.140Z

This year’s Galactic Tick Day happened to be very near to both Rosh Hashanah and my wedding anniversary. All three are occasions for reflection and observation regarding time. Rosh Hashanah is also associated with horns and/or trumpets, so I created a piece using trumpet samples for this project. The samples themselves come from a recording I made of myself playing a trumpet sometime around when I met my wife in 2011. I manipulated the recordings to include both repetitive, rhythmic elements and ambient, reverb-laden drones as both modes are useful in reminding us of time passing.

apvague · 2016-10-03T18:14:29.045Z

Another PDer! I’d love to hear more about your process(es).

Andrew_R · 2016-10-03T22:55:04.074Z

https://soundcloud.com/qruxsound/beta-g-beyond-orion

This week’s piece for the Galactic Tick Junto was done using Moog Filtatron and Korg Electribe ER-1. I like to think of this sound piece as my interpretation of the outer fringes of space, where the movement of the Galactic Tick is sensed through audible vibrations.

otolythe · 2016-10-04T00:11:54.657Z

Fluxus [disquiet0248] - it’s all in flux…

https://soundcloud.com/otolythe/fluxus-disquiet0248

I tried to imagine the effect of different bodies moving in different orbits around different centers, phasing in and out of sync with each other, by faking sine waves with volume sliders. I used a lot of space sounds from NASA, but also a construction site closer to home, and some paulstretched fireworks, as well as an old TV ad for (what else?) a Milky Way.

dude · 2016-10-04T00:24:51.610Z

that track is w i d e

dude · 2016-10-04T00:27:30.104Z

here resting dreams of telephone switchboard

plusch · 2016-10-04T02:10:30.720Z

For this patch, I had 2 sequencer-like constructs and 2 simple FM sound generators. Each sequencer was made from a metro, counter, and a mod object. I set the metros to 2 different prime numbers to try for some interesting interplay. Each sequencer mod was set to 3, which sent one of 3 messages to the FM generators. One set of messages was 9, 29, and 2016, and the other was 10, 2, and 1608. These represent the Galactic Tick dates of September 29, 2016 and October 2, 1608. Those values were sent to the FM oscillators (manipulated with some multiplication and division). Somewhere in those calculations, I also worked in 225 (the number of millions of years for our solar system to make the trip around the galactic center). Finally, the FM generators were sent through freeverb.

In the end, I was limited by both a lack of time and my imperfect understanding of Pd, so my results were rather messy and not as sophisticated as I was originally envisioning.

I’d be interested in learning more about your processes, too. (And especially, how Pd fits into them.)

plusch · 2016-10-04T02:16:18.392Z

I can see how it could evoke a telephone switchboard. I was imagining bursts of electromagnetic radiation in deep space. It’s interesting how one source can inspire different perceptions.

westyreflector · 2016-10-04T03:55:15.781Z

https://soundcloud.com/thereflectors/universal-coherence

Perfect excuse to play with the brilliant iPad app ‘SpaceVibe,’ which generates all the arpeggio orbits and low frequency hums. Layered an AniMoog and live guitar over it with a basic click beat created in Acid using samples.
In the context of physics, “coherence” happens when waves exhibit similar direction, amplitude and phase and thus can interfere (i.e. play nice) with each other.
Celebration of the galactic tick struck me as a (re)discovery of the coherence our lives have with the milky way. And here in the USA we could certainly use some coherence these days.

RIG
Synths (iPad): SpaceVibe through FluxFX via AudioBus. AniMoog.
Guitar: Jolie (Gibson ES335 DOT (1999))
Pedal Board: SmallSound/BigSound Sparkle Motion -> Lotus Pedal Snowjob -> tc electronic flashback delay (tape setting) -> Diamond Tremolo (chaotic saw/square) -> Strymon blueSky reverb -> Line6 Pod-XT (Vox AC-30 emulator)
DAW: MOTU 828mk2 -> Acid 7.0 (Win 8.1)
Master: Harrison MixBus (MacOS)

hideyuki · 2016-10-04T04:20:58.962Z

Thanks bassling! I love leftside panda:)

Formant · 2016-10-04T15:28:29.203Z

Hi all.
Here’s my contribution for this week. I finished it late last night, but was too tired to post it, falling asleep at my desk…

1.7361
633.7
225

I used the “galactic” numbers to outline the structure of the piece.

The beats in each measure are defined by 225, so there are two measures of two beats each, followed by one measure of 5 beats, and then repeated throughout. The arpeggiated synth helps to highlight this structure - in the left channel the synth plays for 5 beats and in the right channel it plays for 2x2 beats in alternating sequence.

The BPM is 130, which is derived from 225/1.7361=129.6.

Finally the length of the piece is 63 measures.

Not sure how it all works out, but I thought the 2/2/5 structure was kinda fun to work with.

https://soundcloud.com/alt-formant/space-tick-disquiet028