#42

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/

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#43

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.

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#44

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

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#45

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.

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#46

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.

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#47

that track is w i d e

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#48

here resting dreams of telephone switchboard

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#49

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.)

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#50

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.

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#51

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)

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#52

Thanks bassling! I love leftside panda:)

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#53

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

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