In a followup to my last post about sharing and reusing material I would like to share a recent work by Kiggler. Taking my recent track for the Disquiet Junto as a starting point he changed the track and morphed it into something beyond a remix. My patterns of static become the framework that are built on to create a […]
Every now and then someone will ask me “Why don’t you start charging for your music?” It’s a reasonable question. With so many articles recently focusing on the death of the music industry it is only natural that there is a link in peoples mind between music and industry. While I respect that many have chosen to make music their […]
Anyone who has read my blog knows how much I love both Supercollider and Renoise but the two have always occupied two different areas of my workflow. I have decided it was finally time to start combining the strengths of the two. Supercollider is amazing for sound design and renoise is a very good sequencer. NOTE: Despite the Renoise focus […]
The Assignment: Make music from the near silence of phone calls. This week’s project explores the near-silence inherent in phone calls. These are the steps: Step 1: Record the near-silent sound of phone calls between your phone and three different other phones. Step 2: Develop a short, original piece that accentuates the differences between the sounds of these three calls. […]
I have a new track out on the Poverty Electronics Vol. 2 compilation. Due to the themes of the label I wanted to try something a little more minimalist in my approach. The track was created by duct taping a homemade contact mic to the cone of my studio monitors. I then did a live performance using the mixer volume, […]
In a previous post I introduced my interface to translate the Open Music Labs rePatcher hardware’s serial data into OSC messages. I have also written a macro for Reaktor that allows you to access the knobs and patchbay. The macro can be download from the Reaktor User Library. The macro has 6 In and Out ports that correspond to the […]
Yesterday I posted about my rePatcher to OSC interface written in Processing. I’ve been finding it very useful but I was annoyed by the fact that I had to open processing IDE and run the code every time. I wanted it to behave a bit more like a traditional program. I tried to export the program as an app but […]
As soon as I saw the announcement of rePatcher I was interested. It seemed like a very affordable way to add some physical control over your code. I am personally not a big fan of PD or Max so I decided to interface it to Supercollider and Reaktor instead. I quickly realized that the windows implementation of the Serial class […]
Disquiet Junto Project 0131: Kettle Development These are the steps for this week’s project: Step 1: Record the sound of a tea kettle coming to a boil, preferably a tea kettle that whistles when the boil is achieved. Step 2: Create a piece of music that originates from the sound of that tea kettle reaching its climax. Employ the sound […]
A Young Person's Guide To Time Travel by Schemawound My new album “A Young Person’s Guide To Time Travel” will be released on 7/7/14 as a free download. The album is a 30 minute electronic work based on the classic manual by Bernard Meany (1882 – 1721). Each track is based on a different chapter from the book. Tracklist: Have […]
Today I have released my new album entitled “I Meant To Break Your Will, Never Your Heart”. This album was originally finished in October of 2013 and was scheduled to be my first physical release. Due to various issues the album has sat dormant during that time. With the release for physical product still several months off I have decided […]
Disquiet Junto Project 0124: Derive and Thrive Create a new piece of music by using nothing but the first 45 seconds from these three pieces of music: Erissoma’s “The miracle in the human brain” from the addSensor netlabel Kayaka’s “O” from the As4cords netlabel D’Incise’s “Graphein” from the Audiotalaia netlabel Background: All of this music is available for free, non-commercial […]
Today Travis Johnson released his album Vuzöolut Remixes. I was lucky enough to be able to provide one of the remixes for the project. Free D/L. Enjoy. Vuzöolut Remixes by Travis Johnson
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This is my first project for “IT’S THAT TIME OF THE MONTH”. ITTOTM is an open call monthly remix project run by Le Berger. This months project remixes material from Cinchel’s new album “Reign Water” on the Subterranean Tide netlabel. For those keeping score Cinchel did a fantastic remix of my work on my recent remix album “Mars In Sunset”. […]
In the release notes for the new beta of Renoise 3.0 there is something that immediately caught my eye. “A new effect command is the MaYbe command (0Yxx). It can be put into a note column or an effect column, and will allow you to trigger a note/line with a certain probability, or to define multiple notes and trigger just […]
Please record the sound of an ice cube rattling in a glass, and make something of it. Background: Longtime participants in, and observers of, the Disquiet Junto series will recognize this single sentence as the very first Disquiet Junto project, the same one that launched the series on the first Thursday of 2012. Revisiting it a year later, on the […]
Disquiet Junto Project 0104: 2013 in 60 Seconds This week’s project is a sound journal, an audio history of the past year. You will select a different audio element to represent each of the past 12 months of 2013. You will then select one 5-second segment from each of these audio elements. Then you will stitch these dozen 5-second segments […]
This is an album I created when I was 16 years old. I discovered the DOS based tracker program ScreamTracker3 and everything changed for me. Using a computer to make music was a concept I had never even considered in the past. MTV’s show Amp aired around the same time and began to show me a side of electronic music […]
This week’s project takes as its source a comment attributed to the author Ford Madox Ford: “Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.” We will convert text from page 99 of various books into music. Step 1: Pick up the book you are currently reading, or otherwise the […]
@@VERSION by Schemawound I have been in a crunch mode all week at work but I was unable to resist the current project for Disquiet Junto. This track was created during a short lunch break More on this 89th Disquiet Junto project, in which the sounds of interstellar space are used to make “goodbye music” for the Voyager 1 space […]
Background: While looking for Arduino projects to build I found the Algorithmic Noise Machine. I was instantly intrigued by the noises it generated using bitwise operations. Looking further I realized that Supercollider added support for bitwise operators in v3.5. Unfortunately the only documentation was a single example (quoted below). I decided to explore the concept a to understand how bitwise […]
I recently completed my 10th assignment for the Disquiet Junto and decided that it would be a good time to reflect on what the Disquiet Junto is and what is has meant for me as an artist The Disquiet Junto is a series of weekly musical “assignments” based around the concept of constraint. Marc Weidenbaum, the founder of the project, […]
Disquiet Junto Project 0083: R#d#ct#dThis week’s project is an open-ended exploration of surveillance and graphic notation. The page at the following URL is the score that you will perform: http://goo.gl/eYX80X You can use any instrumentation you choose, just no source audio for which you cannot yourself claim ownership or fair use. Background: The image is page 8 of recently declassified […]
Due to the demands of everyday life and a studio that suffered from periodic flooding, I have been an audio nomad for several years. My work has been created on a variety of different machine and synced by Dropbox, Google Drive and SkyDrive. My material had to be portable between machines as I never knew where I would be working […]
I am proud to announce my newest release as part of Subterranean Tide’s Haiku Project. “Each artist has contributed a three track release in increments of five minutes, seven minutes, and five minutes accompanied by a Haiku poem. Each song represents the line of the poem including title and reflection.” For my release I chose the following Haiku: Autumn moonlight-a […]
Today C. Reider has released his new album “The Conjucts”. The first track on the album reworks my songs “Hello World, I Am Lonely Too” and “Fall Asleep Walking” as well as field recordings by Manabushimada. Like the song, the entire album is reworked from material that was released with a Creative Commons license allowing derivative works. This album is […]
Csound is something I have always been meaning to explore a bit further but have not ever gotten around to. Now there is a little more incentive as Mysterybear has released the full Csound and Blue source code for his fantastic Sublimation album. This is a fantastic contribution to the community and I hope to fully explore it soon. The […]
@@ERROR by Schemawound Current Assignment:Disquiet Junto Project 0062: Life of Sine This week’s project involves making music from the basic building block of sound: the sine wave. You will compose and record a piece of music using just three different sine waves, and nothing else — well, nothing else in terms of source material, but the waves can, after the […]