My name is Nicholas Starke. I did two remixes for Schemawound’s remix album “Body Movements”. Before I began working on these two remixes, I decided that I would not remix the sound of Schemawound’s tracks, but instead I would remix the ideas. For a couple of weeks, in the evenings I would pour over Schemawound’s source, analyzing his Supercollider code. […]
Schemawound’s call for remixes must’ve gone out a few weeks before I discovered his blog through the Disquiet Junto. It also coincided with my remix-crazy January, in which I remixed eight songs. The track Dawn appealed to me when I heard the album. I think it took me places because it reminded me of ‘the wires’ I worked with from […]
“Schemawound’s Body Movements remix album is the most powerfully minimalist commitment to sparsesound we’ve come across in some time (‘powerfully minimalist’ in that it’s minimalist, and powerful). There are no songs or other hand-holding things. Instead the sound sounds like it was grown. Not intended. Crepuscular creations fermenting, dividing, and slowly achieving sentience.” –20 Jazz Funk Greats
Hi, my name’s Katie Gately and I created the second remix onSchemawound’s “Body Movements” titled Hymncycle. Schemawoundapproached me on Soundcloud to do this remix via the Disquiet Juntogroup. I discovered the group recently after Marc Weidenbaum found mymusic online and reviewed a track on Disquiet.com. Until then, mymusic had been heard by zero people. This is my first remix. I […]
@@ERROR by Schemawound This week’s project involves the human voice. You will create a choral drone from three samples that you will create with your own voice. This project requires a single die, or the digital equivalent. Here are the steps in the project: Step 1: Roll a die three times (or three dice once) to determine which vowels you […]
Today Waxen Wings has released my 4th full length album under the Schemawound name. The album is named “Body Movements” and contains remixes and reconstructions of tracks from my previous album “They Want To Make Your Body Move. I Want To Hold You Perfectly Still.”. The remixers were given the full audio and supercollider source code for the album and […]
A remix album? I am not sure where the thought came from. My recent album “They Want To Make Your Body Move. I Wan’t To Hold You Perfectly Still.” is not what I would have considered ideal material to have remixed. Despite my doubts I decided to throw caution to the wind, upload the raw tracks and source code, and […]
@@ERROR by Schemawound This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Endless Ascent netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally […]
Over the past year I have become much more involved with netlabels and creative projects such as the Disquiet Junto. This has led me to discover a vast network of amazing musicians providing their material for free. Either through trying to gather remixers for my upcoming album or just plain old fan mail I have been in contact with quite […]
@@ERROR by Schemawound Description of this weeks assignment: This week’s project requires you to make a field recording to serve as the source audio. These are the steps: Step 1: Locate a clock that has an audible, even if very quiet, tick to its second hand. A watch or other timepiece is also appropriate to the task. Step 2: Record […]
Disquiet did a write-up on my song “Datapump” from the album “Hospital Songs”.
Description of the junto assignment: This week’s project involves a shared set of source material. The source audio is the free solo piano album ‘Screws’ by Nils Frahm. Frahm, who’s based in Germany, posted the nine-track album of short solo works for free download while he was recuperating from busting one of his thumbs. He subsequently created a site to […]
Today my new mini-EP entitled “BEASTS” was released by Dystimbria. “Dystimbria is a free-netlabel inviting composers to explore various approaches in-between ambient and noise music, discarding the safe, pastoral qualities of ambient and the macho posturing of noise for a more open-ended and abstract electronic terrain. The tracks released here will each utilize sound samples from previous Dystimbria releases, lending […]
This morning I made a statement: Followed by another: While those statements pretty well sum up my opinions I thought maybe I should expand upon them a little bit because I want to make it clear why it is important. Imagine you bought a CD through the mail, when you opened the box the CD, book and jewel case were […]
I was asked on Soundcloud to explain the following tweet: First step is to start unpacking the tweet to make it more readable: h and l were used as generic variables functions to cut down on the amount of repeated code. If we remove them we end up with: In order to make things a little more readable I pull […]
@@TRANCOUNT by Schemawound This was the assignment for this week: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 […]
@@TRANCOUNT by Schemawound This was the assignment for this week:This is a shared-sample project. Create a new piece of music by employing segments from the following three tracks. All were initially released on the great netlabel Bump Foot: The first 20 seconds of “Bongo” off the Aguas Tonicas album Los Desposeídos “Broken Robots” off the Gridline album Red Music “The […]
I wrote the following code in preparation for a piece for Disquiet Junto 0051: 2012 In 60 Seconds. The instructions for the piece: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 2012. You will then select one five-second segment […]
@@TRANCOUNT by Schemawound This was the assignment for this week:This week’s project explores invokes Morse Code for its rhythmic content. The instructions are as follows: Select a word or phrase.Encode that word or phrase by the Morse method. Record a rhythmic foundation in which the dash is represented by a long beat and thedot by a brief one. Use that […]
@@TRANCOUNT by Schemawound I have long admired the concept of the Disquiet Junto but have not ever gotten involved until today. This was the assignment for this week:This is a shared-sample project. We’re going to celebrate the dual forces of the phenomenon known as the netlabel and of the Creative Commons license that allows for derivative works. We’ll do this […]
In learning Supercollider, PureData, ChucK and Csound I found that there was one lesson missing from all the tutorials I read. That was a lesson on of how simple math operations worked to produce effects on various signals. This is basic information that is needed to be successful in any of these languages. My code samples will be in Supercollider as […]
Today I released my first 2 Quarks for Supercollider: I have released my first two Supercollider Quarks today: QuickLauncher: A customizable GUI for toggling commonly used Supercollider windows. MiniIDE: A customizable tabbed GUI containing many commonly needed views. Both are available in the Quarks repository. MiniIDE has QuickLauncher as a dependency. Use MiniIDE().front to get started. Comments and feedback are […]
They Want To Make Your Body Move. I Want To Hold You Perfectly Still. by Schemawound I have blogged one time previously about the track “Please Hold”. The track was first written as a 7 second track for the Waxen Wings compilation “Se7en Seconds In Hea7en”. 7 second version is below: Se7en Seconds in Hea7en by Schemawound At the […]
They Want To Make Your Body Move. I Want To Hold You Perfectly Still. by Schemawound In this post I break down the creation of my track “Hello World, I Am Lonely Too” from my album “They Want To Make Your Body Move. I Want To Hold You Perfectly Still.”. The track was made entirely in Supercollider, although the final […]
After 2 months or so of heads down work on the album I have decided to take a small break from Supercollider to explore some other programs. One that I have always been interested in and dabbled in slightly is ChucK. ChucK is a new (and developing) audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, performance, and now, analysis – […]