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Another Pure Data Patch from Caracas

More open-source activity from JoaquÃn Mendoza SebastiÃ¡n

January 21, 2013January 22, 2013 / By Marc Weidenbaum

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Following the [post](https://disquiet.com/2013/01/16/joaquin-mendoza/) here last week about the first three in **JoaquÃn Mendoza SebastiÃ¡n**’s ongoing series of etudes for Pure Data, the graphic language/interface, he posted a fourth. And, again, he provided not only the resulting audio of the experiment, but the underlying code, a screen shot of which appears above. The work is a mix of slowly proceeding tones, as if committed on a water-logged yet still functional synthesizer, each seemingly triggering additional echoes, some brief, others lingering.

https://soundcloud.com/joaquin-mendoza/pd-etude-04/

SebastiÃ¡n also [mentions](https://soundcloud.com/joaquin-mendoza/pd-etude-04/comments), in the post, that he’ll soon have a series of videos online that describe the process of his patch development. Track originally posted for free download at [soundcloud.com/joaquin-mendoza](https://soundcloud.com/joaquin-mendoza/pd-etude-04). More from SebastiÃ¡n at [joaquinmendoza.net](http://www.joaquinmendoza.net/). More on Pure Data, aka Pd, at [puredata.info](http://puredata.info/).

Balm, or Balmy (MP3)

Tension beneath the ambience

January 20, 2013 / By Marc Weidenbaum

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**Allan Brugg**, aka **Average Alien**, has uploaded a track that is both peaceful and active, its ambient foundation providing cover for a rapidly burbling brook. It’s said that such water sounds are among the most pleasant to the human ear, but here in Brugg’s “Balm” the sounds — and they may in fact be artificial in origin, but the effect is like that of a thin stream in rapid motion over a rough bottom — have an unmistakeable urgency. It’s worth recalling that while the word “balm” refers to a calming agent, something that gives solace, the term “balmy” can be used to connote eccentricity, even madness.

Track originally posted for free download at [soundcloud.com/average-alien](https://soundcloud.com/average-alien/balm). More from Brugg, who’s based in Britain, at [twitter.com/alien_artifex](https://twitter.com/alien_artifex) and [average-alien.bandcamp.com](http://average-alien.bandcamp.com/).

A Sequence of Interest (MP3)

The latest from Radius is by Hugo Paquete

January 19, 2013January 20, 2013 / By Marc Weidenbaum

The latest from the excellent Chicago broadcast/podcast Radius is a cascade of short-burst found recordings, like several dials of several radios turned at once. The work of **Hugo Paquete**, they’re not in search of something of interest to listen to, as is the case for an automobile’s driver and sole occupant late at night on a freeway a long way from the vehicle’s destination, so much as they’re in search of a sequence of interest: parallels, coincidences, confluences, correlations, patterns.

http://soundcloud.com/radius-16/episode-35

More on the project at [theradius.us/episode35](http://theradius.us/episode35). More about Hugo Paquete, who describes himself as an “intermedia and sound artist,” at [about.me/hugo.paquete](about.me/hugo.paquete) and [crcan.blogspot.com](http://crcan.blogspot.com/).

Past Week at Twitter.com/Disquiet

January 19, 2013January 20, 2013 / By Marc Weidenbaum

If you've got a Bandcamp "fan" (perhaps an unfortunate term) page, lemme know. I'm at /disquiet. Thanks. ->
This week @djunto is composing musical scores for news articles. The first is for a @newscientist piece on earthworms: https://t.co/z8dc8vGz ->
Uncomfortably fixated on the idea that Agent Coulson becomes Deathlok. ->
It's pretty nifty that iDisplay works over USB. Now, can someone make them a less silly icon? Thanks. ->
An hour-plus later realizes that he had "Ventolin (Salbutamol Mix)" on repeat. ->
Found out about Aaron Swartz's suicide via RSS. Sadly fitting, fittingly sad. ->
A score for @lessig's obituary for @aaronsw. Text here: http://t.co/TirNSM2l. Music here: https://t.co/8S35dnxg. Part of the 54th @djunto. ->

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Disquiet Junto Project 0055: Two Screws

The Assignment: Combine two Nils Frahm solo piano pieces into one.

January 17, 2013January 18, 2013 / By Marc Weidenbaum

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Each Thursday at [the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com](https://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/) a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just over four days to upload a track in response to the assignment. Membership in the Junto is open: [just join and participate](https://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/).

The first two tracks in this set are of the source audio:

This assignment was made in the early afternoon, California time, on Thursday, January 17, 2013, with 11:59pm on the following Monday, January 21, as the deadline. Below are translations into four languages in addition to English: Afrikaans, Croatian, German, Japanese, and Turkish, courtesy respectively of [Kurt Human](http://kurthuman.com/), Darko Macan, [Tobias Reber](http://tobiasreber.com/), [Naoyuki Sasanami](http://soundcloud.com/naotko) and [Yukiko Yamasaki](https://soundcloud.com/yukiko-yamasaki), and [M. Emre Meydan](http://emremeydan.com/).

These are the instructions that went out to the group’s email list (at [tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto](http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto)).

>Disquiet Junto Project 0055: Two Screws
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>This week’s project involves a shared set of source material. The source audio is the free solo piano album ‘Screws’ by Nils Frahm.
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>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 house all the remixed/reworked versions that admirers sent to him, as well as the videos and other responses that he received.
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>For this project you will take two of the source tracks — “Do” and “Re” — and create a new track from them, in the process creating a work for two pianos.
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>Source Audio: You can download the files as sets of MP3 or AIF audio:
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>http://public.erasedtapes.com/screws/ERATP046_Nils_Frahm_Screws_mp3.zip
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>http://public.erasedtapes.com/screws/ERATP046_Nils_Frahm_Screws_aif.zip
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>Or download the individual file directly from their links here:
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>https://soundcloud.com/erasedtapes/sets/nils-frahm-screws
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>You can only use those two Frahm tracks as audio source material for your track, and you cannot add anything other sounds, but you can transform the two Frahm tracks as you please. In the end, though, the sound of a piano should be evident.
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>Deadline: Monday, January 21, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
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>Length: Your finished work should be between 2 and 5 minutes long.
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>Information: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto.
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>Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0055-twoscrews” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.
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>Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).
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>Also: Be sure to share the track to the Reworked site, here:
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>http://reworked.nilsfrahm.com/submit/
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>Linking: When posting the track, be sure to include this information:
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>More on this 55th Disquiet Junto project at:
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>https://disquiet.com/2013/01/17/disquiet0055-twoscrews/
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>More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
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>http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
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>More on the Frahm project at:
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>http://reworked.nilsfrahm.com/

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