junklight

junklight

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  • [disquiet0704] that which passes
    This is for the latest disquiet junto https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0704-right-on-cumulus/72333
    a sound track to the Cory Arcangel installation Super Mario Clouds
    It's meant to be 8 bit music - I couldn't dedicate the time to learning actual 8 bit trackers or whatever so I made a generative Max patch in the spirit of 8 bit music - there is only one sound source playing at any one time and the sound is degraded to 8 bit. Kind of playing with the chiptune idea of chords as arpeggios too
    there is another big influence here but I'll let you spot that for yourselves
    8 min
  • [disquiet0702] moving to light
    This weeks Disquiet Junto asks us to abuse software to make music. I was going to pass on this one quite honestly - there has been lots of interesting work in this field - using data files as audio etc etc. but then, and I’m not quite sure why, a project in an electronics magazine from when I was a child came to mind. In the project they created (an incredibly lofi) video by using electro-mechanical scanning of a light resistor. Seeing video as an analog signal then prompted this.
    I’ve got a Max/Jitter patch collecting video. The video is split into 4 pieces - each piece is treated as a wavetable and the volume of it is modulated by taking the video segment using the average of each column from left to right scanned at quite a low frequency. A few parameters here and there let me turn it into music rather than noise and there is a reverb and a bit of delay in there for good measure. And then I recorded an improvisation on the whole setup.
    I’m still not quite sure it counts - surely using Max/MSP to make music is its entire reason for existing! But perhaps it’s ok since ALL the audio signal is generated by a video camera……
    6 min
  • And The Circle And The Tree
    first outing for my "groove" case https://modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/2430896
    After quite a long hiatus this year - mostly just lack of time in which to make music sadly - back to exploring the groove as a concept.
    (& if you like this can I recommend https://junklight.bandcamp.com/album/until-the-apocalypse-comes :-) )
    9 min

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Update: All my music is now Creative Commons licensed. This means if you want to use it in a video or an app then go for it. All I ask is that you credit me and link back here to my soundcloud (http://soundcloud.com/junklight). It would also be cool if you could let me know you've used it.