junklight

just giving my new music setup a quick run out.....

Where the river joins by junklight

Another visit to the absent detective for Disquiet Junto

This weeks instructions were to use a recording of typing as the rhythmic basis of a track. For some reason despite not having taken part for sometime this grabbed my imagination.

Most of the track apart from the solo is a supercollider program. Using machine listening to derive the timing from my typing. Despite my original intentions being very different the combination of typing and the patterns somehow got me in a blade runner/noir kind of mood and I leaned right into that. Indulgent but sod it

If you are wondering what I'm typing it is this nonsense - I didn't want to have too big gaps between lines so I just kept typing. I think we can all agree it is complete bollocks:

"The door swung open. It hadn’t been locked

I cautiously went in. The place was in disarray, chairs tipped over, rubbish everywhere. One window slightly open.

I surveyed the scene - was the occupant just a very messy person or had the place been turned over. I was never to find out.

I heard a noise outside and before I had chance to react a woman came bursting through the door.

“Ah there you are” she started

She was kind of out of place, well dressed, a nice dress, furs. Classy - not like this dive

“Look I’ve been phoning all week. I simply must know how you are getting one”

“I’m not who you think I am” I said

She stopped and looked at me

“And who do I think you are?”

“well…”

“God man - focus. Now look about the case - I need to see some progress. Not you dithering about here in this office. Get out there. Get some work done. I’m paying you enough”

And with that she left "

Another visit to the absent detective for Disquiet Junto

This weeks instructions were to use a recording of typing as the rhythmic basis of a track. For some reason despite not having taken part for sometime this grabbed my imagination.

Most of the track apart from the solo is a supercollider program. Using machine listening to derive the timing from my typing. Despite my original intentions being very different the combination of typing and the patterns somehow got me in a blade runner/noir kind of mood and I leaned right into that. Indulgent but sod it

If you are wondering what I'm typing it is this nonsense - I didn't want to have too big gaps between lines so I just kept typing. I think we can all agree it is complete bollocks:

"The door swung open. It hadn’t been locked

I cautiously went in. The place was in disarray, chairs tipped over, rubbish everywhere. One window slightly open.

I surveyed the scene - was the occupant just a very messy person or had the place been turned over. I was never to find out.

I heard a noise outside and before I had chance to react a woman came bursting through the door.

“Ah there you are” she started

She was kind of out of place, well dressed, a nice dress, furs. Classy - not like this dive

“Look I’ve been phoning all week. I simply must know how you are getting one”

“I’m not who you think I am” I said

She stopped and looked at me

“And who do I think you are?”

“well…”

“God man - focus. Now look about the case - I need to see some progress. Not you dithering about here in this office. Get out there. Get some work done. I’m paying you enough”

And with that she left "

My fingers don't get on with the guitar fretboard - not nimble or flexible enough. Despite that I love the sounds of it as an instrument and one thing I'm particularly fond of is finger style guitar playing.

in all my years of making electronic music I've never really found any decent emulation of it - most guitar stuff for producers is sample based anyway. As I've become more fluent in Supercollider I realised it would be an ideal way to build an emulation I could use in the way I wanted to with much more control than sample based approaches

And having got it working here is a little piece I put together with it. It's kind of pattern based so the tonality is a bit odd in once place but that led to the title and I kind of like it (since the title also has other relevance)

I kind of like this but it doesn't really fit with any of the larger projects I'm working on so putting it here

Another one I'm not sure if I submitted or not

Abstract and quiet

As far as I know this was also made for the Dark Outside

not sure if I sent this one or if it was just in reserve

The voice is the wonderful Melissa Harrison talking about rain

Another Dark outside piece. This one is one of those improvisations that come out of nowhere. I'd recorded a ton of bits & pieces which I was going to work into something and then at the end of the day just sat down in front of the modular & synths I had set up and just played this as is. & fortunately for me I was recording at the time....

late night music thinking of better times in lockdown......

Recorded for the Dark Outside this is part of a project I conceived just before a several month creative "drought" where I completely any drive to make music.

The text is generated with GPT-2 a machine learning algorithm that was trained on a vast corpus of text drawn from the internet. To my mind this is the ultimate cultural sampler as the next step after sampling verbatim sections of audio and video - this is synthesising something new from textual samples. Interestingly the text had to be edited to remove sections were the algorithm veered off into less savoury content that was getting fairly racist.

I have some further material along these lines and may consider putting together a release - probably not under the 'junklight' name but rather something new....