June 28th 2018 Disquiet0339 by cboulter

Here's my contribution to this week's Disquiet Junto project: Rude Mechanicals. The brief was to make some music to fit the imaginary genre 'Rude Mechanicals' which is a reference in a monologue by Puck in a Midsummer Night's dream.

Time was short this week. Whilst my inclination would be to synthesise a load of mechanical type sounds or field recordings and sequence them together to create some steampunk style aggro, this wasn't compatible with my travel plans for the weekend.

So I thought about what 'rude mechanicals' might mean in the digital realm and this led me to investigate the Byte Beat equations in the Ornament and Crime module. These are pretty brute force ways of creating digital oscillations, so I grabbed a few of these, stuck into a sequence, added a few bits here and there, and there you go.

More on this 339th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Rude Mechanicals: The Assignment: Record a piece of music in this imaginary genre) at:

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