World Wide Weft (disquiet0353) by dascott

As is often the case with Disquiet Junto projects, I find I get the most inspiration by creating something as "literally-minded" as I can. In this case, creating a piece which (to me) was as close to a musical weaving as I could imagine at the time. The following is TL;DR musical detail for people who like it.

I began with 7 "warps", which function as drones, spread across both the pitch spectrum (each is a just 5th away from the other) and across sound space (each is 20 degrees separated from the other). These pulsate at a constant rate of 9 per second throughout, though early in the piece the notes blend together.

Slowly I add 7 "wefts", which are pitched in the gaps between the "warps" (where else would they be?), tuned to a just major 3rd above the lower side warp. Each of the weft lines starts out on one of three 24-beat patterns, but later they all play short snippets of pattern together as a layer. The wefts move from left to right in 10-degree increments (yes, this piece should be listened to with headphones).

I used additive sine and Karplus-Strong generators fed through a room simulation system of my own design, all of which are part of the RTcmix software toolkit. The patterns, positioning, etc., were all done with the MinC scripting language which is part of RTcmix.

More on this 353rd weekly Disquiet Junto project (Warp & Weft / The Assignment: Read loom-woven fabric as a musical composition) at:

https://disquiet.com/0353/

Thanks to Kim Rueger for proposing this project, to John Horigan for allowing us to use this fabric as our source image, and to Mark Lentczner for the photography and for participating in this project’s gestation.

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