Motion/Stasis [disquiet0264] by project dirigent

Motion/Stasis [disquiet0264]

Disquiet Junto Project 0264: Time Travel
Record a piece of music that plays with the perception of time.

After trying several ideas I focused on contrasting quick, short, rapidly changing sounds with long, sustained sounds. Juxtaposing rapid change with static sound where time is suspended (motion/stasis). After playing with this for a while I also started incorporating subtle phrasing (accelerando, crescendo) within each of the rapid phrases.

Sound sources:
This was played and recorded in one take (one of many) on my small performance modular synth. The patch consists of a Modcan FMVDO through a Ripples filter (acting as a low pass gate) modulated with short envelopes generated with Maths and triggered with a Wogglebug. I'm "playing" the Wogglebug clock and manually biasing the Maths envelope to sweep the filter and to hold it open.

The sound goes through several delays (further time variation): Echophon with some pitch shifting, Flashback X4 for long delays with a bit of feedback and a Ray Wilson voltage controlled delay.

Recorded with Audacity.

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