Lonely Piano (Disquiet 0349) by Nate Trier

This week's assignment was to make something about what "glitch" means to me. To me, basically, glitch is something uncontrolled and unexpected (and often profoundly interesting).

I didn't have a lot of time, so I did a quick piano improv, trying to leave space for the electronics to answer.

My thought was that this would be a sort of call and response, with the piano exploring different versions of the call and the processed piano provided a steady, constant answer, but with the fx changing its timbre everytime.

However, I already had the call and response built into the "clean" piano improv, and I liked it when the processed piano echoed, so that's what I went with.

The answering pianos are pitch-shifted with a bit of delay. The lower one makes use of Ableton's Beat Repeat.

The "clean" piano has a two versions of a vocoder on it that show up in the last half of the track. One is a pitch-tracker, which provides a kind of fretless bass sound. The other is white noise, also with a delay, to provide a bit of white-wash percussion.

I love Pierre Schaeffer's "Duex Aspects de Piano," and I think that influenced this piece in spirit.

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More on this 349th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Got Glitch? / The Assignment: Help define “glitch” by glitching something, and explaining what you did) at:

https://disquiet.com/0349/ 2

Major thanks to Sevenisn, Mark Lentczner, and other folks in the Junto Slack for pitching in on this project’s development.

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