SI28-Radio-Worm/Week5

This episode is a jam session! Prepare for an audio assemblage of samples, field recordings, printer and typewriting sounds, and more.

Hosts

Daan, Ema, Lea, Luca, Robin, Tommi

Broadcast

Listen to our broadcast here

Shownotes

Etherpad: Credits (to be read at the end of the show)

Etherpad: Class notes during the broadcats

Recap of the Show

Records, CDs, Tapes | Daan & Luca

Daan went through his music collection consisting of vinyl, cassettetapes and cd's. Tried to take out some rare ones which could serve as a backdrop for all the inputs that were existing in the radioshow. There were many ambient (modular) synth tracks, some sound collages and noise. Things without rhythm or classic song structures, so the tracks were open for layering.

Strudel Live Coding | Lea & Luca

Input Lea

$: n("2 3").s("penplotter").gain(3)
$: n("[0 <1 2>]*8").s("construction").palindrome()
$: n("1 - - - - - 0 <1 2>").s("morley").iter(4)
$: n("4 [- 3]").s("morley")
$: n("1").s("children")
$: n("[<0*2 1*2> 2*4]*2").s("construction")
$: n("3 - - 0 - 1 2").s("penplotter").gain(2)
$: n("2").s("hotzenplotz")
$: n("0 <0 - - ->").s("essai")
$: n("0 - - - - - - - - - 0 <0 0>").s("downbylaw")
$: n("2").s("children")

Input Luca

let pecado = 'não_existe_pecado_abaixo_do_equador'
let beginning = 'in_the_beginning'
let god = 'the_word_was_god'
let byWhich = 'by_which_the_world_is_open'
//https://shabda.ndre.gr/speech/blue,red.json?gender=f&language=en-GB&strudel=1
samples('shabda/speech:'+god)
samples('shabda/speech:'+beginning)
samples('shabda/speech:'+byWhich)
samples('shabda/speech/pt-BR/m:'+pecado)
samples('github:yaxu/clean-breaks')

_$: s("in_the_beginning/2").striate(6).slow(1).jux(rev).delay(0.5).delaytime(rand)
_$: s("the_word_was_god").fit().slice(8, "0 2 <6 7>".every(3, rev)).room(1)

_$: n("<1!2 0@2>")//multiply some notes
  .s("wilders")
  //.scrub(rand.seg(8))
  .gain(0.6)

_$: n("8").s("trump")//.striate(8).beat("0,4,7", 16)
   .sometimesBy(.2, x => x.speed(-1))
   //.delay(0.9)
   //.delaytime(rand)
  //.pan("<0.1 1 0.7>")

_$: n("<10*4 8@2>, 1")
  .s("trump")
  .scrub(perlin.seg(8))
  .sometimesBy(.15, x => x.speed(-1))

_$: n("[0 1 5]/4").s("trump").speed("-1").lpf(slider(754, 0, 2000)).jux(rev)

_$: n("0 [1 2] - 4").s("trump").jux(rev).slow("2 0.5 1").release(.5).off(1/4, x=>x.speed(0.9)).off(3/16, y=>y.vowel("<a e>*8")).gain("<0.2 0.5>")

_$: n("<0 - > ~ 1").s("wilders").gain(0.5).lpf("<400 1000>").distort("<3:0.1:diode>").crush("0 <7 2>")

_$: s("<trump:1 wilders:1>").scrub("{0@3 0@2 3@2}%8".div(16)).gain(0.3)
_$: n(run(11)).s("trump").clip("2 0.25")
_$: n("0").s("trump").clip("<0.5 1>")

_$: n("0").s("trump").splice(32, "{0.1!2 .25@3 0.7!2 <0.8:1.5>}%8").beat("0, 10", 16)

_$: n("1 | 9").s("trump").struct(rand.round().seg(16))//.jux(rev)
  .decay(slider(1.8065, 0.5, 2))
  .fast(slider(0.549, 0.5, 1))

_$: n("<2 4> [8 5] | 1")
  .s("trump")
  .scrub("0 5 <2 7> 33? 21 23@2 43 [3!2] ".div(50))

//BREAKS!
$: s("amen/4 ").fit()
  .chop(32)
  .sometimesBy(0.15, (scrub(irand(16).div(16).seg(8))))
  .orbit(3)

Strudel REPL code sequencing samples

Typewriter & Dot Matrix Printer | Robin & Ema

Part of the jammin' ensemble of Monday Nov 3rd broadcast were also Emanuele Arrigoni, Robin de Haan, Erika Model, N.E.C. (Dottie) Parson, as they did their first public performance of a musical journey through the sonic qualities of printers—with a strong emphasis on improvisation, yet promising dramatic intensity. Ema and Erika did an amazing improv, playing into the sound-layering with typewriter sounds. The printed result of which spelled out the line "Everything is noise, you interpret." to the rhythm of their play throughout the radio show. Whereas Robin and Dottie played a series of pre-written .txt files using a script that stores print jobs, and repeats them, in a desired order.

Voice Performance | Tommi, Luca & Robin

Luca brought some text excerpts in both portuguese and dutch written during the 1600s on south america by Kaspar Barlaeus. Luca and Robin read them out together in both languages.

Não existe pecado ao sul do equador | Onder de evenaar bestaat geen zonde

Dois dos bárbaros foram para a Holanda com Maurício a fim de verem terras, astros, povos ignotos. Os demais, honrados com presentes insignificantes, quais são facas, machadinhas, espelhinhos, mimos agradáveis aos selvagens. Twee van de barbaren gingen met Maurits naar Holland om onbekende landen, sterren en volkeren te zien. De anderen werden vereerd met onbeduidende geschenken, zoals messen, bijlen en kleine spiegeltjes – aangename snuisterijen voor wilden.

Credits & Sources

Samples

Going Out (Timothy Leary)

Letters from Johan Maurits van Nassau and Kaspar Barlaeus

Speeches from Donald J. Trump & Geert Wilders

John 1:1

Lost for Words - The Ghost of Arthur Rimbaud (Paul Morley)

The Medium Is the Massage (Marshall McLuhan)

Der Räuber Hotzenplotz (Ottfried Preußler)

Club d'Essai

Field Recordings

On a Friday morning, Lea recorded street sounds around Middelland, Rotterdam. The field recordings can be listened to on radio aporee, and some snippets were used in the show.

Music

Welcome to the Machine (Pink Floyd)

Achtung! Wir schalten Um (Felix Kubin)

The Rules (David Shrigley)

Distorcendo a realide (DJ Ramon Sucesso)

Eat That Phone Book Coda (Gong)

Exclusive Things (DJ Spinna)

Lineality 1 and 2 (Truus De Groot)

Error Trapping (Richard Devine)

A Dark Horizon (Mortiis)

Enter Here (onewayness)

Ícaros (Iaci Kupalua)

Amycamus (Greetje Bijma)