Notation Translation (disquiet0544) by Nate Trier published on 2022-08-16T00:11:14Z This week's #disquietjunto prompt was to make some music based on the chord from “Organ²/ASLSP” by John Cage. The second part of the prompt was to make it a *drone*, which I totally forgot about! Oh well - here's a very non-droning piece. I interpreted the pitches as pitches (unsurprisingly), but used the register indicators as note durations. I used that as a cantus firmus and wrote a new melody over this sequences of pitches. From there, I had Ableton play through the pitches randomly, creating unpredictable harmonies; sometimes one of the two voices would be transposed down a major second or a perfect fourth to add some variety to the chords. I added a synth arpeggio over it using the same pitches in order. There is a very subtle field recording of a washing machine in this part too. Then, the melody and ASLSP accompaniment reappears. The end result is kind of like ambient music if you were made of circuitry. * * * * * * More on this 554th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Cage Chord (The Assignment: Riff on a chord by John Cage) — at: https://disquiet.com/0554/ Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at: https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/ https://www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/ Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0554-cage-chord/ The image shows a detail of a mural painted by the artist Pablo “Raíz” Ruiz Arroyo at the record store Noise in San Francisco. Genre Ambient