This song was constructed using a weather chart as a musical score. Oddly, this approach was akin to my first project in this series, redacted. The songs are obviously very different, but the methods of composition were quite similar. I started by grabbing a shot of the weather in my area of lake arrowhead for january 10th. The chart had some interesting information, which I would Use to score my piece of music. Structurally, I used the current temperature (of when I took the screenshot) of 41 degrees as my tempo, giving me a song at the very slow bpm of 41. Then the length of the track was determined by the time of day markers at the bottom, giving me 24 measures. At this tempo, that gave me a running time of just under 2 and a half minutes. Looking at the bands at the top, right below the sun track, I could see three main areas of blue, light green and dark green. There is a small slice of dark green right after the blue. I took this to mean my song would have three major sections, with a small hint of section three, right after section one. In these sections, I ran the weather image through a bitmap sound generator. I laid that audio file into the three sections. Then I used the sun and moon tracking information to guide the volume of those sections. This meant that the weird sound sample would be loudest at midday, or 12 measures in. The halfway point, basically. Next I played a synth melody based on the temperature at each hour, starting with an A. Lastly, I played some pad chords to support that melody and messed around creating ambience. --- More on this 106th Disquiet Junto project (“Treat the weather as a graphically notated score”) at: http://ift.tt/1d4XUpC More on the Disquiet Junto at: http://ift.tt/1jNoOb1 Join the Disquiet Junto at: http://ift.tt/ZU8hbL
Vortex (disquiet0106-sonarvortex) by daspetey
