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Blockchain 808 - disquiet0276

Disquiet Junto Project 0276: 808 Blockchain Beats
The Assignment: Make 808-style beats based on the blockchain.

The Blockchain is a distributed database that maintains a continuously growing list of ordered records called blocks. Each block contains a timestamp and a link to a previous block. The most well known and original implementation is the Bitcoin Blockchain.

The inspiration for this track was the project image:
imgur.com/Ya21ctv

Eight tracks of midi playing into an 808 Drum Rack in Ableton, representing the eight black boxes in the diagram. And three tracks of pitched Snare, Clave and Conga in Ableton Simpler, the purple sub-branches. Some Fracture XT for ambience towards the end of the track.

As each part is introduced, it initially plays 'the wrong' midi notes (random transposition by +/- up-to six semitones), then the chance of random transposition is reduced to zero by automation. Basically just automated the Chance dial of the Ableton Random midi device... Wanted to represent mining bitcoins - the computer works hard to generate valid bitcoins by a complex algorithm that involves lots of calculations with big prime numbers involved - the drum hits fall into place as the program closes in on valid bitcoin results.

Hope you enjoy.