Disquiet Junto Project 0581: Helsinki Downspout

The Assignment: Use a rhythmic field recording as the foundation for a new track.

Step 1: This is a shared sample project, one in which all the participants will utilize the same provided recording, about a minute and a half long, as the rhythmic element for their own music. Access the track, originally recorded by Scott Fletcher and used with his permission, here:

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/helsinki-downspout 30

Step 2: Listen to the provided track several times. Think about ways to map its content, perhaps making notations about when certain unique, momentary aspects surface.

Step 3: Record an original piece of music for which the provided music is the underlying rhythm. You might take this quite literally, using the source as it is, resulting in a track that is precisely 1:35 long. Alternately, you might elect to sample and rework the source material. If you go the latter route, make certain that the original sound is, at least at some point in the finished track, recognizable.

Step 4: Because this is a Creative Commons resource, be sure to identify Scott Fletcher as the original recorder of the source material, and include a link to the source track. Identify the license as: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0).

Eight Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0581” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your tracks.

Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0581” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation of a project playlist.

Step 3: Upload your tracks. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your tracks.

Step 4: Post your track in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0581-helsinki-downspout/

Step 5: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: If posting on social media, please consider using the hashtag #DisquietJunto so fellow participants are more likely to locate your communication.

Step 7: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Step 8: Also join in the discussion on the Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

Note: Please post one track for this weekly Junto project. If you choose to post more than one, and do so on SoundCloud, please let me know which you’d like added to the playlist. Thanks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you. How long did the rain last?

Deadline: Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, February 20, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, February 16, 2023.

Upload: When participating in this project, be sure to include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

Download: It is always best to set your track as downloadable and allowing for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution, allowing for derivatives).


Thanks to Scott Fletcher for having provided the original material. It is used thanks to a Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0). Original track at: https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/helsinki-downspout/ 30

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Like a butterfly caught inside - disquiet0581

The original sample by Scott Fletcher (https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/helsinki-downspout - used with permission under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) licence), had an envelope follower applied and sent as CV to my modular, which also sent clock to a BeatStep Pro controlling a Volca Sample. A Turing machine was used to drive a Pluck triggered by the original stem. Similarly the Volca Sample was triggered by the BSP which was in turn triggered by the sample. Other recordings of various beats were made then manipulated, notably with Devious Machines' Infiltrator2. As has become usual, I used Felt Instruments' Smugi sequenced filter bank as part of my processing.
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More on this 581st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Helsinki Downspout (The Assignment: Use a rhythmic field recording as the foundation for a new track), at: https://disquiet.com/0581/

Thanks to Scott Fletcher for having provided the original material. It is used thanks to a Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0). Original track at: https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/helsinki-downspout/ 

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-0581-helsinki-downspout/

thrum (disquiet0581)

Reaktor ensembles, grain and granular entities, mental disorder.

Thanks to Scott Fletcher for having provided the original material. It is used thanks to a Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0). 
Original track at: https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/helsinki-downspout/

Proteiformità B(disquiet0581: Helsinki Downspout)

for the disquiet junto //

the industrial heartbeat of the city, with a thread of calm

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More on this 581st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Helsinki Downspout (The Assignment: Use a rhythmic field recording as the foundation for a new track), at: https://disquiet.com/0581/

Thanks to Scott Fletcher for having provided the original material. It is used thanks to a Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0). Original track at: https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/helsinki-downspout/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Cloudburst Cascade

[disquiet0581] Cloudburst Cascade

Whenever I hear a rhythmic noise like the sound of this downspout, or a windshield wiper, or ceiling fan, I always find myself filling out the beat in my head. So, for this submission, I decided to cut up the sample in to “calls” and did about four takes of “responses” on my drums. After that, I went back in Ableton, chose my favorite parts and added a random effect on each section, automating each one on and off.

Regardless of how I feel about the resulting recording, the important thing about this track is that I really, truly had fun making it. It was the first time in as long as I can remember that I started laughing out loud playing my drums.

More on this 581st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Helsinki Downspout (The Assignment: Use a rhythmic field recording as the foundation for a new track), at: https://disquiet.com/0581/

Thanks to Scott Fletcher for having provided the original material. It is used thanks to a Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0). Original track at: https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/helsinki-downspout/ 36

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

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Drum Battle With A Downspout Disquiet0581

More on this 581st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Helsinki Downspout (The Assignment: Use a rhythmic field recording as the foundation for a new track), at: https://disquiet.com/0581/

Thanks to Scott Fletcher for having provided the original material. It is used thanks to a Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0). Original track at: https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/helsinki-downspout/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0581-helsinki-downspout/

Helsinki Shuffle (disquiet0581)

An old master rediscovered and reworked today:
Synths, drum beat , vocoder.
Photo by Cerqueira


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Techno Bossa (disquiet0582)

Ανω ΚΑΤΩ (pronounced “ah-no KAH-to”) is a form of techno music that combines native Pontic Greek instrumentation with electronic dance rhythms. The name, often shortened into the more global term KATO, loosely translates into English as “messed up.”

KATO is believed to have formed sometime in the 1990’s, when a group of Macedonian sheep herders picked up the throbbing bass of a dance club located in the nearby valley’s urban center. Legend is that the herders attempted to play along with the beat on daouli drum, fife, and kemenche, forcing the musicians to actually play slower than the tempos to which they were accustomed. This adjustment resulted in new phrasing techniques that today comprise the subgenre’s sonic attributes.

The typical KATO techno track sits between 125 and 140 BPM and features arpeggiated notes performed on a kemenche, also known as the “instrument of the Black Sea.” The strings are bowed with a doksar made from an olive branch, double-bound to withstand the repetitive velocity needed to accompany loudly amplified beats. Glitch effects feature prominent in KATO techno, perhaps a carryover from the sketchy radio transmissions commonly heard on rural Macedonian mountaintops during KATO’s advent.

Suss Müsik owns a few KATO releases, all on compact disc and bought from the same record shop that unearthed this nugget.* Probably the best-known KATO artist is Matia14, whose track “Θα φας ξύλο” (“You Will Eat Wood”) was famously remixed by DJ Penmanship in 1999. The untitled track featured here is by a Thessaloniki group named αργό λάχανο, known as Slow Cabbage in English.

*https://sussmusik.com/2017/07/17/junto-project-0289-ancient-artifacts-repost/

More on this 582nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, X Techno (The Assignment: Make a new subgenre), at: https://disquiet.com/0582/

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Αργό Λάχανο [Disquiet0582]

A sequence of detuned techno beats with a Shepard drone.

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Self Ctrl

14 Below Zero