Fixing The Sun

Star-like, distant lights
Twinkle erratically –
Cold December night

haiku by John Hinks https://soundcloud.com/flownblue

picture by Andrew Seaman https://unsplash.com/@amseaman

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

fractal heir

halF erratiC [naviarhaiku413]

A nice bed to layer your creations on top of -- made entirely with Leafcutter John's Forester software, a wildly inspiring MAX/MSP instrument that I sent my sounds through (guitar and beats in this case). No further overdubbing apart from the acoustic guitar coming in around 2/3 of the way through.

Just a quick note: In the instructions, Marc asked for the first layer, this week's basic track, to be panned left in order to leave room for the second and third overdubs in the stereo spectrum. I decided to leave the track as is to not diminish the listening experience. 

Any collaborators wishing to add their sounds should pan this left in their DAW. 

I'm looking forward to listening to what you'll be adding. And for anyone interested in the Forester software: http://leafcutterjohn.com/forester-2022/

More on this 525th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Magic Number (1 of 3) (The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio) — at: https://disquiet.com/0525/

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

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Trioism (disquiet0525)

Over the roofs 
with sternklang & buckminster
I think there’s something baroque on the original duet track by sternklang & buckminster something on the musical phrases, I don’t know  . Anyway, I decided that a sort of Harpsichord could work, it didn’t so I used a picked piano instrument from Soniccouture’s Xtended Piano library. I added some sparse cello and strings to punctuate the classical feel. Honestly I need to sleep on this one to decide if this was a good idea…

Based on https://soundcloud.com/sternklang/over-the-roofs-and-chimneys-clouds-gather-disquiet0526
That was based on https://soundcloud.com/buckminster-music/on-the-roofs-and-chimneys-excerpt-for-disquiet0525

@buckminster-music
@sternklang

Over The Roofs (disquiet0527) with sternklang & buckminster

A collab with @chaonaut & @half-unusual 
More on this 527th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Magic Number (3 of 3) (The Assignment: Complete an asynchronous trio begun by two other musicians) – at: https://disquiet.com/0527/

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

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Chaonautical HalF TwisT (disquiet0527)

Disquiet Junto Project 0527: Magic Number (3 of 3)
The Assignment: Complete an asynchronous trio begun by two other musicians.

I listened to all the Duos until i found
https://soundcloud.com/paul-reiners-1/magic-number-2-of-3-disquiet0526
by https://soundcloud.com/paul-reiners-1

based on
https://soundcloud.com/triermusic/baridrone-disquiet0525
by https://soundcloud.com/triermusic

which catched my ear because I liked the mixture of drone and somehow new-agy drums.

After testing the assumed scale and tempo I added some improvised arpeggios. Because of the mirrored drums it sometimes fitted, sometimes you can’t overhear the “asynchronous” trio …

I wanted to add some kind of lead theme but I dismissed the idea at the end, because the track just felt right ambient. I could not resist to put in some ambience, in this case from Venice, Italy. Hope you like it!

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More on this 527th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Magic Number (3 of 3) (The Assignment: Complete an asynchronous trio begun by two other musicians) — at: https://disquiet.com/0527/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0527-magic-number-3-of-3/

Magic Number 3 [disquiet0527]

For my asynchronous collaboration contribution to Disquiet Junto 0527 Magic Number 3 of 3 (and Weekly Beats 2022 Song 5) I built upon last week’s awesome track from @Daniel-Diaz (https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/more-reflections-disquiet0526-with-noodle-twister) and Noodle Twister (@user-130801280). As soon as I heard this groove and catchy bassline I wanted to play some drums with it. So I started there, did a few takes using Ableton’s comping feature for the first time, which was fun. The next goal was some chords and maybe a lead of some sort. Almost went down rabbit hole on sounds, but settled on Arturia’s virtual Clavinet with some wah and grit. Then added a little extra percussion. Finally added the vocal samples from Natalie Major, downloaded from Noizz. I actually almost removed the vocals today, but in the end, here they stay.This was a lot of fun, and it’s been great hearing what everyone has come up with, there’s some truly amazing music from this group!

More on this 527th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Magic Number (3 of 3) (The Assignment: Complete an asynchronous trio begun by two other musicians) — at: https://disquiet.com/0527/

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

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Third Reflection (Good Feeling) w/ Daniel Diaz & Noodle Twister [Disquiet0527] [Weekly Beats 22 #5]

The Assignment: Forge an unobtrusive path through musical flora.

Step 1: Take as inspiration the warning in the photo that serves as this project’s cover image.

Step 2: Think about the concept of creating an unobtrusive path through the musical equivalent of fragile vegetation.

Step 3: Record a piece of music that traces the path you imagined in Step 2.

Fragile - disquiet0528

Disquiet Junto Project 0529: Squared Off
The Assignment: Explore the number 23.

I instantly wanted to do something with probabilities. So here are a lot of probabilities at work, thanks to Ableton: The pad (23 notes of A minor scale, with a 23% probability of being played an octave higher) and the gongs have a 23% probability of not to be played inside 1 bar with 1 note in a loop of 23 bars. The cymbal has a 23% probability of being played and, if played, a 23% probability of being a rainstick. The voices saying 'The Probability Is 23 Percent' are made with ttsmp3.com and I downloaded 23 different versions which had a switch probability of 23% (so not all of them may have been played; the 'stutter effect' is by accident, I did not found the cause and liked it anyway). And so on, with 23 bpm. I wanted to do 23 Minutes but to honor the "squared" prompt (and to spare you some repetition) it's only 529 seconds (8:49min). Be assured that, although I was a huge fan of The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Wilson/Shea and it may sound otherwise here, I didn't take all that too seriously…

It's CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 and A minor with 23bpm, feel free to remix.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

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More on this 529th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Squared Off (The Assignment: Explore the number 23) — at: https://disquiet.com/0529/

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disquiet III

[more tracks here!]

The Probability Is 23 Percent [disquiet0529]

Lost in Crystal Cavern [part 2]

I was heavily inspired by rhythm game music, blending several EDM genres that I’ve always wanted to produce.

Fragile - disquiet0528

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