My contribution to Magic Number 2 of 3 for J. Benjamin Niemi's January 21 Look Again. I ran his track through Mutable Beads and did three live takes manipulating the Density, Time, and Size by hand, then editing out what I didn't like. His original track is on the left, my track is on the right.

Disquiet0526 Jan 21 Look Again - 2

The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio.

Step 1: This week’s Disquiet Junto project is the second in a sequence intended to encourage and reward asynchronous collaboration. This week you’ll be adding music to a pre-existing track, which you will source from the previous week’s Junto project (disquiet.com/0525). Note that you aren’t creating a duet — you’re creating the second third of what will eventually be a trio. Important: Leave space for what is yet to come.

Jupiter and Mars (Duet with Pidgin) - disquiet0526

Disquiet Junto Project 0533: Numbers Magik
The Assignment: Remix a trio — potentially using its subsets and variants.

Yes, there was an emphasis on step 2, but after some tracks from the disquiet0525 playlist I already felt ready to go.

I used
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/unfinished-disquiet0525?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0525
https://soundcloud.com/morgulbee/a-minor-drone-disquiet0525?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0525
https://soundcloud.com/seramind/skrap-left-disquiet0525?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0525

and started to glue some things together in Reaper. Originally I wanted to have Daniels part as a never changing loop, but the finale of his upright bass is just too cool and I tried to bend Morgulbees drone to fit which maybe not have succeeded in every bar but I liked the crooked strangeness. Seraminds part is noise and blips. I added some Vocoder, because I felt like making some noises over the rhythm, and this part, too, has good and bad moments. Most of the time already went into getting the Arturia Vocoder plugin to work the way I wanted it… (solution: multiple tracks, sidechaining, routing – I never had used this before).

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Track cover CC0/PD by Brigitta Schneiter
https://unsplash.com/photos/_SB32j-cVrU

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More on this 533rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Numbers Magik (The Assignment: Remix a trio — potentially using its subsets and variants) — at: https://disquiet.com/0533/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0533-numbers-magik/

Jupiter and Mars (Duet with Pidgin) - disquiet0526

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