More on this 614th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Alternate Route (The Assignment: Do something you often do, but differently), at: https://disquiet.com/0614/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 2

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Disquiet0614 Drums First: The Key to Unlocking Your Potential

This is linked to my track from last week, in both of which I intend to create changing rhythmic patterns. I made a couple of tracks similar to this one but was not entirely satisfied with some of the uneven & glitchy sounds, which were not exactly what I was aiming for. Of course, this is only my opinion & I am probably not the best judge of my own work. At least, although not exactly humorous, it is quite jaunty & light-hearted.

More on this 615th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Introspective Failure (The Assignment: Fall short again, this time on purpose), at: https://disquiet.com/0615/

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Not Quite Right (disquiet0615)

in pre-dawn darkness
the avant-garde soundtrack
of orchestral rainfall

Elliot Carson is a teacher living in Japan who doubles as an artist/designer/translator in his free time. He writes haiku under the pen name EKC and is currently working to self-publish his first book of haiku.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

NaviarHaiku510

Disquiet Junto Project 0615: Introspective Failure
The Assignment: Fall short again, this time on purpose.

Thanks to Junto member XHG (aka Alex) for having proposed this week’s project.

The goal of this project is to purposefully produce an unsatisfactory piece of music in a systematic way, in the hope of potentially learning from the experience. Your approach should be introspective and technical but also lighthearted and humorous.

Step 1: Think about a piece of music you have produced that you were not satisfied with.

Step 2: Try to analyze why this was the case. Is it possible to identify a main reason — like the concept, the process, the instrumentation, or simply the outcome?

Step 3: Take a break and let these thoughts simmer for a while.

Step 4: Try to produce a different unsatisfactory piece of music than you analyzed in Step 2, purposefully replicating the failure. (It might be sensible to keep it short so as to torment yourself not too much.)

Note: Before you start the process, plan something fun and gratifying to do after you finish your piece of music, in case the process lowers your mood.

Eight Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0615” (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 “disquiet0615” (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:

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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.

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, October 12, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, October 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).

For context, when posting the track online, please be sure to include this following information:

Thanks to Junto member XHG (aka Alex) for having proposed this week’s project.

Just another introspective failure - disquiet0615

An electronic composition, sounds created in Pure Data.

More on this 616th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Definition Jam (The Assignment: Explore, in music, the nuanced differences between two closely related words), at: https://disquiet.com/0616/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

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Dense to Dark (disquiet0616)

Sound art for disquiet0616

A nail scraped on antler with a gradual shift in focus from the whole antler to the points.

the point of an antler (disquiet0616)

Space Out disquiet0616

Given all that is going on in the world at the moment, I thought "anxiety" would be a good word to choose for the first half of the track. Of the many words conveying the same thing, I chose "botheration," mainly because I liked the sound of it, but also because it also captures the annoying aspects of our current time. So, "botheration" takes over at about the half way mark. As for process, I began with a nervous and somewhat chaotic drum sequence and then augmented that with a  few mournful strums from the Terra and then fired up my Landscape Stereofield for a bit of noise. Halfway through the drum beats give way to some darkness, again thanks to the Terra and ends with a flourish of pure noise.

disquiet0616

Composition inspired by haiku by Shubham Dasgupta

in dark autumn nights
dew and the new bamboo shoots
reaching out to moon

Shubham Dasgupta, hailing from the picturesque city of Guwahati, India, introduces himself as a student of law. However, his true passion lies in his enchanting affair with words and the mesmerizing world of poetry. With an innate ability to discover beauty in the most ordinary aspects of life, he finds solace in daydreaming. Mastering the art of crafting Haiku poems on a daily basis, he effortlessly weaves emotions into syllables, creating captivating pieces of art. Occasionally, he ventures into the realm of painting, giving life to his vivid imagination.

Bamboo Moon

Bamboo Moon - (naviarhaiku511)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 02-03 Nov 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2023 Jim Lemanowicz

Process notes

First day - 
- Typed one paragraph from the Black Panther newspaper of 4 Nov 1972 into Google Translate. I went with 51 years ago, instead of 50.
- Sent the German output into a text-to-speech engine, PlayHT
- Paulstretch in Audacity & exported
- Dragged into Live and duplicated two more times
- Set warp markers to produce variations & panned two tracks L & R
- L & R tracks each treated to two instances of Arturia Tape Melo-Fi to get some crud distortion
- Center track treated to some widening in Live

Second day - 
- Recorded a china cymbal. This was run into Ableton Live’s Spectral Resonator and other effects.
- Recorded a short series of walking bass notes using a Turser JTB-402. This was run through a modified Buffer Shuffler, iZotope’s Neutron and other effects.
- I duplicated this track and converted the second copy to MIDI for use in sidechaining.
- I froze/flattened the cymbal, speech and bass audio tracks
- I altered some of the things I did the day before with the speech tracks.
- Recorded a nylon-string guitar that was missing the low E and the D string. I retuned the second highest string, recorded something related to the bass track and enhanced this with Live’s grain delay.
- I split the bass audio track into two for hi/lo processing with some simple shelving EQ.

Artwork generated via Adobe Express Generative AI.

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Black Panther, Vol. 9, No. 3, November 4, 1972

A Matter Of Life Or Death, vote “no” on proposition 17, 4th paragraph, translated into German.

Historically, America has justified its use of the death penalty, both domestically and on a world-wide level with the so-called “deterrent” theory. This twisted logic has resulted in the slaughter of millions throughout the world and the development of more and more ingenious methods of killing human beings.

Historisch gesehen hat Amerika seine Anwendung der Todesstrafe sowohl im Inland als auch auf weltweiter Ebene mit der sogenannten „Abschreckungs“-Theorie gerechtfertigt. Diese verdrehte Logik hat zur Abschlachtung von Millionen Menschen auf der ganzen Welt und zur Entwicklung immer raffinierterer Methoden zur Tötung von Menschen geführt.

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This original version of "Begrabe Das Lied" was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0618: Burying the Lede. The Assignment: Turn old news into new music.

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Project discussion takes place on [llllllll.co](http://llllllll.co/): https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0618-burying-the-lede/

This track was originally released under the artist name "Two-Finger Modal Box."

Begrabe Das Lied (disquiet0618)

Disquiet Junto Project 0618: Burying the Lede
The Assignment: Turn old news into new music.

I love reading very old news articles and noticing the ways life is still the same and the ways is very different. I wanted to find something from 100 years before I was born in The San Francisco Chronicle. My actual birthday (August 20th) was missing pages in the archive where I looked (newspapers.com) so I went with August 27th, 1884. I enjoyed the style of writing and storytelling about a dog that was addicted to opium. It carries echos of the present day anxiety about fentanyl but in other ways has no moral or backstory - just a snapshot of life.

To create this sonically, I used the "Matthew" voice from TTSmp3.com and played a bit with inserting commands for spacing or emphasis on particular words (always a challenge with text to speech). It worked OK though I think this piece might have been good with someone just reading it.

After creating an initial draft of the piece where I faded out the voice to let the music take over, I thought it would be more fun to disappear him into something that sounds more musical. So I auto-tuned the voice to try to keep it to F# and G. Then I exported the voice file and uploaded it into Holly+, Holly Herndon's AI tool for converting any audio file into her voice. This created something staticky and singsongy. I crossfaded this with the original voice and then chopped up some bits that worked rhythmically for the end.

Just because, I included a little sound design early on using a "Victorian street" simulation by Timbre on Freesound.org. I then processed it and played it backwards, as is *required* of any *real* sound art...

More on this 618th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Burying the Lede (The Assignment: Turn old news into new music), at: https://disquiet.com/0618/

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Just another introspective failure - disquiet0615

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