Disquiet Junto Project 0614: Alternate Route
The Assignment: Do something you often do, but differently.

Playing acoustic instruments into a system of effects is a thing I’ve been doing a lot. Usually I do this in an improvisational, exploratory way: having only a rough idea of what I want to start off with, and then just seeing (actually: listening) where the music will take me.
Something I’ve been thinking about is using this way of playing in a context where at least some of the material is composed, thought out before hand.
So I used the prompt to do a bit of experimenting in this area.

The piece I made uses Erik Satie’s Gnossienne 2 as its main material. 
My idea was to dissect that piece into its component parts, then play and explore around those separate parts and in the end stitch the recordings together into something that would stay true to the original score. A sort of rearrangement.
In the end I had to abandon that idea. Lack of time mostly. And also, I thought it worked better to give some of the non-melody parts a bit more space.

The instruments used are piano (actually: sampled piano), kalimba, duduk, zither. And I used mainly three effects chains: one centred around saturation (on the duduk), one around using lfo’d panning - and a bit of distortion - as a sort of tremolo effect (on the zither), and one around using reverb with varying room size - giving a sort of tape warble feel - (on the whole mix).

I can see some potential for this way of working with composed material (also using my own compositions), though using composed material while still retaining the notion of the music arising in the moment of playing (that is: without requiring a lot of editing), is a different matter.

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

Gnossiennesque - after Satie Gnossienne 2 (disquiet0614)

Crie.

Hi, lately I’ve been working a lot (for a professional assignment) on orchestral soundscapes, so my previous Soundcloud shares were done using sample libraries, a friend’s cello performance and my own upright basses (using my bow)

This one, recorded yesterday and edited and finished today (Friday the 27th Oct 2023 is just me and my multitracked bowed bass , to achieve a noisy, creepy tone I didn’t use any rosin on the bow, so i could get some nasty tones bowing very hard and all around the strings. It was fun, just improvising one track on top of the previous and playing around some cathedral convolution reverbs, a Lexicon Hall at 18 seconds and one instance of the great Valhalla Supermassive (always useful for this stuff, with the right settings it transforms a noisy harmonic into a gorgeous sustained pad )

This one’s dedicated to William Burroughs and is called Rotten Ectoplasm.
Happy Halloween to everybody.

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0617-haunt-scape

Rotten Ectoplasm (disquiet0617)

Purple Hour - TPC 327 1st Place

Believe

SLEEPIN' SINGLE

girl, it kills me you're not here
you say that you've been lonely too
it's your sweet kiss i miss
i've looked at this
from every angle
i can be there by midnight
if i leave now and the coast is clear
some cabernet
whattaya say
let's intermingle
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;we've spent too much of our forever
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;sleeping single
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;not one more night
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;sleeping single

it's been like a dream
from the first moment i saw you
in a fevered heat
my heart skipped a beat
turning cartwheels

i wanna feel those feelings
brand new every day
kissing your sweet lips
while my heart flips
turning cartwheels
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;we've spent too much of our forever
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;sleeping single
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;not one more night
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;sleeping single

don't wanna spend one more moment
without you by my side
or one more night
sleepin' single
not one more night
sleepin' single

Sleepin' Single

Werbeliner See bei Leipzig, 03.03.2024, 07:00 Uhr

Morning At The Lake, March 2024 (song Trush)

Athens and Rome is the new symphonic-acoustic single by JOHN E VISTIC. The song is a foretaste of his latest solo acoustic album 'Ten Simple Songs About Death' coming soon. The single is due out 15th March 2024 on Deafendling Records (Bristol UK). 

PRESAVE ON SPOTIFY NOW!  
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/johnevistic/athens-and-rome 

ATHENS AND ROME is produced with additional instrumentation by Tom Hackwell (Erotic Secrets of Pompeii) and features a towering inferno of lyrics and acoustic guitar, atop a rising tide of strings, synth and tympany drums. The song cites Cicero's famous maxim about Justice and Natural Law. Do not be fooled by the quiet intro, this song GOES BIG. The accompanying video by John E Vistic, which premieres with LOUDER THAN WAR, was filmed in a series of stormy days and nights off the coast of Ireland in a memorable road trip while delivering a piano. Remember, kids, Never Surrender! NEC SPE NEC METU.

Athens And Rome

Welcome To My First Track! Just A Fair Warning Its Not THE Best, So Dont Be Expecting Much Outta My First Track, Its Pretty Repetitive Not Gonna Lie, But I Say It Sounds Fine Nonetheless! Id Love To Get Some Feedback On My Work And Maybe Even A Few Tips And Tricks For Later Use! Also For Those Of You Wondering, The Cover Art IS Infact AI Generated Cause God Knows I Couldnt Make A Good Cover Art By Myself Even If My Life Depended On It Lmao, I Did Do A Bit Of Editing On It Of Course! Anyways, Thats All For This Desc; Hope Yall Enjoy And Let Me Know What I Can Do Better On! :]

FEELNIT - The Reason

He Comes and He Goes

Coronal Mass Ejections

Hello! Im 'FEELNIT'! (Feeling It) Im A New And Small Artist, Ill Admit, My Tracks Arent THE Best, But I Feel Like I Do Well Enough That My Music Isnt Unbearable! Anyways Id LOVE To Get Some Feedback On My Work, Maybe Even A Few Tips And Tricks Here And There! I Really Wanna Improve My Work So Some Advice Is VERY Much Obliged and HEAVILY Encouraged! And For Those Of You Wondering What Platform I Use To Make My Music, I Use Soundtrap! I Also Use AI For My Cover Art! Anyways, With All That Being Said, Hope Yall Enjoy My Music! :D

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/officialfeelnit?igsh=MWowYnRncGw1MjNicw==

GMAIL: officialFEELNIT@gmail.com

FEELNIT - The Reason

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