Disquiet Junto Project 0569: Think Thank
The Assignment: Make music inspired by something or someone you’re thankful for

Step 1: Think of something or someone you’re thankful for.

Step 2: Make a piece of music inspired by what came to mind in Step 1.

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This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, November 28, 2022, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, November 24, 2022.

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The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2, where “open door, party inside, digital art” was the prompt.

Disquiet Junto Project 0569: Think Thank

Composed and performed by DD (june/july/september 2022)
Upright piano, synthesizers, upright bass, orchestral (strings) samples, acoustic drums

Photo by Karim MANJRA


This particular track is a pure experiment, I was recording my acoustic piano, using some mechanical rubber mutes for a different project, and did this take just for me as a test.
I didn't know what to do with it, and abandoned.
Then, I overdubbed many different instruments over the past few months, an upright bass+acoustic drums rhythm section, an unexpected old-schools synth. Later I added an orchestral section.

There's a lot of work on this track but still I don't know where it's going nor what was i attempting when I started it. An experiment, a true one.

For this challenge:
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An Undertow Of Resilience (disquiet0569)

Project Details: https://disquiet.com/2022/11/24/disquiet-junto-project-0569-think-thank/

Arigatou - disquiet0569

Disquiet Junto Project 0569: Think Thank
The Assignment: Make music inspired by something or someone you’re thankful for

Laurie Andersons "Big Science" was one of the first "avantgarde" LPs I owned in a time, when teens like me used to listen to Kim Wilde or so. I remember listening endlessly to especially "From The Air", "O Superman" and "Example #22". 

Since then the beginning of the "voice sample" from "Example #22" is what I speak into microphones to test them. And as I had a podcast recording this week, I started the track with a sample from this recording. 

I noodled it thru some granulators and added some other stuff. I absolutely wanted to add some "O superman"-vocoder-oh-ohs with a XILS V+ I bought last week (don't miss the 75% sales, especially the XILS 4 https://www.xils-lab.com/products/xils-4-p-148.html, and no, I'm not connected to Monsieur Oudin) and it nearly drove me insane to get Reaper and the V+ to run as a vocoder. But it worked. 

The resulting track may be considered as what I have in mind when I think of these tracks from Laurie Anderson, which I am thankful for. Please notice that it is 40 years since "Big Science" – wtf am I old …

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More on this 569th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Think Thank (The Assignment: Make music inspired by something or someone you’re thankful for) — at: https://disquiet.com/0569/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0569-think-thank/

krakenkraft disquiet

Beispiel #23 [disquiet0569]

This track is a token of gratitude to the creators of the open source software I use in my work. It was constructed using Pure Data, Samplebrain, Audacity & various vst's.

More on this 569th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Think Thank (The Assignment: Make music inspired by something or someone you’re thankful for) – at: https://disquiet.com/0569/

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-0569-think-thank/

The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2, where “open door, party inside, digital art” was the prompt.

Soundforest (disquiet0569)

More on this 569th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Think Thank (The Assignment: Make music inspired by something or someone you’re thankful for) – at: https://disquiet.com/0569/

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-0569-think-thank/

The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2, where “open door, party inside, digital art” was the prompt.

Particulate (disquiet0569)

for the disquiet junto //

an attempt to express gratitude, but came out melancholic

Contemplating Benevolence

[disquiet0569] Contemplating Benevolence

"Composite things are like dreams. Fantasies. Bubbles. Thoughts. Like a dewdrop and a flash of lightning; A new dress and a burning tire; Grains of sand and sinking ships; The shadow of a statue and an entry in a diary; A brain tumor and an ice cream sundae. They are thus to be regarded."

[Æon Flux : Chronophasia]

[disquiet0569] Contemplating Benevolence

Aethyr