Such a clear example of an excellent technique. Thank you!

Like it's disappearing into the distance.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0242: Share Yer Knowledge

I started and abandoned this track consistently during 2024, never finished it, never been sure about it but there's something I do like. The modulations are fun and clever, I think,  smooth and yet surprising and effective. I recorded several guitar takes over the year (each time I had a guitar recording session I gave this a fresh tray). I wanted this to be a "guitar" showcase, but eventually made it a full keyboards+bass+guitar+drums track.
The final guitar is an edit from 3 takes I did on a 6 month period, the one with volume pedal is nice.
So the title and the melodic motif (nicked from "Summer of '42") have been on my "to do" list for a couple of years, the actual performance comes  from 2024.
I took that photo in Costa Rica on February 2020.



Drowned Crossing The Rubicon (disquiet0680)

Even though afar
a feeling of coolness comes
from those mountain pines

Kagami Shikō was a Japanese poet, considered one of the ten outstanding disciples (Shōmon jittetsu 蕉門十哲) of Matsuo Bashō. He was in turn the master of the famous poetess Fukuda Chiyo-ni.

Originally from the present-day Gifu Prefecture, Kagami Shikō became a monk at Daichi-ji Temple, and in 1690 he became a pupil of Bashō, later accompanying him on some of his journeys and recording his last will in 1694.

After Basho's death, he kept travelling around Japan, writing several essays on haiku and collections of writings until his death in 1731.

Distant Pines(NaviarHaiku575)

another contribution to the haiku challenge of naviar records:

Even though afar
a feeling of coolness comes
from those mountain pines

             - Kagami Shikō -

cool breeze (naviarhaiku575)

Disquiet Junto Project 0680: Reverse Resolution
The Assignment: Finish something (musical) you started last year.

I remember when I started this one year ago I was sitting in a train and in love with Abletons "Operator" FM synth and a mutating sequence on loop. There was no bass at all, because I had bad simple earphones and in the train I was only able to hear the high bells.

Honestly, everytime I listened to it, I thought "This is enough, you don't need more, I like it how it is.", but at the same time I felt guilty, because it was very simple. That's why I never finished it.

To finish the track, I quickly added a bassdrumish sound with Puremagnetik Foomph and added some droney pads. Now I feel guilty again, really like a cheater, because it is still very simple, but now it's finished and I like it.

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More on the 680th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reverse Resolution — The Assignment: Finish something (musical) you started last year — at https://disquiet.com/0680/

Discussion:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0680-reverse-resolution/70376

Cover: DALLE

Krakenkraft

God's Army [disquiet0680]

From a great recording by Ha Kekong: https://soundcloud.com/user-957729823/the-faucet-and-the-pipe

On Thin Ice

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku575-even-though-afar/

Even though afar
a feeling of coolness comes
from those mountain pines

by: Kagami Shikō

Kagami Shikō was a Japanese poet, considered one of the ten outstanding disciples (Shōmon jittetsu 蕉門十哲) of Matsuo Bashō. He was in turn the master of the famous poetess Fukuda Chiyo-ni.

Originally from the present-day Gifu Prefecture, Kagami Shikō became a monk at Daichi-ji Temple, and in 1690 he became a pupil of Bashō, later accompanying him on some of his journeys and recording his last will in 1694.

After Basho's death, he kept travelling around Japan, writing several essays on haiku and collections of writings until his death in 1731.

Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@luniavis?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash">Vasilina Sirotina</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/a-close-up-of-a-bunch-of-moss-on-a-tree-WzXvGsRxE58?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash">Unsplash</a>
      

Forest Magic [ naviarhaiku575 ]

This is my first track using 'time stretch'. I took a simple 4 note piano chord, stretched it, added delay and reverb, reversed it, added more delay, stretched that, reversed it yet again and then added the final delay and reverb. Added synth sounds from the Behringer Kobol Expander. The higher percussive notes represent the pointy pine needles and the swept noise represents the wind.

Moutain Pines (naviarhaiku575)

Composition pour le Naviar Haïku Music challenge 575.
Sur un haïku de Kagami Shikō:
Even though afar
a feeling of coolness comes
from those mountain pines

www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Coolness feeling

Connect with your inner heron! 😜 ... An abstract take on a beautiful haiku, making good use of Virsyn's wonderful Cube 2 resynthesising synth ... Enjoy! ☺️

Amongst the rushes,
a stillness comes over us -
Heron in winter.

roekin is a mark of gratitude; an attribution to all that is; kin.
Dependently arising, from a life lived simply, peace+haiku is the growing collection of poetry and writings attributed to roekin.
The collection can be found at roekin.com.
 
Haiku by roekin: https://www.roekin.com

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

more halF unusuaL

halF stillnesS [naviarhaiku576]

Itiruklos

Using a feedback delay you can add more color and variations by processing the feedback loop through an effect of choice. In this example I'm using a 5 second delay and a reverb to color the feedback loop. The first part lets you hear the dry loop and the second part with the wet feedback.

Unfortunately adding an effect to a feedback loop is not possible in any DAW. I use Bitwig and Reason for this purpose. In Reaper it should be possible too. Another option is using plugins like MXXX.

More on this 242nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Make (and annotate) a track that provides an example of a trick/skill/tip you want to share about a piece of musical software or hardware” — at:
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More on the Disquiet Junto at:
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The image associated with this project is by Susanna Bolle, and is used thanks to a Creative Commons license:
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Process The Feedback Loop [disquiet0242]

electronic
granulated, transverb'd, taldub3'd, mjucjr'd
k-blamo

Especial {disquiet0242}

See http://bassling.blogspot.com/2016/08/disquiet-junto-0242-share-yer-knowledge.html for track discussion and video.

More on this 242nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Make (and annotate) a track that provides an example of a trick/skill/tip you want to share about a piece of musical software or hardware” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0242/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

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There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Farewell [disquiet0242]

This track uses 2 tricks. 1) FEEDBACK is at the heart of everything electronic, oscillators and filters use it for instance, feedback in any process exaggerates the effects of that process and feedback is one of my favourite tricks, it gives you MORE but always suprises you. This is part of a piece i am working on using four “oscillators” which are feedback loops through delays. By cross-feeding and phase-shifting the feeding you can make anything from tuned harmonic drones to noise. I expect that this shares something with David Tudor’s work but this is all in software. (Max 7) They are difficult to control though and this is edited from a long recording when i was trying to write a song about Aleppo but couldn’t find the words. 2) In addition this piece is AMBISONIC to an extent. The oscillators are tapped at 4 different points (wxyz) to create a spatial image. Ambisonics is my other tip/trick/obsession, such an easy way to deal with 3d space and all the patents have expired so all the knowledge is mostly free and available - even for VR, just google it. Here using ATK plugins in Reaper to mix and Binaurally render the 4 channel recordings made in Max7 down to stereo. listen on headphones! and, off topic #0242 makes me think - who remembers Front 242? or the 242 Pilots for that matter?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ambisonic_Software

this track is dedicated to the people of Aleppo.


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Feed(Aleppo)[disquiet0242]

The stress off modern life can be a bitch so I often find a little bit of sonic mayhem is just the balm I need. First I must stress this point -that you MUST delete all prior tracks as you move along your path of destruction, do not hold onto anything no matter how much you like something that happened. You must commit fully to come out the other side. I do this mostly with drum tracks as they often have the hardest attack and shortest decays and kicks just rock. I put 2 drum loops in. The first one stays the same the 2nd I warp to 2/3 time and do some more warping to get it out of time. I then crossfade those tracks to a new track. This will still have a bit of rhythm to it and that will have to go. Take that track copy it another track and start a a different point. The crossfader will now start clipping those sounds,record that to a new track. Now record that track and using the mouse to change the tempo using big and little changes. That new track now must be unwarped in ableton so that the tempo changes stay. Now you can use the new track and do some transposing. Because it is not warped the transposing also changes the speed of everything. Each new track can be copied and crossfaded between using a different start point. Keep doing this process till you feel the stress leave your body. At no point do I add fx. Fx too early in the process kills the slicing effect of the crossfader. When you finally reach you last track then you copy and paste that to another track. Now add fx to it but record it with you scrolling through the presets at whatever rate feels right. Now crossfade that track with the track with no fx and record to one track. Copy that track once and add different drum master fx to each. Pan one a little left and the other right. Master the master to taste. You should not be attached to the final track. That is not the point. The point is where your head is at now.
More on this 242nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Make (and annotate) a track that provides an example of a trick/skill/tip you want to share about a piece of musical software or hardware” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0242/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

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There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this project is by Susanna Bolle, and is used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

http://flic.kr/p/8F9Jmz

How to Obliterate a Drum Track and Find Inner Peace (disquiet0242)

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

All my stuff is now free on bandcamp! https://ahornberg.bandcamp.com/

Process The Feedback Loop [disquiet0242]

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