newest tracks. well, all of them actually, but in reverse chrono order. you get the idea.

quench (for Leafcutter John)

"The plane had gone to ground near the sound of running water. Turner could hear it, turning in the g-web in his fever or sleep, water down stone, one of the oldest songs." 
 -- William Gibson, Count Zero. 1986.

using http://soundcloud.com/gluid-1/bathwater-field for water down man-made stone -- bedaankt!
and the water pack by plagasul http://www.freesound.org/people/plagasul/packs/8/ -- gracias!

. . . . .

Disquiet Junto Project 0029: Count Zero

This week's project is inspired by an aside that occurs at the opening of chapter 17 of William Gibson's classic cyberpunk novel Count Zero, originally published in 1986. The chapter is titled "The Squirrel Wood." It opens as follows:

"The plane had gone to ground near the sound of running water. Turner could hear it, turning in the g-web in his fever or sleep, water down stone, one of the oldest songs."

This idea of water running down stone, of a gentle but insistent natural stream, being one of the "oldest songs" is explored further in the chapter in various subtle ways. The Disquiet Junto project this week is to explore that idea: that there is music in the natural environment. We'll makes songs from running water.

The instructions are as follows:

Step 1: Locate and make a field recording of source material that involves running water. It can be a stream, as in the Gibson book, but it needn't be natural. The sink, a toilet, a hose in the backyard — any such source material would be fine.

Step 2: Extract a segment of the recording. That segment will serve as the basis for your composition, as its foundation. It will provide both rhythmic and melodic material. You can either use one long piece of the recording, or you can create the foundation of the track by combining and looping one or more brief segments of your original field recording.
 
Step 3: Add elements and treatments to the foundation recording of running water. Do so with the intention of highlighting the water's internal sense of rhythm and melody. Do not embellish so much that the foundation recording becomes unrecognizable.
 
Deadline: Monday, July 23, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

The inspiration for this track came from the opening of chapter 17 of William Gibson's 1986 novel Count Zero.
 
More on the 29th Disquiet Junto project at: http://disquiet.com/2012/07/19/disquiet0029-countzero/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info


_______________________________________________________________
pic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dionnehartnett/7324180278/

The plane had gone to ground near the sound of running water [disquiet0029-countzero]

for @disquiet Junto #30: "Sounds from Silence" (details below).

i thought this would be a cinch, because i immediately knew what i wanted to do:
use the vinyl crackles from John Cage's Experiences No. 1 off of <a href=http://www.discogs.com/Jan-Steele-John-Cage-Voices-And-Instruments/master/289958>Obscure #5: Voices and Instruments</a>
(the orig is here, btw: http://www.ubu.com/sound/obscure5.html -- get it while it's still there!)
i ended up messing about with it for entirely too long, and just aborted. 
So if you'd like to hear 42 alternative takes of this, get in touch.

<a href=http://institut-fuer-feinmotorik.net/>Institut für Feinmotorik</a> is the best prepared-turntable band of all time.
cf. e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXCxnnena4Q 
Amazingly, you can download their historic release Penetrans (2002):
http://institut-fuer-feinmotorik.net/?page=output/penetrans

. . . . . 
Disquiet Junto Project 0030: Sounds from Silence 

This week's project deals with the concept of silence — specifically recorded silence. We will take a segment of audio that is intended to signify silence, and then from it make an original piece of music. 

Step 1: Select a segment of recorded sound that would generally be perceived as silent. Examples include: the gap between tracks on a tape cassette or vinyl record, the noise your laptop's headphone jack emits when nothing is playing, the quietest moment in an MP3, a radio signal when nothing is supposed to be heard. 

Step 2: Amplify or otherwise magnify that supposed absence of sound until it makes a perceivable noise. 

Step 3: Compose, perform, and record a new original piece of music that takes this sound as its sole source material. You can manipulate the original audio as you see fit, but you can't add other pre-existing audio elements to it. 

Deadline: Monday, July 30, at 11:59pm wherever you are. 

More on the 30th Disquiet Junto project at: http://disquiet.com/2012/07/26/disquiet0030-nonsilent/ 

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info 


________________________________________________________
pic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/edesign/234102850/

ode to the Institut [disquiet0030-nonsilent]

for @disquiet <a href=http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto>Junto</a> <a href=http://disquiet.com/2012/08/02/disquiet0031-onomatch>31, "Ono's Match"</a>

several copies of http://www.freesound.org/people/HerbertBoland/sounds/29677, processed in Audacity

in honor of the yesteryearness of fluxus, i did it all by hand -- no supercollider
(you most likely cannot appreciate what an effort, ridiculously, that was for me).


Disquiet Junto Project 0031: Ono's Match
This week's project takes the opportunity to focus on the art movement known as Fluxus. We'll use as the starting point a 1955 composition by Yoko Ono. Her work is titled "Lighting Piece" and it consists of a single, simple sentence: "Light a match and watch till it goes out." It is one of a number of pieces that Ono produced as part of Fluxus. For this week's Disquiet Junto project, please interpret her instruction as closely or as loosely as you choose.

Deadline: Monday, August 6, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
pic: still from <a href=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ulrich_R%C3%BCckriem>Ulrich Rückriem</a>, Kreise (1971), who by complete coincidence is my neighbor, and though he moved into a different direction, did do some fluxus/happening-type work in the 60s & early 70s. He made an earlier film that involved burning wood, iirc, but i couldn't find stills from that (just to make my associative chain explicit here).

heat death [disquiet0031-onomatch]

for @disquiet Junto 33: Turntable Played

actual meatspace collaboration with @random-coil


:: statement ::

random coil came over (no small feat) with the phenomenal RECORDING DEVICE, with which we made recordings of my original issue SONY PS-T22 AUTOMATIC/DIRECT DRIVE STEREO TURNTABLE SYSTEM (just to fulfill the nerd random information act we seem to have instituted for this Junto).

we spent a few minutes making one uninterrupted recording of various forms of misusing the various components of my original issue SONY PS-T22 AUTOMATIC/DIRECT DRIVE STEREO TURNTABLE SYSTEM with a non-standard-issue additional doohickey aparatus that brushes the vinyl clean 42 arcseconds before the needle hits the record (<- i have always enjoyed saying that out loud, very much. needle hits the record, i mean).

@random-coil then spent considerably, but not absurdly, more time cleaning and cutting up that recording, which resulted in 42 samples of varying length.

we then fed these into my supercollider.sf.net setup and proceeded to spend absurd, with-sound-nerd-abandon-grade amounts of time listening to endless semi-random variations of treatments of these. 

the recording i have now, semi-randomly, chosen to upload consists of vanilla, twice-a-second replays of jeweils (*) one of The 42, then segues into relatively chill rhythmic granulations of up to 32 randomly chosen samples. toward the end, the vanillas fade out, and we are left only with the granulations. (the point is pretty obvious in the waveform, i now see.)

this jam was very gratifying not least because random coil had the same problem i always do: all of these sounds sound so delicious, can't decide, can't deCIDE, CAN'T DECIDE. Consequently, we have several hours more of these, if anyone would be interested in putting out an album or two.



:: testimonial ::

this week's Junto is basically the mission statement of this band, so i'll repeat an earlier pointer:

Institut für Feinmotorik is the best prepared-turntable band of all time. 
cf. e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXCxnnena4Q 

Amazingly, you can download their historic release Penetrans (2002): 
http://institut-fuer-feinmotorik.net/?page=output/penetrans 



:: Instructions ::

Disquiet Junto Project 0033: Turntable Played 

This week’s project is the Disquiet Junto's 33rd, and since the number 33 (or, more specifically, the number 33 1/3) is so closely tied with the LP turntable, that device will be the primary object of investigation. 

You will make an original piece of music in which all the sounds are derived from a turntable — only from the turntable itself, which means you can't put any vinyl on it. You can knock on the turntable, blow on the needle, record the sound of its internal mechanisms, whatever you like. You can also transform those sounds as you please, but you cannot include any additional sounds. 

Deadline: Monday, August 20, at 11:59pm wherever you are. 

More on the 33rd Disquiet Junto project at: http://disquiet.com/2012/08/16/disquiet0033-turntable 

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info 

__________________________________________________________________________________________
pic: my original issue SONY PS-T22 AUTOMATIC/DIRECT DRIVE STEREO TURNTABLE SYSTEM

(*) jeweils is a useful german word that has no direct correspondent in the english language, whose meaning hence is impossible to explain adequately, afaik. in the above sentence, it elegantly points out that we are randomly selecting one of the 42 samples every 0.5 seconds.

random coil & all n4tural – my other turntable's a Braun [disquiet0033-turntable]

for @disquiet Junto 34: Radius Joint

:: statement ::

i just kept dividing everything by 2


:: Instructions ::

Disquiet Junto Project 0034: Radius Joint

This is a shared-sample project. The sample is the opening jingle (or "sound logo") for the excellent Chicago-based series called Radius. The series is broadcast in Chicago at 88.9 FM. Its jingle is titled "Radius loop."
 
You will make an original piece of music in which the sample will serve as your sole sound source. Your track will open with the jingle/logo running in full. As it comes to a close, you will segue into an original piece of music built from a transformation of that jingle/logo. You can transform this source audio as you please, but you cannot include any additional sounds.

The jingle/logo, which is just 14 seconds long, can be downloaded from here: http://theradius.us/about 

Deadline: Monday, August 27, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
 
More on the 33rd Disquiet Junto project at: http://disquiet.com/2012/08/23/disquiet0034-theradius/ 

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info

pwrs of to [disquiet0034-theradius]

haphazard video (no sound): http://youtu.be/TkUnvC64ntA
description to follow, gotta run

the red, green, blue values of a pixel determine the position within a sample (first 20 secs of J.S. Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, II. Andante)
we scan the image top down, fading to grey

Clyfford Still, Untitled (PH-118) - 1947, oil on canvas

first two minutes of an eight-minute recording i made at <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonthaburi_town>นนทบุรี Nonthaburi Market</a>, Thailand, in the summer of 2011. 
http://youtu.be/vwLp6SQdixo (motion sickness alert, ymmv)

the market is huge; i just picked one path through at random, there are no repeats or doublings-back in the eight-minute version.

(made on the same day-job trip that provided the source for http://soundcloud.com/all-n4tural/meter-naa )


Disquiet Junto Project 0037: Store Recordings


This Disquiet Junto project was done in association with the exhibit As Real As It Gets, organized by Rob Walker at the gallery Apex Art in Manhattan (November 15 – December 22, 2012):

http://apexart.org/exhibitions/walker.php 

More on this 37th Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2012/09/13/disquiet0037-asrealasitgets1 

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info

นนทบุรี [disquiet0037-asrealasitgets1]

for @disquiet @djunto Project 0039: Netlabel Derivations 

a bit of a technical departure for me -- no granular :) 
just playing different cuts of the three tracks in a fixed rhythm, randomly constructed from powers of 2 (naturally). No processing of any sort, just playing backwards and forwards at original speed. (some bass boost added globally in post production to smooth things over. and because we like bass.)

Concatenative synthesis i've heard it called, but prefer to think of it as tape music -- if our forefathers had had unlimited tape heads with direct random access. Come to think of it, it's a nondeterministic polynomial time Turing machine gone .. ill.

<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem>P = NP(ill)</a>


Disquiet Junto Project 0039: Netlabel Derivations

This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Nowaki netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. This track is comprised of three pieces of music: "Irese" by Barascud, "Sumatra" by André D / Christophe Meulien, and "She Likes to Look at the Sky" by Kluge. More on the Nowaki label, and the original versions of these tracks, at 

http://http://www.nowaki-music.org/ 

"Irese" from this Barascud's Summit: http://www.nowaki-music.org/#album151 

"Sumatra" from André D / Christophe Meulien's Archipel http://www.nowaki-music.org/#album153 

"She Likes to Look at the Sky" from Kluge's No Love, Please. http://www.nowaki-music.org/#album130 


More on this 39th Disquiet Junto project at: 

http://disquiet.com/2012/09/27/disquiet0039-remixingnowaki/ 

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info

unlimited tape heads [disquiet0039-remixingnowaki]

for Disquiet Junto Project 0040: Music + 1
based on Kenneth Kirschner, "June 5, 2012 - iii" (http://shskh.com/www/ )

added my voice, some raindrops, and rhythmic down-tuned cuts of the original.



a flagrant
a blissfull 
a continuing saga of cold black-lipped wonton violence

wu-tang
suzy wongful neglijays
castabout for sailing ships
tortilla on rye

wu-tang
wongful
a flagrant a blissful 
a tumescent putrid quagmire of "soul"

go it, dug it, been there, self-contained & jaundiced
not -- just not -- happening, anymore

flagrant, blissful not-ending 
always bending 
name-for-nothing

&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Säntis, February 26, 2000



Disquiet Junto Project 0040: Music + 1 

The source audio for this track is part three of the Kenneth Kirschner album June 5, 2012, which features Kirschner on piano and Tawnya Popoff on viola. The album was released in September 2012 on the shskh.com netlabel, where it is available for free download. 

More on this 40th Disquiet Junto project at: http://disquiet.com/2012/10/04/disquiet0040-kirschnerplus1 

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info 

More on Kenneth Kirschner at: http://www.kennethkirschner.com

blissful not-ending  always bending  name-for-nothing [disquiet0040-kirschnerplus1]

for Disquiet Junto Project 0041: Dirty Minimalism 

using, with thanks:
<ul>
     <li><a href="http://www.freesound.org/people/laribum/sounds/66064/">Metal and Wood Movements.wav</a> by <a href="http://www.freesound.org/people/laribum/">laribum</a></li> 
     <li><a href="http://www.freesound.org/people/THE_bizniss/sounds/39537/">file can side.wav</a> by <a href="http://www.freesound.org/people/THE_bizniss/">THE_bizniss</a></li> 
     <li><a href="http://www.freesound.org/people/Robinhood76/sounds/94013/">01557 metal creaks.wav</a> by <a href="http://www.freesound.org/people/Robinhood76/">Robinhood76</a></li> 
     <li><a href="http://www.freesound.org/people/Robinhood76/sounds/93942/">01553 metal box close.wav</a> by <a href="http://www.freesound.org/people/Robinhood76/">Robinhood76</a></li> 
     <li><a href="http://www.freesound.org/people/cognito%20perceptu/sounds/95067/">screeching train.wav</a> by <a href="http://www.freesound.org/people/cognito%20perceptu/">cognito perceptu</a></li> 
     <li><a href="http://www.freesound.org/people/spukkin/sounds/70888/">metalScreech.wav</a> by <a href="http://www.freesound.org/people/spukkin/">spukkin</a></li> 
     <li><a href="http://www.freesound.org/people/Pooleside/sounds/32166/">screech01.wav</a> by <a href="http://www.freesound.org/people/Pooleside/">Pooleside</a></li> 
     <li><a href="http://www.freesound.org/people/jaava73/sounds/54269/">gate_1.wav</a> by <a href="http://www.freesound.org/people/jaava73/">jaava73</a></li> 
     <li><a href="http://www.freesound.org/people/Razzvio/sounds/79571/">Metal squeaking chair.wav</a> by <a href="http://www.freesound.org/people/Razzvio/">Razzvio</a></li> 
</ul>

another case of endless futzing around, because i really like what's happening at times, but it doesn't really meet what i had in mind for "dirty minimalism". initially i'd been going more for a dirty version of http://soundcloud.com/all-n4tural/rflct-disquiet0010-reflect, but then all these other things happened. o well.


Disquiet Junto Project 0041: Dirty Minimalism 
All Disquiet Junto projects employ constraint as a means to stimulate creativity and productivity. Sometimes this means limiting oneself to specific source material, other times to a conceptual approach, and there's always the additional constraint of time: the deadline is approximately four days, depending on your time zone. 

For this Disquiet Junto project, the constraint is a matter of terminology. This week we're exploring how the concept of "genre" can itself serve as a restraint, and we'll accomplish this by pushing back at genre conventions. 

The project instructions are straightforward: Record an original piece of music that you feel belongs within the genre of "minimalism" — but that also, you feel, sounds "dirty" in some considerable way. 

The idea we're pushing at here is that most of the time, when one sees the word "minimalism" employed in regard to art and music, there's an understanding that it involves an almost clinical aesthetic. The sole exception on any regular basis would be certain realms of droning death metal — examples of which would certainly be welcome in this week's Junto. This week we're going to push minimalism out of its comfort zone. 

Restrictions: You can use any source material, any instrumentation, except the human voice. 

Deadline: Monday, October 15, at 11:59pm wherever you are. 

Length: Your finished work should be between 2 and 4 minutes in length. 

More on this 41st Disquiet Junto project at: http://disquiet.com/2012/10/11/disquiet0041-dirtyminimalism 

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info

grooving with a pict revisited

http://soundcloud.com/ttuttle/constant-blues

http://soundcloud.com/troente/constant-blues-todd-tuttle-tr

Constant Blues (Trönte & todd tuttle w/ all n4tural)

http://soundcloud.com/ttuttle/constant-blues

http://soundcloud.com/troente/constant-blues-todd-tuttle-tr

http://soundcloud.com/all-n4tural/troente-and-todd-tuttle-w-all




see http://sccode.org/1-4Rs if interested in code



Constant Blues (acapella rmx)

for @disquiet @djunto 0043: Dazzled Machine

i think i used all of them:) http://soundcloud.com/search?q%5Bfulltext%5D=disquiet0037 

http://soundcloud.com/lem-herlihy/post-disquiet0037 
http://soundcloud.com/steveburnett/beforeclosing-disquiet0037 
http://soundcloud.com/cnco/changing-floors-disquiet0037-1 
http://soundcloud.com/all-n4tural/nonthaburi-market-disquiet0037 
http://soundcloud.com/vanwinkletunes/disquiet0037-asrealasitgets1 
http://soundcloud.com/benjamindauer/h-street-nw-disquiet0037-asrealasitgets1 
http://soundcloud.com/demilit/dm-mall-comb-disquiet-junto 
http://soundcloud.com/michel-banabila/akihabara-denki-gai 
http://soundcloud.com/tuonela-1/rumbling-past-the-deli 
http://soundcloud.com/naotko/shibuya-noren-gai-tokyo-sep-15 
http://soundcloud.com/random-coil/buying-a-plastic-tray-obi 
http://soundcloud.com/zedkah/john-lewis-westfield-stratford 
http://soundcloud.com/thereflectors/bloomingdales-ascension 
http://soundcloud.com/super-miracle-dream-team/ascension-macys-escalator 
http://soundcloud.com/echosonic/scala-at-st-michael 
http://soundcloud.com/markrushtoncom/central-discount-120915 
http://soundcloud.com/sighup/cashiers-loblaws-st-clair-ave 
http://soundcloud.com/jmmy-kpple/retail-space-transect-140912 
http://soundcloud.com/charlie_grant/at-the-end-of-the-day 
http://soundcloud.com/emmahendrix/deep-in-the-w-holefoods 
http://soundcloud.com/vuzhmusic/apple-store-twenty-ninth 
http://soundcloud.com/bigpause/westfield-stratford-having-a 
http://soundcloud.com/dizzybanjo/macys-nyc-feb-2011 
http://soundcloud.com/justin-buckley/its-a-brand-at-bauhaus 
http://soundcloud.com/ken-mistove/target-simi-valley-ca-09-14-12 
http://soundcloud.com/dead_wood/primark-big-sizes-only 

process: i threw them all in a big brown bag and let supercollider pick which one to play when for how long. my instructions were mainly to use the durations [1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 1, 2, 4] seconds. the code is similar to this here: http://sccode.org/1-4Rs. i let sc generate a couple-tenthousand versions and picked the one i liked best. decisions, decisions.

my people are working with Maya Arulpragasam's to do the vocals. i am filled with hopeful anticipation.


Disquiet Junto Project 0043: Dazzled Machine
The Assignment: Make mechanical roars from the sound of a retail space.


This Disquiet Junto project was done in association with the exhibit As Real as It Gets, organized by Rob Walker at the gallery Apex Art in Manhattan (November 15 – December 22, 2012): http://apexart.org/exhibitions/walker.php 

More on this 43rd Disquiet Junto project at: http://disquiet.com/2012/10/25/disquiet0043-dazzledmachine 

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info 



___________________________________________________________
pic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdhancock/4509591701/

worldwide razzledazzle shopping machine [disquiet0043-dazzledmachine]

for @Disquiet @dJunto Project 0044: Sandy 2012 

i fought with this week's instructions for days, because the provided recordings aren't very dramatic, basically white noise -- no disrespect to Michael Raphael, of course; they are bona fide field recordings from someone who was there during the storm. 

i ended up revisiting the approach and code i used in http://soundcloud.com/all-n4tural/arvo-on-the-beach: to carve a melody out of the whiteness. so again, we have a bank of filters tuned to frequencies inspired by Arvo Pärt's Fratres, an idea in turn inspired by Christian Carrière ( http://soundcloud.com/interceiving )'s very cool no-input rendition: http://vimeo.com/30074885. 

These filters are applied to straight playback of both field recordings; no sounds or other effects added.



The source audio from the 2012 storm Sandy was documented by Michael Raphael, an SFX recordist who maintains the field recording blog Fieldsepulchra athttp://sepulchra.com/blog. His sound effects can be found at Rabbit Ears Audio, http://rabbitearsaudio.com. 

More on this 44th Disquiet Junto project at: http://disquiet.com/2012/11/01/disquiet0044-sandy2012 

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info 


_______________
pic: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/89161013/2012-10-21%2014.16.34.jpg it so happens i was <a href=http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Long_Beach,_New_York&params=40.583936_N_73.699275_W_>standing on Long Beach</a> just a week before Sandy hit. i was thinking, not of a storm, but in a more general global warming vein, how exposed these miles and miles of houses are, if the sea level were to rise just a couple of inches.

Arvo in the storm [disquiet0044-sandy2012]

http://soundcloud.com/yuko-parris vs. http://soundcloud.com/all-n4tural

fixed rhythmic syllables applied to moving sets of sounds



turntable sounds from http://soundcloud.com/all-n4tural/random-coil-all-n4tural-my // http://soundcloud.com/random-coil/all-n4tural-random-coil-i-don

yuko n4tural: haikus

&rarr; <a href=http://echolab.de>echolab</a> & all n4tural OSC-based videocousmatic livecoding (quartz composer & supercollider), v0.0002

please see video, it's at least half of the fun: http://vimeo.com/54617039 

for Disquiet Junto #48: Fraternité, Dérivé (disquiet.com/2012/11/29/disquiet0048-libertederive )


sources used:
“Unloop Hullaballoo” off The Fleet’s Lit Up by Alex Charles and Richard Sanderson
http://threelegsduck.bandcamp.com/album/the-fleets-lit-up 
“Etude” off Emosphere by !Kung
http://threelegsduck.bandcamp.com/album/emosphere 
“04:54AM” off Four AM at Dusk Jérôme Poirier
http://threelegsduck.bandcamp.com/album/four-am-at-dusk

echolab & all n4tural [disquiet0048-libertederive]

for Disquiet Junto Project 0050: -…….–.-..-…-


"Junto till you drop"

&rarr; (http://morsecode.scphillips.com/jtranslator.html) (thanks!)

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&rarr; <pre>(
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;var durs;
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;" ", {1/4},
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"/", {1/4}, {} ));
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;};
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;durs;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;};
)</pre>

&rArr; [ 1/16, 1/8, 1/8, 1/8, 1/4, 1/16, 1/16, 1/8, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/4, 1/8, 1/4, 1/8, 1/8, 1/8, 1/4, 1/4, 1/4, 1/8, 1/4, 1/16, 1/16, 1/4, 1/16, 1/8, 1/16, 1/16, 1/4, 1/16, 1/8, 1/16, 1/16, 1/4, 1/4, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/8, 1/8, 1/4, 1/8, 1/8, 1/8, 1/4, 1/16, 1/16, 1/8, 1/4, 1/4, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/16, 1/4, 1/16, 1/8, 1/16, 1/4, 1/8, 1/8, 1/8, 1/4, 1/16, 1/8, 1/8, 1/16 ]

Those are my beats (for aesthetic reasons i ended up adding a \stretch of 2, so everything's twice as long; bar length 2 * 9.8125 seconds).

There are two voices playing these beats:

↻ turntable sounds recorded with http://soundcloud.com/random-coil (for <a href=http://disquiet.com/2012/08/16/disquiet0033-turntable>Junto # 33 & 1/3</a>) (http://soundcloud.com/all-n4tural/random-coil-all-n4tural-my // http://soundcloud.com/random-coil/all-n4tural-random-coil-i-don )

↻ http://soundcloud.com/ecut/aeolian-hang-of-ecut-free -- impossible to count the countless hours of fun this recording has provided me. thanks, http://soundcloud.com/ecut !


Disquiet Junto Project 0050: -…….–.-..-…-
This week’s project explores Morse Code for its rhythmic content. The instructions are as follows: Select a word or phrase. Encode that word or phrase by the Morse method. Record a rhythmic foundation in which the dash is represented by a long beat and the dot by a brief one. Use that rhythmic foundation as a loop for the length of your track, at the speed you desire — speed can vary over the length of the recording. Record accompanying drone/melodic material that takes the underlying rhythm as its compositional foundation.

More on this 50th Disquiet Junto project at: http://disquiet.com/2012/12/13/disquiet0050-morsebeat 

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto

junto till you drop [disquiet0050-morsebeat]

so i have this mindboggling toothache -- funny story, last time i had one was exactly one year ago, same place, same people, same christmas eve -- and i'm whiling the night away and @Troente sends over this http://soundcloud.com/troente/reutels-na-kerstmis

So this is me howling at the moon mother of godawful why do i need to suffer this are we not in the 21st century psalm 69.



Trönte & all n4tural: Reutels en Keulen na Kerstmis (hymnal)

for @Disquiet Junto Project 0052: Bump Foot CC 

i used the first 20 seconds of all three, because it didn't seem fair to the Bongo otherwise. 

thanks to Bump Foot label and the artists for an enjoyable sunday afternoon and series of mistakes and misunderstandings between brain, fingers and supercollider that led here.

1. The first 20 seconds of "Bongo" off the Aguas Tonicas album Los Desposeídos: http://archive.org/download/foot212/foot212_09-aguas_tonicas-bongo.mp3 
2. "Broken Robots" off the Gridline album Red Music: http://archive.org/download/foot211/foot211_03-gridline-broken_robots.mp3 
3. "The Cat in the Ocean" off the Pics Frunk album Low Voltage: http://archive.org/download/foot206/foot206_01-pics_frunk-the_cat_in_the_ocean.mp3 

This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Bump Foot netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally released on Bump Foot: "Bongo" off the Aguas Tonicas album titled Los Desposeídos, "Broken Robots" off the Gridline album titled Red Music, and "The Cat in the Ocean" off the Pics Frunk album titled Low Voltage. More on the Bump Foot netlabel, and the original versions of these tracks, at http://www.bumpfoot.net 

More on this 52nd Disquiet Junto project at: http://disquiet.com/2012/12/27/disquiet0052-bumpcc 

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info 


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pic: http://www.bumpfoot.net

Broken Bongo Ocean [disquiet0052-bumpcc]

i like http://soundcloud.com/groups/word-music and http://soundcloud.com/groups/ill-field recordings
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headphone music alert!
a financial failure to date, i rarely listen to my tracks via normal loudspeakers. Please enjoy them via headphones. (Accounts of pleasant extra-headphone affairs graciously received.)
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all is explained:
<a href="http://disquiet.com/2011/04/12/chopped-off-the-think-all-n4tural">The Self-Cutting (Up) MP3</a>
<a href="http://disquiet.com/2011/07/01/all-n4tural-beyond-the-ken">SPLENDIDLY ANEMIC FUNK</a>
<a href="http://disquiet.com/2011/12/15/all-n4tural-helpless">REVEALING THE GLITCH IN VOICE</a>
<a href="http://disquiet.com/2012/06/20/rawore-all-cousmatic">UNDER THE BRIDGE, REVISITED</a>
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51 anonymous downloads &minus; no plays &minus; from Senegal today. Is there a black market for all n4tural tapes?
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newer! 
<a href="http://flamingpines.com/releases.htm">Rivers Home: the final five</a>
a <a href="http://soundcloud.com/flaming-pines">Flaming Pines</a> series

with smashing artwork
worth the price alone.
Support hyper-independent labels!

a taste: 
http://soundcloud.com/flaming-pines/sets/rivers-home-final-five 
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new! <a href="http://flamingpines.com/releases.htm">Burning Palms</a>. a <a href="http://soundcloud.com/flaming-pines">Flaming Pines</a> compilation [confusing, huh!]
Now here, too: <a href="http://flamingpines.bandcamp.com/album/burning-palms">Burning Palms</a>
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&equiv; http://www.amnesty.org/en/donate 
&equiv; https://supporters.eff.org 
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thanks for the kind comments, kemosabes!
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