More on this 473rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Placebo Effect (1 of 3) / The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio that others will complete — at:

https://disquiet.com/0473/

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-0473-placebo-effect/

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

Image associated with this project is by Israel Avila, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/5bFGMU

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Disquiet Junto Project 0473: Placebo Effect (2 of 3)

Disquiet Junto Submissions

Well…. what do you make of „Girl holding something innocuous just to conveniently show off a little too much boob“ and „Dreamy, ever-so-slightly blurry, with saturated yellows and greens“? 

’kay. So: Boobs and Dreamy. 

I thought of 70ies Soft Porn, David Hamilton, light white summer dresses, Silvia Kristel and blurry camera lenses. Pretty sticky stuff. 

I took a drone base, some typical harmonies and some of sixth-cords. It’s all a bit in-yer-face, i know. 

So, without further ado: Ambient Soft Porn! 


More on the 61st Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/02/28/disquiet0061-textinstagrambient/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/


analoc - ambient soft porn [disquiet0061-textinstagrambient]

Only sine waves. 5 seconds intro for the first voice, then 10 seconds for the second voice, after 15 seconds we’re allowed to alter the sounds. 
Tough one. 

My first idea were slightly detuned voices (up to 50 c with an very, very slow LFO). I tried and failed horribly. 

But then another idea struck: theme, second theme, third theme: Wasn’t that Bach? There was nothing about pitch variations in the instructions, right? So I used some composing software for the layout of a short fughetta. The Sine instrument is of course an organ, I chose three Native Instruments B3. 

Enjoy!


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Disquiet Junto Project 0062: Life of Sine

This week's project involves making music from the basic building block of sound: the sine wave. 

You will compose and record a piece of music using just three different sine waves, and nothing else — well, nothing else in terms of source material, but the waves can, after the piece has gotten underway, be transformed by any means you choose. 

These are the steps:

Step 1: Devise which three sine waves you will employ. They should be different from each other in some evident way.

Step 2: The track should open with just one of the sine waves. 

Step 3: Add the second sine wave at 5 seconds. 

Step 4: Add the third sine wave at 10 seconds.

Step 4: Only at 15 seconds should you begin to in any way manipulate any of the source waves.

Deadline: Monday, March 11, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your finished work should be between 1 and 4 minutes in length.

(…) 

More on this 60th Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/03/07/disquiet0062-lifeofsine

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
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fugue of sine [disquiet0062-lifeofsine]

I re-recorded the given gregorian chant in a nice cozy plush cat tower (our cat love it). 

Took that recording, de-reverbed it (yes, there’s a plugin for that). Then added reverb, more reverb, different brands of reverb, some layers of different pitch, even more reverbs. Recorded, mixed and treated in Gleetchlab. 

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Disquiet Junto Project 0063: Gregorian-orian-ian

This week’s project involves the role of architectural spaces in the composition of music. It is a shared-sample project that takes a piece of Gregorian chant as its source material.

These are the steps:

Step 1: Download this OGG audio file that contains a recording of monks singing Gregorian chant at the Abbey of Sant’Antimo in Italy: 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Sanantimo_gregorian.ogg

Step 2: Play back that recording loudly in a highly reverberant space and record it. Your best bet may be a bathroom.

Step 3: Create a new piece of music using the recording you just made as your primary source material. You cannot add any new source material. You can manipulate the audio recording as you please, but restrict yourself to effects that simulate echo, such as delay, reverb, and looping. You may also use the original OGG file, but only in addition to your own recording of it being played back in the reverberant space.

Background: For additional thinking on the role that architecture has played in the evolution of music, this 2010 talk by David Byrne is recommended:

http://blog.ted.com/2010/06/11/how_architectur/

(...) 

More on this 63th Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/03/14/disquiet0063-gregorianorianian

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

The source of this piece is a recording of monks singing Gregorian chant at the Abbey of Sant’Antimo in Italy:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sanantimo_gregorian.ogg


angelic soup [disquiet0063-gregorianorianian]

Oh boy: How exiting! 00:01! Got the starting piece! 

Some production notes: I really liked the original piece, so there was not much to add. Tried to concentrate on different frequencies, so a some bass (NI Scarbee MM), also tripled the original track, EQ’ed, pitched, ducked. Added some pianos and EQs. That’s it. 

The first 8 seconds from the original piece were silent… so I added some reverse reverb/noise thingie. 

Hope you enjoy it! 

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Disquiet Junto Project 0065: Piano Overlay

This week’s project’s theme is asynchronous collaboration — in other words, making things together separately. We will make new compositions based on short, discrete, randomly assigned segments of a single, 60-minute piano composition. Collectively these will form a longer, collaborative suite.

These are the steps:

Step 1: You will be making a piece of music by adding new sounds to a pre-existing track. You can download that pre-existing track, an original piano composition by Jared Brickman, here:

https://soundcloud.com/one_hello_world/every-day-were-dying-and-outer

Step 2: When you go to the following URL, at kenzak.com, you will be assigned, immediately, a specific section of the longer Brickman piece. This kenzak.com URL will randomly pull up two pieces of information. The first piece of information is the start point of your segment. The second is the length of your segment (which will be between 1 and 4 minutes):

http://kenzak.com/disquiet/disquiet0065-pianoverlay.html

One note: There will be overlap between assigned pieces. This was a conscious decision, informed by the overall theme of overlaying, which is explained further in step 4, below.

Step 3: Extract your assigned segment from the pre-existing track.

Step 4: Compose a new piece of music by adding elements to the pre-existing track. You can add anything you choose, with the exception of voice. Limit yourself to two additional elements. The original track should be audible throughout your new composition.

00:01 pre [disquiet0065-pianoverlay]

I didnt know the late Jeffrey Melton in person - but it’s an honor to contribute to his music through this project. 

Took a piece of Jeffreys „Unwind“-Session (around 11:00). All drum-parts and several soundbits were made by several copies of the original, which I EQ’d, granulated, de-verbed, re-pitched and mangled in several ways. Added some NI Absynth 5 and Abletons Operator. 

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Disquiet Junto Project 0066: Communing with Nofi

This week’s project is a tribute to the late Jeffrey Melton, the talented musician, best known on SoundCloud and Twitter as @nofi. Melton passed away a few days ago, on March 30, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he lived with his wife and seven-year-old son. He was 42. Melton had been involved with the Disquiet Junto since the very first Junto project, back in January 2012, and he early on volunteered to create a Twitter list of the handles of participating Junto members.

The theme of this project, the 66th in the weekly Disquiet Junto series, is “posthumous collaboration”: communing through music.

These are the steps:

Step 1: Download the following live session of Jeffrey Melton performing. It was recorded in June of last year. Warning: it’s fairly sizable, at over 350 MBs: nofi.org/media/2012-06-15-Unwind-live-session.mp3

Step 2: The track is quite long, so select a segment of between 2 and 5 minutes. The best way to go about this might be to do it at random (just put the needle down, as it were), but of course feel free to listen at length and select a favorite section.

Step 3: Once you have your extracted segment, set the opening of the track to fade in.

Step 4: Set the ending of the track to cut out suddenly.

Step 5: Listen to it several times, to get to know it.

Step 6: Record yourself performing live along with the segment you have selected. Any instrumentation is fine. Just no voice. Be sure to play alone for approximately 10 seconds after Melton’s performance cuts off.

Deadline: Monday, April 8, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your finished work should be the length determined in steps 2 and 6 above.

This track is a posthumous collaboration with Jeffrey Melton, aka Nofi, who passed away on March 30, 2013. It was recorded live in April 2013 atop a June 2012 Melton live recording.

More on this 66th Disquiet Junto project at: disquiet.com/2013/04/04/disquiet0066-nonofi/

More of Melton/Nofi’s music at: www.nofi.org

Read Melton’s obituary here: www.legacy.com/obituaries/fortwa…amp;pid=163988588

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info


Stay [disquiet0066-nonofi]

Collaboration for the juto challenge 0473
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0473-placebo-effect/

Based on an original piano track by @forcedamage
https://soundcloud.com/forcedamage/fifths-just-piano-disquiet0472

I added electric bass guitar and synthesizer

Photo: La Fortuna, Costa Rica by DD 2019.

Fifths Damage 21012021 (disquiet0473)

Collaboration for the junto challenge 0473
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0473-placebo-effect/
Based on an original piano track by @ikjoyce
https://soundcloud.com/ikjoyce/disquiet0472-jamtimebacking

I added electric guitar improvisation over the original track, edited and augmented by a pitch shifted version of that same track
Performed on a borrowed Gibson Les Paul through a Hughes & Keltner amp and a Rodemberg 808 pedal..

Photo: La Fortuna, Costa Rica by DD 2019.

Improv Over Joyce 21012021(disquiet0473)

Submission for Disquiet Junto 0473. Added a kemane solo in Gm (? - I think) to vgmrmojo's drum track (https://soundcloud.com/vgmrmojo/disquiet0472-drums-drums-drums).

More on this 473rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Placebo Effect (2 of 3) / The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio that others will complete — at:

https://disquiet.com/0473/

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-0473-placebo-effect/

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

Image associated with this project is by Israel Avila, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/5bFGMU

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Drums+Kemane - disquiet0473

track used:new unit (disquiet0472)moduS ponY

Ascension Loop (disquiet0473)

played some bongos over https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0472-jam-time/40425/37?u=abalone

Geoffroy.bongos(disquiet0473)

**Production Notes**

This is a contribution to the Disquiet Junto project (see below). 

While listening to the many excellent contributions to last week’s Disquiet Junto, I found Stray Wool’s „Bedding“ (https://soundcloud.com/everythingdies/bedding-disquiet0472) highly interesting and promising for a collaboration. 

When I first got my Cocoquantus, I started recording random bits and pieces for use in later pieces, and the right-side is an unaltered version of one of these recordings. I added EQ automation and a small metal noise with a lot of reverb.  

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** Disquiet Junto Project 0473: Placebo Effect**

The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio that others will complete.

Step 1: This week’s Disquiet Junto project is the second in a sequence intended to encourage and reward asynchronous collaboration. This week you’ll be adding music to a pre-existing track, which you will source from the previous week’s Junto project (disquiet.com/0472). Note that you aren’t creating a duet — you’re creating the second third of what will eventually be a trio. Keep this in mind. Leave space for what is yet to come.

Step 2: The plan is for you to record a short and original piece of music, on any instrumentation of your choice, as a complement to the pre-existing track. First, however, you must select the piece of music to which you will be adding your own music. There are tracks by 68 musicians in all to choose from, 62 as part of this playlist:

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0472

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To select a track, you can listen through all that and choose one, or you can use a random number generator to select a number from 1 to 68, the first 62 being numbered in the above SoundCloud playlist, and 62-68 being the ones linked to above.

Note: It’s fine if more than one person uses the same original track as the basis for their piece.

It is strongly encouraged that you look through the discussion on the Lines forum, because many tracks include additional contextual information there:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0472-jam-time/

Step 3: Record a short piece of music, roughly the length of the piece of music you selected in Step 2. Your track should complement the piece from Step 2, and leave room for an eventual third piece of music. When composing and recording your part, don’t alter the original piece of music at all, except to pan the original fully to the left if it hasn’t been panned left already. In your finished audio track, your new part should be panned fully to the right. To be clear: the track you upload won’t be your piece of music alone; it will be a combination of the track from Step 2 and yours.

Step 4: Also be sure, when done, to make the finished track downloadable, because it will be used by someone else in a subsequent Junto project.

Step 5: You can contribute more than one track this week. Usually Junto projects have a one-track-per-participant limit. You can do up to two total. For the second, it’s appreciated if you try to work with a solo that no one else has used yet ( look at the project’s post on Lines, linked to in these instructions, or to the project playlist, which will be posted here once tracks start coming in). The goal is for many as people as possible to benefit from the experience of being part of an asynchronous collaboration. After a lot of detailed instruction, that is the spirit of this project.

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More on this 473rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Placebo Effect (1 of 3) / The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio that others will complete — at:

https://disquiet.com/0473/

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-0473-placebo-effect/

Embedded [disquiet0473]

Anatol Locker
Ambient | Electronica | Experimental
also plays in Lucid Grain, MOC and Spheric Lounge

Feel free to download everything here for personal use