this is an excellent composition: the stop/start pattern in the rhythm, which itself stops and starts throughout the (heavy) track

the passing truck that 'bends' slowly downwards in pitch made me recall the guitar intro to black sabbath's iron man!!

wonderful to hear more of your work. The beginning reminded me of when I was taking time lapse pics of cars passing by at night once :) This has a sci fi feel, like a lost scene from bladerunner in a different locale :)

More on this 479th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Truck Radio Rain (The Assignment: Locate three sound sources and make something with them) — at:

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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 janwillemsen, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

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Disquiet Junto Project 0479: Truck Radio Rain

**Production Notes**

I used two snippets recorded in Mallorca on a shortwave radio, these were mostly used for the Kick, the percussive sounds and some noise parts in the middle. 

Hihats were made from a rain recording, which you can hear throughout the whole piece. 

Finally, I found a lorry driving past on freesound.org and used them as a pitch base for the whole track. 

Applied a ton of EQ, delays, reverbs, and transient designers. 

Again: That was fun!

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**Disquiet Junto Project 0479: Truck Radio Rain**

The Assignment: Locate three sound sources and make something with them.

Step 1: Locate online (freesound.org, for example) or record by yourself the following three sounds: a vehicle driving speedily, static between radio stations, and rain.

Step 2: Make an original piece of music using those three sounds. Do what you want with them, but only use those three sounds.

Background: “Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating,” John Cage said in his 1937 lecture, “The Future of Music: Credo.” He continued: “The sound of a truck at fifty miles per hour. Static between the stations. Rain. We want to capture and control these sounds, to use them, not as sound effects, but as musical instruments.” In this week’s Disquiet Junto project, we take the proposition literally.

Seven More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0479” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your tracks.

Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0479” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation of a project playlist.

Step 3: Upload your tracks. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your tracks.

Step 4: Post your tracks in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0479-truck-radio-rain/

Step 5: Annotate your tracks with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: If posting on social media, please consider using the hashtag #disquietjunto so fellow participants are more likely to locate your communication.

Step 7: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

(…)

More on this 479th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Truck Radio Rain (The Assignment: Locate three sound sources and make something with them) — at:

https://disquiet.com/0479/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0479-truck-radio-rain/

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 janwillemsen, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

Cage's Car [disquiet0479]

Made a little Animation/Diashow of my latest fractals done with Apophysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mln7qiqzXF8
enjoy!

noxpox - cave romantics (videolink in description)

Orambur

https://soundcloud.com/lysergenesissi
https://soundcloud.com/neuropolitics2358

LY↯ER☁GENE☁↯I↯ - Night Shifted Blossom > Birth Into A Skull

Source sound is a very nice recording of a bathroom stall hinge: https://freesound.org/people/Valk17/sounds/706939/

The Love Of Three Hinges

Vanishing Point

Falling away to nothing
Oil black road in the haze
A new beginning
The promise of water
The lure of everything you dreamed
Never led to anything

Footprints on this road
Show how far we’ve come
The shimmer of the sun
Reveals how we came undone

Only now it is clear
What’s the way out of here
We’re at the vanishing point
Watch the ground fall away
We are miles, miles away
We’re at the vanishing point

Hanging on to something
Trying to turn this car around
Engine she ain’t turning
You’re still defending
Backed in a corner
 Still you won’t, you won’t surrender

Voices lost in time
On a desert wind
Fools gold shining still
Prizes never won

Only now it is clear
What’s the way out of here
We’re at the vanishing point
Watch the ground fall away
We are miles, miles away
At the vanishing point

It all took so long
You look at me like like I still have the answers
But that road is disappearing
Was it all a mirage
An illusion of love
Still you can’t get enough, get enough

We’re at the Vanishing Point
We’re at the Vanishing Point
We’re at the Vanishing Point
We’re at the Vanishing Point

Falling away to nothing
Oil black road in the haze
You’re near the ending…

Vanishing Point

Vanishing Point (Single 2024)

I used two duets from the Disquiet Junto 637 project (see below): „Is still on the line“ by Andreas Kitzmann and 33per (https://soundcloud.com/33per/is-still-on-the-line-duet-with-andreas-kitzmann-disquiet0638) and „Take5“ by Actor Network and tunelight (https://soundcloud.com/tunelight/disquiet0637-2of3-take5-w-actor-network). So I ended up with four collaborators - thank you, Gentlemen! 

First step was Full Blotter, Giorgio Sanchristoforo’s new granulator, to get some pads from the material. Luckily the software treated the tracks as two mono lanes, so I ended up with four distinct pads. 

To get a pulse, I sped up the lovely clicky bassline from Take 5. EQ’ing and getting the levels right did take ages. 

Well, what else? Happy Easter, of course!

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Disquiet Junto Project 0639: Path Ways (4 of 3)
The Assignment: Rework musical trios using the constituent parts — one of two ways.

Step 1: In the previous project, we completed musical trios. Project 0638 was the third of three consecutive projects. In the first one, 0636, musicians recorded solos. In the second, 0637, musicians took those 0636 tracks, nudged them to the left side of the stereo spectrum, and then added their own music to the right, forming duets with a hole in the middle. In project 0638, other musicians introduced a third track down the center of the 0637 recordings, completing the trios. You can revisit the music via the blog posts disquiet.com/0636, disquiet.com/0637, and disquiet.com/0638, and you can follow the forking paths through the related Google Drive spreadsheet.

Step 2: The goal of this project is to rework the material that accumulated over the course of the previous three projects. There are two main ways to go about this. One is to simply choose one or more tracks and remix, combine, mash-up, or otherwise transform them. The other is to move on to Step 3.

Step 3: Choose one 0636 track, a solo, that yielded more than one 0638 trio. (These are highlighted in light blue, or maybe it’s teal, in the leftmost column of the spreadsheet.) Trace the various routes that 0636 track took. Perhaps it also led to some 0637 tracks that never went any further. Perhaps there are various 0638 versions based on varied 0637 versions. In any case, record a piece of music that lets the listener experience the branching paths that the original 0636 track took over the course of the three phases of the trios project sequence. Clearly you will be using a linear form to represent variations, so how to achieve that will require some compositional ingenuity. But you’re up to the task.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include either “disquiet0639remix” (if you follow the loose rules of Step 2) or “disquiet0639paths” (if you follow the more specific rules of Step 3) in the name of your track.

Upload: Post your track to a public account (SoundCloud preferred but by no means required). It’s best to focus on one track (but if you post more than one, clarify which is the “main” rendition).

Share: Post your track and a description explanation at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0639-path-ways-4-of-3/

Newsletter: https://juntoletter.disquiet.com/

More on the 639th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Path Ways (4 of 3) — The Assignment: Rework musical trios using the constituent parts — one of two ways — at https://disquiet.com/0639/

Tour Two One

Four Two One [disquiet639]

Marco Lucchi : piano and synthesizer
Gina Berrett : vocals

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aprile 2024

Iki no kôzô

Iki no k​ô​zô # 6 - w/Gina Berrett

Elatial relein

What's that dribbling down your chin?
Look at the state you're in.
You make sloppy rock'n'roll!

You Make Sloppy Rock'n'Roll

Disquiet Junto Project 0644: Event Horizon
The Assignment: Record music for a party of your choosing.

Step 1: Imagine a party you want to attend.

Step 2: Write some music that would be appropriate as background music for that event.

Quot satis est e/o Trotskii and Chianti Will Tear Us Apart

Instruments and samples:

Nuvex-5
Sophisticated Drum Sequencer by Goremall

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/reaktor-community/reaktor-user-library/entry/show/15247/

https://goremall-instruments.com/

Samples:
Marimba-1-2.aif
Lanii - Chimera vox 120bpm
looperman-l-4706172-0253884-india-pop-smoke-x-808meloS
looperman-l-0672759-0268969-female-flow-130bpm
rocks-falling-over-rocks-over-a-steep-hill-like-a-cliff-75778

Special guest: Ian Curtis
Love Will Tear Us Apart_Vocals

QuotSatisEst [disquiet0644]

More on this 479th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Truck Radio Rain (The Assignment: Locate three sound sources and make something with them) – at:

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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 janwillemsen, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

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E. Piano Radio Codes (disquiet0479)

Hooray For Red Van (disquiet0479)

* [The 14077 Project » Five with Beeps.wav](https://freesound.org/people/kwahmah_02/sounds/253040/) by kwahmah_02
* [Acceleration 3.wav](https://freesound.org/people/biholao/sounds/370276/) by biholao
* [CarCrash_heartbeat-SloMo.wav](https://freesound.org/people/Pertti.Orn/sounds/250965/) by Pertti.Orn
* [Rain » Heavy Rain](https://freesound.org/people/lebaston100/sounds/243628/) by lebaston100
* MRI sound from "Fundamental Neuroscience for Neuroimaging" course from Johns Hopkins University

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https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0479-truck-radio-rain/

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 janwillemsen, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/mNaAmA

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Truck Radio Rain - disquiet0479

More on this 479th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Truck Radio Rain (The Assignment: Locate three sound sources and make something with them) – at: https://disquiet.com/0479/

Our prompt was inspired by John Cage and we were to find samples of rain, cars driving, and static between radio stations or record them ourselves, then make a track with only those sounds.

The Junto is a place for me to try new (usually brand new) things and share results, no matter how rough they are. This track is a documentation of my first ever jam with Cheat Codes V2 run on my Norns Shield and controlled with Grid... Also the first time I ran the script... and read through the manual. This script has some depth and I need to dig in, but in the mean time, try to get through this awkwardly choppy amalgamation of sound.

Three Elements (disquiet0479)

homemade car, radio and rain samples manipulated in ChucK--successively slowed with pitch shocks and beat shortened. Thanks Marc for the prompt!  https://github.com/charliekramer/ChucK/blob/master/disquiet0479.ck


More on this 479th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Truck Radio Rain (The Assignment: Locate three sound sources and make something with them) — at:

https://disquiet.com/0479/

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-0479-truck-radio-rain/

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 janwillemsen, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/mNaAmA

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Disquiet0479 Truck Radio Rain

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

Feel free to download everything here for personal use

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.

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