This has a really interesting vibe to it. I love how we are all making these minimalist statements, whether we want to not.

Welcome screen to my new favorite rogue-like of 2023

Listening to this on the bus as I go to work. A cool, contemplative vibe. Very Zen:)

Disquiet Junto Project 0609: Speed Limit Pt 1
The Assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it.

Step 1: You’re going to record a simple track at 60 BPM in 4/4 that will be reworked subsequently by other musicians, including potentially being combined with other tracks. Think about how you want to structure something with that intention.

Step 2: Record a 60 BPM track in 4/4 based on the thinking that resulted from Step 1.

Note: This is the first part of a two-part project. You don’t need to participate in both. In the Junto, all projects are intended to be doable as standalones. However, there often are sequences. The intended second project of this project, next week, will build on this one, so please consider making your track downloadable and available for reworking/remixing.

Details: disquiet.com/0609

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, September 4, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, August 31, 2023.

Disquiet Junto Project 0609: Speed Limit Pt 1

More on this 609th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 1 (The Assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it), at: https://disquiet.com/0609/

About the Disquiet Junto: Disquiet Junto F.A.Q. – Disquiet

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0609-speed-limit-pt-1/

Plucks & Pad (disquiet0609)

This week's assignment left me somewhat conflicted. 

I wanted to leave enough room for Disquiet Junto members to take parts of the track and add their ideas. On the other hand, it should sound like a track and not like an assembly of 4-bar loops. I hope I left enough space for you to add. If not, there's always the possibility to EQ the s*** out of it. 

Second, 60 BPM feels like 120 BPM when you add 16th hi-hats to it... but I couldn't resist doing it.

Blink [disquiet0609]

I recently got my hands on the Terra from Soma and, well, I haven't been able to keep my hands off of it. So I decided to use it for this challenge employing the arp mode with the timing regulated by an external clock. There are three, roughly 1 minute segments to this track. The first runs the Terra through an Eno style airport looper, with 4 intersecting loops. The second does the same, with a little help from the granular mode on the Cosmos. The third Terra arp is just run through the Cosmos delay mode. The first track uses an arpeggio with about 5 notes, the second about 3 and the last only 1, with the "sun" knob on the Terra creating some tonal variation. Hopefully at least some of this will be useable!

disquiet0609

First Disquiet

Digitakt + Syntakt + Norns + Mood2 + Guitar + Blooper

Piano sample from another project

Small guitar ambient guitar sample using Blooper as a fast delay with the glitch effect. Created tones using sustainer pickup and fading in to the delay line.

Kept it minimal to allow for space if other instruments come.

Added reverb kick on Syntakt

Added hi hat on 1, 3, 4 - just felt better

Added notes on Norns Awake application into Mood2 reverb. Captured small glitchy samples.

Lots of repeating ideas so I grabbed a few passes of the glitch to leave in as a choice.

Added a lot of gain in post processing. Need to look at my gain staging!

Disquiet Junto Project 0609: Speed Limit Pt 1
The Assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it.

Step 1: You’re going to record a simple track at 60 BPM in 4/4 that will be reworked subsequently by other musicians, including potentially being combined with other tracks. Think about how you want to structure something with that intention.

Step 2: Record a 60 BPM track in 4/4 based on the thinking that resulted from Step 1.

Note: This is the first part of a two-part project. You don’t need to participate in both. In the Junto, all projects are intended to be doable as standalones. However, there often are sequences. The intended second project of this project, next week, will build on this one, so please consider making your track downloadable and available for reworking/remixing.

Track notes:
 
I started by creating some simple 60bpm arpeggiated sequences on a Microkorg and improvised over the top of this with synth, guitar and a vibraphone patch. To top it off and give the track something a bit asynchronous, I added an 1950s field recording of a Australian Blue Faced Honeyeater, which provides a playful - and oddly complimentary - counterpoint to the otherwise rigid arrangement. 

This recording has 32 bars of the 60bpm track with no fades.

[Disquiet_Junto_0609] Refactored Drift (60 bpm)

An electronic sequence created in Pure Data & Audacity.

More on this 609th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 1 (The Assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it), at: https://disquiet.com/0609/

About the Disquiet Junto: Disquiet Junto F.A.Q. – Disquiet

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0609-speed-limit-pt-1/

Simply Sixty (disquiet0609)

Only percussive 1st part, done with DFAM, Rings, Himalia + lfo & effects.

More on this 609th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 1 (The Assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it), at: https://disquiet.com/0609/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0609-speed-limit-pt-1/

nawak

Speed limit P1_disquiet0609

A thumping backdrop for any 60bpm banger

Drums and modulated fx

More on this 609th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 1 (The Assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it), at: https://disquiet.com/0609/

About the Disquiet Junto: Disquiet Junto F.A.Q. – Disquiet

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0609-speed-limit-pt-1/

60bpm Stomp [disquiet0609]

After my first few tries with Ableton Note ended in 60 BPM Venetian Snares territory, I decided to keep my submission simple and easy to add to. So it is just a simple chord progression made with Microfreak and the fantastic acrostic. I resisted adding layers or effects to it.

More on this 609th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 1 (The Assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it), at: https://disquiet.com/0609/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0609-speed-limit-pt-1/

Disquiet0609 - Acrostic Speed Limit

Disquiet Junto Project 0609: Speed Limit Pt 1
The Assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it.

More on this 609th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 1 (The Assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it), at: https://disquiet.com/0609/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0609-speed-limit-pt-1/

Sleep Spindles (disquiet0609)

My submission for the Disquiet Junto 0609 with the assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it.

I just viewed Tobias Reber's interview with Marc Weidenbaum, so I thought: let's make something in Éliane Radigue style. Frankly that's all there is to say to it.

More on this 609th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 1 (The Assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it), at: https://disquiet.com/0609/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0609-speed-limit-pt-1/

Speed Limt Pt 1 (disquiet0609)

Speed Limit Pt 1 (disquiet0609)

60bpmb • G# /  Ab

A dubby modular type composition using a Dannysound En-129 TZFM VCO as the a mid-freq synth voice, sequenced/performed by the Moog Grandmother arpeggiator. There were some filter pings from Serge Variable Q VCF as a rhythmic element.

Then I stumbled into a strangely interesting formant-y bass sound by manipulating Ableton's Warp settings and using M4L 'Envelope Midi' to shape the filter controlling it. The drums are one-hits sampled from modular and then resampled + rechopped using Twisted Wave and Ableton, and programmed with Drum Rack.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0609: Speed Limit Pt 1
The Assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it.

More on this 609th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 1 (The Assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it), at: disquiet.com/0609/

About the Disquiet Junto: disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…9-speed-limit-pt-1/

Transient Melter • 60bpm [Disquiet 0609]

New Song (12)

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.

Blink [disquiet0609]

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