restrained and classy, great sound design and instrument choices

Night Sky

mchale's navy

He's Going to Kill You

monstrosity

Vinciguerra

More on this 582nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, X Techno (The Assignment: Make a new subgenre), at: https://disquiet.com/0582/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0582-x-techno/

Crepitus Tekno (disquiet0582)

Early morning,
One star remaining,
It’s a good day too.

Electric guitars and bass by DD, recorded 2010, reworked and mixed June 2023.

Haiku by Santoka Taneda
Picture by Diego PH

@naviar-records

different version here:
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/spring-meadow

Early Morning Star (naviarhaiku492)

trailer miusic using my new "toy", @cinesamples musio libraries.

january 25th 2024
sample libraries by dd
photo by rob simmons


https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0630-creative-sufficiency/

Orchestralscapes (Trailer) - disquiet0630

This week, the prompt for Disquiet Junto 0634, "Bust a Move", asked us to build on a foundation of a piece of classical music heard through a wall or floor.

I chose Schubert's "Trio In E-Flat, Opus 100",  because I am a child of the 80s and The Hunger had a huge influence on me growing up as a babygoth.

I used a physical effect send to route the audio through a chain of guitar pedals, then loop back in to a new audio track in the DAW. I made three new tracks this way, with the pedals tweaked live, each one an interpretation of the source audio. The pedals I used were a Meris Enzo guitar synthesizer, an Eventide H9 Harmonizer, and the famous Walrus Audio ARP-87. 

NOTE: Headphones are recommended as a first line of defense against abduction. As a rule, Schubert never wore headphones. And we all know what happened to him.

Recorded at NOSIGNAL Multimedia Labs in The Shambles, Chicago USA

More about this week's Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0634/

Disquiet Junto

The Abduction of Schubert (disquiet0634)

The source material for this week's Disquiet Junto's prompt reminded me of a non-existent movie: A couple in a car stops at a railroad crossing in the middle of nowhere. The camera slowly zooms out of the vehicle through the window pane. You can only see her talking and get an idea of what she’s saying only by looking at his reactions. 

I tried to write a soundtrack for that moment (which would be too long for a regular movie). The gear: S&A Spectres, Teletone Ondine, Felt Instruments Nisko, and an old Gleetchlab 3.0 experiment from 14 years ago.

0324 Disquiet Junto 635 What she said when they stopped the car

What She Said When They Stopped The Car [disquiet0635]

Disquiet Junto Project 0636: Left (1 of 3)
The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio.

Please note: While this project is the start of a three-part sequence that will unfold over the course of three weeks, you can participate in any or all three of those parts.



Step 1: This week’s Junto project is the first in a sequence intended to encourage and reward collaboration. You will be recording something with the understanding that it will remain unfinished for the time being. Your part will be done, but more will happen. Read on.

Step 2: The plan is for you to record a short and original piece of music using any instrumentation of your choice. Conceive the piece as something that leaves room for something else — other instruments, other people — to join in. (Keep in mind that your piece would appear panned to the left in the finished recording, after three weeks.)

Step 3: Record a short piece of music, roughly two to three minutes in length, as described in Step 2.

Step 4: This is important: be sure to make your track downloadable because it may be used by someone else in the next Disquiet Junto project, and then after that.

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Track notes:

One of the few things I haven't been doing much of this year is playing guitar, which is my 'primary' instrument. However, since late last year the one guitar (within reach) has been a Danelectro electric 12-string, stripped back of its thick strings to only six strings and put through through a variety of modal open tunings. A few years ago I listened to Lee Renaldo talk about this kind of retrofitting, which was called an Angel Hair guitar and was pioneered in the 1960s by country guitarists to create a light, jangly accompaniment, that in some ways is reminiscent of a pedal steel guitar's upper timbre.

I don't know how much open tunings figured at this time, but I could certainly appreciate Lee's attraction to all things unconventional and open-tuned. My current set up for this guitar is a D-A-C-E-A-E tuning, which gives it a kind of pentatonic, suspended tonality. Given the unconventional order of string gauges from bottom to top, the unison notes have an especially interesting appeal. From a fingerpicking approach, it all opens up the guitar in unexpected ways, since a regular picking technique can be inverted by the string gauge order and also feels quite different too.

So with this in mind, I recorded a repeated fingerpicking figure which exploits the unique qualities of this setup, such as the unisons and harmonic attributes of the tuning. The main guitar (soft left) is run through an EHX Holy Grail Reverb with a smidge of spring reverb, whilst an accompaniment (same guitar and tuning) is on the soft right, also run through the Holy Grail, but with the weird 'Flerb' reverb, which is a kind of modulated effect.

It's at 72bpm and runs just a shade over 2 minutes, starting a fade at the 1:46 mark.

[Disquiet_Junto_0636] Epochs (Left 1 of 3) 72 BPM

collab with https://soundcloud.com/lazenbeeindustries/bass-flurry-disquiet0636 / @LazenbeeIndustries

playing along with the original - set up a patch to manually trigger slow enveloped old recording pitched down, with delay - manual control of granular wet/dry - added field recording in live afterwards

panned hard left/right as per instructions

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More on the 637th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right (2 of 3) — The Assignment: Record the second third of an eventual trio — at https://disquiet.com/0637/

disquiet0637 - bass flurry underground (with LazenbeeIndustries)

Metaphosphated

Anatol Locker
Ambient | Electronica | Experimental

What She Said When They Stopped The Car [disquiet0635]

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