Name: disquiet0711 by Andreas Kitzmann in Disquiet Junto Project 0711: Show & Tell &
Duration: 6 min 50 s
Description: This is an experiment with a Buchla 100 system that I recently built. Everything you hear is generated by the Buchla and fed through a spring reverb and then mixed live on a Tascam recorder to emulate the experience of recording directly to tape.

I confess, this piece took me down a rabbit hole of learning more about this iconic instrument. Cheers on building one of your own! I think the composition is very strong, and beyond its aesthetic appeal I appreciate your dedication to using a historically accurate signal chain.

this would make a great dark sci fi soundtrack

This is tonally fantastic, dark and full of some great spring reverb. My only thoughts in terms of composition is maybe playing with variation of the delay times? On the one hand it is kind of cool that you stick to the same echo/delay motif but might generate more interest to play with that timing. Also, cool to record directly to tape but I can imagine a version of this that develops through thoughtful concrete style cutting, reversals, speed manipulations and so forth.

Disquiet Junto Project 0711: Show & Tell &

The Assignment: Share some recent music; get and give feedback

Step 1: Choose a track/composition you’re working on. Share the recording on the Lines forum on the llllllll.co discussion thread at:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0711-show-tell

Step 2: When posting the track, mention that you’re looking for feedback, describe what you’ve been up to on the track, and if applicable specify some aspects of the recording you might want input on.

Deadline: Monday, August 18, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0711

Disquiet Junto Project 0711: Show & Tell &

Get the whole recording (total length: 0:47:33) on Bandcamp now:
https://randyedgewood.bandcamp.com/track/expedition-16-ultratech-chaos-lab-10-local

Here is the recording of an ephemeral liveset I created for Ultratech Chaos Lab 1.0, the first instalment of a party series dedicated to experimental music and digital art. The event took place at le Local Bar, a great venue located in Strasbourg, and well known for its crafted beers and rock concerts. Even if there were few people, the vibe was great, and I remember very well this special feeling of complete freedom I had during my performance. Hence the last part that wasn't supposed to be that long initially.

Special thanks to the Local Bar team for hosting this event, and big up to all the other artists involved: Comtesse du Ghetto, Coloscope, and Crash Server.

Live setup: Reason + MIDI controllers
Recording: Zoom H5

Photo credit: Alice Dirwimmer

Expedition 16: Ultratech Chaos Lab 1​.​0 (Local) [Intro]

Ambient Concrete Music.  Reaktor Rhythm Loop. Collateral sounds.

AdUn CertoMetro (naviarhaiku591)

This is a collaboration with halF unusuaL(https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual)
Hear the original track at https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-third-disquiet0697-80-bpm
K1069 HörnerDuo
https://disquiet.com/2025/05/15/disquiet-junto-project-0698-second-third/

second third down (disquiet0698)

Adonai II (Rev.Ed.)

2025-06-03

TCNE7-20250603

I 'misused' Microsoft Word to create this ... see the accompanying visuals at https://youtu.be/6dIBIYtLmE4 ... and hear the 'spinoff' track at https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-akjhdjsdmnn ... I think you'll agree, it's the best use of the word akjhdjsd,mnn to date ... 😁😜 ... Oh, and lead vocals by the Word robot! 🤖

This project is the second of three that are being done by the Disquiet Junto in collaboration with the 2025 Musikfestival Bern, which will be held in Switzerland from September 3 through 7. The festival topic this year is « Kette » — which translates, as the organization explains, to “Chain”: “Chains connect but they also bind. They create relationships but also restrictions. As a gift they look nice, feared when used in vice, and yet they can span bridges across fire and ice.” All three Junto projects will engage with the work of Svetlana Maraš, who is the Composer-in-Residence for the 2025 festival.

We are working again at the invitation of Tobias Reber, an early Junto participant, who is in charge of the educational activities of the festival. This is the seventh year in a row that the Junto has collaborated with Musikfestival Bern.

More on the 702nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Applications — The Assignment: Make music by misusing a piece of music software — at https://disquiet.com/0702/

visuals (YouTube)

halF wrotE [disquiet0702]

Here's my musical resonance to this week's haiku from @naviar-records.

orchids by night – within their fragrance looms their blossoms’ white!

by: Yosa Buson

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku597-orchids-by-night/

Orchids by night (naviarhaiku597)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
597
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku597-orchids-by-night/

2025-06-14

orchids by night –(Naviarhaiku 597 )

rain rituals -
if the gods are here now
to see the paddies
(Takarai Kikaku)
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku599-rain-rituals/
Komposition1076 FlöteViolineCelloTrio

rice and rain (naviarhaiku599)

bunkermoles

This is an experiment with a Buchla 100 system that I recently built. Everything you hear is generated by the Buchla and fed through a spring reverb and then mixed live on a Tascam recorder to emulate the experience of recording directly to tape.

disquiet0711

Disquiet Junto Project 0711: Show & Tell &
The Assignment: Share some recent music; get and give feedback

I have been working on a project: making a sort of mashup of sketches I’ve made over the last few years when away from home. I’ve made these on holidays, or when visiting friends: at times when I don’t have my usual music setup, but can do some noodling and experimenting, using music apps on a tablet and sometimes using a small semi-modular synth.
Since some of these sketches/fragments have nice sounds, or patterns, or themes, I thought I might select a bunch of them that I like, see if some match with respect to rhythm, tempo, tonality, vibe, and then see if I could maybe combine them into a longer piece (adding some extra parts or transitions as needed.

So this is a slightly edited version of a work in progress. Given the amount of material I have, the end result might be something like 3 different pieces that each are between 12 and 20 minutes long. We'll see...

I’m curious how you experience this. 
It will inevitably be, as a result of the process, a somewhat fragmented piece, consisting of bits that were not intended to fit together. Does it feel totally disjointed, like loose sand, random bits that do not gel? Or is it something of a musical journey (as I hope it might be). Would you like to stay a bit longer in the different segments? Or did you feel impatient to move on? Is it nice if some sounds or patterns or themes recur later on?

More on the 711th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Show & Tell & — The Assignment: Share some recent music; get and give feedback — at https://disquiet.com/0711/.


Some sketches (disquiet0711)

Something I've been trying to do with my vintage synths is to recontextualize them as contemporary sounds rather than throwbacks. In this piece for example, I wanted to use the Moog, and have it sound like a Moog, but without feeling retro or nostalgic. And that's what I'm most interested in hearing from you: how it's landing for you and ideas for what I might do to meet my aesthetic goal of preserving the unique voice of the instrument, without situating its sound in an earlier era?

This piece was posted in response to Disquiet Junto #0711. More on the 711th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Show & Tell & — The Assignment: Share some recent music; get and give feedback — at https://disquiet.com/0711/.

Tethys (disquiet0711)

My track notes regarding the creation of this track can be found here:

[Disquiet Junto 0711] The Shape Of Honey (draft)

# Disquiet0711

Interlude 1 is my first sketch for an interlude within a ≈ 40 minute piece about the cosmos. It seems like maybe the piece is too thick, but I want to get it out and move on and come back to revisit it after I get all the other pieces in place.

I used Sound Particles to create a few background textures and then decided to improvise a synth bass sound, and then a synth flute, and a brief plucked string sound, all from the Roli Equator software synth. 

I added some delay chaos to the recordings with plug-ins from Valhalla, GRM, and some Tai Chi reverb.

Then in Pro Tools I cut and moved the separately improvised tracks into a composition that tries to capture the vibe while I was performing. 

All the tracks were recorded and mixed in 7.0.2 for this piece. For SoundCloud and your listening convenience I converted the surround sound piece to binuaral with APL Virtuoso. I always have trouble with binaural. It doesn't accurately convey the full spatial quality of the immersive mix as it is supposed to do.

More on the 711th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Show & Tell & -- The Assignment: Share some recent music; get and give feedback -- at https://disquiet.com/0711/ 

Interlude 1 - Binaural disquiet0711

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.

disquiet0711

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