http://disquiet.com/2012/01/27/the-disquiet-junto/

Side by side along the pitched ridge.

Relaxing / ambient / drones / minimal

The Broken Doorway Featured Artists

More on this 166th Disquiet Junto project — “Take a pre-existing track, slow it in descending states, and then add something to it” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/03/05/disquiet0166-slowbysteps/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

Image associated with this project by Bruce Berrien, used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/6mCRds

Disquiet Junto Project 0166: Slow by Steps

Compound Eye is Drew McDowall (formerly of Coil) and Tres Warren (Psychic Ills and Messages).
'Journey From Anywhere' is their second long-player release following 'Origin of Silence', an art edition LP on The Spring Press label.  This double lp features 4 sides of improvised electronics that lead the listener into the dark recesses of the duo's subterranean explorations.  
http://editionsmego.com/release/eMEGO-181
http://www.thespringpress.com/compound_eye.html
http://www.thespringpress.com/compound_eye_lathe.html

Compound Eye - The Outer Sphere

Taken from the album 'Toxic Cosmopolitanism' released as LP / Download

Kassel Jaeger 'Exposure Scales — Sunlight' (eMEGO 183)

The day after feeling a little out of the ordinary...

Instruments / Tools:
* Guitar les Paul Studio Edition
* 5 String Cort Bass
* Absynth for synths (played live)
* Drums programmed in Reason 7
* Final Sequence and Production in Reason
* Chant like vocals done by Ferensick with  FX

The Day After

Just released my new album 'White Noise' today and have been struggling with which track to upload here on SC, so I thought I'd put this one on. The lyrics "where the wind blows, I cannot follow, where the river flows I cannot run" were written by Kelvyn Taylor https://soundcloud.com/kelvynt , who amongst others, responded to a call I put out on FB for anyone who wanted an opportunity to be part of the new album to offer up a line of lyrics. Kelvyns lyrics fit perfectly into this song and inspired the writing of it.

White Noise album is basically an emotional commentary on the bullshit, political and personal, global and local, that we try to block out of our pysche, but still manages to interfere with the clarity and perfect harmony we all wish to have in our lives.

For me there's no better way to block out their noise than by putting on some headphones and making my own noise.

Drowning Out The Noise 
(C) Erika Bach. All Rights Reserved 


Where the wind blows I cannot follow 
Where the river flows I cannot run 
Will you give me something I can believe in 
Money in the ocean 
Poison in the sky 

Chorus 
I am not waiting 
I am not fading 
I am not listening 
I am drowning out the noise 

Willing and so blind 
These are the moments 
Hopeless electric buzzing in my head 
Into the dreaming 
Life could come to nothing more than a marker that we once were here 

Chorus 

Where the wind blows I cannot follow
credits
from White Noise, released 26 November 2014 
Lyrics by lola demo and Kelvyn Taylor 

Written, performed and recorded by lola demo at Strudel Girl Studio on Ithaca Greece.

Drowning Out The Noise

3 Tracks grabbed live from the Stoch 4 Lunetta instrument. Drum track was run first against a sparse metronome. Two melodic lines dubbed over; once the loop point had been fixed. Chromaticism was determined by the native trilling of the Stoch. Final mix balanced out in PC software; just light filtering and pan/levels.

The Stoch generously delivered structure without prior deliberation - it was challenging for this purpose to achieve interaction with the triggers to form a plausible tight loop from the percussive bursts. The two instrumental tracks are bound together by switch selected scale distributions. Their triggering was manipulated to hook motifs into the phrasing accents of the base percussion loop.

Axial [disquiet0153-groovelock]

Used my own track - Axial - already randomly generated and waiting to come to terms with. Picked up  Steve Moshier's — No Cause for Alarm (disquiet0153-groovelock) - a solid contrast of speed/density and sat well harmonically. Stacked the loops in PC sequencer, with some re-pitching into bass and scattering into higher registers. Braided a long echoing software synth across to hold it all together and mimic Steve's voicing.

Spoiled for choice with so many great samples ... used a couple more as meat for effects/filters and sprinkled them through. Thanks to:
 Dave Dorgan — 0092 
 VG mrmojo — 0153groovelock 
 Peter Tigges — What does 273.15 K taste like?  

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The Assignment: Create a track from two locked grooves.

This week’s Disquiet Junto project builds on last week’s. Last week, 67 different musicians uploaded as many locked grooves. This week we’ll make new music atop the locked grooves. Here are the steps. Note that there are some options:

Step 1: Choose two locked grooves from the set at http://goo.gl/0s4WmM. You can accomplish this in several ways. You can choose random numbers between 1 and 67 and use those tracks, or you can just select the tracks you most want to work with. Note that most of the tracks should be set to allow, via Creative Commons, for non-commercial re-use. However, if you aren’t sure, please contact the musician to confirm.

Step 2: Make a new track alternating the two locked grooves for between one and two minutes.

Step 3: Use the track that resulted from step 2 as the foundation for a new piece of music. Transform it as you desire, which might include altering the foundational track and adding new material atop it.

Step 4: Upload the finished track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 5: Listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Length: Your finished work should be between roughly 1 and 2 minutes long.

 


CoAxial [disquiet0154-grooveunlocked]

After a couple of failed experiments, decided to keep it simple and cadge around sampling of the melodic hints from the originals. Nuts and bolts sequencing, but set up the playback as if being run through 'shutters' at mismatched rates, so the coincidence varies. The Salamander version features as a highly fragmented&delayed background drift.

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Step 1: Download the following two tracks. The first is “Waiting…” by Yellow Salamand’r and the second is a reworking of it, titled “Waiting (A Yellow Salamander Re-hash),” by Colab.

https://soundcloud.com/yellow-salamandr-4-1/yellow-salamandr-4-waiting

https://soundcloud.com/colab/waiting-a-yellow-salamander-re-hash

Step 2: Create a new track that combines the two source tracks. 
Don’t add any new audio, though you can transform the source material as you wish.

Step 3: Upload the finished track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 4: Listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Length: Your finished work should be between roughly 3 to 4 minutes long.

Tachistoson [disquiet0155 - Mixmatch]

OK, hope it doesn't stretch the rules too far... A year spent jamming tables in a SQL warehouse; did grow some vegetables, but no decent date ordered catalogue of audio projects. Synopsis? = calendar is represented here by 12 months detailed daily weather data from logging station at the end of the road, downloaded, stitched and mangled per DBA's professional manner. Pushed as series into Arduino controller, and spooled back out algorithmically as MIDI for recording. Approx. 5 sec each month.

As a 'journal' it reflects the spirit and experiences of the year, and summarisies the audio techniques I've mucked about with.

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Thanks to : http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/index.shtml
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Disquiet Junto Project 0156: Audio Journal 2014
The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen five-second segments.

This week’s project is a sound journal, an audio history of the past year. You will select a different audio element to represent each of the past 12 months of 2014. You will then select one five-second segment from each of these audio elements. Then you will stitch these dozen five-second segments together in chronological order to form one single one-minute track. There should be no overlap or gap between segments; they should simply proceed from one to the next.

These audio elements will most likely be of music that you have yourself composed and recorded, but they might also consist of phone messages, field recordings, or other source material. These items should be somehow personal in nature, suitable to the autobiographical intention of the project; they should be of your own making, and not drawn from third-party sources.

When done, upload the finished track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud. Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, December 29, 2014.

Length: Your finished work should be 60 seconds long.

Upload: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, only upload one track for this assignment, and include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto.

Information: Please, when posting your track on SoundCloud, list the source of each of the 12 elements.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0156-audiojournal2014” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting the track, please be sure to include this information:

More on this 156th Disquiet Junto project — “Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen five-second segments” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/12/25/disquiet0156-audiojournal2014/

Meteorologic [disquiet0156 - Audiojournal2014]

A very pretty glass with curves made many harmonics as the ice went in. Took around 15 samples. A couple were reserved for waveform synthesis - the rest went straight onto a 'drum' track. From there it came together quickly.
Nothing but ice, glass and water.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0157: A Little Ice Music
The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something of it.

Happy new year! This week’s project is as follows:

Step 1: Please record the sound of an ice cube rattling in a glass, and make something of it.

Step 2: Upload the finished track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 3: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Background: Longtime participants in, and observers of, the Disquiet Junto series will recognize this single-sentence assignment as the very first Disquiet Junto project, the same one that launched the series on the first Thursday of 2012. Revisiting it a year and two years later, on the first Thursdays of 2013 and 2014, provided a fitting way to begin the new year. Now, at the start of the fourth year of the Disquiet Junto, it is a tradition. A weekly project series can come to overemphasize novelty, and it’s helpful to revisit old projects as much as it is to engage with new ones. Also, by its very nature, the Disquiet Junto suggests itself as a fast pace: a four-day production window, a weekly habit. It’s beneficial to step back and see things from a longer perspective.

Deadline: 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, January 5, 2015.

Length: The length of your finished work should be between one minute and four minutes.

Upload: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, only upload one track for this assignment, and include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0157-icemusic2015” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting the track, please be sure to include this information:

More on this 157th Disquiet Junto project — “Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something of it.” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/01/01/disquiet0157-icemusic2015/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto


Hydra [Disquiet Junto Project 0157: A Little Ice Music]

title: Mist
artist: Chihei Hatakeyama
Release Date:2015/1/14
Country of Origin : JAPAN
Catalog Number:WPMC017
Format(s): CD

buy
https://chiheihatakeyama.bandcamp.com/album/mist

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you can get from here 

22$（over seas）（include shiping cost)



"Mist" is inspired from such beauty of fog like phenomena which reflects the thin light to fine mist.Superimposed on the drone of layer, Hawaii Oahu bird cries, coast of sound waves of Bellingham and rain sound in Takao-san in Hachioji has been used in songs. "Nangoku"in the "Mist" has been published as installation work at Super Deluxe in December 2014 by 24chPA system.this album was produced at the request of the fashion brand "MIKU FUKAMITSU". it is making accessories by the natural materials and colors in concept.

Track list - 
01.Spherulite
02.Lone wolf in a heavy snow
03.Glitter
04.A silver fence to prevent the entrance of horses
05.Here and Sapphire day
06.Nangoku


all musics written, mixed and mastered by chihei hatakeyama

field recordings by 
chihei hatakeyama, oshiro makoto and corey fuller


artwork design by mike fukamitsu
photograph by masamitsu magma 

Chihei Hatakeyama /  Lone Wolf In A Heavy Snow

Huge thanks to the the incredible Weighty Tree for collaborating with me on this track with his fantastic guitar layers.
Check out more of the Weighty Tree's great material.
https://soundcloud.com/theweightytree
Big thank you to lola demo for a her wonderful mix of the track !https://soundcloud.com/lolademo
Video for the track made by lola demo and filmed by Jessica Bell in Morocco.  https://youtu.be/yLMZ8UT8qCI?list=UUAwYIBeC8s_iwHlEU39ygZg 

In this crazy mixed up world
I'm so bli nd
and I wait and I wait and I wait
all this time
and I drift and I drift and I drift
all gone by

I saw my life
flowing by
in a  dream in a dream in a dream	
all this time
and I know and I know and I know
its all fine

do you care do you care do you care
if I go
with the wind with the wind with the wind 
i will fly
there is no end there no end there's no end
if I die
do you care do you care do you care 
if I go 

round round
here we go again
down down
here we go again.






ROund ROund (collaboration with the Weighty Tree)

Taken from the album 'GRM Works' released as LP / Download
Recorded in 1967

Beatriz Ferreyra 'Medisances' (REGRM 015)

See http://bassling.blogspot.com/2015/03/disquiet-junto-0166-slow-by-steps.html for track discussion.

More on this 166th Disquiet Junto project — “Take a pre-existing track, slow it in descending states, and then add something to it” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2015/03/05/disquiet0166-slowbysteps/

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

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
http://disquiet.com/forums/

Rolling to Rondino [disquiet0166-slowbysteps]

Funny one again this week... I found a short segment that I liked and as described in the project assignment, I slowed it down and looped A 4 times B twice - C & D once each. 
I've been composing some study's or etudes, of layers of field recordings and I really wanted to try to layer a recording on top of the loops... but I seem to have lost the one I was thinking of. It was a pretty sweet recording of someone playing violin in the NY subway as I recall...but nevertheless it's MIA. So I thought up the idea of playing a duet with the same little excerpt of the original source material...so I did. I tried Borderlands but ended up using Samplr's scrubbing/scratching mode, with slight reverb added, and did a couple of rehearsal runs before recording the one you hear here... Very little mixing - no eq....done.

Disquiet Junto Project 0166: Slow by Steps
Take a pre-existing track, slow it in descending states, and then add something to it.

This week we’re slowing down an ancient piece of audio, dating from 1910, and adding sounds atop it to create one continuous composition.

Step 1: Download at http://goo.gl/aMlHXm a public-domain recording of Eugène Ysaÿe performing “Rondino” by composer Henri Vieuxtemps. (Note: If you land on the new archive.org site and can’t figure out how to download, click on the “exit beta” button in the upper-right-hand corner of the webpage to go to the original archive.org site design, where the downloading is self-evident.)

Step 2: Choose a short segment of the recording, roughly between three and five seconds. Label it as Segment A.

Step 3: Create a Segment B by slowing Segment A to half its original speed.

Step 4: Create a Segment C by slowing Segment B to half its original speed.

Step 5: Create a Segment D by slowing Segment C to half its original speed.

Step 6: Create an underlying foundational track by stitching instances of A, B, C, and D together in that order. Recommended for a five-second segment is Ax4, Bx2, C, D (or AAAABBCD), which would be 100 seconds.

Step 7: Create a new piece of music by recording accompaniment to add to the foundational track, which will otherwise remain unadulterated.

Step 8: Upload the combination of your accompaniment and the foundational track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 9: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This assignment was made in the evening, California time, on Thursday, March 5, 2015, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, March 9, 2015.

Length: The length of your finished work should be roughly between one and three minutes.

Upload: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, only upload one track for this assignment, and include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0166-slowbysteps” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting the track, please be sure to include this information:

More on this 166th Disquiet Junto project — “Take a pre-existing track, slow it in descending states, and then add something to it” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/03/05/disquiet0166-slowbysteps/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

Image associated with this project by Bruce Berrien, used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/6mCRds

“disquiet0166-slowbysteps” and scrubbed against itself

i deconstructed  the original  track  in ableton live i applied a global fx from camelspace  and then added a "clock like " synth line with massive . This was saved as .wav and then opened  in audacity (weapon of choice) the track was then pitched to half speed  normalized, compressed and trimmed for time .

Disquiet0166 - SlowbystepsFSK1138

For the 166th d-junto I had to choose a short segment (a few seconds) from an old recording by Eugène Ysaÿe performing “Rondino” by composer Henri Vieuxtemps. (It can be found on archive dot org)

This sample were then slowed down to half, fourth and eighth of it's original speed and arranged in a semi random order. This was done on an Octatrack.

On top of this I have layered a few short snippets of the same sample, one in reverse and one with a heavy pitch envelope (the drum).

I also played my semi-acoustic bass with a violin bow and recorded into a heavy reverb.

The picture is from an old Processing sketch of mine.

Hope you enjoy this dark little piece :)

More on this 166th Disquiet Junto project — “Take a pre-existing track, slow it in descending states, and then add something to it” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/03/05/disquiet0166-slowbysteps/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

Slow talking [disquiet0166-slowbysteps]

1.AAABCDDDDD
2.Ping pong delay to B and C and reverse them.
3.Used hb36 
https://soundcloud.com/kuromiya-hideyuki/hb36?in=kuromiya-hideyuki/sets/daily-beats-hb
4.D had heavy low. So I used 8bandEQ to cut under 100Hz
5.I want Rap for this trk.   Peace.
a public-domain recording of Eugène Ysaÿe performing “Rondino” by composer Henri Vieuxtemps (goo.gl/aMlHXm )
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More on this 166th Disquiet Junto project — “Take a pre-existing track, slow it in descending states, and then add something to it” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/03/05/disquiet0166-slowbysteps/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

Image associated with this project by Bruce Berrien, used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/6mCRds

Wu-Long-Chang0166 (disquiet0166-slowbysteps)

Short section taken from approx. 1:10min in : split to 4x speeds as described. 2x were slowed with pitch and time shift, 1 with time shift only.

All 4 were loosely laid in turns onto a time base, then 'arranged' into 4 registers of accompaniment - in a sense the AABBCCxxxx aspect of the project is more 'vertical' than 'horizontal'.

No beats&loops&delay or sampling, all paintbrush-style freely worked in Audacity. Some reverb and reversals used to blend up a palette.

A lot going on in 1910; maybe not so ancient?  

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[Disquiet Junto Project 0166: Slow by Steps]
Take a pre-existing track, slow it in descending states, and then add something to it.

This week we’re slowing down an ancient piece of audio, dating from 1910, and adding sounds atop it to create one continuous composition.

Step 1: Download at http://goo.gl/aMlHXm a public-domain recording of Eugène Ysaÿe performing “Rondino” by composer Henri Vieuxtemps. (Note: If you land on the new archive.org site and can’t figure out how to download, click on the “exit beta” button in the upper-right-hand corner of the webpage to go to the original archive.org site design, where the downloading is self-evident.)

Step 2: Choose a short segment of the recording, roughly between three and five seconds. Label it as Segment A.

Step 3: Create a Segment B by slowing Segment A to half its original speed.

Step 4: Create a Segment C by slowing Segment B to half its original speed.

Step 5: Create a Segment D by slowing Segment C to half its original speed.

Step 6: Create an underlying foundational track by stitching instances of A, B, C, and D together in that order. 
	Recommended for a five-second segment is Ax4, Bx2, C, D (or AAAABBCD), which would be 100 seconds.

Step 7: Create a new piece of music by recording accompaniment to add to the foundational track, which will otherwise remain unadulterated.

Step 8: Upload the combination of your accompaniment and the foundational track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 9: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This assignment was made in the evening, California time, on Thursday, March 5, 2015, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, March 9, 2015.

Length: The length of your finished work should be roughly between one and three minutes.

Upload: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, only upload one track for this assignment, and include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0166-slowbysteps” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting the track, please be sure to include this information:

More on this 166th Disquiet Junto project — “Take a pre-existing track, slow it in descending states, and then add something to it” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/03/05/disquiet0166-slowbysteps/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Varieux Tempos [Disquiet Junto Project 0166: Slow by Steps]

Aerae-IV

A path choked by nettles does not deter the bearer of a swinging scythe.

Varieux Tempos [Disquiet Junto Project 0166: Slow by Steps]

aScytheThroughNettles