What a lovely prompt... and a tough one! 

I’m bad at minimalism. Most of my tracks somewhat baroque (fancy excuse for „too dense“). For this assignment I tried to reduce wherever I could. Once again, working with silence is a thing I still need to learn. Spent two hours balancing between silence and notes with the help of of transient designers and gates. Brought the sounds-silent ratio down to maybe 60:40. 

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Disquiet Junto Project 0605: Fifty Fifty 
The Assignment: Compose a piece of music with as much silence as notes.

There’s just one step to this project:

Compose a piece of music with as much silence as notes.

(Thanks to Jason Richardson for having proposed it.)

Eight Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0605” (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 “disquiet0605” (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 track in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0605-fifty-fifty/

Step 5: Annotate your track 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.

Step 8: Also join in the discussion on the Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

Note: Please post one track for this weekly Junto project. If you choose to post more than one, and do so on SoundCloud, please let me know which you’d like added to the playlist. Thanks.

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More on this 605th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Fifty Fifty (Compose a piece of music with as much silence as notes), at: https://disquiet.com/0605/

Thanks to Jason Richardson for having proposed this week’s project.

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

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Horror Vacui [disquiet0605]

Credits to the originators of the tracks being combined here:
@he_nu_ri @Aaron_Taylor-Waldman and @noodletwister

[disquiet0610] Half - Time Triple

I used tracks by Andreas Kitzmann, Analoc, Krakenkraft and Tristan Louth Robins (and in other versions also by Ray Cobley and Debroc). Thanks a lot for being able to work with those.

I made several tracks with different techniques - from straight mixing to editing to different granular tools. The one I uploaded was entirely made with the fantastic Granchild by infinitedigits. What I like about it is the soft and mysterious beginning and foundation which is based on the track by Krakenkraft. Next come three parts by Tristan Louth Robins, Analoc and finally Andreas Kitzmann. It is a very quiet affair and has a certain Revanchol vibe to it.

For those wondering about the cover drawing: after finishing a track I usually google its title and take the first image search result I like to base a drawing on. Here I googled a combination of the original track names, catnip blink drift, and somewhere buried in the results was Trent Reznor… So him it was.

More on this 610th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 2 (The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed), at: https://disquiet.com/0610/

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

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Disquiet0610 - Cat Blink Fawn Drift

This assignment uses two songs from Disquiet0609 (made to be 60bpm) and combine them while setting the new song at 30bpm. I used Plucks & Pad from Noodle Twister (https://soundcloud.com/noodletwister/plucks-pad-disquiet0609) and combined it with SAMPLAIR's Disquiet 0609 (https://soundcloud.com/user-248104983/disquiet0609-60bpm). I altered the sounds and added LABS piano parts.

More on this 610th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 2 (The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed), at: https://disquiet.com/0610/

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

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0610-speed-limit-pt-2/

air space feat. Noodle Twister & SAMPLAIR [disquiet0610]

Disquiet Junto Project 0610: Speed Limit Pt 2
The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed.

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For this remix, I worked with a handful of tracks from the 0609 collection that I gravitated towards, chopping + processing them in Paulstretch, Twisted Wave, and Ableton Live to halve their speeds.

'Blink' by https://soundcloud.com/analoc became a melodic anchor that the rest of the remix was built around. It was interesting to listen to the results of slowing + pitching the original tracks down. Sometimes I would sample the original speed version, and others I would first slow down before stumbling onto something that clicked well with the composition. 

bassline + clicky percussion sampled from:
https://soundcloud.com/analoc – https://soundcloud.com/analoc/0923-disquiet-junto-609-blink

heavy, textured bass drum hit sampled from:
https://soundcloud.com/winterer – https://soundcloud.com/winterer/catnip-in-60bpm-disquiet0609

huge clap drum sound sampled from:
https://soundcloud.com/oh-well-360226041 —https://soundcloud.com/oh-well-360226041/shadow-clocks-disquiet0609

soaring synth solo sampled from:
https://soundcloud.com/xhg — https://soundcloud.com/xhg/disquiet0609-acrostic-speed-limit?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0609

chord washes + drum loops sampled from:
https://soundcloud.com/doodledigital – https://soundcloud.com/doodledigital/already-the-morning-disquiet0609

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More on this 610th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 2 (The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed), at: disquiet.com/0610/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…0-speed-limit-pt-2/

Creatures Blinking in the Morning Shadows • [Disquiet 0610]

More on this 611th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Music That Listens to Itself (The Assignment: Record a piece of music that repurposes itself as it proceeds), at: https://disquiet.com/0611/

Some of the music resulting from this project may be included in a September 29, 2023, event at the Berkeley Alembic in Berkeley, California: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/expanded-listening-music-that-listens-to-itself-tickets-712124101357 3

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-0611-music-that-listens-to-itself/

Disquiet0611 - Listen...you!

An electronic composition, sounds created in Pure Data.

More on this 616th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Definition Jam (The Assignment: Explore, in music, the nuanced differences between two closely related words), at: https://disquiet.com/0616/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0616-definition-jam/

Dense to Dark (disquiet0616)

From resonance to reverberation with a palindromic score.
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More on this 616th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Definition Jam (The Assignment: Explore, in music, the nuanced differences between two closely related words), at: https://disquiet.com/0616/

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

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0616-definition-jam/

resonate-reverberate (disquiet0616)

l'uomo che veniva dal mare

zx17

new album *ᴄᴏɴᴄᴇɴᴛʀɪᴄ* out now on Mystery Circles

Creatures Blinking in the Morning Shadows • [Disquiet 0610]

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