The approach of looping and attenuating frequencies really gives your track a very seamless quality. I really like the addition of the choir voices which add some colour to latter section.

Disquiet Junto Project 0691: Un-Ravel
The Assignment: Make a recording of a string quartet fall apart.

Step 1: Download the first movement of the Ravel string quartet at this URL: https://bit.ly/un-ravel

The original source is the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/3-capet-sq-col-d-15057-60-ravel-1928-mov-3/

Step 2: Listen to the track closely.

Step 3: Create a new piece of music by employing the provided recording as source material. The goal for your piece is that it should make the Ravel sound like it is falling apart — that is, like it is unraveling, or un-Ravel-ing.

Deadline: Monday, March 31, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0691

Disquiet Junto Project 0691: Un-Ravel

Spoken words: Kamal Imani
https://www.looperman.com/acapellas/detail/21299/one-tribe-yall-120bpm-disco-acapella
https://soundcloud.com/kamal-imani
https://soundcloud.com/oldschoolhiphopsoundtrack
Backing Track : Paploviante and Friends
https://soundcloud.com/paploviante-and-friends/disco-again-paploviante
Lillithe adding: Sax, Solo Guitar, Wha-Wha Guitar, Beat, Mix and Production

ONE TRIBE YALL  feat. Kamal Imani (Paploviante open collab)

The Clearing

Music : Janne Hennie & Little Man
Vocal & lyrics : Janne Hennie

Thought I had everything I needed to feel free
But somewhere along the way, I lost me
Without direction, or knowing what to do
I blamed you...

I had a vision of finding something more
A stronger me
But I wasn't sure
where to look, I had no clue
So I blamed you....

I searched every corner, but still couldn't find
The freedom I was looking for
I went blind
Didn't even consider to look for the truth
I just blamed you....

I got tired of searching around
My longing for freedom
I just couldn't find
Couldn't bear to look anymore
So I blamed you....

What was I thinking?
Why couldn't I see
My own freedom was always within me
But I was blind
I was a fool
Blamed it all on you.....

I Blamed You

This week's Disquiet Junto prompt instructed us to find a piece of wood with interesting grain, and interpret it as a graphical music score.

My music desk is a pretty solid piece of furniture, and the dark stain makes the wood grain stand out prominently. I noticed that the grain on one side of the desk contained two interlocking swirls, and the radiating pattern reminded me of a magnetic field. So I decided that this week's composition would be played with wood and magnets.

I used a contact mic to record the percussion part, playing the top of the desk like a hand drum. Then I recorded three layers of guitar played with an ebow: an electromagnetic "guitar pick" characterized by infinite sustain. Ebow has the drawback of making dynamics difficult but I was able to make it growl and howl enough to get some texture and noise out of the performance. 

The bass layer was played on a Schecter Damien 7-string guitar with an altered tuning. I managed to play the bottom string freehand with the ebow, floating rather than resting on surrounding strings, which required multiple takes unfortunately. I just really, really needed that low B♭. The other two guitar layers were played on the St Vincent guitar. 

Offboard, the guitars went through my standard bank of stomp boxes, including an Eventide Harmonizer, Keeley Halo, ARP-87 and Julia pedals from Walrus, and a trusty RAT distortion pedal. DAW effects were mainly reverb and Chromaglow, plus a stereo delay and EQ on the percussion part.

More on the 690th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Knot Bad — The Assignment: Interpret wood grain as a graphic score — at https://disquiet.com/0689/

Lost in the Ironwood (disquiet0690)

being with you

found some wood grains in my dining table. obvious jump is from grains to granular, so went with a looping sample going into beads. the graphic score is the sequence of darker grains - roughly up/down is pitch, darker areas introduce more noise, and each grain in the wood triggers a burst granular sample, starting with a larger grain becoming smaller

(that's the idea anyway)

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More on the 690th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Knot Bad — The Assignment: Interpret wood grain as a graphic score — at https://disquiet.com/0690/

disquiet0690 - along the grain

I've not posted a Disquiet Junto track since project #646 about a year ago but did try in January but was locked out of this Soundcloud. I'm at home today with a bit of free time so thought why not - now i've been able to get back into Soundcloud. Enjoyed making this, the idea to unravel Ravel was too good to pass up. I imagine my approach isn't very original- I just cut up the source audio and added effects and cut some frequencies in the source. I then slowed the tempo down as the tracks progresses which created gaps and space in the audio clips which I had already locked in place. The gaps fill with the reverb and delay and late on I added some choir sounds to give the piece a new dimension and direction which I liked. 

More info on this challenge here: 
Disquiet Junto Project 0691: Un-Ravel
The Assignment: Make a recording of a string quartet fall apart.

Step 1: Download the first movement of the Ravel string quartet at this URL: https://bit.ly/un-ravel

The original source is the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/3-capet-sq-col-d-15057-60-ravel-1928-mov-3/

Step 2: Listen to the track closely.

Step 3: Create a new piece of music by employing the provided recording as source material. The goal for your piece is that it should make the Ravel sound like it is falling apart — that is, like it is unraveling, or un-Ravel-ing.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0691” (no spaces/quotes) in the name of your track.

Upload: Post your track to a public account (SoundCloud preferred but by no means required). It’s best to focus on one track, but if you post more than one, clarify which is the “main” rendition.

Share: Post your track and a description/explanation at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0691-un-ravel/

The Great un-Ravel-ing [disquiet0691]

More on the 691st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Un-Ravel — The Assignment: Make a recording of a string quartet fall apart — at https://disquiet.com/0691/

more halF unusuaL

halF unravelleD [disquiet0691]

Disquiet 0691 gave us an audio file of the first movement of a Ravel piece for string quartet, and asked us to "unravel" it.

To bring this nightmarish piece to life, I started with a Frankenstein arrangement that came in around 3:30 in length: some close listening, editing, and assembly of the sections to my liking. Next I created 6 auxiliary channels, each with a specific effect chain, its own tape delay, and a carefully tuned distortion via Chromaglow. To prepare to perform, I routed the sends on the single audio track to each of the 6 channels, assigned to six knobs on my Nektar Panorama control surface. The recorded performance consisted of mixing mulitple sends in realtime— I wish I had thought to record that to video.

The source piece is in the public domain and can be found on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/3-capet-sq-col-d-15057-60-ravel-1928-mov-3/?utm_source=DisquietJunto&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=disquiet-junto-project-0691-un-ravel

More on the 691st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Un-Ravel — The Assignment: Make a recording of a string quartet fall apart — at https://disquiet.com/0691/

Das Chaos-Quartett (disquiet0691)

I selected the 4th movement of the quartet, chopped it up and remixed it to a stereo track. Then, by means of many adjustments and various effects, I converted it to a modern atonal/microtonal composition.

More on the 691st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Un-Ravel — The Assignment: Make a recording of a string quartet fall apart — at https://disquiet.com/0691/

Ravel Revamped (disquiet0691)

Ravel from the 1920s, timestretched in ableton, then converted to midi and combined, fx etc

More on the 691st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Un-Ravel — The Assignment: Make a recording of a string quartet fall apart — at https://disquiet.com/0691/

un-ravel +3 mix [disquiet0691]

Unraveling Smoke (disquiet0691)

Un omaggio al fratello Giulio 🙏che ha suonato e cantato questa canzone circa 15 anni fa.
In foto Giulio ed io nel 2006🥴
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Il pozzo dei desideri

Ho lanciato dentro il pozzo un'altra monetina
con mosse calibrate e con un rito gestuale
E con la forza della mente e la forza del pensiero
ho urlato a tutto il mondo il mio grande desiderio.
In mezzo a tanta gente di ogni razza e di ogni età
ho avuto la fortuna di conoscere l’amore
di sentire la mia pelle unita con la tua
e gridare a tutto il mondo la mia felicità 
Rendi confusi anche tu
I nostri visi riflessi
Vorrei che non finisse mai
E che tu  sia sempre al mio fianco
Vorrei quest’amore in eterno
E per noi una vita insieme 

Infiltrato nel profondo del tuo cuore
Incoraggiato dalla bellezza del tuo amore
volo in alto leggero come un aquilone
trascinato dal vento della mia felicità
La mia gioia è grande come un bambino
che con la corda tiene il mondo come un palloncino
Amore lancia anche tu la tua moneta
e resteremo uniti si  tutta la vita

Rendi confusi anche tu
I nostri visi riflessi
Vorrei che non finisse mai
E che tu  sia sempre al mio fianco
Vorrei quest’amore in eterno
E per noi una vita insieme 

Vorrei che non finisse mai
E che tu  sia sempre al mio fianco
Vorrei quest’amore in eterno
E per noi una vita insieme

Il pozzo dei desideri

4 when i vanish_

All That We Leave Behind

Take A Minute

My other account.. since I stopped my paid account and somewhere to upload bits and bobs

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.

The Great un-Ravel-ing [disquiet0691]

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