lovely track, the warm sliding bass line is so lush. But I'm now in a land of "rock confusion"! Marillion have a lyric "patience my perfumed angel", the piano sounds like Pink Floyd, and for some reason I associate "tinseltown rebellion" with Bowie. 

This is a playlist with each of my submissions to the disquiet junto, a weekly electronic music writing prompt at http://disquiet.com/

Disquiet Junto Compositions

30 Stunning and Vivid Rain Sounds

Vividly Rain, Pt. 11

nonlooping version of https://soundcloud.com/winterer/chord-cage-loop-disquiet0554

Chord Cage

Afterhours

From Freesound
511266__erokia__msfxp7-9-remix-509155-long-reverb-delay    
  
423456__alienxxx__processed-422056-toiletrolltube-reverb.wav

449816__analogist__minimoog-lead-solo.aiff     
More on this 556th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Gabber Ambient (The Assignment: Field-test a hybrid genre) — at: https://disquiet.com/0556/

Thanks to Sevenism for having proposed this project.

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0556-gabber-ambient/

Zen Master Gabber(disquiet0556)

220 bpm thumps and textured noise brought to you with an extra dose of religious fervor, fire and brimstone

More on this 556th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Gabber Ambient (The Assignment: Field-test a hybrid genre) – at: https://disquiet.com/0556/

Thanks to Sevenism for having proposed this project.

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0556-gabber-ambient/

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Elton John  [disquiet0556]

This composition was created for the Disquiet Junto Project 0556: Gabber Ambient. 

Here's the description I posted on the Disquiet Junto 0556 discussion thread:
I was immediately intrigued by this assignment. I’m into ambient, lofi and more mellow forms of electronic music these days, but there was a time many years ago when I enjoyed fast BPM genres like hardcore, jungle, and especially drum and bass. I never listened to a lot of gabber though but am familiar with it. 

Like many, my first introduction to ambient was Brian Eno’s “Ambient 1: Music for Airports”. So my piece starts off with a short sample of his voice from a 2011 interview I found online. From there, it quickly morphs into loud 180 BPM madness, while a slow more ambient undercurrent, meanders underneath. Halfway through, the beat shifts to a bit of a DnB vibe. Everything cools off to a more serene feel at the end. This was created in Abelton Live using a combination of instruments, samples and effects. 

Combining the two types of music was like mixing oil and water but hopefully my contribution here is mostly successful. It sounded good to me, plus I had a lot of fun fooling around with this project.

More info:

More on this 556th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Gabber Ambient (The Assignment: Field-test a hybrid genre) — at: https://disquiet.com/0556/

Thanks to Sevenism for having proposed this project.

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0556-gabber-ambient/

Disquiet Junto Gabber Ambient: disquiet0556

I rarely listen to music in bed, because the struggle between my body wanting to shut off and my brain listening to interesting bits keeps me awake. So I wanted to dumb things down a it and use a long volume fade to drift away. 

I used a new generative base track for a session with Lucid Grain, thinned it out gradually, let it run in a very long delay (Augustus Loop) and then... zzzzzzzz.

Placideque Quiescas [disquiet563]

More on this 562nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sheep Music (The Assignment: Record something to help someone fall asleep) — at: https://disquiet.com/0562/

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-0562-sheep-music/

When The Sleep Kicks In (disquiet0562)

Midori: processed bass
Nekbhet: pianos
Syntania: vocals
Crampdread: tom-toms, agogo bells
Cramphand: upright bass
Crampmail: clavinet
Crampmeet: synth horns
Crampmeat: feedback
Sinny: vibraslap, sticks, bulb horn, slide whistle, synth knocks
Tooth: electric guitar

More on this 564th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Octave Lept (The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music) — at: https://disquiet.com/0564/

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0564-octave-lept/

King Tut Strut (disquiet0564)

January: Fleece Fortitude (disquiet0525)
February: Shifting 23 (disquiet0529)
March: Windy House (disquiet0531)
April: Cooking Up a Storm (disquiet0536)
May: Rototom Rampage (disquiet0543)
June: Warning Code [Secret Word] (disquiet0546)
July: Illuminated Driveway (disquiet0550)
August: Gabbling Blubber (disquiet0556)
September: Tea and Coffee (disquiet0557)
October: The Town Brain (disquiet0561)
November: A Thankful Feast (disquiet0569)
December: We’re Going to the Fair (disquiet0572)

More on this 574th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Audio Journal 2022 (The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments) — at: https://disquiet.com/0574/

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0574-audio-journal-2022/

Calendar Flip 2022 (disquiet0574)

Disquiet 0415 https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0415-seasonal-metal/

This week, it was suggested we explore the sonic properties of tinsel. 

Funnily, there’s no parts of the holiday music canon which feature tinsel prominently. Had we been asked to think about chestnuts, snow, bells, reindeer, or more recently, you, last or even more recently LA, there might have been a cover in me. But I went to lyrics.com and looked and yup, there’s no tinsel songs.

But there are a lot of lyrics which contain the word tinsel. So I scraped the first and third page of the lyrics.com search for tinsel, extracted just the lines that were lyrics, jammed them together, fed them into the mac speech synthesizer with voice “Fiona” as a tribute to my collaborators with whom we have made Christmas music in a Scottish style, and thought “lets go”. And then I had two false starts. One of them I accidentally re-wrote another song, and another I accidentally wrote something I couldn’t execute and didn’t like. 

But third time is a charm and in the end it clicked. Take the turnaround from a favorite Christmas song and record it differently on piano and bass, grab the generated wav file into python and do some silence detection kinda crappily (code all in my GitHub) and use that to generate midi which tracks the turnaround I was going to play, pull that midi into logic and do some modeling with the Surge FM and Vocoder stuff, and voila, music emerges. 

This week’s bit is called “Patience My Tinsel Angel (disquiet0415)”. I hope you enjoy it and have a wonderful holiday!

Patience My Tinsel Angel (disquiet0415)

Disquiet 0422: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0422-chapter-cascade/28907

The challenge, to make very short collections of noises, in a relatively prescribed A/B pattern, immediately clicked in my head with an idea. I would write 3 very short pieces of music, two a pattern and one a loop. Then I would “play” the loop with the patterns radically sped up being each note of the loop. 

So some constraints. For the fastest rendition of the patterns to work, they could not have repeating notes. So one pattern is a sort of opposing pair of melodies and another is three rising chords. The loop has one repeated theme of 7 notes and another of 5, so the item ends up 140 “notes” long.

And then I had to execute it.  About half the disquiets have me writing some custom code, and I did so here, writing some python to take a performed version of each theme as midi, and radically speed it up. And once I was in code, I could do things, like speed it up a bit less as time went on; and offset the themes at the start and phase them towards not being offset at the end; and some other tricks. It’s all on my GitHub if you want. 

And then take the midi files into Logic, set up some Pianotec and some reverbs and delays and stuff, and voila.

In some ways I really like this, and I think it was super successful, especially as I let it open up. But in other ways it sounds exactly like the sort of mechanical formal toneless music that makes people not like “modern” music. I hope you enjoy listening and making your own decision, and I’m glad to share “3 Ideas; 5040 Notes (disquiet 0422)”

3 Ideas; 5040 Notes (disquiet 0422)

Disquiet 0423: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0423-hold-noise

Luckily, here in modernity, our zooms, our hangouts, our skypes, and our facetimes have chosen to do away with the tradition of hold music. But iproviders of yore made a choice to foist music upon us, and in my experience seemed to pick either a (presumably low license cost) uninspired recording of some baroque music or a bit of music somewhere between smooth jazz and bad fusion. And in the spirit of the second, I approached this week’s prompt.

But also, this week we shipped Surge 1.6.5. If you are a Surge user you should totally upgrade. Loads of new stuff, all detailed in the changelog. One of the big changes is we now have a complete SCL/KBM tuning implementation. I spent quite a bit of time writing and testing this with the rest of the surge team, but I hadn’t used it to make music in anger. So I chose an 18 note even division of the octave scale and went for it. I picked this scale because it makes diminished arpeggios on a standard keyboard equivalent to a whole tone scale. And what is more smooth jazz/bad fusion than a whole tone scale? But all those other notes are hanging out there too… The bit uses the Logic Pro built in drum samples and three virtual instruments with a solid retuning implementation (Surge, dexed and Pianotec).  

And of course, our intrepid hold-music musicians, getting more adventurous as the call goes on, moving further from their whole tone roots, meet the fate of all hold music. If you listen to the end, you’ll find out what that is, if you can make it that far. If you can, I hope you enjoy listening to “The 3:30 is Running a Few Minutes Late (disquiet0423)”

The 3:30 is Running a Few Minutes Late (disquiet0423)

Disquiet 0425: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0425-crop-score/29584

Finally, scientists unpacked the signal in Crop Circles, and amazingly they found encoded audio. The sounds were released Feb 21, 2076. Is it noise? It it speech? Is it an alarm? No-one knows, but the entire world is listening, rapt, to the strange and mysterious sound - a thrum and an unsettled whistle - trying to understand what it is that we have received. In the bar at the teleportation station which we last visited in disquiet0414, the night band sits silent, trying with everyone else to garner a glimpse of meaning. And then the pianist realizes the sound is an invitation to cooperate, a lead from a song that we have to write together across space and time. That some alien, deep in the past, was looking to sit in on the session and make music, and sent us that message as a pile of compressed wheat fields. So turn to the keys - pluck out a hint of a sympathetic melody. As the rest of the group joins in, the bar looks on, thinking:  “No. No, that’s probably not what the signal means. But let’s listen and order another cocktail anyway.”

This week is my 11th disquiet. As I’ve done with several others, I wrote some code and some music. This time I used python to extract 2 dimensional signals from the wikipedia image, turned slices of those signals into one dimensional signals, turned those one dimensional signals into midi cc, and pulled about 2 minutes of lots of midi control into Logic. I made a feedback-y Surge patch controlled by the CC, and then played along on piano. Nicely, as I was playing, I realized I was returning to the sound palette of disquiet0414, and so I wrote the above little micro-story in my head. And voila.

With that, I hope you enjoy “Space Sits In on The Last Number (disquiet0425)”

Space Sits In on The Last Number (disquiet0425)

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0439-hybrid-self/32979

The prompt: Think of two musicians who you admire with different styles. Hybridize. Your choice if you want to disclose who they are.

You know who they are.

Alice at the Gates (disquiet0439)

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0440-tuning-in/

A simple challenge: make music with an alternative tuning. Enjoy.

Untitled, with Resolution (disquiet0440)

Multi-this-that-and-the-other including composer; 1/3 of @NerdBaitBand / www.nerdbaitband.com

Patience My Tinsel Angel (disquiet0415)

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