Updated remix, much happier with this one :)

this feels so weird in here... totally love it

More on this 82nd Disquiet Junto project, in which a minimal techno track was created using elements of a Haydn string quartet, at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/07/25/disquiet0082-minimalhaydn/

The source Haydn audio is from:

http://goo.gl/7MMHRA

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto Project 0082: Minimal Haydn

I wanted to be as true to the genre and to the assignment as possible. I went with out a beat for that reason, it was stipulated that we add no other element and I wanted to use this as a challenge. I think it worked pretty well. 
To be true to the genre set my beat to be at 125 bmp, and made great use of repetition, which is something I enjoy anyhow. 
I set out by opening the track in audacity and set it to play in reverse. I chose only three sections and safed each section separatly as ogg vorbis files. I then loaded these up in to the Audiofile Processor in LMMS and added reverb to all the sections. The first part I set to play at a much lower speed and set that as the base beat. The next part I added flanger to. I slowly increased the volume and did the same to the last section till I reached 100% volume. Then I cut the second part and ended the piece abruptly. 
I set out to create something that had enough of the original in to make it hint at Haydn without giving it all away. 

http://subversiveintentions.wordpress.com

More on this 82nd Disquiet Junto project, in which a minimal techno track was created using elements of a Haydn string quartet, at:


http://disquiet.com/2013/07/25/disquiet0082-minimalhaydn/


The source Haydn audio is from:


http://goo.gl/7MMHRA


More details on the Disquiet Junto at:


http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Haydn Seek (disquiet0082-minimalhaydn)

The goal of this project was to make a 'minimal techno' track using samples from Franz Haydn’s String Quartet in F Major. Note that I do not believe I achieved this, although the results are interesting.

More on this 82nd Disquiet Junto project, in which a minimal techno track was created using elements of a Haydn string quartet, at: http://disquiet.com/2013/07/25/disquiet0082-minimalhaydn/

The source Haydn audio is from: http://goo.gl/7MMHRA

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

prolonged exposure [disquiet0082-minimalhaydn]

I was trying to extricate the basic components of the minimal genre, namely kick, snare, soundscapes and then work the silences around it. It came out denser/thicker than I initially intended. Thank you

More on this 82nd Disquiet Junto project, in which a minimal techno track was created using elements of a Haydn string quartet, at:


http://disquiet.com/2013/07/25/disquiet0082-minimalhaydn/


The source Haydn audio is from:


http://goo.gl/7MMHRA


More details on the Disquiet Junto at:


http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Haydn Tomato - [disquiet0082-minimalhaydn]


Disquiet Junto Project 0082: Minimal Haydn

disquiet0082-minimalhaydn

I deem this a failure. It’s becoming depressing that I don’t have any idea how to create “techno”. This certainly isn’t, and it probably isn’t minimal either. I spent ages hand-crafting a “beat”, and all I got was a lousy pulse.

The rest is me throwing bits of sound around and being careless with effects plugins.

Not that I don’t like it, but I wish I could work out how to use Ableton just once and create something with a beat. Back to the DAW…


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This week’s project is another in a series of explorations of the concept of genre as a constraint. (The “downtempo” exercise went well several weeks ago, project 79, and this is another in that mode.) The genre this time is “minimal techno.” The source material is from another genre entirely: “classical,” specifically chamber music in the form of a string quartet. The goal of this project is to derive elements from the source material in the service of a track that would fit in the prescribed genre.

More on this 82nd Disquiet Junto project, in which a minimal techno track was created using elements of a Haydn string quartet, at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/07/25/disquiet0082-minimalhaydn/ ;

The source Haydn audio is from:

http://goo.gl/7MMHRA ;

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info



Haydn Agenda [disquiet0082-minimalhaydn]

Updated remix of Haydn in a minimal techno style

More on this 82nd Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/07/25/disquiet0082-minimalhaydn/

The source Haydn audio is from:
http://goo.gl/7MMHRA

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Little bit about the remix at:
http://bassling.blogspot.com/2013/07/disquiet-junto-minimal-haydn.html

Hadyn nuff [disquiet0082-minimalhaydn]

This weeks disquiet task landed here Friday morning - went for a run and thought about how to go about it this week. Decided to take the background for the word Hyperloop literally and build the track around my idea of what a hyperloop might sound like - not necessarily from inside the cabins - but you´ll get the picture. 
The sounds for the track are all fieldrecordings - some from an assignment I had this spring, where I got to record in a laboratory. The central  accelerating sound is made from two recordings of a centrifuge - one electromagnetic and one ambient - a bunch of electromagnetic recordings was used for a the little strange bleeps and noises. The first voice came from the Airtrain at JFK Airport and the other from the subway stopping at Wall St. hence the title of the thing.

Disquiet Junto Project 0086: Hyperloop

This week’s project may have the simplest, and broadest, instruction in all of the 86 consecutive weeks that the Disquiet Junto has been running. Thanks to the musician Cinchel of Chicago, Illinois, for helping to prompt this idea. The project has just one instruction:

The title of your next single is “Hyperloop.” Now, record that single 

Deadline: Monday, August 26, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your track should have a duration of between 1 and 5 minutes.

Information: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, 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.

Title/Tag: Include the term “disquiet0086-hyperloop” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

Download: Please consider employing a license that allows for attributed, commerce-free remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

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

More on this 86th Disquiet Junto project, in which a song was made based on its assigned title (“Hyperloop”), at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/08/22/disquiet0086-hyperloop/

More on the Tesla Hyperloop at:

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/hyperloop

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

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

“disquiet0086-hyperloop”JFK-Wall street in about 2 minutes

"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 2013. You will then select one 5-second segment from each of these audio elements. Then you will stitch these dozen 5-second segments together in chronological order to form 1 single 1-minute track. There should be no overlap or gap between segments; they should simply proceed from one to the next."

I chose excerpts of 12 commercially unreleased tracks and recordings I made during 2013.  

As I have said in the past - "I make way too much electronic music."

Recordings are:

0:00 to 0:05 - "Galloping A Little" - a variation on the crazy 18 minute track "Galloping Again" from my album Crackle And Drift - I owe a significant debt to Fenn O'Berg on that one.

0:05 to 0:10 - "Ghosts of the Woods" - it goes on like that for 13 minutes.

0:10 to 0:15 - "Losting (version 5)" - poor recording but an interesting effect.  A couple variations of Losting will be released on an EP in very early 2014.  They're different than this, and very beautiful.

0:15 to 0:20 - "Snowflakes (version 3)" - If I find something I like, I keep working and reworking it.  The original version of Snowflakes will be released on an EP in early 2014.

0:20 to 0:25 - "EBG" - stands for electronic bluegrass.  I was messing with some blues loops in Samplr and it ended up kind-of bluegrass-like.  Interesting, but I won't be releasing that.

0:25 to 0:30 - me testing sound levels when Jon Harnish and I recorded in June at EEC in Iowa City.

0:30 to 0:35 - "Hollows" - an edited track from the same session with Jon.

0:35 to 0:40 - "Seven Sea" - Jon and I making magic happen live at EEC.

0:40 to 0:45 - Jon talking to Stephanie while I do a little demo of my iPad controlling Ableton Live.

0:45 to 0:50 - an untitled sketch from August 25th.  My archives are filled with this sort of stuff.

0:50 to 0:55 - "Laundromat" - a finished track that is waiting around and I'm unsure about releasing.

0:55 to 1:00 - "Assistance" - a Samplr-based remix of loops I used in my 2004 track "Adventitious", which is very heavily blues-based.  This will eventually be released, unless I can make something even better based on the same recordings.

Picture of the Soundcloud merch was taken by me and is via Instagram.  Soundcloud sent a nice care package this summer.  The t-shirt was excellent, a fine quality fabric from American Apparel.

For more about me and my music, visit:  http://markrushton.com/  or join my mailing list at http://mailinglist.markrushton.com/

More on this 104th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a 2013 audio diary with a dozen five-second segments”) at:  http://disquiet.com/2013/12/26/disquiet0104-audiojournal2013/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:  http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:  http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Mark Rushton Unreleased From 2013 (disquiet0104-audiojournal2013)

2013 is ending, so I wanna wish everyone another wonderful and productive year ahead! It's kind of interesting to review what I have over worked on over a year. Not only did it make me realize that I have a lot of WIP (Work-In-Progress) or unreleased work, it sums up the journey of my music-making so far…

The Snippets are:

 Jan - Chickie Chickie (WIP) 
Feb - Tito Lopez - I Got Blue (A remix I submitted for competition)  
 Mar - Light Seeping In (Unreleased) 
Apr - Vijaya Dharni (WIP)  
May - Iphone Recording of My Fan  
 Jun  - Pika Pika (WIP)
Jul - Regulator (WIP) 
Aug - Too Active (WIP) 
Sep - Drone out (WIP)
Oct - I Wish (WIP) 
Nov - Chang'e (Released in MINDPORT EP) 
Dec - Disquiet Junto 101 (Switch On / Off)

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More on this 104th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a 2013 audio diary with a dozen five-second segments”) at >> disquiet.com/2013/12/26/disquie…-audiojournal2013/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at >>disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at >> soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/


2013 In 60 Seconds [ disquiet0104-audiojournal2013 ]

2013 was a great year - I did so much work, played great concerts and got to travel a bit. I loved every minute of it…I decided to open up (and close) this journal with the one thing that really made a difference for me in 2013…thank you Marc for all the energy you must put into the Junto…
0:00 to 0:05 From 2 fingers 9 pianos and no screws disquiet0055-twoscrews
0:05 to 0:10 Hydrophone recording of snow/snowing
0:10 to 0:15 Fieldrecording of a transformerstation 
0:15 to 0.20 Live recording from a concert I gave in Copenhagen with Tore H. Boe playing his acoustic laptop
0:20 to 0:25 From my piece Sound of Kartofler  - that became a part of the release of Danish Soundart 2013 after being a part of the show "Kartofler is Coming" 
0:25 to 0:30 A collage made from recordings at the Emil Nolde museum in North Germany
0:30 to 0:35 Fieldrecording from Panera Bread in B'kln NY
0:35 to 0:40 Recording of wheat kernels popping in the sun behind my house
0:40 to 0:45 I worked most of September on a piece based on and inspired by an art book by Ken Denning titled "My Landscape" paintings, photos and prints of the landscape around the village where we both iive.
0:45 to 0:50 My contribution to the Extrospection groups October call (and the Junto # 0095)
0:50 to 0:55 Part of an etude based on a recording I made in Venice at the Art Bienale   
0:55 to 1:00 Disquiet Junto number 103 tinselsong
Happy new year to all /Robert

Disquiet Junto Project 0104: 2013 in 60 Seconds

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 2013. You will then select one 5-second segment from each of these audio elements. Then you will stitch these dozen 5-second segments together in chronological order to form 1 single 1-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 preferably of your own making, and not drawn from third-party sources.

Deadline: Monday, December 30, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your finished work should be 60 seconds long.

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 “disquiet0104-audiojournal2013” 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 your track, be sure to include this information:

More on this 104th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a 2013 audio diary with a dozen five-second segments”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/12/26/disquiet0104-audiojournal2013/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Photo associated with this project found via Creative Commons at:

http://goo.gl/AuZpPf

*Disquiet Junto Project 0104: 2013 in 60 Seconds*

january- qifteli and percussion in loop player
february- electronic drone
march- processed field recording
april- Pd fugue from "spiritual telegraph"
may- paper and brush
june- screams
july- recording interrupted, talk
august- noises and voice distorted
september- processed piano - "for evocation of a ghost"
october- piano and qifteli
november- ghost responds by knocking, from "spiritual telegraph"
december- distortion piano

Summing up all my experiments during the year

More on this 104th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a 2013 audio diary with a dozen five-second segments”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/12/26/disquiet0104-audiojournal2013/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Photo associated with this project found via Creative Commons at:

http://goo.gl/AuZpPf

2013- disquiet0104-audiojournal2013

This was a lot of fun. What a crazy trip this year has been. It started out in Haiti (where the second sound clip is from). After that I headed across the U.S. landing in Alaska for a gig at a lodge. Then I spent some time in Utah and California, before heading home (to Maine). Over the course of this year I have had one split/collab release, I've been on 6 different compilations, and submitted work to countless Disquiet Junto Projects. 2013 has probably been one of my most fruitful years. And here I had thought all this travel would hinder my creative work. 

More at: 
http://subversiveintentions.wordpress.com/

More on this 104th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a 2013 audio diary with a dozen five-second segments”) at:


http://disquiet.com/2013/12/26/disquiet0104-audiojournal2013/


More details on the Disquiet Junto at:


http://disquiet.com/?p=16588


Join the Disquiet Junto at:


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


Photo associated with this project found via Creative Commons at:


http://goo.gl/AuZpPf

Fiftwa Upon (disquiet0104-audiojournal2013)

Every day in 2013 i've taken a #selfie.
I uploaded the first day of each month into audacity, time stretched to equal 5 seconds, and pieced them together.

sources:
1. January
2. Februrary
3. March
4. April
5. May
6. June
7. July
8. August
9. September
10. October
11. November
12. December

#selfie “disquiet0104-audiojournal2013”

These are the 12 links to the original tracks:
https://soundcloud.com/sozu_proj/from-breath-to-thought
https://soundcloud.com/sozu_proj/electronic-gypsy
https://soundcloud.com/sozu_proj/birds-eye-view
https://soundcloud.com/sozu_proj/kyrie
https://soundcloud.com/sozu_proj/insideout-disquiet0072
http://sozuproject.bandcamp.com/track/relics
https://soundcloud.com/sozu_proj/franzs-trip-disquiet0082
https://soundcloud.com/sozu_proj/waves-telling-extrospection
https://soundcloud.com/sozu_proj/missing-the-moon-disquiet0089
https://soundcloud.com/sozu_proj/i-would-have-a-dream
https://soundcloud.com/sozu_proj/frozen-colliding-icebergs
"Flight 901" (upcoming)

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More on this 104th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a 2013 audio diary with a dozen five-second segments”) at:
disquiet.com/2013/12/26/disquie…-audiojournal2013/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
disquiet.com/?p=16588

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

Month 13th [disquiet00104-audiojournal2013]

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.

Hadyn nuff [disquiet0082-minimalhaydn]

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