and when it starts raining

A live,  ambient improvisation with the Fender Rhodes and the Hologram Microcosm. 8/31/21.

Monster Brains

Almost Breathless

This started as a live recording of me playing double bass during a rainstorm.  I then mangled it until it reminded me of how it felt in the trailer (and later house) I grew up in while rain pelted the tin roof during rainstorms.

Cordova (disquiet0530)

Polyphonic sinewaves from Organelle M, warmed up by saturating compression and spiced up with some sequenced glitches. Recorded live with Logic Pro.

This is part of Disquiet Junto Project 0530: Minimally Viable Music. See more at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0530-minimally-viable-music/53064

Gold and Azure [disquiet0530]

Created in a single take with the Modular: 2 sound sources - MI Elements,  and Tiptop One triggered by Make Noise Pressure points and modulated by a slow clocked DivKid/SSF RandStep. Fx: Tiptop FSU and Vallhalla supermassive.
Major thanks to Saga Söderback for having come up with this project.

More on this 530th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Minimally Viable Music (The Assignment: How much less is just shy of too little? ) — at: https://disquiet.com/0530/

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-0530-minimally-viable-music/

Minimum Viable System (disquiet0530)

Minimal Viable Product (MVP) is a development and commercialization practice in which a new concept is introduced to the market with basic features. The intention is to maximize the amount of learning, in order to assess product fertility, while minimizing the amount of resource investment.

The general template of an MVP consists of listing the key characteristics of the product that customers will deem essential, usually in the form of questions. These are then coupled with elements that can be designed and manufactured within aggressive time and cost guardrails. Subsequent iterations of the MVP render an offering of increasing maturity, ideally and hopefully, before it transforms the market for which it’s targeted.

Suss Müsik took an MVP approach to this week’s Junto project. The primary questions regarding viability might be interpreted as: to what extent do acoustic and electric guitar fragments, when pressurized under certain constraints, no longer render themselves as inherently musical? At what point do these fragments cease to offer acousmatic value to the listener? And to what extent would an audience be willing to subject themselves to that experience? 

The responses to these inquiries, as with all instances of MVP concept testing, are subject to input from a respective target audience. In this case, that audience is you. 

The piece is titled MVP v.1 and was recorded live to 8-track in February 2022. The image is a schematic overlay of an actual instrument prototype.

Major thanks to Saga Söderback for having come up with this project.

More on this 530th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Minimally Viable Music (The Assignment: How much less is just shy of too little?) – at: https://disquiet.com/0530/ 3

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

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MVP v.1 [Disquiet0530]

Its been a while since I participated in a Disquiet Junto. This weeks theme was 10 BPM Techno. I designed the main parts at ~130 bpm, then ran the clock down to 10 bpm, and adjusted envelopes, effects, etc from there to make it gel a little more. Obviously some subdivided delay works wonders here. The lead is STO through MMG into Mimeophon. Bass line is AI011 into 2hp LPF (great acid style filter) starting out straight, then as that gets samey samey, it morphs into being processed through Beads for some variety and... Beads-iness. Drums are 2hp Kick and Snare, and Pico Drum2 for hihat. Clocks for all are from Pams. And lead and bass lines are from O&c Quantermain. I could do more with this track, so I consider this an initial sketch - hopefully I'll come back to this soon.

More on this 541st weekly Disquiet Junto project — 10BPM Techno (The Assignment: Make some snail-paced beats) — at: https://disquiet.com/0541/

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-0541-10bpm-techno/

Image used thanks to this license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grapevinesnail_01.jpg.

slow acid

slow acid - Disquiet541

Last Night (NYC mix)

Patricia Wolf is a musician, sound designer and DJ, residing in Portland, Oregon. Wolf uses electronics, voice and field recordings to produce non-linear compositions that draw listeners to a hypnotic inner world. Her use of melody and repetition manipulate the listeners' perception of time, conjuring vivid textures and atmospheres. In 2022 she released her first two solo albums, “I’ll Look For You In Others” and “See-Through”.

“For this mix, I set out to create a flowing stream of music that one could put on at bedtime. My hope is that this music can help others drift into a vivid dreamland.”

Tracklist:

ABADIR - Reminiscence [Injazero Records / Phantom Limb, 2023]
Zane Trow - Phase Shift [Room40, 2021]
Startrails - Light [self released, 2023]
Miguel Isaza - Continuidad [Dragon's Eye Recordings, 2015]
Tujiko Noriko - A Meeting At The Space Station [Editions Mego, 2023]
Perila - Amorphous Absorption [VAAGNER, 2021]
Hatis Noit - Inori (William Basinski Rework) [Erased Tapes, 2023]
Nyokabi Kariuki - Subira [cmntx records, 2023]
Saloli - Sarabande Dream [self released, 2022]
James Heather - Immortal Beloved [Ahead Of Our Time, 2022]
Megan Alice Clune - Puffy [Room40, 2023]
Shō - Gummy [Never Anything Records, 2023]
Meg Mulhearn & Belly Full Of Stars - Orbital Resonance [Fallen Moon Recordings, 2023]
Eric Olsen - Calmoso [Bruma Del Sur, 2022]

Design by Clayton Ciolac

The Observatory - Patricia Wolf

Created for the Disquiet Junto Project 0300: The 300th Project
@disquiet

The project: 3 chords x 100 seconds

After reading the project description, I keyed in on the idea of creating sounds that would sustain for the entire 100 seconds, rather than replaying or retriggering an instrument periodically. I realized that the trick was that while I had plenty of ways to make sounds that would sustain for the duration... they were single tones, and I couldn't generate a chord. Conversely, I had plenty of instruments that would play lovely triads... but they would trail out long before the 100 seconds (unless I decided to use a synth patch that I could tweak). So I set about looking first for sound sources that would sustain or resonate, and then would try to figure out how to process those sounds into chords later on. After banging on a lot of diningware, some toys, and random resonant surfaces, I settled on:

1. My voice singing a single note, then pitch and frozen-delay processed through a Red Panda Particle granular delay pedal.

2. The hum of the touch panel keyboard on my Volca Beats, recorded through an electromagnetic pickup, and pitch processed through an Old Blood Noise Dark Star 'orchestral' delay pedal.

3. An organ-ish patch on my Volca FM, processed through an Earthquaker Avalanche Run reverse delay and reverb.

I used B/D/A as my chord structure - based on the pitch from the EM pickup on the Volca Beats, and complimentary harmonies on the Dark Star. The processed vocal and the noise/hum patch created from the EM pickup both wound up being generative/infinite sustain sounds. The FM organ is the only one where I fudged my idea a little - creating most of the sustain by adjusting the envelope decay time in the synth.

A little filtering, fading, and slight delay (iZotope DDLY) and reverb (Valhalla Shimmer) were added to sweeten the mix. 

Congrats to Marc on #300! Thank you for stirring the creative pot that gets our ideas simmering. Here's to 300 more - Cheers!

More on this 300th weekly Disquiet Junto project (3 chords x 100 seconds) at:

https://disquiet.com/0300/

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-the-300th-consecutive-weekly-project/

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

100 Grains in the Infinite Hum [ disquiet0300 - the300thproject ]

Haphazard/precise maker of music/noise.
Veers ambient.

Double LP Conjunctions with @megmulhearn on Fallen Moon Recordings
https://fallenmoonrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/conjunctions

LP Aura on @triplicaterecords:
https://triplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/aura

EP brokendatapool on @couriersound:
https://couriersound.bandcamp.com/album/brokendatapool

20x20 Project: blue is the color of my true love's light
https://20x20project.bandcamp.com/album/blue-is-the-color-of-my-true-loves-light

More sounds found on:
Mailbox (UK)
Past Inside the Present (US)
@verses_records (US) 
@romeda-records (UK) 


Happy participant of:
 @disquiet
Cities And Memory (https://citiesandmemory.com/)
1esf5m (http://1esf5m.buzzsprout.com/)
Phonography on Aleatoric Forest (http://phonography.radio.af/)

#ambient #experimental #fieldrecordings #musiqueconcrete #foundsound #foundobjects #abstract #ambientglitch #piano #electroacoustic #electronica #glitch #soundtrack #chill #brokendatapool #courier #chairchimes

100 Grains in the Infinite Hum [ disquiet0300 - the300thproject ]

Belly Full Of Stars

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