Disquiet Junto Project 0529: Squared Off
The Assignment: Explore the number 23.

Major thanks to Eanna Butler for helping come up with this project:

Step 1: This is the 529th consecutive weekly Disquiet Junto project. The number 529 is what happens when you take the number 23 and multiply it by itself. Consider various interesting aspects of the number 23. For example: Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes. It’s the number from the Birthday Paradox (read up!). Also, 529 is an “octagonal number” (read up some more!). The earth’s axis tilts at 23° (rounded down). Anyhow, have fun exploring.

Step 2: Make a piece of music that engages with the number 23.

Details at disquiet.com/0529

Disquiet Junto Project 0529: Squared Off

Imitating a photo of trees reflected on a lake as a wavform shape. Simple vocal line processed many ways.

HowSound - Disquiet0524

Magic Number PT 1

Disquiet0525 - Magic Number

Thanks half unusuaL for the rhythms to work with:
https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-numeral-disquiet0525

I've added some bass, and hope for someone else complete the trio.

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DnB (Two halfs waiting for a third)- HaLf Unusual And Benn DeMole [disquiet0526]

disquiet0526
Magic Number 2 of 3
    A) Key: G minor     BPM: 20     Time signature: 2/2     DAW: Reaper
    B) Instruments: 
    C) Plug-ins:
    D) Useda random number generator to pick the track
    E) Number 18 is the chosen track
    F) Collab One by Noodle Twister
    G) Panned the track all the way to the left
    H) Recorded a simple drum groove with electronic Simmons drums
    I) Panned the drum track hard right

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I found Daniel's bass part (https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/unfinished-disquiet0525) utterly inspiring, so went about making a beat for it. So this started out as a dangerous kitchen, cutlery type percussion track with some guitar sprinkled over here and there. When it was almost done, I tore it to shreds again, remixed it and loaded the resulting abstract, non-linear, non-grid beats/acoustic guitar improv into Leafcutter John's Forester. 

A couple of trial and error type experiments lead me to  picking out this nugget (mostly beats mingling with guitar, as if by magic, inside Forester). 

I think this matches very well with the double bass solo groove. I hope you agree, and look forward to whatever gets added in the upcoming third week.

More on this 526th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Magic Number (2 of 3) (The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio) — at: https://disquiet.com/0526/

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uno/duo/trio (disquiet0526)

Very inspiring to work with https://soundcloud.com/paul-beaudoin's and https://soundcloud.com/caustic_gates's duo recording. I went for a 4-to-the-floor beat (inspired by GAS/Wolfgang Voigt) to complement their contrasting L/R atmospherics. 
Hope you like it!

More on this 527th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Magic Number (3 of 3) (The Assignment: Complete an asynchronous trio begun by two other musicians) — at: https://disquiet.com/0527/

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Third Man Four Floor (disquiet0527) with Paul Beaudoin & caustic_gates

the tree made a fish (disquiet0528)

I made a bunch in Musyc before I arrived at All Aglow.  This is a construct using "strings".  It's run first through an Empress Echosystem on green tape, and then into an Empress Reverb on green ghost.  

I wanted the feeling of casually roaming down a path and, at times, almost teetering with the edge of the path.

The image is a detail of my painting All Aglow.

More on this 528th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Landscape Architecture (The Assignment: Forge an unobtrusive path through musical flora) — at: https://disquiet.com/0528/

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All Aglow (disquiet0528)

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Ouroboros & Enigma23 (disquiet0529)

Disquiet Junto Project 0529: Squared Off
The Assignment: Explore the number 23.
Major thanks to Eanna Butler for helping come up with this project:
More on this 529th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Squared Off (The Assignment: Explore the number 23) — at: https://disquiet.com/0529/
More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

NonsenseXXIIIcablesloop(disquiet0529)

Times Itself [disquiet0529]
Created as part of Disquiet Junto weekly project 0529:  to make a piece of music that engages with the number 23.
This track has bars of 23 beats, it is 23 bars long.
I doubt the ear can discern the 23beat bar -but the rhythm is 123&12&12&123&12&12&123
The track has 3 drum tracks – done in bitwig. A Spitfire Audio piano, cello and violin plus acoustic drone recording of a metal sheet and a bit crushed megaphone announcement (in Japanese).The metal sheet friction drone is gate sequenced to an Euclidian patter on a 23 beat cycle.
The scale for the piano and strings is E+ F+ A B C+
Think it would make good closing credits music for a psychological thriller where a serial killer feasts on minor celebrities and influencers. The agent assigned to the case of course has his demons and struggles with his own autism -only to discover no one else has empathy for the victims either. It could be called LIKES!
Additional project info:
Major thanks to Eanna Butler for helping come up with this project:
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Times Itself [disquiet0529]

Synths, sampled drums & sampled strings, electric guitars experiment inspired by this challenge:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0529-squared-off

DD, Paris Friday 18th February 2022.

Twenty Three (disquiet0529)

Disquiet0529 Question 23

23 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

Major thanks to Eanna Butler for helping come up with this project:

More on this 529th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Squared Off (The Assignment: Explore the number 23) — at: https://disquiet.com/0529/

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Psalms 23 (King James Version)disquiet0529

The phrase minimally viable music reminded me of listening to The Caretaker's Everywhere At The End of Time. It's a harrowing listen as over six and a half hours what starts as wistful, joyful melodies become stripped of timing, tuning and coherence. Towards the end you're disoriented by a grey sonic plaque of scratches, pops and detritus.
I took a very abbreviated route and took a simple loop from my 2hpPluck and ran it on successive passes through more and more destructive fx until almost all pitch, timing and timbre information was removed. The end result plays at the beginning before the original loop fades in and starts to be messed with.
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/

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Non Viable (disquiet0530)

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.

Psalms 23 (King James Version)disquiet0529

Bick Brannigan333

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