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Dreaming Is Free (disquiet0619)

Left - To - Right (disquiet0619)

I seldom work like this: creating a charged “full steam” pattern and placing it at the end of a crescendo, then moving backwards removing stuff till there’s nothing left at the beginning. I did it with drum programs a lot, but also with repetitive stuff (pianos, guitars) à la Reich/Riley. I like to have an idea of my “tutti”, my maximum peak in density and intensity, then going there from zero.
This track, recorded today Friday November 10th 2023, started with a programmed drum beat (using for the first time in decades my good old Alesis D4 module that remained unplugged in my rack, just to fill a space)
To complete I added two tracks of a Matrix 12 synth and cello samples (noisy)
The patter is 16 beats long but never in 4x4 time signature, it does something like 7x8 + 6x8 + 3x8
The synths are in straight 4/4.
The weirdness of the drum patter becomes evident as we progress and more elements appear.

The photo is mine, I can’t recall what that is. Paris 2019, it says in the folder…

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Bad Beat (disquiet0619)

I made a beat with Poly 2 and added some sort of bassline. Then I had the idea to sort of turn this into a live recording, so I slapped a snippet of a show by DJ Gruff on it. DJ Gruff, one of the pioneers of Italian hip hop, is also on the cover drawing. Much love to DJ Gruff - and to YOU too!

More on this 619th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beat Accrual (The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch), at: https://disquiet.com/0619/

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Disquiet0619 - Gruffetti

I play the drums so this disquiet assignment appealed to me. 

I decided that complex for me meant complex timing. I wanted to play something in odd time signatures, and I feel like the number 23 is underrepresented in music. Here was my process:

1. I improvised a 4 bar drum beat in 23/8 time (which I really counted as 8/8, 5/8, 7/8, 3/8), and recorded it in Ableton. 

2. I experimented with a few ways to “accrue” the beat, and decided to accrue by time rather than by part.

3. In Ableton Live, I edited the beat to repeat, but only play a section before repeating. I chose Fibonacci numbers for the length. For the first repeat only 1 8th note of the 4 bar 23/8 repeat plays. Second repeat, 2 8th notes. Third repeat, 3 8th notes. Fourth repeat 5 8th notes, etc until the entire beat is revealed. It took on the feel of a breakbeat.

4. For more accrual, I copied the original 4 bar beat to another track, and used a filter slowly introduce it beneath the Fibonacci cut breakbeat. They are not aligned at first, so there is a kind of beating that takes place between the two until the last full repeat where they are completely aligned.

broke beat

Broke Beat [disquiet0619]

Disquiet Junto Project 0619: Beat Accrual
The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch.

I created this beat using my voice, finger snaps, hitting the mic, etc. After chopping up all the components, I began layering them and playing with syncopation as well as eq and effects to create a sort of inhuman soundscape. 

This piece incorporates words I find myself using a lot either to please others or to show that I'm listening and empathizing. By creating an intentional rhythm with them, I'm exploring the mechanical quality these words can take when they're said out of habit or a sense of obligation.

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empathy factory (disquiet0619)

samples and voices triggered by sequences of various lengths mainly driven by Marbles all going into a delay/reverb with its wet/dry gated by another sequence

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disquiet0619 - provisions

Years ago I made this patch in VCV Rack (version 1, mind you!) to show how easy it is to make polyrhythms using Frozen Wastelands BPM LFO. Now I only had to add some kind of build-up to comply with this week's assignment from the Disquiet Junto. I chose Squinky Labs Graycode, so that any possible combination of instruments will be heard. 

There are eight instruments. A kick is heard on every first and third beat, a snare on every second and fourth, a tom between the beats and a hihat plays eighth notes. Then the fun starts: a ride plays triplets, a rimshot quintuplets and a cowbell septuplets. Finally there is a "swoosh" for which the BPM LFO was set to (well, why not?) 11:73.

There is a video available at  https://youtu.be/BDX4Wte-ErY 

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Beat Accrual (disquiet0619)

This track started from a 2 drum loops that I chopped and separated into more tracks. Then I applied different settings to them such as EQ and distortion. For the arrangement, each elements is added at regular interval until the beat is complete. Later I added additional synths, all with a certain rhythmic feel to them.

More on this 619th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beat Accrual (The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch), at: https://disquiet.com/0619/

About the Disquiet Junto: Disquiet Junto F.A.Q. – Disquiet

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Don't Give Her Your Number (disquiet0619)

GD Beat Accrual (disquiet0619)

Disquiet Junto Project 0619: Beat Accrual
The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch.

I defined complicated as not too complicated and everything in a 16th note grid, but outside of a 4 bar grid. I only used tuned percussion because I kind of liked that. I added the organ just to have some kind of track and made half of it percussive. Because it was an Organ, I went to a Blues scale. All in all, it certainly doesn't fit the prompt, but it kind of worked out.

Image: Dall-E

More on this 619th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beat Accrual (The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch), at: https://disquiet.com/0619/

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Disqbeat [disquiet0619]

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Fature - https://tinyurl.com/bifalmmu

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