Disquiet Junto Project 0582: X Techno

The Assignment: Make a new subgenre.

Step 1: You’re going to make a new subgenre of techno. Think for a moment about what makes techno techno.

Step 2: Choose a word and put it before “techno.” Those two words in combination are your new subgenre.

Step 3: Record a piece of music in the style of the subgenre you came up with in Step 2.

. . .

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, February 27, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, February 23, 2023.

. . .

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Disquiet Junto Project 0582: X Techno

iPad apeMatrix experiment with crunchy audio in and a lot of unfiltered audio effects. The downspout file is played on the phone and recorded by the iPad mic. Not a familiar setup for me but wanted to try a different way of working.

Disquiet Junto Project 0581: Helsinki Downspout

The Assignment: Use a rhythmic field recording as the foundation for a new track.

Step 1: This is a shared sample project, one in which all the participants will utilize the same provided recording, about a minute and a half long, as the rhythmic element for their own music. Access the track, originally recorded by Scott Fletcher and used with his permission, here:

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/helsinki-downspout 30

Step 2: Listen to the provided track several times. Think about ways to map its content, perhaps making notations about when certain unique, momentary aspects surface.

Step 3: Record an original piece of music for which the provided music is the underlying rhythm. You might take this quite literally, using the source as it is, resulting in a track that is precisely 1:35 long. Alternately, you might elect to sample and rework the source material. If you go the latter route, make certain that the original sound is, at least at some point in the finished track, recognizable.

Step 4: Because this is a Creative Commons resource, be sure to identify Scott Fletcher as the original recorder of the source material, and include a link to the source track. Identify the license as: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0).

More on this 581st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Helsinki Downspout (The Assignment: Use a rhythmic field recording as the foundation for a new track), at: https://disquiet.com/0581/

Thanks to Scott Fletcher for having provided the original material. It is used thanks to a Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0). Original track at: https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/helsinki-downspout/ 30

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disquiet0581 Oh it’s you

An old master rediscovered and reworked today:
Synths, drum beat , vocoder.
Photo by Cerqueira


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Techno Bossa (disquiet0582)

This is a response to the 582'th disquiet junto challenge. This time - I'm trying to use classical/orchestral and organ samples in a new way, that is - i think - not completely, but almost, unlike techno :) 

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disquiet0582 - organ(ic) takeno

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Bon Odori Techno (disquiet0582)

Disquiet Junto Project 0582: X Techno
The Assignment: Make a new subgenre.

Step 1: You’re going to make a new subgenre of techno. Think for a moment about what makes techno techno.

Step 2: Choose a word and put it before “techno.” Those two words in combination are your new subgenre.

Step 3: Record a piece of music in the style of the subgenre you came up with in Step 2.

Eight Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0582” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your tracks.

Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0582” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation of a project playlist.

Step 3: Upload your tracks. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your tracks.

Step 4: Post your track in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0582-x-techno/

Step 5: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: If posting on social media, please consider using the hashtag #DisquietJunto so fellow participants are more likely to locate your communication.

Step 7: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Step 8: Also join in the discussion on the Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

Note: Please post one track for this weekly Junto project. If you choose to post more than one, and do so on SoundCloud, please let me know which you’d like added to the playlist. Thanks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you. What’s the norm in your new subgenre?

Deadline: Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, February 27, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, February 23, 2023.

Upload: When participating in this project, be sure to 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. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

Download: It is always best to set your track as downloadable and allowing for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution, allowing for derivatives).

For context, when posting the track online, please be sure to include this following information:

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Repetition is Meditation - disquiet0582

Ανω ΚΑΤΩ (pronounced “ah-no KAH-to”) is a form of techno music that combines native Pontic Greek instrumentation with electronic dance rhythms. The name, often shortened into the more global term KATO, loosely translates into English as “messed up.”

KATO is believed to have formed sometime in the 1990’s, when a group of Macedonian sheep herders picked up the throbbing bass of a dance club located in the nearby valley’s urban center. Legend is that the herders attempted to play along with the beat on daouli drum, fife, and kemenche, forcing the musicians to actually play slower than the tempos to which they were accustomed. This adjustment resulted in new phrasing techniques that today comprise the subgenre’s sonic attributes.

The typical KATO techno track sits between 125 and 140 BPM and features arpeggiated notes performed on a kemenche, also known as the “instrument of the Black Sea.” The strings are bowed with a doksar made from an olive branch, double-bound to withstand the repetitive velocity needed to accompany loudly amplified beats. Glitch effects feature prominent in KATO techno, perhaps a carryover from the sketchy radio transmissions commonly heard on rural Macedonian mountaintops during KATO’s advent.

Suss Müsik owns a few KATO releases, all on compact disc and bought from the same record shop that unearthed this nugget.* Probably the best-known KATO artist is Matia14, whose track “Θα φας ξύλο” (“You Will Eat Wood”) was famously remixed by DJ Penmanship in 1999. The untitled track featured here is by a Thessaloniki group named αργό λάχανο, known as Slow Cabbage in English.

*https://sussmusik.com/2017/07/17/junto-project-0289-ancient-artifacts-repost/

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Αργό Λάχανο [Disquiet0582]

I had two ideas for a new Techno subgenre: “Fibonacci Techno” and “Technoviking Techno”. The first would follow Fibonacci numbers as closely as possible. The second would sound like the first track in the famous Technoviking meme video (acoustics, not melodies or beats). The first I deemed easy to pull off, the second impossible. So to make a challenge out of this, I merged the two genres into “Fibonacci Viking Techno”. I followed the numbers as closely as possible, e.g. setting all values of instruments and effects to Fibonacci numbers (which musically makes little sense - but the concept asked for). The bass drum is on 8, most other things on 1, 2, 3, 5, 13 or 21. For effects I went up to 89 - wow! Then I tried to boost tone whole thing to Viking level, which I unfortunately did not reach. Kept it really short with lots of breaks, which is the norm in this genre.

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Disquiet0582 - Fibonacci Viking Techno

A sequence of detuned techno beats with a Shepard drone.

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Shepard Techno (disquiet0582)

Sometimes techno is all about the anticipation of the beat. So you have the evocative samples, the drone before the kick drum, the sampled female voices just prior to the high hat and so on. In this contribution to the week's Junto challenge I have created a track that is all about the anticipation before the beat. And when the beat finally comes, it is disappointing, disjointed and interrupted. Enough to clear the dance floor. Head to the bar. Or head for the door.

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Song from an imaginary subgenre of techno made on an airplane inspired by the clouds outside the windows and the droning wall of noise inside the plane.

Disquiet Junto Project 0582: X Techno
The Assignment: Make a new subgenre.

Step 1: You’re going to make a new subgenre of techno. Think for a moment about what makes techno techno.

Step 2: Choose a word and put it before “techno.” Those two words in combination are your new subgenre.

Step 3: Record a piece of music in the style of the subgenre you came up with in Step 2.

More on this 582nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, X Techno (The Assignment: Make a new subgenre), at: https://disquiet.com/0582/

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disquiet0582 Airborne Toxic Techno

[disquiet0582] X Techno, Etude

A country techno creation for Disquiet Junto 0582 X Techno. The Assignment: Make a new subgenre. 
This is a new mix of a Creatures Once band jam. Every once in a while the country, western, bluegrass, and folk sounds that surround us up here in the Pacific Northwest sneak into our creations, and it can be fun to indulge. Amazing guitar and harmonica playing from band mate Monstrosus(https://www.youtube.com/@monstrosus13). The first mix of this jam was shared for Weekly Beats last year and it was more of a hip-hop vibe. I used some fun dog GoPro footage for the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq0BoIesOwA&ab_channel=CreaturesOnce). Here's my attempt at a techno mix. I may have strayed too far from the parent genre here, but it was fun to make! It was also fun to read about existing sub-genres and listen to some great tracks this week. Its been while since I've listened to some techno, and it was energizing. Every time I would search for a sub-genre idea I had, like jazz, or lo-fi, I would find some examples already out there. There's some many sub-genres of techno and other electronic genres. That's a great sign. I nice wide open field for creativity.

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Nickel in My Pocket -(Country Tekno Mix) - [disquiet0582]

The latest Disquiet Junto assignment was to record a rhythm track through a wall. I did that twice, once with omni-directional mics in my bathroom, and once with contact mics on the bathroom wall. More process stuff at the lines forum link below.

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Jet Jaguar - Walldrums [disquiet0583]

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.

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