"KPG Math Extinction" by Blemishes

Having accepted the challenge, our hero walked into YouTube Woods to learn how to bake cookie-cutter cookies at a temperature not recommended for human consumption and burned the whole batch.  

Working title - "Fletcherargonmathcuminatmophilefarm Soup  Or KPG Math Extinction FAMCAF."  

I didn't see the options at first but I guess I chose 1.  I went through some back and forth about finishing this but I wanted to show up and do the work

Recorded, mixed & mastered May 13/14 2022 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2022 Jim Lemanowicz

Process Notes - 
Certain decisions were made at the start
- Length of 2:30-3:00 min
- Key of F Phrygian with a bass line using E
- Build it at a tempo of 80 and then slow down most of the parts to 10BPM.  I elected to leave the one-note bass line at the original speed, to at least somewhat have a connection to techno, which is really something I know little about anyway.
- do a bit of a buildup and breakdown, thinking this might be less important or impactful a this tempo

Basic instrumentation
- Roland SH2 softsynth bass
- Ableton’s Drum Essentials kick, and later in the track also a clap and snare
- Ableton's 16 hihats drum rack with some random midi selection built in

Added instrumentation that I didn't quite feel was "techno" but it worked at the slower speed for me, and made it overall more of an ambient piece
- Two tracks of Native Instruments Absynth
- One track of arpeggiated Native Instruments Massive

Effects and stuff
- Ableton Live native devices 
- iZotope plugins - Neutron Elements and Ozone Elements 

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This original version of "KPG Math Extinction" was submitted as part of ​Disquiet Junto Project 0541: 10BPM Techno.  Make some snail-paced beats.

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

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This track was originally released under the artist name "Blemishes."

KPG Math Extinction (disquiet0541)

Disquiet Junto Project 0638: Center (3 of 3)
The Assignment: Complete a trio begun by two other musicians.

Collaboration with John Wright @thgirwnhoj and Don MacKeen @lazenbeeindustries

More on the 638th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Center (3 of 3) — The Assignment: Complete a trio begun by two other musicians — at https://disquiet.com/0638/

Woodward with John Wright & Don MacKeen (disquiet0638)

More on the 638th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Center (3 of 3) — The Assignment: Complete a trio begun by two other musicians — at https://disquiet.com/0638/

Right (1 of 3) by @randomshuffle

Left (2 of 3) by @xhg

Brushed Off (feat. xhg and Marc Eisenschink) Disquiet0638

Decided to go with two guitar tracks only from 0636 left project:

-https://soundcloud.com/encym/neat_disorder_disquiet0636?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0636&si=70c1112c2faa4b26b21446eb533732a8&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

-https://soundcloud.com/randomshuffle/disquiet0636gemastered-mono?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0636&si=acb2128777af4463887f11aea4b1347b&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing


added one more slide guitar


all recorded in SAMPLR iPad

drone guitars!!

drone guitars feat. encym(disquiet0639remix)

I used two duets from the Disquiet Junto 637 project (see below): „Is still on the line“ by Andreas Kitzmann and 33per (https://soundcloud.com/33per/is-still-on-the-line-duet-with-andreas-kitzmann-disquiet0638) and „Take5“ by Actor Network and tunelight (https://soundcloud.com/tunelight/disquiet0637-2of3-take5-w-actor-network). So I ended up with four collaborators - thank you, Gentlemen! 

First step was Full Blotter, Giorgio Sanchristoforo’s new granulator, to get some pads from the material. Luckily the software treated the tracks as two mono lanes, so I ended up with four distinct pads. 

To get a pulse, I sped up the lovely clicky bassline from Take 5. EQ’ing and getting the levels right did take ages. 

Well, what else? Happy Easter, of course!

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Disquiet Junto Project 0639: Path Ways (4 of 3)
The Assignment: Rework musical trios using the constituent parts — one of two ways.

Step 1: In the previous project, we completed musical trios. Project 0638 was the third of three consecutive projects. In the first one, 0636, musicians recorded solos. In the second, 0637, musicians took those 0636 tracks, nudged them to the left side of the stereo spectrum, and then added their own music to the right, forming duets with a hole in the middle. In project 0638, other musicians introduced a third track down the center of the 0637 recordings, completing the trios. You can revisit the music via the blog posts disquiet.com/0636, disquiet.com/0637, and disquiet.com/0638, and you can follow the forking paths through the related Google Drive spreadsheet.

Step 2: The goal of this project is to rework the material that accumulated over the course of the previous three projects. There are two main ways to go about this. One is to simply choose one or more tracks and remix, combine, mash-up, or otherwise transform them. The other is to move on to Step 3.

Step 3: Choose one 0636 track, a solo, that yielded more than one 0638 trio. (These are highlighted in light blue, or maybe it’s teal, in the leftmost column of the spreadsheet.) Trace the various routes that 0636 track took. Perhaps it also led to some 0637 tracks that never went any further. Perhaps there are various 0638 versions based on varied 0637 versions. In any case, record a piece of music that lets the listener experience the branching paths that the original 0636 track took over the course of the three phases of the trios project sequence. Clearly you will be using a linear form to represent variations, so how to achieve that will require some compositional ingenuity. But you’re up to the task.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include either “disquiet0639remix” (if you follow the loose rules of Step 2) or “disquiet0639paths” (if you follow the more specific rules of Step 3) in the name of your track.

Upload: Post your track to a public account (SoundCloud preferred but by no means required). It’s best to focus on one track (but if you post more than one, clarify which is the “main” rendition).

Share: Post your track and a description explanation at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0639-path-ways-4-of-3/

Newsletter: https://juntoletter.disquiet.com/

More on the 639th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Path Ways (4 of 3) — The Assignment: Rework musical trios using the constituent parts — one of two ways — at https://disquiet.com/0639/

Tour Two One

Four Two One [disquiet639]

Remix of Morning on top (disquiet0638) by Marc Eisenschink feat. analoc & Torsten Goerke.

Response to the Wickedly collaborative challenge posed by Disquiet for even more audio pathways.

On The Same Team - disquiet0639remix

Disquiet Junto Project 0639: Path Ways (4 of 3)
The Assignment: Rework musical trios using the constituent parts — one of two ways.

These instructions are fairly lengthy. Please read carefully. Originally this trios sequence of projects would have ended with the completion of the trios after three consecutive weeks. However, those went particularly well, so let’s see if we can push it a little further.

Please note: You needn’t have participated in any of the prior Junto projects to participate in this one.

Step 1: In the previous project, we completed musical trios. Project 0638 was the third of three consecutive projects. In the first one, 0636, musicians recorded solos. In the second, 0637, musicians took those 0636 tracks, nudged them to the left side of the stereo spectrum, and then added their own music to the right, forming duets with a hole in the middle. In project 0638, other musicians introduced a third track down the center of the 0637 recordings, completing the trios. You can revisit the music via the blog posts disquiet.com/0636 1, disquiet.com/0637 2, and disquiet.com/0638 2, and you can follow the forking paths through the related Google Drive spreadsheet 9.

Step 2: The goal of this project is to rework the material that accumulated over the course of the previous three projects. There are two main ways to go about this. One is to simply choose one or more tracks and remix, combine, mash-up, or otherwise transform them. The other is to move on to Step 3.

Step 3: Choose one 0636 track, a solo, that yielded more than one 0638 trio. (These are highlighted in light blue, or maybe it’s teal, in the leftmost column of the spreadsheet 9.) Trace the various routes that 0636 track took. Perhaps it also led to some 0637 tracks that never went any further. Perhaps there are various 0638 versions based on varied 0637 versions. In any case, record a piece of music that lets the listener experience the branching paths that the original 0636 track took over the course of the three phases of the trios project sequence. Clearly you will be using a linear form to represent variations, so how to achieve that will require some compositional ingenuity. But you’re up to the task.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include either “disquiet0639remix” (if you follow the loose rules of Step 2) or “disquiet0639paths” (if you follow the more specific rules of Step 3) in the name of your track.

Upload: Post your track to a public account (SoundCloud preferred but by no means required). It’s best to focus on one track (but if you post more than one, clarify which is the “main” rendition).

Share: Post your track and a description explanation at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0639-path-ways-4-of-3/

Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

Full circle (ft @Raincat, @tristan_louth_robins, @xhg, @krakenkraft, @SinnySounds) disquiet0639paths

Samples of bubbles with filter processing and additional rhythm on the Serge modular. Choir and Ebow guiar.

Bubblicious X disquiet0642

YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXCuBKdc-Oo

Part of the Naviar Records Haiku-Challenge:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku537-deep-in-the-mountains/

Autumn Stream-naviarhaiku537

The idea was to make a track using fizz as the basis * backbone * kick of the beat.

Duality of a Bubble - disquiet0642

Electronic composition, a textured drone sequence, original sounds created in Pure Data.

More on the 643rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Stone Out of Focus — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a poem — at https://disquiet.com/0643/

This week’s project is based on a text by Yoko Ono, originally published in her book Grapefruit60 years ago, back in 1964.

Ancient Stones (disquiet0643)

Sound artist.
Freedom from being unknown.
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