Trailer music with bowed upright basses, string orchestra , percussion and effects.
Composed an performed by Daniel Diaz, February/March  2024

For this haiku:

The first thunder
Is likely to shake
The tiered doll stand.


Haiku by Kawahigashi Hekigoto
Picture by Victor Chartin

@naviarrecords

https://open.spotify.com/intl-fr/track/5Q1x79ESZgws3grqdTcaid

Baltic Thunder - naviarhaiku531

This week's Junto project has always been one of my favourites -- so I recorded the first third of what will eventually become a trio. I played it on my Tele through a simple, straightforward signal chain of Chase Bliss Mood (the main sound), fed through a Dark Star and a Polymoon to add space and variations in terms of timbre. No further editing in the DAW. 

I went for as sparse a track as I could, to provide as much space as possible for my potential collaborators. My hope is that you feel inspired by my "almost crumbling to pieces" vibe, and I look forward to hearing what you will be adding over the coming weeks for it to become a trio recording. 

More on the 636th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Left (1 of 3) — The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0636/

Neat Disorder (disquiet0636)

In Part 2 of 3, I started with an amazing organ drone created by Leon Clowes (https://soundcloud.com/leonclowes/left-1of3-disquiet0636) in the left channel. 

I added slide steel guitar, live vocal samples, and sound effects to create a tense dramatic backdrop for whatever happens in the third round of this Disquiet Junto!

More about Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0637

Recorded at NOSIGNAL Multimedia Labs, The Shambles, Chicago USA.

Disquiet Junto

It's Just Ringing (with Leon Clowes) (disquiet0637)

It’s been a rough and exhausting week, so the soothing guitar chords from Torsten Goerke (https://soundcloud.com/torstengoerke) instantly hit my sweet spot (Gruß nach Dresden!).

I extracted the MIDI notes via Ableton, added a granular reverb to it, and played a bit with the pitches. As the guitar line was a bit short, I doubled the part. Also, I added a shortwave radio segment to it.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0637: Right (2 of 3)
The Assignment: Record the second third of an eventual trio.

While this is the second part of a three-part project, you can participate in one, two, or all three of the parts, which will occur over the course of three consecutive weeks, starting last week. 

Step 1: This week’s Disquiet Junto project is the second in a sequence intended to encourage and reward asynchronous collaboration. This week you’ll be adding music to a pre-existing track, which you will source from the previous week’s Junto project (disquiet.com/0636). Note that you aren’t creating a duet — you’re creating the second third of what will eventually be a trio. Important: Leave space for what is yet to come.

Step 2: The plan is for you to record a short and original piece of music, on any instrumentation of your choice, as a complement to a pre-existing track. First, however, you must select the piece of music to which you will be adding your own music. There are tracks by numerous musicians to choose from (47 as of last count). 

To select a track, you can listen through all those and choose one, or simply look around and select, or you can come up with a random approach to sifting through them.

It is strongly encouraged that you look through the discussion thread for the previous project on the Lines forum because many tracks include additional contextual information there:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0636-left-1-of-3/

Step 3: Record a short piece of music, roughly the length of the piece of music you selected in Step 2. Your track should complement the piece from Step 2, and leave room for an eventual third piece of music. When composing and recording your part, don’t alter the original piece of music at all, except to pan the original fully to the left if it hasn’t been panned left already. In your finished audio track, your new part should be panned fully to the right. 

To be clear: the track you upload won’t be your piece of music alone; it will be a combination of the track you selected in Step 2 and yours.

Step 4: Also be sure, when done, to make the finished track downloadable, because it will be used by someone else in a subsequent Junto project.

Step 5: You can contribute more than one track this week. In normal circumstances, Junto projects have a one-track-per-participant limit. You can do two this time. For the second, it’s appreciated if you try to work with a solo that no one else has used yet. I will keep an updated list in this Google Drive document of what has been utilized:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kDorIMT9j_nQQPXACYpMPe4B86T2QD5Xvv98XAOS4UE/edit?pli=1#gid=0

The goal is for many as people as possible to benefit from the experience of being part of an asynchronous collaboration. That, foremost, is the spirit of this project.

Length: The length is up to you. Stick close to the length of the track yours adds to.

Deadline: Monday, March 18, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

About: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

License: It’s required for this sequence of projects to set your track as downloadable and allowing for attributed remixing (i.e., an attribution Creative Commons license).

More on the 637th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right (2 of 3) — The Assignment: Record the second third of an eventual trio — at https://disquiet.com/0637/

Right Beside You (with Torsten Goehrke) [disquiet0637]

So many choices and such great pieces! My finally decided on alanblip's "leftydrone" which I thought would go well with a conversation that I recorded from a shortwave radio. I removed the static and duplicated a few key phrases, but otherwise left it as is, aside from a bit of reverb and a few contributions from Meng Qi's beguiling Wing Pinger.

Disquiet0637

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

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Track notes: "Lucky Link Village" from Creatures_Once/@miraclemiles (via @SinnySounds) jumped out at me straight away and got me thinking about a guitar accompaniment along the lines of Ry Cooder, Haruomi Hosono and Makoto Kubota. I recorded a simple fingerpicked acoustic guitar pattern which found its way around G tonic of the tuned percussion. I then added some slide guitar around this and affected both guitars with some phasing and flanging to give it a dreamy feeling. Then a field recording of the ocean lapping at the shore seemed entirely fitting.

[Disquiet_Junto_0638] Lucky Link Village Connect (feat. Sinny Sounds & August_Miles) (Centre 3 of 3)

For this one I downloaded: https://soundcloud.com/randomshuffle/disquiet0637gemastered (with thanks to the original artists). I added a textured drone sequence.

Spring Trio - with Marc Eisenschink and 337is (disquiet0638)

Original posted for #disquiet0637 by John Wright 
https://soundcloud.com/thgirwnhoj 
https://soundcloud.com/thgirwnhoj/dissolve-left-no-right-feat-torpid-scorpion-disquiet0637

This in turn used an original posted for #disquiet0636 by Torpid Scorpion 
https://soundcloud.com/torpidscorpion 
https://soundcloud.com/torpidscorpion/dissolve-left-disquiet0636

Dubbed & mixed 23 Mar 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

For my (center) part here, I used my voice, Ableton Live 12, iZotope Nectar 3, Ableton effects - Delay, Filter Delay, Color Limiter, Pedal, Corpus, Redux, Echo & Limiter

Music distributed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 DEED

Artwork: Edit and additions to disquiet’s original using Adobe Photoshop 2024 and Q’MIC-Qt.

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This original version of "The Dissolved Embrace" was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0638: Center (3 of 3). The Assignment: Complete a trio begun by two other musicians.

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto

More on the 638th weekly Disquiet Junto project at https://disquiet.com/2024/03/21/disquiet-junto-project-0638-right-3-of-3/

The Dissolved Embrace  (disquiet0638) by Torpid Scorpion, John Wright & Jimmy Lem

Week 3 of a 3 part assignment, adding to disquiet0637 and 0636. 

Incorporating Roughshark by scénický rys (https://soundcloud.com/ackercz/roughshark-with-analoc-disquiet0637) and Left shark by analoc (https://on.soundcloud.com/imRuTwDmAo4eAUiw9)

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/

shark tank [disquiet0638] with scénický rys & analoc

Forest stream [with he_nu_ri and mikey_a] (disquiet0638)

revisited a longer recording from my modular system, made a few weeks back - and picked a ~5min segment to focus on

addition - recorded a repeating loop with some granular processing from my modular system to sit in the background (low end)

arranged in ableton live - some automation (mainly filter cutoff)

added a stereo pair of field recordings (referenced in title)

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More on the 641st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Re-re-re-re-revise — The Assignment: Take an old track and make it better — at https://disquiet.com/0641/

disquiet0641 - cais do sodré

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