Disquiet Junto Project 0702: Chain of Applications

The Assignment: Make music by misusing a piece of music software.

This project is the second of three that are being done by the Disquiet Junto in collaboration with the 2025 Musikfestival Bern (@musikfestival_bern), which will be held in Switzerland from September 3 through 7. The festival topic this year is « Kette » — which translates, as the organization explains, to “Chain”: “Chains connect but they also bind. They create relationships but also restrictions. As a gift they look nice, feared when used in vice, and yet they can span bridges across fire and ice.” All three Junto projects will engage with the work of Svetlana Maraš, who is the Composer-in-Residence for the 2025 festival.

We are working again at the invitation of Tobias Reber (@tobiasreber), an early Junto participant, who is in charge of the educational activities of the festival. This is the seventh year in a row that the Junto has collaborated with Musikfestival Bern.

There is only one step in this project:

Select a piece of software, preferably one you use regularly, and misuse it in the service of recording a piece of music.

Note: If you don’t generally use software, then misuse something else you regularly use when making music.

Deadline: Monday, June 16, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0702

Disquiet Junto Project 0702: Chain of Applications

93 til Until

Kaydance Hawkins

Kehlani Hawkins

Keep You in Mind

Keep You in Mind (DJ Dadio Remix)

I 'misused' Microsoft Word to create this ... see the accompanying visuals at https://youtu.be/6dIBIYtLmE4 ... and hear the 'spinoff' track at https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-akjhdjsdmnn ... I think you'll agree, it's the best use of the word akjhdjsd,mnn to date ... 😁😜 ... Oh, and lead vocals by the Word robot! 🤖

This project is the second of three that are being done by the Disquiet Junto in collaboration with the 2025 Musikfestival Bern, which will be held in Switzerland from September 3 through 7. The festival topic this year is « Kette » — which translates, as the organization explains, to “Chain”: “Chains connect but they also bind. They create relationships but also restrictions. As a gift they look nice, feared when used in vice, and yet they can span bridges across fire and ice.” All three Junto projects will engage with the work of Svetlana Maraš, who is the Composer-in-Residence for the 2025 festival.

We are working again at the invitation of Tobias Reber, an early Junto participant, who is in charge of the educational activities of the festival. This is the seventh year in a row that the Junto has collaborated with Musikfestival Bern.

More on the 702nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Applications — The Assignment: Make music by misusing a piece of music software — at https://disquiet.com/0702/

visuals (YouTube)

halF wrotE [disquiet0702]

I use Logic, especially with Arturia’s V collection as my go to software synth and recording experience. My first step was to create a pleasant, if rather banal, arrangement with an arpeggiator preset on the CS-80 emulation, accompanied by an ambient wash thanks to Arturia’s “voices” engine. Then I messed with the buses, sending inputs to inputs, outputs to outputs and creating such a horrible feedback loop that I almost blew out my headphones. The resultant cacophony was not really listenable, even if imagine as belonging to the genre of noise music. It was mess of distorted glitches, high pitched wailing and intermittent period of silence when my processor simply decided that it had enough.  To tame the mess, I imported the file into a new Logic session, massaged it vigorously with granular and time stretching effects, with a bit of panning and considerable volume control. The result, I think, can now be listened to without incurring ear damage. 

disquiet0702

Today any information is processed in chains of automated steps, mostly for providing handy services. Do we know more now? Do we understand each other now more than ever?

The Assignment:
Select a piece of software, preferably one you use regularly, and misuse it in the service of recording a piece of music.

Chains in this contribution:
1. Copy the assignment to Pages
2. Have it automatically translated in different languages
3. Have it read automatically, recording the reading
4. Have the resulting sound file chopped up and put some fx…

More on the 702nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Applications — The Assignment: Make music by misusing a piece of music software — at https://disquiet.com/0702/

Chains[disquiet0702]

More on the 702nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Applications — The Assignment: Make music by misusing a piece of music software — at https://disquiet.com/0702/

Recorded, edited, mixed & mastered on 12 Jun 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA. 

Synths, drum machine, effects

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 26 Jun 2015, St. Patrick's Old Cathedral, Mulberry St, NYC, USA & 12 Jun 2025.

©2015, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “The Fierce Alignment  Of Apple Globule Soup” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0702: Chain of Applications . The Assignment: Make music by misusing a piece of music software.

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

More on the 702nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Applications — The Assignment: Make music by misusing a piece of music software — at https://disquiet.com/0702/

The Fierce Alignment  Of Apple Globule Soup (disquiet0702)

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0702: Chain of Applications. The Assignment: Make music by misusing a piece of music software. This project is the second of three that are being done by the Disquiet Junto in collaboration with the 2025 Musikfestival Bern, which will be held in Switzerland from September 3 through 7.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0702 discussion thread on Lines:

I rarely use the metronome in Ableton Live, even when recording on top of a rhythm. Maybe it’s the lack of experience with it but I find the sound too distracting. For this project, decided to not use the metronome as a rhythm aid but as a sound source to be sampled and manipulated into an experimental composition.

First, recorded the sound with a Panasonic microcassette recorder. I then recorded it back into Ableton Live. The output connection on the recorder was picking up some static and noise but used the recording anyway, From there I used Audio Damage Circa to loop and mangle the audio. Used Imagiro Autochrome, SoundGhost Jumble and ValhallaRoom for effects. The result reminds me of a chorus of frogs, insects and other creatures in some wetland at night.

More on the 702nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Applications — The Assignment: Make music by misusing a piece of music software — at https://disquiet.com/0702/

Metronomia Chorus [disquiet0702]

SweetSexySavage

Not Used to It

While We Wait

RPG (feat. 6lack)

Hold Me by the Heart

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Produced by @DJMustard and @twiceasnice-1

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Saved (feat. E-40)

Download

Debut album 'Free TC' available now! 
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Solid (feat. Babyface)

Debut album 'Free TC' available now! 
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Produced by D’Mile, Chordz and Ty Dolla $ign
Talkbox by DJ Battlecat
Additional vocals by Nate Howard and D&D
Conductor / Arranger Ritesonian (Benjamin Wright)

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LA (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Brandy & James Fauntleroy)

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Free TC

Horses in the Stable

2AM.

2AM. (feat. Sage The Gemini)

Straight Up (feat. Jagged Edge)

Ready to Die

Ready to Die (2005 Remaster)

Precious Pressure by 070 with drums by yours truly

Precious Pressure (ignacio guhrilo mix)

Prod by The Kompetition

Mixed By; RazsyBeats & B-Hall

Glitter

Mirrors

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Demons and Angels feat. Juice WRLD

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The Fierce Alignment Of Apple Globule Soup (disquiet0702)

Jimmy Lem