Disquiet Junto Project 0635: ’Round the Bend
The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train.

Step 1: Listen to this short recording, under a minute, of a passing train, recorded by Todd (Toaster) Elliott:
https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/train-source-1

And, if you’d like, to this longer one, which is a little over 10 minutes:
https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/train-source-1020

Both are available to download.

Step 2: Record a piece of music using the field recording as the rhythm track. You can use the shorter one, or a segment of the longer one. Make sure the original is audible in your final work.

Deadline: Monday, March 4, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/

The image associated with this track is a photograph by Todd (Toaster) Elliott, who also provided the field recordings of the train.

Disquiet Junto Project 0635: ’Round the Bend

added the train recording to 2 audio tracks in Ableton and 2 midi tracks converting the train to a Bass and Arp2600 Drums. added warp modes and reverbs, Corpus, echo, resonators, and various delays for this train wreck.

Disquiet Junto Project 0635: ’Round the Bend
The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train.
Step 1: Listen to this short recording, under a minute, of a passing train, recorded by Todd (Toaster) Elliott:
Step 2: Record a piece of music using the field recording as the rhythm track

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/

TrainWreck disquiet0635

disquiet0635 - squeamish peptides

I extracted some of the better quality bits from the longer track and added an experimental sequence I recorded with small instruments, then added a little reverb.

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/

The image associated with this track is a photograph by Todd (Toaster) Elliott, who also provided the field recordings of the train.

Train Texture (disquiet0635)

Disquiet Junto Project 0635: ’Round the Bend
The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train.

This is a remix of a track by @horsthelmood based on a recording of a czech railway staff member serving food and drinks in a train. Thanks for providing the original track for remixing.

The image associated with this track is a photograph by Todd (Toaster) Elliott, who also provided the field recordings of the train. Thank you for that.

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/

Train Mantra - HorsthelMood vs. Bot (disquiet0635)

For this week's Disquiet Junto prompt, we were invited to collaborate with a train sample that was provided to us.

I've often joked that it's only a matter of time before any given artist or band makes a song about a train. I never thought that day would come for me. A moral dilemma.

To get the full sensation of being tied up on the tracks, I recommend listening to "The Trolley Problem" with headphones.

Recorded and produced at NOSIGNAL Multimedia Labs, The Shambles, Chicago.

More about Disquiet Junto 0635: https://disquiet.com/0635

Disquiet Junto

The Trolley Problem (disquiet0635)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 23 Jun 2019, 02/03 Mar 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

Instruments -
Ableton Live 12 beta, Operator and other native devices, iOS/iAbyssal, field recordings of train provided by Todd “toaster” Elliot.

Process notes -
From the original audio recording of a train by Todd Elliot - 
- I derived the melodic elements and drum bits with Live’s audio-to-midi features. 
- I further split, duplicated, stretched & gated the original shorter audio train recording - heard here as rhythmic bursts. 
- Looped a section of the original audio to form a very loose rhythm. 

I also added another rhythmic element using a segment of an iPhone recording I made on 23 Jun 2019 using the app iAbyssal.

Artwork: From the LIRR, NY, USA, 27 Jan 2011, by Jim Lemanowicz

©2019, 2024 Jim Lemanowicz - music distributed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 DEED
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This original version of “There’s More Under The Sheets” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0635: ’Round the Bend. The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train.

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This track was originally released under the artist name "Bubble Memory."

There’s More Under The Sheets (disquiet0635)

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There’s More Under The Sheets (disquiet0635)

Jimmy Lem