very interesting piece. it's curious that you came up with something so completely different to what i made, even though we were both using the same source.

Whoa. The way you build suspense! The sound design is beautiful, reminiscent of Lynch soundscapes. You really take us through a lot of rooms and states. I would love to know how you got some of those deeper resonant booming sounds. Incredible piece!

Disquiet Junto Project 0591: The Loneliest Number
The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio.
More info on Disquiet Junto: disquiet.com/0591/

Last summer, after an accident, I had to stop playing double bass. This is my second attempt to get back to the instrument after months of silence, I thought this could be a nice opportunity to share the process and slowly start to get my hands on it to see how it feels and how my body responds to playing.
Focused on improvisation, gesture, silence and number 7. 

7 seconds of music are followed by 7 seconds of silence. 14 seconds of music are followed by 14 seconds of silence. 21 seconds of music are followed by 21 seconds of silence. Repeat and then decrease time until the last 7 seconds of silence.
Loosely based on recording pre-count at ~ 60.50 bpm 
No timer was used during the process, so there may be irregularities.
I only played my double bass open G string with a bow.
Added some slight Mimeophon delay-modulation then a bit of chorus + phaser + tape effect (encoderaudio Ferro) in Ableton Live.
I kept volume low in order to make it possible to work on it and mix further things for future use.

7 + 7 + 7 (disquiet0591)

[disquiet0591] Quietude

When taking the time today to listen to all the contributions to the disquiet0593 and downloading here and there, I noticed one thing: 
many people, including myself, seem to tend to upload their tracks to the disquiet junto projects by their working titles, so when you have downloaded quite a few  like myself today, it is impossible to trace the tracks back to their creators. Which is quite a pity. 
So I cannot say which tracks I cut out pieces to loop them, alas, even  if I would want to credit the respective musicians. 
The track from the disquiet0593 I chose to re-imagine for this week´s project, is RabMusicLab´s La tête éblouissante: https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/la-tete-eblouissante
RabMusicLab created his track from the disquiet0592 by encym who added to Andreas Kitzmann´s solo-track from the disquiet0591

Toutes eblouissantes

Wilfried Hanrath - Toutes éblouissantes (disquiet0594)

Thank you Marcus Fischer for providing the stellar audio material to work with!
used most of the raw materials provided by Marcus, built the piece around the raw samples with minimal processing, just architecture and a bit of reverb.. Then processed some with the fabulously fun Granulator II instrument by Robert Henke in Ableton. 


More on this 600th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reaching Out (The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer), at: https://disquiet.com/0600/ 2

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/
Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/
Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0600-reaching-out/

branching forth -reaching out   Disquiet0600

My contribution to Disquiet Junto Project 0600. The opportunity to participate in this is special to me as I participated on Project 0004 which also featured wonderful samples from Marcus Fischer. I created a piece that is still a personal favorite.

Approach and process - I was extremely time constrained with only a few hours to put something together. I built it around a heavily re-worked and effected version of the file '600_PSU_stairs-mfischer'. I used Bitwig Studio, a lot of automation, and a few time stretching tricks. 

I hope Marcus provides more raw material in the future. Thank you to Marc and Marcus for putting this together.

Reaching Out And Reaching Back - Disquiet0600

I'm grateful to join in this amazing group and project. Congrats to Marc and everyone on reaching 600 weeks! I look forward to hopefully being a regular with you all. 

I used all but one of the wonderful samples by Marcus Fischer (thank you, Marcus), adding field recordings (a bird's nest fern being watered, the sounds of the Aurora Borealis), a bit of synthesis with VST goodies in Logic Pro, and a bit of a sample from the wild samplebrain, which I am still trying to get my head around.

Special Thanks to @marcus_fischer for sharing the beautiful samples used in this track.
More on this 600th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reaching Out (The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer), at: disquiet.com/0600/

About the Disquiet Junto: disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…-0600-reaching-out/

This project’s cover image is a detail of a photo by Marcus Fischer.

# disquiet0600  # sample share

First Contact (disquiet0600)

I split six samples into smaller segments, arranged them according to the throw of the die & adjusted the volume to bring each into prominence in its turn.

More on this 601st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Hard Six (The Assignment: Let a roll of the dice determine the relative prominence of various parts of a track), at: https://disquiet.com/0601/

The project was inspired in part by recent correspondence with Junto participant Robert Precht. More to come in that regard.

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 1: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0601-hard-six/

The Die is Cast (disquiet0601)

Using an old Norns loop as a drone base, I prepared for a session with Lucid Grain; so I added seven types of sounds - piano, bells, noises, voice and strings, etc –  which only play one or two notes at random. 

I didn’t have an idea how to introduce these blocks of sounds until this week’s prompt came. So I threw out the seventh part, numbered the sound blocks accordingly, and every 45 seconds, there’s a new part added according to the order I rolled. 

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Disquiet Junto Project 0601: Hard Six
The Assignment: Let a roll of the dice determine the relative prominence of various parts of a track.

The project was inspired in part by recent correspondence with Junto participant Robert Precht. More to come in that regard. 

Step 1: Choose six brief segments of sound that you have recently recorded. Or record some new segments now. Either way, select six of them, and label them one through six.

Step 2: Roll a single die for each of the six segments chosen in Step 1.

Step 3: The result of each roll in Step 2 represents the relative presence of that given segment in a finished piece of music. Think about how the pieces might relate to each other. This idea of relative presence can mean whatever you want: frequency of appearance, relative volume, intelligibility etc.

Step 4: Record a piece of music in which the relative presence of the segments chosen in Step 1 correlate with the results from Step 2.

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0601-hard-six/

643152 [disquiet0601]

high orchestral pedal notes combined with an envelope follower on a field recording of air currents which is modulating various amplitudes and filters

Image credit: "https://www.flickr.com/photos/61456446@N06/42481923111" by Murray Foubister is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

Disquiet Junto Project 0603: Animated Suspension
The Assignment: Record a piece of music that suggests something floating in air.

Step 1: Consider various music techniques you might employ to suggest (or imitate, or insinuate) that something is floating in air.

Step 2: Select one of the techniques you considered in Step 1 and experiment with it a bit.

Step 3: Record a piece of music built around the technique you focused on in Step 2.

Eight Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0603” (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 “disquiet0603” (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-0603-animated-suspension/

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.

Altitude disquiet0603

What a lovely prompt... and a tough one! 

I’m bad at minimalism. Most of my tracks somewhat baroque (fancy excuse for „too dense“). For this assignment I tried to reduce wherever I could. Once again, working with silence is a thing I still need to learn. Spent two hours balancing between silence and notes with the help of of transient designers and gates. Brought the sounds-silent ratio down to maybe 60:40. 

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Disquiet Junto Project 0605: Fifty Fifty 
The Assignment: Compose a piece of music with as much silence as notes.

There’s just one step to this project:

Compose a piece of music with as much silence as notes.

(Thanks to Jason Richardson for having proposed it.)

Eight Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0605” (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 “disquiet0605” (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-0605-fifty-fifty/

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.

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More on this 605th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Fifty Fifty (Compose a piece of music with as much silence as notes), at: https://disquiet.com/0605/

Thanks to Jason Richardson for having proposed this week’s project.

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0605-fifty-fifty/

Horror Vacui [disquiet0605]

This track is a remix and mash-up of different tracks of the Disquiet Junto Projects of the last three weeks.

The track https://soundcloud.com/blisterpop/four-variations-for-left-by-jimmy-lem-disquiet0636 created by Jimmy Lem (@blisterpop) is the initial track for all other compositions used in this remix.
The track https://soundcloud.com/triermusic/disquiet0636-oneplustwo by Nate Trier (@triermusic), https://soundcloud.com/hugh-g-stonah/wannabe-duetduet-with-jimmy-lem by @hugh-g-stonah and https://soundcloud.com/tannes-marrei/four-variations-tied-together-with-jim-lemanowicz-disquiet0637 by  AlvaroDeCampos (@tannes-marrei) are all duets based on the first track.
The track https://soundcloud.com/33per/six-variations-tied-in-a-knot-with-alvarodecampos-and-blisterpop by @33per was created based on the aformentioned track by  AlvaroDeCampos.

As climax of these series of Disquiet Junto Projects this track now was built from segments of all these 5 tracks. Additional effects were employed.

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/

Variatio Delectat [with Jimmy Lem, AlvaroDeCampos, Nate Trier, Hugh G Stonah, 33per] (Disquiet0639)

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