There are two steps to this project.

Step 1: Think about what simplicity means to you.

Step 2: Produce a track taken to the extreme minimum. Use only pure waveforms (sine, sawtooth, triangle, pulse wave) and no effects. Restrict yourself to 5 voices.

Crazy donkeys - disquiet0555

More on this 556th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Gabber Ambient (The Assignment: Field-test a hybrid genre) — at: https://disquiet.com/0556/

Thanks to Sevenism for having proposed this project.

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Image by BranMoviC, used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
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bathing fable

halF gabbienT [disquiet0556]

More on this 572nd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Rhythm Kit (The Assignment: Make a beat that someone else will add to) – at: https://disquiet.com/0572/

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Rhythm Kit

The Euclidean Rhythmicon | Rhythm Kit - disquiet0572

More on this 572nd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Rhythm Kit (The Assignment: Make a beat that someone else will add to) – at: https://disquiet.com/0572/

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Rhythm Kit (sixty) (disquiet0572)

This track was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0572 (details see below): Make a beat that someone else will add to.

I dedided to create a beat mainly based on the sounds of nature - especially all that can be heard in the forest. The forest rhythm is accompanied by some percussive piano sounds and dark ambiances - to enhance the magic of the forest and all it can give to the attentive visitor.

I owe my thanks to the following artists providing recordings on freesound:
Under the https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ license:
FlorianReichelt (https://www.instagram.com/florianreichelt/) for the footsteps in the snow https://freesound.org/people/florianreichelt/sounds/453168/
JavierSerrat for the pigeon https://freesound.org/people/JavierSerrat/sounds/524345/
SoundEnsemble for the blackbird https://freesound.org/people/SoundEnsemble/sounds/519125/

Under the https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ license:
filmmt for the raven https://freesound.org/people/filmmt/sounds/219599/

Under the https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ license in original and transformed form:
inchadney for the cuckoo https://freesound.org/people/inchadney/sounds/121203/

More on this 572nd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Rhythm Kit (The Assignment: Make a beat that someone else will add to) – at: https://disquiet.com/0572/ 1

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Forest Beats  (Disquiet0572)

Disquiet Junto Project 0572: Rhythm Kit
The Assignment: Make a beat that someone else will add to.

Note: This project is the first of a two-parter. You don’t need to participate in both, and you can easily participate in the second one (next week) even if you don’t participate in the first one.

Instruction: Record a beat with the intension that someone other than yourself will add something to it at a later date. It’s preferable that you record something that lasts between one and three minutes, but it’s also fine to record something shorter with the intention that someone will loop it — or something longer, for that matter.

More on this 572nd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Rhythm Kit (The Assignment: Make a beat that someone else will add to) – at: https://disquiet.com/0572/ 1

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Rock the bells - disquiet0572

It's not advisable to let your teeth get dirty.

All sounds generated with VCV Rack. The main theme is a percussive voice and chaotic FM sounds clocked by the same steady pulse. Additional sounds were made using a different chaotic patch. 

Disquiet Junto Project 0572: Rhythm Kit
The Assignment: Make a beat that someone else will add to.

Note: This project is the first of a two-parter. You don’t need to participate in both, and you can easily participate in the second one (next week) even if you don’t participate in the first one.

Instruction: Record a beat with the intension that someone other than yourself will add something to it at a later date. It’s preferable that you record something that lasts between one and three minutes, but it’s also fine to record something shorter with the intention that someone will loop it — or something longer, for that matter.

Also: Be sure to make your track downloadable.

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

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 1: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0572-rhythm-kit/

Photo by Library of Congress on Unsplash.

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This track is released under CC BY 4.0. Please give appropriate credit if you use it.

disquiet0572 Keep Your Teeth Clean

M8@DAFDrum>M8 (disquiet0572)

BPM: 82         Time Signature: 6/8
More on this 572nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Rhythm Kit (The Assignment: Make a beat that someone else will add to) — at: https://disquiet.com/0572/

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Two Over Three (disquiet0572)

Disquiet Junto Project 0573: Float Mode
The Assignment: Add material atop a pre-existing beat to form a complete track.

Note: This week’s project is the second part of a two-parter, following up last week’s, but you don’t need to have participated last week in order to do this one.

Step 1: You will be adding musical elements atop beats created last week by other members of the Disquiet Junto. Select a beat. There are beats from 30 or so musicians in the SoundCloud playlist:

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0572 5

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Track notes:

Last week, Daniel Diaz's lovely jazz-oriented track stuck for me as something I'd like to rework.

https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/2022wcgroove-disquiet0572

Without a really clear idea of where I wanted to take the track, I started by adding some sombre synth sounds over the top of Daniel's rhythm track and listening back to where things were going. I then listened to the harmonic aspects of the chord progression and reached out for my Telecaster, coaxing a kind of Bill Frissel meets Brokeback (via Tortoise) vibe...I think. Lastly, I added a little phasing to the rhythm track during the guitar solo and outro.

[Disquiet_Junto_0573] "Uncertain Road" (w/ Danial Diaz)

I found some samples of rocks being hit and tumbling around and used them as percussion for this project.  I imagined my cave dwelling ancestors having a blast with stone tools.  Some of them included what sounded like leaves being disturbed by the rocks, so that was a nice detail.  Then I came up with a chord progression and put some synth sounds together to represent the modern era.

disquiet0717

I've been making music under various names for about 20 years (currently as Modulatia).  This is where I post experiments, collabs, and other stuff that is just for fun.