Revisiting a disquiet junto recording from 3 years ago - https://soundcloud.com/caustic_gates/disquiet0420-third-quarter - even managed to find the rudimentary graphic score I jotted down for it at the time. 

Voices different this time, but picked a similar bright chord for halfway through.

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More on this 579th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Memory Serves (The Assignment: Rerecord a piece of music), at: Disquiet Junto Project 0579: Memory Serves – Disquiet

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disquiet0579 - fourth quarter

wash of looping sampled ambience

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More on this 591st weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Loneliest Number (The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0591/

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disquiet0591 - patchouli wash

Building on @wasabicube's https://soundcloud.com/wasabicube/snake-eyes-disquiet0592 (which in turn built on @encym's https://soundcloud.com/encym/the-loneliest-number-disquiet0591)- picked this as I really enjoyed the result of the collaboration between these two - some lovely atmosphere and room to explore

Used this as an opportunity to explore glitchy percussion processing with Beads, tried to slow it down and space things out enough to not drown out the original elements.

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More on this 593rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Charm (The Assignment: Complete an asynchronous trio begun by two other musicians), at: https://disquiet.com/0593/

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disquiet0593 - III (feat. wasabicube and encym)

arrangement in ableton live of six recent recordings grabbed pretty much at random from my tascam, cropped and looped - descriptions and relative prominences:
1. thunderstorm (6)
2. dubby chord (2)
3. chord hits (3)
4. rings (3)
5. rings percussion (2)
6. plaits nintendo arp (1)
as luck would have it the thunderstorm rolled a 6, so that's a constant presence throughout - others fade in and out according to their dice rolls

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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.

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disquiet0601 - rng cycles

'hyperobject' frozen in beads and scrubbed - multiple recordings layered in live + field recording + processing

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More on this 602nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Choice Words (The Assignment: Make a piece of music that strives to express a specific word), at: https://disquiet.com/0602/

About the Disquiet Junto: Disquiet Junto F.A.Q. – Disquiet

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0602-choice-words/

disquiet0602 - hyperobject

pitched down sample being played back repeatedly via a filter and granular delay/reverb, going into two feedback loops
- one immediately feeds output back to input of rings, which dumps its output back into the filter
- another copy runs via a high pass filter into a delay, with envelope opening at regular intervals, again back into the main signal

recording gradually hands over more emphasis to the feedback signals away from the original sample loop 

some editing in ableton live

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More on this 611th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Music That Listens to Itself (The Assignment: Record a piece of music that repurposes itself as it proceeds), at: https://disquiet.com/0611/

Some of the music resulting from this project may be included in a September 29, 2023, event at the Berkeley Alembic in Berkeley, California: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/expanded-listening-music-that-listens-to-itself-tickets-712124101357 3

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disquiet0611 - riemann loops

samples and voices triggered by sequences of various lengths mainly driven by Marbles all going into a delay/reverb with its wet/dry gated by another sequence

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More on this 619th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beat Accrual (The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch), at: https://disquiet.com/0619/

About the Disquiet Junto: Disquiet Junto F.A.Q. – Disquiet

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disquiet0619 - provisions

picked a Tascam recording from a quick palette noodle from earlier this month - some arrangement in live, added an older field recording for ambience + recorded some noisee plucks from my eurorack system

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More on this 621st weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Leftovers (The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new), at: https://disquiet.com/0621/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0621-the-leftovers/

disquiet0621 - departure

recorded various noisy ambiences on my tascam, combined in ableton live - filtering, some panning, touch of reverb 

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More on this 625th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Noise Ceiling (The Assignment: What does this room sound like?), at: https://disquiet.com/0625/

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disquiet0625 - i am (not) sitting in a room

phase separation being an awful pun here as it relates to the relative phases of two waveforms being separated as well as the chemical process by which two substances form a single mixture

using a single macro control to progress the piece - two oscillators starting off tuned identically - osc1 pitching down, more folds; osc2 pitching up, thru granular with increasing density. repeated sample in background with start position moving with macro control.

adjustments and background field recording added in ableton live.

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More on this 628th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Alchemical Brothers — The Assignment: Explore an aspect of the ancient occult science using music — at: https://disquiet.com/0628/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 2: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0628-alchemical-brothers/

The image associated with this project is a detail from a 16th century alchemical text in the public domain.

disquiet0628 - phase separation

reworked a recording from last year (amplitude modulation sketch) - sliced 'horizontally' by cutting up the frequency spectrum low-mids-high. picked a point near the middle of the recording, and grabbed one segment from each frequency slice, ending at this point, but of different lengths (3/5/7 relative). copied backwards so the piece starts with the least common multiple of these segments (=105) but at the start only the high frequency is present. then go forward, adding in the other frequency elements, phasing against each other, until once again in phase and the original recording continues

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More on this 629th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Jigsaw Logic — The Assignment: Break a piece of your music and put it back together again — at: https://disquiet.com/0629/

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disquiet0629 - frequency split (least common multiple)

number of items:
- two modules (marbles and beads) 
- or five modules (if you count mults)
- or sixteen patch cables
- or ...

usually the built in wavetable mode for beads annoys me by switching on unexpectedly, but here it's the main voice. 

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More on this 630th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Creative Sufficiency — The Assignment: Count your tools in advance of employing them — at: https://disquiet.com/0630/

This project was proposed by Alex (aka XHG) from Switzerland, who also drew the cover image.

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disquiet0630 - two (or five, or sixteen, or)

prompt: "take one held tone and make it dance slowly"

patch on my modular system, starting with a sine wave, going into a wavefolder, vcf, vca. coupled LFOs into fold CV (x2), vcf cutoff CV, vca (with some offset/attenuation)

the bit where the waveform gets to dance: manual trigger to freeze LFOs in place, stopping the waveform dancing - let go of trigger to make it dance. 🙃 very quietly feed room mic back in to record physical action of said trigger

levels in ableton live, little bit of reverb

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More on this 631st weekly Disquiet Junto project, In a Silent Waveform — The Assignment: Take one held tone and make it dance slowly — at: https://disquiet.com/0631/

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disquiet0631 - waving / not waving

started with an on field recording that according to my notes had a lot of wind noise in it - rearranged and layered in ableton live to maximal shear and exported to wav. loaded up in my eurorack system, buffered in beads for granular effects, and independently triggered snippets through a vcf, all controlled by marbles

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More on this 632nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Shear Wind — The Assignment: Make the most of the disturbance within a field recording — at: https://disquiet.com/0632/

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disquiet0632 - wind shear, granules

"The Assignment: Record a piece of music on top of a muffled recording of a piece of classical music."

using this public domain recording from archive.org -  https://archive.org/details/02-ej-143-siegfried-wagner/02+EJ+143+Siegfried+Wagner.wav

couldn't resist the temptation to slow down the original recording (apologies to the caretaker)

muffled it up in ableton live + overlay field recording from my archive + overlay fresh room tone recording

while playing back the alongside the ableton live session, record in a patch on my eurorack palette system (mainly marbles/rings/beads 😏) manually gating triggers to make more/less dense in line with the original recording

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More on the 634th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Bust a Move — The Assignment: Record a piece of music on top of a muffled recording of a piece of classical music — at https://disquiet.com/0634/

The image associated with this track is in the public domain, via Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Beethoven_bust_statue_by_Hagen.jpg

disquiet0634 - wags

excerpt from a recording on my palette subsystem + looped room tone recording + extract from field recording

repeater

extract loops from a palette jam recording + rearrange

dihedral (loops)

start with the longer train recording, process in ableton live so rhythm is more evident (rather than that bell) - record additional material on eurorack, sort of a call-response thing - burst into rings, then gate seed of beads, all clocked by a tap in tempo derived from the train sample

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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/ 1

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

disquiet0635 - level crossing

extract from a long patch recording + ambience recorded earlier that day + looping a snippet from an old recording through low pass filter

the terraformers

modified an existing patch for this week's disquiet track - intentionally more sparse, fewer effects - leaving room for collaborators

patch with burst triggers going into plaits processed by rings, sort of call/response thing via beads, added a pulsing low end drone from a looping sample of a previous recording

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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/

disquiet0636 - spaced repetition

old track looped low passed + burst triggered rings + stacked bandpassed field recordings

benny profane

collab with https://soundcloud.com/lazenbeeindustries/bass-flurry-disquiet0636 / @LazenbeeIndustries

playing along with the original - set up a patch to manually trigger slow enveloped old recording pitched down, with delay - manual control of granular wet/dry - added field recording in live afterwards

panned hard left/right as per instructions

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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/

disquiet0637 - bass flurry underground (with LazenbeeIndustries)

collab with https://soundcloud.com/rplktr/disquiet-junto-0636-left-1-of-3-disquiet0636 / @rplktr

glitchy kind of percussion thing added here. intentionally left out the kicks as it wouldn't sound right panned hard. fm voice triggered by a burst and going through some delay treatment

panned hard left/right as per instructions

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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/

disquiet0637 - left retrograde (with RPLKTR)

with https://soundcloud.com/raincat-306596410/idiophones-disquiet0637-w-xhg by @xhg and @raincat-306596410

filling in imagined blanks - background field recording + sample based patch w granular processing

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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/

disquiet0638 - bells/idiophones/swells (with xhg and raincat)

reworked older recording from eurorack system

mcclintic sphere

rework older recording from eurorack system

ray trace

looping+arranging older recording from eurorack modular system

千代田線 (r minus seven)

shorter & rearranged version of https://soundcloud.com/caustic_gates/r-minus-seven

千代田線 (r minus seven) (radio edit)

starting with https://soundcloud.com/blaaroed/disquiet0636-left-tt16tt, followed the branching paths in the trio of projects sequenced in a linear form

arranged in ableton live mostly drawing volume envelopes and a delay send at the end of each segment

based on these excellent contributions:
- https://soundcloud.com/blaaroed/disquiet0636-left-tt16tt
- https://soundcloud.com/user-807707609/left-and-right-mirage-disquiet0637
- https://soundcloud.com/raincat-306596410/metal-mirage-disquiet0638-w-blaaroed-he_nu_ri
- https://soundcloud.com/merlebardenoir/the-middle-path-disquiet0638
- https://soundcloud.com/encym/wc2h-8lh_disquiet0638
- https://soundcloud.com/alanblip/part-2-disquiet0637
- https://soundcloud.com/dandante/disquiet0637-right-2-of-3-suborbital-hang-glider
- https://soundcloud.com/analoc/0324-disquiet-junto-638-midways


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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/

disquiet0639paths - full house

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/

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