Mountain Snow (naviarhaiku450)

Initially, I thought Gabber wouldn't be my cup of tea, but archive.org had some really interesting modern Gabber tracks under a Creative Commons License. The song that appealed to me the most was from an Indonesian production (Gabber Modus Operandi - Puxxximaxxx, "Hey Nafsu", https://archive.org/details/yesno091).

Ninety-nine percent of the sounds came from the track. I chopped up the snippets with Voltage Modular, stretched them in Ableton, and maltreated them with long effects chains. To add a bit of Ambient cliche, I added the song of a humpback whale (because, why not – sometimes a track needs a pink fluffy unicorn ribbon).

It still sounds rough around the edges, but maybe there's a genre of noise ambient it fits into. 
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Disquiet Junto Project 0556: Gabber Ambient
The Assignment: Field-test a hybrid genre.

Thanks to Sevenism for having proposed this project.

Gabber and ambient music seem like polar opposites. Gabber is typified by a constant distorted kick drum pummelling you at upwards of 200bpm. Ambient, on the other hand, can be deeply immersive or barely noticeable. This project asks the question: is “gabber ambient” possible?

Step 1: Consider what makes gabber gabber and what makes ambient ambient. Where is there crossover?

Step 2: Make a track that could be construed as “gabba ambient.”

Step 3: You’re probably going to want to delete it. Try not to. Save and upload.

Eight Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0556” (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 “disquiet0556” (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:

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0556-gabber-ambient/

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.

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, August 28, 2022, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, August 25, 2022.

Length: The length is up to you. Does fast mean long or short?

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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.

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

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0556-gabber-ambient/

0822 Disquiet Junto 556 Snafu Snafu Hey

More on this 557th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Condensation Is a Form of Change (The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score that depicts four phases) – at: https://disquiet.com/0557/ 

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

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0557-condensation-is-a-form-of-change/.

Bottom Left, Top Right & Back (disquiet0557)

This is definitely my shortest entry for the Disquiet Junto. Asking my daughter what she’d expect of an audio logo for Wikimedia, she came up with turning pages from a book, which I found a great fit. I found a good sample from David Bain on Freesound (https://freesound.org/people/davidbain/sounds/136778/). 

When it came to the tonal parts, wanted to keep it positive, so I played a simple D-major chord, added some delays and that was that.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0560: Sonic Disambiguation
The Assignment: Help the Wikimedia Foundation develop a sonic logo.

The project this week is to participate, if it appeals to you, in the development of a “sound logo” for Wikimedia. Per the instructions: “The Wikimedia movement is searching for a sound logo that will identify content from all of our projects, like Wikipedia, when visual logos are not an option — for example, when virtual voice assistants answer queries.”

Details, including prize and rights, at soundlogo.wikimedia.org.

Note that the official Wikimedia contest deadline is October 10, 2022. For this Junto project, however, it is September 26.

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More on this 560th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sonic Disambiguation (The Assignment: Help the Wikimedia Foundation develop a sonic logo) — at: https://disquiet.com/0560/

Thanks to Mahmoud Hashemi, of Listen to Wikipedia, for suggesting the Disquiet Junto take this project on.

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: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0560-sonic-disambiguation/

0922 Disquiet Junto 560 Page Turner  [disquiet0560]

Recorded Friday 23rd September 2022 in the morning.

Here's my take on The Sound of All Human Knowledge, so the Wikimedia Sound Logo as opened to submissions here: https://soundlogo.wikimedia.org/

And submitted for this junto challenge: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0560-sonic-disambiguation

I created a multitracked flute (using one of my bamboo flutes from Indonesia)  performing a simple arpeggio.
I wanted the arpeggio to represent this universal, frontierless spirit of Wikimedia, having a clear consonance and no dissonance at all, yet not quite totally resolving but leaving the end of the sound quite open for further investigation, because I think founding a piece  knowledge is not a "finished" thing but an open path to some more.. I really wanted the consonant arpeggio to have that open resonance after the last note fades.

I recorded a second version using Music Box samples and a third using my Hang/Spacedrum sampled and pitched to adapt to the C major chord (my instrument is on a C minor scale alas)

Wikimedia Sound Logo (disquiet0560)

Recorded Kalimba with MacBook Pro in Live 11
added some field recordings & sounddesign

hiwiki(disquiet0560)

All material presented in this track is protected under copyright and it's being shown here ONLY for entertainment purposes.

A Gari-Styled News Opening Theme Based on the Old Spice Signature (Little Trick!)

This is an experiment with Aphex Twin's new software Samplebrain. 

I used the following samples from freesound.org:
march warbler DeNoise 1149AM 210702_0300.wav by klankbeeld
Exotic Creature Song, 01.wav by InspectorJ
04845 andean flute short melody.wav by Robinhood76


More on this 561st weekly Disquiet Junto project – Samplelicker (The Assignment: Rework environmental sound recordings with Aphex Twin’s new software) – at: https://disquiet.com/0561/

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

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0561-samplelicker/

Flute Loop [Disquiet 0561]

freesound gave the most peaceful sounds:

1. 237729__flathill__rain-and-thunder-4
2. 608154__geri92__open-window-and-birds-singing-in-the-morning
3. Corona spring city 5am NL 200314_0119

then came samplebrain....
that's evil
thanks aphex

samplebraindisquiet0561marceisenschinknordstream

deep mess(disquiet0561)

a very quick track in Logic with:
1) mallet instrument with note repeater set to 1 repeat, an octave up
2)mallet instrument with note repeater set to 1 repeat, an octave up
3) bass instrument with note repeater set to 1 repeat, an octave up
4)pitch kick drum with note repeater set to 1 repeat, an octave up
5) drum machine using strokes to make the rhythm. No note repeater/octave setting used

More on this 564th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Octave Lept (The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music) — at: https://disquiet.com/0564/

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: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0564-octave-lept/

Disquiet0564

The machine demands its gears/
& repurposes us for its needs/
A life of turning circles/
and meshing bits and pieces

Meshing Bits and Pieces

Support our music on bandcamp! Out now: 
"Manipulating a Machine" - Late-night headphone music - August 2019:
https://cryptohelix.bandcamp.com/album/manipulating-a-machine?mysrc=sc

"Future Funerals", just released Nov. 2018 - 5 songs:
https://cryptohelix.bandcamp.com/album/future-funerals?mysrc=sc

3 more songs on a single, from 2015:
https://cryptohelix.bandcamp.com/album/3-song-45?mysrc=sc

"Traveling back/in time/from our best/future imaginations."

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