I was listening through some recent field recordings and thought this recording of me hurrying down ten flights in a concrete stairwell of an older apartment building in San Francisco might serve as a sort of free rhythm track for the next pass or two. I felt it could use some emphasis of the resonance on the landings, which I added with EQ and a subtle delay. There's also a short noise loop at one point. This was a fun disquiet when I did it two years ago!

descending ten disquiet0525

"Record a short piece of music, roughly the length of the piece of music you selected in Step 2. Your track should complement the piece from Step 2, and leave room for an eventual third piece of music. " 

Remixing Swl-Disjunto's track "L Chord Pulse" from https://soundcloud.com/user-107535632/l-chord-pulse-disquiet0525

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Cryptohelix

Magic Number 2 - disquiet0526

The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio.
The first step to this assignment was selecting a track from last weeks submissions. I decided on a track by Paul Reiners (https://soundcloud.com/paul-reiners-1). Paul's tracks are for me probably the most instantly recognisable of the regular participants of Disquiet Junto. And while I think our approaches to music are probably very different, they never fail to bring a smile to my face.
So it was a joy to work with the rhythmic track he made: https://soundcloud.com/paul-reiners-1/magic-number-disquiet0525?si=87c5b7222b0f41449e5d58c06d3266db&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing.
Since the idea is that the track can be used for the third part of this Junto, my main challenge was to not make the track too full for someone to add on to. What I decided on was to re-use Paul's rhythmic pattern, but now as the basis for a more melodic layer.

Magic Number 2 (disquiet0526) With Paul Reiners

Working with audio from https://soundcloud.com/sternklang
Magic Number (1 of 3).

More on this 526th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Magic Number (2 of 3) (The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio) – at: https://disquiet.com/0526/

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Magic Number (2 of 3).

thanks  Encym https://soundcloud.com/encym/disquiet-junto-project-0526-magic-number-2-of-3
Daniel  Diaz   https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/unfinished-disquiet0525
release date  03/02/2022

Atonal Unfinished Trio (disquiet0527)

Disquiet Junto Project 0536: Metaphor Play
The Assignment: Take a favorite figure of speech as a creative prompt.

The short story: Good Things Take Time, and so did this.

The long story: This was planned to be "My Memory Seems To Be Clouded" and it mainly consist of Bastl SoftPop2 recordings (sometimes via MI Clouds) plus some Drum VST, but I somehow did something wrong with the recording. In Reaper it was 4 Minutes and normal, after exporting it was 4 Minutes and way too fast. Just scaling down the tempo to the half didn't work, as the stretching algorithms destroyed the sound in a way I didn't like. I was sure that the problem was just some setting anywhere, but I was no able to locate it. I started things new, reinstalled things, re-arranged the crazy Mac aggregate device and so on, and after some time even old tracks had a wrong tempo and I checked my coffee for psychedelic mushrooms. At the end it was something with "96khz versus 48khz" after I had used another recorder for line recording this week. Learnings: Reaper has a general setting for the sample rate of recordings and a project based setting for only this project. Wave editors like ocenaudio can change the sampling rate without changing the lenght, editors like Audacity can change the sampling rate so that by reducing it to the half the track is double the lenght – and no stretching is needed, all samples are saved. By some unknown quantum karma this turned out to be the conversion I needed, although it is now 8 minutes. Fun fact: So at some stage Reaper definitely showed a wrong lenght, and I remember that I already thought "this somehow sounds longer than 4 minutes … is it ambient or just boring?". Anyway, it took some time to get this result as wanted, because Good Things Take Time (which may more be more of a proverb that a metaphor, but I did'n want to emphasize the Valley Of Dispair subtext …).

Track CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Track cover made with Photo by Laura Ockel on Unsplash
https://unsplash.com/photos/UQ2Fw_9oApU

More on this 536th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Metaphor Play (The Assignment: Take a favorite figure of speech as a creative prompt) — at: https://disquiet.com/0536/

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Bandcamp (free album)

Good Things Take Time [disquiet0536]

Electronic percussion. A live sequence created in Pure Data using related euclidean rhythms. Any general or specific comments would be welcome.

More on this 544th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Feedback Loop (The Assignment: Share music-in-progress for input from others) – at: https://disquiet.com/0544/

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Euclid 6 - 400 (disquiet0544)

Thanks to Jimmy Lem and tetkik ve tedavi for inspiring this project.

More on this 547th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Genre Melee (The Assignment: Combine two seemingly different genres) — at: https://disquiet.com/0547/

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harmful lane

halF numeraL [disquiet0547]

Composed and produced by Francesco Vitti
Registered in the studios of EKOS records (Italy)

Magic Number (2 of 3).

David Gibbs