Disquiet Junto Project 0525: Magic Number (1 of 3)
The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio.

Step 1: This week’s Junto project is the first in a sequence intended to invite, encourage, and reward collaboration. You will be recording something with the understanding that it will remain unfinished for the time being. Your part will be done, but more will happen. Read on.

Step 2: The plan is for you to record a short and original piece of music, on any instrumentation of your choice. Conceive it as something that leaves room for something else — other instruments, other people — to join in.

Step 3: Record a short piece of music, roughly two to three minutes in length, as described in Step 2. When done, if possible, pan the audio so that your piece is solely in the left side of the stereo spectrum.

Step 4: Also, and this is important, be sure, when done, to make your track downloadable, because it will be used by someone else in the next Disquiet Junto project.

More on this 525th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Magic Number (1 of 3) (The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio) – at: https://disquiet.com/0525/

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-0525-magic-number-1-of-3/

glitchy thing (Disquiet 0525)

Disquiet Junto Project 0525: Magic Number (1 of 3)
The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio.

Step 1: This week’s Junto project is the first in a sequence intended to invite, encourage, and reward collaboration. You will be recording something with the understanding that it will remain unfinished for the time being. Your part will be done, but more will happen. Read on.

Step 2: The plan is for you to record a short and original piece of music, on any instrumentation of your choice. Conceive it as something that leaves room for something else — other instruments, other people — to join in.

Step 3: Record a short piece of music, roughly two to three minutes in length, as described in Step 2. When done, if possible, pan the audio so that your piece is solely in the left side of the stereo spectrum.

Step 4: Also, and this is important, be sure, when done, to make your track downloadable, because it will be used by someone else in the next Disquiet Junto project.

Background: We do this trio projects once or twice a year. This marks the third time we’ve done it during the ongoing pandemic. You can read a bit about the relationship between the pandemic, the Junto, and this trio project in this post from just over a year ago:

https://disquiet.com/2021/01/14/disquiet-junto-project-0472-jam-time-1-of-3/

More on this 525th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Magic Number (1 of 3) (The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio) – at: https://disquiet.com/0525/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 2

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disquiet0525  Magic Number (1 of 3)

https://soundcloud.com/ikjoyce/magic-number-1-of-3-disquiet0525?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0525
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/

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

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Crapped Up Like A Deuce (Duet with ikjoyce)disquiet0526

Part 2 of a 3 part Disquiet Junto collaboration.

I added a pad and guitar loops to the amazing drone track created last week by morgulbee. 

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

Artwork by The New Coma
thenewcoma.tumblr.com/

Drone Void [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

Added a little guitar part to Lazenbeeindustries pad! It's played in the "A Phrygian Dominant" mode. I only used 1/3 of the original track, however.

I've never used this mode before, it was fun to toy around with!

(MiM Telecaster, Archetype Cory Wong)

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Disquiet Junto Project 0526: Magic Number (2 of 3)

The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio.

Step 1: This week’s Disquiet Junto project is the second in a sequence intended to encourage and reward asynchronous collaboration. This week you’ll be adding music to a pre-existing track, which you will source from the previous week’s Junto project (disquiet.com/0525). Note that you aren’t creating a duet — you’re creating the second third of what will eventually be a trio. Important: Leave space for what is yet to come.

Step 2: The plan is for you to record a short and original piece of music, on any instrumentation of your choice, as a complement to the pre-existing track. First, however, you must select the piece of music to which you will be adding your own music. There are tracks by numerous musicians to choose from. The majority are in this playlist:

soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0525 8

And additional appear in the discussion:

llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…agic-number-1-of-3/

(Note that it’s possible another track or two will pop up in or disappear from that playlist and discussion. Things are fluid on the internet.)

To select a track, you can listen through all those and choose one, or simply look around and select, or you can come up with a random approach to sifting through them.

Note: It’s fine if more than one person uses the same original track as the basis for their piece.

It is strongly encouraged that you look through the above discussion on the Lines forum, because many tracks include additional contextual information there.

Step 3: 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. When composing and recording your part, don’t alter the original piece of music at all, except to pan the original fully to the left if it hasn’t been panned left already. In your finished audio track, your new part should be panned fully to the right. To be clear: the track you upload won’t be your piece of music alone; it will be a combination of the track from Step 2 and yours.

Step 4: Also be sure, when done, to make the finished track downloadable, because it will be used by someone else in a subsequent Junto project.

Step 5: You can contribute more than one track this week. Usually Junto projects have a one-track-per-participant limit. You can do up to two total. For the second, it’s appreciated if you try to work with a solo that no one else has used yet ( look at the project’s post on Lines, linked to in these instructions, or to the project playlist, which will be posted here once tracks start coming in). The goal is for many as people as possible to benefit from the experience of being part of an asynchronous collaboration. After a lot of detailed instruction, that is the spirit of this project.

Phrygiad - [disquiet0526] (with Lazenbeeindustries)

The left channel features "Now Positive" by SilverSounds.

Astute listeners (and those who read the title) will notice that the intro of "Shifting 23" is present during the first few seconds of "New Positive".  The full version of "Shifting 23" was released a few weeks later for my disquiet0529 submission.

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/

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-0526-magic-number-2-of-3/

New Positive [with Shifting 23 intro] (disquiet0526)

Based on https://soundcloud.com/undermulden/lamps-with-nate-trier-magic-number-2-of-3-disquiet0526
track is developed from Nate Trier's wonderful https://soundcloud.com/triermusic/baridrone-disquiet0525

I played an electric bass part (harmonics imitating the original track's crystal drop melodies). I wasn't happy so I added a rhythmic picked bass part (that I edited afterwards)
Still not happy I performed a solo on my electric bass but it wasn't quite working. So reversed it. But still not happy I recorded a fourth track, adding a Twin Peaks style bass.
So I ended up recording 4 tracks on the very same instrument....not a good clue.
So I don't think I did nothing good to the beautiful original. I may revisit this.

@undermulden
@triermusic

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0527-magic-number-3-of-3

Magic? (disquiet0527) with Nate Trier & Undermulden

Adding a layer to a collaboration with https://soundcloud.com/vassilis-poulantzas and https://soundcloud.com/drift-of-signifieds 

Original tracks:
https://soundcloud.com/vassilis-poulantzas/glitchy-thing-disquiet-0525
https://soundcloud.com/drift-of-signifieds/disquiet0526

More on this 527th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Magic Number (3 of 3) (The Assignment: Complete an asynchronous trio begun by two other musicians) — at: https://disquiet.com/0527/

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falsified hing

halF signifieD [disquiet0527] collaboration with Vassilis Poulantzas and Drift of Signifieds

Paul Beauodin Right channel, Caustic Gates Left Channel

Disquiet Junto Project 0527: Magic Number (3 of 3)

The Assignment: Complete an asynchronous trio begun by two other musicians.

More on this 527th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Magic Number (3 of 3) (The Assignment: Complete an asynchronous trio begun by two other musicians) – at: disquiet.com/0527/

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

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…agic-number-3-of-3/

Veeliin. Disquiet0527 With Paul Beaudoin & Caustic gates

Working with Somebody Do Something by Diaz, https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0472-jam-time/40425/4 ,  added some additional guitar on the right channel.

Somebody running in circles [disquiet0473]

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