Name: be h.appy (Disquiet 0714) by Dawn Falls in Disquiet Junto Project 0714: Remix Yourself
Duration: 3 min 8 s
Description: Made for Disquiet 0714. This week's prompt asks us to remix our own project. This was tough and not super successful but here it is.

I love love love how the percussion comes in! Brilliant.

Disquiet Junto Project 0714: Remix Yourself

The Assignment: Rework your own music as if someone else had.

Step 1: Think of a musician whose remix work you appreciate.

Step 2: Select a track of your own.

Step 3: Remix the track in Step 2 as if you were the musician in Step 1.

Deadline: Monday, September 8, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0714

Disquiet Junto Project 0714: Remix Yourself

Disquiet 0710 invited us to revisit a recent piece of music we’d made, and change it up so that one element becomes louder and busier.

I went back to the ebow drone that I made for 0696 Chain of Layers as my source material. The original version had this very low-key “bump, bum-bump” kick drum as its sole rhythmic component, so that seemed like a good candidate for getting loud and busy.

I added 8 overlapping drum parts that come and go, creating a unique (and busy) percussive pattern every 4 bars. The guitar drones are waaaaay in the background now as the drum machine does its thing, until the end when they make a noisy return.

This was a fun prompt— it was nice to get into programming drums and just stay in that mode all day.

More on the 710th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Let’s Get Loud — The Assignment: Make a piece of your own music louder/busier — at https://disquiet.com/0710/.

Nontrivial Pursuit (disquiet0710)

sound art for disquiet0710

More on the 710th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Let’s Get Loud — The Assignment: Make a piece of your own music louder/busier — at https://disquiet.com/0710/.

I hit the antler with broken piano hammers, twigs and wooden dowling sticks. The antler was attached to a block of wood along with a thin metal bowl. I recorded by attaching contact mics to the bowl. No effects.

deer antler soup (disquiet0710)

disquiet0710 (lofi drones to be trapped in the belly of this horrible machine to)

"And that's how I returned drone music to its rightful place in the discotheque."

Disquiet Junto 714 dared me to take a song I'd made before and create a remix from someone else's perspective. I had the idea to start with a lovely drone I did when I first got the vintage rackmount Yamaha TX-802. I didn't have any particular remix artist in mind for this, just more or less gave myself permission to play and explore and try to transform a monotonal piece into something you can dance to. 

In addition to the Yamaha, this piece features the rich bass of a Moog Minitaur and the irresistible bump of a Roland TR-08 drum machine.

More on the 714th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Remix Yourself — The Assignment: Rework your own music as if someone else had — at disquiet.com/0714/.

Drone in F (Club Mix) (disquiet0714)

More on the 714th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Remix Yourself — The Assignment: Rework your own music as if someone else had — at https://disquiet.com/0714/.

disquiet0714 - 060

Bytecode Love [disquiet0714]

Low End Hypothesis(aeremix)3 --disquiet0714

I pulled in a recording of a jam oriented free jazz trio I had around 1990. I remixed the jam on my ipad using Koala sampler app. 

More on the 714th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Remix Yourself — The Assignment: Rework your own music as if someone else had — at https://disquiet.com/0714/.

KTG Yerba Mate Session Remix Disquiet(0714)

Made for Disquiet 0714. This week's prompt asks us to remix our own project. This was tough and not super successful but here it is.

be h.appy (Disquiet 0714)

disquiet0715 - mistake

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

be h.appy (Disquiet 0714)

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