Name: f.log (Disquiet 0716) by Dawn Falls
Duration: 4 min 44 s
Description: This was made in response to prompt 0716 in the disquiet junto project.

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)

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This was made in response to prompt 0716 in the disquiet junto project.

f.log (Disquiet 0716)

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