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My attempt at the 599th disquiet junto assignment: Make a piece of music that combines self-contained minimalist parts (https://disquiet.com/0599/)
Also my first my first submission to any of this ever

disquiet0599

The Assignment: Make a piece of music that combines self-contained minimalist parts.

The idea for this piece was to have, on the one hand, some looping/repeating audio, and on the other hand looping/repeating audio effect automation. And then to create a piece on the fly by routing the audio into the effects channels, using a ‘matrix mixer’.
And then the hope was to have all of these patterns - patterns of played notes and patterns of changing effects - interact in interesting and unexpected, emerging, minimal-music like, ways.
Which, listening back, maybe happens… in some places… a little? But generally: not so much. 

That said, I’m not unhappy with the thing that came out of this little experiment. The piece has an interesting atmospheric feel to it, I think, not in the least due to the fact that I had the window open when recording (playing the bass part live while at the same time doing the routing of the audio). The wind and street noises - cars, seagulls - coming in and being fed into the effects chains, work rather well.

More on this 599th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Minimal(ist) Blend (The Assignment: Make a piece of music that combines self-contained minimalist parts), at: https://disquiet.com/0599/

Minimal Blend - disquiet0599

c29sc3RpY2UK[disquiet0599]

This track follows the inspiration of the Disquiet Junto Project 0599 (details see below): Five self-contained musical movements were created, each of them performed by a different set of instruments. There is a choir part, a strings part, a piano part, an experimental sounds part and a part played by Hohner Organetta and a harmonium.
The track consists of various combinations of these movements (and their granular representatives), arranged with the aim to offer a interesting listening experience.

More on this 599th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Minimal(ist) Blend (The Assignment: Make a piece of music that combines self-contained minimalist parts), at: https://disquiet.com/0599/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0599-minimal-ist-blend/

Les rencontres entre éléments (Disquiet0599)

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0599: Minimal(ist) Blend (part 3 of a Disquiet Junto Éliane Radique themed project done in collaboration with the 2023 Musikfestival Bern)

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0599 discussion thread:
My original intent was to create something very experimental but this evolved into more of an ambient soundscape. I tried to keep it within the minimal description but might have strayed a little beyond that in some sections. I used seven parts that I morphed and modulated using various effects (see below) in Ableton Live. An additional track using Audio Things Noises was used to create a foundation. 

The following plugins/effects were used: Slate+Ash Choreographs and Landforms, Sugar Bytes Aparillo, Amazing Noises Grain Scanner (M4L), Bleass Granulizer, Audio Damage Other Desert Cities, Strymon Big Sky and Eventide Blackhole. 

River canyon photograph by Pine Watt via Unsplash.

More on this 599th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Minimal(ist) Blend (The Assignment: Make a piece of music that combines self-contained minimalist parts), at: https://disquiet.com/0599/
About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1
Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/
Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0599-minimal-ist-blend/

Entrenched and Incised Meanders [disquiet0599]

Because the prompt mentioned granular synthesis, I decided to do the whole piece in iDensity, which is a fun tool that also works stand alone on iPad. It accepts six samples so I went with six parts. First try was based on six drones recorded in the brilliant Dronecaster. The result was pretty dark, so I tried something else. The second try was based in different field recordings I made today: birds, church bells, a crowd and music at an art show. This version was fun but a little too diverse, sonically, to count as minimal. The third and final try is based on six short recordings of Clarinet, three held notes with a swoop, one Staccato, just blowing through and just the mechanics. The track was created by mixing the six parts live.

More on this 599th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Minimal(ist) Blend (The Assignment: Make a piece of music that combines self-contained minimalist parts), at: https://disquiet.com/0599/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Disquiet0599 - Clarinets At The Art Show

Made with Synthstrom Deluge and ASM Hydrasynth.

More on this 599th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Minimal(ist) Blend (The Assignment: Make a piece of music that combines self-contained minimalist parts), at: https://disquiet.com/0599/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0599-minimal-ist-blend/

Prone To Logic Mind (disquiet0599)

5 drone parts (plaits in fm mode thru wave folder + low pass filter + granular) recorded separately, rearranged in ableton (read - drawing volume envelopes) + some processing

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More on this 599th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Minimal(ist) Blend (The Assignment: Make a piece of music that combines self-contained minimalist parts), at: https://disquiet.com/0599/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

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disquiet0599 - drone blend

Disquiet Junto Project 0599: Minimal(ist) Blend
The Assignment: Make a piece of music that combines self-contained minimalist parts.

I started with four self-contained ambient drone tracks, all created with granular synthesis. Then I wanted to mix them with different granular tools, but they lost their character and I didn't like the result. Then I wanted to mix them so that each of the four tracks overlapped once with every other track (about 50%), both front and back. I thought this would be clever because it would be the opposite of the Musifestival Berns theme of "√" overlapping 4x4 tracks (^2!), but you only seem to need 12 to overlap all the tracks together … Anyway: the crossfades are simple in-out mixes, and as a result of my efforts, you'll hear each of the four tracks (mostly) just as they crossfade with another. The result is 30 minutes long, sorry for that, but I liked this version so much more than all the others. - Is it 'minimal'? I doubt it, but I had fun.


For scientific reasons I also uploaded the self-contained ambient drone tracks:

https://soundcloud.com/winterer/sour
https://soundcloud.com/winterer/salty
https://soundcloud.com/winterer/sweet 
https://soundcloud.com/winterer/bitter

All covers by Midjourney ("a cover for an ambient album named sour / salty / sweet / bitter"…), final cover is a blend of them. I was not able to prevent Midjourney from using halucinated writings.


More on this 599th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Minimal(ist) Blend (The Assignment: Make a piece of music that combines self-contained minimalist parts), at: https://disquiet.com/0599/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0599-minimal-ist-blend/

Emerging Flavours [disquiet0599]

Single/Radio Edit of We Are Radio Signals that, in my humble opinion, is better than the album version.

Big Grey Sun #3

We Are Radio Signals (Radio Edit)

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This song is about the need to experience things for yourself instead of relying on hearsay and assumptions. And also, tigers.

I’ve been told this one is “classic Color Theory,” whatever that means.

WHERE TIGERS ARE SAID TO ROAM
©2024 Brian Hazard (ASCAP)

They say that tigers roam free
In these lands
You wonder how that could be
When you’ve never seen one
Legends of mist-covered hills
Perilous thrills

The mighty roar
The savage gore
Rumors and idle folklore
Map out a route
Remove all doubt
Only one way to know for sure
Set out for the great unknown
Where tigers are said to roam

Don’t be content to rely
On hearsay
To confirm what you deny
Explore every region
Seek out the cat in its den
Time and again

It may be dangerous
Who knows what you might find
Embrace the wilderness
The courage to face
The nature of your own mind

You must do this on your own
Set out for the great unknown
Where tigers are said to roam

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Where Tigers Are Said to Roam

Orphée 53

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Following the success of their single “The Curve,” Second Complex and Color Theory return with a nostalgic yet modern 4-track EP inspired by 2000s synthpop icons like Camouflage and De/Vision.

COLOR THEORY
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Volatile Emotions

new lil synth pop electronica ting. written/prod me Jill. Mixed by Alex Poeppel and mastered by Jack Mullin

When I Grace Yr Mantelpiece

"Inept Apollo" (Release Date: May 15, 2025)
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Inept Apollo

Nation of Language - Inept Apollo

Cloud Without Tear

Los Angeles musician, songwriter and multimedia artist Lola G. aka DEATH HAGS has created a genre-bending world of dreamy noir pop, dark ambient, and experimental electronic music that some fans have called Future Sound of Dystopian Romance. She directs her own music videos, mixing experimental film with digital manipulation and found footage in the style of French New Wave director Chris Marker.

Following a dog bite over the winter solstice, three days of hallucinations gave birth to a project called BIG GREY SUN. Part grimoire, part hermit dream, BIG GREY SUN has since expanded to a constellation of albums, lathe-cut 7" vinyl, monthly shows on CAMP Radio and releases on blockchain platforms. 

Death Hags has toured North America and Europe, playing festivals like @SXSW, @popmontreal, Echo Park Rising and Savannah Stopover. Her music has been featured on Amazing Radio, KEXP and Bandcamp Daily as well as films by Christophe Honore and Steven Soderbergh. She recently scored the film Mirror Moves and her song Metal Teeth was featured in the critically acclaimed documentary Queens of Pain. 

She stopped touring in 2021 to go live in the woods near New York City and finish BIG GREY SUN.

Orphée 53

Death Hags

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