Incredible stuff, love that subdued, dirty lead!

Usually when I try to make a piece of music, I set out with a rough goal. For Disquiet 600 it was “Ska” (ridiculous and I instantly got off tracks), for this prompt it was “light summer jam”. Alas, the numbers were against me, so it became more of a mood piece.

I recycled the clarinet recordings of Disquiet 599, loaded them into iDensity and rolled a dice for each recording. I applied the numbers to granular density, length and speed. Because high numbers led to a dominant, dense, high pitched sound, I applied a stutter effect to all numbers above 4, to sort of even the odds a bit. I did a live recording by varying the volume of the six tracks a little.

The result reminds me a bit of Windy & Carl’s song “Dedications to Flea”, which includes a field recording of the musicians walking their dog (in my track, I “walk myself” by just breathing through the clarinet).

More on this 601st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Hard Six (The Assignment: Let a roll of the dice determine the relative prominence of various parts of a track), at: https://disquiet.com/0601/

The project was inspired in part by recent correspondence with Junto participant Robert Precht. More to come in that regard.

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Disquiet0601 - Ode To Windy And Carl

Disquiet Junto Project 0611: Music That Listens to Itself
The Assignment: Record a piece of music that repurposes itself as it proceeds.

Step 1: The underlying idea is to produce music that, so to speak, listens to itself. This would be music that employs techniques to revisit itself — repurposes itself — as it proceeds. From reverb to echo to tape loops to granular synthesis to accessing a buffer, various techniques serve such a compositional and performance purpose. Consider a means to achieve this result.

Step 2: Record a piece of music that employs the technique you focused on as a result of Step 1.

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0611-music-that-listens-to-itself/64092

My immediate idea upon reading the prompt was to use a delay feeding an envelope follower to affect the signal feeding into the delay.   The result being like the speaker is forced to pause and listen to the words of their former self.  The patch came together quite quickly and I has a lot of potential, but I think will take awhile to fully realize and I am really looking forward to continuing the exploration.

Disquiet 0611 - Shush

A collaboration with https://soundcloud.com/d-r-m-r, who makes the plugins at https://wasted.audio/software. We used these plugins a lot in this track, as well as SurgeXT.

For the November 2023 Sim Selections.

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Semibiographical

Stereoisomerism

Superextremities

Deligation

Detd

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Wasted Transmitter - Stab Me Tender

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