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Disquiet Junto Project 0372: Honeymoon Phase

TC-11 Moon(disquiet0372)

Disquiet Junto 0372

braille (disquiet0372)

Step 1: Locate the latest instrument, piece of music/sound software, or related technology that has come into your possession. 
Step 2: Employ only the single thing identified in Step 1 to compose and record a short track.

My latest purchase was a Tibetan Bowl you see in the photo, I bought it last Sunday in a garage sale here in Paris.  It was a deal and included 100 incense sticks ....
Now: my previous purchase was, like a year ago, another Tibetan Bowl, so I did many recordings using that one  in the past year. But the challenge forces me to go back into the bronze age. Again.

I used the two sound you make with this thing, _Tap_ that's a "hit" on the edge of the bowl with the fat wood stick/mallet and a _Rub_ drone turning the stick around the bowl's edges.
Then I just pitched up and down to several different notes and constructed this soundscape. But the source is just that single bowl. And 40 sec Lexicon Reverbs with Wah Wah...

No synth used off course, nothing but the bowl.

Friday 15th February 2019 in the morning.

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Valentine's Bowl (disquiet0372)

i think the last instrument i got was art pyrite softsynth. i try not to get too much new stuff; work with what i've got (depth v breadth / necessity is the mother of invention etc)

i played for a few minutes and turned up the depth and feedback on the drone setting throughout. weirdly when i looked at the recording it said i'd been playing for over 9 minutes. just did a little limiting and normalized it. 
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More on this 372nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Honeymoon Phase / The Assignment: Record a piece of music with (only) your most recently obtained instrument or music/sound tool — at:

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pulsar love (disquiet0372)

Disquiet Junto Project 0372: Honeymoon Phase

The Assignment: Record a piece of music with (only) your most recently obtained instrument or music/sound tool.

Disquiet0372

Tape hiss and the modern man (disquiet0372)

Created entirely with Spitfire Audio's London Contemporary Orchestra Strings library, my most recently obtained music-making tool.

https://www.spitfireaudio.com/shop/a-z/london-contemporary-orchestra-strings/?v=MgsgksE3Bd4

Valentine's Day [disquiet0372 - honeymoonphase]

The latest software I bought is S-Layer from Twisted Tools and it’s awesome!
Its a multi sampler tool with multi effect that runs under Reaktor.

Here I took some samples from my dubblebass, some samples of water, metal objects, data glitches…

The BPM and all automations are on a base of 28 multiples, and the track lasts 28 measures.
A full moon revolution :)

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Honeymoon On Pluto - {disquiet0372-honeymoon_phase}

KX939

KX939 (Disquiet0372)

Drei Monstrum (disquiet0372)
 I had two choices for this weeks prompt, VCV Rack and Sugarbytes Aparillo. Time was going to be short and mobile so Aparillo won by default. This app is quite appropriately named and the title of this weeks piece plays on that. I haven’t made many of my own patches yet and so I started monkeying with presets and came up with some interesting bits. This has so many perimeter adjustments, automations and options I’ll be busy for ages. And that’s without touching the orbit panel.
 Three instances of Aparillo were loaded in Aum along with Rozeta Cells. I tried to use more, but the old pad was starting to crackle and hum. I played a pattern into Cells which routed midi into two instances of Aparillo, the lead sequence and the bass sequence. The third are what I labeled as accents, a crazy sounding percussive whale song transformation. The third part was played live while adjusting faders and tweaking the first two synths perimeters. That sounds way more impressive than it is.
 I was trying for a melancholy hoping Spring returns soon feeling. This weather is making me crazy. Crazier, anyways. Cheers :-)

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Drei Monstrum (disquiet0372)

i was inspired by valentine's day with my love
and also the arrival of a microphone with which i could vocoder

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More on this 372nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Honeymoon Phase / The Assignment: Record a piece of music with (only) your most recently obtained instrument or music/sound tool — at:

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Til All Thats Left Is Bones [disquiet0372]

money

halF honeymooN [disquiet0372]

This week's junto was to make a track using only the newest instrument in the arsenal. My latest purchase was the MI 0-Coast, so I created a patch using the two envelope generators at audio rate, with one of them having the rate adjusted by the random stepped voltages, to create a constantly moving and very gritty sound. I put this through a DL8 delay to add some depth, and recorded three takes into Reaper. I then used a pitch envelope on two of the recordings to create a melody and counter melody.

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No Coast (disquiet0372)

So there are three new things involved: the Casio MG-500 MIDI guitar pictured here, which I just bought used for cheap, and two programs I wrote to work with it.

Casio doesn't have the reputation of supreme audio quality, but this is quite a good guitar; it's said they were manufactured by Ibanez. I can do both MIDI and regular guitar at the same time and there's a switch to choose either or both (which I used during this piece).

I wrote two pieces of code in ChucK to work with this guitar: one is a sound chain with echo, chorus, reverb, a bit of distortion, and gating--this processes the regular electric guitar audio. The other piece of code takes the MIDI output and triggers a sample from Nathan Moody's wonderful collection that we drew on in disquiet0354, which I purchased not long after that. I run this two different ways during this piece--one is as a pitched sample, based on the input note; the other way (invoked later) chooses a random spot in the sample as the starting place. 

I like this combo because it allows me to use my regular guitar skills to play something sort of musical, but it also offers up some fun surprises, especially as the MIDI can be a little glitchy (in a good way).

More on this 372nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Honeymoon Phase / The Assignment: Record a piece of music with (only) your most recently obtained instrument or music/sound tool — at:

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disquiet0372 Honeymoon Phase

[disquiet0372] 1_2A_3

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Alone in Bed, Drifting to Sleep, Her Thoughts Endlessly Loop, Viciously on Repeat. (disquiet0372)

Disquiet Junto Project 0372: Honeymoon Phase
The Assignment: Record a piece of music with (only) your most recently obtained instrument or music/sound tool.

Step 1: Locate the latest instrument, piece of music/sound software, or related technology that has come into your possession. (If there’s something inexpensive, like an app, you’ve been meaning to try out, this project might provide an impetus to do so.)

Step 2: Employ only the single thing identified in Step 1 to compose and record a short track.

Track done entirely with my new [d]ronin by Massimo Olla.

Brand New Toy disquiet0372

"Honeymoon Phase" 

More on this 372nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Honeymoon Phase / The Assignment: Record a piece of music with (only) your most recently obtained instrument or music/sound tool — at:

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disquiet0372

Soundscape created by putting a door creak sample (which opens the piece) through several instances of the free SIR reverb unit using impulse responses from Frozen Plains 'Frostpoint' collection .

More on this 372nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Honeymoon Phase / The Assignment: Record a piece of music with (only) your most recently obtained instrument or music/sound tool — at:
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Be still, my soul, and wait (Disquiet0372)

This is two assignments in one. First we have the Disquiet Junto 372 in which we were asked to do something with our latest instrument, which, in my case, is VCV Rack. On the other hand there is VCV Rack's inventor/main programmer Andrew Belt (Infinitely many thanks, Andrew!!)who states: "I personally recommend that you attempt to push the Fundamental modules to their limits before moving on to other official or third-party plugins." So this is my attempt. Did I succeed? Well, as you can see in the picture, there's still one module unused, so probably next up will be More Fundamental Limits, Further Fundamental Limits and possibly even Extreme Fundamental Limits. That is, if I can bring up the patience to keep away from other plugins.
About the patch: I am rather pleased with the idea of getting two melodies from one sequencer by putting it upside down with 8verter and transposing it a third. I also liked experimenting with the timbre of the bass by means of hard sync and an LFO. The rest is pretty much straight forward, I guess.

More on this 372nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Honeymoon Phase / The Assignment: Record a piece of music with (only) your most recently obtained instrument or music/sound tool — at:

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Fundamental Limits

Fundamental Limits (disquiet0372)

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.