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Image associated with this track is by Josh Self, used thanks to a Creative Commons license and Flickr. The image has been cropped, colors shifted, and text added.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0435: Woodshed Report

A modular patch exploration trying to recreate generative music something like Jon Hassel's Dream Theory in Malaya, or the Possible Musics project with Brian Eno.

4 Minutes Spent Floating... Or Falling (disquiet0435)

Disquiet Junto Project 0435: Woodshed Report
The Assignment: Share something you’ve been working on (and respond to what others post).

Step 1: The past six weeks of Disquiet Junto projects have encouraged and rewarded collaboration. This week’s is more insular. There’s no formal constraint. Just share a recent piece of music, or create a new piece for this week.

Step 2: After uploading your track, please take a few minutes to listen to and respond to tracks by other participants.

If you’re interest in background on the concept of the “woodshed,” here’s video of a talk I gave a little over a year ago on how it relates to the Disquiet Junto:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzHrOpBwhMU 5

TRACK NOTES:

This is an excerpt of a stereo mock-up/composite for a comissioned permanent installation that I'm currently finalising for the Angaston Railway Precinct redevelopment. 

In its finalised form the sound composition will be broadcast across a nine-channel 'sound pole' installation arranged in a grid formation. Since the sound sequences are all of varying lengths, the resulting phase relations will create a dynamic, shifting composition for visitors to experience in-situ. 

This mock-up provides an impression of what the work may sound like at a given iteration.

Sternere (2020)- stereo mock-up

just released an album a few minutes ago
sevenism.bandcamp.com/album/subject-object
music from the last few days
(im making even more than an album a week atm (sorry))

done a minimix of the tracks (just in live8 adjusted to 171bpm and a bit of izotope vinyl)

t r a c k l i s t
1 \ Vell
2 cohn
3 dcon b
4 egdillor
5 lefr
6 mindfire
7 slash vell ceylong
8 tainer drone (feat. kayko)
/

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Disquiet Junto Project 0435: Woodshed Report
The Assignment: Share something you’ve been working on (and respond to what others post).

Step 1: The past six weeks of Disquiet Junto projects have encouraged and rewarded collaboration. This week’s is more insular. There’s no formal constraint. Just share a recent piece of music, or create a new piece for this week.

Step 2: After uploading your track, please take a few minutes to listen to and respond to tracks by other participants.

If you’re interest in background on the concept of the “woodshed,” here’s video of a talk I gave a little over a year ago on how it relates to the Disquiet Junto:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzHrOpBwhMU

Seven More Important Steps When Your Sample Kit Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0435

subject-object

subject / object // mix (disquiet0435)

Disquiet Junto Project 0435: Woodshed Report
The Assignment: Share something you’ve been working on (and respond to what others post).

Improvised on a Linnstrument. Sounds by Garageband.

Crysanthemum, for piano, strings, and percussion disquiet0435

faddle whoosh

halF woodsheD [disquiet0435]

This track is experimenting with a few of things I've thought about in the past. First of all it's a drone/ambient style track which isn't something I normally make. Secondly instead of gain staging and mixing to minimize noise, I gain staged and mixed to get a lot of noise. Finally I played it through speakers and rerecorded it in my garage.

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More on this 435th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0435: Woodshed Report — The Assignment: Share something you’ve been working on (and respond to what others post) — at:

https://disquiet.com/0435/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

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There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Woodshed Report (disquiet0435)

A song called "The Office of Unspecified Services" uploaded as part of the junto disquiet project #0435.

"The Assignment: Share something you’ve been working on (and respond to what others post)."

Made with a Digitakt, Volca FM, 0-Coast, Minibrute 2 (and maybe an OP-1 I've forgotten...) & Eventide Time Factor delay. Arranged and mixed in Ableton live

More on this 435th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0435: Woodshed Report — The Assignment: Share something you’ve been working on (and respond to what others post) — at:

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Photo by Ariana Prestes: https://unsplash.com/photos/MpSnQAUTgcE

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There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Retreat

Retreat [disquiet0435]

More on this 435th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0435: Woodshed Report — The Assignment: Share something you’ve been working on (and respond to what others post) — at:

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More on the Disquiet Junto at:

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disquiet0435   -    EDeeM

[disquiet0435] Woodwave

More on this 435th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0435: Woodshed Report — The Assignment: Share something you’ve been working on (and respond to what others post) — at:

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Isolation Loops

Isolation Loop 6 (disquiet0435)

A work in process peep into my woodshed, faintly exasperated conversation about... creativity? With my dear, long-suffering, friend: the computer. Accompanied by twiddling knobs on Korg Volca Bass/Keys/Sample, sequenced in Numerology with just a splosh of echoechoecho. I've had this sitting around for years but was being far too perfectionist about it at the time so really lost patience with myself - all the original sequences etc are lost now, so just went back to the original recording and did a bit of editing (Reaper) - minimal post-production just a bit of compression & limiting from Limiter no.6

I can't remember what I used to do the voice, it was some sort of old freeware amiga, or maybe commodore 64, emulator. We chatted in real time, me just saying whatever came into my head & then helping 'puter reply by typing words into his wee mouth, out through speakers into the room (and my Zoom H2n) just as day was dawning one September morning (2016), and then I edited some of the pauses out, etc.

Since then I've got rid of all the programs I can't afford - which is nearly all of them, as I have had no income for some time - I don't want to be a pirate, I want to help and contribute, so am going all free and open source, and am planning to rebuild my way up to being able to make this level of stuff (+++) by coding my own sequencers etc in Pure Data, gonna take some time, mind, I int no programmamama.

Have reserved my rights on this as thinking might be able to put an EP out? But always up for collaboration & can change this if needs be. This is for the disquiet junto:::

More on this 435th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0435: Woodshed Report — The Assignment: Share something you’ve been working on (and respond to what others post) — at:

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More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

YEScomputAWE (disquiet0435)

Disquiet Junto 0435, made over two mornings using a drumrack with sounds pulled from a factor sound pack into simplers for each instrument in the rack, ableton prepared piano preset with a little echo and reverb, and 3 operator presets all playing the same melody in a round, which I freestyled in with a midi keyboard.  I started this immediately after listening to Two Pages by Philip Glass, Bruce Brubaker and Max Cooper.  It turned out nothing like that amazing piece but the listen got me excited to try:)

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disquiet.com/0435/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

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Disquiet0435

After about a month in the woodshed with my computer and various ipad applications, a return to modular with some wavetable scanning on an E350.

More on this 435th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0435: Woodshed Report — The Assignment: Share something you’ve been working on (and respond to what others post) — at:

https://disquiet.com/0435/

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Ricercare For Pierre Menard disquiet0435

A piece for the Disquiet Junto. Woodshedding with some new toys -- Atmosphere (Cycles&Spots), Excalibur (Exponential Audio), and Sandman Pro (Unfiltered Audio).

A Woodshed Atmosphere (disquiet0435)

Inspired by someone's handmade gear at a recent show, I made a similar box with an interior contact mic and guitar strings to generate spooky ambient sounds (pictured). It's not as resonant and reverby as planned. 

In this cut its in the background to accompany two keyboard tracks and a cut-up newscast hinting at the future. If I work on it more I'd like the words to ultimately be more uplifting, and the voice-like keyboards a little more composed instead of near-continuous.

More details on this week's Disquiet Junto project can be found here: 
https://disquiet.com/2020/04/30/disquiet-junto-project-0435-woodshed-report/

Cryptohelix

President Pandemic [disquiet0435]

I've been periodically making these abstract/ambient pieces that are all built on the process of using the test oscillator plugin in mainstage/logic, and manipulating the raw sound using a stack of effect plugins, but in ways other than their intended uses.  It's sort of a software equivalent of plugging a raw oscillator into a chain of pedals.

Event Horizon (disquiet0435)

A live take of a patch I had set up last weekend. Modular and semi-modular synthesizers playing through a matrix mixer then out through a reverb pedal.

2hp Turing Machine and 2hp Tune provide the melody via a 2hp Pluck and a tuned Omsonic Ladder Filter. An MS-20 mini provides some percussion along with a Neutron. The Neutron also lends its overdrive to part of the matrix mix for some distortion. A Volca Sample chimes in with a kick, snare and occasional clap mid-way. The filters are modulated by a couple of envelope generators and by hand.
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More on this 435th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0435: Woodshed Report — The Assignment: Share something you’ve been working on (and respond to what others post) — at:

https://disquiet.com/0435/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

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There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

noodle matrix (disquiet0435)

This week's Disquiet Junto assignment was to post something you've been "woodshedding." I haven't been working on my own stuff much, but my time just freed up so I thought I'd dust off and try to finish this piece based on Schoenberg's approach to hexachords later in his life (long story short, he loosened his rules for 12-tone serialism).

I wrote a pretty six-note riff and then ran it through the ol' tone-row matrix to get its inversions, retrogrades, etc. From there I tried to find hexachords that went together to sound melodic, harmonious, and unified. Finding interesting melodies and harmonies was fairly easy, but it was very hard to find transitions that "felt" right. Maybe after I work with this a bit longer.

Photo by David Meurin

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More on this 435th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0435: Woodshed Report — The Assignment: Share something you’ve been working on (and respond to what others post) — at:

https://disquiet.com/0435/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

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Hexachord Etude 1 (disquiet0435)

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.