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The image that is the source of this project is by Robert Boyd (www.thegreatgodpanisdead.com) and has been used with his permission.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0476: IAH Forecast

I sat down at my computer shorty after 9pm UK time. I was thinking of making some music but wasn't sure what to work on... I have a few things I am working on but nothing lept out at me and demanded my attention. An email pops up... Disquiet Junto 0476. 
It's been ages since I took part and this seemed perfect... 
I went with the flow with this one... I went with some foggy sounding synth and pulled out an old field recording from the A11 dual carrageway by the Norfolk / Suffolk border. I let the field recording play and just improvised some synth at once over the top. I recorded that in 1 take and then went to the arrangement. 
I added a drum rack - an effect on the whole thing... making a nice dubby slow rhythm. It picks up a level or two and I added some other elements of synth and ambience. It was quick and simple to make. This was a good fun experiement to do.  

This weeks instructions are as follows;

Disquiet Junto Project 0476: IAH Forecast

The Assignment: Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it.

Step 1: This is the cover of your next single:
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Step 2: Now record your single.

Note: The photo was shot in Houston, Texas, by Robert Boyd and is used with his permission.

Seven More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0476” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your tracks.

Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0476” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation of a project playlist.

Step 3: Upload your tracks. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your tracks.

Step 4: Post your tracks in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co:

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Step 5: Annotate your tracks with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: If posting on social media, please consider using the hashtag #disquietjunto so fellow participants are more likely to locate your communication.

Step 7: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Forecast [disquiet0476]

I lived in Houston for 9 months in 1997.  Lived and worked on Westheimer Rd.  I worked near River Oaks at a tech startup.  My wife worked somewhat nearby on Greenway Plaza at what is now Invesco.

The food in Houston was excellent.  One time, Dusty Hill from ZZ Top was behind us in line at a BBQ joint and ordered "a quart of jambalaya".  Yes, he was dressed like he was on stage.  I thought it was the perfect Texas moment.  Although a close second was going out with Ann's co-workers to somebody's horse farm in the country and one her co-workers rode a horse backwards very fast.  Nice people.

There should be more cars on whatever road this is.  I remember the traffic was crazy.  And the air often smelled of gas, the result of being close to oil refineries.

This track is a combination of several pieces of mine:  Aleodeology's "Time Travel Destination in the Past", "Simulated Gravity", "Aleodeological Travel", and "Empty Interstate Due to Microaggressions", along with my side band Vibrating Wires' "The Long Drive Out", "The Path to REM Sleep", and "Southwestern Desert" - and some field recordings of rain that I recorded.

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More on this 476th weekly Disquiet Junto project — IAH Forecast (The Assignment: Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it.) — at:

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Westheimer(disquiet0476)

release date :11_02_2021
More on this 476th weekly Disquiet Junto project – IAH Forecast (The Assignment: Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it.) – at:

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IAH  (disquiet 0476)

all-profaning (disquiet0476)

Grey View (disquiet0476)

traffic-noise clouds, coded in ChucK. code here:

https://github.com/charliekramer/ChucK/blob/master/houston%20noise%20clouds.ck

More on this 476th weekly Disquiet Junto project — IAH Forecast (The Assignment: Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it.) — at:

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Disquiet0476 Houston Noise Clouds

More on this 476th weekly Disquiet Junto project – IAH Forecast (The Assignment: Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it.) – at:

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Sketch Of A Texas Highway (disquiet0476)

This week's prompt was based off of a photo of Houston (which is the image I've used for my track) and we were told this image was the cover art for our new track--so write a track for it. I liked the dark haziness of the photo, but there's also plenty of cars and traffic that we're looking down on.

This week's track represents some firsts for me in the Junto. First, it is composed of three tracks, one of those tracks was recorded in stereo, and I used some plugins. The first track is an airy chord whose timbre is being modulated (Ensemble into LRMSMSLR, with M into QPAS and S into Mimeophon)with all modulation controlled by 16n. I recorded this track in stereo (placed center) and ran it through Valhalla Supermassive into Wavesfactory Cassette. The second track (panned to the right) is Tetrax into Bastl Thyme, which is run into Valhalla Shimmer into Wavesfactory Cassette. The third track is STO into LXd with a pattern from Control Forge run into LXd's strike. This went through Panharmonium and was processed with a touch of Valhalla FreqEcho.

Houston Haze (disquiet0476)

A misty, foggy, rainy day. High enough above to hear it, far enough away to be above it, close enough to smell it, vague enough to float away into wherever your thoughts take you, then you center yourself, back, back, again, don't lose yourself, don't lose focus, it returns.

Submission for Disquiet Junto Project 0476: IAH Forecast - https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0476-iah-forecast/41553

*Gear*

* Tascam DR-40X (field recording)
* Ableton Live 10 Standard
* Magix SOUND FORGE Audio Studio Pro 13 (mastering)
* Native Instruments KOMPLETE KONTROL S61 (input)
* Novation Launchpad MK2

*Instruments*

* Kilohearts Phase Plant - Arpeggiating Effectous
** Native Instruments Raum - Yellow Memories
* Native Instruments Lo-Fi Glow - Detuned
** Output Portal - Ambient Lake
* Field recording of rain, drain and traffic (myself)
** Output Portal - Heaven Reveal
** Kilohearts Reverb - Ambience Dark
* Native Instruments Lo-Fi Glow - Lullaby Blips
* Native Instruments Lo-Fi Glow - Simp Le Church

*Attribution*

* Original cover photo by Robert Boyd in Houston, Texas, used with permission.

regenfall [disquiet0476]

Disquiet Junto Project 0476: IAH Forecast

Not sure where this brain fart came from… a new genre? Blues Hop? I just threw a bunch of stuff at a blues riff and went from there. Vocal sample courtesy of Amy Kirkpatric.

APOB - Fuzzy Condition [disquiet0476]

For this challenge:
"Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it."
Love this one, and love the photo. Mist/fog is such a global (globalizing?) thing. Any city could use it to get on approximately the same mood. Like a landscape's tuxedo.

This photo could be any city , dressed like that, could be my home-town Buenos Aires (a city fog suits so well).
There's a tango standard "Nieblas del Riachuelo", full Buenos Aires misty cityscape, so I went for a homesick tango nostalgia and jammed wit myself this one:

Nieblas Panamericanas

Spanish guitar
Upright bass
Drums (brushed)
Melodica (mimicking a Bandoneon)

The photo was shot in Houston, Texas, by Robert Boyd and is used with his permission.

More info:
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Nieblas Panamericanas (disquiet0476)

My submission for
Disquiet Junto Project 0476: IAH Forecast
The Assignment: Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it.
https://disquiet.com/0476/

Disquiet0476

H-Town (disquiet0476)

Electronic composition with sounds created in Pure Data.

More on this 476th weekly Disquiet Junto project – IAH Forecast (The Assignment: Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it.) – at:

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The image that is the source of this project is by Robert Boyd (www.thegreatgodpanisdead.com) and has been used with his permission.

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Into Smog (disquiet0476)

This week's junto was to make a track inspired by the image - so I put the image on screen while I worked at the modular, and this sort of spy-drama come Berlin school thing appeared.

More on this 476th weekly Disquiet Junto project — IAH Forecast (The Assignment: Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it.) — at:

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HiRise(Disquiet0476)

**Production Notes**

I live in the city center, and I hate street noise. Wherever I go, I use earbuds to listen to something, be it a podcast, an audio book, or music. I try to separate myself from the noise, but this Disquiet Junto reminded me to do otherwise. 

The image for this week’s Junto is amazing. The melancholy sucked me right in: the mist, the noise, the small rooms, the parking lot, that all made total sense. 

So the "Music for Distant Airports" approach seemed right.

I chose a field recording of a highway and let it play throughout the whole piece with some volume changes. The rest was made with Norns, Moog Matriarch, and the Arturia Easel plugin. 

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**Disquiet Junto Project 0476: IAH Forecast**

The Assignment: Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it.

Step 1: This is the cover of your next single:

Step 2: Now record your single.

Note: The photo was shot in Houston, Texas, by Robert Boyd and is used with his permission.

Seven More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0476” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your tracks.

Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0476” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation of a project playlist.

Step 3: Upload your tracks. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your tracks.

Step 4: Post your tracks in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0476-iah-forecast/

Step 5: Annotate your tracks with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: If posting on social media, please consider using the hashtag #disquietjunto so fellow participants are more likely to locate your communication.

Step 7: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Additional Details:

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, February 15, 2021, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, February 11, 2021.

Length: The length is up to you. However you picture it.

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More on this 476th weekly Disquiet Junto project — IAH Forecast (The Assignment: Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it.) — at:

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The image that is the source of this project is by Robert Boyd (www.thegreatgodpanisdead.com) and has been used with his permission.

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Soap Bubbles [disquiet0476]

never was in Austin
a good friend had relative there
i always wanted to go there
now this fantastic task
thanks Marc
I like billy gibbons and I love this photo
so I started
few stamps from my 1010music blackbox
played guitar through Gamechanger Audio Plus Pedal Sustain-Pedal
mixed all on desk
mastered in ozon9

have fun
thanks

Billy Austin(disquiet0476)

As I've just finished binge watching Mindhunter on Netflix, it's probably not surprising that it and the atmospheric image fused in my mind and the two became the inspiration for this track.
Done almost entirely using the Korg Wavestate, except for the crackles, which was Arturia's CMI V through Vallhalla Supermassive.
More on this 476th weekly Disquiet Junto project — IAH Forecast (The Assignment: Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it.) — at:

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The image that is the source of this project is by Robert Boyd (www.thegreatgodpanisdead.com) and has been used with his permission.

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The Fog Of Doubt (disquiet0476)

I hadn't been aware of Disquiet Junto until yesterday morning, when I saw the attached image and the words "This is the cover of your next image". Challenge accepted.

This was recorded in Logic pretty quickly... I started with a grungy texture bed, to fit that murky fog, and I wasn't really intending to do much more. But then I experimented with a booming kick drum, which naturally required some tinkling hi hats. That, along with the image of traffic, encouraged a bit more motion from a bouncing arpeggiator.

Next up a big brass swell, very slowly dialling up the treble, and a quite nasty synth through a guitar amp with tremolo.

To top it all off and be a little literal, I added some found sound. In this case, I found it among Logic's included library of atmospheric sounds. It's cold out, and I don't feel like hanging around on a busy street holding a microphone.

Everything drenched in varying amounts of reverb, and a lot of the treble has been rolled back. (see 'fog' above.)

https://disquiet.com/2021/02/11/disquiet-junto-project-0476-iah-forecast/

Wake

Wake (for disquiet0476)

info/context - https://disquiet.com/2021/02/11/disquiet-junto-project-0476-iah-forecast/

disquiet0476

Untitled - disquiet0476

Looking at the image I got a feeling of something along the lines of lo-fi hiphop, or down tempo synthwave. I decided that these are probably done in a computer so I used the MPC's synth engine for everything (except the rain sample which I got outside last night). Not necessarily the most interesting but it captured the vibe I was going for.
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IAH Forecast (disquiet0476)

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.