Disquiet Junto Project 0496: Isolation Room
The Assignment: Create new music around one strand of something you made in the past.

Step 1: Think of something you’ve recorded in the past that you want to revisit.

Step 2: Isolate one part of the original recording. The optimal option, though by no means the only approach, is something that runs for the length of the track, such as a a rhythmic element or a specific instrument. It’s certainly understandable if the isolation effort isn’t clinical. Other remnants of the source audio are fine.

Step 3: Compose a new track around the material isolated in Step 2.

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More on this 496th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Isolation Room (The Assignment: Create new music around one strand of something you made in the past) — at: https://disquiet.com/0496/

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Disquiet Junto Project 0496: Isolation Room

Composed and performed by DD
2006 and 2021
Qin Qin
Bamboo Flutes (Indonesia)
Upright Bass
Reverbs and filters

Photo by DD, Tokyo 2019


For this challenge:

Disquiet Junto project 496 – Isolation Room (The Assignment: Create new music around one strand of something you made in the past) – at: https://disquiet.com/0496/

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Recitativo 5 (disquiet0496)

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Isolation Room - disquiet0496

Disquiet Junto Project 0496: Isolation Room. The Assignment: Create new music around one strand of something you made in the past.

I am still in love with wind chime samples. Base of "Joint Sonic Room" is one of the audio tracks from the recording "Geworfenheitlichkeit" from my album "Sein & Rausch" https://krakenkraft.bandcamp.com/album/sein-rausch, fattened with even more wind chimes and some environmental noises (field recordings, Labs, Polygon).

Track cover based on a photo by Matheus Mari on Unsplash.

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Joint Sonic Room [disquiet0496]

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Shepard's Drone (disquiet0496)

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Sunday Beat Idea Redux (disquiet0496)

Disquiet Junto Project 0496: Isolation Room

I started by lifting an element from an ambient track I started last year but never finished. The track has an arpeggio that fades in and out and I used this as my starting point for this weeks project. I added a chord progression, bassline and some simple melodic elements, cued in a "guitar solo" off an old cassette recording, and added some vocals and percussion loops.

APOB - Forever [disquiet0496]

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With my dear friends Ricky and Stephanie, we have a ongoing trio project called “NerdBait” (soundcloud @nerdbaitband). We’ve recorded music for a variety of events that Ricky has participated in and produced in Scotland and although we’ve been a bit dormant recently, the band is definitely still together! 

Anyway, In 2015, Ricky had an extended bit in “SkyGround’, a collaborative performance retelling the fictional story of a 1970s female Scottish astronaut. As well as an ambient / spoken word soundtrack for his piece and the some interstitial music, we wrote the opening and closing theme for the show. I always loved that opening theme (linked in the soundcloud comment for this track) - Ricky’s words, my melody and Stephanie’s soulful performance of it, even with the noisy recording i clumsily captured - stuck with me. But I never quite loved the classic rock style music accompanying it. While it fit the theme of the show, it seemed incomplete somehow.

So, after a quick text chain sharing this week’s wonderful disquiet prompt, we had a chat about me taking that vocal line and lyric and having me re-contextualize it with a sound closer to where I am today.  I grabbed 2 of my 3 favorite tools - Surge and Valhalla Delay - and got working last night. 

The result is in a way a remix and re-imagining of our collaboration. I hope you enjoy “Reshoot the Moon (disquiet 496)

[Original Track: https://soundcloud.com/nerdbaitband/opening-song-from-apollo-21]

Reshoot The Moon (disquiet0496)

Been trying to figure out the Elektron Digitakt, with mixed success. 

Picked up where I left off a few months ago with a sample set that wasn't 'gelling', threw out all but one of the samples (the first you hear) and then retried it in a new track, with a few other newly chosen samples.

This is all one take on the Digitakt, basically "live" into a Tascam dp008ex and then added a little COMP/EQ afterwards to balance it out a bit.

Purgatory [disquiet0496-isolation-room]

A track created from a strand of a different track. Vox by Katherine Etzel... Thanks!
Several overdubs on multiple slide guitar type instruments.

Propeller from a Doomed Ship disquiet0496

“Teleology takes a different approach to organizing and writing history,” writes David J. Gunkel in his book Of Remixology: Ethics and Aesthetics After Remix. “If archaeology rummages around in the past for an originating ancestor, teleology begins from the end of the story, then reads backward into the past to find traces, precursors and nascent versions of the practice.”

This is the approach Suss Müsik took with this week’s Disquiet Junto project, a revision of Disquiet Junto project 0290. For that piece, Apple VoiceOver was used to record four quotes. These phrases were then refactored to approximate the gasps, hiccups and nonverbal noises that accompany everyday human speech. That part from 0290 was then isolated to create this new piece, recorded live to 8-track with some sloppy piano and DIY electronics.

The piece is titled Teleology. The quotes used in the piece are as follows:

“Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.” ~ Groucho Marx

“Life is too short to work on inconsequential problems.” ~ C.K. Prahalad

“Somebody asked me, ‘If you had to give advice to a young actor, what would it be?’ I never even knew I was thinking this, but I said, ‘Always, even in a limo, wear your seat belt.’ To me, that’s good advice.” ~ Christopher Walken

“I’m seven people away from myself at the moment, but getting closer all the time.” ~ Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart

More on this 496th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Isolation Room (The Assignment: Create new music around one strand of something you made in the past) — at: https://disquiet.com/0496/. 

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Teleology [Disquiet0496]

Revisited a recording for a previous disquiet junto (https://soundcloud.com/caustic_gates/disquiet0436-7am-window) - the 'isolation' aspect of the assignment is a simple high pass filter.

The output from a patch on the Eurorack modular synthesiser is added to the lower frequency range. This is based on a patch programming approach I've been working on taking a simple 8-step sequence and using it to derive more complex sequences with clock dividers and sample & holds. 

The main clock is 'played' in response to the original recording creating space - simply pausing the clock when the main recording requires it.

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More on this 496th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Isolation Room (The Assignment: Create new music around one strand of something you made in the past) – at: https://disquiet.com/0496/

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The image associated with this project is by Patrick, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

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disquiet0496 - 7am windowed

foliated lash

halF isolateD [disquiet0496]

This track was made based off the vocals of a song I wrote during November of 2020, which was a pretty stressful pandemic/election/unrest month. The song had the refrain "keep that hope in your heart/shine that hope through your heart", but I felt on the edge of panic the whole time. 
I took some of the breaths and made a panicky rhythm of sorts out of them, and the vocals and put them through a grain processor to turn them into an unsettling slow-motion chorus of cicadas trying really hard to hope but having a hard time of it.
And then there's a drone, because why not a drone.

disquiet0496 - maybe it won't be ok

Made for the Disquiet Junto #496

This track incorporates a guitar recording originally used in a piece of mine called Sweet Thing, which can be heard at the following link:
https://c-reider.bandcamp.com/track/sweet-thing

The guitar recording was layered and fed through a few different granular processes.  A few generative synth items were added to the mix.

Instructions for Disquiet Junto #496

Step 1: Think of something you’ve recorded in the past that you want to revisit.

Step 2: Isolate one part of the original recording. The optimal option, though by no means the only approach, is something that runs for the length of the track, such as a a rhythmic element or a specific instrument. It’s certainly understandable if the isolation effort isn’t clinical. Other remnants of the source audio are fine.

Step 3: Compose a new track around the material isolated in Step 2.

enamel

enamel (disquiet0496)

Axon2, Hammerhead, Sub37, Minilogue xd, Hydrasynth

Bright golden sun [disquiet0496]

Quite by chance I was looking at some tracks from a few years ago (something I seldom do) & came across 'Incidentally' from 2015.  I isolated certain sounds, then added a second layer & various fx,  more or less in line with the instructions for the assignment.

More on this 496th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Isolation Room (The Assignment: Create new music around one strand of something you made in the past) – at: https://disquiet.com/0496/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0496-isolation-room/

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

The image associated with this project is by Patrick, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

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Inch by Inch (disquiet0496)

[disquiet0496] Hypergrade

For this I isolated in two ways. The first was using zplane's Peel to isolate a limited number of frequencies from the final mix of my Recirculate (https://soundcloud.com/wasabicube/recirculate) track. The window of frequencies was modulated rhythmically. This track was, in turn, passed through Unfiltered Audio's SILO and forms the bass backing of the subsequent track. Next I took a synth part from the original track and sidechained this into the first track using AudioThing's Motor, passed it through a chromatic resonator, and modulated filter to complete the first track. The second track was a Felt Instruments Ciemno played through automated Sinevibes Luminance shimmer and Eventide Blackhole reverb. 

By way of attribution, this track is based on a remix of a track I created that was based on MIDI extracted from Blackstrobe's remix of The Rapture's Sister Saviour.
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More on this 496th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Isolation Room (The Assignment: Create new music around one strand of something you made in the past) – at: https://disquiet.com/0496/

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double isolation (disquiet0496)

More on this 496th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Isolation Room (The Assignment: Create new music around one strand of something you made in the past) — at: https://disquiet.com/0496/

I used the vocals from: https://soundcloud.com/benn-demole/innowintersfear-onkeltuka-krakenkraft-deslomol-disquiet431
and created a new piece around them.

image adapted from a photo by Alexandre Debiève at Unsplash:
https://unsplash.com/photos/o9TJMZ1BKCw Thanks!

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Do you see in fear? [disquiet0496]

Using an earlier recording as a sound source, a sample player module in miRack was modulated and fed into a couple other processing modules.

More on this 496th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Isolation Room (The Assignment: Create new music around one strand of something you made in the past) – at: https://disquiet.com/0496/

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The image associated with this project is by Patrick, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

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synthetic steam engine [disquiet0496]

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.