Disquiet Junto Project 0569: Think Thank
The Assignment: Make music inspired by something or someone you’re thankful for

Step 1: Think of something or someone you’re thankful for.

Step 2: Make a piece of music inspired by what came to mind in Step 1.

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This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, November 28, 2022, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, November 24, 2022.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0569: Think Thank

Composed and performed by DD (june/july/september 2022)
Upright piano, synthesizers, upright bass, orchestral (strings) samples, acoustic drums

Photo by Karim MANJRA


This particular track is a pure experiment, I was recording my acoustic piano, using some mechanical rubber mutes for a different project, and did this take just for me as a test.
I didn't know what to do with it, and abandoned.
Then, I overdubbed many different instruments over the past few months, an upright bass+acoustic drums rhythm section, an unexpected old-schools synth. Later I added an orchestral section.

There's a lot of work on this track but still I don't know where it's going nor what was i attempting when I started it. An experiment, a true one.

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An Undertow Of Resilience (disquiet0569)

Project Details: https://disquiet.com/2022/11/24/disquiet-junto-project-0569-think-thank/

Arigatou - disquiet0569

Disquiet Junto Project 0569: Think Thank
The Assignment: Make music inspired by something or someone you’re thankful for

Laurie Andersons "Big Science" was one of the first "avantgarde" LPs I owned in a time, when teens like me used to listen to Kim Wilde or so. I remember listening endlessly to especially "From The Air", "O Superman" and "Example #22". 

Since then the beginning of the "voice sample" from "Example #22" is what I speak into microphones to test them. And as I had a podcast recording this week, I started the track with a sample from this recording. 

I noodled it thru some granulators and added some other stuff. I absolutely wanted to add some "O superman"-vocoder-oh-ohs with a XILS V+ I bought last week (don't miss the 75% sales, especially the XILS 4 https://www.xils-lab.com/products/xils-4-p-148.html, and no, I'm not connected to Monsieur Oudin) and it nearly drove me insane to get Reaper and the V+ to run as a vocoder. But it worked. 

The resulting track may be considered as what I have in mind when I think of these tracks from Laurie Anderson, which I am thankful for. Please notice that it is 40 years since "Big Science" – wtf am I old …

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More on this 569th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Think Thank (The Assignment: Make music inspired by something or someone you’re thankful for) — at: https://disquiet.com/0569/

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Think Thank

Disquiet Junto | Think Thank - disquiet0569

This track is a token of gratitude to the creators of the open source software I use in my work. It was constructed using Pure Data, Samplebrain, Audacity & various vst's.

More on this 569th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Think Thank (The Assignment: Make music inspired by something or someone you’re thankful for) – at: https://disquiet.com/0569/

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The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2, where “open door, party inside, digital art” was the prompt.

Soundforest (disquiet0569)

Particulate (disquiet0569)

Disquiet Junto Project 0569: Think Thank
The Assignment: Make music inspired by something or someone you’re thankful for

Step 1: Think of something or someone you’re thankful for.

Step 2: Make a piece of music inspired by what came to mind in Step 1.

Photo by Harry Grout on Unsplash.

disquiet0569 Loose Cluck

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The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2, where “open door, party inside, digital art” was the prompt.

nawak

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Our House In The Middle Of A Mad House (disquiet0569)

A Droning, slow Sweep through the Resonance-/Frequency-range.
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[disquiet0569] Voices

Thanks to the influences of the Disquiet Junto community and all the musicians and YouTubers whose content I've devoured over the years. This track is not my usual fare. I created a wavefolder in Max genexpr then sampled sine waves at various pitches, which I then used in combination to ping AudioThing's Dials filter and Felt Instruments' Smugi sequenced filter bank. I recorded the original stems to cassette and then added that track to the others as a background processed by Devious Machines' Infiltrator. There's an AudioThing Noises providing ambience, too.

Title image is a manipulation based on output from Stable Diffusion.
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thx (disquiet0569)

NonDisquiet For Peaches (disquiet0569) by Daniel Burke.
Was reading a piece in a magazine at the end of a long trip up the Oregon River in 1997 about gratitude. The punchline was “the key to contentment is an attitude of gratitude”. Still working that 25 years later but grateful to have come across it, as it was needed and I have found it works. I continue to try to recognize and acknowledge as much as possible. This piece is dedicated to my wonderful wife Laurie who was delivered to my doorstep (literally) by some guardian angels (almost literally) just in the nick of time. Its a great story I won’t bore you with but suffice to say she is the best thing that has happened for me this lifetime and I express that as often as I can.
I started out thinking to make a piece as gentle and kind as she is, with a nod to the magical & beautiful music of the 1988 album Plux Quba by Nuno Canavarro, which we both love. Music that inspired Oval, Microstoria the rest of the A-Music crew in Germany.
https://nunocanavarro.bandcamp.com/album/plux-quba
The piece quickly moved towards the Eno/Budd/Frippery I am increasingly falling into... Started with the Roland Jupiter-6 lovely marimba like patch and developed a theme which was played around with and replicated/altered with another track of digital piano. Added in an Arturia Analog IV Synclavier patch for a few slight synth/stringish swells, finally added 2 guitar overdubs and a few very distant field recordings made in Mexico and Spain.

More on this 569th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Think Thank (The Assignment: Make music inspired by something or someone you’re thankful for) — at: https://disquiet.com/0569/

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Nondisquiet For Peaches (disquiet0569)

for the disquiet junto //

an attempt to express gratitude, but came out melancholic

Contemplating Benevolence

[disquiet0569] Contemplating Benevolence

Sinny: duck call, kitchenware, effects and treatments
DrDufus: turkey sample 1
AlbundyX: turkey sample 2
Rainkencana: turkey sample 3

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A Thankful Feast (disquiet0569)

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.