Disquiet Junto Project 0584: Generations

The Assignment: Bridge a gap in your musical taste.

Step 1: Think of a sort of music you enjoy now that a much younger you might not have.

Step 2: Think of a sort of music that younger you enjoyed that you no longer are as fond of.

Step 3: Compose a piece of music that bridges the gap or otherwise finds common ground between the two types of music from Step 1 and Step 2.

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Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, March 13, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, March 9, 2023.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0584: Generations

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Generations

Disquiet Junto | Generations - disquiet0584

Instrumental cue, hybrid jazz-rock

Recorded February 2023, mixed Friday 10th march 2023.


Live studio  improvisation with Miguel Yanover on sax (@yanomito), I played a nylon-string electric bass.
We jammed over a pre recorded (by me) drum track and later I overdubbed a Hammond Organ trying to save this one from the trash lid.

Still, even if I love the live sax and bass interplay, this is a great candidate to be a  "forever unused" track. So I'm glad to mix it this morning and share it here.

Cheers
dd


photo by Reynier Carl


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Nocturnal Studio Jam Number 2 (disquiet0584)

Beethoven gradually transformed. The original is a 1938 Columbia recording of the Rondo from Piano Quartet in E flat major, op 16, performed by Robert Schmitz & the Roth Quartet, chosen at random & downloaded from the Internet Archive.

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Deromanticizing (disquiet0584)

Godspeed You! Young MC (disquiet0584)

Like most lads growing up in the late 70’s the guitar was the king of instruments and like most of my peers I worshiped at the various alters of the guitar gods. Here, subtlety was not a requirement and the louder and the more over produced the better. 

But then I graduated, went to university, read Deleuze and soon was grooving to the likes of Nurse With Wound, Throbbing Gristle, Brian Eno and Einsturzende Neubauten. I made music on tape machines, combed back alleys for old duct work to bring to my dorm room so that I could hook them up to contact mics and generally found pleasure in the obscure and at times unlistenable. 

Hence my homage and mangling of Boston’s “More than a Feeling,” which I would not listen to now. Although I would listen to listen to a cover of it by Genesis P-Orridge.

A note on method:

I sampled various bits of the song on a Music1010 BitBox, then sent various excerpts into Meng Qi’s Winger Pinger and recorded that. Then I randomly selected parts of that recording and sampled them with a Polyend Tracker, used the random fill and note section to jumble the samples and then played the whole thing through the Zoia to further chop and process it and recorded it once more. 

And true to the era, instead of just one song, I have created a concept album. So there are nine songs, all around 30 seconds long. Each one is less or more than a feeling I once had.

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Vvvvv (disquiet0584)

A generation lasts 20 to 30 years, so I tried to compare my musical taste over such a period. Identifying styles that I appreciated in the past but not so much a generation later was not that difficult. I certainly am not as fond of metal, breakcore or other harsh music as I used to be, though I still see the quality in much of what I once liked. I found it much more difficult to guess how my teenage self would have reacted to my current taste. I suppose I would have frowned upon country music like or traditional folk music? As I did not want to make a breakcore country crossover, I went for “early 90s techno” vs. “experimental instrumental”.

I chose Up by Ilsa Gold from 1993 (50’000 views on YouTube), which I liked very much as a teenage rave kid (not so much today), and Little Jimmy by Andrew Macintosh from 2022 (50 views - come on!, which I guess would have found pretty boring. I then ran them through a Granchild on Norns. The result has three parts Ilsa, Jimmy  (both ~1 min) and Ilsa&Jimmy (~2 min).

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Disquiet0584 - Ilsa And Jimmy

These days I enjoy listening to reggae even though I’ve never made reggae music and didn’t listen to it growing up. When I was little I used to love the songs I learned going to elementary school in Japan. Yup, school chorus songs!

So I recorded a song I still remember from when I was seven or eight - 翼をください, “Give Me Wings” - in reggae style. I basically took a 20 min crash course in faking reggae style. It’s a bit rough, but I had a ton of fun making it. 


Credit for original Tsubasa wo Kudasai 「翼をください」
Lyrics: Yamagami Michio / 作詞：山上路夫
Song & addangement: Murai Kunihiko / 作曲・編曲：村井邦彦

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Wing Love (disquiet0584)

Garish (disquiet 0584)

Disquiet Junto Project 0584: Generations
The Assignment: Bridge a gap in your musical taste.

I wanted to start with a signature sound I enjoyed in my youth, the strings with phasers from early Jarre albums like Oxygene or Equinoxe (which in this case is Cherry Audio Voltage Modular with the Fifth Dimension Phaser Factory).

The original idea was to smoothly add noisy elements that represent my todays taste, in this case mostly voice recordings from myself whispering and again my squeaking chair (all in Ableton Simpler). The original track title was 'Phasernoised' and I was doing this in Ableton Live.

After adding some sequenced stuff, some kind of theremin-ish theme (Cherry Arp2600) and soft beats I really liked the loop playing for hours in the background while printing out paper for last years tax declaration (I do not make this up). And because of this I felt like it should be one of my 1h tracks in 2023, that try to be true to the ambient idea of background music. 

I don't feel wrong about it: After all, my taste hasn't changed so much, I enjoyed soft and lush sounds when I was young, and now I enjoy subtile changes, endless tracks and strange noises and even a kickdrum, that I would have rejected in my youth (in this genre of music, not in general).

So if you listen for a progression you have to ffwd and skip thru, but maybe you just want the fun of the complete hour.

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more 1h ambient

The Endless Static [disquiet0584]

When starting this week's prompt I set out to make a track that combined 80s electro pop (music I loved when I was younger) with a soundscape (music I like now). Instead though it more turned out like a track with nods to acid house (music I like now but didn't at the time) with an industrial track (music I like less now but was into at the time).

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generations (disquiet0584)

This track attempts to melt a drone with Schlager-music, trying to give more meaning and musical relevance to the often superficial genre Schlager.
It was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0584 (details see below).

I owe my thanks to @roses-sabra for generously supplying the vocals on freesound https://freesound.org/people/Roses1401/sounds/542449/ which are used here.

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Drone der Liebe (Disquiet0584)

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Skip To My Lou (disquiet0584)

I used to listen to a lot of baroque chamber music. Now I'm partial to drones and noise. (Having said that, this prompt was quite challenging as I like a broad range of genres. But it is true I've not listened to Telemann, Bach or Vivaldi for a while.)
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stepped (disquiet0584)

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Ambient Thing (disquiet0584)

Disquiet0584 - Generations

- Sampled Jungle-themed track (past)
- Recomposed to Lo-Fi track (present)

Used OP-1 to slice sample and perform track loop/unmuting live to recording.


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My first steps with electronic music involved subjecting the poor folks in my high school's cafeteria and my local campus radio to very abrasive dj sets. There was plenty of chaos, genre-hopping, and very little direction. Don't have a genre for it. I guess we could call it uninvited ADHD noise, with a heavy Naked City influence? Here I'm trying to bridge the gap between that high school stuff and the kind of glitchy textural stuff I like to make these days. The track feels extra messy, and lacks direction, but somehow that fits the theme.

This is a live jam made in ApeMatrix on iPad, using the iPad mic and a drum machine plugin as the two sound sources, and processing them heavily.

Disquiet Junto Project 0584: Generations

The Assignment: Bridge a gap in your musical taste.

Step 1: Think of a sort of music you enjoy now that a much younger you might not have.

Step 2: Think of a sort of music that younger you enjoyed that you no longer are as fond of.

Step 3: Compose a piece of music that bridges the gap or otherwise finds common ground between the two types of music from Step 1 and Step 2.

More on this 584th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Generations (The Assignment: Bridge a gap in your musical taste), at: https://disquiet.com/0584/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: Disquiet Junto F.A.Q. – Disquiet 1

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Photo by Dan Cristian Padure on Unsplash.

disquiet0584 Uninvited Glitch

FOMU - Black & White

for the disquiet junto //

a fusion of old and new, different tastes from the past and present

"original mix" here: https://soundcloud.com/aethyrulf/our-own-strange-millennium

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Our New Constellation

[disquiet0584] Our New Constellation

5% soft rock and 95% musique concrète

Instruments used: cuckoo call, conga, octo snare cajon, snare drum, acoustic guitar, Wurlitzer, flag pole, keys (jangling)

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Soft Concrète (disquiet0584)

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.