Disquiet Junto Project 0613: Test Drive
The Assignment: Do something you’ve been meaning to do.

Step 1: Think of something related to making music that you’ve been meaning to finally get around to.

Step 2: Do it. Don’t worry about messing up.

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Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, October 2, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, September 28, 2023.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0613: Test Drive

Something I've been meaning to do is explore the (electric) upright bass, which has hardly been used over the years it's been in the house. A disquiet YouTube video is also well overdue and I have also been meaning to experiment with a bottleneck on bass ... So, this is a triple whammy of stuff I've been wanting to get around to ...

Check out the accompanying video @ https://youtu.be/dJRC3Uw-EhQ

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visuals (YouTube)

halF tesT [disquiet0613]

Kibera (disquiet0613)

a reworked version now appears on:

https://howthenightcame.bandcamp.com/album/hostile-architects

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first time layering two sampled drum beats

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[disquiet0613] test drive

Disquiet Junto Project 0613: Test Drive
The Assignment: Do something you’ve been meaning to do.
Step 1: Think of something related to making music that you’ve been meaning to finally get around to.
Step 2: Do it. Don’t worry about messing up.

Hello everybody. I had fun again with this one :)
When I read the assignment, I thought I should do a track with drums as I never use them in my music.
Then the track evolved into something beat-like and I went on https://www.looperman.com/ to find an a cappella track to add to it. “Snakes” by KMRS sort of matched the music (there are some rhythmic imperfections though, I know…). So here it is: my first rap beat.
I really enjoy this group for pushing me to do things musically I wouldn’t do otherwise! Nicolas.

F*cking Snake - Featuring KMRS (disquiet0613)

A have a few tracks in hand that I have been meaning to upload & this prompt gives me the opportunity to post this one. It is a live electronic composition in quasi-serialist mode created in Pure Data.

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Insouciant (disquiet0613)

Disquiet Junto Project 0613: Test Drive
The Assignment: Do something you’ve been meaning to do.

A few weeks ago, a friend was having really bad pneumothorax problems and sent me a short video on how to use something called a triple-ball breath-training device. Despite the negative circumstances (and the friend is doing better now), I liked the sound of the video clip (a single breath followed by three clicks and a release) tremendously and have been trying to use the sample for weeks. I've certainly got a handful of unfinished tracks with that sample .... but none finished yet. Today I started fresh and loaded the sample into ye good ol Fieldscaper - and liked the result. I did some post-processing on the two instances of the sample in Reaper. The track is now completely based on the sound of the mentioned sample. Have fun with it.

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Bandcamp

Triple Ball Breathing Trainer [disquiet0613]

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Davion (disquiet0613)

Bronson (disquiet0613)

I decided to test drive Enso Looper, which I bought a while ago but never properly used. So as in a proper test drive, I (briefly) consulted the manual, took the wheel, hit the gas pedal (record) and went for it. No change of course or second takes allowed. After this test drive I still don’t properly understand how Enso should be used - but something came out of it. Next step (maybe): read the manual again.

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Disquiet0613 - Singular Brushstroke

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Finally get around to include balafon in eurorack modules (external input)

nawak

Test balafon - disquiet0613

Been meaning to get around to posting something to a Disquiet Junto, and since this Junto is about finally getting around to something this seemed like a good time to jump in.

Musically the idea is to do music for meditators, similar to the sound bath genre. Sound Bath music usually uses sounds associated with Buddhism, like gongs and bells from Tibet. I find those instruments a little corny, appropriated, exoticist. My background is americana and folk. That's what I can play in an authentic way. So the main instruments here are from bluegrass - an old Gibson mandolin and a National steel guitar. In addition to those I'm playing a synthesizer, an Arturia Microfreak, using a bell sound that recalls traditional sound bath influences. All of these sounds are passing through a Microcosm pedal, which adds some classic ambient flavors like delay, glitching, and heavy reverb. The song that this is all based on is a fiddle tune called "The Black Water Fall."

MP3 and sheet music etc are on my blog at https://playingintongues.com/2023/09/28/on-the-third-day-she-left/

The Black Water Fell (disquiet0613)

Last Beautiful Day

Disquiet0613 Chandelier Sax Quartet 2023-09-30

played at a gallery opening yesterday
My goal was to create absolutely free, momentary music with my new Soma Terra and Soma Cosmos and a bit of guitar.
I started and after 18 minutes the journey was over and I had a very dry mouth

mixed on TE´s TX-6, recorded on TE's TP-7
Mastered in LIVE

Sounds from terra to heaven/hell(disquiet0613)

The assignment: Think of something related to making music that you’ve been meaning to finally get around to. I choose to make a song with emphasis on bass frequencies.

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tumult [disquiet0613]

Lately, I've been in the middle of editing and scheduling for release my "mistake" tracks over the years.  They have obvious glitches and mistakes in them.  RF interference.  Bad wires.  Stuff that "ruins" the track.

I finally gave myself permission to release this type of recording.  I'm releasing it under a pseudonym ("Samesed").  As Brian Eno said, "It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf".

"Glitchy Correction" has obvious flaws at the start, but now I find the mistakes charming and I can overlook them.

Music, especially electronic music, doesn't need to be "perfect".  It's OK to be out of time, out of key, out of phase, and bumping wires occasionally.  

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Glitchy Correction (disquiet0613)

This is a ~5 min segment from a recent recording session of an atonal ambient/drone patch, inspired by Jaap Vink’s ‘screen patch’ explorations. New territory for me, been trying out feedback patching for awhile and this is a first attempt in doing one on this style. The sound source is ring modulated feedback created by patching a handful of Eurorack modules together.

The key modules are a Doepfer BBD delay, Make Noise Mimeophon, Make Noise Maths, Make Noise Rxmx w/ Fxdf, and Mutable Instruments Blinds. Altogether, a simple "record head / playback head" feedback loop is created that slowly builds by itself, and using Maths to suppress/compress the signal by acting as an envelope follower that controls the overall patch amplitude.

Blinds is patched as a ring modulator, and Rxmx/Fxdf stand in for the 'third octave filter' suggested in the original Screen Patch. This allows the feedback to be processed through 6 bandpass filters, including being able to scan through one or more filter bands. 

I also added another multi-mode filter, wave folder, and through zero FM VCO into the patch, allowing for more timbral range and ending up with a metallic resonance that I was pleased with.

If you're interested, check out Jaap Vink's work in the 1970s at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, exploring ring modulated feedback patching with the 'screen patch'. More on the process here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Bcr_HS9XM

Also see this inspiring collection of Jaap Vink recordings:
https://recollectiongrm.bandcamp.com/album/s-t

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Ring Modulated Feedback • [ disquiet0613 ]

Track notes can be read here: 
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0613-test-drive/64267/26

The prompt:
Disquiet Junto Project 0613: Test Drive
The Assignment: Do something you’ve been meaning to do.

Step 1: Think of something related to making music that you’ve been meaning to finally get around to.

Step 2: Do it. Don’t worry about messing up.

[Disquiet_Junto_0613] Pollen and Dust (w/SuperCollider)

This track was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0613: Do something you’ve been meaning to do!

This prompt gave me the inspiration to finally dive deeper into the Koma Field Kit. In this track a smartphone- and a dictaphone-recording of shopping in the supermarket are routed to speakers fixed to an acoustic guitar. In parallel a solenoid motor fixed to the strings is triggered if a certain gate-level is passed by the volume of the recordings. All these sounds are recorded with a contact microphone fixed to the guitar.
In a second take an improvised piano melody was recorded via this detour of speaker and contact microphone fixed to the acoustic guitar.

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Poppy Field Kit  (Disquiet0613)

disquiet0613
Tester
    • Key: Bb maj/G min     BPM: 100     Time signature: 4/4     DAW: Reaper
    • Instruments:  Congas, Daluo, Khol, Tombak, Shakers
    • Plug-ins: Native Instruments
    • The Assignment: Do something you’ve been meaning to do. 
    • Started with Reaktor blocks then added percussion of various kinds

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Tester - disquiet0613

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.