Disquiet Junto Project 0638: Center (3 of 3)
The Assignment: Complete a trio begun by two other musicians.

As was the case last week, the instructions for this week’s project are fairly detailed, so please read them at disquiet.com/0638.

Deadline: Monday, March 25, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Disquiet Junto Project 0638: Center (3 of 3)

I liked this track by  he_nu_ri (@user-807707609) & mikey_a (@mikey_a)
https://soundcloud.com/mikey_a/both-sides-of-the-river-disquiet0637

I just jammed on top of it with my accordina but it was too much of the three of us, so I split the stereo original, separated he_nu_ri,  mikey_a and myself on 3 tracks (softly panned like the original with mine at centre) and made some very creative use of the delete button, as Eno used to say.

That created some space that I then filled with huge reverbs. I’m afraid I didn’t really honoured the source track on this one, but it is done so I better share it.

For this junto challenge:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0638-center-3-of-3/

photo by wynand uys

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all three sides of the river [with he_nu_ri & mikey_a] disquiet0638

Krautrockish
I promise I was thinking on making this a bit Krautrock when I started, doesn’t sound like that now, I guess...

Based on rightward [disquiet0637] by LazenbeeIndustries and John Wright
https://soundcloud.com/lazenbeeindustries/rightward-feat-john-wright-disquiet0637

I just added a 808 kick and played bass. Most satisfying and less time consuming on the lot, but I don’t think it works, a 4th (soloist) part is needed IMHO.

dedicated to the guy in the photo, god bless him..

#DisquietJunto
For this junto challenge:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0638-center-3-of-3/

@lazenbeeindustries @disquiet @thgirwnhoj



Krautrockish (with LazenbeeIndustries and John Wright) disquiet0638

I dunno, maybe it's springtime in sunny Paris, but I felt the urge for some old disco vibes. 
So I went for the duo. Lefty Drone, Right English disquiet0637
https://soundcloud.com/skylarkduquesne/lefty-drone-right-english-disquiet0637
by skylark duquensne (David Totten)  and alanblip

I didn’t change the original tracks at all, I behaved this time.
I added a beat, for that 50 years old euro-disco vibe and then jammed on a lead synth that brought this to some sort of proto-disco-floyd.

Four on the floor man, you can’t go wrong…

It was fun.


#DisquietJunto
For this junto challenge:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0638-center-3-of-3/

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@skylarkduquesne
@alanblip


the grounding of an english lark (with skylark duquensne and alanblip) disquiet0638 trio

I heard a lot of duets last week, a lot of good ones. In the end I went with the German Romantic and played SOMA Terra.
thanks @analo & @torsten goerke for your inspiring duet:https://soundcloud.com/analoc/right-beside-you-disquiet0637?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0637&si=6ecc2889c9a2400dbeccda5796ff8c38&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Morning on top(disquiet0638) feat. analoc & Torsten Goerke

This is a collab with https://soundcloud.com/noodletwister/bassline-collab-disquiet0636 and https://soundcloud.com/fake-genius/disuquiet0637-egeg-modmix. It's part of Disquiet Junto Project 0638: Center. See more at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0638-center-3-of-3/66559/6.

Disquiet Junto #0638

Whatever you say, Mr Spaghetti [disquiet0638]

I spent the morning adding my third element to a few tracks and finally decided that my contribution to encym and Jimmy Lem's combo was the most coherent. I was struck by the contrasting tones of encym's off kilter Tele with the controlled chaos of Jimmy's cuatro. Sandwiched in between are some sparse tones from my Terra, fed through the "Vangelis Verb" on the Zoia.

disquiet0638

This is built on

@lazenbeeindustries - rightward
https://soundcloud.com/lazenbeeindustries/rightward-feat-john-wright-disquiet0637

which in turn is built on

@thgirwnhoj - Just Percussion
https://soundcloud.com/thgirwnhoj/disquiet0636-just-percussion

My addition is a pair of bass parts. It was a challenge to make the bass parts stand distinct without being able to shape the other two parts... but I did my best.

I also added a kick. It seemed needed to drive the percussion once there were so many other parts going on. I shamelessly admit that I got the idea from reading @DeDe's write up of their own treatment of the same pair of tracks.  (Didn't listen yet to keep myself ignorant by what is surely a fantastic bass track!)

I resisted the temptation to muck with the two original parts, but I did use the original full-stereo version of Just Percussion, and then I panned it and rightward somewhat left and right, not hard. You should still be able to keep the parts distinct as you listen. As always - if anyone wants stems, or a hard L-C-R mix, just ask.

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More on the 638th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Center (3 of 3) — The Assignment: Complete a trio begun by two other musicians — at https://disquiet.com/0638/

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Image Credit: Tim Sullivan
https://stocksnap.io/photo/yellow-lines-OJYARI0WOY

Down The Center - disquiet0638

I added a bit of static to CoralineAda’s and Leon Clowes’ mezmerizing duo as an attempt to heighten the tension of the “missed connection” implied by the vocal sample. The static was created with the Landscape Stereofield and tamed somewhat by one of Hainbach’s presets for the Zoia.

Disquiet0638.6

Part 3, the final step in the Disquiet Junto asynchronous collaboration series!

I decided to pick up where "Do Androids Dream of Sleep" by Fake Genius and undermulden left off (https://soundcloud.com/undermulden/fakeg3nius-undermulden-do-androids-dream-of-sleep-2-of-3-disquiet0637?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0637). There was plenty of tension and activity and a strong sense of space in what they'd done. There was an almost foley-like acousmatic quality to what undermulden had brought in to Fake Genius's ethereal setting. I didn't hear anything that was missing musically, so I reached way deep into the Internet Archive to source some spoken audio for samples.

undermulden had commented that there was a lullaby-like quality to what Fake Genius had done, and that gave me the inspiration to go digging for children's books. I found 30 minutes of audio, "A Child's World of Sounds", archived from a 1963 LP. I listened to the Part 2 music on repeat while I scrubbed through the audio, grabbing samples that fit the mood. I did some processing on them and then imported them into Logic to arrange. I took a sort of refrigerator-magnet-poetry approach until the samples fit together and worked with the other material. I think it came together nicely.

More about Disuiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0638

Disquiet Junto

Can You Hear a Falling Star? (with Fake Genius and Undermulden) (disquiet0638)

Disquiet Junto Project 0638: Center (3 of 3)
The Assignment: Complete a trio begun by two other musicians.

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Track notes: "Lucky Link Village" from Creatures_Once/@miraclemiles (via @SinnySounds) jumped out at me straight away and got me thinking about a guitar accompaniment along the lines of Ry Cooder, Haruomi Hosono and Makoto Kubota. I recorded a simple fingerpicked acoustic guitar pattern which found its way around G tonic of the tuned percussion. I then added some slide guitar around this and affected both guitars with some phasing and flanging to give it a dreamy feeling. Then a field recording of the ocean lapping at the shore seemed entirely fitting.

[Disquiet_Junto_0638] Lucky Link Village Connect (feat. Sinny Sounds & August_Miles) (Centre 3 of 3)

I downloaded this track: https://soundcloud.com/winterer/some-discriminative-finetuning-disquiet0637-23-second, with thanks to the original artists. I added a suitably adjusted and enhanced recording I made of men and machines at work.

Tuned Up - with Krakenkraft & Etherkraken and Soundoferror (disquiet0638)

For this one I downloaded: https://soundcloud.com/randomshuffle/disquiet0637gemastered (with thanks to the original artists). I added a textured drone sequence.

Spring Trio - with Marc Eisenschink and 337is (disquiet0638)

This track is an asynchronous collaboration with @user-807707609 (he_nu_ri) and @mikey_a as part of the Disquiet Junto Project: I was inspired by the wonderful track https://soundcloud.com/mikey_a/both-sides-of-the-river-disquiet0637 created by these two artists and added the sounds in the middle of the stereo field.

I tried to build on this soundtrack of a peaceful flowing river and add some more musical dimensions. A river can be a metaphor for many different things - and I would like to leave it up to the listener to reflect on this image.

More on the 638th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Center (3 of 3) — The Assignment: Complete a trio begun by two other musicians — at https://disquiet.com/0638/

The River - Your Dream  [with he_nu_ri & mikey_a] (Disquiet0638)

Ft. @Zounzabar and @element05

More on the 638th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Center (3 of 3) — The Assignment: Complete a trio begun by two other musicians — at https://disquiet.com/0638/

Disquiet0638 - Center - Pruned Ungulate ft.Zounzabar & element05

The third part of the disquiet junto challenge. 
I added a horn section to the beautiful track by Torsten Goerke (@torstengoerke) and Anatol Locker (@analoc), "Right Beside You [disquiet0637]":https://soundcloud.com/analoc/right-beside-you-disquiet0637?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0637

3 of 3 (Disquiet0638)

A collaboration for Disquiet Junto. I based my track on week 2's track by @undermulden and @encym. I played some chords and synth arps from my Deluge in some of the spaces, while trying to maintain the sparse ambient feel of the originals.

More on the 638th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Center (3 of 3) — The Assignment: Complete a trio begun by two other musicians — at https://disquiet.com/0638/

Orderly Disorder By Encym & Undermulden & Alanblip - Disquiet0638

A collab with @33per and @mtnviewmark-bits
More on the 638th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Center (3 of 3) — The Assignment: Complete a trio begun by two other musicians — at https://disquiet.com/0638/

Firebells, Pipes & Coat Rack (disquiet0638)

More on the 638th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Center (3 of 3) — The Assignment: Complete a trio begun by two other musicians — at https://disquiet.com/0638/

Disquiet0638 - Fakeg3nius+Glitcher Ftrg Samplair - EGsquared

This is an asynchronous duet with https://soundcloud.com/dandante and https://soundcloud.com/blaaroed. 

I really enjoyed the Suborbital Hang Glider piece from @tt16tt and @dandante. I hope they forgive me for making the abstract approach of the drone a bit more tangible. I added a bassline with Generate, some strings with with Blisko Viola, metallic noises from Kinetic Metal, and a simple ping with AAS Chromaphone. The additions sit right in the middle of the mix. 

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Disquiet Junto Project 0638: Center (3 of 3)
The Assignment: Complete a trio begun by two other musicians.

Step 1: This week’s Disquiet Junto project is the third in a sequence that encourages and rewards asynchronous collaboration. This week you will be adding music to a pre-existing track, which you will source from the previous week’s Junto project (disquiet.com/0637). Note that you are finishing a trio: you’re creating the third part of what two previous musicians began, filling the space between them. Please keep this in mind.

Step 2: The plan is for you to record an original piece of music, on any instrumentation of your choice, as a complement to a pre-existing track. First, however, you must select the piece of music to which you will be adding your own music. There are tracks by numerous musicians to choose from. 

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When choosing a track, consider checking out the two previous projects’ discussion threads, as there may be additional information in them that could be of use, such as BPM or key signature:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0637-right-2-of-3/

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0636-left-1-of-3/

Step 3: Record a piece of music, roughly the length of the piece of music you selected in Step 2. Your track should complement the piece from Step 2, and it should be placed dead center between the left and right stereo channels. When composing and recording your part, do not alter the original piece of music at all. To be clear: the track you upload won’t be your piece of music alone; it will be a combination of the track from Step 2 and yours.

Step 4: Also be sure, when done, to make the finished track downloadable, because it may be used by someone else in a subsequent Junto project.

Step 5:  In normal circumstances, Junto projects have a one-track-per-participant limit. However, as with the preceding project that led up to this one, you can contribute more than one track this week. You can do up to three total this time. For your first, you can choose any track from the duets, no matter how many times others may have employed it. If you choose to do a second or third, you should do a track no on else has used yet (it’s understood that between when you select a duet track and finish your trio, someone else may have popped up and used it, which is perfectly fine). Throughout the project I will keep an updated list in this Google Drive document of what has been utilized:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kDorIMT9j_nQQPXACYpMPe4B86T2QD5Xvv98XAOS4UE/edit?pli=1#gid=0

The goal is for many as people as possible to benefit from the experience of being part of an asynchronous collaboration. That, foremost, is the spirit of this project.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0638” (no spaces/quotes) in the name of your track.

Upload: Post your track to a public account (SoundCloud preferred but by no means required). 

Share: Post your track and a description explanation at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0638-center-3-of-3/

Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

Length: The length is up to you. Stick close to the length of the track yours adds to.

Deadline: Monday, March 25, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.


More on the 638th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Center (3 of 3) — The Assignment: Complete a trio begun by two other musicians — at https://disquiet.com/0638/

Midways (with dandante and blaaroed) [disquiet0638]

Week 3 of a 3 part assignment, adding to disquiet0637 and 0636. 

Incorporating Roughshark by scénický rys (https://soundcloud.com/ackercz/roughshark-with-analoc-disquiet0637) and Left shark by analoc (https://on.soundcloud.com/imRuTwDmAo4eAUiw9)

More on the 638th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Center (3 of 3) — The Assignment: Complete a trio begun by two other musicians — at https://disquiet.com/0638/

shark tank [disquiet0638] with scénický rys & analoc

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.