Disquiet Junto Project 0671: In the Air Tonight
The Assignment: Make an atmosphere of your own.

Step 1: Rather than record music, in the traditional sense, you are going to spend time assembling a sonic environment, what might be thought of as an atmosphere. Think about what that might entail. Please begin this process with the understanding that you will create the atmosphere from scratch, which is to say: not using field recordings of existing environments.

Step 2: Think about the sort of atmosphere you want to make. It might help to experiment by first making some quick rough drafts, in order to see what sorts of atmospheres your skills and equipment lend themselves to.

Step 3: Now record the atmosphere you decided upon in Step 2, adhering to the directions mentioned in Step 1.

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

Details: disquiet.com/0671

Disquiet Junto Project 0671: In the Air Tonight

More on the 671st weekly Disquiet Junto project, In the Air Tonight — The Assignment: Make an atmosphere of your own — at https://disquiet.com/0671/

Into the Cybernest - disquiet0671

Enter the danger zone! ... See the accompanying visuals and download the patch at https://youtu.be/wNy9nG9AaQU ... Create your own version of a volatile bytebeat atmos in VCV Rack! 😁

More on the 671st weekly Disquiet Junto project, In the Air Tonight — The Assignment: Make an atmosphere of your own — at https://disquiet.com/0671/

visuals & patch

halF volatilE [disquiet0671]

**Disquiet Junto Project 0671: In the Air Tonight  
**The Assignment: Make an atmosphere of your own.

Step 1: Rather than record music, in the traditional sense, you are going to spend time assembling a sonic environment, what might be thought of as an atmosphere. Think about what that might entail. Please begin this process with the understanding that you will create the atmosphere from scratch, which is to say: not using field recordings of existing environments.

Step 2: Think about the sort of atmosphere you want to make. It might help to experiment by first making some quick rough drafts, in order to see what sorts of atmospheres your skills and equipment lend themselves to.

Step 3: Now record the atmosphere you decided upon in Step 2, adhering to the directions mentioned in Step 1.

Track notes can be found on the Lines post here: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0671-in-the-air-tonight/69337/4

[Disquiet_Junto_0671] Himeji impression

Disquiet Junto # 0671 was an invitation to create an atmosphere from scratch. "Other People's Dreams" features three intertwined vignettes, guiding the listener through mysterious spaces that are lying in wait for their stories to begin. 

A lot of the sounds, including the rattling engine in part 1, came out of torturing drum kit samples with filters, ring mods, and arpeggiators. I live-sculpted high pass and low pass filters on layers of pink noise to create the ocean swells. I recently acquired a Nektar Panorama control surface for Logic Pro, which gives me tactile control over parameter automation. For this piece, I was able to record a live performance involving shaping and filtering in real time. It's been very freeing creatively.

Recorded at NOSIGNAL Multimedia Lab in The Shambles, Chicago. True to the instructions for the prompt, no field recordings were used.

More about this week's Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0671

Other People's Dreams (disquiet0671)

In the Air Tonight

Disquiet Junto | In the Air Tonight - disquiet0671

Toaster Dreams Of Pinball (disquiet0671)

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data and Audacity with numerous effects, etc. 
More on the 671st weekly Disquiet Junto project, In the Air Tonight — The Assignment: Make an atmosphere of your own — at https://disquiet.com/0671/



1013.25 Millibars (disquiet0671)

Disquiet Junto Project 0671: In the Air Tonight
The Assignment: Make an atmosphere of your own.

This is the atmosphere inside the possibility space (Möglichkeitsraum).
No Samples, only Synths, FX & Filters.

More on the 671st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right of Way — The Assignment: Music for turn signals — at https://disquiet.com/0671/
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0671-in-the-air-tonight/69337

Möglichkeitsraum 237b [disquiet0671]

"Nostromo revisited" is a sound atmosphere inspired by some room tones and the spaceship of the movie "Alien". The original Nostromo that I have just revisited was uploaded to freesound (https://freesound.org/people/fectoper/sounds/59/) just after its opening, back in 2005. That file has been downloaded thousands of times, and has been included in games, videos, music tracks, etc. I created this kind-of room tone with my JD-800 synthesizer, around 1993. Here I have extended its duration and added some layers, depth and processing.
More on the 671st weekly Disquiet Junto project, In the air tonight - The Assignment: Make an atmosphere of your own — at https://disquiet.com/0671/

Nostromo revisited [disquiet0671]

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0671: In the Air Tonight. The assignment: Make an atmosphere of your own.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0671 discussion thread on Lines:

I envisioned entering a cave and the final descent into a dark abyss. Created with a Make Noise Strega semi-modular using the "Bat Cave" patch from the user manual. Added Valhalla Delay in Ableton Live. Along with bat sounds – birds, crickets, water drips, wind, and maybe frogs could be heard? Photo by Gabriel Tover via Unsplash.  

More on the 671st weekly Disquiet Junto project, In the Air Tonight — The Assignment: Make an atmosphere of your own — at https://disquiet.com/0671/

Lost Forever In A Cave [disquiet0671]

A field recording from the rarely glimpsed Plateau of Leng.

disquiet0671 - Plateau of Leng

Dripdrip / Sex In Your 80's (disquiet0671)

no field recordings harmed in the making of this. intentionally went for a synthetic vibe here - filter pings, some physical modelling synth, burst triggers, some gated granular and reverb. noise wash, of course.

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More on the 671st weekly Disquiet Junto project, In the Air Tonight — The Assignment: Make an atmosphere of your own — at https://disquiet.com/0671/

disquiet0671 - fomalhaut b (atmospheres)

Made Disquiet Junto Project 0671: In the Air Tonight.

Photo by Ray Wewerka on Flickr, reused under Creative Commons. https://www.flickr.com/photos/picfix/14690429522/

Air apart (disquiet0671)

The Assignment: Make an atmosphere of your own.

Step 1: Rather than record music, in the traditional sense, you are going to spend time assembling a sonic environment, what might be thought of as an atmosphere. Think about what that might entail. Please begin this process with the understanding that you will create the atmosphere from scratch, which is to say: not using field recordings of existing environments.

Step 2: Think about the sort of atmosphere you want to make. It might help to experiment by first making some quick rough drafts, in order to see what sorts of atmospheres your skills and equipment lend themselves to.

Step 3: Now record the atmosphere you decided upon in Step 2, adhering to the directions mentioned in Step 1.

More on the 671st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right of Way — The Assignment: Music for turn signals — at https://disquiet.com/0671/

Image: Detail from a painting by Don MacKeen

atmosphere [disquiet0671]

Inspiration: Todd Rundgren, "Miracle in the Bazaar"

#disquiet

Details: disquiet.com/0671

Credits:
Ángel L. Martínez: all voices, electronics

Photography:
Chris McKenna, "Light at the end of the Metro tunnel"
Courtesy Wikimedia  under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

Sub(merged) urban [disquiet0671]

Imagining the sound of a passing space freighter.
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More on the 671st weekly Disquiet Junto project, In the Air Tonight — The Assignment: Make an atmosphere of your own — at https://disquiet.com/0671/

spacefreighter (disquiet0671)

Disquiet Junto Project 0671: In the Air Tonight
The Assignment: Make an atmosphere of your own.

Placing a Fuga by J.S. Bach into a sonic environment of  rain & thunder. 

This is a collaboration with Fernando Bravo who recorded the Fuga on an OpenGuitar (www.openguitar.org) and kindly shared it with me for the Disquiet Junto. 

More on the 671st weekly Disquiet Junto project, In the Air Tonight — The Assignment: Make an atmosphere of your own — at https://disquiet.com/0671/

Join discussion at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0671-in-the-air-tonight/69337


In The Air Tonight (disquiet0671)

Ferry Music - disquiet0671

Disquiet Junto Project 0671: In the Air Tonight
The Assignment: Make an atmosphere of your own.

Step 1: Rather than record music, in the traditional sense, you are going to spend time assembling a sonic environment, what might be thought of as an atmosphere. Think about what that might entail. Please begin this process with the understanding that you will create the atmosphere from scratch, which is to say: not using field recordings of existing environments.

Step 2: Think about the sort of atmosphere you want to make. It might help to experiment by first making some quick rough drafts, in order to see what sorts of atmospheres your skills and equipment lend themselves to.

Step 3: Now record the atmosphere you decided upon in Step 2, adhering to the directions mentioned in Step 1.


















Samples: https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/search/heartbeat/

Reaktor Ensembles:
TG-1S 
120_MF_pataseq_r004 x 2

11/11/2024

Sic Transit [disquiet0671]

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.