A set collecting the tracks from the 52nd weekly project from the Disquiet Junto group.

The Assignment: Celebrate the Creative Commons by remixing three tracks from the Bump Foot netlabel.

More on the specific project at:

http://disquiet.com/2012/12/27/disquiet0052-bumpcc/

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https://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto

Disquiet Junto Project 0052: Bump Foot CC

I haven't attempted any of the Junto projects in 10-12 weeks -- and haven't completed one since #32 -- mostly due to them either not catching my interest or presenting technical issues, but occasionally through not having time or not feeling well enough to work on music.

Anyway, I picked up some new VSTs as well as a couple of software upgrades, and I figured this was a good opportunity to test them out. I clipped out the first 20 seconds of the "Bongo" track as per the instructions, and selected three clips each from "Broken Robots" and "The Cat in the Ocean", picking sections I felt would work well together, all in Sound Forge.

I then brought these seven clips into Acid Pro, and with some experimentation made an arrangement, using the beginning of "Broken Robots" as the most recurring section. The application of various VSTs on the individual clips changed their sound significantly from the original source -- again, this was a trial-and-error process as many of the plugins I used were new -- and a selection of plugins on the master channel brought everything together despite originally being sections of three unrelated tracks.

Also, the new Soundcloud layout is horrible. I am not sure if I will get used to it.

This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Bump Foot netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally released on Bump Foot: "Bongo" off the Aguas Tonicas album titled Los Desposeídos, "Broken Robots" off the Gridline album titled Red Music, and "The Cat in the Ocean" off the Pics Frunk album titled Low Voltage. More on the Bump Foot netlabel, and the original versions of these tracks, at http://www.bumpfoot.net/.


More on this 52nd Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2012/12/27/disquiet0052-bumpcc/


More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

[disquiet0052-bumpcc] Cats and Robots

Disquiet Junto Project 0052 - Bump Foot CC

Some serendipity involved in this one, as well as a certain amount of initial laziness on my part. The 20 second Bongo intro ended up as an over-stretched drone by accident, but after being cut up and mixed was irresistible. A short section of Broken Robots provide a counter-drone with a melodic feel and part of "The Cat in the Ocean" was stretched, reversed and processed through a number of ambient filters and delays to provide a weird, backwards rhythm track. All of this ended up as a rich, soaring ambient drone with a chorale quality.

But I couldn’t let go of the fact that Robots and Cat sound great played together, just as they are, so I mixed them together and used part of that as a tuneful sprinkle over the drone – I was going to fade that out, but quite by accident (again) the abrupt ending seemed to work.

Accidents can be fun.

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This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Bump Foot netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally released on Bump Foot: "Bongo" off the Aguas Tonicas album titled Los Desposeídos, "Broken Robots" off the Gridline album titled Red Music, and "The Cat in the Ocean" off the Pics Frunk album titled Low Voltage. More on the Bump Foot netlabel, and the original versions of these tracks, at http://www.bumpfoot.net/. ; 

More on this 52nd Disquiet Junto project at: 

http://disquiet.com/2012/12/27/disquiet0052-bumpcc/ ;


More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info

Cat Bump & Bongobots [disquiet0052-bumpcc]

This is my contribution to the 52nd disquiet collaboration project, and brings together tracks from three separate artists. 

I sat down tonight to see where I'd land with this. I started by figuring out what key and bpm the three separate uploads were, and imported them to Propellerhead Reason. Once I had them playing nicely together in the same tempo and key I started playing with filters, and particularly tempo-synced filters to create new rhythms from the original ones. 
I tweaked EQ here and sound levels there, and added a wide reverb and an echo over yonder, and finally added a beat, a bass and a pad and called it a day.

The first half is all original sources, except for a new kick/snare. The second has a lot more of me in it.

On a related note, Disquiet Junto has been an incredibly helpful initiative for me to be part of this year. Marc is a heck of guy to have continued to drive this for a full year, and I'm really grateful for his efforts.

Original project notes below:

"This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Bump Foot netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally released on Bump Foot: “Bongo” off the Aguas Tonicas album titled Los Desposeídos, “Broken Robots” off the Gridline album titled Red Music, and “The Cat in the Ocean” off the Pics Frunk album titled Low Voltage. More on the Bump Foot netlabel, and the original versions of these tracks, at http://www.bumpfoot.net/.

More on this 52nd Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2012/12/27/disquiet0052-bumpcc/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/"

bamipafutu [disquiet0052-bumpcc]

Downloaded the three original tracks and converted into wav (with Audacity).  Used Ableton Live to create six core sounds/loops (two from each original piece) and treated/processed them for pitch, texture, etc. Then basically played the resulting Live set (using two Korg nanoKontrollers) with the available sounds.

Some minor edits done afterwards (small volume adjustments throughout, removed a few bars to fit under 5 minutes, put a limiter at the end before rendering), but this is basically the Live set, as "played".

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This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Bump Foot netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally released on Bump Foot: "Bongo" off the Aguas Tonicas album titled Los Desposeídos, "Broken Robots" off the Gridline album titled Red Music, and "The Cat in the Ocean" off the Pics Frunk album titled Low Voltage. More on the Bump Foot netlabel, and the original versions of these tracks, at www.bumpfoot.net/. ;

More on this 52nd Disquiet Junto project at:

disquiet.com/2012/12/27/disquiet0052-bumpcc/ ;

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: Groups – Disquiet-junto

The boatman's dream [disquiet0052-bumpcc]

This track is entirely sounds from 3 tunes off the Japanese Bump Foot netlabel.  (Not sure if we were free to add our own sounds for this week's Junto, but I liked the challenge.)  Links to the Disquiet Junto instructions are down below my description...

From "Bongo" I only took a muffled bass stab, transposed a few times through the track.

From "The Cat In The Ocean" I took the guitar lick that comes up throughout.  I've stretched it out to suit the tempo I had in mind and EQed it, but otherwise it's intact.

All other sounds are (duh) from "Broken Robots".  I cut out tiny bits of percussive sound and tweaked them a lot to make the drum sounds.  Lots of transposing, etc.

The chord stabs and so on are a 4-bar loop played at half-speed, with some tape stop-start effects made by messing with the tempo in AudioMulch while the loop was set to automatically stretch to match tempo.  I exported that stuff and chopped it up to try to get it in time with the beat I'd written. 

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This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Bump Foot netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally released on Bump Foot: "Bongo" off the Aguas Tonicas album titled Los Desposeídos, "Broken Robots" off the Gridline album titled Red Music, and "The Cat in the Ocean" off the Pics Frunk album titled Low Voltage. More on the Bump Foot netlabel, and the original versions of these tracks, at http://www.bumpfoot.net/ .


More on this 52nd Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2012/12/27/disquiet0052-bumpcc/


More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Jet Jaguar - Stubbed [disquiet0052-bumpcc] (free DL)

I used looping, time-stretching, pitch-shifting, reverb, distortion, and tremolo to create something reflective, moody, and hopefully interesting.

This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Bump Foot netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally released on Bump Foot: "Bongo" off the Aguas Tonicas album titled Los Desposeídos, "Broken Robots" off the Gridline album titled Red Music, and "The Cat in the Ocean" off the Pics Frunk album titled Low Voltage. More on the Bump Foot netlabel, and the original versions of these tracks, at http://www.bumpfoot.net/.


More on this 52nd Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2012/12/27/disquiet0052-bumpcc/


More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Sad memorandum [disquiet0052-bumpcc]

this is my participation at the Disquiet Junto Project 0052: Bump Foot CC
(first participation)
i only try to search something inside samples on monome and arc (tml)
selection/speed/assembly/ and play 
found very different stuff and finally choose this one.

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This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Bump Foot netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally released on Bump Foot: "Bongo" off the Aguas Tonicas album titled Los Desposeídos, "Broken Robots" off the Gridline album titled Red Music, and "The Cat in the Ocean" off the Pics Frunk album titled Low Voltage. More on the Bump Foot netlabel, and the original versions of these tracks, at www.bumpfoot.net/.

More on this 52nd Disquiet Junto project at:

disquiet.com/2012/12/27/disquiet0052-bumpcc/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

Groups – Disquiet-junto

The electronic "cheyenne" drunk (disquiet 0052-bumpcc)

20 Cat Frunk Greats (disquiet0052-bumpcc) 


This recording is an entry to Disquiet Junto Project 0052: Bump Foot CC . 
Asking for a new track( remix, mash) from 3 Bumpfoot netlabel releases put out under creative commons licence. These three tracks are:

1. The first 20 seconds of "Bongo" off the Aguas Tonicas album Los Desposeídos: 

http://archive.org/download/foot212/foot212_09-aguas_tonicas-bongo.mp3; 

2. "Broken Robots" off the Gridline album Red Music: 

http://archive.org/download/foot211/foot211_03-gridline-broken_robots.mp3; 

3. "The Cat in the Ocean" off the Pics Frunk album Low Voltage: 

http://archive.org/download/foot206/foot206_01-pics_frunk-the_cat_in_the_ocean.mp3
Intro-first 20 seconds is- the obligatory Paulstreach stuff- well you can’t beat it. Then all main loops are from the Pics Frunk track. Melodic fragments from Gridline are sprinkled about and distorted beat samples come from Aguas Tonicas. Done on protools le took ages as I tried a lot of approaches to this material. All 3 tracks were at different bpm/keys and didn’t want to overlay without a lot of work. More of  a mulch than a remix. Happy New Year.
More on this 52nd Disquiet Junto project at: 

http://disquiet.com/2012/12/27/disquiet0052-bumpcc/; 

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: 

Disquiet Junto; 

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20 Cat Frunk Greats (disquiet0052-bumpcc)

A one- or two-bar loop was taken from each track and completely mangled with whatever effects I could fine. The basic flow of the track is from relatively serene to turning the loops into square waves. The waveforms were sequenced in the Arrangement view in Ableton. 

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This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Bump Foot netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally released on Bump Foot: "Bongo" off the Aguas Tonicas album titled Los Desposeídos, "Broken Robots" off the Gridline album titled Red Music, and "The Cat in the Ocean" off the Pics Frunk album titled Low Voltage. More on the Bump Foot netlabel, and the original versions of these tracks, at http://www.bumpfoot.net/.

More on this 52nd Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2012/12/27/disquiet0052-bumpcc/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/


Caustic_RetinaCC [disquiet0052-bumpcc]

for @Disquiet Junto Project 0052: Bump Foot CC 

i used the first 20 seconds of all three, because it didn't seem fair to the Bongo otherwise. 

thanks to Bump Foot label and the artists for an enjoyable sunday afternoon and series of mistakes and misunderstandings between brain, fingers and supercollider that led here.

1. The first 20 seconds of "Bongo" off the Aguas Tonicas album Los Desposeídos: http://archive.org/download/foot212/foot212_09-aguas_tonicas-bongo.mp3 
2. "Broken Robots" off the Gridline album Red Music: http://archive.org/download/foot211/foot211_03-gridline-broken_robots.mp3 
3. "The Cat in the Ocean" off the Pics Frunk album Low Voltage: http://archive.org/download/foot206/foot206_01-pics_frunk-the_cat_in_the_ocean.mp3 

This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Bump Foot netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally released on Bump Foot: "Bongo" off the Aguas Tonicas album titled Los Desposeídos, "Broken Robots" off the Gridline album titled Red Music, and "The Cat in the Ocean" off the Pics Frunk album titled Low Voltage. More on the Bump Foot netlabel, and the original versions of these tracks, at http://www.bumpfoot.net 

More on this 52nd Disquiet Junto project at: http://disquiet.com/2012/12/27/disquiet0052-bumpcc 

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info 


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pic: http://www.bumpfoot.net

Broken Bongo Ocean [disquiet0052-bumpcc]

[PLACEHOLDER TEXT: SEMBLANCE OF CLARITy TO BE SUPPLIED AT LATER DATE]

dragging loops into odd places. Intentionally but also not; everything i found compelling initially became as i worked with it... sickly... and also, curiously, fascinating in & of themselves; apparantly difficult to attach or merge with the others...  so yeah, i end up with this gloop tar-like assemblage - two halves characterised by uneven loops & willfully inconsistent playback speeds...

what is this i don't even

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So.

This piece is mainly defined by loops of different lengths, super-woozy fidelity & contrived playback dysfunction. The first section uses a slightly varied length of the heavily processed intro to Aguas Tonicas' Bongon, mixes it with a low bit rate version & speeds up/slows down the playback speed. The second section takes two loops from Gridline's  Broken Robots PIcs Frunk's The Cat in the Ocean & stretches them both inconsistently - each is treat identically but the loop lengh varies hance the weird pitch variations. This was all achieved by iteratively & intuitively rendering and dragging the audio between Audacity, Frutiyloops & Audiomulch. Time stamps of the original loops can probably be provided on request.

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This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Bump Foot netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally released on Bump Foot: "Bongo" off the Aguas Tonicas album titled Los Desposeídos, "Broken Robots" off the Gridline album titled Red Music, and "The Cat in the Ocean" off the Pics Frunk album titled Low Voltage. More on the Bump Foot netlabel, and the original versions of these tracks, at www.bumpfoot.net/.

More on this 52nd Disquiet Junto project at:

disquiet.com/2012/12/27/disquiet0052-bumpcc/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

ｇ ｅ ｌ ａ ｔ ｉ ｎ ｏ ｕ ｓ ｓ ｐ ｕ ｍ ｅ ｌ ｏ ｏ ｐ ｓ [disquiet0052-bumpcc]

I found this one really hard and have struggled with it, but here it is.

Method: 
1. End of the cat in the ocean, which went into SuperCollider, this code cuts it up and replays it in a random order with different samples left and right.

2. The intro of broken robots, this went straight into Ableton live and was messed up in there.

3. A 2.17 second sample from broken robot, this went into SuperCollider and I used code to cut it up into micro-sounds and to also generate the beat track.

All this went into Ableton where is was arranged and fx's applied.

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This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Bump Foot netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally released on Bump Foot: "Bongo" off the Aguas Tonicas album titled Los Desposeídos, "Broken Robots" off the Gridline album titled Red Music, and "The Cat in the Ocean" off the Pics Frunk album titled Low Voltage. More on the Bump Foot netlabel, and the original versions of these tracks, at http://www.bumpfoot.net/.

More on this 52nd Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2012/12/27/disquiet0052-bumpcc/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/


the mat sat on the cat [0052-bumpcc]

Specifics:
Small segments of all three tracks were imported into Samplewiz on my iPhone.  I recorded three performances, one for each songs.  I then mixed them together to create a bit of a mess.


Background:
This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Bump Foot netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally released on Bump Foot: "Bongo" off the Aguas Tonicas album titled Los Desposeídos, "Broken Robots" off the Gridline album titled Red Music, and "The Cat in the Ocean" off the Pics Frunk album titled Low Voltage. More on the Bump Foot netlabel, and the original versions of these tracks, at http://www.bumpfoot.net/.

More on this 52nd Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2012/12/27/disquiet0052-bumpcc/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/


a bit of a mess [disquiet0052-bumpcc]

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album Selected Ambient Works Volume II 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.