More on this 82nd Disquiet Junto project, in which a minimal techno track was created using elements of a Haydn string quartet, at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/07/25/disquiet0082-minimalhaydn/

The source Haydn audio is from:

http://goo.gl/7MMHRA

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto Project 0082: Minimal Haydn

I wanted to be as true to the genre and to the assignment as possible. I went with out a beat for that reason, it was stipulated that we add no other element and I wanted to use this as a challenge. I think it worked pretty well. 
To be true to the genre set my beat to be at 125 bmp, and made great use of repetition, which is something I enjoy anyhow. 
I set out by opening the track in audacity and set it to play in reverse. I chose only three sections and safed each section separatly as ogg vorbis files. I then loaded these up in to the Audiofile Processor in LMMS and added reverb to all the sections. The first part I set to play at a much lower speed and set that as the base beat. The next part I added flanger to. I slowly increased the volume and did the same to the last section till I reached 100% volume. Then I cut the second part and ended the piece abruptly. 
I set out to create something that had enough of the original in to make it hint at Haydn without giving it all away. 

http://subversiveintentions.wordpress.com

More on this 82nd Disquiet Junto project, in which a minimal techno track was created using elements of a Haydn string quartet, at:


http://disquiet.com/2013/07/25/disquiet0082-minimalhaydn/


The source Haydn audio is from:


http://goo.gl/7MMHRA


More details on the Disquiet Junto at:


http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Haydn Seek (disquiet0082-minimalhaydn)

The goal of this project was to make a 'minimal techno' track using samples from Franz Haydn’s String Quartet in F Major. Note that I do not believe I achieved this, although the results are interesting.

More on this 82nd Disquiet Junto project, in which a minimal techno track was created using elements of a Haydn string quartet, at: http://disquiet.com/2013/07/25/disquiet0082-minimalhaydn/

The source Haydn audio is from: http://goo.gl/7MMHRA

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

prolonged exposure [disquiet0082-minimalhaydn]

I was trying to extricate the basic components of the minimal genre, namely kick, snare, soundscapes and then work the silences around it. It came out denser/thicker than I initially intended. Thank you

More on this 82nd Disquiet Junto project, in which a minimal techno track was created using elements of a Haydn string quartet, at:


http://disquiet.com/2013/07/25/disquiet0082-minimalhaydn/


The source Haydn audio is from:


http://goo.gl/7MMHRA


More details on the Disquiet Junto at:


http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Haydn Tomato - [disquiet0082-minimalhaydn]

**Production Notes** 

I really enjoyed this weeks challence of the Disquiet Junto (see below). All sounds were made from a recording of Haydn’s String Quartet in F Major. 

First, I edited four short snippets from the original and imported them into Abletons „Sampler“. The Kick, the snare and two sorts of hihats took me two hours and a ton of plugins to complete. Then I edited another two hours for stabs, bass and the „violin“. Finally, I started to layout the piece. 

As far as I understand minimal house, one aspect is to fiddle with send-effects. So I fired up a RC24 Reverb (NI), some delays, Guitar Rigs Rammfire, and a Beat Repeat - and started to turn some knobs. 

Is it minimal? Nah. I dunno why, but i tend to cram und clutter every song I do. Do I like the result of this disquiet challenge? Honestly: I’m quite happy with it. I’m fascinated how you can twist and turn some small pieces of sound, so that they sound totally different. 

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**Disquiet Junto Project 0082: Minimal Haydn**

This week’s project is another in a series of explorations of the concept of genre as a constraint. (The “downtempo” exercise went well several weeks ago, project 79, and this is another in that mode.) The genre this time is “minimal techno.” The source material is from another genre entirely: “classical,” specifically chamber music in the form of a string quartet. The goal of this project is to derive elements from the source material in the service of a track that would fit in the prescribed genre. 

These are the steps:

Step 1: Download the MP3 track at the following URL. The track is the third movement of Franz Haydn’s String Quartet in F Major: 

http://goo.gl/7MMHRA

Step 2: Listen through the full 1:55 of the track, noting the time codes of source elements that could lend themselves to a minimal techno track. Aim for roughly between three and six.

Step 3: Extract the handful of elements that you located in Step 2.

Step 4: Compose and record an original track that you feel conforms to the genre of minimal techno, using only the elements from Step 3. You can manipulate them in any way you choose, though at some point in the track they should each be somewhat recognizable from the source material. You cannot add any other sounds.

(…) 

More on this 82nd Disquiet Junto project, in which a minimal techno track was created using elements of a Haydn string quartet, at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/07/25/disquiet0082-minimalhaydn/

The source Haydn audio is from:

http://goo.gl/7MMHRA

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Keyboard Music [disquiet0082-minimalhaydn]


Disquiet Junto Project 0082: Minimal Haydn

disquiet0082-minimalhaydn

I deem this a failure. It’s becoming depressing that I don’t have any idea how to create “techno”. This certainly isn’t, and it probably isn’t minimal either. I spent ages hand-crafting a “beat”, and all I got was a lousy pulse.

The rest is me throwing bits of sound around and being careless with effects plugins.

Not that I don’t like it, but I wish I could work out how to use Ableton just once and create something with a beat. Back to the DAW…


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This week’s project is another in a series of explorations of the concept of genre as a constraint. (The “downtempo” exercise went well several weeks ago, project 79, and this is another in that mode.) The genre this time is “minimal techno.” The source material is from another genre entirely: “classical,” specifically chamber music in the form of a string quartet. The goal of this project is to derive elements from the source material in the service of a track that would fit in the prescribed genre.

More on this 82nd Disquiet Junto project, in which a minimal techno track was created using elements of a Haydn string quartet, at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/07/25/disquiet0082-minimalhaydn/ ;

The source Haydn audio is from:

http://goo.gl/7MMHRA ;

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info



Haydn Agenda [disquiet0082-minimalhaydn]

Shortly after burial, Herr Haydn's head was stolen by an ambitious, perhaps somewhat too earnest phrenologist (and suspected alchemist). So Herr Haydn's head was missing for quite some time.

Some years later, the body was to be moved. The head of course was found to be missing. When pressed for the skull, our dear phrenologist (apparently the only obvious suspect in the crime), presented a false skull (source unknown) for internment with Herr Haydn's body. Herr Haydn's true skull was instead kept in a decorated wooden box, and passed down through the generations.

In 1895, the true skull of Haydn was finally returned. And buried with the rest of him. The substitute skull (source still unknown) was left in the grave, alongside the proper one.

And that is the story of how Herr Haydn ended up with two skulls in his grave.

Downloaded the source, converted that to 16-bit wav.

Permutated into 8 distinct sounds. Used these to make a minimal techno piece (Ableton Live)
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Disquiet Junto Project 0082: Minimal Haydn

This week’s project is another in a series of explorations of the concept of genre as a constraint. (The “downtempo” exercise went well several weeks ago, project 79, and this is another in that mode.) The genre this time is “minimal techno.” The source material is from another genre entirely: “classical,” specifically chamber music in the form of a string quartet. The goal of this project is to derive elements from the source material in the service of a track that would fit in the prescribed genre.

These are the steps:

Step 1: Download the MP3 track at the following URL. The track is the third movement of Franz Haydn’s String Quartet in F Major:

http://goo.gl/7MMHRA

Step 2: Listen through the full 1:55 of the track, noting the time codes of source elements that could lend themselves to a minimal techno track. Aim for roughly between three and six.

Step 3: Extract the handful of elements that you located in Step 2.

Step 4: Compose and record an original track that you feel conforms to the genre of minimal techno, using only the elements from Step 3. You can manipulate them in any way you choose, though at some point in the track they should each be somewhat recognizable from the source material. You cannot add any other sounds.

The source Haydn audio is from:
http://goo.gl/7MMHRA

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

the curious case of herr haydn's head [disquiet0082-minimalhaydn]

This week’s Junto had me excited because I’ve been listening to a lot of minimal techno lately, specifically Robert Hood’s Minimal Nation. Using Richie Hawtin's thoughts on the genre as a guidepost, I set the BPM to 128.

I noticed the source track had pretty good stereo separation between the higher and lower frequency instruments, so I took 3 slices from each side to use in the composition. 

The slices were pitch-shifted (either by octaves or 5ths) and treated with reverb, phasing, and flanging, along with the usual EQ. Waveforms were arranged in Ableton until I got something interesting. 

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More on this 82nd Disquiet Junto project, in which a minimal techno track was created using elements of a Haydn string quartet, at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/07/25/disquiet0082-minimalhaydn/

The source Haydn audio is from:

http://goo.gl/7MMHRA

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Dead Locust [disquiet0082-minimalhaydn]

More on this 82nd Disquiet Junto project, in which a minimal techno track was created using elements of a Haydn string quartet, at:

disquiet.com/2013/07/25/disquiet0082-minimalhaydn/

The source Haydn audio is from:

goo.gl/7MMHRA

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

Groups – Disquiet-junto

franz's trip [disquiet0082-minimalhaydn]

Almost all sounds are single wavelets sampled from a string quartet piece by Haydn. The background noise is a much longer section, modulated with pink noise.

More on this 82nd Disquiet Junto project, in which a minimal techno track was created using elements of a Haydn string quartet, at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/07/25/disquiet0082-minimalhaydn/

The source Haydn audio is from:
http://goo.gl/7MMHRA

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

Minimalismus [disquiet0082-minimalhaydn]

I transformed the stereo track into two mono tracks, then chose three elements from the source. Then I used Pd, Reaper, and Audacity to create a track that may or may not resemble the genre "minimal techno." Anyway, it was fun.

More on this 82nd Disquiet Junto project, in which a minimal techno track was created using elements of a Haydn string quartet, at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/07/25/disquiet0082-minimalhaydn/

The source Haydn audio is from:

http://goo.gl/7MMHRA

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

High den (hide in)[disquiet0082-minimalhaydn]

Updated remix of Haydn in a minimal techno style

More on this 82nd Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/07/25/disquiet0082-minimalhaydn/

The source Haydn audio is from:
http://goo.gl/7MMHRA

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Little bit about the remix at:
http://bassling.blogspot.com/2013/07/disquiet-junto-minimal-haydn.html

Hadyn nuff [disquiet0082-minimalhaydn]

Disquiet Junto Project 0082: Minimal Haydn

This week’s project is another in a series of explorations of the concept of genre as a constraint. The genre this time is “minimal techno.” The source material is from another genre entirely: “classical,” specifically chamber music in the form of the third movement of Franz Haydn’s String Quartet in F Major.

Approach:
Not having much time this week and not used to composing minimal techno, I simply chose a couple of instances in the music which I thought could lend themselves to becoming frantic loops through heavy processing in Ableton Live.

I don't really consider the end result of my approach to have been successful as regards the aim of the assignment. The piece I deliver isn't really minimal techno nor can the original bits of the source material be heard in their original form at any point. The track is really a continuous build from start to finish, with only a couple of elements, more akin to the sound of a plane lifting off than a minimal techno tune. Perhaps with more time to play around, I could have devised an overall cleaner sound and more compositional elements towards building a piece that is truly in the style of minimal techno.

I deliver this 40 minutes behind schedule...

Lift Off [disquiet0082-minimalhaydn]

for disquiet junto 0082, "minimal haydn." (http://disquiet.com/2013/07/25/disquiet0082-minimalhaydn/)

the assignment: transform a public domain string quartet recording (http://archive.org/details/Haydn__Franz_-_String_Quartet_in_F_Major_mvmt_3_) into what i consider "minimal techno."

i don't have much experience with the genre, aside from listening to one or two recordings by artists on the bumpfoot netlabel several years ago. to me, techno is pretty repetitive, and since the assignment was to come up with something even more minimal, that meant leaving out the melodic elements that usually form the core of my songs. this worked out well, since the source material was rather challenging.

the strings are very densely layered, making it hard to separate single notes. i split the original stereo track into left & right mono versions, then zoomed in on little sections of the song, filtering, chopping, and repitching them with renoise. one melodic passage was run through paulstretch; this became the pads that fade in halfway through the song. a gainer attached to a signal follower provides the "flex" in the pads when the kick returns, allowing them to breathe a little. i created the percussion from a few sections of single notes; shortened, decayed, filtered, and pitched up a few octaves. i used only native renoise devices to process the audio; no additional plugins or hardware effects loops.

since i only had about an hour a day for 4 days, that was just as well--no time for anything complicated, which is always the challenge when working on a junto project. as always, remixing source material without the individual layers is complicated. all my time was spent on sample preparation and arrangement, with a bare minimum of on-the-fly mixing and adding a few delay/reverb effects as i neared the project deadline. i'm terrible at chopping samples; it takes forever. i spent maybe 1 hour arranging; the rest of the time was thrown into sample preparation and rendering. one quick conversion from .wav to .flac with audacity, then i uploaded the piece a few minutes before midnight.

the song's image is a snapshot of my working environment in renoise, with several of the middle sequences visible. the track end mirrors its beginning, this time with the gradual reduction of elements until there's just the beat and the dub stabs.

eleven pm (disquiet0082-minimalhaydn)

As per the junto instructions, I downloaded the Haydn track from where I would find my samples. I chose 4 samples, which was maybe a bit extravagant, but what do I know about minimal techno? I used Live's 'impulse' to create the actual beats using small snippets of the chosen samples. The rest were pitch shifted, stretched, filtered and compressed to varying degrees.  It runs at 125 bpm.
--this one was really fun for me, having never made techno before.
---Spawn of Slithus is an old b-movie that remains a legend in my past though I have never seen it and don't know if there was an original Slithus.

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More on this 82nd Disquiet Junto project, in which a minimal techno track was created using elements of a Haydn string quartet, at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/07/25/disquiet0082-minimalhaydn/

The source Haydn audio is from:

http://goo.gl/7MMHRA

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Spawn Of Slithus [disquiet0082-minimalhaydn]

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.