Disquiet Junto Project 0600: Reaching Out
The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer.

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0600-reaching-out/63012

Loaded everything into a sampler and started playing around with slices and layers until things started to form.  Set it up so I could mix and tweak each sample live and then hit record.  I ended up using the following samples in the final track: worn_path, psu_stairs, walking, and nacre_voit,  No other sound sources added.  Recorded directly to a stereo file with no post processing.

Disquiet0600 - Out Reach In

Thank you Marcus Fischer for providing the stellar audio material to work with!
used most of the raw materials provided by Marcus, built the piece around the raw samples with minimal processing, just architecture and a bit of reverb.. Then processed some with the fabulously fun Granulator II instrument by Robert Henke in Ableton. 


More on this 600th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reaching Out (The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer), at: https://disquiet.com/0600/ 2

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branching forth -reaching out   Disquiet0600

cHJvbWluZW5jZQo=[disquiet0601]

Usually when I try to make a piece of music, I set out with a rough goal. For Disquiet 600 it was “Ska” (ridiculous and I instantly got off tracks), for this prompt it was “light summer jam”. Alas, the numbers were against me, so it became more of a mood piece.

I recycled the clarinet recordings of Disquiet 599, loaded them into iDensity and rolled a dice for each recording. I applied the numbers to granular density, length and speed. Because high numbers led to a dominant, dense, high pitched sound, I applied a stutter effect to all numbers above 4, to sort of even the odds a bit. I did a live recording by varying the volume of the six tracks a little.

The result reminds me a bit of Windy & Carl’s song “Dedications to Flea”, which includes a field recording of the musicians walking their dog (in my track, I “walk myself” by just breathing through the clarinet).

More on this 601st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Hard Six (The Assignment: Let a roll of the dice determine the relative prominence of various parts of a track), at: https://disquiet.com/0601/

The project was inspired in part by recent correspondence with Junto participant Robert Precht. More to come in that regard.

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Disquiet0601 - Ode To Windy And Carl

By chance, the beginning of the summer vacation coincided with an exciting challenge from the Disquiet Junto and my recent acquisition of a vintage Yamaha PS55 keyboard [link: https://jimatwood.wordpress.com/2012/07/13/yamaha-ps-55-keyboard-wonder/]. I immediately decided to participate once again and make use of this new keyboard. Midway through the process, I struggled in piecing everything together, but ultimately, a unified and coherent final product emerged.

IDEA - Abstract with Arp
The task, of course, was to use different parts, so I wanted to record them on the PS55 first. I thought about recording various snippets and assigned them numbers on paper that corresponded to the values of a dice. I once heard about Jean-Hans Arp (1886 - 1966) [link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Arp] during an art academy lecture. He was associated with the Dada movement, which aimed to reject rationality. Arp chose to incorporate randomness into his artistic process by allowing paper fragments to fall onto a surface and affixing them wherever they landed. However, when you observe his creations, it's hard to believe that chance alone could produce such harmonious and orderly results. Arp likely made subtle adjustments to his compositions along the way.

COMPO
I started with AminMAJ7 and experimented with chord combinations. I structured the piece into three main sections. I included a supportive bassline and arpeggiated chords throughout the entirety of the song. Furthermore, I selected three primary voices with distinct melodies, labeled 1, 2, and 3. The relative presence of each voice was determined by the number I rolled on the dice, although I allowed for some flexibility in that regard. Melodies naturally emerged through improvisation over the chord progression. I recorded main rythm parts that come with the PS55, and then seperatly recorded the five fills. On places where a fill could be inserted I would let the dice decide which part to use.

GEAR
DAW: Samplitude X3
VST: Stock plugins
HARDWARE: Yamaha PS55, Korg Pandora, TASCAM FW1804, PONIC FIREFLY808 & Hudson guitar.

IMAGE
I created a collage loosely inspired by Arp's work. Then, I edited the photo to my liking using PhotoDemon.

Seat of Wise

Seat Of Wise [disquiet0601]

I took my most recent Junto submission from a few weeks ago, randomly spliced it within Ableton, then selected and mapped 6 modified samples to 6 midi controller pads. 

For each pad I rolled the dice - the number determined how many bars each pad's content would occupy in the the total composition.
I found it a very interesting way to approach structuring the sounds, it made me a bit more disciplined than I otherwise might have been.

Image credit: National Marine Sanctuaries https://flickr.com/photos/44124469278@N01/43863888325

Disquiet Junto Project 0601: Hard Six
The Assignment: Let a roll of the dice determine the relative prominence of various parts of a track.

The project was inspired in part by recent correspondence with Junto participant Robert Precht. More to come in that regard.

Step 1: Choose six brief segments of sound that you have recently recorded. Or record some new segments now. Either way, select six of them, and label them one through six.

Step 2: Roll a single die for each of the six segments chosen in Step 1.

Step 3: The result of each roll in Step 2 represents the relative presence of that given segment in a finished piece of music. Think about how the pieces might relate to each other. This idea of relative presence can mean whatever you want: frequency of appearance, relative volume, intelligibility etc.

Step 4: Record a piece of music in which the relative presence of the segments chosen in Step 1 correlate with the results from Step 2.

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Step 3: Upload your tracks. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your tracks.

Step 4: Post your track in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co 1:

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Step 5: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

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Step 7: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

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Note: Please post one track for this weekly Junto project. If you choose to post more than one, and do so on SoundCloud, please let me know which you’d like added to the playlist. Thanks.

Kelp Forest disquiet0601

See https://disquiet.com/2023/07/06/disquiet-junto-project-0601-hard-six/

I made it difficult for myself and selected 6 unrelated eurorack improvs. And to make it even harder, the dice showed 4-3-4-2-4-2, which meant I had to use all of them a lot. I think the result is a hot mess, but at least it resembles music. And that is good enough for me.

disquiet0601

Vocazione / Berufung / Vocation - After a dear friend of mine who had a call. Made with ❤️ on a Synthstrom Deluge and an ASM Hydrasynth.

More on this 602nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Choice Words (The Assignment: Make a piece of music that strives to express a specific word), at: https://disquiet.com/0602/

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Vocazione (disquiet0602)

An electronic composition, sounds created in Pure Data. Shoogly = unsteady, unstable, uncertain, shaky, wobbly.

More on this 602nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Choice Words (The Assignment: Make a piece of music that strives to express a specific word), at: https://disquiet.com/0602/

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Shoogly (disquiet0602)

Made in response to Disquiet Junto Project 0617: Haunt Scape
The Assignment: Halloween is coming up. Do your thing.
There is just one step to this project: Halloween is nearly here, so make some haunted sounds for people to play for trick-or-treaters.

I don't always enjoy the scary things, but I really enjoyed making some scary music. I jammed for about an hour on some hardware gear with this prompt in mind. Later that night, I walked around the house recording my creeky wood floors and rusty doors. Then cut for length and added some effects and edits in Live. 
While I was making these sounds, my wife Monica created this digital collage image. We enjoyed this simultaneous creative process and plan on doing it again. She wrote about this here: https://waxingphotopoetic.substack.com/p/circle-of-tree-thieves-creaking-in?r=7wafc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

More on this 617th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Haunt Scape (The Assignment: Halloween is coming up. Do your thing), at: https://disquiet.com/0617/

The cover image (enlarged, type added) is from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull#/media/File:3d_CT_scan_animation.gif

That image is credited to Arielinson and used thanks to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

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Kelp Forest disquiet0601

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