wonderful soundscape. beautiful blend of cold/mechanical and warm/living elements. enjoyed your writeup of the process.

Powerful stuff! Great energy, mysterious and exciting to visualise! :)

Perfect choice of percussion to enhance the dangerous feel of the body!

Nice! I like this, kind of remind me of something else.

minimale / technonebuneli

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]

sound art for disquiet0623

found drum machine from the street.
last bit of charge from the previous owner.
makes malfunctions.

More on this 623rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Kinda Bluetooth (The Assignment: Experiment with the sonic qualities of a failing signal), at: https://disquiet.com/0623/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0623-kinda-bluetooth/

residual energy thief (disquiet0623)

Kardeş Türküler Feat. Neşet Ertaş - Yanıyorum (Fattish's Fireball Rework)

Jam with Music Thing Modular Workshop system, contact mic and drum sample 

Workshopping

Back after a lengthy absence from the Disquiet Junto.

The prompt aligned perfectly with my ongoing research into bell-like tones through ring modulation and frequency shifting, inspired by Oren Ambarchi's work, in particular "Grapes From The Estate" (Touch). 
Electric guitar, mostly harmonics, through ring mod plus some atrocious, violent guitar bits and bobs from my archive. 

Hope you enjoy!

More on the 682nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Unring a Bell — The Assignment: What if you could? — at https://disquiet.com/0682/

Unring [disquiet0682]

HOUSEWIFE 9, COUCOU CHLOE - LICK

From the upcoming double album "Bes" out on Nawa Recordings 29 April 2016.  

Pre-order on iTunes now and download this track immediately: http://smarturl.it/NAWA005IT

Bandcamp: http://smarturl.it/NAWA005BC
Spotify: http://smarturl.it/NAWA005Spotify
CD & LP pre-orders: http://smarturl.it/NAWA005preorders

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The Dwarfs of East Agouza is a trio from Cairo, Egypt, featuring Maurice Louca (Alif, Bikya), Sam Shalabi (Land of Kush, Shalabi Effect) and Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls, The Invisible Hands, Alvarius B.).

Born during 2012 when the three were living in the same apartment building in Cairo’s Agouza district, the trio’s instrumental improvisation-based explorations are propelled by Louca’s North African percussion loops and shimmering keys, Shalabi’s West African tinged free jazz guitar and grounded by Bishop’s driving Krautrock-style acoustic bass.

Following many a late night jam session, the band recorded hours of material during a three-day studio run in April 2014. After compiling and mixing the album in Montreal’s Break Glass studio in July 2015, the refined result will be released as a double-album titled Bes via Nawa Recordings (NAWA005) on 2xLP, 2xCD and DL on 29 April 2016.

Named after the Ancient Egyptian dwarf deity who was worshiped as the defender of all things good and enemy of all that is bad, Bes captures the trio on a hypnotic yet unpredictable journey. From the the lilt of four-minute ethiopian tinged Resinance to the 30-minute free-form epic Museum of Stranglers, the album skirts the outer limits of a psychedelic soundtrack to a North African road trip.

Bes by The Dwarfs of East Agouza will be available on CD, black & limited edition coloured 12” vinyl LP and download, including Mastered for iTunes and lossless high-definition 24-bit/96kHz audio files.

The album artwork features a reproduction of an ancient Egyptian carving of the dwarf god Bes, painted by Egyptian artist Raafat Al-Kordy, designed by Iraqi-Palestinian graphic designer and illustrator Sara Sukhun.


Buy on iTunes

The Dwarfs of East Agouza - Clean Shahin أقزام شرق العجوزة - نضافة شاهين

For the 240th Junto, the assignment was:
Disquiet Junto Project 0240: Emerging from a Drone
The Assignment: Compose a piece of music in which a drone slowly, imperceptibly, gives way to something rhythmic and/or melodic.

I've been thinking alot about drones lately and am working on a new set inspired by the 50 cycle hum (I'm in iceland currently) and I decided to repurpose some of the material i've been working with.  

I considered what a drone is, as per the instructions... and interpreted what that might mean sonically... that, at least in the digital world, it's a series of minute samples which, when dissected and put under a microscope, are just a series of clicks. So, breaking somewhat from the assignment, my piece does not shift imperceptibly as such, but is rather a presentation of various drones and 'clicks' that make up music. it also contains some samples of natural drones, specifically, a recording of a waterfall in iceland (both granulated and not), plus a minute section of the recording of a small piece of severed glacier rubbing against another piece in the water. 
I also considered the ubiquitous 50 cycle hum and included a loop of me flicking on a light switch.
Some of these sounds will be heard in a performance to be presented and uploaded soon. 

Butterside [disquiet0240]

a slow thaw

Taken from the album 'Myth of Equilibrium' released as LP and Digital.

C. Lavender 'Dimly Lit Exit' (EMEGO 281)

Promial is sourced entirely from the introductory notes of a Sailor's Hornpipe.  It is intended to envelope the sailor's tradition in the vast expanse common to both the sea and the drone of the bagpipe.  It was commissioned by the Community Radio Education Society's (CRES) Media Arts Committee in Vancouver Canada in 2011.  

Released in 2013 on Audio Art Volume 7, 8, 9 
http://www.mac-cfro.org/

Promial

return of batboy

driftwood (early mix)

I really wanted to say something about 2020, but there's nothing I could say that you haven't heard or thought yourselves already.

thanks for listening. you're good kids.

/ mikael

(made, as always, on Reason Suite 11 with Nektar Panorama P6. mixed on sennheiser HD-650 with the excellent Sonarworks plug-in. mastered on ozone 9.)

2020 project

half life

‘Strange planet music begins’ when a civilian passenger starship makes an emergency landing on an unexplored planet and the crew and passengers emerge to take a look around…

More on this 469th weekly Disquiet Junto project, [Missing in Caption] (The Assignment: Make music that pushes the constraints of descriptive television captions), at:

https://disquiet.com/0469/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0469-missing-in-caption/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is by Rune Vallesether, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/9U2HvQ

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Strange Planet music begins (disquiet0469)

I am a composer, sound designer and media artist. I like creating environments through sound, and exploring the sonic qualities of found sounds, field recordings and 'machine languages' of everyday things. I get inspired by constraints.
I have performed internationally as 1/2 of the duo Coin Gutter, and received international awards for the my installations and performances as part of Manufacturing Entertainment.
I work with performance artists, dancers, theatre companies, film/video artists, animators etc, creating experimental sound design for their work.

Butterside [disquiet0240]

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