Disquiet Junto Project 0526: Magic Number (2 of 3)
The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio.

Step 1: This week’s Disquiet Junto project is the second in a sequence intended to encourage and reward asynchronous collaboration. This week you’ll be adding music to a pre-existing track, which you will source from the previous week’s Junto project (disquiet.com/0525). Note that you aren’t creating a duet — you’re creating the second third of what will eventually be a trio. Important: Leave space for what is yet to come.

Step 2: The plan is for you to record a short and original piece of music, on any instrumentation of your choice, as a complement to the pre-existing track. First, however, you must select the piece of music to which you will be adding your own music. There are tracks by numerous musicians to choose from. The majority are in this playlist:

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0525

And additional appear in the discussion:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0525-magic-number-1-of-3/

(Note that it’s possible another track or two will pop up in or disappear from that playlist and discussion. Things are fluid on the internet.)

To select a track, you can listen through all those and choose one, or simply look around and select, or you can come up with a random approach to sifting through them.

Note: It’s fine if more than one person uses the same original track as the basis for their piece.

It is strongly encouraged that you look through the above discussion on the Lines forum, because many tracks include additional contextual information there.

Step 3: Record a short piece of music, roughly the length of the piece of music you selected in Step 2. Your track should complement the piece from Step 2, and leave room for an eventual third piece of music. When composing and recording your part, don’t alter the original piece of music at all, except to pan the original fully to the left if it hasn’t been panned left already. In your finished audio track, your new part should be panned fully to the right. To be clear: the track you upload won’t be your piece of music alone; it will be a combination of the track from Step 2 and yours.

Step 4: Also be sure, when done, to make the finished track downloadable, because it will be used by someone else in a subsequent Junto project.

Step 5: You can contribute more than one track this week. Usually Junto projects have a one-track-per-participant limit. You can do up to two total. For the second, it’s appreciated if you try to work with a solo that no one else has used yet ( look at the project’s post on Lines, linked to in these instructions, or to the project playlist, which will be posted here once tracks start coming in). The goal is for many as people as possible to benefit from the experience of being part of an asynchronous collaboration. After a lot of detailed instruction, that is the spirit of this project.

Disquiet Junto Project 0526: Magic Number (2 of 3)

dedicated

[encym disquiet collection]

I had the pleasure to jam over to melondruide’s hypnotic track

https://soundcloud.com/melondruie/cold-sun-disquiet0525

As a warm, earthy contrast to the original icy synths I added some hand percussion 
I went for my Hand pan (Hang) cause it’ sin C minor as the original track, and just added some phrases on a little Indian Talking Drum, but this time I think there’s a nice bed for a 3rd contributor.
I added some rhythmic delay here and there (talking drum and original track)

@melondruie


Photo by DD (Paris 13ème 2021)

For this junto challenge:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0526-magic-number-2-of-3

About The Sun (disquiet0526) with Melondruie

I recorded an electric bass part to noodle twister’s lovely groove
https://soundcloud.com/user-130801280/collab-one-disquiet0525
It remains a groove/basic track so here you will find room for more. I’s a 2 chord progression (D+A) in D major

More Reflections (disquiet0526) with Noodle Twister
@user-130801280



Photo by DD (Paris 13ème 2021)

For this junto challenge:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0526-magic-number-2-of-3

More Reflections (disquiet0526) with Noodle Twister

I played with Fnubi’s Cameo track (https://soundcloud.com/fnubi/cameo-unfinished-disquiet0525), over that great pulse I added an Harmonium melody (low stops and tremolo stop)
I couldn’t resist to add a sparse upright bass and , to punctuate some chord changes not in the original I added a synth pad. There’s no room for much more I’m afraid. (Some percussion track perhaps? It is performed over a click at 104BPM…)

But, if anybody want a version more unfinished and spacey I can provide a mix  without the synth+bass (or without the Harmonium, mind…) Just PM me and let me know.


@fnubi

Photo by DD (Paris 13ème 2021)

For this junto challenge:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0526-magic-number-2-of-3

A Glimpse of Winter (disquiet0526) with Fnubi

I used 2 minutes of the track of  fake genius
https://soundcloud.com/fake-genius/disquiet0525-dm-stereo
release date 28/01/2022

Birds Sing In The Trees (disquiet0526)

Part 2 of a 3 part Disquiet Junto collaboration.

I loved the grooving drum track created last week by creaturesOnce. I added a bass line in Ableton, in F minor and B♭ minor, letting the structure of the drum track lead the way. It's ready for someone to play a mid to high range melody or chord jam on top.

More on this 526th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Magic Number (2 of 3) (The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio) — at: https://disquiet.com/0526/

Duo Magic

Duo Magic - Disquiet0526

I found Daniel's bass part (https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/unfinished-disquiet0525) utterly inspiring, so went about making a beat for it. So this started out as a dangerous kitchen, cutlery type percussion track with some guitar sprinkled over here and there. When it was almost done, I tore it to shreds again, remixed it and loaded the resulting abstract, non-linear, non-grid beats/acoustic guitar improv into Leafcutter John's Forester. 

A couple of trial and error type experiments lead me to  picking out this nugget (mostly beats mingling with guitar, as if by magic, inside Forester). 

I think this matches very well with the double bass solo groove. I hope you agree, and look forward to whatever gets added in the upcoming third week.

More on this 526th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Magic Number (2 of 3) (The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio) — at: https://disquiet.com/0526/

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-0526-magic-number-2-of-3/

uno/duo/trio (disquiet0526)

Unquiet developments atop @encym Trioism (disquiet0525), controlled >50% live

https://soundcloud.com/encym/trioism-disquiet0525

In terms of the Disquiet assigment, this is part two of a trio... which you could complete! https://disquiet.com/2022/01/27/disquiet-junto-project-0526-magic-number-2-of-3/

If you would like a more left/right panned edit, allowing greater room in the centre to add more, that is available here: https://soundcloud.com/muterial/time-machine-panned/s-erlbPf1VoPp?si=e40e9e3b35b24448b28b401e33d6f95d&

My additions were at 30 bpm

This track has a short video: https://www.instagram.com/p/Caxu-KHIRrW/

Time Machine

Time Machine (disquiet0526) - encym | muterial

Short guitar improvisation (consisting of overdubbed layers) of one minute in length. Stratocaster (buzzing), Delay (tape crinkle), Logic (recording). 

Gentle innit?
But it also contains an unsettling moment amidst all the warmth and tenderness.

Find the extended version here: https://soundcloud.com/encym/brushstroke-faulty-ext

More on this 102nd weekly Disquiet Junto project (Record original secular holiday music: glistening, reflective, gentle) at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/12/12/disquiet0102-sonictinsel/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

brushstroke, faulty [disquiet0102-sonictinsel]

Thanks, Tobias & Marc, for this fun assignment!

My process in a nutshell: Using two instances of Ableton's Sampler loaded with my guitar recordings, I sequenced the provided "John Cage" chord, using the first version of Marc's MIDI file, so it's actually the wrong Cage chord --- hence the title "noncage". 
With some pushing around of this source material, a slow-morphing, overlapping atmospheric track fell into place. 
To top it all off, I just flipped the whole thing, turning it into a lovely background echoey backwards guitar concoction. 
So as to make things more listenable, I provided a little bit of supplementary fodder and smoothed out some of the rougher edges in Cubase.

Enjoy!

More on this 554th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Cage Chord (The Assignment: Riff on a chord by John Cage) — at: https://disquiet.com/0554/

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/
https://www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern
https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

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-0554-cage-chord/

Free Download

noncage II disquiet0554

Memoria

This is an asynchronous collaboration between three musician, each recorded one week apart. Left channel recorded first by encym (https://soundcloud.com/encymlll/first-chair-by-encym-disquiet0315) the right channel second by Nate Trier (https://soundcloud.com/triermusic/they-call-me-the-backwoods-debussy-disquiet0316) then I added the saxophone in the centre.

The harmonic space created by encym and Nate, along with the "liveness" of each recording made a real pleasure to add my part to. Thanks unmet collaborators!

Photo by Teddy Kelley on Unsplash, https://unsplash.com/photos/abVkUkfyAJE

More on this 317th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Triadic Awareness: Record the third part of a trio, adding to a pre-existing track of two parts) at:
https://disquiet.com/0317/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:
http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0317-triadic-awareness/11271/

Through The Woods Not Alone [disquiet0317] - encym, Nate Trier & Benn DeMole

Slowly Paradise

Wild Moon

Foly MP3 Vol.1

Angel

I had the pleasure of adding to last week's minimal-ish composition https://soundcloud.com/bearp-aw/revolving-spoons-disquiet0368?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0368 by @jesuisgentil and @bearp-aw.

Thanks guys for throwing down such a nice gauntlet!

I added various drum sounds (one IDM-ish, heavily gated one and a 4-to-the-floor bass drum with side-chaining to the basic track) as well as e-bowed guitar.

Enjoy!

More on this 369th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Final Solo / The Assignment: Record the final third of a trio, adding to a pre-existing track, based itself on a prior pre-existing track) at:

https://disquiet.com/0369/ 2

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0369-final-solo/ 7

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

Image associated with this project is adapted (edited, color altered, text added) from a photo by Anna J and is used via Flickr thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/gcojn 1

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

spoonfuls (disquiet0369)

Chilly jazzy guitar bliss and variety of the sounds of the mono-cord.
An improvisation of Paul Mahoux and Wataru Kousaka.
 
Wataru Kousaka : đàn bầu 
http://quantum-field-music.com/kousakawataru

Paul Mahoux : Guitar 
https://www.paulmahoux.com/
www.youtube.com/user/paulmahoux/videos

Seven nights on the planet

Seven nights on the planet - Wataru Kousaka and Paul Mahoux

Tweaker "Pure Genius" (Featuring David Sylvian)

Abstract sample sculptures, minimal/maximal, weird beats, broken ambient.

Latest: "Clique Plaisir" on BC: https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/clique-plaisir

"Crown Shyness" by encym & Wodwo: https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/crown-shyness