More on this 432nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0432: Ensembles (Remix) — The Assignment: Take an existing musical trio and remix it to make it your own — at:

https://disquiet.com/0432/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0432-ensembles-remix/

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

Image associated with this track is by Abby, used thanks to a Creative Commons license and Flickr. The image has been cropped, colors shifted, and text added.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0432: Ensembles (Remix)

WZPL - Sampler - JAM Creative Productions

ABC Radio Network - Oldies Radio (2002) - Demo - TM Century

NEW: TV Offal (1997) - Demo - JAM Creative Productions

BBC Radio 1 - Custom Jingles 1976 To 1994 (JAM Creative Productions - Dallas)

Montage Of JAM Jingles Not Available For Download On The Website

NEW: Millenium Mix (Mix 107.3) - Demo - TM Century

Uncannily I had been working on this piece this morning using the harmonics from piano chords I'd played and recorded a while back. I'm exploring and teaching myself how to compose usimg the editing and effects of the Logic Pro X multiverses. I'd been drawn to soft quiet sounds and was using delays and echoes to create subtle patterns that play off one another.

I was halfway through this and then @disquiet Marc sent this email prompt out saying this ...

"Step 1: The underlying idea is to produce music that, so to speak, listens to itself. This would be music that employs techniques to revisit itself — repurposes itself — as it proceeds. From reverb to echo to tape loops to granular synthesis to accessing a buffer, various techniques serve such a compositional and performance purpose. Consider a means to achieve this result."

... which was exaclty what I was doing anyway. I must be psychic.

More on this 611th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Music That Listens to Itself (The Assignment: Record a piece of music that repurposes itself as it proceeds), at: https://disquiet.com/0611/

Some of the music resulting from this project may be included in a September 29, 2023, event at the Berkeley Alembic in Berkeley, California: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/expanded-listening-music-that-listens-to-itself-tickets-712124101357

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

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0611-music-that-listens-to-itself/

Music Itself Listens To (disquiet0611)

Disquiet Junto Project 0611: Music That Listens to Itself
The Assignment: Record a piece of music that repurposes itself as it proceeds.

My notes can be found here: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0611-music-that-listens-to-itself/64092/9

Step 1: The underlying idea is to produce music that, so to speak, listens to itself. This would be music that employs techniques to revisit itself — repurposes itself — as it proceeds. From reverb to echo to tape loops to granular synthesis to accessing a buffer, various techniques serve such a compositional and performance purpose. Consider a means to achieve this result.

Step 2: Record a piece of music that employs the technique you focused on as a result of Step 1. Please note: for the Berkeley Alembic event, I’ll be sharing music that is particularly quiet, particularly appropriate to a meditative state of mind. You don’t need to record quiet music for this project, but quiet music is what I’ll be playing at the event.

[Disquiet_Junto_0611] Imaginary Windchime

More on this 611th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Music That Listens to Itself (The Assignment: Record a piece of music that repurposes itself as it proceeds), at: https://disquiet.com/0611/

Some of the music resulting from this project may be included in a September 29, 2023, event at the Berkeley Alembic in Berkeley, California: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/expanded-listening-music-that-listens-to-itself-tickets-712124101357

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

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0611-music-that-listens-to-itself/

Medivate (disquiet0611)

Disquiet Junto Project 0432: Ensembles Remix
The Assignment: Take an existing musical trio and remix it to make it your own.

The random number generator gave me a 79. So I took Detritus Tabu3's Kyoto Kicks:  https://soundcloud.com/detritus-tabu3/kyoto-kicks3-disquiet-junto-trio-take-10-see-description
The source track of which was GUS's Alone As A Group+horn:
https://soundcloud.com/gus-576228330/disquiet0430-alone-as-a-grouphorn?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0430
Which was based on vgmrmojo's Alone In A Group:
https://soundcloud.com/vgmrmojo/disquiet0429-alone-in-a-group?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0429
I did a radical remix to make a drone out of this piece. The process was to splice the source track up into small pieces, some of which I arranged to a new track, half the tempo of the original. The rest I processed with the awesome Evolution device by INA GRM, which I love to use. The result is my drone remix.

More on this 432nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0432: Ensembles (Remix) — The Assignment: Take an existing musical trio and remix it to make it your own — at:
https://disquiet.com/0432/
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-0432-ensembles-remix/
There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.
Image associated with this track is by Abby, used thanks to a Creative Commons license and Flickr. The image has been cropped, colors shifted, and text added.
https://flic.kr/p/8LopPe
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

Kyoto Kicks (Drone Remix) Disquiet0432

got #53 through the random number generator & was quite glad to get https://soundcloud.com/name-constant/solitary-ensembles-x3-melondruiechaonautncdisquiet0431; a brooding, rich, damp little piece - to my ears ideal for soundtracking the discovery a secret in a horror film.

I initially intended to make something more or less like i always do - a distended collage of elements and gritty little sounds, lathered in hiss and lurches * b u t * somehow i got hung up on a small loop of kick & snare that i could pitch up [and down] into a [to my ears] not unappealing lope…

So yeah, i sort of shoehorned the more delicate work of @melondruie, @Chaonaut & @name-constant into a garbled and tangled beat work-out with resolutely extraneous found sound edges. The only audio i provided was the snatch of birdsong, everything else is a snippet extracted from the three stems more-or-less egregiously repurposed.

A good way to spend a bank holiday afternoon i think. Cheers @disquiet, as always & thanks again to @melondruie, @Chaonaut & @name-constant

Solitary Ensembles X3 (melondruie/Chaonaut/NC)[jimmy Kipple's reassemble stonily mix]

I liked the beautifully restrained solo piano track by @bellyfullofstars and unrestrained it by duplicating it and putting one copy each through two different tape loopers.  I added some choral vocalizations to pick up some of the overtones of the piano.

BFOSThreeLeaves Joule Remix(disquiet0432)

Remix of disquiet 0431 track submitted by @ohm-research

Disquiet Junto Project 0432: Ensembles Remix
The Assignment: Take an existing musical trio and remix it to make it your own.

Step 1: This week’s Disquiet Junto project brings the trios sequence to a close. Over the three previous sequential projects, musical trios were created by accrual, one participant at a time. You’ll now remix one (or combine more than one) and make it/them your own.

Step 2: The plan is for you to remix a pre-existing track from the previous project. First, however, you must select the piece of music to which you will be adding your own music. There are well over 80 tracks in all to choose from, 83 in all. You might also choose to use more than one track, mashing up tracks that have nothing in common, or that share elements. Here’s the playlist, with 81 of the tracks from last week:

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0431 10

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Track notes:

I rolled the 83-sided dice of probability and landed on 23, cue: ušće's (Disquiet0431)Trio With Krakenkraft / Matthew Thomas Davis. A nice, rich slab of ambience.

I thought about ways I could potentially remix this. It had been a while since I'd last undertaken anything resembling a remix. I decided to employ my oft-ignored Ableton Live and chop up the original track into a repeating motif and subsume some rhythmic elements into it.

As a result, it's more densely packed than my usual offerings. The overall rendering of the track (lots of compression and sidechaining) coaxed out some interesting textures and artefacts from the original track.

[disquiet 0432] Ensembles Remix "glazed" (remix of trio With ušće/Krakenkraft/Matthew Thomas Davis)

This track takes my vibes stem from 0431 (Off Angle) and Raymond Stull's *delicious* trumpet stem from 0430, and adds a new whole-tone electric piano track. I fiddled with this a while and realized what I wanted was _more trumpet_.

So I added a lengthy delay to the trumpet track and turned the feedback fairly far up to get a Frippertronics effect. The final trumpet track is now multiple copies of Raymond's performance overlapping each other and coming up with previously unrevealed harmonies. I dialed back the vibes and piano to let that lead the piece.

A Third of a Mile [disquiet 0432]

Modular, ambient, abstract, and some beats too

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

A Third of a Mile [disquiet 0432]

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