GodKingMajorLucre - Know My Name ( Introduction )

Shawty Part 2

GodKing MajorLucre -  Shawty Part '2' ( Freestyle )

Disquiet Junto Project 0590: Concrète Roots
The Assignment: Make music combining field recordings and feedback

This project is the first of three that are being done in collaboration with the 2023 Musikfestival Bern (musikfestivalbern.ch 2), which will be held in Switzerland from September 6 through 10. The topic this year is « √ » — as the organization explains: “the radical, or square root symbol and the power of its symbolism are central to the festival and these will be translated into music in multifarious ways.” All three projects will engage with the work of Éliane Radigue, who is the Composer-in-Residence for the 2023 festival.

We are working at the invitation of Tobias Reber, an early Junto participant, who is in charge of the educational activities of the festival. This is the fifth year in a row that the Junto has collaborated with Musikfestival Bern.

Select recordings resulting from these three Disquiet Junto projects may be played and displayed throughout the festival.

Step 1: Consider two different techniques: field recordings and feedback.

Step 2: Combine field recordings and feedback in the development of an original track.

Eight Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0590” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your tracks.

Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0590” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation of a project playlist.

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:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0590-concrete-roots/

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

Step 6: If posting on social media, please consider using the hashtag #DisquietJunto so fellow participants are more likely to locate your communication.

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

Step 8: Also join in the discussion on the Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

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.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you.

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, April 24, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, April 20, 2023.

Upload: When participating in this project, be sure to include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

Download: It is always best to set your track as downloadable and allowing for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution, allowing for derivatives).

For context, when posting the track online, please be sure to include this following information:

More on this 590th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Concrète Roots (The Assignment: Make music combining field recordings and feedback), at: https://disquiet.com/0590/ 2

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0590-concrete-roots/

Back to nature (Part One) - disquiet0590

visuals (YouTube) @ https://youtu.be/I0LP8EfY9Lk

Sound of mountain
sound of ocean
everywhere spring rain.

haiku by Sôen Nakagawa https://tricycle.org/magazine/endless-vow-zen-path-soen-nakagawa/

picture by Guillaume de Germain https://unsplash.com/photos/Z8l4vxWTEiY

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

visuals (YouTube)

halF everywherE [naviarhaiku487]

This week's #disquietjunto prompt was to record the second third of an asynchronous trio.

I fired up a random number generator on Friday, and the number it returned was 1, so I downloaded Andreas Kitzmann's beautiful and atmospheric track (https://soundcloud.com/andreas-kitzmann-27370936/disquiet0591)

I listened to it on Friday and could immediately imagine some accordion or similar reedy tones playing over it.

I wasn't able to get to work on it until Monday, so I settled for using my melodica (surely my neighbors won't mind), which I think worked pretty well. 

The first two phrases the melodica plays are melodies I heard in my head while listening to Andreas' track, and the rest imitate phrases from the source track (though sometimes repeating them starting on a different pitch for a little flavor).

Happy Andreas shared his creativity, and I look forward to hearing what part might come next!

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More on this 592nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Better Than One (The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0592/

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-0592-better-than-one/

Two Of Three (disquiet0592)

Additional instrumentation on my end: A kalimba with Valhalla delay (resembles a haunting synth), and a ratchet with lots of reverb

More on this 592nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Better Than One (The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0592/

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-0592-better-than-one/

Somebody's Home (disquiet0592)

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0593-the-charm/

Used https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley/one-possibilitydisquiet0592 by https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley based on a first track by @undermulden

Added a lead synth and sparse electric bass notes. (and some chords on a synth pad on the second half)

@/ray_cobley

Three Possibilities (with ray cobley & undermulden) - disquiet0593

Gates, bellsounds pitched down and overdriven sytnths

More on this 593rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Charm (The Assignment: Complete an asynchronous trio begun by two other musicians), at: https://disquiet.com/0593/

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-0593-the-charm/

As By Incident Or Accident Featuring Martinsea And Michele Isoni [disquiet0593]

'Lincoln’s Tinned Peaches have a new track out called Surrender. It brings together an intriguing mix of flavours. Fast and funky in a frantic Post-Punk influenced manner, the striking melody and tasty Bass Guitar figures grab me immediately. The band’s playing and chemistry is impressive across the board. In the chorus we get tempo shifts, multi-tracked voal harmonies. In the final section, the lead guitarist goes for it and the band’s playing is fluid and almost freeform'.

Neil March, Trust the doc., Ed. 81

Surrender

This was my contribution for the part 4 remix:  Disquiet Junto Project 0594: Threemix

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0594 discussion thread:

I was inspired to remix the @Joule composition "Never Alone", that combined "Nobody's Home" by @glitcher and "Somebody's Home" by @SinnySounds. I liked the mood and the way all the sounds and instruments came together.

After bringing the main track into Ableton Live, I added compression and re-equalized some parts, to make it even more dynamic. This especially helped after I added my own tracks. I also duplicated sections of the main sample a couple times and added effects using Bleass Granulizer, ShaperBox 3 and Strymon Big Sky reverb. The additional tracks that were added used Moog Model 15, AudioThing Noises and Sugar Bytes Aparillo plugins. Hopefully I wasn't too over-the-top or heavy-handed in creating this remix. I enjoyed taking part in this project and also listening to all the great compositions from everyone these past few weeks. 

More on this 594th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Threemix (The Assignment: Remix an asynchronously produced trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0594/
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-0594-threemix/

A Gathering of Sirens [disquiet0594] (K Joule  “Never Alone” remix)

Collaborative work for the Disquiet Project:
https://disquiet.com/2023/05/18/disquiet-junto-project-0594-threemix/

The unmixed source track:
https://soundcloud.com/merlebardenoir/merle-bardenoir-sonic-search-4light-unknown-eden-disquiet0593

Merle Bardenoir, Sonic Search & Forelight - Unknown Eden [disquiet0594]

Shine Like Me

GodKingMajorLucre -  Shine Like Me ( Freestyle )

This is my reponse to this week's @naviar-records haiku challenge. I'm getting my head around some of the potentialities of Logic Pro X and was using some of the smart controls to create this.

bird polyphony
– treble, alto, tenor, bass,
Spring meadow concert

Raymond Cobley is an experimental composer and regular participant in our Haiku challenge. Now retired, Raymond aims to explore the possibilities afforded by open-source software, which he uses exclusively for creating and editing both sounds & images. All his works are published ​under a Creative Commons licence, and free for anybody to download or remix.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
 

Deadline: 5th July 2023

Haiku by Raymond Cobley https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley

Picture by EVGENIY KONEV https://unsplash.com/photos/YEcvdJ97Oig

bird polyphony (naviarhaiku495)

#sofaygo #pluggnb #cochise #playboicarti #destroylonley #capzlock #kashdami

DÖNT LET ME GÖ (prod.woradon)

Bernhard Plagg - trumpet 1
Stephan Stadtfeld - trumpet 2
Lionel Speciale - horn
Vladimir Vereś - trombone
Fabian Neckermann - tuba

Sound recording in the studio of the Landesmusikakademie Berlin, 2023

The composition was released in June 2025 on the CD BRASS TACKS 3 by Parma Recordings
https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6714

Program Note
Tagundnachtgleiche (Equinox) was created on the occasion of a composition competition for brass quintets announced by the publishing house Furore Verlag in 2017.
At the beginning of 2023, I decided to record the piece in a recording studio and to make it available to the public. The trumpeter Bernhard Plagg was kind enough to take on the project. He put together a brass quintet, organised rehearsal dates, etc.
The composition consists of two elements that alternate or interpenetrate each other. On the one hand, composed, notated music, harmonic and rhythmic in the broadest sense. And on the other, improvised music, mainly consisting of differentiated, nuanced noises and representing a kind of random music, like random sounds in nature.

buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F5F4F8BD
 
SHORT INTERVIEW

1.) What unique qualities of brass instruments do you aim to highlight in your composition?

My composition consists of two different parts: composed music, which is rhythmic and harmonic in the broadest sense, and improvised music, which consists exclusively of noises and contains aleatoric elements. I had given the musicians a list of playing techniques with details such as hissing sounds, frullato, clicking sounds, whistling, drumming with the fingers on the sound tube and the like. I wanted to show the fantastic things you can do with brass instruments, apart from playing them conventionally

2.) Did you draw on any traditional brass idioms — such as fanfares or chorales — and how did you choose to either embrace or subvert them?

When composing, I actually proceeded quite intuitively, without giving it much thought. The result was optimistic, joyful music. The harmony constantly modulates along the circle of fifths. Every few seconds, another accidental is added, resulting in a continuous circling.
I wanted to counter this with a modern, avant-garde contrast. The noisy, improvised passages are quite exciting and at times ironic or witty. The brief was to create a random music like in nature. However, the composed parts are actually also avant-garde, and often both – the composed and the improvised – permeate each other.

3.) What composers, traditions, or personal experiences informed your work on BRASS TACKS VOL. 3?

I believe that Tagundnachtgleiche is a bit influenced by Bach, although I cannot explain it further. And I also have a lot of experience with improvised music

4.) If you achieve instant mastery over any instrument in the brass family, what would you pick?

Tuba, probably. Or, tenor horn. In any case, one of the lower brass instruments with a soft, voluminous, deep sound.



Tagundnachtgleiche - brass quintet

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Bout Stacks

GodKingMajorLucre - Bout Stacks

BROMINE OIL

R1_D0–1

This track was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0605 which simply states: "Compose a piece of music with as much silence as notes."

After some thought I created this track. There are many instruments and sounds, but they all play the same notes in unison at the same time.
The sections of pause (there is no silence in this track) are as long as the sections in where the instruments are playing. I also tried to keep the number of notes to a minimum, only 15 notes are played in this track.

More on this 605th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Fifty Fifty (Compose a piece of music with as much silence as notes), at: https://disquiet.com/0605/

Thanks to Jason Richardson for having proposed this week’s project.

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-0605-fifty-fifty/

Nothing Left To Say  (Disquiet0605)

disquiet0606
Trilateral to Alone
    • Key: n/a     BPM: 42.222     Time signature: 4/4     DAW: Reaper
    • Instruments: n/a
    • Plug-ins: Ozone 10
    • IDEA: Compose a piece of music that is 75% silence and 25% sound. 
    • PROCESS: Decided to make the piece 3 minutes long or 180 seconds. 25% of 180 would be 45 seconds. Used a random number generator to get 45 random numbers between 1 and 180. Used random samples between 1 second and 3 seconds long ( mostly 1 second).Placed them on the timeline at the random numbers generated from the generator.
    • RESULT: 3 minutes piece with sounds playing randomly over 3 minutes.

More on this 606th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Three to One (Compose a piece of music with three times as much silence as sound), at: https://disquiet.com/0606/

Thanks this week to Jason Richardson and Klaus-Dieter Hilf.

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-0606-three-to-one/

GodKingMajorLucre - Know My Name ( Introduction )

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