This track is improvised with the aim to disobey or block out the rules of staying in time and following the key. The neurons were allowed to send any command to play a note and to disregard all the criteria trained so well.
All instruments were played one after the other, only knowing when but not which note was played by the instruments already recorded.

Hopefully listening to the track is rewarding, although this track is not an easy one.

This track was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0551:

More on this 551st weekly Disquiet Junto project – The Bends (The Assignment: Get less strict about something you’re strict about) – at: https://disquiet.com/0551/

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-0551-the-bends/

Guided By Neurons (Disquiet0551)

More on this 552nd weekly Disquiet Junto project – The Radio in My Life (The Assignment: Record music in response to a John Cage and Morton Feldman conversation) – at: https://disquiet.com/0552/

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/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 2: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0552-the-radio-in-my-life/

Radio Life (disquiet0552)

the radio task is great
i went to the green with radio and guitar
made my own environment nice with playing guitar
then came the red radio

the red in the green(disquiet0552)

Disquiet Junto Project 0552: The Radio in My Life
The Assignment: Record music in response to a John Cage and Morton Feldman conversation.

This was fun. I thought about intrusions. Mostly it's the loud street in front of my window and kids running in the flat above mine and people shouting at Siri, Alexa and OKgoogle in the backyard.

I checked my field recordings and there it was: the f… church bells. A bad ambient track, repeated relentlessly every sunday, never changing, a transcendent single-track playlist … 

I threw the field recoding of the bells into deCoda, and it calculated Aminor and 84bpm. I started a track from scratch with these parameters and improvised some beats and pads. The idea was to have a peaceful ambient track … that could be disturbed by acoustic intrusion of the church bells. 

The track seemed finished when I read the algorithm again and listened to the Cage-Feldman-Talk. I liked the pure oddity of the first minutes, so I added some parts of the beginning, accepting that this will draw focus to the conversation, so I didn't care that you don't understand much. 

Next sunday at seven, they will play my track …

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Track image credit: Ancient church in Lunigiana (Tuscany, Italy) by Daniele Levis Pelusi on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/rJo9jh9iORU

Talk samples credit: John Cage + Morton Feldman's Coffee-Sippin' ASMR Chat in a Room Full of Cigarette Smoke on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chEvxoypyUo

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More on this 552nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — The Radio in My Life (The Assignment: Record music in response to a John Cage and Morton Feldman conversation) — at: https://disquiet.com/0552/

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/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0552-the-radio-in-my-life/

Kraken Bandcamp Junto

Intrusive Bells [disquiet0552]

When I first read this week’s call I wanted to elaborate on my aesthetic assumptions as Ossimuratore that verbal communication is corrupted music.

I was a bit struggling until I listened to @ostacoli-sonori’s INTRUSIONS. This made me realize something odd about my musical education: as many italian kids grown up in the seventies and eighties I didn’t study english until middle school, so I used to listen to a lot of foreign pop and rock music without understanding a word of the lyrics.

In this track I use an exerpt from a cult italian movie called Amici Miei where Conte Mascetti gives what has been since then popularized in Italy as supercazzola (i.e. gimmerick italian used to persuade someone).

The idea is that gimmerick language, by dropping its semantic transport function, can retain musical significance.

Made with NI Maschine+

More on this 552nd weekly Disquiet Junto project – The Radio in My Life (The Assignment: Record music in response to a John Cage and Morton Feldman conversation) – at: https://disquiet.com/0552/

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 2: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0552-the-radio-in-my-life/

Tarapia Tapioco (disquiet0552)

[disquiet0552] Sandcastles In The Aether

Birds singing along to their radios is not what we expect from nature, but it is much better then the sound of traffic.

In this track nearly all birds in the wood have their own radio. And whenever they sing or hammer, they turn the volume of their radio higher... By a strange coincidence all radios play tracks by RabMusicLab.

The beautiful field-recording of all the birds in the forest https://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/514309/ was supplied by @klankbeeld (https://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/) under the https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. This gem inspired the whole track.

The following tracks are played by the birds' radios in order of appearance:
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/kwach
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/evening-contemplation
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/urban-traffic-folly
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/paper-time
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/musical-flora
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/machinery
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/bluebell-symphony
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/bedtime-for-musical-bots
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/minimally-viable-spring

This track was motivated by the Disquiet Junto Project 0552: Create a track were radio is unobstrusively intermingling with the surrounding sounds.

More on this 552nd weekly Disquiet Junto project – The Radio in My Life (The Assignment: Record music in response to a John Cage and Morton Feldman conversation) – at: https://disquiet.com/0552/

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 2: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0552-the-radio-in-my-life/

Birds with Radios - the lesser Evil (Disquiet0552)

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

More on this 553rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Break That Cycle (The Assignment: Record in a steady tempo but break it on occasion) — at: https://disquiet.com/0553/

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Four Four Walks Into A Bar (disquiet0553)

[disquiet0554] Rumble

This composition was created for the Disquiet Junto Project 0556: Gabber Ambient. 

Here's the description I posted on the Disquiet Junto 0556 discussion thread:
I was immediately intrigued by this assignment. I’m into ambient, lofi and more mellow forms of electronic music these days, but there was a time many years ago when I enjoyed fast BPM genres like hardcore, jungle, and especially drum and bass. I never listened to a lot of gabber though but am familiar with it. 

Like many, my first introduction to ambient was Brian Eno’s “Ambient 1: Music for Airports”. So my piece starts off with a short sample of his voice from a 2011 interview I found online. From there, it quickly morphs into loud 180 BPM madness, while a slow more ambient undercurrent, meanders underneath. Halfway through, the beat shifts to a bit of a DnB vibe. Everything cools off to a more serene feel at the end. This was created in Abelton Live using a combination of instruments, samples and effects. 

Combining the two types of music was like mixing oil and water but hopefully my contribution here is mostly successful. It sounded good to me, plus I had a lot of fun fooling around with this project.

More info:

More on this 556th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Gabber Ambient (The Assignment: Field-test a hybrid genre) — at: https://disquiet.com/0556/

Thanks to Sevenism for having proposed this project.

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Disquiet Junto Gabber Ambient: disquiet0556

5-5-5-5 Guided ( BOX BREATHING) - R3lyks

During the early 1990s I studied Mathematics and Computer Science. The world wide web was still largely text-based and mostly empty. Today things are obviously different, though I still thoroughly enjoy art, design, cinema and music in all its forms. I have traveled all over the world for nearly two decades, visiting just over 140 countries. Japan is my favorite. All of this I attempt to incorporate into my music and art.

[disquiet0552] Sandcastles In The Aether

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