Disquiet Junto Project 0596: Phylogeny Junto
The Assignment: Depict genres’ evolution over time in music.

Step 1: “Phylogeny is,” per the American Heritage Dictionary, “The evolutionary development and history of a species or trait of a species or of a higher taxonomic grouping of organisms.” Consider how such a concept can be applied to genre.

Step 2: Think about how genres change and develop over time, spawning and merging with other genres.

Step 3: Record a piece of music that depicts, charts, or otherwise expresses an example of how genres might follow the model of phylogeny.

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, June 5, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, June 1, 2023.

More on this 596th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phylogeny Junto (The Assignment: Depict genres’ evolution over time in music), at: https://disquiet.com/0596/

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Disquiet Junto Project 0596: Phylogeny Junto

"Your ripples are a reflection of your stones"
Ethereal ambient inspired by Luke Levi haiku - "Rockbottom"

Rock bottom—
river stones form
gentle waves

https://youtu.be/B37_dPJUBj0

Music - Stu King
Jazzmaster guitar
Korg Synth
NDLR 
Digital delay - Strymon
Analog delay - MXR
Reverb - Strymon
Loop Station - Boss

Field Recording - Stu King
Pebble Creek
Superior National Forest, April 2021

The Silver In Your Soul (naviarhaiku475)

A simple chord sequence courtesy of Tonnetz Sequent, which is split between a chord that has its filter rhythmically opened and a muxlicer arpeggiating through the oscillators. I played with the volume and reverb settings as it ran through for a few minutes. Should be plenty of space for more parts to go over this.

More on this 591st weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Loneliest Number (The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0591/

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The Loneliest Number(disquiet0591)

theater music for a play i was working on
i played electic oud (godin electic oud) then guitar with microcosm then the kick came along
i invented the genre of love music for the piece
my goal was to sound from very old to modern, i hope I succeeded!

love theme for a play from ancient regimes to today's modern age(disquiet0596)

More on this 596th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phylogeny Junto (The Assignment: Depict genres’ evolution over time in music), at: https://disquiet.com/0596/

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

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The First 3 (disquiet0596)

Evolution (disquiet 0596)

An evolving electronic sequence, created in Pure Data then undergoing a series of changes.

More on this 596th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phylogeny Junto (The Assignment: Depict genres’ evolution over time in music), at: https://disquiet.com/0596/

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

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Branching Out (disquiet0596)

Snippet from the bass solo from Sonny Stitt's 1964 release of 'Now's the Time' - Bass Richard Davis, Drums Connie Kay ...

Iterative limiting (towards the left) and distortion (towards the right) ...

More on this 596th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phylogeny Junto (The Assignment: Depict genres’ evolution over time in music), at: https://disquiet.com/0596/

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

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folly hang hype

halF phylogenY [disquiet0596]

[disquiet0596] Stuff

one-hand-piano n°2 [you to play with, if you like it]

The Last Resort

More on this 599th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Minimal(ist) Blend (The Assignment: Make a piece of music that combines self-contained minimalist parts), at: https://disquiet.com/0599/

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Between Blinks (disquiet0599)

ATMO

Going My Way

Cordtail

wish

Arbinte

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.

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.

[disquiet0596] Stuff

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