Disquiet Junto Project 0724: Work It

The Assignment: The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do.

This week’s project is timely and open-ended. The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do.

Deadline: Monday, November 17, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0724

Disquiet Junto Project 0724: Work It

I’ve been meaning for ages now to make a track using only one single suite of plugins … and this week’s Disquiet Junto brief has finally inspired me into action! ALL of the sounds you hear in this track are courtesy of wonderful Sinevibes plugins, and it’s been really fun to explore more of what these genius little plugins can bring … with plenty more exploration to be had! @sinevibes

This track uses Torsion as the main synth source, with Diffusion also providing sounds from its wave shape modelling synth engine. As you can hear, I’ve gone slightly mad on the effects front! I’ve made use of Sinevibes’ Emission, Hexonator, Inertia, Luminance, Multitude, Cluster, Drift, Droplet, Octagon, Array, Zap, Albedo, Atom, and Dispersion …!

Enjoy! 😁🤗 It's been enjoyable, and there could easily have been a 20 minute version of this! 😂

More on the 724th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Work It — The Assignment: The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do — at https://disquiet.com/0724/.

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halF vibE [disquiet0724]

UN GAUCHO – solo bass

A simple, heartfelt solo bass piece — part of a series of intimate instrumental moments I play live or record at home for fun.
Five-string bass (high C), light effect pedals — just melody, warmth, and a great instrument.

Thanks for listening!
— dd

Photo (C) Elena Nicolai


For this @disquiet junto meeting
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0724-work-it

Un Gaucho (disquiet0724)

Recorded, edited, mixed & mastered in 1996, & on 04 Nov 2019 & 14 Nov 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA.

Tape, time & effects

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 02 Oct 2009, microscope, Massapequa, NY, USA

Music & art © 1996, 2009, 2019, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “Audio Hog Rubber” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0724: Work It The Assignment: The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do.

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

More on the 724th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Work It — The Assignment: The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do — at https://disquiet.com/0724/.

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Audio Hog Rubber (disquiet0724)

My track notes regarding the creation of this track can be found here:

Disquiet Junto Project 0724: Work It
The Assignment: The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do.

This week’s project is timely and open-ended. The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do.

[Disquiet Junto 0724] The Search (early draft)

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0724: Work it. The Assignment: The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0724 discussion thread on Lines:

I have a tendency to overwork a track to the point where it drifts away from what I initially envisioned. Many times it works out okay but other times, it doesn’t. So this time I backed off and tried to keep it minimal, which was my original vision.

Created in Ableton Live using Slate + Ash Cycles and a MIDI keyboard

More on the 724th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Work It — The Assignment: The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do — at https://disquiet.com/0724/.

Remembering Stone Patterns [disquiet0724]

[disquiet0724] M8-BS

Synthesisers, electric bass, instrumental jam.

A quick experiment built from a pair of Oblique Strategies cards:

“Honour thy error as a hidden intention” / “Just carry on”

This track started as an improvised bass demo over a simple low-note loop meant to replace a click track. I accidentally recorded four mismatched fingerboard-taps while trying to sketch a candombe-style groove — and instead of deleting them, I looped them across the whole piece. The synth layers were added later to make the odd bass/percussion hybrid loop actually work.

Loose playing, strange chord ideas, and all the imperfections left in on purpose. A fun morning session that I may revisit later.

for this challenge:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0727-polar-strategies/

Candombecito Improvisado (disquiet0727)

Oblique Mix (Yoshi , Tired of Poop and Drunk Yoshi) disquiet0727  (STBB#979)

This track was written in response to pulling the following two cards from Oblique Strategies:

Don't avoid what is easy.
What would your closest friend do?

In response to the first prompt I did the easy thing of quickly getting an acid house groove going with percussion from B Drum Kastle, bass from Softpop2, and a kick from Kickall. 0-ctrl is used to trigger the kick and do some light pitch sequencing of Kastle and Softpop. The lead is a Minibrute2 played live along with the drums and bass. 

When I thought about what my closest friend would do, I thought he'd probably just vibe, do a fun jam and not worry too much about being clever in the composing of it. So after jamming with the patch for a little while, I recorded a take to three tracks: drums, bass, lead. Then I  spent several hours editing the take, adding additional effects, and mixing.

More on the 727th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Polar Strategies — The Assignment: Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Oblique Strategies card deck — at https://disquiet.com/0727/.

disquiet0727 - polar strategies

Disquiet Junto Project 0727: Chord of Omnis
The Assignment: Celebrate the 50th anniverary of the Oblique Strategies card deck.

Step 1: Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt published the first edition of their Oblique Strategies card deck in 1975, which makes 2025 the deck’s 50th anniversary. Note the milestone — and if you’re not familiar with the deck, read up a bit.

Step 2: Select at random two cards from the deck. If you don’t have a deck, there are various free web and mobile apps that reproduce it.  [Cards I got: Embrace repititions + simple subtractions]

Step 3: Record a piece of music that somehow combines or reconciles the two directions that resulted from Step 2.

More on the 727th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Polar Strategies — The Assignment: Celebrate the 50th anniverary of the Oblique Strategies card deck — at https://disquiet.com/0727/.

longitude [disquiet0727]

only a part (disquiet0727)

Track created for disquiet challenge  0727.  This track started out on my ipad and was finished on the PC DAW, Studio One. The piece consists of 4 tracks improvised straight through with no edits. 

The inspiration started with drawing two random prompts from Oblique Strategies; 
1. Breath Deeply
2. Don't avoid what is easy

I focused on my breath while performing and adjusting the track parameters. The rhythm comes from two sequences , 8 step and 5 step. The easy part was finishing a piece I've been working on in my ipad for a couple of weeks.

ios synths used in AUM:  Dixie, Bleass Monolit, House Mark 1, J6 Synth One
Sequencer used:  Polybud

As I listened to the piece, I had images of dancing at night with the butterflies in the glitchgarden.

More on the 727th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Polar Strategies — The Assignment: Celebrate the 50th anniverary of the Oblique Strategies card deck — at https://disquiet.com/0727/

night garden dance_disquiet0727

Using the Oblique Strategies card deck app (based on Eno and Schmidt, 1975), I drew "humility of intentions" and "organic machinery."
I used my Orba 2 (pictured, at right) , which is a handheld synth, but it is really a bit of a toy. (I also have an orba 1, which only uses factory settings- but like the Orba 2 can also be a midi controller. I don't have an Orba 3, which also has a microphone onboard). The Orba 2 allows me to use my own files create an 8-part set in the drum track, plus takeovers in the bass, lead and chorus tracks. It has a litte speaker on the bottom which is not bad at all. Organic machinery: my voice.

Humble: silly improv. But it is a portable toy that I have used in performance and I like it.

More on the 727th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Polar Strategies — The Assignment: Celebrate the 50th anniverary of the Oblique Strategies card deck — at https://disquiet.com/0727/.

disquiet0727 Orba and me

This week's #disquietjunto prompt was to pick 2 cards from Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies and use the results to inform what you create.  I am working on some chiptune-adjacent tracks, so I took the most minimal of those ideas - a short drum loop - and decided to expand it using the oblique strategies. Good idea, right?
Amusingly, the cards I got absolutely wanted to go in the other direction: "Is it done?" and "Resist change." Go figure!
I decided the song would be a short drum loop, happy to chug along, periodically disturbed by other song elements (pesky melodies! loitering chord changes!) that tried to intrude, and the drum loop would try to shake them off (resist change!)
This encouraged me to get more glitchy and effects-driven than I usually am.
I like the result! I think I will come back to this and try to make the effects a little more extreme and representative of the idea.

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More on the 727th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Polar Strategies — The Assignment: Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Oblique Strategies card deck — at https://disquiet.com/0727/.


Gravity Wants You Back (disquiet0727)

Corrupted Save [disquiet0727]

More on the 727th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Polar Strategies — The Assignment: Celebrate the 50th anniverary of the Oblique Strategies card deck — at https://disquiet.com/0727/.

Lava Labs (disquiet0727)

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.

[disquiet0724] M8-BS

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