These are tracks in which I participated in Disquiet Junto. It's amazing and you should do it too! Find out more here: https://disquiet.com/2013/04/25/disquiet-junto-faq/

Disquiet Junto Projects

Disquiet 0369 The Final Trio

Left Track: https://soundcloud.com/anoddhue/spaceriff-leftpan-disquiet0367

Left + Right Track: https://soundcloud.com/plusch/spaceriff-duo-disquiet0368?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0368

It started with @anoddhue laying down a happy bouncy synth track, followed by @plusch added some spacey wavetable arppegiation. I had a hard time nailing down the tempo, but when I did, I used my Drumbrute Impact and ran some of the outputs through my eurorack using the Hertz Donut, Interstellar Radio, Wasp Filter and AI OTA VCF.

Things got a little crazy.

Interstellar Insanity [disquiet 0369]

Left Track: https://soundcloud.com/tedthetrumpet/cade-disquiet0367

Right Track: https://soundcloud.com/zeromeaning2/the-rotting-disquiet0368?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0368

The rich and haunting tracks by @tedthetrumpet and @ZeroMeaning formed the basis for this work. There was room in the high frequency range so I added some extra sound to add to the creep factor. 

I know i've used the Schlappi Engineering "Interstellar Radio" on every single track I've done for this trio project, but.... It's just so fun to use!! In fact these are some of the coolest sounds I've gotten from it. I ran the error out into the signal in, as recommended by the designer, then split the output into two filters: The doepfer wasp filter and the AI Synthesis OTA Filter, then mixed the outputs. After that it was just turning knobs and trying to contact the dead.

The result reminded me a lot of the video game "Oxenfree" so I named the track "Kanaloa" which has a significance to the plot of the game. (No spoilers I haven't finished the game yet!)

This track, and entire project, has given me the most fun and inspiration I've had with Junto so far. Let's do more like this!!

Kanaloa [disquiet0369]

There are many great sources of music out there if aliens wanted to learn about terrestrial music, so I decided it would be best to make an example of some of the compositional techniques I tend to gravitate towards. Polyrhythms, compound time signatures, and interval based tonality.

I have two instruments playing, a simple kit and a synth. The synth goes through several single-interval scales to show what kinds of sounds you can get. It travels from minor second all the way up to octave. The drums start with a one beat cycle, then a two beat, then a three beat, and so on all the way up to a twelve beat cycle. Polyrhythm is demonstrated simply by having the synth voice play triplets.

I also added some distortion and delay, because I like those things too. 

I did the whole thing with my Synthstrom Deluge. This thing is amazing. https://synthstrom.com/product/deluge/

Exhibition For Extraterrestrials [disquiet0373]

I made 4 musical Pi's and put them together.

3 pi's are electronic instruments, each playing through the first 32 digits of pi at different speeds. Notes are based on a 1-12 digit scale, so a 0 would be C, a 3 would be Eb and so on.

1 instrument is a drum set that goes through a 10 beat cycle, but how much of that cycle plays depends on the number of Pi that is next. So it would play3 beats, then 1 beat, then 4, then 1, etc.

I programmed all of these into my Synthstrom deluge, then plugged it into the modular for a bit more depth of sound.

This project was constructed on stream! Check my music streams at www.twitch.tv/untilledsound

Here are the specific videos.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/396064563
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/397629895

I have a new album! Check it out at www.bandcamp.com/untilledsound

Cheers Y'all.

4 Pi's [disquiet0376]

I was a tad confused by the directions for this one. It says to re-do the algorithm with two notes. But I can't use notes that are unused in the second iteration, because all notes are already used when you add the two melodies together. So I tried adding different diads, then triads, then 4 note chords, making sure when replacing chords to use ones never used before. I ended up making them semi-arpegiated chords and squeezed all the notes for each note in the melody in the time frame it already took up.

After that I hooked the whole thing up to my modular system and added some extra noise.

This project was done on stream: Check out the videos:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/399592453
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/401191622

Amalgorithm [disquiet0377]

This week's disquiet came at the perfect time. I was planning on doing this project anyway, but the prompt to make a piece for one specific person was ideal for the project. This piece is in honor of my late Grandfather, Lee Eugene Bratcher.

All the audio from this piece is from a field recording I made of grandpa's funeral last weekend. (Except for the lone bass synth at the beginning) It's more of a sound art piece than an actual composed musical work. My grandfather was a veteran and a delightful and friendly man. He will be dearly missed.

Full copy of Obituary:
"Lee Bratcher passed into his eternal home on Friday, March 1, at Samaritan Albany General Hospital.

Lee was born in Fort Riley, Kansas, to Sylvester and Dora Bratcher. He had three siblings: sister, Kathleen and twin brothers, Floyd and Fred. His family moved around a bit for work and he lived in Arkansas, Arizona and Missouri.

He was married to Jenny McCollum on September 23, 1950; she passed in August 1988. The couple had two children, Michael and Shawn.

Lee served in the Korean War aboard the USS Southerland as a seaman first class and on the USS Dixie, where he learned a trade as lithographic pressman.

After being discharged from the Navy, Lee and Jenny moved to Portland where he attended Pacific Bible College, now Warner Pacific University.

He was a member of Church of God and United Presbyterian Churches.

Lee worked as a graphics art printer for 40 years in the Portland area.

He enjoyed collecting old books, book binding, perfecting the art of Gold Gilding, chess, Theological discussions and singing.

Lee was preceded in death by two other wives, Loralyn Thomas and MaryAnn Nehls.

Lee lived his last six years at Quail Run Assisted Living, Mennonite Village.

Lee is survived by sister, Kathleen Bratcher; son, Michael and daughter-in-law, Candy; daughter, Shawn Nevin and son-in-law, Dan; grandsons, Travis Nevin and wife, Michelle, David Nevin, Jay Nevin, Cole Bratcher and wife, Luz, Jameson Bratcher and wife, Blaze; granddaughter, Jocelyn; great-grandsons, Linus and Frankie; and many nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers or charities, his family requests donating a book to your local library in memory of Lee Bratcher, who loved books."

Lee Eugene Bratcher 1930-2019 [disquiet0380]

Disquiet tempted me, and lured me away from the blessed hilltops of analogue signal flow, down into the unholy valley of virtual modular instrumentation. This exercise in wretched debauchery began with almost an hour of confusion and frustration, untilled I finally discovered how these cursed devices operate.

Joking aside. I do like what some digital modular can do, but good gravy is it unintuitive. I am planning on finding a way to add some virtual tools to my tangible rack someday, but this won't be it. I found the setup strange and restrictive.

Oh well. I can't say I didn't try.

Heathen Offering [disquiet0381]

I got lucky with this one, as I had just completed a similar idea in a previous patch, so I got to use some of the elements from that patch in this one. I'm hoping to release the first one in a series of "Sleep-Aid" tracks later this year.

This was a generative patch, so I hooked it up, hit record and went to go get drinks with some friends. I ended up recording about three hours, but I figured I should trim it down a bit. But when I came back everything was acting as it did before. I think I might want to try setting up a patch before going to sleep sometime.

I felt like the soft beeping sound and the ships engine sounds turned out pretty good, I tried to put the sound of semi-random occasionally passing ships. It turned out ok, but I definitely want to revisit this concept once I have some more control modules and a stereo mixer. I think there's a lot more I can do with this idea.

Space Cruiser Nap Chamber [disquiet0383]

While making this patch on stream, a buddy looked at my modular and said it looked I was patching the Millennium Falcon's Hyperdrive. Hence the name.

Made in eurorack, relying mostly on the Make Noise Tempi and the Noise Engineering Basimilas Iteritas Alter.

Hyperdrive [disquiet0429]

The dice rolled UntilledSound and I rolled with it! I tried to complement the nice jagged rhythm with a round synth drone, and when that great "recorder grot" comes in I twiddled a bunch of knobs. I don't think i've ever hard panned anything in my life, but I like the combo of these two tracks together.

More on this 430th weekly Disquiet Junto project — The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio that others will complete — at:

https://disquiet.com/0430/

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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

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Murmurer / UntilledSound [Disquiet0430]

For Disquiet Junto 0430.

@nate trier sounded frustrated in his loud organ explosions for last weeks disquiet. He most certainly isn't the only one feeling frustrated in these times of frustration, so I figuratively/literally echoed his frustrations, and added a bit of my own.

I took his original track, put a delay on it, and mangled the signal using various eurorack modules, first we hear the Schlappi Engineering 100 Grit, followed by the Bastl Dark Matter with a Trogotronic Gran Fury feedback loop, then the Erica Synths/Gamechanger Audio Plasma drive.

Echoed Frustration [disquiet0430]

For Disquiet Junto 0430 

Used these swimming bells @rleydon, and frankly had a hard time adding something to it without eliminating the feel he created. I wanted to keep that, so I dialed it way back and simply added some sample modulation from one of my field recordings of a stream.

I've been playing Dark Souls for the first time, and just rang both of the bells of awakening, then that primordial serpent "Kingseeker Frampt" showed up. I fell into his little hidey hole once and died. The end result of this piece made me think about what his ascent from the depths up to the surface would have been like after hearing the bells of awakening. #nerd

Bells Of Awakening [disquiet0430]

Guitar improv into clouds, delay, reverb to try and rockify Murmurer/Untilled sound's submission from last week Junto.  It didnt turn out quite as well as I'd hoped but there are some promising parts.  Enjoy!

Murmurer/Untilled Sound/Fred Busche Trio disquiet0431

This one started with this Guitar Journey(https://soundcloud.com/stefan_strasser/cum-on-feel-the-noize-disquiet0429) by @stefan_strasser followed by these epic drums(https://soundcloud.com/gus-576228330/disquiet0429-74-drums) by @gus-576228330 which was masterfully edited by @flyingtonefish. I couldn't resist adding some noisy distorted synth nonsense to the whole shebang. The end result reminded me of [Fox/Soper Duo](https://nnatapes.bandcamp.com/album/magenta-line) hence the goofy opposite name "Goose/Contaminator". This was a blast and a half to make.

Goose/Contaminator [disquiet0431]

This one started with [this lovely piano theme](https://soundcloud.com/baconpaul/a-third-disquiet0429?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0429 by @baconpaul followed by [some hip trumpet action](https://soundcloud.com/stull/a-second-third-disquiet0430?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0430) by @stull. At first I was reluctant to engage this one because it sounded so nice already, and I usually make obnoxiously noisy synth sounds. I decided to give it a go and I'm super glad that I did. I managed to create a complex synth voice that sounds like a cello in the lower registers, and sounds more like a clarinet in the highs. I'm much more composer than player, so I had to record the part in sections, but who cares. I'm super pleased with the result. This is probably the disquiet I'm most proud of being a part of, and it taught me that I can do some really cool things with my synth I didn't know I could do. This means I can make some pretty music alongside the harsh stuff.

A Third Third [disquiet0431]

This was all done with the fantastic new Gamechanger Audio Motor Synth. https://www.gamechangeraudio.com/motor-synth/ I started with just one voice, and gradually added the second voice, messed with some modulation settings, cross modulation, filter resonance and pitch modulation, then finally started detuning the voices. This thing excels at long complex tones. I highly recommend looking into it.

Steel Whine [disquiet0460]

I ended up doing a bit more of a scattered gradient than a straight one. I love playing with uneven clock sources. This patch was mainly made using the Olegtron 4060E.(https://www.perfectcircuit.com/olegtron-4060e.html) which is a cool little device where you can plug electronic components directly into the module, basically live circuit bending. I used this as both a sound source and an irregular clock, timing the Synthstrom Deluge. The "Gradient" was first slowing down the speed of the Olegtron, which in turn slowed the Deluge, Then bringing a new "Gradient" up by increasing the number of drum sounds on the Deluge. The result was not straightforward, but I ended up with some super interesting sounds.

The title comes from a time years ago during an easter celebration, where one of my friends kids uttered the phrase "That Hits Me Right in the Deeps." That phrase has stuck with me.

That Hits Me Right in the Deeps

That Hits Me Right In The Deeps [Disquiet0463]

I'm posting this over a week late, so I don't remember how exactly I did this patch. I do remember it involved trying to slow down the very unpredictable Trogotronic m/679 "Gran Fury", which lended to some interesting results. It also sounds like I used the Basimlas Iteritas Alter and Polaris filter quite a bit too.

While the term "Corpsicles" has been coined by many, I remember it mostly from the end of "Shards of Honor" by Lois McMaster-Bujold. There's a very moving scene where a cleanup crew after a space battle is searching for dead bodies in the wreckage. Highly recommend all of her "Vorkosigan Saga" novels.

Corpsicles

Corpsicles [disquiet0432]

I took this awesome track https://soundcloud.com/stefan_strasser/mostly-stereo-feat-half-unusual-disquiet0473?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0473 by https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual and https://soundcloud.com/stefan_strasser. I added some eurorack modified trumpet, which allowed me to bring out my inner Miles Davis, kinda Bitches Brew style. Had a ton of fun with this one.

The name comes from a James Acaster joke, commenting on how weird it is that so many cartoon teeth have teeth. This kind of brain train can reminds me of that style of music. It probably makes the most sense when you're on drugs, or wish you were.

Do The Tooth Teeth Have Teeth Too? [disquiet0474]

For this one I took this track https://soundcloud.com/user-859240368/dronedrumdrub-disquiet0473?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0473 by https://soundcloud.com/melondruie and https://soundcloud.com/user-859240368. And ended up with this chill atmospheric drum thang.

The name comes from this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYbVpAwGGGs. It still makes me laugh every single time. Also the piece ended up sounding like smooth dad jazz.

Daddy Butter [disquiet0474]

Sonic exploration and creation from Seattle, Washington. Discovering new materials, patterns, and concepts for music composition.

Disquiet Junto Projects

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