Love what you did with the sounds, created a mysterious atmosphere, wandering in the woods near a otherworldly blues club!

Disquiet Junto Project 0610: Speed Limit Pt 2
The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed.

Step 1: In the previous Disquiet Junto project, participants recorded a variety of tracks at a standard pace of 60 BPM. Listen to the resulting material on the Lines discussion board and the SoundCloud playlist:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0609-speed-limit-pt-1/

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0609

Step 2: Select two or more tracks from the provided ones, slow them to half their original pace — that is, to 30 BPM — and use editing techniques to combine them into one new piece of music.

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Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, September 11, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, September 7, 2023.

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More on this 610th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 2 (The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed), at: https://disquiet.com/0610/

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-0610-speed-limit-pt-2/

Disquiet Junto Project 0610: Speed Limit Pt 2

I had started out with the assignment yesterday… today, I re-read the instructions and found that I might have been on a wrong track. Is it 0-40-60-0 of overall volume? Or the ratio of sound to silence in the overall piece? 

Not being totally sure about this, I started to carve out bits and pieces from the track. I removed most of the underlying drone, dimmed it down to 40 percent maximum, cut off reverb tails, removed some notes, trying to get the „guitar“ part in front.  

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Disquiet Junto Project 0607: Silence Wave 

The Assignment: From close to zero and back again, alter the relative amount of sound to silence in a piece of music.

There’s just one step to this project:

Compose a piece of music in which the relative amount of sound to silence starts at zero (that is, no sound), rises to approximately 40 percent (that is, 60 percent silent) and returns to zero again. Keep the pace fairly steady.

Background: This project builds on the two previous ones. You needn’t have done them; do give them some consideration. In the first of the two, each participant composed a piece of music with as much silence as notes. In the second, each composed a piece of music with three times as much silence as sound. Jason Richardson proposed the first project in what has since become a sequence. As that project unfolded, Klaus-Dieter Hilf (aka RabMusicLab) commented that maybe the instruction should have read “sound” in place of “notes.” Since the first project went well, a subsequent project increased the amount of silence, and implemented Hilf’s proposal. This project takes it a step further still.

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More on this 607th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Silence Wave (The Assignment: From close to zero and back again, alter the relative amount of sound to silence in a piece of music), at: https://disquiet.com/0607/

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-0607-silence-wave/

Carved Out [disquiet0607]

My submission for the Disquiet Junto 0609 with the assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it.

I just viewed Tobias Reber's interview with Marc Weidenbaum, so I thought: let's make something in Éliane Radigue style. Frankly that's all there is to say to it.

More on this 609th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 1 (The Assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it), at: https://disquiet.com/0609/

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-0609-speed-limit-pt-1/

Speed Limt Pt 1 (disquiet0609)

Speed Limit Pt 1 (disquiet0609)

Marco Lucchi : violin, piano, ring modulator and tape

featuring sounds from
https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/60-bpm-60-disquiet-0609-speed-limit?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0609 
and
https://soundcloud.com/user-99036881/speed-limit-p1_disquiet0609?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0609

for the current Disquiet Junto challenge

Disquiet Junto Project 0610: Speed Limit Pt 2
The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed.

Step 1: In the previous Disquiet Junto project, participants recorded a variety of tracks at a standard pace of 60 BPM. Listen to the resulting material on the Lines discussion board and the SoundCloud playlist:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0609-speed-limit-pt-1/

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0609

Step 2: Select two or more tracks from the provided ones, slow them to half their original pace — that is, to 30 BPM — and use editing techniques to combine them into one new piece of music.

8 settembre 2023

30 <---- 60 bpm [disquiet #0610] w/Debroc

Done for Disquiet Junto 0610

This was fun. This is mostly a quick sample of a percussive 4//lIGhT's 60 bpm Stomp bit, repeated excessively, with a tiny guitar-sounding bit from @tristan_louth_robins 's Refactored Drift. Filled out with @XHG 's Acrostic Speed Limit and some from a 4th one, but I forget.

Instructions:

Step 1: In the previous Disquiet Junto project, participants recorded a variety of tracks at a standard pace of 60 BPM. Listen to the resulting material on the Lines discussion board and the SoundCloud playlist:

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0609

Step 2: Select two or more tracks from the provided ones, slow them to half their original pace — that is, to 30 BPM — and use editing techniques to combine them into one new piece of music.





More on this 610th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 2 (The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed), at: https://disquiet.com/0610/

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-0610-speed-limit-pt-2/

Swrolds Amay - disquiet0610

I slowed the two tracks (“analoc - Blink” and “Andeas Kitzmann - disquet0609”) to 30 bpm with audacity, then mixed and processed the two tracks with csound, finally mastered with flstdio. Thanks to "analoc" Anatol Locker and Andeas Kitzmann.


https://soundcloud.com/analoc/0923-disquiet-junto-609-blink?si=cb80130c6378405fa62b3fdc1427f572&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

https://soundcloud.com/andreas-kitzmann-27370936/disquiet0609?si=8674bbd519d24c52b7dffda53f4fed6f&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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More on this 610th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 2 (The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed), at: disquiet.com/0610/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…0-speed-limit-pt-2/

destroying two - disquiet0610

Disquiet Junto Project 0610: Speed Limit Pt 2
The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed.

I selected two tracks that I liked, but more by incident, because I liked many (and most of them felt already finished). But with Refactored Drift from Tristan Louth-Robins (https://soundcloud.com/red_robin/disquiet_junto_0603-refactored-drift-60-bpm) and Transient Melter from ATW (https://soundcloud.com/atw/transient-melter-60bpm-disquiet-0609?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0609) I had the fantasy, that they would make a nice combination of melody and sound. I was very lazy and just slowed them to half speed. I also wanted to keep the result under five minutes, and I wanted both tracks to have some kind of a solo (because the ATW track more or less forced it). I edited and recut in Reaper by taste and justification, and I ignored scales and syncopation correctness (not totally, but they are surely not always "proper"). No additional knick-knacks but some subtile FX.

Thanks to Tristan Louth-Robins (Refactored Drift) and ATW (Transient Melter).

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More on this 610th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 2 (The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed), at: https://disquiet.com/0610/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0610-speed-limit-pt-2/

Refactored Melter [disquiet0610]

For this assignment I used my own submission from last week paired with a.a.miles Key Limit which then morphs into Michele Isoni's Chirper which is finally joined by Sunbear's lovely submission. All the parts where brought into ableton, slowed down by half and then warped back to their original pitch. After it was all sequenced I then used a bunch of puremagnetic effects to give the whole thing that worn out vibe (which also resulted in some strange drop outs and flutters which i left)

Many thanks to all that got involved, so many interesting takes on the assignment!

More on this 610th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 2 (The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed), at: https://disquiet.com/0610/

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-0610-speed-limit-pt-2/

Blues In Two Phases [disquiet0610]

@tristan_louth_robins' Refactored Drift clicked with me, as well as @krakenkraft's Catnip in 60bpm and @Gianantonio_Patella's salience inferiore. While the latter two tracks build a rhythmic foundation, the guitar does the rest. Tons of reverb, new toys from Unfiltered Audio (Silo's great). To stick to the slow tempo, there are gaps to reduce speed. Drive safely. 


Disquiet Junto Project 0610: Speed Limit Pt 2 
The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed.

Step 1: In the previous Disquiet Junto project, participants recorded a variety of tracks at a standard pace of 60 BPM. Listen to the resulting material on the Lines discussion board and the SoundCloud playlist:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0609-speed-limit-pt-1/

Step 2: Select two or more tracks from the provided ones, slow them to half their original pace — that is, to 30 BPM — and use editing techniques to combine them into one new piece of music.

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More on this 610th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 2 (The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed), at: https://disquiet.com/0610/

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-0610-speed-limit-pt-2/

Slow Blink [disquiet0610]

This is my submission for this week's Disquiet Junto assignment.

More on this 610th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 2 (The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed), at: https://disquiet.com/0610/

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-0610-speed-limit-pt-2/

Jovian Sferics [disquiet610]

Disquiet Junto Project 0610: Speed Limit Pt 2
The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed.

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For this remix, I worked with a handful of tracks from the 0609 collection that I gravitated towards, chopping + processing them in Paulstretch, Twisted Wave, and Ableton Live to halve their speeds.

'Blink' by https://soundcloud.com/analoc became a melodic anchor that the rest of the remix was built around. It was interesting to listen to the results of slowing + pitching the original tracks down. Sometimes I would sample the original speed version, and others I would first slow down before stumbling onto something that clicked well with the composition. 

bassline + clicky percussion sampled from:
https://soundcloud.com/analoc – https://soundcloud.com/analoc/0923-disquiet-junto-609-blink

heavy, textured bass drum hit sampled from:
https://soundcloud.com/winterer – https://soundcloud.com/winterer/catnip-in-60bpm-disquiet0609

huge clap drum sound sampled from:
https://soundcloud.com/oh-well-360226041 —https://soundcloud.com/oh-well-360226041/shadow-clocks-disquiet0609

soaring synth solo sampled from:
https://soundcloud.com/xhg — https://soundcloud.com/xhg/disquiet0609-acrostic-speed-limit?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0609

chord washes + drum loops sampled from:
https://soundcloud.com/doodledigital – https://soundcloud.com/doodledigital/already-the-morning-disquiet0609

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More on this 610th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 2 (The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed), at: disquiet.com/0610/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…0-speed-limit-pt-2/

Creatures Blinking in the Morning Shadows • [Disquiet 0610]

I started by recording a couple of modular feedback patches, with a loose goal of generating steady, slowly animated tones. A Doepfer BBD delay was used as a hub to process a mix of droning pulse waves from two VCOs—the result of which was fed back into the delay. The BBD also outputs CV that corresponds to manually set controls as well as input CV signals, and this was used to modulate other patch parameters in the feedback loop.

The output was split to a crossfader that was sent to a handful of filters and another delay with a long interval—the idea here was to create a bit of slow movement to keep the timbral/spectral qualities in slow motion. 

I stacked a couple of sections of the drones together in Ableton, and layered in parts of a recent recording Tides (in chord mode) being granularly processed with Nebulae v2. This created some mid-higher frequency 'blooms'. Also added some simple granular processing in Ableton that was spread wider in the stereo field. Lastly added in some looped field recordings that introduce some higher frequencies and textures that I wanted to include.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0611: Music That Listens to Itself

The Assignment: Record a piece of music that repurposes itself as it proceeds.

Background: On September 29, 2023, there is going to be an event at a place called the Berkeley Alembic, in Berkeley, California, where I’ll play recordings of music that share a specific theme, and I’ll discuss the sounds with the people who come to listen. The event is titled Music That Listens to Itself, part of the Expanded Listening series developed by Erik Davis (Techgnosis, Burning Shore). That is the theme. Part of the goal of this project is to develop tracks for potential inclusion in the event, and to pursue ideas related to the event’s theme.

Step 1: The underlying idea is to produce music that, so to speak, listens to itself. This would be music that employs techniques to revisit itself — repurposes itself — as it proceeds. From reverb to echo to tape loops to granular synthesis to accessing a buffer, various techniques serve such a compositional and performance purpose. Consider a means to achieve this result.

Step 2: Record a piece of music that employs the technique you focused on as a result of Step 1. Please note: for the Berkeley Alembic event, I’ll be sharing music that is particularly quiet, particularly appropriate to a meditative state of mind. You don’t need to record quiet music for this project, but quiet music is what I’ll be playing at the event.

Additional details: disquiet.com. Tickets: eventbrite.com 1. About the venue: berkeleyalembic.org.

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More on this 611th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Music That Listens to Itself (The Assignment: Record a piece of music that repurposes itself as it proceeds), at: disquiet.com/0611/

Some of the music resulting from this project may be included in a September 29, 2023, event at the Berkeley Alembic in Berkeley, California: www.eventbrite.com/e/expanded-list…ts-712124101357 1

About the Disquiet Junto: disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…-listens-to-itself/

Pulse Animation • [disquiet 0611]

The Advice

Forthcoming in "Into The Maelstrom" EP by Genari and Phntzzm.

Track masterized by Corpus Auditive

Genari e Phntzzm - Into The Maelstrom

1_ethereal bubbles_la collina dei ciliegi_05

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.

If you like my stuff please keep an eye on my Bandcamp/youtube or catch me on instagram 

Releases 


always have always will

https://forelight.bandcamp.com/album/always-have-always-will


Cozy Up Time

https://forelight.bandcamp.com/album/cozy-up-time

4//lIGhT//McLean - I

https://forelight.bandcamp.com/album/4-light-mclean-i


Collected Electronic Works 

https://forelight.bandcamp.com/album/collected-electronic-works-2021-2024


Various Erosions (available on cassette and digital download at):
https://couriersound.bandcamp.com/album/various-erosions

3 visual experiments - 

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMTvEW3kLo89zB7_cCfscjc4M9eAeN2QW&si=cZabs9pUZ-x0E2IN

Earthquake relief charity compilation:

https://aquietroom.bandcamp.com/album/50000-charity-for-earthquake-victims

#saveukraine charity compilation contribution: https://aquietroom.bandcamp.com/album/saveukraine-charity-for-unicef

Soundcloud EPs 1-3 
https://forelight.bandcamp.com/album/soundcloud-eps-1-3

Meditation I&II: https://forelight.bandcamp.com/album/meditation-i-ii

gossamer single (name your price): https://forelight.bandcamp.com/album/gossamer 

Liminal Noise - 10 Years Of Culture As A Dare compilation
https://liminalnoiserecords.bandcamp.com/album/ln015-culture-as-a-dare-compilation

Courier Sound - Silhouette Cameo 3 Compilation(4//lIGhT appears on Digital Release Only): https://couriersound.bandcamp.com/album/silhouette-cameo-3

A/V set broadcast as part of Culture As A Dare! Festival 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcGuUrFb8pU&t

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