Disquiet Junto Project 0530: Minimally Viable Music
The Assignment: How much less is just shy of too little?

Major thanks to Saga Söderback for having come up with this project. There is just one step:

Step 1: Make the thing you think is the minimum viable music.

Details: disquiet.com/0530

Disquiet Junto Project 0530: Minimally Viable Music

A single note played in 6 octaves at gradually increasing tempo.

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Major thanks to Saga Söderback for having come up with this project.

More on this 530th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Minimally Viable Music (The Assignment: How much less is just shy of too little?) – at: https://disquiet.com/0530/ 2

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Minimally Viable Music (disquiet0530)

Major thanks to Saga Söderback for having come up with this project.

More on this 530th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Minimally Viable Music (The Assignment: How much less is just shy of too little?) – at: https://disquiet.com/0530/ 2

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enormt minimal (Disquiet0530)

Minimal Peace  (disquiet0530)

The phrase minimally viable music reminded me of listening to The Caretaker's Everywhere At The End of Time. It's a harrowing listen as over six and a half hours what starts as wistful, joyful melodies become stripped of timing, tuning and coherence. Towards the end you're disoriented by a grey sonic plaque of scratches, pops and detritus.
I took a very abbreviated route and took a simple loop from my 2hpPluck and ran it on successive passes through more and more destructive fx until almost all pitch, timing and timbre information was removed. The end result plays at the beginning before the original loop fades in and starts to be messed with.
Major thanks to Saga Söderback for having come up with this project.

More on this 530th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Minimally Viable Music (The Assignment: How much less is just shy of too little? ) — at: https://disquiet.com/0530/

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

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Non Viable (disquiet0530)

Minimally Viable Music

The sound in this track is from a sine wave oscillator, sent through a self-oscillating low pass filter and then into a reverb. As the track progresses, the filter and oscillator are modulated by several LFOs, a CV joystick, and a CV sequencer. The minimalistic sine wave tones and rhythms at the beginning evolve toward the edge of chaos before settling back into minimalism.

Performed on a modular synth using Dixie II+, Ripples (og), Ochd, Batumi, Planar 2, SPO, Quadratt, Pamela's New Workout, Mimetic Digitalis, and Desmodus Versio.

More on this 530th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Minimally Viable Music (The Assignment: How much less is just shy of too little? ) — at: https://disquiet.com/0530/

Signs of Sines

Signs Of Sines - Disquiet0530

two notes played and warped through grains and reverbs


Major thanks to Saga Söderback for having come up with this project.

More on this 530th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Minimally Viable Music (The Assignment: How much less is just shy of too little?) – at: https://disquiet.com/0530/ 3

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Humming Top (small Gestures Wrote Large Mix) [disquiet530]

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