Disquiet Junto Project 0592: Better Than One
The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio.

Please note: While this is the second part of a three-part project, you can participate in one, two, or all three of the parts, which will occur over the course of three consecutive weeks.

Step 1: This week’s Disquiet Junto project is the second in a sequence intended to encourage and reward asynchronous collaboration. This week you’ll be adding music to a pre-existing track, which you will source from the previous week’s Junto project (disquiet.com/0592). Note that you aren’t creating a duet — you’re creating the second third of what will eventually be a trio. Important: Leave space for what is yet to come.

Step 2: The plan is for you to record a short and original piece of music, on any instrumentation of your choice, as a complement to a pre-existing track. First, however, you must select the piece of music to which you will be adding your own music. There are tracks by numerous musicians to choose from. The majority are in this playlist:

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0591

Any additional non-SoundCloud entries appear in the discussion:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0591-the-loneliest-number/

(Note that it’s possible another track or two will pop up in or disappear from that playlist and discussion. Things are fluid on the internet.)

To select a track, you can listen through all those and choose one, or simply look around and select, or you can come up with a random approach to sifting through them.

Note: It’s fine if more than one person uses the same original track as the basis for their piece.

It is strongly encouraged that you look through the above discussion on the Lines forum, because many tracks include additional contextual information there.

Step 3: Record a short piece of music, roughly the length of the piece of music you selected in Step 2. Your track should complement the piece from Step 2, and leave room for an eventual third piece of music. When composing and recording your part, don’t alter the original piece of music at all, except to pan the original fully to the left if it hasn’t been panned left already. In your finished audio track, your new part should be panned fully to the right.

To be clear: the track you upload won’t be your piece of music alone; it will be a combination of the track from Step 2 and yours.

Step 4: Also be sure, when done, to make the finished track downloadable, because it will be used by someone else in a subsequent Junto project.

Step 5: You can contribute more than one track this week. Usually Junto projects have a one-track-per-participant limit. You can do up to two total. For the second, it’s appreciated if you try to work with a solo that no one else has used yet ( look at the project’s post on Lines, linked to in these instructions, or to the project playlist, which will be posted here once tracks start coming in). The goal is for many as people as possible to benefit from the experience of being part of an asynchronous collaboration. After a lot of detailed instruction, that is the spirit of this project.

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, May 8, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, May 4, 2023.

Details: disquiet.com/0592

Disquiet Junto Project 0592: Better Than One

Collaborations & Remixes

The low and high end of OhWell's brilliant starting track are used as sidechains to filter two different rhythm tracks, which you can now hear on the right hand side ...

Original track: https://soundcloud.com/oh-well-360226041/untitled-disquiet0591

More on this 592nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Better Than One (The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0592/

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-0592-better-than-one/

collaboration

halF betteR [disquiet0592] (collaboration with OhWell)

Campos's starting track is so strong already - I just added a little bass, rhythm and prepared piano, which you can now hear on the right hand side ...

Original track: https://soundcloud.com/campos-1/a-loneliest-numberdisquiet0591

More on this 592nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Better Than One (The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0592/

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-0592-better-than-one/

halF loneliesT [disquiet0592] (collaboration with Campos)

Part two of an online collaboration with the Disquiet Junto Project 0592. Original track from @mikey_a (Dronely Bells)

Part one panned left part two panned right.

T For 2 disquiet0592

[disquiet0592] 1. Six - Four

[disquiet0592] 2. C - Saw

For this project i took https://soundcloud.com/sonic-search/eden and added synth and warped drum patterns, panning each track to separate channels

More on this 592nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Better Than One (The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0592/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0592-better-than-one/

Unknown Quantities With Sonic Search [disquiet0592]

Rainbow C

Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint (edit)

Improvisation #3 (Forelight Mix)

Many thanks to https://soundcloud.com/ambientsketchbook for letting this happen.

ambientsketchbook - Pleiades (Forelight Soft Mix)

California Dreaming (the Forelight westcoast bliss Mix)

"I'm worse at what I do best
And for this gift, I feel blessed"

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