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Getting more intricate, one layer at a time...

Disquiet Junto Project 0619: Beat Accrual
The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch.

As is generally the case with any instructions, it’s best to read all the way through before beginning.

Step 1: Create a complicated beat (define “complicated” as you see fit). Keep track of the individual parts.

Step 2: Record a track in which the beat from Step 1 slowly accrues over time. For example, break the original beat into its constituent parts and then add one at a time, repeating the arrival of each addition for four beats (assuming you’re doing the project in 4/4). That’s just one way to accomplish this.

Also: You might adorn the beat with other elements while it’s accumulating, or after, or you might simply leave it on its own.

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, November 13, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, November 9, 2023.

More on this 619th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beat Accrual (The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch), at: https://disquiet.com/0619/

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

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0619-beat-accrual/

Disquiet Junto Project 0619: Beat Accrual

recorded toungedrum with TE´s TP-7/TulaMic
then rerecorded in TE's TX-6 with reduced tempo and played backwards

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/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0607-silence-wave/

silent percussion(disquiet0607)

a reworked version now appears on:

https://howthenightcame.bandcamp.com/album/hostile-architects

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first time layering two sampled drum beats

More on this 613th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Test Drive (The Assignment: The Assignment: Do something you’ve been meaning to do), at: https://disquiet.com/0613/

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

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[disquiet0613] test drive

Disquiet Junto Project 0617: Haunt Scape
The Assignment: Halloween is coming up. Do your thing.

In the haunting shadows of a disquiet Halloween, I craved a genuine fright, so I summoned an 8-track version of Bitwig with a cruel code from the sinister pages of "ComputerMusic" magazine (August 2023). Since that blood-curdling Superbooth 23 affair, the eerie Cthulhu call of this DAW has haunted my dreams, yet the terrifying thought of the time needed for mastering IT always kept me at bay. Now, having dared to dance with this phantom... it's eerily … but okay. Alas, this 8-track version, drained by nocturnal vampires, has had many of its limbs horrifically amputated. Thus, even armed with my trusty modular hatchet, it's hard to gauge if braving this ghostly realm is worth it. Be that as it may, a few nocturnal samples, mummified synths, and a disemboweled Lyra8 impro might not raise the dead from the graves, but together they gave me some creeps. (A little bit.)


Track cover made with Dall-e 3.


More on this 617th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Haunt Scape (The Assignment: Halloween is coming up. Do your thing), at: https://disquiet.com/0617/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0617-haunt-scape/

The Synths Have Eyes [disquiet0617]

The result of my text to voice experiment was, apart from a few recognisable words & phrases, total gibberish, made worse by the apparently inevitable North American intonation, which is hardly appropriate in this case.  I used a random article from an old local newspaper & the first online software I came across. I added a touch of echo to the voice track & combined it with a sequence of electronic sounds.

More on this 618th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Burying the Lede (The Assignment: Turn old news into new music), at: Disquiet Junto Project 0618: Burying the Lede – Disquiet

About the Disquiet Junto: Disquiet Junto F.A.Q. – Disquiet 1

Subscribe to project announcements: Disquiet Junto by Marc Weidenbaum (Disquiet.com)

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 1: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0618-burying-the-lede/

Gobbledygook (disquiet0618)

sound art for disquiet0618.

storm report from 1987.

water and air.

storm ingredients (disquiet0618)

Disquiet Junto Project 0618: Burying the Lede
The Assignment: Turn old news into new music.

I googled for local newspapers from 1973 and found a review of a Pink Floyd concert (Dark Side Of The Moon, which is one of only a small number of CDs I still own) in Munich on Oct 15th 1973 in the daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. I used some middle part of the review, which describes the sound and talks about how Pink Floyd integrates noise in music. I used ttsmp3.com to read it in bad german. I added the speech to a ambience layer that has something of a concert atmo and of something nois-ish, both not well integrated.

The 1973 newspaper I found was this:
https://www.pulse-and-spirit.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/PF-1973-Munich.jpg - the article was written by journalist Michael Frank, who must then have been around 26 (and still wrote for the same newspaper some years ago). Today we might no longer imagine, what kind of ultra hot shit this album must have been at that time. 

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Track image by Stability AI.

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More on this 618th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Burying the Lede (The Assignment: Turn old news into new music), at: https://disquiet.com/0618/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0618-burying-the-lede/

Die Fahrt Der Galaktischen Riesen [disquiet0618]

Enjoy the accompanying visuals @ https://youtu.be/3ugjbCdq9X4

More on this 619th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beat Accrual (The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch), at: https://disquiet.com/0619/

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-0619-beat-accrual/

visuals (YouTube)

halF accruaL [disquiet0619]

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

More on this 619th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beat Accrual (The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch), at: https://disquiet.com/0619/

About the Disquiet Junto: Disquiet Junto F.A.Q. – Disquiet

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0619-beat-accrual/

Euclidean Dub [disquiet0619]

More on this 619th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beat Accrual (The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch), at: https://disquiet.com/0619/

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

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Dreaming Is Free (disquiet0619)

This piece kind of deconstructs a samba rhythm. Kind of. 

Recorded, mixed & mastered 08-10 Nov 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

Synths, drum samples, effects

This original version of "I Am As Dry As A Fish" was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0619: Beat Accrual. The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto
Project discussion took place at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0619-beat-accrual 
Artwork: Penn Station, NYC 17 Dec 2010, by Jim Lemanowicz

Look for me at patreon.com/blisterpop - patrons get my albums for free!

This track was originally released under the artist name "Smile Puppy."

Music & art - ©2010, 2023 Jim Lemanowicz

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I Am As Dry As A Fish (disquiet0619)

More on this 619th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beat Accrual (The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch), at: https://disquiet.com/0619/

About the Disquiet Junto: Disquiet Junto F.A.Q. – Disquiet

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0619-beat-accrual/

Beat Accrual

Disquiet Junto | Beat Accrual - disquiet0619

From a simple start to a complex rhythm - this track slowly builds a complex beat from scratch - as suggested by the Disquiet Junto Project 0619.

There's no need for percussions to do this - the beat is mainly built with orchestral instruments, adding layer by layer, but electronic and other instruments also join in.

In my track https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/deconstructivism-explained the process runs backwards, starting with the complete, complex rhythm and removing layer by layer to deconstruct it.

More on this 619th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beat Accrual (The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch), at: https://disquiet.com/0619/ 1

About the Disquiet Junto: Disquiet Junto F.A.Q. – Disquiet 1

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/ 1

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0619-beat-accrual/

Constructivism Explained  (Disquiet0619)

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3ZN5ytAjIPxFpTnanUdLU6?si=XJLPQiPBTP-2-izNfddOJw

GXNRC - BLACK KNIGHT (HARDTEKK) (ULTRA SLOWED)

Plonge dans EYE OF CHAINS, un voyage brutal au cœur de l’industrial techno où la chair rencontre le métal.
Une main marquée, un œil noir qui observe à travers les chaînes — symbole d’un contrôle invisible, d’une force qui écrase mais réveille.

Ce track frappe dur : kicks massifs, textures mécaniques, énergie brute. Une atmosphère rouge sang, oppressante, qui t’aspire dès les premières secondes et ne te relâche plus.

Si tu aimes les sons sombres, hypnotiques, industriels et transcendants, alors tu es exactement au bon endroit.
Laisse-toi capturer par l’œil.
Laisse les chaînes vibrer.
Bienvenue dans EYE OF CHAINS.

EYE OF CHAINS

Zycoss - Gallowdance Hard Industrial remix

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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.

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