More on this 582nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, X Techno (The Assignment: Make a new subgenre), at: https://disquiet.com/0582/

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Crepitus Tekno (disquiet0582)

Early morning,
One star remaining,
It’s a good day too.

Electric guitars and bass by DD, recorded 2010, reworked and mixed June 2023.

Haiku by Santoka Taneda
Picture by Diego PH

@naviar-records

different version here:
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/spring-meadow

Early Morning Star (naviarhaiku492)

saliente inferiore - disquiet0609

trailer miusic using my new "toy", @cinesamples musio libraries.

january 25th 2024
sample libraries by dd
photo by rob simmons


https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0630-creative-sufficiency/

Orchestralscapes (Trailer) - disquiet0630

The Assignment: Count your tools in advance of employing them.

The assignment prompted some — almost philosophical — questions about what I would consider a tool, or a piece of equipment, in my music making practice. 
I often work with complex effect chains in software, using different devices and plugins as building blocks for devices that I work and interact with — by means of custom-coded control mechanisms — as if they were a single, coherent thing. So would I consider such a device chain as a single piece of equipment? Or multiple pieces? Who decides what makes a thing a thing? The manufacturer? The user?
Trying not to get stuck (again) in overthinking, I opted — rather arbitrarily — for the manufacturer point of view: if it’s packaged as a thing, then let’s say its a thing.

For the piece, I was thinking I’d like to try and make something using a duduk I’d recently bought. The range of the duduk is somewhat limited (octave + 2 notes), so I thought I’d extend that range by using a granular delay effect that also does pitch shifting. 
So the piece would consist of two main pieces of equipment: duduk and granular delay. 
However, taking into account recording equipment, the DAW and some “utility” effects, I figured I’d definitely need a bunch more to actually make the piece. So I set 10 as a limit: this seemed doable, while still presenting something of a challenge. Which it did. I had to forego EQ (though using some filters inside other devices) and a dedicated limiter (re-using a compressor). Interesting… 

So here’s the list of 10:
Duduk, microphone, audio interface, headphones, DAW, granular delay, compressor, reverb, pitch shifting/stretching algorithm baked into the DAW, tuning device (duduk is quite hard to play in tune, especially for a novice like myself; having visual feedback of the frequency I was blowing was much needed).

Ten for Two (disquiet0630)

Glottidean

Rekiss

An electronic composition, original sounds created in Pure Data - both a response to the haiku & an elegy for John Hinks.

Wide-Arching - for John Hinks (naviarhaiku536)

More on the 643rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Stone Out of Focus — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a poem — at https://disquiet.com/0643/

This week’s project is based on a text by Yoko Ono, originally published in her book Grapefruit60 years ago, back in 1964.

more halF unusuaL

halF aginG [disquiet0643]

sound art for disquiet0643.

wobbled, rolled, scraped on the floor. no effects.

More on the 643rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Stone Out of Focus — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a poem — at https://disquiet.com/0643/

This week’s project is based on a text by Yoko Ono, originally published in her book Grapefruit60 years ago, back in 1964.

contact mic on a hagstone (disquiet0643)

💼 Wealth Whispers 963Hz 🎵: Unlock Prosperity with Rapid Melodies 💰

Thanks for stopping by - please enjoy what you hear! 🤗 Any time you want to look as well as listen, head over to the YouTube channel ...

Apparently, the ‘hai’ in ‘haiku’ translates to ‘joke’, ‘fun’, or ‘unusual’, which is part of the inspiration for the odd name of this venture; an evolving project nurtured by Darren Bourne, in collaboration with countless others, past and present. The ongoing obsessions of halF unusuaL are improvisation, chance and the music / non-music boundary, with the aim of (impossibly) creating sound worlds never heard before ... Thank you so much for your support 🥰

halF aginG [disquiet0643]

halF unusuaL

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