Disquiet Junto Project 0614: Alternate Route
The Assignment: Do something you often do, but differently.

This is a slightly different take on last week’s project.

Step 1: Think of something related to making music that you do a lot.

Step 2: Think of an alternate way to do it that challenges your habits.

Step 3: Make a piece of music using the approach you thought of in Step 2. 

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More on this 614th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Alternate Route (The Assignment: Do something you often do, but differently), at: https://disquiet.com/0614/

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Disquiet Junto Project 0614: Alternate Route

Created with AUM and various plugins on iPad, mastered in Cubase 12 with Ozone 10

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 507:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/09/20/naviarhaiku507-summer-sky/

Photo by zenbytes (2023, Casper, Wyoming/USA)

watersnake - Naviarhaiku 507

Different approaches - 'alternate routes' - for this Disquiet Junto contribution include creating a loop in FL Studio (which I rarely use and I also rarely use a straight continuously looping loop), using the wonderful apesoft iVCS3 iPad app for the mad whistling barking Synthi track (rather than the also-but-differently-wonderful Arturia plugin), and making good use of the amazing MeldaProduction MMorph (which I should definitely use more) ... The results are beautifully unusuaL, though, if a little crazy ... hope you can still enjoy!

More on this 614th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Alternate Route (The Assignment: Do something you often do, but differently), at: https://disquiet.com/0614/

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this was fun and a quick one
play a lot of guitar, but never in this way

scratch(disquiet0614)

Harmonium
Fretless bass
Arpeggiators/Synths
String orchestra samples.

I often work with arpeggiators, and I like to combine their kinetic, steady pulse with ambient parts, rubatto and floating.I particularly like to add acoustic "real" instrument to and icy electronic arpeggiator synth. I do like all those contrasts : rhythmic vs floating, acoustic vs electro, tense vs relaxing cold vs warm etc

Here I had an old , unused acoustic Indian Harmonium improvisation, played rubatto, no tempo, no click.
I tried to add more floating tracks, a fretless bass melodic impro, some string samples, etc but still didn't quite go nowhere..A menacing, repetitive and obsessive ARP could save the track, I thought.

So I tried to add a tempo-sync arppeggiator, but it was difficult to find a right tempo for the ARP track, rhythm that makes sense with the ambient pace. To make it worst, the Harmonium did start to play a more rhythmic bit around the 01:53 mark, and the rhythm didn't quite fit. Tried many different tempos and mixes, this is what I got Friday 6th October 2023 in the morning, before I have to abandon this and go to work..


Performed by DD (Jul 2020 Harmonium, Oct 2023 Fretless, Synths, Strings)
Photo by Amit Kumar

For the challenge "Step 1: Think of something related to making music that you do a lot. Step 2: Think of an alternate way to do it that challenges your habits.
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0614-alternate-route/

Alternate Harmonium  (disquiet0614)

naviarhaiku509 – Disappearing

Disappearing
snow on mountain peak
unfurls a rainbow

Sôen Nakagawa was a key figure in the transmission of Zen Buddhism from Japan to the Western world. Author Sean Murphy, in his “One Bird, One Stone: 108 Contemporary Zen Stories”, tells us an interesting story about the Zen Buddhist master during his time in the U.S.:

“Soen loved to walk around New York City. He’d stare at the lighted skyscrapers, at their tops, he claimed he saw Buddha figures in the lights. “Look at the Buddha,” he’d point, “Shining Buddha!” He’d fill the sleeves of his robes with nuts and berries from Central Park or herbs growing in the sidewalk cracks, and add them to his bowl at the next meal. He loved the musical Fiddler on the Roof, and when asked a question about why some particular point of ceremony needed to be performed in a certain way, he might burst into song, responding “Tradition…!”

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

 

Deadline: 11th October 2023

Haiku by Sôen Nakagawa https://tricycle.org/magazine/endless-vow-zen-path-soen-nakagawa/

Picture by David Maunsell https://unsplash.com/photos/gvhx3qnWWGw

variazioni timbriche - naviarhaiku509 – Disappearing

release date: 06 _10_2023  
More on this 614th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Alternate Route (The Assignment: Do something you often do, but differently), at: https://disquiet.com/0614/

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Filamenti (disquiet0614)

One aspect of the track I contributed last week was using multiple sounds to create varying rhythmic patterns. This week's track produces changing rhythms using a single sound with inbuilt threefold delay.

More on this 614th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Alternate Route (The Assignment: Do something you often do, but differently), at: https://disquiet.com/0614/

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

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Triple Trouble (disquiet0614)

I went for a bike ride and recorded the ambient sounds with a mini recorder. Subsequently I took several samples at different speeds and mixed them via 'csound' at different speeds even in reverse. First time using ambient sounds to make a piece.

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More on this 614th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Alternate Route (The Assignment: Do something you often do, but differently), at: https://disquiet.com/0614/

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

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condensato e diluito - disquiet0614

This is my first music making experiment in response to a prompt from Disquiet Junto. The prompt was to think of something I often do when making music and approach it differently. 

I often end up layering arpeggio-like things, partly because I like how it sounds and partly, maybe, to feel like I'm making something "complicated" and therefor impressive. I decided to avoid that and attempt more simplicity...or at least to bring in the complexity elsewhere.

I also rely a bit on midi instruments and quantizing (my rhythm isn't great). While there is still some midi stuff in there, I didn't start with it. I actually laid down some vocals first that ended up mostly being removed or moved. I also used an old Concertmate I found on the street (Radioshack's version of the simple Casio) for the main bass drum and bass sounds. 

After trying several things that weren't working for me, I ended up dipping into my voice memos in my phone and found a recording of me just playing a riff on the piano and singing nonsense, mumbly, improvised lyrics. I then shifted other elements to built the song around that.

nervous (disquiet0614)

For this week's @disquiet challenge I returned to the use of field recordings that I'd mash together to create sound-based pieces when I got back into creative practice during lockdown in 2020. I was recording bird song this weekend, and by accident I'd switched the Zoom recorder on in my pocket when I got back to @kate-gallaher's house, so there's a speeded up version of me going through the door and making coffee that runs throughout all echoed up. I've taken fragments of @stellato-strings trying the looping machine alongside some of the bird and stream sounds I had taken that morning. So the piece becomes like entering a 5D portal of exterior and interior worlds, mixing up how I started making artworks and blending this with the editing composition practice I started developing first using Audacity, and now on Logic with all the big spangly effects 'n fings.

More on this 614th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Alternate Route (The Assignment: Do something you often do, but differently), at: https://disquiet.com/0614/

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

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

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loopy delay (disquiet0614)

Bounce

Truthseeker

Give It To Me (Yin Wiz Remix)

Welcome to halF unusuaL, an evolving space inspired by play in the spirit of ‘hai’ (meaning “fun” or “unusual” in the word haiku). Here, improvisation connects the unexpected, mining the boundary between music and non-music to shape sound worlds that feel oddly familiar in their oddity. Listen freely, explore deeply, and for the sounds to live for your eyes as well as your ears, please stop by the YouTube channel. Thank you for joining this journey! Your support helps keep this afloat ... and is HUGELY appreciated 🥰

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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