Disquiet Junto Project 0635: ’Round the Bend
The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train.

Step 1: Listen to this short recording, under a minute, of a passing train, recorded by Todd (Toaster) Elliott:
https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/train-source-1

And, if you’d like, to this longer one, which is a little over 10 minutes:
https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/train-source-1020

Both are available to download.

Step 2: Record a piece of music using the field recording as the rhythm track. You can use the shorter one, or a segment of the longer one. Make sure the original is audible in your final work.

Deadline: Monday, March 4, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/

The image associated with this track is a photograph by Todd (Toaster) Elliott, who also provided the field recordings of the train.

Disquiet Junto Project 0635: ’Round the Bend

Naviarhaiku 497

I cancelli e le porte sono aperte o sempre chiuse?
Se il portone si chiude sei dentro o sei fuori?
E sei sicuro che, se il tempio dorme, tutto sia perfettamente immobile, fermo e in silenzio?
Non ti senti in trappola, dove il sonno diventa incubo?
Lo vedi adesso il nemico?

"Ed un giorno mi disse
Entra ti aspetterò
Ma il nemico da sempre si cattura così
Apri bene la porta
Fallo entrare da te
Lei l'ha fatto settembre
Lei l'ha fatto con me"

Alberto Fortis  Settembre   1981



Are the gates and doors open or always closed?
If the gate closes are you in or are you out?
And are you sure that, if the temple sleeps, everything is perfectly still, static and silent?
Don't you feel trapped, where sleep becomes nightmare?
Do you see the enemy now?

"And one day she told me
Come in, I'll wait for you
But the enemy has always been caught like this
Open the door well
Let him in for you
She did it September
She did it with me"

Alberto Fortis "September" 1981

Settembre - The Gate Shuts (naviarhaiku497)

added the train recording to 2 audio tracks in Ableton and 2 midi tracks converting the train to a Bass and Arp2600 Drums. added warp modes and reverbs, Corpus, echo, resonators, and various delays for this train wreck.

Disquiet Junto Project 0635: ’Round the Bend
The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train.
Step 1: Listen to this short recording, under a minute, of a passing train, recorded by Todd (Toaster) Elliott:
Step 2: Record a piece of music using the field recording as the rhythm track

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/

TrainWreck disquiet0635

disquiet0635 - squeamish peptides

I extracted some of the better quality bits from the longer track and added an experimental sequence I recorded with small instruments, then added a little reverb.

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/

The image associated with this track is a photograph by Todd (Toaster) Elliott, who also provided the field recordings of the train.

Train Texture (disquiet0635)

taking it easy
the mouse sleeps too...
spring rain


Among the four great masters of Japanese haiku, Kobayashi Issa was the most prolific: during his lifetime he wrote over 20,000 haiku, hundreds of tanka, and several haibun. If you want to find out more about this prolific author I suggest you check out this database of his haiku.
Haiku by Kobayashi Issa

Picture by Nikhil kumar

Spring Rain (NaviarHaiku530)

Disquiet Junto Project 0635: ’Round the Bend
The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train.

This is a remix of a track by @horsthelmood based on a recording of a czech railway staff member serving food and drinks in a train. Thanks for providing the original track for remixing.

The image associated with this track is a photograph by Todd (Toaster) Elliott, who also provided the field recordings of the train. Thank you for that.

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/

Train Mantra - HorsthelMood vs. Bot (disquiet0635)

For this week's Disquiet Junto prompt, we were invited to collaborate with a train sample that was provided to us.

I've often joked that it's only a matter of time before any given artist or band makes a song about a train. I never thought that day would come for me. A moral dilemma.

To get the full sensation of being tied up on the tracks, I recommend listening to "The Trolley Problem" with headphones.

Recorded and produced at NOSIGNAL Multimedia Labs, The Shambles, Chicago.

More about Disquiet Junto 0635: https://disquiet.com/0635

Disquiet Junto

The Trolley Problem (disquiet0635)

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/

The image associated with this track is a photograph by Todd (Toaster) Elliott, who also provided the field recordings of the train.

halF sourceD [disquiet0635]

First layer: train field recording by Todd (@Toaster) Elliott (https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/train-source-1/)

2nd layer: six tracks of autogen drumming in Logic

3rd: bottleneck + Estralita resonator guitar + Hologram Microcosm

4th: lonesome whistling

Disquiet:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0635-round-the-bend/66322

Blog / downloads:
https://playingintongues.com/2024/03/02/junto-0635-round-the-bend/

#ambientwestern #ambient

thereisonly Disquiet0635 round-the-bend

I based my contribution on the short version of the recording. As I found the bell sound too fast, I slowed it down to half speed. I then played several layers of guitar over it, using Norns RPLS as effect.

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/ 

Disquiet0635 - Karbidinsel

I bookended Todd (@toaster-1) Elliott's shorter rail crossing recording with percussion and drums, then added a chord progression. (https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/train-source-1?si=3a06785c071440e99ae7fedfddd856a9&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing)
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More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/

ring (disquiet0635)

A battery of sine oscillators, slowly moving out of tune. A bass drum keeping pulse. Distortion and convolution. A foundation. 
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More on the 636th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Left (1 of 3) — The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio — at disquiet.com/0636/

Mound (disquiet0636)

Disquiet Junto Project 0636: Left (1 of 3)

The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio.

Please note: While this project is the start of a three-part sequence that will unfold over the course of three weeks, you can participate in any or all three of those parts.

Step 1: This week’s Junto project is the first in a sequence intended to encourage and reward collaboration. You will be recording something with the understanding that it will remain unfinished for the time being. Your part will be done, but more will happen. Read on.

Step 2: The plan is for you to record a short and original piece of music using any instrumentation of your choice. Conceive the piece as something that leaves room for something else — other instruments, other people — to join in. (Keep in mind that your piece would appear panned to the left in the finished recording, after three weeks.)

Step 3: Record a short piece of music, roughly two to three minutes in length, as described in Step 2.

Step 4: This is important: be sure to make your track downloadable because it may be used by someone else in the next Disquiet Junto project, and then after that.
More on the 636th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Left (1 of 3) — The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0636/

Left The Drums disquet0636

Left The Drums disquiet0636

Jupiter 6 patch midi from Ableton. layered. & post processing with various effects phasing etc...

Jupiter - 6 Phased Noise Pulse For Disquiet0636

Key: C
BPM: 103

More on the 636th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Left (1 of 3) — The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0636/

Lucky Link (disquiet0636)

16May24

My naviarhaiku541 track
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/750552215383588864/naviarhaiku541-heat-in-waves
:D

heat in waves [naviarhaiku541]

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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