Some 52 years ago there was this very famous psychedelic rockband that had this song about someone having breakfast. The slow echo on his voice made for a fine psychedelic atmosphere. And now there is the Disquiet Junto 0625 that asks:What does this room sound like? It is a not too large room with bare concrete walls, so there will be a strong fast echo that will make for a fine neurotic atmosphere. So I recorded myself having lunch, added a fast echo and filled the silent passages with music. I had just begun experimenting with copying a sequence and sending the clock signals through a Bernoulli Gate at 50%. I added a delay, panned the dry signals hard left and right and the delayed signals hard right and left. It adds nicely to the neuroticism. 
This is onlky a snippet. The complete version can be heard at https://audio.com/henk-lasschuit/audio/neurotic-lunch

More on this 625th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Noise Ceiling (The Assignment: What does this room sound like?) at: https://disquiet.com/0625/

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Hwenk's Neurotic Lunch (disquiet0625)(snippet)

Henksneurotic Lunch - Snippet

T-Bone Walker famously said that, though the song was great, "St Louis Blues" just wasn't the blues. Disquiet Junto 0660 invited us to remix a 1923 public domain recording of that storied jazz standard. My remix takes Walker's stance and turns it up to 11.

Every sound in the song comes directly from some piece of the original recording. One of the percussion layers is even voiced by tape hiss. I cut the original recording into dozens of samples of different lengths, from a single beat to a full measure. The samples were then triggered by 6 tracks of a MIDI interpretation of "St Louis Blues". Essentially, the song is a recording of a song playing itself.

"Not Every Saint is Blue" has been determined safe for most stereophonic listening devices.

More about this week's Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0660

Not Every Saint Is Blue (disquiet0660)

Be careful! ... The SoundCloud algorithm has deemed this not 'music' so won't be recommending to potentially interested listeners 😁 I wonder why I take that as a compliment?! 😉

More on the 662nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Spin Cycle — The Assignment: Record a piece of music that pits one bicyclist against another — at https://disquiet.com/0662/

more halF unusuaL

halF spiN [disquiet0662]

An electronic composition, sounds created in Pure Data.

More on the 662nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Spin Cycle — The Assignment: Record a piece of music that pits one bicyclist against another — at https://disquiet.com/0662/ 1

Wheel to Wheel (disquiet0662)

Recorded & mixed on 06 Sep 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Process notes -
I started by putting together a quick melody using a stock preset in Ableton Live, duplicated it and skewed the second version in a few different ways. After this, I set up my sounds with Live’s Operator away from the stock preset and then came up with a pad part. I decided to copy the first two tracks' melody and manipulated it into a bass part. A little audio rendering and editing later, I was complete. 

Tools used -
Ableton Live, Operator, Electric & other native Live devices

Artwork/Photography - 
Kings Park, NY 07 Sep 2015

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This original version of “Drew A Two Pound Yam” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0662: Spin Cycle. The Assignment: Record a piece of music that pits one bicyclist against another.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 662nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Spin Cycle — The Assignment: Record a piece of music that pits one bicyclist against another — at https://disquiet.com/0662/

Drew A Two Pound Yam  (disquiet0662)

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0662: Spin Cycle

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0662 discussion thread on Lines:

I imagined two cyclists on a banked velodrome. They would take turns occasionally pulling ahead of each other. Toward the end, they both race at the same speed, and leave the velodrome together. Hopefully I was able to convey that scenario here.

I used MIDI sequences generated by a web based version of Laurie Spiegel's Music Mouse by software developer Tero Parviainen. After editing the MIDI notes in Ableton Live, I created two tracks representing the two riders, each using a different instrument preset in Slate+Ash Choreographs. Cableguys ShaperBox 3 was used to create rising and falling volume levels – one every 8 bars and the other every 16 bars. This was done to mimic the cyclists pulling ahead and falling behind each other. Three other MIDI tracks were created for percussion, bass and counter melody using Choreoraphs and Teletone Audio Ondine. Effects used were Valhalla Room and Phonolyth Cascade reverbs. Star trails image by David Becker via Unsplash.

More on the 662nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Spin Cycle — The Assignment: Record a piece of music that pits one bicyclist against another — at https://disquiet.com/0662/

Revolving Roundabout [disquiet0662]

[disquiet0662] CLCs

(with apologies to mark fell)

sample of failing hdd, looping, going into a slew limiter and a comparator to derive some semblance of rhythmic patterns, these used to trigger percussion, chord pads and high pitch bursts

freesound ref for sample: Old crashed hard drive by tix99 -- https://freesound.org/s/626912/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

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More on the 663rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Drive Way — The Assignment: Record a piece of music that complements the hum and whir of a hard drive — at https://disquiet.com/0663/

The image associated with this project is licensed thanks to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported. It was taken by Evan Amos — whom Popular Science has reportedly referred to as “gaming’s most famous photographer” — as a part of Vanamo Media.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Laptop-hard-drive-exposed.jpg

disquiet0663 - cyclic redundancy

a piece of music written in 29/16 time for the Disquiet Junto.

started and completed September 19, 2024

 https://disquiet.com/0664/

median plane [disquiet0664]

So the Disquiet Junto assignment this week was simply to make a piece of music in 29/16 time. This is a super weird time signature. I remembered fooling about with Dilla-type beats using quintuplets (where you count 5s between every beat) and I figured exploring groups of 5 16ths might be worth it. It's a strange feeling to try and take a very mathsy approach, like fitting beats tightly on a fixed grid of 29 steps, and try to replicate some kind of "real" shuffle.

In the second half of the track I use this sample pack from Freesound. A Korean instrument that sounds like a koto. https://freesound.org/people/spt3125/packs/1534/

More on the 664th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mother Beat — The Assignment: Record a piece of music in 29/16 time — at https://disquiet.com/0664/

Jet Jaguar - Kāo [disquiet0664] (free download)

More on the 664th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mother Beat — The Assignment: Record a piece of music in 29/16 time — at https://disquiet.com/0664/

Image source: Indymedia UK ( https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447507.html )

Read more about the mothers on the beat for the Mother's Day March of 1968, Resurrection City, DC:

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/poor-peoples-campaign-began/

Mothers on the Beat (disquiet0664)

There was a time when I was involved in Science! But that was a mistake. My Passion is music. I play the pipe-organ and synthesizer, I play the organ in a few bands and I like Apple computers. I discovered SuperCollider and VCV Rack: great ways of making sounds. Enjoy them on SoundCloud!

Henksneurotic Lunch - Snippet

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