a reworked version (minus samples) now appears on:

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

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late night guitar meditations to "Wind Harp, Walltown Crags" by :zoviet*france:

https://soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/wind-harp-walltown-crags

A dual contact microphone recording of a temporary wind harp.

Recorded 15 February 2021 at Walltown Crags, Northumberland, UK.
54°59'24.0"N 2°30'46.0"W
Google Maps: goo.gl/maps/GLVb4qVRaCbDXk8y9

Part of the Hidden-by-the-Wall Open Remix project:
soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-open-remix/

© 2021 This recording is made available under creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

////hive mind////

a reworked version (minus samples) now appears on:

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

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////your electric prairies////

late night guitar meditations to "Wire Fence, Rabbit Heugh" by :zoviet*france:

https://soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/wire-fence-rabbit-heugh

A dual contact microphone recording of a wire fence moving and resonating in the wind.

Recorded 4 March 2021 at Rabbit Heugh, Walltown, Northumberland, UK.
54°59'15.9"N 2°31'06.9"W
Google Maps: goo.gl/maps/YoKEjbv2FSqgawwK6

Part of the Hidden-by-the-Wall Open Remix project:
soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-open-remix/

© 2021 This recording is made available under creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

Track art derived from https://www.lowwintersun.org/work/road

////your electric prairies////

a good friend of mine painted a series of images based on descartes' "meditations on first philosophy."

https://www.lowwintersun.org/work/descartes-meditations

i took painting number 6, sliced it into five strips, fed the images into photosounder, the converted the resulting .wav files to MIDI (quantized to 16ths). i used the MIDI clips separately to trigger various samples: kick; snare; low tom; floor tom; hi-hat. i added a steady hi-hat pedal to help navigate the slightly offbeat rhythms.

finally, i layered in a live guitar piece (played through VCV rack, which i first encountered through disquiet junto, many moons ago...)

some possible questions: how can we think about the relationship between something rhythmic (the "beat") and something a-rhythmic (the "ambient" guitar)?
do they feel like two utterly separate streams, or do they somehow inform each other?
also, my track is only one minute long - can something so short be called 'ambient'?
more generally, can such a brief composition claim to establish a mood or atmosphere?

(wittgensteinian thought: i can claim to have felt sad for one minute, but not to have been depressed for one minute. certain moods or states require longer stretches of time to operate.)

all the best, htnc

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More on this 544th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Feedback Loop (The Assignment: Share music-in-progress for input from others) — at: https://disquiet.com/0544/

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

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0544-feedback-loop/

[disquiet0544] cartesian drummer

a reworked version now appears on:

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

[naviarhaiku508] //// moonlight ////

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/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0613-test-drive/

[disquiet0613] test drive

hello everyone,

in 1971, flower travellin' band released their epic album "satori". i found a reuters' news report from the same year and fed it through the excellent text-to-speech function built into microsoft edge, and then slowly added grit using audiothing's wires. i don't own a bass guitar, so i laid down the bass line with my gibson guitar and pitched shifted the recording down an octave. drums are native to ableton (64 pad rock kit). i also added some spitfire strings, four layers of live guitar, and one or two granular things. enjoy!!

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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/

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-0618-burying-the-lede/

[disquiet0618] burying the lede

[naviarhaiku513] black dog

hello everyone,

i took one of my favourite lines from wallace stevens

"sad men made angels of the sun"

and converted it to morse code midi, which i then used to trigger the different parts of a sampled drum kit.

kick = steady beat

sad = hihats
men = snare
made = floor tom
angels = rack toms
of = ride cymbal
the = agogo
sun = finger cymbals

the drums slowly fade into a return track (shifter at -12st >> reverb >> distortion)

the cymbals slowly fade into another return track (arturia efx fragments) which then slowly bleeds back into the first return track

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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/

[disquiet0619] beat the sun

two drum and bass drum loops hand cut and glitched. layers of distortion, feedback, electric guitar, sub drones, voices and multiple field recorded one shots.

[naviarhaiku534] dawn, pre-inertia

this orchestra is empty in several senses of the word, being made entirely out of morse code, MIDI, raw data, and human folly.

i converted the words "Disquiet Junto Project 0646" to morse code and used the resulting MIDI files to trigger a jazz kit in ableton: Disquiet (kick) Junto (hats) Project (snare) 0646 (toms). for "empty orchestra" i used archive.org to download an ISO file of a karaoke "Video CD" and imported it into audacity as raw data. confession: the first file i found was "The Hits of Barry Manilow Karaoke VCD" - so be it. his classic "i write the songs" provided the resulting screeches which i fed through neural dsp nolly for two channels of harsh noise.

i gave myself 60 minutes to complete this project, but came in at 80 minutes. in my defence, i had to do the laundry while audacity was converting manilow, so i think i ran up 75 minutes total. thanks, barry, you really do write the songs.

MORE DETAILS AT:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0646-empty-orchestra/

[disquiet0646] empty orchestra

[naviarhaiku542] sudden dazzling glare

[naviarhaiku546] swallowed by the world

[naviarhaiku548] silence (is a door to nowhere)

[naviarhaiku554] the light

[naviarhaiku557] write, erase, rewrite

beat adapted from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-pBYti3GoY

guitars done in one take each. i don't own a bass guitar so i added a saw synth for a bit of rumble. screams courtesy of a zombie-based video game.

comes in at 66.6 seconds = hail satan.

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More on the 666th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beauty and the Beast — The Assignment: We’ve hit a devilish numerical milestone. Do your thing. — at https://disquiet.com/0666/

[disquiet0666] the beauty of the beast

i live on nathan avenue, not far from the silent hill historical society. whenever i dream of pyramids, music floats up from toluca lake and seeps through the dank walls of the prison. he has returned.

******  ******  ******(*)

More on the 667th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Neighbor of the Beast — The Assignment: What’s it sound like when the devil lives across the street? — at https://disquiet.com/0667/

[disquiet0667] the neighbour of the beast

[naviarhaiku578] withdrawing

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