Name: [disquiet0544] cartesian drummer by how the night came
Duration: 1 min

I hear a pitch connection between the drums and the guitar. Of course, the drums don't have a definite pitch, but they are resonating with the guitar hovering around E-B-A-C. I'd also say that the oscillation of the guitar seems to "mimic" the snares? So I'd say that the beat and the ambient somehow inform one another.

I feel like the drummer and the guitar player are looking at each other. I think you have definetly created a mood in the short period.If you like something and its short you play it again to make it longer. I did wish this was longer still. I played it three times.Great work!

this piece works!  Drums are great, though I feel like the hihat could be a tad louder.  It's ambient alright, and if you stretch it, it will totally put me in a distinct mood.  Excellent work!

A great track!  And it really could be much longer - but I like the 1 minute concept.

Sounds really good, if this were my track I would make it longer and improvise a lead sound for accompaniment

disquiet0529 - Squared Off

This is the 529th consecutive weekly Disquiet Junto project. The number 529 is what happens when you take the number 23 and multiply it by itself.

https://disquiet.com/2022/02/17/disquiet-junto-project-0529-squared-off/
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0529-squared-off/52842

Considering the number 23 here...
Three percussion tracks, of 23/4, 23/8, and 23/16.
One percussion track, of 23/8, with a bouncing ball algorithm for repeated fading midi notes with Mass and Gravity set to (sensible multiples of) 23.
One 4/4 loop, trimmed / stretched to 23/8 (I think!).
One 23/8 synth part, with two sends into Replika XT for a tasty wash.
And since Psalm 23 is the lovely "Shepherd" Psalm, I used two Shepherd Tone tracks to flesh out the tonal structure.
Finally, to tie in the 23 - the track title Zygote - human zygote formation is the moment whereby a new 23+23=46-chromosome human potential lies from its parents. Evolution at work...

Track image - Lahinch beach, Co. Clare, Ireland, 13th Feb 2022

Hope you enjoy...

Zygote (disquiet0529)

2022-05-03

Machines That Fly Into Space

Recorded, mixed & mastered May 27 2022 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2022 Jim Lemanowicz

Piano, echo

Art - captured 06 Feb 2010 with a Sony Cybershot in Massapequa, NY, USA

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This original version of "The Silent, Understood" was submitted as part of ​Disquiet Junto Project 0543: Disquiet Junto Project 0543: Technique Check.  The Assignment: Share a tip from your method toolbox.

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

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This track was originally released under the artist name "Our Quiet Fog."

The Silent, Understood (disquiet0543)

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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