Name: So Close (disquiet0670) by Hugh G Three in Disquiet Junto Project 0670: Right of Way
Duration: 3 min 44 s
Description: More on the 670th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right of Way — The Assignment: Music for turn signals — at https://disquiet.com/0670/

Disquiet Junto Project 0670: Right of Way

The Assignment: Music for turn signals.

Step 1: Record the sound of a car’s turn signal (or, alternately, use a prerecorded one, for example at freesound.org).

Step 2: Improvise on top of the recording of the turn signal with as many or few layers of additional sound as you like, emphasizing rhythm (versus melody or harmony), and retain the original turn signal sound, so it is still audible for most if not all of your finished track

Background: This project is something of a callback to the 11th Disquiet Junto project, way back at the end of March 2012.

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

Details: https://disquiet.com/0670/

Disquiet Junto Project 0670: Right of Way

Motion And Movement

This Space Is Ok

Disquiet Junto #0670 directed us to compose something rhythmic around the sound of a turn signal. I went one better and added windshield wipers. 

Polyrhythms, frequencies that are askew, and a tempo that seems to lurch like a figure in the fog. Maddeningly, nothing stays in sync for long.

Features physical modeling synth, samplers, and field recordings.

Enjoy “Three Lefts” on a long, nighttime drive with the windows down and the volume up. Recorded at NO SIGNAL Multimedia Lab in the Shambles, Chicago.

More about this week's Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0670

Three Lefts (disquiet0670)

Using the sound of the Ford KA right indicator to create a piece in BespokeSynth. See the accompanying video and download the patch to play with yourself from YouTube at https://youtu.be/70JQ0UMMtXs

More on the 670th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right of Way — The Assignment: Music for turn signals — at https://disquiet.com/0670/

visuals & patch

halF indicatioN [disquiet0670]

This track was created from a short recording of a car turn signal with numerous repetitions, layers and effects, no other sounds added.
More on the 670th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right of Way — The Assignment: Music for turn signals — at https://disquiet.com/0670/

Turn of Events (disquiet0670)

More on the 670th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right of Way — The Assignment: Music for turn signals — at https://disquiet.com/0670/

Right of Way

Disquiet Junto | Right Of Way - disquiet0670

As per the instructions, the track starts and ends with the sound of a turn signal, which is then processed, cut up and re-arranged and then over ruled by a funky beat. Except the beat is interrupted by the occasional failed connection, to remind me of the dodgy sound systems I had in my car when I was young. And then the beat stops, the turn signal returns, first in bits and then steady and strong. I turn into my driveway, and I am home.

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So Close (disquiet0670)

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0673: Switchback. The assignment: Record a piece of music in which you make loud that which is usually quiet and quiet that which is usually loud.
Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0673 discussion thread on Lines:
One approach I use in creating ambient soundscapes is to lay down a foundation drone and layer melodies and other tracks on top. The drone is usually much quieter than the rest of the tracks. In following this week's prompt, the foundation track with noise is louder while the others are quieter, to the point that they all blend together.
This was created in Ableton Live using Slate+Ash Spectres and Choreographs, along with built-in instruments. Waves photo by Cee Ayes via Unsplash.
More on the 673rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Switch Back — The Assignment: Make the quiet part loud, and vice-versa — at https://disquiet.com/0673/

Counterflow [disquiet0673]

2024-12-10

Drops

breeding field

Zandersula Wimble

5 seconds from each month in 2024. mostly taken from unedited tascam recordings; april and june are field recordings, all others are mostly jams with my smaller eurorack palette case

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More on the 678th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Commonplace Playlist — The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments — at https://disquiet.com/0678/

disquiet0678 - 2024 (60sec)

🎹COMPOSER: BEDZ
🎵TITLE: NEURAL MUTATIONS
ℹ️DESCRIPTION: TEKNO 163 BPM
📀LABEL: SUM DGTEK ZODIAC SAGITTARIUS
📅RELEASED: 10/12/2025

🎛️MIXING: BEDZ
🎚️MASTERING: INSANE TEKNOLOGY

DOWNLOAD:
⏬SUM WEB SITE:
⏬BANDCAMP:

LISTEN:
🎧SPOTIFY:
🎧YOU TUBE:

BEDZ - NEURAL MUTATIONS (SUM DGTEK ZODIAC SAGITTARIUS)

𝑷𝑹𝑬𝑴𝑰𝑬𝑹𝑬: Circuit V - Eclipse (Biocym Remix) [ATL07]

Atmos Lab presents its seventh EP, Interstice: 5 tracks and 2 remixes produced by Circuit V. On this occasion, the Italian producer Biocym reimagines “Eclipse” in a deep and atmospheric version, expanding the original pulse into a hypnotic, high-density club journey.

Release date: 27.12.25
Label: Atmos.lab Records
Mastering: Fifth Circuit Studio

Follow the artist -  Circuit V:

SC: https://soundcloud.com/circuit_v5
IG: https://www.instagram.com/circuit_five/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/CircuitV5

Follow the artists - Biocym:

IG : https://www.instagram.com/r_biocym/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/Biocym
SC: https://soundcloud.com/biocym


Record label profiles

SC: https://soundcloud.com/atmos_lab
IG: https://www.instagram.com/atmos.lab_records/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/atmos.lab.records

𝑷𝑹𝑬𝑴𝑰𝑬𝑹𝑬:  Circuit V - Eclipse  (Biocym Remix) [ATL07]

Rising producer TMK23 returns to Emphaseas Music with his massive 'Crucified EP'. Alongside heavy remix artillery by EastColors, Thematic, Theoretical and Plantz.

This release perfectly captures the essence of a proper club drum & bass record — raw, techy, and storming. Four peak-time weapons built strictly for the dancefloor.

TMK23 - Powerline

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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