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Four Four Walks Into A Bar (disquiet0553)

An electronic sequence, sounds created in Pure Data.

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The image shows a detail of a mural painted by the artist Pablo “Raíz” Ruiz Arroyo at the record store Noise in San Francisco.

Rhythmic Breaks (disquiet0553)

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Glitchy Shuffle (disquiet0553)

In this week's assignment, we were asked to abruptly change the tempo of a song. I hadn't read the instructions carefully enough and so the tempo changes throughout this one.

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tempo [disquiet0553]

There’s no such things as a free lunch, especially on the internet. 

Ads were always a nuisance, first in Radio, then in TV, now on YouTube. The problem is – and I don’t have to mention that in the Lines community - that other people are making the money, not the artist, unless you’re really popular. If I upload my track to YouTube (it’s Creative Commons), Google will inject at least 2-3 ads and cash in the money without my consent. And I’ll never see a cent of that. 

The idea of injecting ads to break the cycle, as the assignment says, came fast. But it took two days until I had „the product“  ready. It contains Playbox, the awesome Mercury from Cherry Audio, SQ-80, Reaktor and a ton of drums. I also recorded some ads from YouTube and skipped them after the obligatory seconds. Mixing took another half day, so I spent at least 12-18 hours with the assignment. 

I’ve uploaded an ads-free and free to download version on Soundcloud, also.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0553: Break That Cycle The Assignment: Record in a steady tempo but break it on occasion.  This is a one-step project: Record in a steady tempo but break it on occasion. For example, you might record a piece of music in 4/4 at a steady pace, but occasionally break it by including an extra bar or a stray three-bar sequence, or a segment that’s notably faster or slower.  Eight Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:  Step 1: Include “disquiet0553” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your tracks.  Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0553” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation of a project playlist.  Step 3: Upload your tracks. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your tracks.  Step 4: Post your track in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co:  Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0553-break-that-cycle/  Step 5: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.  Step 6: If posting on social media, please consider using the hashtag #DisquietJunto so fellow participants are more likely to locate your communication.  Step 7: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.  Step 8: Also join in the discussion on the Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.  Note: Please post one track for this weekly Junto project. If you choose to post more than one, and do so on SoundCloud, please let me know which you’d like added to the playlist. Thanks.  Additional Details:  Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, August 8, 2022, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, August 4, 2022.  Length: The length is up to you.  (…)
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Music In The Age Of Internet Capitalism (Ads Version) [disquiet0553]

I haven't posted in a while.
First of all, I modified the MIDI to the specified scale from EDM or something.
Then I used a Chinese heavy metal guitar plugin to make it sound like that, and connected various effectors to it.

What I wanted to express was the ocean!
The ocean is slow unless it's a tsunami, so it's kind of in line with the theme.
The distortion of the guitar sounds like white noise, which represents the sound of waves.
I remember reading a book once that said that the sound of a ship's engine in the sound of waves means that there is something man-made mixed in with nature, and that is the key to ambient music.
I don't like to listen to man-made sounds too loudly in nature (although I don't mind it when I'm in the city).
But no matter how quiet I output my compositions, if the listener turns up the volume, it is meaningless!
So I made the sound of the waves louder, so that the artificial sound is buried in the waves.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0554: Cage Chord
The Assignment: Riff on a chord by John Cage.

This project is the third of three that are being done in collaboration with the 2022 Musikfestival Bern, which will be held in Switzerland from September 7 through 11. The topic this year is “unvermittelt,” which is a little tricky to translate. Literally it’s “unmediated,” but it can also mean “sudden,” “abrupt,” or “immediate.”

We are working at the invitation of Tobias Reber (@TobiasReber), an early Junto participant, who is in charge of the educational activities of the festival. This is the fourth year in a row that the Junto has collaborated with Musikfestival Bern.

Select recordings resulting from these three Disquiet Junto projects will be played and displayed throughout the festival.

Step 1: Consider this chord:

E5
A#4
E4
D#4
Db3
C3

If MIDI is of use to you, here is a link to the chord in a MIDI file:

https://disquiet.com/0554-midi

Step 2: You might read up a bit about the source of the chord, the piece “Organ²/ASLSP” by John Cage. Cage desired the piece to be played “As Slow As Possible.” Currently it is being performed in Halberstadt, Germany, on a special organ that will play it for a total of 639 years. It’s been going for 21 years so far, and is at this moment playing the above chord. Read up here:

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-02-04/john-cage-organ-slow-as-possible-halberstadt-germany

Step 3: Produce a loopable drone (duration between one and three minutes) of your own based on that chord.

Note: Submitted drones will be sequenced into one large drone piece to be played at the Cage Room, a pop-up workshop and exhibition space of the festival at Progr, Bern, Switzerland.

Disquiet 0554 - P

Created using Virtual ANS and normalized in Audacity for Disquiet Junto 0554, Cage Chord. Any piece submitted was intended to be loopable.

Used pulses in close drone, not only according to chord notes, but in upper registers, within notes to play with additive heterodying/intermodulation, as notes were synthetic, not inherently full of overtones etc. Also to take some cue from the chromatically adjacent notes in the chord notes.

None of it done with fine resolution to encourage any idiomatic lo-fi glitchyness in the program.

More on this 554th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Cage Chord (The Assignment: Riff on a chord by John Cage) — at: https://disquiet.com/0554/

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/
https://www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern
https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

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drone piece for the disquiet junto //

based on a chord from the john cage composition "as slow as possible"

(file edited 12/08)

Drowsy Hypothetical

[disquiet0554] Drowsy Hypothetical

peaceful demon

ya uh huh

Brsky

just something i made when i finally tried to face forward again.
it kinda pushed me on, and maybe it’ll do the same for you.

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Four Four Walks Into A Bar (disquiet0553)

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