Disquiet Junto Project 0613: Test Drive
The Assignment: Do something you’ve been meaning to do.

Step 1: Think of something related to making music that you’ve been meaning to finally get around to.

Step 2: Do it. Don’t worry about messing up.

. . .


Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, October 2, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, September 28, 2023.

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/

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Disquiet Junto Project 0613: Test Drive

This genre-bending compilation of original electronic music compositions features a chiptune-inspired head trip from Bonobo, an R&B-influenced synth pop track from Peter CottonTale feat. Jamila Woods, an ethereal vocal collage from Julianna Barwick, an evolving psychedelic excursion from Dan Deacon, a driving percussive electronica track from Madame Gandhi, an emotive dark wave song from Martial Canterel, and an industrial-tinged electronic pop track from Ela Minus. Each track was built around the instruments and accessories included in each artist’s Moog Sound Studio of choice: Mother-32 & DFAM or Subharmonicon & DFAM.

More from Bonobo: https://bonobomusic.com/

More about Moog Sound Studio: https://www.moogmusic.com/news/moog-music-introduces-complete-synthesizer-studio-experience

Bonobo - Famonicon

Saxophonist Lenny Pickett discusses his career straddling popular culture and the avant-garde, from his work with David Bowie and Saturday Night Live to his own ensemble work for dance, film, and the concert hall, illustrated with examples from 1984-2018 including the Borneo Horns, his score for choreographer Bebe Miller, and plenty of gospel and R&B influenced pyrotechnics. With appearances by Jack Bashkow and Stan Harrison on saxes;  a quartet with Michael Wolff, piano, James Genus, bass, John Hadfield, percussion; and a duo with Cheryl Hardwick, piano.

roulette.org

Lenny Pickett: Sweet Spots

Saxophonist Lenny Pickett discusses his career straddling popular culture and the avant-garde, from his work with David Bowie and Saturday Night Live to his own ensemble work for dance, film, and the concert hall, illustrated with examples from 1984-2018 including the Borneo Horns, his score for choreographer Bebe Miller's Big Sleep, and plenty of gospel and R&B influenced pyrotechnics.

https://roulette.org/

The Roulette Tapes - Lenny Pickett: Sweet Spots

It's always special to find the acapella's to Biggies amazing voice, his groove and flow is like no other rap artists I've heard. Ever since I heard him for the first time I've been in love with his voice and lyrics. I hope I have managed to create a good vibe feeling on this track :) Biggie deserves only the best! This song is for all of you who support my music, you have no idea how much it means to me:) 

Old Thing Back (feat. Ja Rule and Ralph Tresvant)

Spotify Link

disquiet0605 Fifty Fifty - 08-05-2023

Something I've been meaning to do is explore the (electric) upright bass, which has hardly been used over the years it's been in the house. A disquiet YouTube video is also well overdue and I have also been meaning to experiment with a bottleneck on bass ... So, this is a triple whammy of stuff I've been wanting to get around to ...

Check out the accompanying video @ https://youtu.be/dJRC3Uw-EhQ

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/

visuals (YouTube)

halF tesT [disquiet0613]

Kibera (disquiet0613)

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

A have a few tracks in hand that I have been meaning to upload & this prompt gives me the opportunity to post this one. It is a live electronic composition in quasi-serialist mode created in Pure Data.

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/

Insouciant (disquiet0613)

I decided to test drive Enso Looper, which I bought a while ago but never properly used. So as in a proper test drive, I (briefly) consulted the manual, took the wheel, hit the gas pedal (record) and went for it. No change of course or second takes allowed. After this test drive I still don’t properly understand how Enso should be used - but something came out of it. Next step (maybe): read the manual again.

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 - Singular Brushstroke

Disquiet0613 Chandelier Sax Quartet 2023-09-30

Live 2-track board recording from BB KIngs in NYC. TOP Alumni Lenny Pickett sits in.

Main Nerve /Just Enough (feat. Lenny Pickett)

"Back To Class" - the album by songwriter / drummer / percussionist Drew Schultz. The record features many of the soul legends Drew has worked with including The Four Tops, Dennis Coffey, Chairmen of the Board, Members of The Funk Brothers, Lenny Pickett, Spyder Turner, James Jamerson Jr, Melvin Davis, Pat Lewis, McKinley Jackson, Earl Van Dyke Jr, Joey "Kingfish" Stribbling, and Rob Carter, as well as up-and-coming young talent like Chris Ams, Kyle Allen, Elise McCoy, and Anna "Cartia" Carter.

Jamo (Feat. Dennis Coffey, Lenny Pickett, Earl Van Dyke Jr & James Jamerson Jr)

This Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays piece I decided to do as a string quartet. I got distracted from laying down a couple of guitar solos I'm working on.  Recorded live off the floor in rehearsal room February 20 2013.. First Take Only. Ton Beau String Quartet 

Letter From Home (Pat Metheny)

Solo reeds and tape. Bad Dreams, the multi-instrumentalist’s music for choreographer Bebe Miller’s Big Sleep.

Roulette Concert Archive // roulette.org

Lenny Pickett 10 Dec 89 at Roulette  (excerpt)

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.

Disquiet0613 Chandelier Sax Quartet 2023-09-30

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