My submission for the Disquiet Junto 0539: Let your slow breathing guide a piece of music.
I recorded my breath and loaded it into Nysthi's Quad Simpler. I derived two melodies, a fast one and a slow bass melody, by applying sample & hold to the recording. The loudness of the recording also controls the brightness of the high melody. And then I introduced two more melodies that may have been inspired by Tangerine Dream's Atem and Pink Floyd's Breathe. The tempo is an approximation of the speed of my breath, but since my breathing is not perfectly regular, there is no strict rhythm in the whole piece.

More on this 539th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Control Breath (The Assignment: Let your slow breathing guide a piece of music) — at: https://disquiet.com/0539/

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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

A track made for the disquiet Junto Project #0554

A chord  is formed by notes C3, Db3, D#4, E4, A#4, E5 from the Arp Odyssey mutitracked to six recorder/loopers using mlre script in the Monome Norns shield.

Odd-Y Cage Chord . disquiet0554

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