Disquiet Junto Project 0609: Speed Limit Pt 1
The Assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it.

Step 1: You’re going to record a simple track at 60 BPM in 4/4 that will be reworked subsequently by other musicians, including potentially being combined with other tracks. Think about how you want to structure something with that intention.

Step 2: Record a 60 BPM track in 4/4 based on the thinking that resulted from Step 1.

Note: This is the first part of a two-part project. You don’t need to participate in both. In the Junto, all projects are intended to be doable as standalones. However, there often are sequences. The intended second project of this project, next week, will build on this one, so please consider making your track downloadable and available for reworking/remixing.

Track notes:
 
I started by creating some simple 60bpm arpeggiated sequences on a Microkorg and improvised over the top of this with synth, guitar and a vibraphone patch. To top it off and give the track something a bit asynchronous, I added an 1950s field recording of a Australian Blue Faced Honeyeater, which provides a playful - and oddly complimentary - counterpoint to the otherwise rigid arrangement. 

This recording has 32 bars of the 60bpm track with no fades.

[Disquiet_Junto_0609] Refactored Drift (60 bpm)

By way of current chronic insomnia, by way of this accidentally discovered podcast https://www.attnmagazine.co.uk/crucial-listening-135-taylor-deupree/

by way of this plugin, 
https://puremagnetik.com/products/taylor-deupree-small-winters

and then this one: https://www.pluginboutique.com/products/3941-Radio

Here is the resulting thoroughly scrambled output….

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Disquiet Junto Project 0609: Speed Limit Pt 1
The Assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it.

Step 1: You’re going to record a simple track at 60 BPM in 4/4 that will be reworked subsequently by other musicians, including potentially being combined with other tracks. Think about how you want to structure something with that intention.

Step 2: Record a 60 BPM track in 4/4 based on the thinking that resulted from Step 1.

Note: This is the first part of a two-part project. You don’t need to participate in both. In the Junto, all projects are intended to be doable as standalones. However, there often are sequences. The intended second project of this project, next week, will build on this one, so please consider making your track downloadable and available for reworking/remixing.

Eight Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0609” (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 “disquiet0609” (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:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0609-speed-limit-pt-1/

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.

Already The Morning disquiet0609

This was done for disquiet0609. Apparently for remixing by others. Really simple, I'm still learning. Here's what I wrote on the message board...

Ok well, if you want words, here you go. If you want anything else, lucky we'll be remixing these. 

This was done to a drum track that I later removed, it's about the most basic blips and blobs you can imagine. Hope you all have fun with it!

disquiet0609 - 60 Murders in a Crow

More on this 609th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 1 (The Assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it), at: https://disquiet.com/0609/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Upeow (disquiet0609)

[disquiet0609] 60 Not 64 Or Is It

My submission for the Disquiet Junto 0609 with the assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it.

I just viewed Tobias Reber's interview with Marc Weidenbaum, so I thought: let's make something in Éliane Radigue style. Frankly that's all there is to say to it.

More on this 609th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 1 (The Assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it), at: https://disquiet.com/0609/

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-0609-speed-limit-pt-1/

Speed Limt Pt 1 (disquiet0609)

Speed Limit Pt 1 (disquiet0609)

Disquiet Junto Project 0609: Speed Limit Pt 1
The Assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it.

Listening to the other tracks people did, maybe I should have been a little more minimal. Well, there’s no bass really. So, I left out something. I tried to focus on dynamics for this one, with the swelling guitar chords, contrasted with the fading synth rhythm every two measures. Also got a chance to use this weird 2 in 1 wood block/shaker my friend got me for my birthday. Scale is B Hungarian Major with no 7 or 5 so it’s pentatonic. Probably a name for it but I don’t know what it is.

More on this 609th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 1 (The Assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it), at: https://disquiet.com/0609/

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-0609-speed-limit-pt-1/

60 and Sexy (disquiet0609)

More on this 609th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 1 (The Assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it), at: https://disquiet.com/0609/ 1

About the Disquiet Junto: Disquiet Junto F.A.Q. – Disquiet

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Disquiet0609 60bpm

Second Nature (disquiet0609)

Sinny: samboga blocks, gong, ratchet, processing
Tetrisrocker: clock ticking sample
Abyeditsound: clock ticking sample
Inspectorj: cuckoo clock sample
13gkopeckak: bicycle bell sample

More on this 609th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 1 (The Assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it), at: https://disquiet.com/0609/

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-0609-speed-limit-pt-1/

Clocking Out (disquiet0609)

Original Score inspired by the Dan Hanks novel The way up is Death

Nerd’s lead the way

Jonathan Zorn works as a composer, performer, and curator of experimental, electronic, and improvised music. His electronic music pairs improvising musicians with interactive computer systems to create hybrid, human-machine ensembles. Zorn's interest in vocal utterance has resulted in a series of pieces in which spoken language is interrupted by electronic forces, drawing attention to the gap between speech and sound. Zorn has been active as an improvisor on bass and electronics for 15 years and has performed at Red Cat, the Walker Art Center, the Verona Jazz Festival, the Library of Congress, the Seattle Festival of Improvised Music, Line Space Line Festival, and the Chelsea Art Museum. His work has been published in Ord und Bild, the SEAMUS Journal, Notations 21, and UbuWeb. 

Disquiet0609 60bpm

Jonathan Zorn

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