the shits are on parade
proud of the shit world that they made
they want you to love it too
if you don't, they'll step on you
we'll wait, make our weapons
wait'll you smell the shit you stepped in

ground glass and cyanide crystals
loaded in a smoothbore shotgun pistol
if you want some, i'll give you a taste
it's just a graze, but you're blue in the face
a flail of knotted strips
of leather that are poison-dipped
blue ring-stonefish-mamba venom
scrapings from my crusty denim
couple ounces centipede juice
and a cup of crushed-up brown recluse
it kills by touch alone
rots you to the bone

mercury rounds in .45
roller blades and bowie knives
knuckle dusters, iron gloves
.44 russian fired with love
squeaky little farts
blowing neurotoxic darts
just a little prick and you're done
a needle of death in a '50s raygun
for the next motherfucker in line
a metal lunchbox claymore mine
clack-clack-clack, pow-pow-pow
where's your god now?

you fucked up good and there's nowhere to hide
the mayan death god is on our side
knocking off your crown
a hail of crystal skulls rain down
in the land of the dead
wake up missing half your head
your funeral pants are filled with fudge
when you step up to the scales to be judged
ammit sits by, drooling
as anubis makes his ruling
the feather is lighter than your heart
demons will tear you apart
https://soundcloud.com/slimecop

Johnson Family Arsenal(OOTO & Slimecop)

Electronic composition, Sounds created in Pure Data.

Guiding Spirits (naviarhaiku472)

This track is a new version of the track https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/hoffnung-erfreut-den-traurigen-sinn. The intention is to create a new composition that retains the important elements but gives a new listening experience by shifting the focus.

The guitar-part of @Fnubi was replaced by guitar-loops provided by @roeland11 on looperman. The other instruments were adapted to the new harmonics. Some instruments were exchanged, new instruments were added (acoustic guitar, cello, an additional violin).

I owe my thanks to Roeland for providing the following loops used in this track:
https://www.looperman.com/loops/detail/231296/sad-grunge-guitar-chords-120bpm-grunge-acoustic-guitar-loop
https://www.looperman.com/loops/detail/231297/sad-grunge-guitar-melody-120bpm-grunge-acoustic-guitar-loop
https://www.looperman.com/loops/detail/231298/sad-grunge-guitar-strum-120bpm-rock-acoustic-guitar-loop

This track was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project:
More on this 579th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Memory Serves (The Assignment: Rerecord a piece of music), at: Disquiet Junto Project 0579: Memory Serves – Disquiet

More on the Disquiet Junto at: Disquiet Junto F.A.Q. – Disquiet

Subscribe to project announcements here: Disquiet Junto by Marc Weidenbaum (Disquiet.com)

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0579-memory-serves/

Hoffnung ernähret die liebenden Hertzen (Disquiet0579)

Video of this track...https://youtu.be/yRFws-HSwKc

Disquiet Junto Project 0579: Memory Serves
The Assignment: Rerecord a piece of music.

Step 1: The goal of this project is to simply perform and record again something you’ve performed and recorded previously. Think about something you’d like to revisit.

Step 2: Now rerecord the piece of music you decided upon in Step 1.

Eight Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0579” (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 “disquiet0579” (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:

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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.

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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:

Length: The length is up to you.

Deadline: Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, February 6, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, February 2, 2023.

Upload: When participating in this project, be sure to include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

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For context, when posting the track online, please be sure to include this following information:

More on this 579th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Memory Serves (The Assignment: Rerecord a piece of music), at: Disquiet Junto Project 0579: Memory Serves – Disquiet

More on the Disquiet Junto at: Disquiet Junto F.A.Q. – Disquiet

Subscribe to project announcements here: Disquiet Junto by Marc Weidenbaum (Disquiet.com)

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0579-memory-serves/

Night so bright (Disappearing Donkey Version) - disquiet0579

Disquiet Junto Project 0610: Speed Limit Pt 2
The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed.

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For this remix, I worked with a handful of tracks from the 0609 collection that I gravitated towards, chopping + processing them in Paulstretch, Twisted Wave, and Ableton Live to halve their speeds.

'Blink' by https://soundcloud.com/analoc became a melodic anchor that the rest of the remix was built around. It was interesting to listen to the results of slowing + pitching the original tracks down. Sometimes I would sample the original speed version, and others I would first slow down before stumbling onto something that clicked well with the composition. 

bassline + clicky percussion sampled from:
https://soundcloud.com/analoc – https://soundcloud.com/analoc/0923-disquiet-junto-609-blink

heavy, textured bass drum hit sampled from:
https://soundcloud.com/winterer – https://soundcloud.com/winterer/catnip-in-60bpm-disquiet0609

huge clap drum sound sampled from:
https://soundcloud.com/oh-well-360226041 —https://soundcloud.com/oh-well-360226041/shadow-clocks-disquiet0609

soaring synth solo sampled from:
https://soundcloud.com/xhg — https://soundcloud.com/xhg/disquiet0609-acrostic-speed-limit?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0609

chord washes + drum loops sampled from:
https://soundcloud.com/doodledigital – https://soundcloud.com/doodledigital/already-the-morning-disquiet0609

• • •
More on this 610th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 2 (The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed), at: disquiet.com/0610/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…0-speed-limit-pt-2/

Creatures Blinking in the Morning Shadows • [Disquiet 0610]

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Moonlight Blesses The Temple (naviarhaiku508)

More on this 614th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Alternate Route (The Assignment: Do something you often do, but differently), at: https://disquiet.com/0614/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0614-alternate-route/

Server Room Gremlins (disquiet0614)

This track was created as response to the Disquiet Junto Project 0614: Do something you often do, but differently.
Instead of improvising a piano-melody over a field-recording, this time I created a background ambiance based on pianos and improvised noise sounds to it.
The 5 different background pianos are played by the generative MIDI sequencer Transition employing high measures of randomness (free VST-plugin available at www.codefn42.com/transition/index.html).
Three different noise-sounds were improvised with the MIDI-keyboard to this piano-background.

More on this 614th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Alternate Route (The Assignment: Do something you often do, but differently), at: https://disquiet.com/0614/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 2

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0614-alternate-route/

A Piano Tempest is Approaching (Disquiet0614)

More on this 614th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Alternate Route (The Assignment: Do something you often do, but differently), at: https://disquiet.com/0614/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 2

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0614-alternate-route/

disquiet0614 - Prehistoric musical ritual

Disquiet0614 Drums First: The Key to Unlocking Your Potential

This is linked to my track from last week, in both of which I intend to create changing rhythmic patterns. I made a couple of tracks similar to this one but was not entirely satisfied with some of the uneven & glitchy sounds, which were not exactly what I was aiming for. Of course, this is only my opinion & I am probably not the best judge of my own work. At least, although not exactly humorous, it is quite jaunty & light-hearted.

More on this 615th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Introspective Failure (The Assignment: Fall short again, this time on purpose), at: https://disquiet.com/0615/

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

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Not Quite Right (disquiet0615)

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. 

Disquiet0614 Drums First: The Key to Unlocking Your Potential

Jonathan Zorn

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