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Disquiet Junto Project 0250: Soothing Sounds for Junto

This week's Junto was to create some soothing sounds for a newborn baby.  I started out at the piano, and soon came across this little motif that I liked. It had a sort of lullaby feel to it, but I didn't want it to be too rigid in timing. So I flooded it with reverb and lots of slow echoes, and tried to play without getting entrenched in any particular 'bar' structure. I found that by adding a few sequences from the modular synth it would give me something more firmly in time to shift across.   I also added one of my pad sounds from the JP-8080 for a little variety.   

Improvised live, in a single take.

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TenTinyFingersTenTinyToes (Disquiet0250)

release date: 13 - 10 - 2016
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Welcome ( Disquiet 0250)

"Compose a piece of music intended for a newborn child, something peaceful as they first experience the world outside the womb."

I remember when our first daughter was born, she would sleep better on car rides when we played music with a touch of prominent bass.  Nothing too loud, of course.  

This piece tries to replicate that "perfect" soothing baby sound that our daughter liked while in the car.  In addition to two kinds of basses, there's a variety of field recordings mixed in the background, along with a section of the track "Tactile Music" by Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish, from our 2008 album Ornate Culmination.

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Soothing Baby Sounds (disquiet0250)

k-blamo
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Thisone{disquiet0250}

Disquiet Junto Project 0250: Soothing Sounds for Junto
Make some peaceful music for an infant child.

This project finds me re-editing and mixing tracks I composed and recorded last year for a film that needed some “clear”, “transparent” and “crystalline” music according to director.
So I went for a sample instrument called Glass Works from Soniccouture that I ended up using quite a lot, samples from “translucent” glass instruments such as Chamber Bowls, Cristal Baschet and Glass Harmonica. 
https://soundcloud.com/soniccouture

I kept the same template yesterday night and build this Welcome! sound to Karin and Bruce’s sweetheart, wishing them all a lot of happiness.

Basic tracks are:
-Cristal Baschet (arpeggio)
-Bowls (w/mallets) 
-Glass Harmonica
-Bowed bowls pad

So the basic track is full midi.

Then I added my beloved Accordina (start @ 0:34) and (bassist me) a pizzicato upright bass section (6 overdubs of the same basic bass part to make it sound like a bass orchestra).
I thought this was a bad idea, (removing the aerial mood and giving some rhythmic root) but today it seems good.
Still, at 3AM I added some “Vangelis” noises and cutoff falls ‘cause something in the sound reminds me the Love Theme from Blade Runner, so I tried to imitate those unique “ffffsshhhh” sound Vangelis masters.
I also thought this was a bad idea and now, the morning after I can confirm. It’s actually number 37 in my list “50 worst ideas of 2016”
But can’s get to the studio to remove it now, so here it goes, lets support some bad ideas from time to time, shall we?

A magic moment is at 01:05 when the glass harmonica takes the lead playing the melody the Accordina just played (and accordina starts improvising) , both timbre sound so alike that it’s amazing, such disparate instruments.


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Welcome Little One - disquiet0250

I created loops of sections of the tracks that made me tingly. I then tuned and adjusted the frequency. Using a looper I took 16 bars of 2 selections and then reversed it. Chopped up the loop and compressed it. Then adding a motion to the sounds using different shaped wav forms. 
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Alexandrite Lava Disquiet0450

EDIT: Updated version JAN 26th 2021. After several nice contributions from other junto participants (see disquiet0473) that showed me that actually something could be done (organ, lead guitar, etc)  I decided to "complete" the original take myself just to have something more listenable here. Please refer to the 0473 versions for more interesting take son this original guitar jam..

Originally created for https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0472-jam-time/4

Hello, glad to be back, hope everybody started 2021 in a happy note.
I went for a fast approach: recorded a very simple idea, quite useless and pointless as it is, the sort of things I just record in 15 minutes and put aside waiting for the right time to do something with it, develop, transform, re-record properly,  expand and finish. Sometimes never happens. 

This one…I can’t think about any further development really, I don’t know what I’d do with it so it’s with a lot of hope that I ask somebody to do something with it, to rescue from oblivion.

It was recorded just now, me playing my Martin acoustic guitar on straight 1/4th notes with a delay on 1/8th notes (no feedback) and a second delay pedal on 1/8th notes with a long feedback to fill the spots where I pause in the middle and ending.
I like the blend of my human acoustic playing and the robotic repetitions of the digital delay. But I imagine it’s not the usual material to work with, hope somebody finds something to do with it.
Cheers
DD

E minor 132bpm

Somebody Do Something - Disquiet0472

Bass synth, stompboxes, hard panned left.

The Sand Gets Everywhere (disquiet0472)

Panned hard left for junto jam project

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Image associated with this project is by Meg Jones, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/mDRT9 1

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Orphaned Loop (disquiet0472)

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Jam Time (sparse stop) (disquiet0472)

A moody, gentle , textural, wander. As part of a collab it's panned hard left.

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Disquiet Collab (disquiet0472)

I went for a relatively simple approach attempting to leave space for other contributors. Only two parts: a bass and a melody (in need of rhythm and harmony) at 102 BPM in E minor. This version is stereo, but you can download a mono version hard panned left here:
https://soundcloud.com/chalkwalk-junto/jam-time-1-left-only-disquiet0472/s-sa4u6mxsbth
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Jam Time 1/3 (disquiet0472)

Disquiet Junto Project 0472: Jam Time (1 of 3)                                                                                               
The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio that others will complete.                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                             
Based on Patch and Idea by Omri Cohen                                                                                                                 
https://patchstorage.com/how-to-live-loop-in-vcv-rack/

This is stub of our collab piece for the Disquiet Junto Jam Time 2021. It is inspired by a patch by Omri Cohen and follows his idea of unsynced loops that I found relieving. For a long time my hesitation with electronic music creation was the idea of proper syncronisation...

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Looper Unsynced (disquiet0472)

Collaboration for the juto challenge 0473
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0473-placebo-effect/

Based on an original piano track by @forcedamage
https://soundcloud.com/forcedamage/fifths-just-piano-disquiet0472

I added electric bass guitar and synthesizer

Photo: La Fortuna, Costa Rica by DD 2019.

Fifths Damage 21012021 (disquiet0473)

This adds to rhein's track, Safe (https://soundcloud.com/rheinmusic/safe-disquiet0472). And also takes a fairly safe approach. Some piano and later a sequenced Newfangled Audio Gravitate with a little tape effect and some echo and reverb.
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safe-ish (disquiet0473)

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.

Thisone{disquiet0250}

k-blamo

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