A dream of future? 
Or past? 
Descend to wakefulness. 
A young world clouded with vapor trails.

Vapor Trails - Disquiet0501

Future Times is back in the mix, expanding the sound and vision of the label with the latest in their compilation series, Vibe 3!!!
The compilation opens with the dynamic killer "Junk Funk" by DC newcomer OV, a pure cut that rotates between percussive slice and complete ambient stasis. Juju & Jordash come thru next with "Soggy Bottom" and get their hypnotic piano throb on, and Max D's "Octopus" follows with an improvised, kinetic bang. Grapes & Isle O' Man ft. The Wino Boys (an alias for MB and OD, who've put in work on RH's No Label) knock it out with a beautiful slab of whacked reggae in "Up The Dubs (It Can't Rain Forever)", and Further Records' Raica fades it out majestic with "Makmba."


Raica - Makmba [Future Times]

More on this 373rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Copernican Music / The Assignment: Record a piece of music intended for an alien species — at:

https://disquiet.com/0373/

This week’s project was made as a proposition by the artist Jonathon Keats.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0373-copernican-music/

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this project is from one of Keats’ own instruments related to his Copernican artwork, a gravitational radio. Photo credit: Dora Tsui.

species

halF copernicaN [disquiet0373]

Of Mu Arae - Disquiet0373
 Started making an upbeat extraterrestrial dance number and it just didn’t fit. Then the weather came…ugh. Decided instead to project Earthed emotion onto some distant species (bonus points for that reference). A tale of exploration and longing. Searching for some imagined ideal, only to find you brought everything here with you…
you can’t escape…
yourself.
 Made five patches and recordings in AUM using iVCS3(The Putney) and one patch and recording with AudioDamage’s Quanta. The Quanta is the underlying “melody” that plays throughout the track, while the Putney made great clicks, noises, sweeps and screams. A little verb on the scream and some minor eq adjustments help separate the frequencies a bit in Cubasis.
 
 Mu Arae also named Cervantes, is a main sequence G-type star approximately 50 light-years away from the Sun in the constellation of Ara. The star has a planetary system with four known extrasolar planets (designated Mu Arae b, c, d and e; later named Quijote, Dulcinea, Rocinante and Sancho, respectively), three of them with masses comparable to that of Jupiter. The system's innermost planet was the first 'hot Neptune' or 'super-Earth' to be discovered.
More on this 373rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Copernican Music / The Assignment: Record a piece of music intended for an alien species — at:

https://disquiet.com/0373/ 1

This week’s project was made as a proposition by the artist Jonathon Keats.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0373-copernican-music/

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Of Mu Arae - Disquiet0373

Found floating amongst the stars, initially though to be an alien satellite, a yalpian blackstone organ was found in 1972 by Major Tom & Eva. 

After several years of experiments, Professor Spleet Von Gingle finally succeeded in taping a few minutes of it's song, after which (she claims) it broke completely. 

Rumour has it, though, that pieces and parts as well as some of the oscillating blackstones has been seen on stage or in the studios of some of the biggest bands throughout the '70'ies and '80'ies.

More on this 385th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Audubonus Instrumentum / The Assignment: Imagine a fake instrument, and make music with it — at:

https://disquiet.com/0385/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

disquiet0385 - etude for yalpian fields

https://disquiet.com/2019/05/16/disquiet-junto-project-0385-audubonus-instrumentum/

Photo by Patryk Grądys: https://unsplash.com/photos/4pPzKfd6BEg

Music for EQ

Music for EQ (disquiet0385)

This week's prompt: create a fictional musical instrument.

I bought my son a xylophone but he really wanted that Gary Burton vibraphone sound, so he hooked up a bunch of servomotors to the metal bars, gently twisting each one in time to a bank of oscillators. Of course he got the idea from YouTube! I never should have signed him up for that Arduino class. And of course now the xylophone is out of warranty. Kids!!


More on this 385th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Audubonus Instrumentum / The Assignment: Imagine a fake instrument, and make music with it — at:

https://disquiet.com/0385/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Thanks to Paul Harrington for the Latin assistance.

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-... 2

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Disquiet0385 Audobonus Instrumentum

for Disquiet Junto Project 0385: Audubonus Instrumentum
The Assignment: Imagine a fake instrument, and make music with it.

This Instrument is a so-called Doohingophone. Its sound generating part is a tube with a rotating rod inside. The rod can be rotated by hand using handles on ropes which are laid around the rod. Attached to the tube is a large resonant body. 
The special thing about this instrument is the element of surprise, because the pitch is not entirely determined by the rotating speed but also by many other factors that concern the friction surfaces of the inner tube with the rod, as well as the materials used and the weather. 
There are not many artists who are able to make it sound pleasant, which is perhaps the reason it is not commonly known. Sadly even, some critics compare the sound to a squeaking door hinge and it will take decades for its reputation to be resetted to its original glory. In the time when it was invented, around 1896-1897, it was popular as house music with rich mansion owners who had nothing better to do than invite guests and keep their army of servants busy.
Here, we hear a rare live performance of one of the last artists owning a Doohingophone.
In recent times, usage of this instrument is slowly generating interest again, and I gladly link to a recent piece: 
https://soundcloud.com/moiofficiel/dont-open-the-kitchen-door



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More on this 385th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Audubonus Instrumentum / The Assignment: Imagine a fake instrument, and make music with it — at:

https://disquiet.com/0385/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Thanks to Paul Harrington for the Latin assistance.

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0385-audubonus-instrumentum/

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Doohingophone [disquiet0385]

Imagined instrument - an ensemble of bicycle wheels, with spokes adjusted to a pleasing microtonality.

Bikewheel - disquiet0385

TECHNO LOGIC SYNTH CULTURE Presents:
The STAY HOME SESSIONS [Part 01] 
THEME = FREE FORM

The STAY HOME SESSIONS are a series of bi-monthly patch challenges, promoting self expression through sound (from home). Every two weeks a new theme commences, followed by a playlist containing all of the submissions from that round.

Visit the TECHNO LOGIC website for more details.

Enjoy ;)

Vapor Trails - Disquiet0501

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