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.

Step 1: In the previous Disquiet Junto project, participants recorded a variety of tracks at a standard pace of 60 BPM.

Step 2: Select two or more tracks from the provided ones, slow them to half their original pace — that is, to 30 BPM — and use editing techniques to combine them into one new piece of music.

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Track notes:

It was difficult not to reflect on Steve Roden this morning in Adelaide. So inevitably my thoughts were concentrated very much on his wonderful body of work, especially his aesthetic of 'lowercase' music. Lawrence English put it so well last night in a FB post that Steve Roden would "cherish  the minor, the incidental, the unexpected, the hushed"

In this spirit, I used tracks from @henklass and @leonclowes and reformatted them to 30bpm. I used two segments of henklass's kick pulse and waves of noise/random notes and layered these with leonclowes meander of resonant, sustained tones. Against this, I used an archived recording of my own (some radio static) and pitched this so that it harmonised with the other two audio sources.

I experimented with the volume levels until I achieved an equilibrium of sorts. Then I put the bounced audio file onto my phone and took it downstairs to my kitchen. With our Bluetooth speaker atop the toaster (its usual spot), I placed an ambisonic recorder on a mug next to the sink. With the recorder running, I then went to the adjoining laundry room and started the track's playback from the Bluetooth speaker.

Along with the quiet ambience of the kitchen space, this morning there were the traces of stormy weather from overnight, so gusts of wind were brushing through the trees in our courtyard. Inside, the fridge hummed gently, and to my surprise, the stronger notes from leonclowes track resonated the interior of the toaster that the Bluetooth speaker was positioned on top of.

[Disquiet_Junto_0610] The Ongoing Moment - for Steve Roden (30 bpm)

Made in response to Disquiet Junto Project 0617: Haunt Scape
The Assignment: Halloween is coming up. Do your thing.
There is just one step to this project: Halloween is nearly here, so make some haunted sounds for people to play for trick-or-treaters.

I don't always enjoy the scary things, but I really enjoyed making some scary music. I jammed for about an hour on some hardware gear with this prompt in mind. Later that night, I walked around the house recording my creeky wood floors and rusty doors. Then cut for length and added some effects and edits in Live. 
While I was making these sounds, my wife Monica created this digital collage image. We enjoyed this simultaneous creative process and plan on doing it again. She wrote about this here: https://waxingphotopoetic.substack.com/p/circle-of-tree-thieves-creaking-in?r=7wafc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

More on this 617th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Haunt Scape (The Assignment: Halloween is coming up. Do your thing), at: https://disquiet.com/0617/

The cover image (enlarged, type added) is from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull#/media/File:3d_CT_scan_animation.gif

That image is credited to Arielinson and used thanks to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

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

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0617-haunt-scape/

Tree Thieves Creak in the Hollow - A Haunt Scape [Disquiet0617]

An electronic composition of seven parts, sounds created in Pure Data.

More on this 619th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beat Accrual (The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch), at: https://disquiet.com/0619/

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

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0619-beat-accrual/

Buildup (disquiet0619)

More on this 619th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beat Accrual (The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch), at: https://disquiet.com/0619/

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

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Disquiet0619 - Beat A Cruel

Last bloom before autumn
Stares back at me with a smile
My younger brother

John Wright is a drummer, producer, and regular participant in our music challenge. A few weeks ago, John participated in our latest haiku workshop on Discord, and here’s one of the poems he wrote recently.

autumn [naviarhaiku515]

More on this 620th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beat Accrual Accrual (The Assignment: Turn someone’s slow-build beat into a finished track), at: https://disquiet.com/0620/

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

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Disquiet0620 - SamPlair + Risse (Robert Knote)

Created with AUM on iPad and Cubase 12 on PC

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 515:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/11/15/naviarhaiku515-last-bloom-before-autumn/

Sample from:
https://freetousesounds.bandcamp.com/album/rural-american-ambience-sound-library-usa

Photo by zenbytes (2018, Germany)

with a smile - Naviarhaiku 515

Winter sky–
Distant dreams
Shattered and flown away
(Tr. by John Stevens)
A wandering poet and ascetic Zen priest, Santōka was a disciple of Ogiwara Seisensui, one of the first poets to discard the traditional use of the 5-7-5 structure in haiku.
Santōka’s poetry emphasizes the necessity of sabi (solitude) in order to achieve spiritual enlightenment and serenity.

shattered [naviarhaiku520]

https://open.spotify.com/track/2YFp3BVowS5MpbjuN049iQ?si=4d89b1eb0f9d4ee1

Limerence I

A very distorted and strange little fit, done in 2022. It's not at all calm or soothing like a lot of the music I attempt. The secret to this was an 80's era Yamaha multi-band distortion. I'm not sure another distortion pedal would have done the exact same sound, because it's a really weird little unti. 

#SoundCloud ☁️

autumn [naviarhaiku515]

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