Kitchen Loops would be a good name for a project.

Nice late night drive sound, which coincidentally seems how many soothe the little ones :-)

More on this 250th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Soothing Sounds for Junto: Make some peaceful music for an infant child” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0250/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

http://llllllll.co/t/soothing-sounds-disquiet-junto-project-0250/4927

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

Rattle photo lightly adapted from one by Daniel Goude, used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

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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.

More on this 250th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Soothing Sounds for Junto: Make some peaceful music for an infant child” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0250/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

http://llllllll.co/t/soothing-sounds-disquiet-junto-project-0250/4927

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

Rattle photo lightly adapted from one by Daniel Goude, used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

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TenTinyFingersTenTinyToes (Disquiet0250)

release date: 13 - 10 - 2016
More on this 250th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Soothing Sounds for Junto: Make some peaceful music for an infant child” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0250/

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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.

More on this 250th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Soothing Sounds for Junto: Make some peaceful music for an infant child” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0250/

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Soothing Baby Sounds (disquiet0250)

k-blamo
'digital lifestyle creator
baby

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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.


More on this 250th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Soothing Sounds for Junto: Make some peaceful music for an infant child” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0250/

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http://disquiet.com/junto/

Welcome Little One - disquiet0250

I used to sing this to my daughter when she was a baby. It did not help her a bit but it did help pass the time as I made a loop around the kitchen. I could never remember the lyrics past "don't shine". Extra points to whoever can guess the high hat faint bass bump sample -if your thinking of a city in Canada you are burning hot.

More on this 250th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Soothing Sounds for Junto: Make some peaceful music for an infant child” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0250/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

http://llllllll.co/t/soothing-sounds-disquiet-junto-project-0250/4927

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

Rattle photo lightly adapted from one by Daniel Goude, used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

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Mocking Bird (disquiet0250)

I had been mucking around with midifx and knob twiddling. Tiring of that and wanting something more live I found this sound and jammed for a few minutes whole recording. I am excited if anyone can use it and looking forward to dueting myself with someone else. Love the "live" idea for the Junto and the idea of collaborating.

More on this 269th weekly Disquiet Junto project, “Duet Portion: Record half of a live duet” at:

http://disquiet.com/0269/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
http://llllllll.co/t/record-half-a-duet-disquiet-junto-project-0269/6652/18

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

Image associated with this project is by Tony Tsang. It’s used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

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Live at Black Bear (disquiet0269)

Synthesized vocalizations to be played with a manipulation of selections from Joan La Barbara's 73 Poems 1993. Texts by Kenneth Goldsmith.

73.5 (Duet With Joan LaBarbara)

for Disquiet Junto Project 0269: Duet Portion

Assignment: Record half of a live duet.
Process: played with Aalto, my favorite synth. Normally my approach is to set one note looping in the piano roll that controls the notes for Aalto, randomize all its controls, then tweak it until something listenable emerges and live record audio. Get lost doing so for hours. I am always amazed how rich and multi-layered that one synth appears.

More on this 269th weekly Disquiet Junto project, “Duet Portion: Record half of a live duet” at:

http://disquiet.com/0269/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/
Image associated with this project is by Tony Tsang. It’s used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

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02-->69 [Disquiet0269}

In The Air Tonight Drum Fill for 1 Hour 10 Minutes except it's tripled and one is played .1% faster and one is played .1% slower

In The Air Tonight Drum Fill for 1 hour 10 minutes at 99.9%, 100%, and 100.1% speed

random vocal wordspill recorded on handheld cassette tape recorder 
spoken ontop of "First Half" piece by New Tendencies original track can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/newtendencies/first-half-disquiet269

made for disquiet junto project 0270 “Just Duet: Record the second half of a duet live” at: http://disquiet.com/0270/

No Diving (disquiet0270) duet with New Tendencies

Disquiet Junto Project 0270: Just Duet
Record the second half of a duet.
@Plusch: piano
DD: melodica

Sorry I didn’t follow the suggested lottery method, when checking out the many wonderful contributions to 0269 I just downloaded the ones that inspired/tempted me and started working on some during my free time this past week, before the actual project was posted.
I already finished 2 and have 2 more recorded, needing editing.
As the first duet (Ya Wha? ‘s  Bare Metal duet https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/bare-metal-dressed) has already been posted I go for this one for the actual playlist (it’s just one per capita one each project, right Marc?)

I duet with plusch here, he’s on piano (https://soundcloud.com/plusch/up-in-the-air-disquiet0269) I added a melodica part, then tried  a second take to have the choice, and inspired by one of those creative mistakes that often happen, decided to keep both takes (in the A/B process of choosing take1 vs. take2 I un-soloed both and liked the results, the low register take1 coexists with the hi register take2 on the second half)

Delay and reverb and a pitch shift to double take 1 one octave lower is all the processing here.

Thanks @PLUSCH for the inspiring Erik-Satiesque piano.

Disquiet Junto Project 0270: Just Duet
Step 1: This week’s project builds on last week’s. Last week 40 musicians each recorded one half of a duet live. This week you will record (again, live) the other half of the duet for one of those pre-existing tracks. It’s preferable that you come upon the selection by random. You can generate a random number any way you choose, from 1 to 40. This link will give you a random integer within that range
More on this 270th weekly Disquiet Junto project, “Just Duet: Record the second half of a duet live” at:
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Upper In The Air - disquiet0270

Drone prepared in G with DPO wave folded with VCM. Played melodica in G-minor and used PTG as an envelope follower. Never touched the patch once it was set up and all changes derived from pitch and volume of melodica playing.

Breathfolding For Melodica

Epiphone electric guitar performed by DD in Cordoba, España, December 2015, recorded by @edgar-grau-1 , mixed and treated (samples, delays, field recording) by DD in Paris, April 2017.

Music for this Haiku:

"Desert sands
I enter the whole
of nothingness"

Poem by Kala Ramesh 
Picture by Tim de Groot 


more info @naviar-records
http://www.naviarrecords.com/2017/04/26/naviarhaiku173-desert-sands/

Original track, un-treated and  un-edited here

https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/lost-in-cordoba

Broadcasting From The Desert (naviarhaiku173)

Three 6 string Martin guitars
Two 12 string fender guitars
Three classical guitars

(C)&(P) Sonoton GmbH.
FOR SYNCH/Licenses PLEASE CONTACT SONOTON.COM
Photo (C) Christophe Apatie.

Uploadad for @disquiet junto project 0280.

 I wanted to wish a proper, HAPPY birthday to our fellow junto member @differentieel but can’t think of an idea to recreate something old with a new approach, but that’s something I’ve been doing for decades when I hear something old that inspires me!
I decided to upload this track for you, it form a time that I had several borrowed acoustic guitars (including a Fender 12 strings that I really miss) and spent months creating tracks superimposing very simple parts with just guitars, to build something full and coherent out of insignificant little bits. I was listening to Steve Reich (electric counterpoint), Fripp, Bracca, and many others, but wanted to use that procedure to create something that doesn’t quite follow that repetitive style.
One of the tracks, really simple, tender and naive was this one L’Aube (Dawn).

May this simple and innocent piece warm differentieel’s heart on this special day.
Happy Birthday!
DD

More on this 280th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “20170514: Celebrate the 70th birthday of a Junto member” — at:

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L'Aube (disquiet0280)

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.

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