The assignment: Think of something related to making music that you’ve been meaning to finally get around to. I choose to make a song with emphasis on bass frequencies.

More on this 613th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Test Drive (The Assignment: The Assignment: Do something you’ve been meaning to do), at: https://disquiet.com/0613/

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-0613-test-drive/

tumult [disquiet0613]

This is a ~5 min segment from a recent recording session of an atonal ambient/drone patch, inspired by Jaap Vink’s ‘screen patch’ explorations. New territory for me, been trying out feedback patching for awhile and this is a first attempt in doing one on this style. The sound source is ring modulated feedback created by patching a handful of Eurorack modules together.

The key modules are a Doepfer BBD delay, Make Noise Mimeophon, Make Noise Maths, Make Noise Rxmx w/ Fxdf, and Mutable Instruments Blinds. Altogether, a simple "record head / playback head" feedback loop is created that slowly builds by itself, and using Maths to suppress/compress the signal by acting as an envelope follower that controls the overall patch amplitude.

Blinds is patched as a ring modulator, and Rxmx/Fxdf stand in for the 'third octave filter' suggested in the original Screen Patch. This allows the feedback to be processed through 6 bandpass filters, including being able to scan through one or more filter bands. 

I also added another multi-mode filter, wave folder, and through zero FM VCO into the patch, allowing for more timbral range and ending up with a metallic resonance that I was pleased with.

If you're interested, check out Jaap Vink's work in the 1970s at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, exploring ring modulated feedback patching with the 'screen patch'. More on the process here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Bcr_HS9XM

Also see this inspiring collection of Jaap Vink recordings:
https://recollectiongrm.bandcamp.com/album/s-t

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More on this 613th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Test Drive (The Assignment: The Assignment: Do something you’ve been meaning to do), at: disquiet.com/0613/

About the Disquiet Junto: disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…ct-0613-test-drive/

Ring Modulated Feedback • [ disquiet0613 ]

This track was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0613: Do something you’ve been meaning to do!

This prompt gave me the inspiration to finally dive deeper into the Koma Field Kit. In this track a smartphone- and a dictaphone-recording of shopping in the supermarket are routed to speakers fixed to an acoustic guitar. In parallel a solenoid motor fixed to the strings is triggered if a certain gate-level is passed by the volume of the recordings. All these sounds are recorded with a contact microphone fixed to the guitar.
In a second take an improvised piano melody was recorded via this detour of speaker and contact microphone fixed to the acoustic guitar.

More on this 613th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Test Drive (The Assignment: The Assignment: Do something you’ve been meaning to do), at: https://disquiet.com/0613/

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

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Poppy Field Kit  (Disquiet0613)

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0635: ‘Round The Bend

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0635 discussion thread https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0635-round-the-bend/66322/13

Used part of the longer recording for this project. Thank you @toaster for providing the sample. Layered a track from my modular over the train recording to create the final piece. Used Hermod+ to sequence a bass line using Rings, and also added a simple melody from the module with a K-Board keyboard. Some modulation was added using OCHD. Reverb was added to both tracks in Ableton Live using Valhalla Supermassive. Train track image by Todd Trapani via Unsplash.       

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/
The image associated with this track is a photograph by Todd (Toaster) Elliott, who also provided the field recordings of the train.

Last Train North [disquiet0635]

This track was initially inspired by the field-recording which can be heard in the background - a recording of a train passing provided by @disquiet at https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/train-source-1 for the Disquiet Junto Project 0635.

It incited me to create a composition mainly based on strings.

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/

The Train of Thought  (Disquiet0635)

I based my contribution on the short version of the recording. As I found the bell sound too fast, I slowed it down to half speed. I then played several layers of guitar over it, using Norns RPLS as effect.

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/ 

Disquiet0635 - Karbidinsel

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/

The image associated with this track is a photograph by Todd (Toaster) Elliott, who also provided the field recordings of the train.

Choo - Choo Bass (disquiet0635)

Improv #7 for Disquiet Junto "soothing sounds for baby" theme. 

Recorded using the Soundcloud "record" function on my Android phone, with the standard built-in mic, late Saturday night in the shed in my yard.

disquiet0250 soother 7

YPG visited Peralta Elementary School in Oakland to make some music about multiplication and vertebrates!

What's a vertebrate?

Check out the video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrQLGtNeguk

Tracklist: 
00:00:00 - 00:08:35 Smooth - Spaceport 65
00:08:36 - 00:14:29 Andreiclv - Ninsei 
00:14:30 - 00:21:50 Jozef Nemcek - Quiet Circulation Time
00:21:51 - 00:25:53 Schuttle - Home
00:25:54 - 00:32:10 Yagya - Wind and Thunder
00:32:11 - 00:42:50 Advanced Dreams - Absent Presence 
00:42:51 - 00:48:25 Monodisc - Confined Spaces 
00:48:26 - 00:52:33 Quantec - Hymn To Ra
00:52:34 - 01:07:35 Forest Dub - Runo
01:07:36 - 01:12:57 Extrarausch - Nachtexpress (Hatless Mix)
01:12:58 - End Andreiclv - L5 O'Neill

I do NOT own the picture used in this video and I do NOT own any of the tracks/songs used either. All rights, credit and ownership belong to the artists who created said material.

disquiet0250 soother 7

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