NEW: JAM Mini Mix #171 - Sound FM (1989)

high orchestral pedal notes combined with an envelope follower on a field recording of air currents which is modulating various amplitudes and filters

Image credit: "https://www.flickr.com/photos/61456446@N06/42481923111" by Murray Foubister is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

Disquiet Junto Project 0603: Animated Suspension
The Assignment: Record a piece of music that suggests something floating in air.

Step 1: Consider various music techniques you might employ to suggest (or imitate, or insinuate) that something is floating in air.

Step 2: Select one of the techniques you considered in Step 1 and experiment with it a bit.

Step 3: Record a piece of music built around the technique you focused on in Step 2.

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Altitude disquiet0603

Contains recordings by Tristan Louth-Robins, Thomas Undermulden, Hugh G Prat, Jonathan Zorn and Bo OhWell
Mixed & mastered 10 Sep 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

Process notes -
Along with my own submission for 0609, I grabbed pieces of the following
 - [Disquiet_Junto_0609] Refactored Drift (60 bpm) by Tristan Louth-Robins
 - Sleep Spindles (disquiet0609) by undermulden
 - Upeow (disquiet0609) by Hugh G Prat
 - Disquiet0609 60bpm by Jonathan Zorn
 - Shadow Clocks [disquiet0609] by OhWell

After roughly tuning the tracks to something approaching C, I chopped chunks out of each, shortened these to 1 min total length from different starting points, chose different warp modes in Live and then stretched all 6 tracks to 2 min. I added some effects, including some to add pitchiness to non-tonal material. I used Max for Live to modulate some parameters while others were manually automated, then cut more chunks out. I accepted my rough mix and ran these through a variation of my Ozone 9 mastering chain.

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This original version of "Cactus, O Cactus" was submitted as part of ​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.

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This track was originally released under the artist name "Antlers Spread Wide."

Fluttering Fins

Cactus, O Cactus (disquiet0610)

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0612: Drum Vector

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0612 discussion thread:

At first, I wasn't sure how to approach this project. Briefly fooled around with various ideas and percussive instruments, till I finally settled on composing this in Ableton Live. Not sure how accurately I followed the assignment though but at least I had fun.

Five tracks were created using Ableton Live's Wavetable synth, all with the Mallets/Crockhausen preset and Max for Live Octopulse sequencer. Different parameters for the synth and sequencer were adjusted for each track to try to emulate five different musicians. Audio was processed with Minimal Audio Cluster Delay and Arturia LX-24 reverb. Background noise/drone from AudioThing Noises. Image by Neosiam via Pexels.
 
More on this 612th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Drum Vector (The Assignment: Walk the listener through variations on the same percussive instrument), at: https://disquiet.com/0612/
Thanks to Mahlen Morris for having proposed this project.
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Five Radials At Obtuse Angles [disquiet0612]

played at a gallery opening yesterday
My goal was to create absolutely free, momentary music with my new Soma Terra and Soma Cosmos and a bit of guitar.
I started and after 18 minutes the journey was over and I had a very dry mouth

mixed on TE´s TX-6, recorded on TE's TP-7
Mastered in LIVE

Sounds from terra to heaven/hell(disquiet0613)

Lately, I've been in the middle of editing and scheduling for release my "mistake" tracks over the years.  They have obvious glitches and mistakes in them.  RF interference.  Bad wires.  Stuff that "ruins" the track.

I finally gave myself permission to release this type of recording.  I'm releasing it under a pseudonym ("Samesed").  As Brian Eno said, "It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf".

"Glitchy Correction" has obvious flaws at the start, but now I find the mistakes charming and I can overlook them.

Music, especially electronic music, doesn't need to be "perfect".  It's OK to be out of time, out of key, out of phase, and bumping wires occasionally.  

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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Glitchy Correction (disquiet0613)

Space Out disquiet0616

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0616: Definition Jam

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0616 discussion thread:

Chose to work with the words "calm" and "placid".

Created in Ableton Live using Fors Chiral and Slate+Ash Choreographs with Strymon Big Sky and Aqusmatiq Dedalus Delay for effects. Not sure whether I'm 100% satisfied with the result since I had a more quiet and subtle ambient vibe in mind when I started. Maybe I’ll re-visit this sometime in the future.
 
More on this 616th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Definition Jam (The Assignment: Explore, in music, the nuanced differences between two closely related words), at: https://disquiet.com/0616/
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Strangely Calm and Placid Days [disquiet0616]

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

nawak

Dark marching band (disquiet0617)

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

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Disquiet0617 - The Uninvited

... I do hope that peace will come in this world ... 

*This work includes a field-recorded track at Urawa, Saitama, Japan, Aug. 16, 2023, by kaolu_euphony

*Original Image :
Ivan Pavlovskyy - "dawn"
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pavlovskyy/4248722529/
& a photo at a certain park in Tokyo by kaolu_euphony

Peace

I make way too much electronic music.  This account is solely for my contributions to the Disquiet Junto.  Follow me at Spotify, my mailing list, or my podcast, all linked here.

Glitchy Correction (disquiet0613)

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