Disquiet Junto Project 0621: The Leftovers
The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new.

Step 1: At the end of the calendar year, people often participate in holidays that result in lots of leftover food. Think about the leftovers — discarded tracks, or MIDI files, or ideas — that result from your music-making process.

Step 2: Scrounge around on your hard drive and recording equipment, and in your memory, to access the sort of creative leftovers that came to mind in Step 1.

Step 3: Make a new track primarily using the resources that surfaced in Step 2. You can, of course, add new material. And be sure to reheat sufficiently.

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Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, November 27, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, November 23, 2023.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0621: The Leftovers

RPG - Sci-Fi - Dark Ambience Instrumental Soundtrack - Shadowrun Cthulhu Now Nemesis (500+ Tracks)

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The Leftovers

Disquiet Junto | The Leftovers - disquiet0621

Suss Müsik’s entire creative practice is centered around the quest to derive gold from detritus. It’s likely an attribute shared with carefree art school days of an earlier era: a time when post-modern photography, sweaty punk rock, and ramen noodles served as daily sustenance.

“Photographs, so much a part of our daily lives, become highly self-conscious when pulled from the fraying of their ordinary locations,” wrote the art critic Julia Ballerini in 1989. “They refer back to their origins in a different voice … suggest[ing] a complexity of potential attachments, detachments, and reconfigurations.”

For this week’s project, Suss Müsik utilized four handmade devices recently built from material laying around the workshop: a digital sample trigger, a joystick-activated grain synth, a touchscreen MIDI device, and a touchscreen modulation controller. These were used to manipulate sonic material (loops, found audio, etc.) from the backlog, some of which has been in the works for more than eight years.

Given the nature of this week’s offering, Suss Müsik captured the session on video. 

https://youtu.be/z-bk_wxwhMo

The piece has no title and was recorded live to a TASCAM 8-track.

More on this 621st weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Leftovers (The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new), at: https://disquiet.com/0621/

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I've made collage audio forever, so this sort of project is easy for me.  The hard part is finding audio scraps that I haven't used, or used much.

In 2011, when I was living in Iowa City, I went downtown and made a bunch of field recordings.  A lot of that material ended up on my album Hide Yourself In Plain Sight.

One thing that didn't make the cut was me capturing a writer starting to read, and starting over, at Prairie Lights Bookstore.  He was reading something he wrote about Norbert Wiener and juxtaposing it with some Gwen Stefani reference, which to me is an excellent example of modern academic and literary nonsense, or I guess a "signal to noise".  

As that short clip in the track finished, I included two quick samples, panned left and right.  Left is a girl asking a bus driver a question, and Right is some drunk guy saying "Viggo Mortenstein" instead of Viggo Mortensen.

Also in there are some other loops, largely recorded from apps on the first generation iPad I had at the time.

More about me and my music at:  https://www.markrushton.com

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Norbert Wiener Signal Versus Noise (disquiet0621)

Conceived, recorded, mixed, mastered 23 Nov 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, NY.

Photo taken 11 Sep 2017, Massapequa, NY

©2023 Jim Lemanowicz

Process notes -
This track started out as a loop that I made in FL Studio on 05 Feb 2005 called "orchomainb." I have folders and folders of these old FL loops on my drive and backup, maybe 100-200, starting around 2000/01.

I imported a piece of this loop, which was something like bass, drums and some strings into Ableton Live as a wav file and had Live create a melody MIDI clip from it.

A rough idea of the tools I used
- 8 native Live MIDI effects
- Arturia Piano V3
- several of Live's and Arturia's delays and compressors
- Puremagnetik's Partikl delay
- Mastered with Ozone 9 on a fairly gentle setting.

This original version of "Pinch Appeal" was submitted as part of ​Disquiet Junto Project 0621: The Leftovers. The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new.

“Recent” is relative here - I have recordings back to the 80s. The early 2000’s was the first time I amassed more of my own audio (and photos, btw) than I could use, so I reached back to that time. I wanted to honor that time in my life today.

It would also be fair to note that I have about 4-8 albums/releases under this name that remain unreleased.

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This track was originally released under the artist name "Our Quiet Fog."

Pinch Appeal (disquiet0621)

I'm In The House (disquiet0621)

This relates to Disquiet project 0615 where I uploaded a track from a small group I had recorded which I found generally unsatisfactory.  Nevertheless, I kept these tracks on file & this effort derives from one of them. I have attempted to make it more interesting by changes to tempo, pitch, & dynamics, together with some additional delay & reverb.

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Presentable (disquiet0621)

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

Hard Electronic Remix with some pieces of "You're Here" By Trent Reznor.

Trent Reznor - You're Here (Sain Code Remix)

The Dark Knight Rises (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Why Do We Fall?

Dredd: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Hiding Out

Battleship (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Buoy Grid Battle

Black Sea (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Aftermath

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.

Norbert Wiener Signal Versus Noise (disquiet0621)

Ambient Rushton