This is an experiment with Aphex Twin's new software Samplebrain. 

I used the following samples from freesound.org:
march warbler DeNoise 1149AM 210702_0300.wav by klankbeeld
Exotic Creature Song, 01.wav by InspectorJ
04845 andean flute short melody.wav by Robinhood76


More on this 561st weekly Disquiet Junto project – Samplelicker (The Assignment: Rework environmental sound recordings with Aphex Twin’s new software) – at: https://disquiet.com/0561/

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Flute Loop [Disquiet 0561]

Samplebrain loaded with with following samples and a field recording of garden bird song used as the target audio.

https://freesound.org/people/VEXST/sounds/35590/

https://freesound.org/people/1san/sounds/366688/

https://freesound.org/people/newlocknew/sounds/580446/

https://freesound.org/people/qubodup/sounds/210423/

https://freesound.org/people/digifishmusic/sounds/23086/

https://freesound.org/people/Incarnadine/sounds/17864/

https://freesound.org/people/basedMedia/sounds/548096/

More on this 561st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Samplelicker (The Assignment: Rework environmental sound recordings with Aphex Twin’s new software) — at: https://disquiet.com/0561/

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Birdbrain (disquiet0561)

Created for the Disquiet Junto 0561:

"Create a piece of music using Samplebrain. For source audio, only use sounds tagged “bird” or “rain” or “night” from freesound.org 6. Use as many as you like. Be sure to credit the source material when posting your finished track."

Freesound samples:

Nightingale Session - https://freesound.org/people/Martineerok/sounds/242709/
Night Dogs - https://freesound.org/people/SubUnit_FieldRec/sounds/126948/
Jungle night dark atmo: https://freesound.org/people/szegvari/sounds/577790/
Motor in calm city: https://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/622153/
Long Night Violin Strings Sad Mood Dark Thriller Atmo Cinematic: https://freesound.org/people/szegvari/sounds/618143/
Rain Against the Jeep From the Interior 9-20-22: https://freesound.org/people/Fredbjammin/sounds/650969/
Tin roof rain: https://freesound.org/people/cemagar/sounds/120352/
Huge Thunderclap: https://freesound.org/people/Fission9/sounds/576041/
Rain From Under An Umbrella: https://freesound.org/people/jordanrainer325/sounds/534929/ 



Arranged / Mixed in Ableton

Samplelicker (disquiet0561)

More on this 562nd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Sheep Music (The Assignment: Record something to help someone fall asleep) – at: https://disquiet.com/0562/

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The project’s image was produced using DALL·E 2. “Three sheep floating over a suburban house at night, realistic photograph” was the prompt.

Until Sleep Takes You The Clouds Will Thin

Disquiet Junto | Until Sleep Takes You The Clouds Will Thin - disquiet0562

More on this 562nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sheep Music (The Assignment: Record something to help someone fall asleep) — at: https://disquiet.com/0562/

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Cover photo produced using DALL·E 2

the wonder of sheep (disquiet0562)

Plato had no time nor patience for anyone who enjoyed the comforts of the unconscious. “Asleep, man is useless,” he wrote. “He may as well be dead. It [is] a disgrace and unworthy of a gentleman if he devotes the whole of any night to sleep.”

René Descartes felt differently. In Discourse on Method he wrote, “Asleep we can in the same way imagine ourselves possessed of another body and that we see other stars and another earth.” Descartes may have had a point; he passed away from pneumonia due to traveling in sub-zero predawn temperatures. Legend has it that his philosophy pupil Queen Christina of Sweden was an early riser and demanded lessons at five in the morning.

Suss Müsik occasionally wakes in the wee hours at two or three in the morning, working or reading for a bit, then returning to bed a few hours later. The quality of sleep at that hour is richly luxurious, a deep enveloping wave of inanimate bliss. Upon waking, the first question that comes to mind is “What day is it?”

This piece was created to at first engage with, and then slowly disentangle, the busy rhythms of the mind. It was performed on handmade synth/MIDI devices and recorded live to 8-track. The title is derived from the part of the brain that produces melatonin.

More on this 562nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sheep Music (The Assignment: Record something to help someone fall asleep) — at: https://disquiet.com/0562/

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Suprachiasmatic [Disquiet0562]

Polyphonic drone sequence, sounds created in Pure Data.

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The project’s image was produced using DALL·E 2. “Three sheep floating over a suburban house at night, realistic photograph” was the prompt.

Goodnight (disquiet0562)

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When The Sleep Kicks In (disquiet0562)

A short (for me!) piece of layered improvisation using Novation BassStation, Summit, Nord Piano, and Viscount Legend and lots of echoes and reverbs to create a drifting bed to drift off to.  I fall asleep at the drop of a hat, so this is definitely long enough for me, but your mileage may vary ;-)

More on this 562nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sheep Music (The Assignment: Record something to help someone fall asleep) — at: https://disquiet.com/0562/

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The project’s image was produced using DALL·E 2. “Three sheep floating over a suburban house at night, realistic photograph” was the prompt.

A Little Night Music (Disquet0562)

This composition was created for the Disquiet Junto Project 0562: Sheep Music.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0562 discussion thread:
When I was younger, I used to listen to jazz at low volume when working on art or design projects late into the night and early morning. Something about that genre at that hour, was calming and meditative. Going to sleep after that was pretty effortless. These days, I rarely stay up too late working on art projects but when I do,  I might listen to some lofi hip hop before eventually heading off into slumberland. The unobtrusive soundtrack and slow BPM, has a similar relaxing effect on me as jazz.

I have very little experience producing lofi, but decided to experiment in that genre and see what happens. Ended up using mostly loops and samples processed and arranged in Ableton Live. Not sure how close I came within the definition of lofi, but I was sleepy after I finished, so at least it helped in successfully completing the assignment for me.

More on this 562nd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Sheep Music (The Assignment: Record something to help someone fall asleep) – at: https://disquiet.com/0562/
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Moon Waves (disquiet0562)

The one instruction for this week's Disquiet Junto assignment was to use an octave leap, which is something I quite often do anyway. 

So, I just set about writing a new track without thinking too hard about the brief. I actually started with the percussion that shows up later in the track.

The root on the opening part steps down an octave before introducing the next chord in the progression.

A two-note synth part is just the minor 7 on two octaves (with a major 6 once for colour - still fits the Dorian mode but is pretty HELLO when it shows up imo).

A second synth part doubles the guitar harmonic sounds, coming in via an opening low-pass filter. That synth part has its pitch modulated by a little step sequence, so it steps up one or two octaves, and the rate at which that's happening in shifting about. That part then runs into a delay (Valhalla Delay) which as a descending octave shift in the feedback patch.

A synth bass part arrives later that is just sustained notes following the root of each chord, but an arpeggiator steps up and down an octave. Kind of like with the pitch modulation on the other synth, the tempo of the arpeggiator is being modulated by an LFO, then quantised, to make it less synth disco / Girls & Boys.

More on this 564th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Octave Lept (The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music) — at: https://disquiet.com/0564/

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The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2. The prompt: “octave leap.”

Samplelicker (disquiet0561)

mdh