My collection of contributions to the ongoing disquiet project

Disquiet

Recorded for Disquiet Junto 0366 using samples of ice cubes in a glass recorded in my apartment in Amsterdam on 05/01/2019 using a Zoom H1 Handy Recorder, Digitakt to fuck with and sequence the sounds, Reaper to slice the original recordings and the final track itself

Ice Breaker (disquiet0366)

Recorded in Crécy-la-Chapelle with Elisa Guilleminet <3 for disquiet 0367 - a work in progress collaborative song

Using a synth-1 and vcv-rack. 
Bpm: 98,
Time signature: 4/4

Panned 100% left (as dictated by project rules)

Trio Initiate (disquiet0367)

Recorded for disquiet0368 using https://soundcloud.com/bearp-aw/the-11th-hour-disquiet0367?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0367

I added some percussion sounds using a digitakt (bpm: 60.5) and a further drone-y sound using a cooking video from youtube and paulstretch. 

My contribution is panned 100% to the right.

The image is a bitmap generated by https://www.random.org/bitmaps/ using atmospheric noise as a seed

Engage Duo (disquiet0368)

I chose to work with mdh's Engage Duo
https://soundcloud.com/matthewh538/engage-duo-disquiet0368
and Bearp-aw's The 11th Hour.
https://soundcloud.com/bearp-aw/the-11th-hour-disquiet0367?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0367

I used an iPad app Gestrument pro to control a granular synth Spacecraft and a Fm percussion synth Ruismaker Noir and jammed along - headphones recommended .
More on this 369th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Final Solo / The Assignment: Record the final third of a trio, adding to a pre-existing track, based itself on a prior pre-existing track) at:

https://disquiet.com/0369/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0369-final-solo/

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

Image associated with this project is adapted (edited, color altered, text added) from a photo by Anna J and is used via Flickr thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/gcojn

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Trio (disquiet0369)

Recorded for disquiet0369 building upon https://soundcloud.com/notsevenism/left-disquiet0367 and https://soundcloud.com/aalanzaa/disquiet0368-left-right?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0368

I used vcv-rack to manipulate the original sounds and to add random plucky sounds in using the Turing Machine.

Dialogue and image come from La Jetée which I had been dreaming of the previous night

My contribution is panned in the center.

Final Solo (disquiet0369)

Recorded for disquiet0370 building upon the following tracks:

https://soundcloud.com/yobink/disquiet0369-restive?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0369
https://soundcloud.com/jesuisgentil/disquietude-disquiet0368
https://soundcloud.com/encymlll/quietude-trio-initiate-disquiet0367
https://soundcloud.com/triermusic/disquiet0387-encumbered-interlocutor

I used reaper to fade in and out different layers and to place a few reverb-ed and echoed piano & guitar here and there.

The track I started with was #11 in the previous playlist, so I've decided to dedicate this piece to the chemical element sodium with atomic number 11. 

Some information about Sodium (Na): 
Sodium is the sixth most abundant element in the Earth's crust.

Humphy Davy was the first person to isolate Sodium by electrolysis of Sodium Chloride in 1807.

Compounds of Sodium are used in soap manufacture, table salt and as a de-icing agent for animals and humans.

Through Lines (disquiet0370)

Concrete wallpaper made me and my boyfriend @matthewh538 think of a jail cell, with someone throwing a ball against a wall. To add more weirdness and coldness to this atmosphere, we decided to create a steel sound.

Concrete Ambience (disquiet0371)

Recorded using Quanta granular synth VST in Reaper for disquiet 0372

Honeymoon Phase (disquiet0372)

The sesame street gang try to beam their educational show into outer space... with disastrous results!

Copernican Music (#disquiet0373)

Had a track I didn't know what to do with made a couple of weeks ago. Tried glitching it for a disquiet0374.

Process was to take the existing track, chop bits of it up, fuck around with it and then apply FX that I don't fully understand.

Photo is my current picture with some weird effects added in GIMP

Glitch Glitch (disquiet0374)

Recorded for disquiet-0375 - something that sounds nothing like myself.

A cappella verse with some autotune added. 

A cover of You Are My Sunshine by Jimmie Davis. Though, while being one of two credited songwriters of the song (the other being Charles Mitchell, who is a songwriter, best known for being a collaborator of the aforementioned Jimmie Davis. His best known song being the presently discussed "You Are My Sunshine" with co-writer Jimmie Davis (more on him to follow)), interestingly, Davis never actually claimed authorship as he bought the song and rights from Paul Rice (supposedly, he was inspired in 1937 by a letter from a fan - this is known to be the most trustworthy of the origin theories of "You Are My Sunshine")  and put his name on it. This practice was not uncommon before World War 2 in the music business. However, a competing school alleges that the Pine Ridge Boys (who were the first to record the track on August 22 1939 for Bluebird Records (founded in 1932 as a lower-priced RCA Victor Subsidiary label and focused on producing and selling music inexpensively) and were from Atlanta)were offered it from an unknown lady singer from South Carolina. 

Perhaps the origins of this beautiful piece of music will forever remain a mystery. Perhaps, some even say, it was written in 1933 by an Oliver Hood? (a gifted country musician and song writer - who sadly may never have copywrited his own work, which notable country music artist, Georg Jones, once called the most perfect song ever written and was widely known to be the third best-known song in the world.)

Although, for me personally, I discovered this song through Marge Simpson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVybLBUEjJE who I dedicate this song to

Despite Yourself (disquiet0375)

Made for the disquiet junto 0376 in honour of Pi day. 

Samples are taken from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkmFgNUWA4A

And features a tempo change from 98 bpm to 196 bpm in honour of Tau day http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/28/tau-day-why-you-should-eat-twice-the-pie/

Pi Filling (disquiet0376)

A track made up of only field recordings and a mangled recording from an old Dutch Sinterklaas cassette. 

As per the instructions of the project through a bluetooth speaker using a zoom H1 mic. The speaker connection was broken, so I had to hold the red and black wires against the solder on the speaker, so I twiddled it a bit to add a little bit more performance through distortion. Silences occur when I moved them too much...

More context: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0378-blue-tooth-haze/20912/33?u=mdh

Blue(tooth) Haze(disquiet0378)

Work in progress track uploaded for disquiet junto 0379.

Words from Laurie Spiegel (without her permission ;) )

Bugsnag (open-studios)(disquiet0379)

A composition for myself as part of the disquiet 0380

Ears Only (disquiet0380)

Created as part of disquiet 0383. 

The idea being to create an artificial rendering of background ambient sound for an apartment on a large interstellar ship. 

Mostly made up of radio recordings from around the world on 03/05/2019.

Full description of concept and process here: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0383-interstellar-ambience/22125/12?u=mdh

Interstellar Ambience (disquiet0383)

Uploaded as part of disquiet 0384

All sounds originate from a single video source. 

Image is a screenshot of a corner of one frame of the video

Full description of the process described here: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0384-breath-beat/22308/16?u=mdh

Breath Beat (disquiet0384)

Uploaded as part of the Disquiet Junto 0387. Entirely made up of instruments I wouldn't normally use :)

Full process description here: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0387-everything-and-more/22900/12?u=mdh

Everything And More (disquiet0387)

Uploaded as part of Disquiet Junto 0388
Using just a Digitakt sampler and 3 samples

Full process discussion here: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0388-random-less/23076/16?u=mdh

Random Less (disquiet0388)

Uploaded as part of the Disquiet Junto 0389 - Long Then project.

Based on a slowed down version of a previous work. Added some bell sounds.

Full discussion of process: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0389-long-then/23225/51?u=mdh