For this week’s Junto I chose to add thin layers to Insula Dulcamara’s ‘Tiny Phases’ track: https://soundcloud.com/insuladulcamara-726539207/tiny-phase-disquiet0215-tinyrhythms?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0215

I have been playing with homemade tape loops (https://www.instagram.com/p/BBfzyFMND3b/) and the Nanoloop app (http://nanoloop.com) a lot lately, and thought the very thin layer of tape would be a perfect fit for this week’s project.

I put Insula Dulcamara’s track on repeat and played around in Nanoloop until I had two loops: one a series of bleeps and bloops, and another a slower, layered drone.

One by one I recorded these into my cassette tape recorder (a Sony TCM-200DV) onto the tape loop, and then captured the tape loop audio into Ableton at three different speeds using the recorder’s built-in speed control wheel.

After these three I captured what was on the flip-side of the tape: a recording of me plucking a few guitar strings. I pitched this to be in tune with the other loops.

I arranged the bleeping nano-tape-loop to rhythmically juxtapose the original track, and then brought in the other drone-y tape loops one at a time.

Photo for this track by me. It’s the tape loop I used for this track laid on top of my iPhone open to the Nanoloop app.

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More on this 216th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“The Assignment: Add a thin foundational bed to beats of pin-prick audio”) at:

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Gerhard Zander's musical work started in the experimental field of electronic pop music. In the mid-seventies, he began experimenting with cassette and tape recorders. This was followed by autodidactical guitar studies and an extended interest in the use of fieldrecordings in music. From the 80s onwards he increasingly focused on working with synthesizers, from ca. 1984 on with computers and samplers. He has been working on several projects of improvised music since 2006. Currently, his main focus is the use of modular synthesizers and prepared instruments.

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I create Ambient, Electronic, Jazz Fusion, and Blues music - sometimes melding any of those forms together. Instruments, field recordings, a rare voice, writing code, and whatever else might sound cool are used.

entirely made on nanoloop 1.7 and nanoloop mono with Nintendo DMG-01

I tinker with musical toys. sometimes they behave and sometimes they don't. sometimes they run and tell lies to their mom about what I called them. in the end we always make up and laugh about it.

I release music as colab; through collaborations; and by remixing/producing other artists’ music from my home studio in Toronto, Canada.

if you like what you hear, send me a message and perhaps we'll be able to collaborate on something. assuming I'm not too busy drinking. 

which has been known to happen.

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Matthew McVickar