My contribution to Junto Project 0683 - https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0683-space-shot/70693

The first half of the track I wanted to capture the spaciousness and mystery of a cavernous space station – brutalist in design, surrounded by mist. The second half I wanted to take a deep dive into the inner workings of the station, where we hear the isolated clicks of machines and robots discussing the work being done.

disquiet0683

More on the 684th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Early Bird — The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening — at https://disquiet.com/0684/

For this week’s assignment I wanted to capture not only the tranquility of waking up but also the anxiety. The track’s volume builds – reflecting one’s journey back into consciousness – and there’s a presence of dissonance and tension that is perhaps the anxiety of facing another day (carryover stress from the day before). However, within that dissonance you can hear a steady determination break through – this is the individual taking control of their power, their peace – and then the tension dissipates, the person fully awake and also empowered. Their phone alarm goes off at the end, gently. As I was writing this on my akai mpk mini, the sun was rising over New York City and gleaming through the windows of my Jersey City apartment — almost in sync with the rising tension of the keys. I felt like the sun and I were in tune with one another – that I was playing with the sun.

disquiet0684

More on the 688th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Sign Up — The Assignment: Interpret a routine public sign as a musical instruction — at https://disquiet.com/0688/. This particular track was inspired by atonal music of the early 20th century, and the works of John Cage. The sign says "Wrong Way," so I played music in (what many believed atonal music to be at the time of its emergence) the "wrong way." I changed the pitch on the "choir" a few times to evoke a vehicle going the "wrong way" and needing to turn around.

Wrong Way - disquiet0688

More on the 690th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Knot Bad — The Assignment: Interpret wood grain as a graphic score — at https://disquiet.com/0690/

disquiet0690

Inspired by the aesthetic of the same name, the Dario Argento film Phenomena, a trip to the Natural History Museum in New York, general millennial nostalgia for science museums, as well as Spotify playlisters and artists who have attempted to capture this sound. https://cari.institute/aesthetics/utopian-scholastic

Utopian Scholastic

Catalonia

More on the 695th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0695: Clean After Each Use — The Assignment: Put a piece of music through the dryer — at https://disquiet.com/0695/

disquiet0695

More on the 696th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Layers — The Assignment: Make music change by altering its layers — at https://disquiet.com/0696/

disquiet0696

More on the 697th weekly Disquiet Junto project, First Third — The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0697/

disquiet0697

More on the 698th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Second Third — The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0698/

Uses "With the Bathwater" by modusMatt (https://on.soundcloud.com/AFmmUzYmSvYUDzUr9)

disquiet0698 (feat. modusMatt)

More on the 699th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Third Third — The Assignment: Record the final third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0699/

Original track by Fake Genius (built off of "Stealing Third Base" by Jimmy Lem) https://soundcloud.com/fake-genius/disquiet0698-falling-jimmy-lem-third-base?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=0&si=334EC0738023468C94BB62E351EF767E&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

disquiet0699 (feat. Jimmy Lem & Fake Genius)

More on the 700th weekly Disquiet Junto project, View Frame — The Assignment: Share a peek out your window and some sounds inspired by the view — at https://disquiet.com/0700/

Attributed remixing allowed

disquiet0700 (Across the Hudson)

Science Fiction

More on the 701st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Gap Ear — The Assignment: Break apart a piece of music and fill the resulting spaces — at https://disquiet.com/0701/

disquiet0701

More on the 702nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Applications — The Assignment: Make music by misusing a piece of music software — at https://disquiet.com/0702/

disquiet0702

More on the 703rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, That’s How You Got Killed Before — The Assignment: Revisit something that you just couldn’t get to work last time — at https://disquiet.com/0703/

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