Electronic and Experimental Sketchbook

From the vaults (ca. 1990): this is a sketch for an ambient piece for three guitars based on a simple aleatory structure: I overdubbed three short melody lines, more-or-less in C, and recorded them "blind" -- that is, without listening to how each line interacted with the other two in terms of rhythm or harmony.

3-Guitar Composition (sketch)

The work is in two movements - Fraying and Prolonged. The first presents a sonic object that gradually disintegrates. The second reframes this object and slows it down, so that the process of decay is frozen, and the object appears almost immortal. The work grew out of reflections on 1 Corinthians 15 and Jiang Zhi's Love Letters (2014). In Jiang Zhi's photographs, flowers are on fire, but are not harmed by the flames.

Alto Flute - Isobel Doughty
Oboe - Caitlin Heathcote
Clarinet in B flat 1 - Heather Ryall
Clarinet in B flat 2 - Julia Raga Pascual
Horn in F - Karen Starkman
Trumpet in B flat 1 - Catherine Pollit
Trumpet in B flat 2 - Thomas Thornton
Tenor trombone 1 - Samuel Dye
Tenor trombone 2 - Jake Jones
Harp - Teresa Raff
Piano - Ábel Misha Gille Esbenshade
Violin 1 - Kanon Miyashita, Tilman Fleig, Yuriko Matsuda, Zora Orfgen
Violin 2 - Camille Saïd, Anastasia Egorova Wise, Zoe Hodi
Viola - Michaela Bartošová, Jeremy Tonelli-Sippel
Violoncello - Lucy Neil, Pieter-Jan De Smet
Double bass - Jess Martin, Cole Morrison
Conductor - James Hoyle

Recorded in October 2018.

Reframe (2017)

Disquiet Junto Project 0469: [Missing in Caption]. The Assignment: Make music that pushes the constraints of descriptive television captions.

In one scene of this old war movie, the man is saying goodbye to go to another well-founded, short and successful war, and his wife is deeply worried.

The bells call to battle, the wife struggles to find parting words, and even the worn-out VHS tape is deeply moved.

Whispering provided by these two CC0 samples:
https://freesound.org/people/geoneo0/sounds/193818/
https://freesound.org/people/LadyImperatrix/sounds/503270/ <- the heartbreaking words!

Image based on David Monies: The Farewell
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monies-Farewell.jpg

More on this 469th weekly Disquiet Junto project:
https://disquiet.com/0469/
Project discussion:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0469-missing-in-caption/

CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

[overly heartbreaking farewell music] ____ [disquiet0469]

Participation in the "Disquiet Junto" project led by Marc Weidenbaum: Phase Transition.
The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.
https://disquiet.com/0471/

Ice cubes fall into a glass.
Recorded with a Tascam DR-100MKII + built-in mics Uni.
The Tascam is placed vertically on the glass, in contact.
A Pure data patch lets you hear the recording transposed to 3 voices  and brings out their harmonic components by spreading out them over time.
At the beginning we hear the untransposed sound.
This is the same Pure data patch as for:
https://soundcloud.com/gerard-paresys/3stones-disquiet0441

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Participation au projet "Disquiet Junto" de Marc Weidenbaum: Phase Transition.
Enregistrer le son d'un glaçon dans un verre et faire quelque chose avec.

https://disquiet.com/0471/

Des glaçons tombent dans un verre.
Enregistrés avec un Tascam DR-100MKII + micros intégrés Uni.
Le Tascam est posé verticalement sur le verre, en contact.
Un patch Pure data fait entendre l'enregistrement transposé sur 3 voix et fait apparaitre ses composantes harmoniques en les déployant dans le temps.
On entends au début le son non transposé.
C'est le même patch que pour:
https://soundcloud.com/gerard-paresys/3stones-disquiet0441

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Phase - Transition - Disquiet0471

short composition built out of a single recording of ice rattling in a glass. An assignment for the Disquiet Junto Project, which you can find by searching Soundcloud.

Ice - Disquiet Junto 0471

Improvisation on solo electric guitar (left channel only) for disquiet junto 0472 or anyone else to reuse or chop or adapt.
90bpm
More on this 472nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Jam Time (1 of 3) / The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio that others will complete — at:

https://disquiet.com/0472/ 1

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Final Frontier - disquiet0472

This is the second phase of a three-part collaborative project for the Disquiet Junto. From a list of almost 70 short tracks, I chose this piano piece by @ChrisLedwidge and came up with an accompanying guitar part. Next week a third person might choose to add a part to complete the trio. Even if that doesn't happen, I'm pretty happy with how this turned out.

Original piece by @ChrisLedwidge here: https://soundcloud.com/chrisledwidge/no-34-in-am-disquiet0472

More on this 473rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Placebo Effect (2 of 3): disquiet.com/0473/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…473-placebo-effect/

Du(o J)et No. 34 in A minor [Disquiet0473]

Broody ambient/soundtrack piece made up of a variety of found sounds: a local building's ventilator, a clip from a documentary about Brian Eno, and snippets from some old, unused guitar recordings of mine.

NOTE:This is a revised version of a song I uploaded earlier. Shout-out to  @michael-ash-sharbaugh for pointing out a technical glitch which, it turned out, was easy enough to fix.

Time No Radar On Emit

an asynchronous trio:

The first part was made by Torsten Goerke, as ⅓ of a trio without knowing who might add on to it...
The next week, it was selected by Rusty Hurley (Northern Flight), adding the pedal steel guitar and a subtle kick drum.
This week, I picked that, and added the bass.

part one: https://soundcloud.com/torstengoerke/looper-unsynced-disquiet0472
part two: https://soundcloud.com/northern-flight/looper_left-pedal-steel-right

video fo this part: https://youtu.be/OFeNYBcVJ2E

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More on this 474th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Police Action (3 of 3) / The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians – at:
https://disquiet.com/0474/

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Desert Resync - disquiet0474

https://soundcloud.com/ikjoyce/placebo-effect-disquiet0473
Peter-eisenhauer – Disquiet0472-jamtime-1-of-3

More on this 474th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Police Action (3 of 3) / The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians — at:

https://disquiet.com/0474/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0474-police-action/

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

Ike (Junto Trio-Ian, Peter and Bick)disquiet0474

For this one I took this track https://soundcloud.com/user-859240368/dronedrumdrub-disquiet0473?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0473 by https://soundcloud.com/melondruie and https://soundcloud.com/user-859240368. And ended up with this chill atmospheric drum thang.

The name comes from this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYbVpAwGGGs. It still makes me laugh every single time. Also the piece ended up sounding like smooth dad jazz.

Daddy Butter [disquiet0474]

Disquiet Junto trio remix. 
Torsten Goerke - Somebody's Gonna Leave (disquiet0474) with Daniel Diaz & David Gibbs

Somebody's Gonna Leave Dance Party disquiet 0475

Remix of Noodle Twisters’s  Fuzzy Chime , Viola And Flute (disquiet0474) With MDH & The Land 
https://soundcloud.com/user-130801280/fuzzy-chime-viola-and-flute-disquiet0474-with-mdh-the-land

Dirty Needle / remix of Fuzzy Chime , Viola And Flute With MDH & The Land(disquiet0475)

For this challenge:
"Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it."
Love this one, and love the photo. Mist/fog is such a global (globalizing?) thing. Any city could use it to get on approximately the same mood. Like a landscape's tuxedo.

This photo could be any city , dressed like that, could be my home-town Buenos Aires (a city fog suits so well).
There's a tango standard "Nieblas del Riachuelo", full Buenos Aires misty cityscape, so I went for a homesick tango nostalgia and jammed wit myself this one:

Nieblas Panamericanas

Spanish guitar
Upright bass
Drums (brushed)
Melodica (mimicking a Bandoneon)

The photo was shot in Houston, Texas, by Robert Boyd and is used with his permission.

More info:
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Nieblas Panamericanas (disquiet0476)

Las Ruinas Circulares: an electronic collage incorporating some of the eponymous work by Jorge Luis Borges first published in 1940 in the literary journal Sur.

Are we the dreamer or the dream? The act of creation is one of pain but also of necessity. The culture of judgement and personal responsibility posits the guilt of the agent. but is there agency, or does the house of cards rest on nothing at all; a supposition? Are we a construct of images, pasted together from scraps of memory?

Voices raised in dream:
- modular (rings, pams, sloths, 2hp arp, 
- rhodes
- valhalla
- Drumbrite, SSF entity
- flatwound
- torpid scorpion


More on this 478th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Collage of Collages (The Assignment: Make a collage that will become part of a larger collage.) — at:

https://disquiet.com/0478/

The project is a collaboration with the radio show Kopfkino, initiated by Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka. More on Kopfkino at:

https://cba.fro.at/series/kopfkino

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

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

Image associated with this project is by the late Jeffrey Melton (a very early Junto participant), and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/4zoz46

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Torpid Scorpion - Las Ruinas (Disquiet Junto 0478 - Collage Of Collages) SCMASTER

What is there left to do?
Can't we do something new?
I found my old guitar,
I'll tune it up and play for you.

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Du(o J)et No. 34 in A minor [Disquiet0473]

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