Disquiet Junto Project 0639: Path Ways (4 of 3)
The Assignment: Rework musical trios using the constituent parts — one of two ways.

These instructions are fairly lengthy. Please read carefully. Originally this trios sequence of projects would have ended with the completion of the trios after three consecutive weeks. However, those went particularly well, so let’s see if we can push it a little further.

Please note: You needn’t have participated in any of the prior Junto projects to participate in this one. 

Step 1: In the previous project, we completed musical trios. Project 0638 was the third of three consecutive projects. In the first one, 0636, musicians recorded solos. In the second, 0637, musicians took those 0636 tracks, nudged them to the left side of the stereo spectrum, and then added their own music to the right, forming duets with a hole in the middle. In project 0638, other musicians introduced a third track down the center of the 0637 recordings, completing the trios. You can revisit the music via the blog posts disquiet.com/0636, disquiet.com/0637, and disquiet.com/0638, and you can follow the forking paths through the related Google Drive spreadsheet.

Step 2: The goal of this project is to rework the material that accumulated over the course of the previous three projects. There are two main ways to go about this. One is to simply choose one or more tracks and remix, combine, mash-up, or otherwise transform them. The other is to move on to Step 3.

Step 3: Choose one 0636 track, a solo, that yielded more than one 0638 trio. (These are highlighted in light blue, or maybe it’s teal, in the leftmost column of the spreadsheet.) Trace the various routes that 0636 track took. Perhaps it also led to some 0637 tracks that never went any further. Perhaps there are various 0638 versions based on varied 0637 versions. In any case, record a piece of music that lets the listener experience the branching paths that the original 0636 track took over the course of the three phases of the trios project sequence. Clearly you will be using a linear form to represent variations, so how to achieve that will require some compositional ingenuity. But you’re up to the task.

This playlist is for the #disquiet0639remix approach.

Disquiet Junto Project 0639: Path Ways (Remix)

2024 - 02 - 17 19 - 36 1

I heard a lot of duets last week, a lot of good ones. In the end I went with the German Romantic and played SOMA Terra.
thanks @analo & @torsten goerke for your inspiring duet:https://soundcloud.com/analoc/right-beside-you-disquiet0637?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0637&si=6ecc2889c9a2400dbeccda5796ff8c38&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Morning on top(disquiet0638) feat. analoc & Torsten Goerke

I spent the morning adding my third element to a few tracks and finally decided that my contribution to encym and Jimmy Lem's combo was the most coherent. I was struck by the contrasting tones of encym's off kilter Tele with the controlled chaos of Jimmy's cuatro. Sandwiched in between are some sparse tones from my Terra, fed through the "Vangelis Verb" on the Zoia.

disquiet0638

I added a bit of static to CoralineAda’s and Leon Clowes’ mezmerizing duo as an attempt to heighten the tension of the “missed connection” implied by the vocal sample. The static was created with the Landscape Stereofield and tamed somewhat by one of Hainbach’s presets for the Zoia.

Disquiet0638.6

sound art for disquiet0638

This is the third phase of a three-phase sequence over the course of as many weeks during which, consecutively and asynchronously, musicians build trios together.

Image credits:
sky: https://soundcloud.com/user-807707609/left-and-right-mirage-disquiet0637

For more about this weeks junto challenge:
llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…0638-center-3-of-3/

metal mirage (disquiet0638) w/ blaaroed & he_nu_ri

Thank you @AlvaroDeCampos and @blisterpop. Wonderful track you gave me to work one.
As was the case last week, the instructions for this week’s project are fairly detailed, so please read them at disquiet.com/0638 15 (rather than me stuffing them into a post here).

This is the third phase of a three-phase sequence over the course of as many weeks during which, consecutively and asynchronously, musicians build trios together.

You can participate in any or all three of the three projects. If you participated in last week’s project, please note these two things:

    be sure to set your track as downloadable
    to avoid bot issues on Soundcloud, make sure its license is set to allow creative reuse

Also important: In normal circumstances, Junto projects have a one-track-per-participant limit. However, as with the preceding project that led up to this one, you can contribute more than one track this week. The details on that are in Step 5 of the project instructions 9.

This post popped up at disquiet.com/0638 9 (thanks, powers of automation) shortly after 12:10am Pacific Time on Thursday, March 21. (I was asleep at the time.) The email containing those instructions went out around the same time, also automatically, via juntoletter.disquiet.com. (We recently switched over from TinyLetter, because TinyLetter was shut down by its owner, Mailchimp, at the end of last month.) Come morning, after I woke up, I posted the instructions here, and at my Mastodon account, plus Bluesky, Threads, and Instagram, etc. And if you’re on a platform, like Mastodon or Instagram, that uses hashtags, please use the #DisquietJunto tag. Much appreciated.

Six variations in a knot (with @AlvaroDeCampos and @blisterpop) - disquiet0638

Remix of the previous collaborative work for the Disquiet Project:
https://soundcloud.com/merlebardenoir/the-middle-path-disquiet0638

Assignment: https://disquiet.com/2024/03/28/disquiet-junto-project-0639-center-4-of-3/

Merle Bardenoir, he_nu_ri & blaaroed - The Middle Path [disquiet0639]

Disquiet Junto Project 0639: Path Ways (4 of 3)

I picked up/finished my 637, to give it a proper burial.

Center and more:

https://freesound.org/people/kyles/sounds/450651/

playground active bright children playing with rolling planks with passing cars and spanish voices Madrid, Spain.

CLARINET in Bb:
1) Multiphonics
2) Glissando
3) Keys click

4)Kalimba and Percussiv Piano.

My Way - NMT (disquiet0639remix)

This track is a remix and mash-up of different tracks of the Disquiet Junto Projects of the last three weeks.

The track https://soundcloud.com/blisterpop/four-variations-for-left-by-jimmy-lem-disquiet0636 created by Jimmy Lem (@blisterpop) is the initial track for all other compositions used in this remix.
The track https://soundcloud.com/triermusic/disquiet0636-oneplustwo by Nate Trier (@triermusic), https://soundcloud.com/hugh-g-stonah/wannabe-duetduet-with-jimmy-lem by @hugh-g-stonah and https://soundcloud.com/tannes-marrei/four-variations-tied-together-with-jim-lemanowicz-disquiet0637 by  AlvaroDeCampos (@tannes-marrei) are all duets based on the first track.
The track https://soundcloud.com/33per/six-variations-tied-in-a-knot-with-alvarodecampos-and-blisterpop by @33per was created based on the aformentioned track by  AlvaroDeCampos.

As climax of these series of Disquiet Junto Projects this track now was built from segments of all these 5 tracks. Additional effects were employed.

More on the 639th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Path Ways (4 of 3) — The Assignment: Rework musical trios using the constituent parts — one of two ways — at https://disquiet.com/0639/

Variatio Delectat [with Jimmy Lem, AlvaroDeCampos, Nate Trier, Hugh G Stonah, 33per] (Disquiet0639)

Disquiet Junto 0639 

                                                          Pathways 4 of 3 

 

The Assignment: Rework musical trios using the constituent parts-one of two ways DAW: Ableton 12 

Key: G minor? 

Time Signature: 4/4 

Length: 3 minutes 

Started with the four tracks from 0636 that were not used in 0637.The tracks were by August Miles,Dandante,Martinsea and  MtnViewMark-Bits 

Used panning automation to change each tracks panning

More on the 639th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Path Ways (4 of 3) — The Assignment: Rework musical trios using the constituent parts — one of two ways — at https://disquiet.com/0639/

disquiet0639remix

This is a remix of https://soundcloud.com/winterer/swamp-bone-factory-building-disquiet0638-with-raincat-xhg
by Krakenkraft & Etherkraken (@winterer) and Raincat (@raincat-306596410).

It contains a field recording by Rico_Casazza -- https://freesound.org/s/547996/ -- License: Attribution 4.0


More on the 639th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Path Ways (4 of 3) — The Assignment: Rework musical trios using the constituent parts — one of two ways — at https://disquiet.com/0639/

Disquiet0639remix - Swamp Bone Factory Remix (with Raincat and Krakenkraft & Etherkraken)

Traces the various routes that @33per 's first junto0636 track took and subsequently manifested itself in duos and trios. Sprinkled and chopped a bit improvisational extras here and there.

It comprises the following tracks:
@33per - https://soundcloud.com/33per/firebells?si=e62c44d018bf4a30b8977f3401d3a375&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
@ray_cobley - https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley/great-bells-of-fire-with-33per-disquiet0637?si=439e60de16a54dbc8d924c560d46957e&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
@mtnviewmark-bits - https://soundcloud.com/mtnviewmark-bits/firebells-and-pipes-stereo-disquiet0637?si=51ba981061d9494fa4fee6378d9e4e76&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
@noodletwister - https://soundcloud.com/noodletwister/firebells-pipes-coat-rack-disquiet0638?si=99e29a56489c4198b425eda6c025a02c&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
@raincat-306596410 - https://soundcloud.com/raincat-306596410/firebells-and-pipes-and-a-bicycle-wheel-disquiet0638-w-33per-mzero?si=38755158e23a4e51a9a6edf29554cac2&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
@encym - https://soundcloud.com/encym/fells-of-fire-disquiet0638-wip?si=1ae322567b9841b1a28724b51fac0f01&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

More on the 639th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Path Ways (4 of 3) — The Assignment: Rework musical trios using the constituent parts — one of two ways — at https://disquiet.com/0639/

Firebells 4 of 3 (disquiet0639paths)

Hello. I am Aethery Fields.

There are moments when time seems to stand still.

Instants when fog settles over a landscape and contours blur. "hello." is such a moment, captured in sound, preserved like a fading Polaroid whose edges are already dissolving.
After a distant time in the shadows, sailing the cinematic seas of Dark Ambient and Soundscape with my moniker "Logic Moon", I felt the need to give my brighter side more space. **Aethery Fields** was born, not as an escape, but as a complement. A place where light penetrates through the mist, where silence is not empty but filled with fleeting impressions.

"hello." is the counterpoint to my otherwise busy self. It is a still frame in a fog-veiled landscape, blurred, hazy, yet all the more haunting for it. Sometimes they are mere silhouettes drifting through the sound, vague intimations of melodies that emerge from the mist and vanish again. Then suddenly simple lines crystallize, clear and immediate, before fading back into the haze.

Process
Every track on this album emerged spontaneously, born from the moment itself. I sat down, pressed record, and let the things flow. No overthinking, no perfectionism, only the urge to capture the here and now before it slips away. What you hear is what happened in that instant. A texture, a melody appearing out of nowhere. Minimalist in form, yet rich in emotion. This music reveals my quiet side, that self which strives for deceleration, which dwells in the now and transforms impressions into sound as naturally as breathing. Each piece is an impulse made audible, a fleeting thought given form. It is a pause between breaths, a lingering in the moment before it dissolves.

Like a Polaroid capturing the essence of a vanishing moment, the diffuse light, the blurred atmosphere, the unrepeatable accident, "hello." reflects instants that can never be fully grasped or recreated. Still lifes in stillness, which despite their calm are permeated by countless sounds and impressions. It is the beauty of the imperfect, the transient, the barely visible, the unplanned.
"hello." is an invitation to pause, to lose yourself in the fog and to discover the essential in the blurred, to feel the aliveness within the stillness.

hello.

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Merle Bardenoir is a French singer-songwriter whose universe is imbued with  symbolism and fantasy. His music ranges from psychedelic synthpop to electrofolk.

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

Merle Bardenoir, he_nu_ri & blaaroed - The Middle Path [disquiet0639]

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