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Disquiet Junto Project 0593: The Charm 
The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio. 
More info on Disquiet Junto: disquiet.com/0593

@triermusic last submission (https://soundcloud.com/triermusic/two-of-three-disquiet0592) inspired me with his melody added to Andreas Kitzmann (https://soundcloud.com/andreas-kitzmann-27370936/disquiet0591). It reminded me the great Augustus Pablo. So I decided to dub and pay a tribute to the great melodica master.

I recorded bass and guitar tracks and a rhythmic experimental track with AudioThing Noises. Guitar & Noises are processed by AudioThing Outer Space for delay and reverb. I then added encoderaudio Ferro to give some tasty tape hiss, wow & flutter to my tracks.
It was challenging to work without a BPM and with such fluid structure.

Dem Three (disquiet0593)

[disquiet0603] Wind

Elevator Luv

The Assignment: Count your tools in advance of employing them.

The assignment prompted some — almost philosophical — questions about what I would consider a tool, or a piece of equipment, in my music making practice. 
I often work with complex effect chains in software, using different devices and plugins as building blocks for devices that I work and interact with — by means of custom-coded control mechanisms — as if they were a single, coherent thing. So would I consider such a device chain as a single piece of equipment? Or multiple pieces? Who decides what makes a thing a thing? The manufacturer? The user?
Trying not to get stuck (again) in overthinking, I opted — rather arbitrarily — for the manufacturer point of view: if it’s packaged as a thing, then let’s say its a thing.

For the piece, I was thinking I’d like to try and make something using a duduk I’d recently bought. The range of the duduk is somewhat limited (octave + 2 notes), so I thought I’d extend that range by using a granular delay effect that also does pitch shifting. 
So the piece would consist of two main pieces of equipment: duduk and granular delay. 
However, taking into account recording equipment, the DAW and some “utility” effects, I figured I’d definitely need a bunch more to actually make the piece. So I set 10 as a limit: this seemed doable, while still presenting something of a challenge. Which it did. I had to forego EQ (though using some filters inside other devices) and a dedicated limiter (re-using a compressor). Interesting… 

So here’s the list of 10:
Duduk, microphone, audio interface, headphones, DAW, granular delay, compressor, reverb, pitch shifting/stretching algorithm baked into the DAW, tuning device (duduk is quite hard to play in tune, especially for a novice like myself; having visual feedback of the frequency I was blowing was much needed).

Ten for Two (disquiet0630)

This week's Disquiet Junto prompt was "Take one held tone and make it dance slowly."

I thought this would be challenging, but really it all came together very quickly!

I thought about what dancing means (motion?) and tried to imagine ways a long held tone could "move" slowly. 

I came up with three main ways:
0:00 - 0:53 - a slowly moving bandpass filter followed by Abletons' stock Echo plug-in (the resonance of the filter immediately introduces an overtone that is not the held note, but hey don't blame me I didn't invent physics)
0:54 - 1:18 - Using a vibrato plug-in at about 50% wet/dry to slowly move the tone and town by cents
1:19 - 2:33 - Using tremolo to add a lot of motion - the tone is doubled, panned L and R, and tremolo'd at different rates to make it dance across the stereo field (the slowness of the dancing is debatable here, but the intent is there!)
2:34 - 2:58 - This is the opening phrase of the piece, but accompanied by an echo blast from the tremolo'd section that fades out

All in all, a ton of fun! I never in a million years would have tried something like, so this was a great experiment.

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More on this 631st weekly Disquiet Junto project, In a Silent Waveform — The Assignment: Take one held tone and make it dance slowly — at: https://disquiet.com/0631/

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"Take one held tone and make it dance slowly." (Disquiet0631)

Our hearts beat in unison, our minds in perfect harmony. It was a love that transcended all, a Genetic Love.

Available for streaming and digital download @ cepheid1.bandcamp.com/album/genetic-love

Genetic Love

Jolc

Half my day was spent putting this song up here, taking it down, redoing the vocals, the guitars, the mix, the, the vocals and guitars again and again and again and again...I don't know at this point if I'll ever be fully satisfied w/ this song but for now I'm going to bed because it's six am and I've been at it an insane amount of hours. Got some other dope songs done tho so that's koo,,. Enjoy!

Fire In The Sky (V4)

The Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren (Eli Nissan Rework)
Casnik - The Transformation Process
Benshu(SB) - Namaste
Audaks & Joseph Kaz - The Ride
Daf (FR) - El Cielo (Jiminy Hop Remix)
Dunadry - Total Eclipse
Ewan Rill - True Sky
Facundo Borras - Underwood
Flowers On Monday - Horizons
Frivolous - Daughters (Oliver Schories Remix)
Den Macklin - Hunter House
Guy Gerber - Rainchecks In Montreal (Roy Rosenfeld Remix)
Erich Von Kollar - Childhood Dreams
Gorje Hewek, Dulus - Astro World
Greg Ochman - Dawn Is Coming
Kazko - Back to Paradise
Lucas Zárate - A Farewell

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5.27.24

...a preview of the forthcoming album on Daddy Tank Records/uvg212  "Hiromi Restraint" by Lower Third.
Apparently Michael Valentine West has something to do with it.
Please feel free to download.

Lower Third HIROMI RESTRAINT Album Preview

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