I enjoyed this piece and its contrasting elements.

Thanks to @ray_cobley for the first drone, "Bass Base".

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[disquiet0592] 2. C - Saw

After downloading the track posted by undermulden: Possibilities in an empty corner, I added an intermittent rhythm track of metallic sounds with some reverb.

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One Possibility (disquiet0592)

Disquiet Junto Project 0592: Better Than One 
The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio.. More info on Disquiet Junto: http://disquiet.com/0592

Inspired by @alyceobvious composition (https://soundcloud.com/alyceobvious/abstraction-cactus-flower) I decided to continue exploring Georgia O’Keeffe’s Radical Abstraction. 
I was inspired by the painting “The Beyond” (1972 - https://learn.ncartmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/OKeeffe_The-Beyond-1024x772.jpg) and a quote:
“The color […] had little to do with what I’d seen. The color grew as I painted”. (from the lecture www.okeeffemuseum.org/georgia-okeeff…l-abstraction/)

I tried to apply the same concept to time, playing and painting bigger spaces every time, tracing a line between my previous submission disquiet0591) and this one. After the accident I have to rebuild a new relationship with my body: this time I worked with breathing and feeling space-time oscillations in my legs, my ankles, my shoulders and let the flow be my metronome. It was fun dancing with my double bass again, after a long time, it felt like meditation or one of the delicate and at the same time intense paintings of O'Keeffe. 

“Fill a space in a beautiful way.” - G. O’Keeffe

At bar 6 I start playing an ascending phrase with the notes F#, C#, F, D#, length 1 bar 50bpm. I then leave a full bar of silence and there starts the growing process, stretching spaces by adding eight note silences after every repetition of the musical fragment.
I doubled on fretless bass with a bit of chorus and then sprinkled both basses in a bit of convolution reverb. It was very interesting to observe the discrepancies and similarities of time and body-feeling with the two instruments, as well as phasing and subtle time differences that this process creates.

Beyond Abstraction Cactus Flower (disquiet0592)

Using https://soundcloud.com/gahlord/disquiet-tidepowerpods-fpo-wclick by @gahlord I added three layers of improvised electronic drum kit percussion tracks on Logic Pro in response to the bass, quantized them to 1/8 and added reverb, phaser and delay to give it a dub echo kind of response. Was really handy to have the tempo available in doing this.

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better than one one [disquiet0592]

For this project i took https://soundcloud.com/sonic-search/eden and added synth and warped drum patterns, panning each track to separate channels

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Unknown Quantities With Sonic Search [disquiet0592]

For the second part of the trio I added a track to two contributions of the first round: Dandante’s poem and Maybe Going Somewhere by He_Nu_Ri

For both, I added one layer of Plaits using various engines. For the poem, I also used the drum engines of Plaits to add a beat. Maybe going somewhere still is 96 BPM, D Major. The Poem is now 116 BPM and also D Major.

Dandante’s original track is here
https://on.soundcloud.com/nXxBo4RxnksGoMtX8

Thanks to Dandante and He_Nu_Ri for their tracks and Dylan Marlais Thomas for the poem.

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Disquiet0592 - Dandante

Disquiet Junto Project 0592: Better Than One
The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio.

I chose https://soundcloud.com/micheleisoni/7-7-7-disquiet-junto-0591 by Michele Isoni https://soundcloud.com/micheleisoni because I liked it very much. Since the strings gave us a very lively sound, I wanted to put a static sound alongside it. In a first try I added some gongs, in a second some ambience noise, and I ended with a combination of both at the risk of overstuffing it now. To stay in the sign of the number 7, there are 3x 7 Gong events, and the ambience starts 7 times (and only while the string stops). I avoided the left-right-step, because I love the stereo image of the strings. I hope I managed to keep the mysterious mood of the first track and still leave room for a third track - I'm very curious.


Cover: DALL·E "painting of seven miniature hallucinations, dali style"


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7 Hallucinations [disquiet0592] (Krakenkraft / Michele Isoni)

The most difficult part of this experiment was the task of choosing which composition to partner with. Every track is a gem! I eventually decided on Orbit_f's 7+7+7 double bass piece. I liked the sparseness of it, which I thought would work well with the tools that I had on hand since I'm away from my studio and up at a cottage in the woods. So all I had was a laptop and a phone to use as a microphone. The bird song, random scratches and rustlings and the sounds of passing boats were given a bit of menace with some modulated reverb and then woven into the spaces between and within 7+7+7. I'm not sure of the mix, since I left my headphones at home and had to rely on the little speakers on my laptop.

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Gates, bellsounds pitched down and overdriven sytnths

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As By Incident Or Accident Featuring Martinsea And Michele Isoni [disquiet0593]

This album emerges from the rediscovery of an accordion following the loss of a close relative an instrument that had been a constant companion throughout their life, weaving itself into the fabric of childhood memory. At its core lies the recognition that both human and
accordion share the same essential act: breathing.

The accordion becomes a meditation on mortality and memory, its bellows expanding and contracting like "lungs", its air valve releasing pure breath without melody—the raw pneumatic essence of life itself. Every sound originates from this single instrument, largely unprocessed, preserving the intimate relationship between human touch and mechanical response.

It’s an investigation of how an instrument can hold the memory of hands that no longer play it. The mechanical whispers, the subtle articulations of metal and leather and wood become a language of remembrance, breathed rather than spoken.

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