Disquiet Junto Project 0526: Magic Number (2 of 3)
The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio.

Step 1: This week’s Disquiet Junto project is the second in a sequence intended to encourage and reward asynchronous collaboration. This week you’ll be adding music to a pre-existing track, which you will source from the previous week’s Junto project (disquiet.com/0525). Note that you aren’t creating a duet — you’re creating the second third of what will eventually be a trio. Important: Leave space for what is yet to come.

Step 2: The plan is for you to record a short and original piece of music, on any instrumentation of your choice, as a complement to the pre-existing track. First, however, you must select the piece of music to which you will be adding your own music. There are tracks by numerous musicians to choose from. The majority are in this playlist:

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0525

And additional appear in the discussion:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0525-magic-number-1-of-3/

(Note that it’s possible another track or two will pop up in or disappear from that playlist and discussion. Things are fluid on the internet.)

To select a track, you can listen through all those and choose one, or simply look around and select, or you can come up with a random approach to sifting through them.

Note: It’s fine if more than one person uses the same original track as the basis for their piece.

It is strongly encouraged that you look through the above discussion on the Lines forum, because many tracks include additional contextual information there.

Step 3: Record a short piece of music, roughly the length of the piece of music you selected in Step 2. Your track should complement the piece from Step 2, and leave room for an eventual third piece of music. When composing and recording your part, don’t alter the original piece of music at all, except to pan the original fully to the left if it hasn’t been panned left already. In your finished audio track, your new part should be panned fully to the right. To be clear: the track you upload won’t be your piece of music alone; it will be a combination of the track from Step 2 and yours.

Step 4: Also be sure, when done, to make the finished track downloadable, because it will be used by someone else in a subsequent Junto project.

Step 5: You can contribute more than one track this week. Usually Junto projects have a one-track-per-participant limit. You can do up to two total. For the second, it’s appreciated if you try to work with a solo that no one else has used yet ( look at the project’s post on Lines, linked to in these instructions, or to the project playlist, which will be posted here once tracks start coming in). The goal is for many as people as possible to benefit from the experience of being part of an asynchronous collaboration. After a lot of detailed instruction, that is the spirit of this project.

Disquiet Junto Project 0526: Magic Number (2 of 3)

I had the pleasure to jam over to melondruide’s hypnotic track

https://soundcloud.com/melondruie/cold-sun-disquiet0525

As a warm, earthy contrast to the original icy synths I added some hand percussion 
I went for my Hand pan (Hang) cause it’ sin C minor as the original track, and just added some phrases on a little Indian Talking Drum, but this time I think there’s a nice bed for a 3rd contributor.
I added some rhythmic delay here and there (talking drum and original track)

@melondruie


Photo by DD (Paris 13ème 2021)

For this junto challenge:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0526-magic-number-2-of-3

About The Sun (disquiet0526) with Melondruie

I recorded an electric bass part to noodle twister’s lovely groove
https://soundcloud.com/user-130801280/collab-one-disquiet0525
It remains a groove/basic track so here you will find room for more. I’s a 2 chord progression (D+A) in D major

More Reflections (disquiet0526) with Noodle Twister
@user-130801280



Photo by DD (Paris 13ème 2021)

For this junto challenge:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0526-magic-number-2-of-3

More Reflections (disquiet0526) with Noodle Twister

I played with Fnubi’s Cameo track (https://soundcloud.com/fnubi/cameo-unfinished-disquiet0525), over that great pulse I added an Harmonium melody (low stops and tremolo stop)
I couldn’t resist to add a sparse upright bass and , to punctuate some chord changes not in the original I added a synth pad. There’s no room for much more I’m afraid. (Some percussion track perhaps? It is performed over a click at 104BPM…)

But, if anybody want a version more unfinished and spacey I can provide a mix  without the synth+bass (or without the Harmonium, mind…) Just PM me and let me know.


@fnubi

Photo by DD (Paris 13ème 2021)

For this junto challenge:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0526-magic-number-2-of-3

A Glimpse of Winter (disquiet0526) with Fnubi

I used 2 minutes of the track of  fake genius
https://soundcloud.com/fake-genius/disquiet0525-dm-stereo
release date 28/01/2022

Birds Sing In The Trees (disquiet0526)

Part 2 of a 3 part Disquiet Junto collaboration.

I loved the grooving drum track created last week by creaturesOnce. I added a bass line in Ableton, in F minor and B♭ minor, letting the structure of the drum track lead the way. It's ready for someone to play a mid to high range melody or chord jam on top.

More on this 526th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Magic Number (2 of 3) (The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio) — at: https://disquiet.com/0526/

Duo Magic

Duo Magic - Disquiet0526

DeDe in Uruguay [Disquiet0526]

mikey_a is an ambient and soundscape artist living in Melbourne, Australia.
Though now producing mainly in the box with a mix of VST and field recordings he still likes to occasionally crank out some of the physical treasures he's owned since the '80s: a Korg MonoPoly, a Roland TR-606, TB-303, S-10 and D-110 along with a TEAC 3440 reel-to-reel.
He is a frequent contributor to the Naviar Records' Haiku Challenge and Disquiet Junto projects.