watching the whiteness
of summer kimonos…
Sumida River

haiku by Kobayashi Issa (tr. David G. Lanoue) http://haikuguy.com/issa

Picture by Aaron Burden  https://unsplash.com/@aaronburden

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Mr Shameful

halF summeR [naviarhaiku396]

File updated Sep/7th/2021 after some  positive feedback, shorter, more dynamic...
Part of a work in progress (on hold, almost abandoned) I planned to build 5 repetitive pieces using percussion instruments and tempo delays. My plan was to build some hypnotic rhythms in odd time signatures (3/4 5/4 7/4 9/4 11/4) and make it more in the 1970's repetitive music vein and not on a groovy world music percussion track.
I'm not a serious percussion player really so I can't develop a swinging percussion solo, but I thought it was interesting to explore the "mechanical" development of repetitive, copy/paste grooves I can create using multiple percussion instruments and other objects.

I already shared here the first Pulse 3 track, this is the second I recorded, then a few months back I decided to stop, cause I don't think this is really interesting.
Is it?
I consider three options now:
1- Should I use these full tracks as the basis for something else? (adding other melodic instruments and textures above it?)
2- Should I make a 1 minute snippet and use  it as a rhythmic interlude on an album or something?
3-Or should I trash it and just extract some rhythmic loops for my Loop Vault?
Comments, opinions and critics are appreciated.
DD Sep2021

Performed  by DD June 2021 on several acoustic percussion instruments and objects, with further edits and copy/paste for the basic layers.

Pulse 5 (disquiet0505)

[disquiet0508] Sheepish

My submission for
Disquiet Junto Project 0511: Freeze Tag
The Assignment: Consider freezing (and thawing) as a metaphor for music production.
https://disquiet.com/0511/

klankbeeld - No 1 on Freesound!
freesound.org/s/378200/
freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/

kvgarlic
Geese Flying Plus Icy Winter Wind DECEMBER 28 2020
freesound.org/s/551448/

dheming
Breaking_Ice_01
freesound.org/s/268023/

gis_sweden
freesound.org/s/592216/
freesound.org/s/592217/

Radio Aporee
aporee.org/maps/?loc=14258
Nan'an, Chongqing, Chiny

Closing The Fridge (disquiet0511)

la récrée

This piece was inspired by the New Zealand television series One Lane Bridge. It is intended as background music for an imaginary scene in which the main character Ariki Davis has strong, threatening visions.

The track is my contribution to the Disquiet Junto Project 0513.

More on this 513th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Ghost OST (The Assignment: Play that spooky music) – at: https://disquiet.com/0513/ 2

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 2: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0513-ghost-ost/

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

Matakite (disquiet0513)

LDR66 soulvii

naviarhaiku411:
no sooner
clouds come into sight, than
migrating birds appear

Kyorai was a Japanese haiku poet who first trained as a martial artist before he started writing and became one of Basho’s first disciples.

haiku: Mukai Kyorai https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mukai-Kyorai
image: Gauravdeep Singh Bansal https://unsplash.com/@gauravdsb

Migrating Birds [NaviarHaiku411]

Tracks from @-infDB and @NoodleTwister from the previous two Junto prompts. Heavily processed with modulations, MIDI generators and reverbs.
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More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0518-out-and-in-co-exist-3-of-3/

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

recent moderate rain (disquiet0518)

This week's Disquiet Junto prompt was to take the sounds of “nature” and “civilization” as recorded by other members of the Disquiet Junto and combine them into one single piece of music/sound. 

I picked two sounds at random: Bick Brannigan's recording of Ginger represented the sounds of nature (https://soundcloud.com/bick-brannigan-840174692/ginger-disquiet0516) and undermulden's Christianshavn Rush Hour represented civilization (https://soundcloud.com/undermulden/christianshavn-rush-hour-disquiet0517).

I listened to the two tracks in isolation, trying to pick out the interesting bits to make the sections of the song. The white noise of the rush hour made an excellent hi-hat, and a low motorcycle vroom provided us with a bassline and transitions (it was also incredibly hard to mix!).  Ginger's excellent sense of melody put her in the lead. I used Melda's MUnison plug-in to simulate double-tracking, which really made the dog's barks "pop" and be in the front of the mix. Neat trick!

I livestreamed the process, and will try to get the video up on YouTube ASAP!

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More on this 518th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Inside Out (Co/Exist 3 of 3) (The Assignment: Combine sounds of nature and civilization) — at: https://disquiet.com/0518/

This is the third and final stage of a three-part project sequence. You needn’t have participated in either of the two preceding stages to do this one. Thanks to Alan Bland and Mark Lentczner for having proposed the project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0518-out-and-in-co-exist-3-of-3/

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

Gingerly Driving (disquiet0518) - Nate Trier

5 animals at the zoo eating grass

Im from planet dipshit

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.