Disquiet Junto Project 0635: ’Round the Bend
The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train.

Step 1: Listen to this short recording, under a minute, of a passing train, recorded by Todd (Toaster) Elliott:
https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/train-source-1

And, if you’d like, to this longer one, which is a little over 10 minutes:
https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/train-source-1020

Both are available to download.

Step 2: Record a piece of music using the field recording as the rhythm track. You can use the shorter one, or a segment of the longer one. Make sure the original is audible in your final work.

Deadline: Monday, March 4, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/

The image associated with this track is a photograph by Todd (Toaster) Elliott, who also provided the field recordings of the train.

Disquiet Junto Project 0635: ’Round the Bend

added the train recording to 2 audio tracks in Ableton and 2 midi tracks converting the train to a Bass and Arp2600 Drums. added warp modes and reverbs, Corpus, echo, resonators, and various delays for this train wreck.

Disquiet Junto Project 0635: ’Round the Bend
The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train.
Step 1: Listen to this short recording, under a minute, of a passing train, recorded by Todd (Toaster) Elliott:
Step 2: Record a piece of music using the field recording as the rhythm track

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/

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disquiet0635 - squeamish peptides

I extracted some of the better quality bits from the longer track and added an experimental sequence I recorded with small instruments, then added a little reverb.

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/

The image associated with this track is a photograph by Todd (Toaster) Elliott, who also provided the field recordings of the train.

Train Texture (disquiet0635)

Disquiet Junto Project 0635: ’Round the Bend
The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train.

This is a remix of a track by @horsthelmood based on a recording of a czech railway staff member serving food and drinks in a train. Thanks for providing the original track for remixing.

The image associated with this track is a photograph by Todd (Toaster) Elliott, who also provided the field recordings of the train. Thank you for that.

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/

Train Mantra - HorsthelMood vs. Bot (disquiet0635)

For this week's Disquiet Junto prompt, we were invited to collaborate with a train sample that was provided to us.

I've often joked that it's only a matter of time before any given artist or band makes a song about a train. I never thought that day would come for me. A moral dilemma.

To get the full sensation of being tied up on the tracks, I recommend listening to "The Trolley Problem" with headphones.

Recorded and produced at NOSIGNAL Multimedia Labs, The Shambles, Chicago.

More about Disquiet Junto 0635: https://disquiet.com/0635

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The Trolley Problem (disquiet0635)

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This track was initially inspired by the field-recording which can be heard in the background - a recording of a train passing provided by @disquiet at https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/train-source-1 for the Disquiet Junto Project 0635.

It incited me to create a composition mainly based on strings.

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/

The Train of Thought  (Disquiet0635)

First layer: train field recording by Todd (@Toaster) Elliott (https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/train-source-1/)

2nd layer: six tracks of autogen drumming in Logic

3rd: bottleneck + Estralita resonator guitar + Hologram Microcosm

4th: lonesome whistling

Disquiet:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0635-round-the-bend/66322

Blog / downloads:
https://playingintongues.com/2024/03/02/junto-0635-round-the-bend/

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I based my contribution on the short version of the recording. As I found the bell sound too fast, I slowed it down to half speed. I then played several layers of guitar over it, using Norns RPLS as effect.

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/ 

Disquiet0635 - Karbidinsel

start with the longer train recording, process in ableton live so rhythm is more evident (rather than that bell) - record additional material on eurorack, sort of a call-response thing - burst into rings, then gate seed of beads, all clocked by a tap in tempo derived from the train sample

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More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/ 1

The image associated with this track is a photograph by Todd (Toaster) Elliott, who also provided the field recordings of the train.

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More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/

shining tunnel (disquiet0635)

A battery of sine oscillators, slowly moving out of tune. A bass drum keeping pulse. Distortion and convolution. A foundation. 
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More on the 636th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Left (1 of 3) — The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio — at disquiet.com/0636/

Mound (disquiet0636)

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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.

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