Disquiet Junto Project 0720: One from Two
The Assignment: Combine a pair of your recent tracks.

Step 1: You just recognized something. Two tracks you’ve been working on but haven’t finished would work better if you turned them into one single track.

Step 2: Choose two of your recent works-in-progress.

Step 3: Combine — by whatever means you see fit to employ — the two tracks from Step 2 into a single track.

Deadline: Monday, October 20, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0720

Disquiet Junto Project 0720: One from Two

A slow, laid-back funk groove with jazzy sax, clavinet, deep fender jazz bass, and abstract synth textures.
Smooth, atmospheric, and slightly cinematic — the kind of track that lives between a modal jam and a chill-out or lounge beat.

Performed by DD - clavinet, electric bass, abstract synth, drum program.
With Miguel Yanover - Tenor saxophone

For this @disquiet challenge:
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Golpe de Suerte - disquiet0720

I found two tracks, each named by the default naming protocol of my recorder. So one file was poetically name "240315_001" and the other, even more evocatively, "241212_0001." The first is a sparse piece using just the wing pinger, with almost as much space as sound. The second is equally restrained, but darker and more properly ambient. I can't recall how I created that track or what instruments were used. The two tracks seem to complement one another with each filling in the empty spaces of the other. Minimal effects were added in Logic - mainly just some reverb with motion algorithms. For fun, I asked Chat GPT to use the two numbers to create a title and image for the track and among the suggestions was "Voltage Bloom," which seems rather fitting. 

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Disquiet Junto prompt 0720 asked us to take two separate works in progress and realize that they work better together. 

My WIP drawer is pretty full but I couldn't easily find two pieces that wanted to talk to one another. Finally I took several recent piano sketches and dumped all of their MIDI performance data into a single project in Logic. I tend to record left and right hand parts separately to facilitate revoicing, so I had a good collection of chunks to play with. I started stacking, rearranging, muting, soloing, and transposing different combinations of parts until I found a pair that sounded interesting. I ended up doing very minimal editing to stitch them together, and the two parts are not even in the same key, but I think that the tension and dissonance work somehow. 

Finally I wrapped the whole thing in a little pastiche of two friends sitting at a piano having fun gluing the pieces of a song together. 

More on the 720th weekly Disquiet Junto project, One from Two — The Assignment: Combine a pair of your recent tracks — at https://disquiet.com/0720/

Dancers on Pins (disquiet0720)

A combination of two unpublished electronic sequences I have recently been working on, sounds form various sources.

More on the 720th weekly Disquiet Junto project, One from Two — The Assignment: Combine a pair of your recent tracks — at https://disquiet.com/0720/.

Two into One Will Go (disquiet0720)

More on the 720th weekly Disquiet Junto project, One from Two — The Assignment: Combine a pair of your recent tracks — at https://disquiet.com/0720/.

Twinkle (disquiet0720)

Disquiet Junto Project 0720: One from Two
The Assignment: Combine a pair of your recent tracks.

Actually, neither of these tracks are very recent.  One is pretty old.  But both were tracks that I've wanted to do something with for a while.  And they are pretty different from each other so they seemed like they would make a good challenge.  One, as you can hear is a developed groove that I could have made a traditional song out of (but honestly didn't feel like it and probably never would have), and the other is just a little drone thing on guitar, just 3 notes.  I started layering effects on the guitar drone, making a new track each time until I had a nice noisy mess.  Then went in reverse removing effects and that process makes up the second half of the track until you hear the uneffected guitar to finish off the track.



Oh yeah, and the title came from a recent dream I had about “a crazy band I used to listen to”

More on the 720th weekly Disquiet Junto project, One from Two — The Assignment: Combine a pair of your recent tracks — at https://disquiet.com/0720/.

Antojito Ocho (Disquiet0720)

M. Ackerman's second page, mostly for Disquiet Junto pieces projects.

Antojito Ocho (Disquiet0720)

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