Today is the annuary of the end of the 2. world war. This is the most heard song of the 2. world war. We are a very fortunate generation. Most of us never suffered from war, we had enough to eat and had a home. May that remain!!!! The picture is of the great Käthe Kollwitz.

Lili Marleen (Lale Andersen Cover)

Impression On Guitar

Percussion, Voice, Field recordings, Bass guitar

Wet Chef

Disquiet Junto Project 0709: Overclocked
The Assignment: Speed up a machine (or process) until it falters.

I used to do this thing with the guitarist in my old band where we kind of leap frog off of each other's riffs to create new parts for the song.  So he'd have a riff, I'd write something for it, then he'd listen to my part and write a new part on top of it, and so on.  It's something I still do occasionally just to see what comes out of it.  For this prompt I decided to use this technique but cut the bars in half at a regular interval until the song speeds out of control.  As it started to really speed up, it felt kind of comical to switch back and forth between bass and guitar after recording only one little note.  The synth pad was just to make everything blend together a little better and distract from some of the more jarring changes.  I like it because it seems to kind of herald the chaotic break.  After the breakdown, it felt kind of short so I brought back the groove but tried to make it sound kind of broken, like a walkman running out of batteries or something.

More on the 709th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Overclocked — The Assignment: Speed up a machine (or process) until it falters — at https://disquiet.com/0709/.



Bridge to Nowhere (Disquiet0709)

Impro Move "deux pistes lubriques"

What's the difference between 85bpm and 84bpm? I think you'll agree, that 1bpm makes all the difference! 🤯 Enjoy! 😁

For the eagle-eared among you, you'll notice the music is based on the Dali project which you can see on the halF unusuaL YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/1C3-wesgtec

More on the 719th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Riding on the Metronome — The Assignment: Play with and against a steady beat — at https://disquiet.com/0719/

more halF unusuaL

halF metronomE [disquiet0719]

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0720: One from Two. The Assignment: Combine a pair of your recent tracks.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0720 discussion thread on Lines:

I have a collection of audio odds and ends stored on my laptop. The files are comprised of field recordings, instrument recordings, unfinished modular synth and Ableton Live noodlings.  I took two of the more recent experimental sketches that were created in Ableton Live and combined them the best I could, adjusting the pitch as needed. I added an additional track that has heavily processed sliced bits from one of the recordings to try to create more depth to the piece. 

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/.

Fickle Diptych [disquiet0720]

This was fun to do. Taking this week's @disquiet project of combining two works-in-progress, I have two strands of music I'm composing, to which I dedicate 10-20 minutes most days demoing impromptu ideas on Garageband. One has the broad title of "Disco for Post Punk Elderlies" and the other is  category is I'm writing a series of simple piano miniatures, the latter being usually no longer than just over two minutes.

Here I had two demo ideas that were from the same day and were very rough and unsatisfactory. The idea of combining them felt a novel way to take them into a different place. Although the "Disco" track was already at the slow pace (tempo being 66bpm) you hear here (it is dance music for post punk elderlies like myself after all...), I looped the initial tracks in Logic, changed the pitches of some of the bass and organ tracks and quantized all the tracks to git them together more coherently, and brush off the unconvincing dissonant sounds. The piano miniature was transformed by the Soft Metals preset and light touch delay was added to the 808 drum pattern.

This piece certainly isn't 'complete' in the sense of if I was to develop this further, but I really like how blending this mismatch creeated something very different from the original intentions of the seperate parts. Greater than the sum of, etc..

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/.

One from Two (disquiet0720)

Disquiet Junto Project 0729: Community Remix (Nina)
The Assignment: Rework a shared recording from over 100 years ago

A beautiful recording of a violoncello solo with orchestra from 105 years ago, written around 250 years ago. Just image all that. – I first separated the music from the background noise, continued working with a noise-reduced version, and stretched it in various ways. I selected some of my favourite parts and inserted them into an overall structure. Since most of the spirit of the original was lost in the process, I inserted my most favourite part several times, for example at the beginning and end. I added some of the separated background noise back in, giving it its own space over time and finally an opportunity to fade away.

Original recording:
Performer: Hans Kindler
Writer: G. B. Pergolesi or V. L. Ciampi 
https://archive.org/details/78_nina_hans-kindler-g-b-pergolesi_gbia0055100a

More on the 729th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Community Remix (Nina) — The Assignment: Rework a shared recording from over 100 years ago — at https://disquiet.com/0729/.

Discussions 
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0729-community-rework-nina/73618

(Album)

Nina – Remix [disquiet0729]

A remix of a vintage recording of “Nina” by Hans Kindler (1892 – 1949). The recording credits G. B. Pergolesi (1710 – 1736) as the work’s composer, but more recently it has become attributed to Vincenzo Legrenzo Ciampi (1719 – 1762). Listen to the original: https://archive.org/details/78_nina_hans-kindler-g-b-pergolesi_gbia0055100a

More on the 729th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Community Remix (Nina) — The Assignment: Rework a shared recording from over 100 years ago — at https://disquiet.com/0729/.

halF kindleD [disquiet0729]

Blue Moon

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

Bridge to Nowhere (Disquiet0709)

modusMatt