I set a track to record from the master track while I randomly switched back and forth between the 7 stems using the solo button on the different tracks.  Then made three tracks of this new recording, one original, one where I'm playing with warping, and the last I'm playing with "pitch hack" (a Max 8 effect in Ableton).  Then I did the same thing with these 3 tracksthat I did with the original 7: switched randomly between them and recorded the result.

More on this 600th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reaching Out (The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer), at: https://disquiet.com/0600/

Please credit Marcus Fischer when posting your track.

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0600-reaching-out/

This project’s cover image is a detail of a photo by Marcus Fischer.

The 6hund00rd Club (stems by Marcus Fischer)(disquiet0600)

Disquiet Junto Project 0622: Know the Shadow
The Assignment: How do you depict a shadow in sound?

It finally occurred to me when I was playing guitar that each note on the fretboard has a sort of shadow note that you can sometimes hear if you play unplugged.  If you pluck the string on the other side of your fret hand you get a different note.  The pickup on an electric of course won't get this.  I recorded with my phone because the mic is pretty sensitive and still had to jack up the volume a bit in the DAW. Anyway, I held the same chord the entire time, AbMaj #4 7 10, and went back and forth, picking on one side of the fret hand and then the other.  On the other side you get a BMaj 6 (no 5).  The two chords together, the regular and the "shadow chord" give you a 6 note scale: Ab B C D Eb G.  Sounds like some ancient exotic lyre or something. Who knew?

Added some echo and reverb because ya know, shadows.

More on this 622nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Know the Shadow (The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new), at: https://disquiet.com/0622/  About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/  Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/  Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0622-know-the-shadow/

Shadow Notes (disquiet0622)

Disquiet Junto Project 0697: First Third
The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio.

I used a drum kit made from a sample of water dripping in a hotel bathtub, obviously warped in various ways.  I used a sequencer that triggers the samples in a random way then I went back and did some editing, leaving some pauses.

With the Bathwater (disquiet0697)

Disquiet Junto Project 0698: Second Third
The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio.

I chose a track randomly from the lines thread last week and ended up with @xhg 's field recording (https://soundcloud.com/xhg/disquiet0697-sunday-morning-gardening).  All the sounds I used for the beat came from xhg's recording and I tried to take cues from it as well.  For example, I tried to match the steps in the middle section for the pace, 109BPM.  I used a resonator set to G# because the bell heard in the last third of the recording is roughly a G#.

Look what I Found in the Garden (Disquiet0698) (feat. xhg)

Disquiet Junto Project 0699: Third Third
The Assignment: Record the final third of a trio.

I just wanted to play bass on something because it felt like it had been a while since I picked up my bass.  The third part of this project always felt like the right time for basslines too.  I don't really like when the low end is panned hard left or right to be honest.  It feels unbalanced to me.  Anyway, Torpid and Coraline's beautiful piece from last week really stuck out to me so it was an easy choice.  I liked writing counter point to Torpid's fills at the end of the measure.  Hope I didn't funk it up too much

You're not a Burden Either (disquiet0699)

Disquiet Junto Project 0699: Third Third
The Assignment: Record the final third of a trio.

I went through some of the tracks no one had done yet from last week and chose Lee Evans and Ray Cobley's track from last week for my second submission.  I once had John Cage's Music of Changes and Terry Riley's In C open in different browser tabs and played them at the same time to see what it would sound like.  It was interesting.  All the randomness of Changes was suddenly put into a harmonic context.  I heard Evans and Cobley's track and thought I might do something similar.  I kept it super basic and played some chords in C# Major.  Created some swelling with reverse and delay.

3 Tabs Open (disquiet0699)

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)

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)

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

I decided to keep it simple.  I noticed when playing the track on Internet Archive that the 10 second rewind button was kind of a built in remix tool.  I recorded me using the button to sort of play the track in reverse and add a glitchy feel to the piece.  There's some light editing towards the end because I wanted to get different "performances."

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/.

Nina in 10 Seconds (disquiet0729)

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