Disquiet Junto Project 0591: The Loneliest Number
The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio.
More info on Disquiet Junto: disquiet.com/0591/

Last summer, after an accident, I had to stop playing double bass. This is my second attempt to get back to the instrument after months of silence, I thought this could be a nice opportunity to share the process and slowly start to get my hands on it to see how it feels and how my body responds to playing.
Focused on improvisation, gesture, silence and number 7. 

7 seconds of music are followed by 7 seconds of silence. 14 seconds of music are followed by 14 seconds of silence. 21 seconds of music are followed by 21 seconds of silence. Repeat and then decrease time until the last 7 seconds of silence.
Loosely based on recording pre-count at ~ 60.50 bpm 
No timer was used during the process, so there may be irregularities.
I only played my double bass open G string with a bow.
Added some slight Mimeophon delay-modulation then a bit of chorus + phaser + tape effect (encoderaudio Ferro) in Ableton Live.
I kept volume low in order to make it possible to work on it and mix further things for future use.

7 + 7 + 7 (disquiet0591)

21wguitarr Feat Michele Isoni on dble bass
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Disquiet Junto Project 0592: Better Than One 
The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio.. More info on Disquiet Junto: http://disquiet.com/0592

Inspired by @alyceobvious composition (https://soundcloud.com/alyceobvious/abstraction-cactus-flower) I decided to continue exploring Georgia O’Keeffe’s Radical Abstraction. 
I was inspired by the painting “The Beyond” (1972 - https://learn.ncartmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/OKeeffe_The-Beyond-1024x772.jpg) and a quote:
“The color […] had little to do with what I’d seen. The color grew as I painted”. (from the lecture www.okeeffemuseum.org/georgia-okeeff…l-abstraction/)

I tried to apply the same concept to time, playing and painting bigger spaces every time, tracing a line between my previous submission disquiet0591) and this one. After the accident I have to rebuild a new relationship with my body: this time I worked with breathing and feeling space-time oscillations in my legs, my ankles, my shoulders and let the flow be my metronome. It was fun dancing with my double bass again, after a long time, it felt like meditation or one of the delicate and at the same time intense paintings of O'Keeffe. 

“Fill a space in a beautiful way.” - G. O’Keeffe

At bar 6 I start playing an ascending phrase with the notes F#, C#, F, D#, length 1 bar 50bpm. I then leave a full bar of silence and there starts the growing process, stretching spaces by adding eight note silences after every repetition of the musical fragment.
I doubled on fretless bass with a bit of chorus and then sprinkled both basses in a bit of convolution reverb. It was very interesting to observe the discrepancies and similarities of time and body-feeling with the two instruments, as well as phasing and subtle time differences that this process creates.

Beyond Abstraction Cactus Flower (disquiet0592)

for this project i took https://soundcloud.com/campos-1/a-loneliest-numberdisquiet0591, panned and separated, creating a synth and simple drum pattern for the other channel

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Soup With Campos [disquiet0592]

I took the ambient drone track by LNDF (Le Nom Des Fleurs) and added beats. Ready for someone else to add a funky bass line or a searing synth melody.

This is part 2 of a 3 part Disquiet Junto collaboration project.

More on this 592nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Better Than One (The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0592/

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

Dos Flores

Dos Flores - Disquiet0592

For the second part of the trio I added a track to two contributions of the first round: Dandante’s poem and Maybe Going Somewhere by He_Nu_Ri

For both, I added one layer of Plaits using various engines. For the poem, I also used the drum engines of Plaits to add a beat. Maybe going somewhere still is 96 BPM, D Major. The Poem is now 116 BPM and also D Major.

Dandante’s original track is here
https://on.soundcloud.com/nXxBo4RxnksGoMtX8

Thanks to Dandante and He_Nu_Ri for their tracks and Dylan Marlais Thomas for the poem.

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Disquiet0592 - Dandante

Disquiet Junto Project 0592: Better Than One
The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio.

I chose https://soundcloud.com/forelight/locrian-x-disquiet0591 by https://soundcloud.com/forelight because I always like drones. 'Locrian' seemed to be the name of a drone band which tends to make apocalyptic music, so I looked for cataclysmic sounds (bass and partly rhythmic noise) and added them. I think there is plenty room for beats, vocals, solos.


Cover: DALL·E "painting of a dystopian landscape with an abstract monk levitating, Magritte Style"


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Locrian Y [disquiet0592] (Krakenkraft / 4//lIGhT)

Two thirds of an asynchronous trio. Prompted by llllllll.co Disquiet Junto.
The first part (in the left channel) was created by Sonaura. https://soundcloud.com/sonaura

The right side was added through the Sunbeam in my kitchen.

Sonaura Dishwasher+ Sunbeam Microwave+ ?? ([disquiet0592])

I added a tonal percussive track (created from three machines in a Syntakt) to this lovely flute trio by @alyceobvious.

disquiet0592 - Abstraction Over

There Is Somenone At The Door (disquiet0592)

A second entry for this week's Disquiet Junto, this one using Fake Genius's lovely Neapolitan sketch "Quietude" as the seed. I added guitar (roughly) thinking about the kind of thing Johnny Marr does on Pet Shop Boys tracks. Very curious to see if anyone picks this up to complete ... not really that many pop songs around the Junto? Fake Genius's description: "some street sounds and kids playing soccer (and calling each other names). On top there is a simple DX7 pad with a progression in Gm, with a sparse beat (no kick, no snare) at a 130 BPM."

Quietude (with guitar) for Disquiet Junto disquiet0592

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Dos Flores - Disquiet0592

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