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Transmission of Flesh and Blood

[disquiet0552] Transmission Of Flesh And Blood

More on this 553rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Break That Cycle (The Assignment: Record in a steady tempo but break it on occasion) — at: https://disquiet.com/0553/

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The image shows a detail of a mural painted by the artist Pablo “Raíz” Ruiz Arroyo at the record store Noise in San Francisco.

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halF cyclE [disquiet0553]

The chord was converted directly to a wav file, stretched and edited into a three-minute loopable drone. 

The chord was treated (gently) in ambient v.3 and the result was sprinkled over the drone in various stages of reverb and enhancement.

The title is 2 anagrams of ‘Cage drone’. Not sure why…

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The Assignment: Riff on a chord by John Cage.

Step 1: Consider this chord:

E5
A#4
E4
D#4
Db3
C3

Step 2: You might read up a bit about the source of the chord, the piece “Organ²/ASLSP” by John Cage. Cage desired the piece to be played “As Slow As Possible.” Currently it is being performed in Halberstadt, Germany, on a special organ that will play it for a total of 639 years. It’s been going for 21 years so far, and is at this moment playing the above chord. Read up here:

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-02-04/john-cage-organ-slow-as-possible-halberstadt-germany

Step 3: Produce a loopable drone (duration between one and three minutes) of your own based on that chord.

More on this 549th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sidelines (The Assignment: Get intentional with stereo) — at: https://disquiet.com/0549/  

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Dancegoer encoraged [disquiet0554]

This is my entry for #disquiet0554, the 554th Disquiet Junto project. I played the Cage chord/notes on different synths and layered a couple drone stems from my album Lost in the Triangle d'Or that were in a similar key. 

More on this 554th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Cage Chord (The Assignment: Riff on a chord by John Cage) — at: disquiet.com/0554/

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

www.musikfestivalbern.ch/
www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern
www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

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Triangle Drone [disquiet0554]

"Produce a track taken to the extreme minimum. Use only pure waveforms (sine, sawtooth, triangle, pulse wave) and no effects. Restrict yourself to 5 voices." 

A very simple track, one oscillator tuned to a 5th above the others and static, four other oscillators each fed a pentatonic 5-note sequence, with each sequence having it's own unique clock. And that's it.

More on this 555th weekly Disquiet Junto project — A Simple Timer (The Assignment: Simplify by a factor of 5) — at: https://disquiet.com/0555/

Thanks to Anatol Locker for having proposed this project.

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Disquet0555

Disquiet Junto Project 0555: A Simple Timer
The Assignment: Simplify by a factor of 5.

I tried different DAWs and Synths to get a nice sound and ended with Live, Stepic and Aalto (Beat Edition). The track consists of 5 tracks, all tracks are automated with 5/10/15 step sequences. Aalto does not offer triangle, but I used sine, square and saw. Some tracks change their wave form by modulation and/or automation. I allowed all 5 sequencers only to select from 5 notes (plus octaves), from which one note had to be random. The drums are very deep squarewaves with very short decays, which made noise (looking at the exported waveform this may have been a betrayal to the assignment). No effects or filters have been used but some EQ on the drums, modulated and automated panning in general and some mastering at the end. The lenght is 555 seconds (5m55s felt wrong). I think I failed on 'minimalism', on the other hand it's 9+ minutes with only five sequences which do not bore me, so I think it passes as minimal ambient. As always, it was a fun challenge!

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Track cover based on SVG pinout of 555 timer chip by Inductiveload, Public Domain https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:555_Pinout.svg

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More on this 555th weekly Disquiet Junto project — A Simple Timer (The Assignment: Simplify by a factor of 5) — at: https://disquiet.com/0555/

Thanks to Anatol Locker for having proposed this project.

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555TRIG2TH8 [disquiet0555]

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electronic and element pure data

gabbia (disquiet0556)

Disquiet Junto Project 0556: Gabber Ambient
The Assignment: Field-test a hybrid genre.

Step 1: Consider what makes gabber gabber and what makes ambient ambient. Where is there crossover?

Step 2: Make a track that could be construed as “gabba ambient.”

Step 3: You’re probably going to want to delete it. Try not to. Save and upload.

Process: Step 3 cracked me up^^ Instead I really liked the outcome...
It turned out as some kind of dark noise, but the beat is at 200bpm and I used a cliche riser sample.
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More on this 556th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Gabber Ambient (The Assignment: Field-test a hybrid genre) — at: https://disquiet.com/0556/

Thanks to Sevenism for having proposed this project.

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Image by BranMoviC, used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

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Initially, I thought Gabber wouldn't be my cup of tea, but archive.org had some really interesting modern Gabber tracks under a Creative Commons License. The song that appealed to me the most was from an Indonesian production (Gabber Modus Operandi - Puxxximaxxx, "Hey Nafsu", https://archive.org/details/yesno091).

Ninety-nine percent of the sounds came from the track. I chopped up the snippets with Voltage Modular, stretched them in Ableton, and maltreated them with long effects chains. To add a bit of Ambient cliche, I added the song of a humpback whale (because, why not – sometimes a track needs a pink fluffy unicorn ribbon).

It still sounds rough around the edges, but maybe there's a genre of noise ambient it fits into. 
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Disquiet Junto Project 0556: Gabber Ambient
The Assignment: Field-test a hybrid genre.

Thanks to Sevenism for having proposed this project.

Gabber and ambient music seem like polar opposites. Gabber is typified by a constant distorted kick drum pummelling you at upwards of 200bpm. Ambient, on the other hand, can be deeply immersive or barely noticeable. This project asks the question: is “gabber ambient” possible?

Step 1: Consider what makes gabber gabber and what makes ambient ambient. Where is there crossover?

Step 2: Make a track that could be construed as “gabba ambient.”

Step 3: You’re probably going to want to delete it. Try not to. Save and upload.

Eight Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0556” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your tracks.

Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0556” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation of a project playlist.

Step 3: Upload your tracks. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your tracks.

Step 4: Post your track in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co:

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0556-gabber-ambient/

Step 5: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: If posting on social media, please consider using the hashtag #DisquietJunto so fellow participants are more likely to locate your communication.

Step 7: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Step 8: Also join in the discussion on the Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, August 28, 2022, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, August 25, 2022.

Length: The length is up to you. Does fast mean long or short?

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More on this 556th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Gabber Ambient (The Assignment: Field-test a hybrid genre) — at: https://disquiet.com/0556/

Thanks to Sevenism for having proposed this project.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0562: Sheep Music

The Assignment: Record something to help someone fall asleep.

There is just one step: Record something to help someone fall asleep.

For context, when posting the track online, please be sure to include this following information:

More on this 562nd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Sheep Music (The Assignment: Record something to help someone fall asleep) – at: https://disquiet.com/0562/

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Out Cold ( Station to Station Remix ) - disquiet0562

Disquiet Junto Project 0562: Sheep Music
The Assignment: Record something to help someone fall asleep.

I did a lot of tracks, all of them endet in being "too full" for my idea of falling asleep. This one, based again on my breathing, felt monotonous enough to to the job.

Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/aAbQ9Nhf3cM
Instagram version: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cml1EsapjTC/

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The sheep on the cover image is in fact a German Heath (German name: "Heidschnucke", which is quite a cute word.)

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More on this 562nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sheep Music (The Assignment: Record something to help someone fall asleep) — at: https://disquiet.com/0562/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0562-sheep-music/

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[disquiet0562] Sheep Mode

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