Disquiet Junto Project 0529: Squared Off
The Assignment: Explore the number 23.

Major thanks to Eanna Butler for helping come up with this project:

Step 1: This is the 529th consecutive weekly Disquiet Junto project. The number 529 is what happens when you take the number 23 and multiply it by itself. Consider various interesting aspects of the number 23. For example: Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes. It’s the number from the Birthday Paradox (read up!). Also, 529 is an “octagonal number” (read up some more!). The earth’s axis tilts at 23° (rounded down). Anyhow, have fun exploring.

Step 2: Make a piece of music that engages with the number 23.

Details at disquiet.com/0529

Disquiet Junto Project 0529: Squared Off

O Bruxo Muderno

Interpolation [flutter]

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Ouroboros & Enigma23 (disquiet0529)

Disquiet Junto Project 0529: Squared Off
The Assignment: Explore the number 23.
Major thanks to Eanna Butler for helping come up with this project:
More on this 529th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Squared Off (The Assignment: Explore the number 23) — at: https://disquiet.com/0529/
More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

NonsenseXXIIIcablesloop(disquiet0529)

Times Itself [disquiet0529]
Created as part of Disquiet Junto weekly project 0529:  to make a piece of music that engages with the number 23.
This track has bars of 23 beats, it is 23 bars long.
I doubt the ear can discern the 23beat bar -but the rhythm is 123&12&12&123&12&12&123
The track has 3 drum tracks – done in bitwig. A Spitfire Audio piano, cello and violin plus acoustic drone recording of a metal sheet and a bit crushed megaphone announcement (in Japanese).The metal sheet friction drone is gate sequenced to an Euclidian patter on a 23 beat cycle.
The scale for the piano and strings is E+ F+ A B C+
Think it would make good closing credits music for a psychological thriller where a serial killer feasts on minor celebrities and influencers. The agent assigned to the case of course has his demons and struggles with his own autism -only to discover no one else has empathy for the victims either. It could be called LIKES!
Additional project info:
Major thanks to Eanna Butler for helping come up with this project:
More on this 529th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Squared Off (The Assignment: Explore the number 23) – at: https://disquiet.com/0529/
More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1
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Times Itself [disquiet0529]

Synths, sampled drums & sampled strings, electric guitars experiment inspired by this challenge:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0529-squared-off

DD, Paris Friday 18th February 2022.

Twenty Three (disquiet0529)

Disquiet0529 Question 23

It was a convoluted process recording this track.
I started recording 115 bars (23x5 (5=2+3))of a Numerology drum and synth patch  fed into beads. Playback was slowed to 2/3 speed and I played over the top by hopping through recordings on a Radio Music module to emulate Burroughs 23 Skidoo cutup piece.
My MacBook kept crashing when trying to bounce the track down and would hang whilst rebooting - this behaviour was probably coincidental and unrelated to the number 23.
Major thanks to Eanna Butler for helping come up with this project:

More on this 529th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Squared Off (The Assignment: Explore the number 23) — at: https://disquiet.com/0529/

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23voices(disquiet0529)

i was trying to do a more accurate mix of the song: 2nd of maj.. but i can't figure out how i processed the initial opening sound in order to save the backup information.  searching the archive I came across this project created the day before with which probably the idea that gave rise to the song was born .. however I find the sounds proposed here interesting from which the idea of ​​this long drone was born, which recalls the idea of ​​spatial landscapes in sidereal distances, so far from the sun.  
work in progress.

Untitled #8

INCREDIBLE

Deathof Clubbing

Uncanny Valley - atze187/Frid Mars

A Heist Went Down In Heaven / Direct Mic Unplugged Flying V  Raw Gore Core

method: adam received a track with a reading and some subharmonicon from me, added instruments and turned it into this moving work of waveform art. visit his page here: https://soundcloud.com/adammajdeckijanicki
narration: coincidentia oppositorum and all that ....
image: copyright jo richter

poem / copyright jo richter:

der schaukellack blättert
in rostbraunen schuppen
hier spielt kein kind
es sind nadeln im sand

so hochgrau die wand
als taumle tag blind
zwischen staubaugenpuppen
kein vorhangstoff flattert

hier, wo sich sinne nicht nähren
hier sei die anmut zu finden
hatte der seher verkündet

hier, wo güte still schwindet
hier, wo die augen erblinden
kehre sie ein um zu gebären

interlinear translation: fair faced // the veneer on the swings flakes off / in rusty brown scales / there is no child playing / there are needles in the sand // the wall rises high and grey / as though day stumbled blindly / among dusty-eyed puppets / no fabric moves in the windows // here, where senses don't feed / here you will find grace / the seer had prophesized // here, where kind hearts are fading / here, where eyes are blinded / here she'd come to give birth //

sichtbeton - with Adam Majdecki-Janicki

Collaborative work with Ansound soundcloud.com/ansound-655183295

Narrow But Cozy [with Ansound]

Mix # 2
from 06/2020
Unfinished Collaboration with Motion X (Tripping Motion Music)
https://soundcloud.com/tripping_motion
and awaiting magical contributions from INRGD
https://soundcloud.com/inrgd

Altered Asylm Mix 2 SMH

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

23voices(disquiet0529)

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