Disquiet Junto sets you assignments to complete in a weekend, and dares you to upload stuff you might not otherwise. It's fun and a great motivator - experimental, in the sense of trying new things, rather than in the sense of making a whole lot of noise like they did in the 60s and thinking you're smart.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place on lines:

https://llllllll.co/c/disquiet-junto/11

... and I really like the Disquiet Junto Slack workspace too.

Disquiet Junto contributions

The one instruction for this week's Disquiet Junto assignment was to use an octave leap, which is something I quite often do anyway. 

So, I just set about writing a new track without thinking too hard about the brief. I actually started with the percussion that shows up later in the track.

The root on the opening part steps down an octave before introducing the next chord in the progression.

A two-note synth part is just the minor 7 on two octaves (with a major 6 once for colour - still fits the Dorian mode but is pretty HELLO when it shows up imo).

A second synth part doubles the guitar harmonic sounds, coming in via an opening low-pass filter. That synth part has its pitch modulated by a little step sequence, so it steps up one or two octaves, and the rate at which that's happening in shifting about. That part then runs into a delay (Valhalla Delay) which as a descending octave shift in the feedback patch.

A synth bass part arrives later that is just sustained notes following the root of each chord, but an arpeggiator steps up and down an octave. Kind of like with the pitch modulation on the other synth, the tempo of the arpeggiator is being modulated by an LFO, then quantised, to make it less synth disco / Girls & Boys.

More on this 564th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Octave Lept (The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music) — at: https://disquiet.com/0564/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2. The prompt: “octave leap.”

[disquiet0565] Octave Leapt

Jet Jaguar - Sound 1 [disquiet0564] (Free download)

This week's Disquiet Junto assignment is to make music that moves between 5/8, 6/8 and 7/8. The main phrase of this is 2 bars of each. 

The opening synth and the claps are doing something different. 

The first synth plays 5 bars of 5/8, then 5 of 6/8, then 5 of 7/8, back down to 6/8, back down to 5/8, and repeat...

The claps are constant polymeters - three patterns, one in each time signature, happening at the same time.

I used this free mastering service, and liked it. https://mastering.ianknowles.com/

More on this 567th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Three Meters (The Assignment: Make music in 5/8, 6/8, and 7/8 time signatures) — at: https://disquiet.com/0567/

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disquiet0567

Jet Jaguar - The Establishment [disquiet0567] (Free download)

This week's Disquiet Junto project is to use the rhythm of rain in a pipe as the foundation for a piece of music. I piped (hoho) the audio into three frequency bands and trigger a different synth note when each band gets over a certain volume. The lowest frequency band is the lowest synth note and so on. I'll put more on lines, link at the bottom.

More on this 581st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Helsinki Downspout (The Assignment: Use a rhythmic field recording as the foundation for a new track), at: https://disquiet.com/0581/

Thanks to Scott Fletcher for having provided the original material. It is used thanks to a Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Original track at: https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/helsinki-downspout/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0581-helsinki-downspout/

Jet Jaguar - Downpipe Triggers [disquiet0581]

The latest Disquiet Junto assignment was to record a rhythm track through a wall. I did that twice, once with omni-directional mics in my bathroom, and once with contact mics on the bathroom wall. More process stuff at the lines forum link below.

More on this 583rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Wall to Wall (The Assignment: The Assignment: Use a building as a filter), at: https://disquiet.com/0583/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0583-wall-to-wall/

disquiet0583

Jet Jaguar - Walldrums [disquiet0583]

This track celebrates the 600th Disquiet Junto Project!
For this jubilee project Marcus Fischer provided seven WAV files that were used in different ways to generate this track. All sounds audible in this track originate from these files but may be transformed heavily.

One synth melody and the drums were created using the generative MIDI sequencer Transition - but the sounds originate from the pitched down files provided.

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/

Regenerating Sounds - Building New Worlds (Disquiet0600)

The 600th Disquiet Junto? Wow. Thanks you so much, Marc, and of course all of you participants! The Junto has played a key role in my live, and I can’t thank all of you enough. 

I withstood the idea to go for pure ambient with the material. Instead I tried to make a mellow piece with a bit of a pulse. All sounds come from Markus Fischer’s lovely samples. I treated them with S&A Cycles, Life in the Bush of Ghosts, and Ableton’s Simpler for bass and melodies. 
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Disquiet Junto Project 0600: Reaching Out

The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer.
Step 1: The musician Marcus Fischer, long a friend of and participant in the Disquiet Junto, has graciously put together a set of shared samples that will be the source audio for this project. Part of the beauty of a shared sample project is that there will be an underlying quality — a tonality, a texture, a commonality — to all the disparate works that are produced from the foundational material. Listening to the variations as they surface will be its own special source of pleasure. You can access the files here:
https://www.dropbox.com/t/TGexgpq93GPLGFxE
Step 2: You can rework the audio from Step 1 in any way that you see fit. You can use all of it, or just one tiny piece, or whatever subset you find strikes your ear. The one stipulation is your finished piece should begin and end with an unadulterated segment of one of the provided tracks for at least two seconds. Please credit Marcus Fischer when posting your track.
Eight Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:
Step 1: Include “disquiet0600” (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 “disquiet0600” (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: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0600-reaching-out/
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.
Note: Please post one track for this weekly Junto project. If you choose to post more than one, and do so on SoundCloud, please let me know which you’d like added to the playlist. Thanks.
Additional Details:
Length: The length is up to you.
Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, July 3, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, June 29, 2023.

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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.

A Warm Smile [disquiet0600]

This is my submission to this week's Disquiet Junto assignment using samples provided by Marcus Fischer.

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/

Abyssal Plain [disquiet0600]

This week's Disquiet Junto assignment was to make something from samples made by https://soundcloud.com/marcus_fischer His source sounds were great, so this was a lot of fun. I didn't add much at all.

I'll put some process notes in the thread on lines: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0600-reaching-out/

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.

[disquiet0600] Reaching Out

Jet Jaguar - Rework [disquiet0600] (Free download)

Disquiet Junto Project 0600: Reaching Out
The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer.
More info on Disquiet Junto: disquiet.com/0600

This is the 600th Disquiet Junto. 600 weeks of fresh music! Congratulations to Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet and all the Disquiet Junto community for this important achievement!
This week I had the pleasure of re-working a collection of Marcus Fischer's wav files from which I selected nacre_voit and no_input_matrix_mixer files.
I decided to keep focusing on the higher part of the spectrum, just as I did on my previous disquiet 0599. I used synths and norns clone to interact and/or mangle the two selected .wav files.
It was difficult to keep things interesting and having control of everything while keeping an eye on the timing of such process.
For this recording I set up Morphagene to play nacre_voit.wav as a reel. The output was sent to a mult and then split to a mixer and to QPAS and Mimeophon for effects, then into the mixer with a non effected output.  
Arp 2600 clone and 0-Coast produces an high pitched voice that is similar to Marcus Fischer's nacre_voit.
Fates is running Gemini script with no_input_matrix_mixer.
The latter two are then effected with Hologram Microcosm Granules, Haze, 3rd preset. On previous takes I also tried Graintopia and Twine.
It's been the longest process I've ever had with any Disquiet Junto since my (recent) first submission (0590). For this last assignment I collected 13 different takes, it's a process that could have resulted in even more if I didn't restrain myself to call it finished. 
Lesson to be learnt is to keep patch simples: for this one I had complex patches running as I was trying to better understand all the capabilities of my newly arrived NANO Caixa 104 case, but the process of keeping everything under control and improvising without overdubs has been demanding. I think this one has suffered of a strange kind of horror vacui. 

Synth Voice.
Both synths are controlled via MIDI through Arturia Keystep.
• 0 Coast. 
Maths Voltage circuit: Stepped out and Arp's S&H out patched in. The outputs modulates MLTPLY and OVRTN params.
DYNAMIC out to ARP Filter VCO1 input
LIN FM controlled by ARP Triangle LFO
•ARP
VCO 2  Square normalled to Filter.
VCO 2 Sine patched to Filter Control VCO 2 in
VCO 1 Square + Filter Output are sent to Ring Mod channels 2 and 1 respectively.
Filter is set to self-oscillate.

•Modular Synth
Morphagene out -> (Morphagene) mult -> Caixa 104 Mixer 1L 1R
(Morphagene) mult -> QPAS in -> QPAS LP out-> Mimeophon in -> Mimeophon out -> Caixa 104 Mixer 2L 2R
Morphagene CV out -> Mimeophon µ in
Morphagene EOSG out -> Mimeophon Hold in

Caixa LFO 1 Square -> mult -> QPAS radiate L in, QPAS Q in, Mimeophon Clock in
Caixa LFO1 Triangle -> Morphagene SOS in

Caixa LFO 2 Square -> mult -> QPAS !¡!¡ L in, Wogglebug Clock in, Caixa Precision Adder X in
Caixa LFO 2 Triangle -> Caixa Precision Adder Y in 

Caixa Precision Adder -> Sum out -> Morphagene Gene Size in, Moprhagene Slide in

Wogglebug Stepped out -> QPAS Freq 1
Wogglebug Smooth -> Caixa S&H in
Wogglebug Woggle -> Morphagene Varispeed
Wogglebug Woggle Audio out -> Wogglebug speed in
Wogglebug INT Clock out -> Caixa S&H Trig in

Caixa S&H out -> QPAS Freq 2 In

Mimeohpon Delay Gate Out -> QPAS ¡!¡! R in

Generation (Son Of 0599)(disquiet0600)

Live iPad jam around 3 samples by Marcus Fischer. The main theme is from manipulating one of the samples in Sector. Outside of these three sources there's one track of softpop, and multiple tracks of effects.

My creative goal with this one was to slow down.

Disquiet Junto Project 0600: Reaching Out The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer.

Step 1: The musician Marcus Fischer, long a friend of and participant in the Disquiet Junto, has graciously put together a set of shared samples that will be the source audio for this project. Part of the beauty of a shared sample project is that there will be an underlying quality — a tonality, a texture, a commonality — to all the disparate works that are produced from the foundational material. Listening to the variations as they surface will be its own special source of pleasure. You can access the files here:
https://www.dropbox.com/t/TGexgpq93GPLGFxE 32

Step 2: You can rework the audio from Step 1 in any way that you see fit. You can use all of it, or just one tiny piece, or whatever subset you find strikes your ear. The one stipulation is your finished piece should begin and end with an unadulterated segment of one of the provided tracks for at least two seconds. Please credit Marcus Fischer when posting your track.

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/ 2

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/

Photo by Bernd Dittrich on Unsplash.

Vapor Shores (w. Marcus Fischer) [disquiet0600]

Many thanks to @marcus_fischer who provided the samples used as the exclusive building blocks for this track.

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/

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/

600 views of noise, silence and inspiration (disquiet0600)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 01-02 Jul 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. Reworking samples provided by Marcus Fischer - @marcus_fischer

©2023 Marcus Fischer & Jim Lemanowicz

Process notes - 

For this piece, I used an Ableton Live template that I developed for an ongoing (and similar) project with others in Sarah Belle Reid's Patreon community that we started in Sept 2022. Essentially, it is a way to process samples and then re-process the resampled material. My template also gives me enough flexibility to add/remove elements. For me, it's just a starting point from which I can grow sample-based materials in a generative manner.

Marcus provided 7 samples for this project but I only used 4 of them. 

Sample names - 
1 - 600_walking-mfischer
2 - 600_nacre_voit-mfischer
3 - 600_hands_held-mfischer
4 - 600_no_input_matrix_mixer-mfischer

The first three samples were put into my template/devices to pull slices using MIDI files as triggers which were arranged to add randomness to which slice was chosen as well as velocity and probability. 

The template channels as used here contain a sampler with some distorted or delay elements added. The resampled results of these were then run through devices that would add some ambience and resonance as well as sample-warp algoriths from Live.

The 4th was only processed by Ableton warp algorithms but per instructions, the piece starts & ends with an unaltered 2 seconds from this sample. 

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This original version of "Hurricane Built For Two" was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0600: Reaching Out. The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer.

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Artwork/photo by Jim Lemanowicz, 30 Jun 2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, USA

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This track was originally released under the artist name "Three Nuts In."

Hurricane Built For Two (disquiet0600)

SuperCollider3 + ValhallaDelay 
Sample: Marcus Fischer

cmV2ZXJzZS1tb3Rpb24K[disquiet0600]

This assignment called for us to rework samples from @marcus_fischer.

600_PSU_stairs-mfischer
600_street_poet_typing-mfischer

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/

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/

Artwork by Jackie McMaster

outreach feat Marcus Fischer [disquiet0600]

Disquiet Junto Project 0600: Reaching Out
The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer.

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0600-reaching-out/63012

Loaded everything into a sampler and started playing around with slices and layers until things started to form.  Set it up so I could mix and tweak each sample live and then hit record.  I ended up using the following samples in the final track: worn_path, psu_stairs, walking, and nacre_voit,  No other sound sources added.  Recorded directly to a stereo file with no post processing.

Disquiet0600 - Out Reach In

This week's assignment was to make gentle music using one sound source, a 90-minute recording of someone playing clay bowls.

As a bit of a reaction to the massive length of the recording, I decided to drill into tiny sections and make something pretty tightly rhythmic and dry sounding. 

Mostly I then just layered up those bits that I found looped nicely and faded them in and out. There's some high crackly sounds which were the result of EQing some background noises from the recording to bring out the high bits, then feeding that stuff through a delay.

As a last step, I dragged down the tempo of the final piece by about 15 bpm and found it worked better like that. :)

More on this 284th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Creative Commonfield: Make ambient music from the sound of clay bowls. — at:

https://disquiet.com/0284/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0284-creative-commonfield/

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image courtesy of fraenkelgallery.com and the artist Chris Kallmyer, who created the bowls and the source audio. More from Kallmyer at:

http://www.chriskallmyer.com/

[junto 0284] Creative Commonfield

Jet Jaguar - Hokusai in a Paperweight [disquiet0284] (free download)

Releasing tunes under this name since 1996.

8 albums & 12 EPs as Jet Jaguar, as well as releases with Takamu, Tonkyn Pearson (fka Montano), Malty Media, Datsun Stereo, Patio and The Dub Connection.

I also try and pull together stuff from New Zealand you might like if you say you like ambient music. https://ambientnz.com

You can find a lot of free music that's not on here via my Bandcamp or website.

Jet Jaguar - Hokusai in a Paperweight [disquiet0284] (free download)

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