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:

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Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place on lines:

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... 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/

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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)

Open collab by THUNDER MIND↯ CO-LAB
https://soundcloud.com/thunder-minds-collab

Original Track
https://soundcloud.com/thunder-minds-collab/plaguescape-another-oc

THUNDER MIND↯ - PlaguEscape (Insatiable Void Remix)

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)

P ͞h r ́o n ͉̍i m͈ ̙a ̜
https://peninsolar.bandcamp.com/track/p-h-r-o-n-i-m-a

Purchase

P ͞h r ́o n ͉​̍​i m͈ ̙a ̜

Léo Margue - conductor, Matteo Cesari - flute, Bogdan Sydorenko - clarinet, Pieter Jansen - violin,  Pablo Tognan - cello, Lise Baudouin - piano and Aurélie Saraf - 
harp

Escenas mitológicas según Tiziano I-III (Venus y Adonis) - Multilatérale - Live

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/

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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/

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disquiet0583

Jet Jaguar - Walldrums [disquiet0583]

Nearly imperceptible shifts and trends, all the things that happen when you're not paying attention - and then something from that background noise erupts and changes everything...  

illustration: "Van Gogh's Synthesizer" by Melissa O'Brien

How Did We Get Here ?

See the accompanying (explanatory) visuals @ https://youtu.be/sglaEZlQwcg

Making use of two files from Marcus Fischer: 600_nacre_voit-mfischer.wav (which begins and ends the track) and 600_PSU_stairs-mfischer.wav. Each was used with the max/msp nn~ object, with AI models of a human voice and sounds from NASA.

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/

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

visuals (YouTube)

halF reacH [disquiet0600] with Marcus Fischer and AI (see description)

This Disquiet Junto is the 600th weekly project! The source audio is a set of seven wav files provided by fellow Disquiet member [@marcus_fischer](https://llllllll.co/u/marcus_fischer) to be remixed in any way that might be imagined.

More on Disquiet Junto Project 0600: Reaching Out at https://disquiet.com/2023/06/29/disquiet-junto-project-0600-reaching-out/

Reaching Out [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/

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

[disquiet0600] Reaching Out

Jet Jaguar - Rework [disquiet0600] (Free download)

More on this 601st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Hard Six (The Assignment: Let a roll of the dice determine the relative prominence of various parts of a track), at: https://disquiet.com/0601/

The project was inspired in part by recent correspondence with Junto participant Robert Precht. More to come in that regard.

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From Steam To Source (disquiet0601)

Electronic percussion sequences created in Pure Data with a touch of reverb & additional noise.

More on this 612th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Drum Vector (The Assignment: Walk the listener through variations on the same percussive instrument), at: https://disquiet.com/0612/

Thanks to Mahlen Morris for having proposed this project.

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

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Drum & Hum (disquiet0612)

This is a ~5 min segment from a recent recording session of an atonal ambient/drone patch, inspired by Jaap Vink’s ‘screen patch’ explorations. New territory for me, been trying out feedback patching for awhile and this is a first attempt in doing one on this style. The sound source is ring modulated feedback created by patching a handful of Eurorack modules together.

The key modules are a Doepfer BBD delay, Make Noise Mimeophon, Make Noise Maths, Make Noise Rxmx w/ Fxdf, and Mutable Instruments Blinds. Altogether, a simple "record head / playback head" feedback loop is created that slowly builds by itself, and using Maths to suppress/compress the signal by acting as an envelope follower that controls the overall patch amplitude.

Blinds is patched as a ring modulator, and Rxmx/Fxdf stand in for the 'third octave filter' suggested in the original Screen Patch. This allows the feedback to be processed through 6 bandpass filters, including being able to scan through one or more filter bands. 

I also added another multi-mode filter, wave folder, and through zero FM VCO into the patch, allowing for more timbral range and ending up with a metallic resonance that I was pleased with.

If you're interested, check out Jaap Vink's work in the 1970s at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, exploring ring modulated feedback patching with the 'screen patch'. More on the process here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Bcr_HS9XM

Also see this inspiring collection of Jaap Vink recordings:
https://recollectiongrm.bandcamp.com/album/s-t

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More on this 613th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Test Drive (The Assignment: The Assignment: Do something you’ve been meaning to do), at: disquiet.com/0613/

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Ring Modulated Feedback • [ disquiet0613 ]

More on this 627th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Just Ice Society — The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at: https://disquiet.com/0627/

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Thanks to Bassling for the Ice recording see his submission here .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHp3Igh7JSg

Chilling With Ice (disquiet0627)

This track is made using 61 different instruments. Detail here: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0387-everything-and-more/22900/24

More on this 387th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Everything & More / The Assignment: Make a single piece of music using every single instrument that you have at your disposal — at:

https://disquiet.com/0387/

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The title for this project come from the 1994 novel by Geoff Nicholson, but David Foster Wallace’s book about infinity arguably applies as well.

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

Image associated with this project adapted (cropped, colors changed, text added, cut’n’paste) thanks to a Creative Commons license from a photo credited to Clayton Parker:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

https://flic.kr/p/7WhgM9

[junto 0387] Everything And More

Jet Jaguar - It's Happening Again [disquiet0387]

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 - It's Happening Again [disquiet0387]

Jet Jaguar (NZ)

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