This week's Disquiet Junto assignment was to do a Pig Latin version of an existing piece of music. I decided to try something with my track Ottomans off my 2018 album 'Everything Happens, For Some Reason'. Original track is here: https://soundcloud.com/nonwrestler/jet-jaguar-ottomans

'Ottomans' is in polymeter - the different instrumental parts are in different time signatures. I wanted to work with something using polymeter because in Pig Latin it's not like you force the "ay" syllable in at regular time intervals - you do it according to the length of the word. 

So I decided to play an A at the end of very bar of the existing phrases, pushing out the original time signature of each phrase. I had to push the whole track down a semitone to make this in key. 

Then, say the original phrase was 4 bars of 4/4, I turned it into 4 bars of 5/4. with an A playing on the 5th beat of every bar. For the original 4 beats I reshuffled them like you would with Pig Latin, so instead of going 1 2 3 4 A, it goes 2 3 4 1 A. I followed the same kind of idea always inserting an A for a crotchet length at the end of each bar, e.g. turning bars of 7/8 into 9/8 and so on.

I made basically no changes to the arrangement of the original track, like when things fade in and out, but the different length phrases change things quite a bit to my ears.

More on this 480th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Ongsay Aftcray (The Assignment: Record a piece of music by employing Pig Latin as a technique) — at:

https://disquiet.com/0480/

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Image associated with this project is by Tom Scott, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

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[junto 0480] Ongsay Aftcray

Jet Jaguar - Omansottay [disquiet0480] (Free download)

This is my latest contribution to the Disquiet Junto. The assignment this week was to use the speech about how magic works from The Prestige as inspiration. So the track had to go from part A to part B and back to A. 

I felt like "B" needed to be some kind of trick, not just like verse/chorus/verse. I hope you can figure out what the trick is and, either way, enjoy.

More on this 489th weekly Disquiet Junto project — The Prestige (Assignment: Apply some magic to ABA form) — at: https://disquiet.com/0488/

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[disquiet0489] The Prestige

Jet Jaguar - The Greatest Trick Was Bowie's Moustache (Free download) [disquiet0489]

Original track is from this @lontalius release: http://lontalius.bandcamp.com/album/the-world-will-never-know-about-us

Nice one.

Lontalius - Loud (Jet Jaguar Remix)

For the Disquiet Junto this week, I chose the option to "Record what you imagine it would sound like to attend a club event of 10BPM techno, including crowd noise."

I wrote a sequence at a normal-ish techno tempo, then slowed down the master tempo in my DAW to 10bpm. Techno typically evolves slowly, in blocks of 16 or so bars, and while I didn't quite stick to that, I thought it wouldn't feel really like it was 10bpm if I messed with the structure. So I decided to focus my efforts on making it sound at least a bit like being in a club.

I used convolution to feed the whole mix through a night club's PA,  using these free impulse responses. http://www.balancemastering.com/blog/free-funktion-one-impulse-responses-ir-irs-convolution/

I mixed the music with a couple of crowd / bar noise recordings from freesound.
https://freesound.org/people/Pfannkuchn/sounds/457606/
https://freesound.org/people/Tomlija/sounds/100904/

I faded the thing in and out, to give a bit more of a feeling of just a captured recording of a club night. I don't think the result is convincing, but it was fun to do.

More on this 541st weekly Disquiet Junto project — 10BPM Techno (The Assignment: Make some snail-paced beats) — at: https://disquiet.com/0541/

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Image used thanks to this license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grapevinesnail_01.jpg.

Jet Jaguar - Slow Night [disquiet0541]

This week's Disquiet Junto was to make a drone using only your voice. 

This is just a snippet of me talking in a work context, a meeting recording. I thought using spoken-word from the least musical context was a good laugh - something about droning on in meetings, the New Zillund accent, my accent specifically, something...

Then all I did was send the recording into a convolution reverb, using a 45 second impulse response from a disused radar dome in Germany. Thank you Antony for the recording!

https://freesound.org/people/mugwood/packs/7592/

I chopped the front 50 seconds off the recording, so it starts when the convolution is already going nuts and that's it. I was pleasantly surprised by the many layers from this single effect.

More on this 548th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Drone Vox (The Assignment: Make a drone using just your voice.) — at: https://disquiet.com/0548/

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Image by Nevit Dilmen used thanks to a Creative Commons license (cropped, text/color added), according to which this reworking is also available for reuse by the same terms:

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Jet Jaguar - Online Meeting In a Radar Dome [disquiet0548]

A selection from Jet Jaguar's 9th album 'Room Tones', released 1 July 2022 on Shimmering Moods.

Room Tones

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Jet Jaguar - Ōokayama Cats At Night

Jet Jaguar - Griselinea Lucida

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)

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/

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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]

Free download

A Small Noodle

Hoops

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)

Woop, Junto contributions two weeks running. This one is only using snippets of 3 tracks, specified below. Most of it is loops of an upbeat synth-driven track, played at different speeds with different filters and through delay-line granular synthesis. 

Then there's a set of chords from another track which I layered over the top (pitched down a semitone to get them in key, and I shifted where the one is), fed through distortion, gates and a (VST) tape echo. The third track's elements are limited to a couple of rhythmic toots on 1 and 3.

More on this 136th Disquiet Junto project — “Recombinate work from the netlabels Nowaki, Phantom Channel, and Rec72″ — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/08/07/disquiet0136-thricederivative/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums

This track is made from elements extracted from the track “Nunquam Revolvo” from Jared C. Balogh’s album I Am The Ship // I Am The Shaman, available from the Nowaki netlabel; “And The Rain Embraced Our Closing Words” by from Chris Tenz and Cory Zaradzur’s album Language of Landscape, available from the Phantom Channel netlabel; and “HD Eve” from the Small Radio album Migre 3, available from the Rec72 netlabel.

More on those releases at

http://www.nowaki-music.org/#album197

https://archive.org/details/LanguageOfLandscape-memoriesFadeUnderAShallowAutumnSnowphch014

http://rec72.net/?p=3555

Phagic Number (Free DL) [disquiet0136-thricederivative]

A track I didn't like much that I wrote this weekend, so I reversed it and now I like it more.

Jet Jaguar - Heaven Knows (demo)

A beatless remix from 2004 that never saw the light of day. The K1500 Project was a pretty hard out rock band with growly vox, a million miles from my world. :D It was fun to do something with it.

Original track: http://www.last.fm/music/The+K1500+Project/_/Church+of+Elvisey

Original track

The K1500 Project - Church of Elvisey (Jet Jaguar Remix) (Free download)

One of 2 remixes I did last year for New Zealand heavyweights Fat Freddy's Drop - this one saw release on their digital single.


Fat Freddy's Drop - The Raft (Jet Jaguar Mix)

A remix from 2002. Free download. Could do with a remaster, sorry. The original track is on Trinity Roots' first album, True. 

Trinity Roots - Just Like You (Jet Jaguar Remix)

A remix of a track from Aspen's 'Are You That Retail Snob?' that never saw release back in 2000.

Aspen - Live V7 (Jet Jaguar's Sad and Beautiful World Remix)

Off The Radio Active 89FM 21st anniversary celebration CD. Funny looking at the track listing - a really early version of Fat Freddy's 'Hope' and other such things... sooo long ago.

Jet Jaguar - Ambrose (1998)

This week's assignment is to pay tribute to the Roland 303 by doing something that is apart from how you think it was intended to be utilised.

The 303 was originally supposed to be an accompaniment for like lounge bar solo musicians. Tweaking the knobs live to make the classic acid sound was already creative misuse...

I decided I'd use 303s to focus on melody and harmony, and try and stay away from the acid sound or anything that sounded too like a bassline. I also decided to use some polymeter (different parts layered in different time signatures) and a gradual tempo change to undermine the basic 4 4 rhythm.

I did want to use some of the classic characteristics of the 303, still, otherwise it seemed a bit pointless if it was entirely unrecognisable to even the most hardcore nerds. So I did use the pitch glide and also tweaked the (virtual) knobs a bit.

I used four copies of a software 303 emulator called AudioRealism ABL-3. 
Three form sparse chords, with the polymeter creating variations. The fourth plays the melody in 4 4.

Then there's just some drums (also in 4 4) and some effects and that's it.

More on this 303rd weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Out of Sequence: Pay tribute to the Roland 303 by doing something that is apart from how you think it was intended to be utilized) at:

https://disquiet.com/0303/

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

Photo associated with this project is by Dr. Motte. It’s used via Flickr thanks to a Creative Commons license:

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[junto 0303] Out of Sequence

Jet Jaguar - Norman Cook [disquiet0303] (free download)

Five remixes of tunes from Everything Happens, For Some Reason (@becomeeternal March 2018)

Thanks so much to the remixers!
Ludus @ludus_music
Mantle @thisisgeorge
Steve Pacheco @stevepacheco
Mugwood @mugwood

https://jetjag.bandcamp.com/album/some-remixes
+ it's on Spotify etc. etc.

Call (Ludus Remix)

Not sure where I'm going with this, so must be time to stop.  Features verses from Lucky Lance (Team Dynamite) and Lui Tuiasau.  

"Don't make dumb shit cool."

Home Brew - Everybody (Jet Jaguar's Everybody And Their Cicadas Mix) (Free DL)

In 2010 I remixed FFD - one version ended up on the single 'The Raft', but the other was never released.  So here you go.

The version that did get released is over here: https://soundcloud.com/nonwrestler/fat-freddys-drop-the-raft-jet

Fat Freddy's Drop - The Raft (Jet Jaguar's Findaway Mix) (Free DL)

A wee remix for local legend Benny Tones, who mastered my last Jet Jaguar album.

Out internationally through BBE Music and in NZ through Every Waking Hour.

I'll add purchase links as they come up, here: 
http://www.nonwrestler.com/discography/benny-tones-chrysalis-remixes

http://soundcloud.com/bennytones

Benny Tones ft. Mara TK - On My Way (Jet Jaguar Remix)

Crackly night time recordings from Sri Lanka, a metro line in France, marimbas, synths...

From my 7th album, Recording:
https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/recording
Thank you @shimmering-moods-records

Recording

Jet Jaguar - A Doleful Hum

This weekend's assignment was to make something that's not using the standard A = 440 Hz, equal temperament tuning. In the Disquiet Slack workspace, someone shared a tuning used by Terry Riley on his album Shri Camel. I took that and used Bitwig's built in micro-pitch functions to tune some synths to that. To my shoddy ears the tuning is pretty subtle! Maybe not to yours.

More on this 440th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0440: Tuning In — The Assignment: Dismantle the institution known as A440 — at:

https://disquiet.com/0440/

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Image associated with this track is from zen Sutherland, used thanks to a Creative Commons license and Flickr. The image has been cropped, colors shifted, and text added.

https://flic.kr/p/xiKt1

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[disquiet0440] Tuning In

Jet Jaguar - Quietude [disquiet0440]

This is just two field recordings layered on top of each other. A few fades on one of them, otherwise absolutely no effects or processing. I'm curious if it's at all obvious what's going on! One recording was made in Vanuatu, September 2015, the other in New Zealand, a month later. But it might be most interesting to not know anything more than that.

More on this 443rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0443: In Two Landscapes — The Assignment: Take two different field recordings and combine them to make one track, as in a mash-up — at:

https://disquiet.com/0443/

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[disquiet0443] Two Landscapes

Jet Jaguar - Unplugged [disquiet0443] (Free download)

Features Heather Elder on violin. Opening track from my compilation on Cudighi Records, Quiet.

Quiet

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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.

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