Improvisation 8/10/21 recorded on cell phone.

Sumida (naviarhaiku396)

Disquiet Junto Project 0505: Line Out
The Assignment: Share a track, get feedback, and give feedback.

Step 1: The purpose of this week’s project is to provide participants opportunities to get feedback on works-in-progress. Consider work you’re doing you’d appreciate responses to from fellow Junto participants.

Step 2: Either upload an existing recording (sketches and mid-process takes may prove optimal), or record something new and post it online for feedback. If there are some things in particular you’d like feedback on, mention what they are.

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Track notes: This is one of two WIP tracks that I'm working on in collaboration with the Adelaide-based artist, Simone Kennedy. Her new work, Pilgrimage to Imago (The Primordial Mother Project)continues her exploration of themes associated with the notion of the 'mother', memory and identity. Her work is characterised by juxtapositions of these themes through 'soft-sculpture' and photo media. Insects - prodiminantly flies - feature heavily across her body of work. 

I've been collaborating with Simone since 2014 and it's always such an immense privilige to work with an artist whose work frequently astonishes me. She's currently in London finalising the work and I should have these compositions finished in October this year.

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"The Lasting Waltz" is one of two 'waltzes' I've been asked to compose, sourcing inspiration from Engelbert Humperdink's 1960s hit, "The Last Waltz". This is what I'd regard as a deconstruction of a waltz, since the semblance of the 3/4 meter is there, but prone to be realigned and disrupted. As per Simone's prompt, the piece embodies a dance between the daughter and the fly.

I took the original track by Humperdink, ran it through RX8 and separated the instrumental parts so that I could use the piano, strings and drums in isolation. The bulk of the rearrangement was done using a Make Noise Morphagene, creating 'plastic' loops and layers that could be stretched, constrained and obliterated. On top of this, my own musical elements and aspects of musique concrete are applied.

Whilst it's arrived in the shape I'm after, there's still a lot of refinement required. Any feedback on the WIP is most welcome!

[disquiet0505] The Lasting Waltz (WIP)

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Catnip Dream(disquiet0506)

Disquiet Junto Project 0506: Wipe Out. The Assignment: Take something whole and erase half of it.

As I'm on vacation at the moment I looked for some easy way to do this. I decided for https://soundcloud.com/winterer/along-the-river-of-lethe as source material and put it into a 120bpm grid (I think originally it was something odd around 90). I cut it into slices, deleted every second bar and put the result together. 

No big thing, but I like how the wiping adds to the imo mysterious convolutedness of the track. And strangely I don't miss anything...

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Halfway Along The River Of Lethe [disquiet0506]

I decided to pull out one of my old favorite techniques for this one: using Paulstretch with unconscionably long windows (5 seconds, 10 seconds, 40 seconds...). This takes a sample and moves it from a musical gesture to a long harmonic drone. 

I started out with the ukelele track, and stretched it 2.5x with a 5 second window. I stretched the accordina 2.1x with a 10 second window to get the primary melodic and chordal motion. Both developed a melody within the drone as the stretch was done.

I then stretched the piano 1.1x but with a 30 second window, then copied it, reversed it, and duplicated this again to bring it up to approximately the length of the other two tracks.

At this point, I started layering things up in Audacity and adjusting relative levels. I decided I wanted to leave a little of the original samples audible as they were originally, so I brought in the electric guitar chords and the rhythmic bass. I realigned the chords to appropriate places against the piano/uke/accordina lines, then carefully edited the bass to duplicate one bar of the rhythm so I could repeat it to almost the end of the track.

I then took the hang sample and pitched it up 3 octaves, resulting in a funky phasing tone in the mid-register. I applied a little Valhalla Freq Echo to that to give it a little more motion, and last, I brought in the low electric bass, carefully lining it up against the hang, and duplicating notes as required to get it to the correct length.

Final mixdown was adjusting relative levels of the tracks and tweaking EQ lightly.

This was done 100% in Audacity, using the Paulstretch, fade in, fade out, and pitch shift tools, with Valhalla Freq Echo for a tiny bit of sweetening.

Partially Erased [disquiet0507]

More on this 507th weekly Disquiet Junto project — In DD’s Key of C (The Assignment: Make music with 10 acoustic instrument samples all in a shared key) — at: https://disquiet.com/0507/

Tracks made with samples created generously by Daniel Díaz.

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In DD's Key of C - disquiet0507

Work in progress...
24/25th September 2021

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For Disquiet Junto Project508
The Assignment: Use the Shepard tone to create a piece of music.


This one was difficult but I had to do it, a few years ago I was asked to create a piece of music for a documentary using Shepard Tones like Christopher Nolan does perfectly on his movies. They had no budget for Hans Zimmer and they called me, ok.
But unlike Zimmer I was incapable to create orchestral textures using Shepard Tone, it never worked and ended up giving up. I did something honourable with plain sine waves but using instruments and orchestral samples I couldn’t get that sensation of “never-ending” rise or fall, I could hear the cycle starting over, etc. Very frustrating.
I got took a rain check on that and kept my unfinished research sessions for later. Yesterday finally this junto prompt decided me to face it and try to do it. I worked 12 hours on this thing, it is still a work in progress but it is getting closer to what I wanted.

I used several Shepard Tones, always ascending, using orchestral samples, sine waves (Ondes Martenot and Reaktor) and added some proper music combined with the Shepard drones (solo cello, orchestral percussion, brass and string's dystopian samples)

The Shepard and the Beast (disquiet0508)

Long version can be found here https://soundcloud.com/user-130801280/l-system
More on this 509th weekly Disquiet Junto project – The Long Detail (The Assignment: Create a piece of music with moments from a preexisting track) – at: https://disquiet.com/0509/

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The image associated with this project is a detail from a painting by Piero della Francesca (1415-1492)

L - System (Short Mix) (disquiet0509)

This is a sequel to: https://soundcloud.com/undermulden/brief-sun-in-windowsill-thawing-disquiet0511

More on this 512th weekly Disquiet Junto project — The Sequel (The Assignment: Record a piece of music that follows up a preexisting piece of music) — at: https://disquiet.com/0512/

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BSIWT II: Cellular Submission (disquiet0512)

Electronic composition.

More on this 515th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Talking Cure (The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room) — at: Disquiet Junto Project 0515: Talking Cure

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Image credit: Lamont Hall, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Waiting room, 1956. Public domain.

Waiting (disquiet0515)

Mixed: Dr. Psilicon
Mastering: Raff ElevenOneOne
Artwork: Ricardo Bettazzoni

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