I admire it for its light-footed insaneness…

Disquiet Junto Project 0564: Octave Lept
The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music.

This project has just one step: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music.

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

Details at disquiet.com/0564

Disquiet Junto Project 0564: Octave Lept

Electronic sequences created in Pure Data & edited with Audacity, the 2nd & 4th sections one octave higher.

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/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0564-octave-lept/

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

8 - Up (disquiet0564)

for the disquiet junto //

arrangement of a classical piece, in half time, with an octave leap

Floating Through

[disquiet0564] Floating Through

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/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0564-octave-lept/

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)

Disquiet Junto Project 0564: Octave Lept
The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music.

I used a track on which I was already working on and added automatic tools to randomly add or substract up to two octaves to all tracks. The probability was chosen so that the octave jumps should go unnoticed.

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Track cover based on image from Dall-E2 prompting "Sudden jumps, not too hefty, edward hopper". This tool is so much fun!

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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/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0564-octave-lept/

Krakenkraft-Disquiet

Sudden Jumps, Not Too Hefty [disquiet0564]

[disquiet0564] Royal Road

Blippoo patches and flutes.

Disquiet Junto Project 0564: Octave Lept
The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music.

This project has just one step: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music.

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0564-octave-lept/59085

Disquiet0564 Octaves Lost

This was my contribution for the collaborative Disquiet Junto Project 0610: Speed Limit Pt 2

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0610 discussion thread:

Ended up using part 1 compositions by @Timshel0, @dequalsrxt, and @tristan_louth_robins for this piece since they all seemed to work well with the Basinski style vibe I had in mind. I layered them into Ableton Live at 60 BPM and edited the audio in various ways by stretching, warping, chopping and looping the samples. Thank you to the three creators for the opportunity to use these creations, but also apologies for my excessive manipulation and mangling of your source audio.  

I recorded the mix onto a Panasonic RN-125 microcassette recorder and then, played it back into Ableton at half speed. Final tempo should be around 30 BPM. Added plugin effects from Arturia Rev Intensity (reverb), Phonolyth Cascade (reverb), Soundghost Drift (for more tape effects) and AudioThing Noises to the final mix.

The ambiguous title was inspired by reflecting on news headlines referencing "...a fragile peace" in conflict areas around the world.   

More on this 610th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 2 (The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed), at: https://disquiet.com/0610/
About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/
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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0610-speed-limit-pt-2/

A Fragile Piece [disquiet0610]

DISQUIET 0610
 30bpm, based on 2 tracks from disquiet 0609
Lazenbeeindusty's blankspace
Henk Lasschuit 's SpeedLimit pt 1

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More on this 610th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 2 (The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed), at: https://disquiet.com/0610/

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-0610-speed-limit-pt-2/

disquietjunto

disquiet0610_blanklimitz

Contains samples of the following:
https://soundcloud.com/red_robin/disquiet_junto_0603-refactored-drift-60-bpm
https://soundcloud.com/winterer/catnip-in-60bpm-disquiet0609
https://soundcloud.com/sunbear-323538505/disquiet0609

More on this 610th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 2 (The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed), at: https://disquiet.com/0610/

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-0610-speed-limit-pt-2/

Three Passengers (disquiet0610)

This is my submission for this week's Disquiet Junto assignment.

More on this 610th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 2 (The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed), at: https://disquiet.com/0610/

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-0610-speed-limit-pt-2/

Jovian Sferics [disquiet610]

Disquiet Junto Project 0610: Speed Limit Pt 2
The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed.

Combined two tracks that seemed like they shouldn't go together:

https://soundcloud.com/red_robin/disquiet_junto_0603-refactored-drift-60-bpm

https://soundcloud.com/atw/transient-melter-60bpm-disquiet-0609

More on this 610th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 2 (The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed), at: https://disquiet.com/0610/

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-0610-speed-limit-pt-2/

Tristan Louth-Robins & ATW - Transient Drift (disquiet0610)

I decided to use the pieces by Forelight, Fake Genius and RadMusicLab which I loaded into my 1010Music Bitbox. After slowing them all down to half speed and subjecting them to some granularity I basically did a couple of improv sessions, triggering portions of the three samples using the touch interface of the 1010 and then adding some melancholic notes from the Terra, along with a bit of electric shocks from the Landscape HC-TT.

disquiet0610

Assignment: Select two or more tracks from the provided ones https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0609?si=7c2b7977f36f4e7c8598f9015f1472c2&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing, slow them to half their original pace — that is, to 30 BPM — and use editing techniques to combine them into one new piece of music.

I reworked and mashed together the following three tracks with additional instrumentation:

@ray_cobley https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley/simply-sixty-disquiet0609?si=964f09599ede490c944c5b477b315984&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

@winterer https://soundcloud.com/winterer/catnip-in-60bpm-disquiet0609?si=a28240ff67dc40d79c9e3170502e9859&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

@atw https://soundcloud.com/atw/transient-melter-60bpm-disquiet-0609?si=eeb41b4e69524f06b852644eee40c388&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

More on this 610th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 2 (The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed), at: https://disquiet.com/0610/

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-0610-speed-limit-pt-2/

Sixty Catnip Dark Corridor Melter (disquiet0610)

Credits to the originators of the tracks being combined here:
@he_nu_ri @Aaron_Taylor-Waldman and @noodletwister

[disquiet0610] Half - Time Triple

Special thanks to @RabMusicLab @user-248104983 and @andreas-kitzmann-27370936 for sharing their recordings

More on this 610th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 2 (The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed), at: https://disquiet.com/0610/

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-0610-speed-limit-pt-2/

Slow & Low (RabMusicLab, Samplair, A.Kitzmann)(disquiet0610)

This assignment uses two songs from Disquiet0609 (made to be 60bpm) and combine them while setting the new song at 30bpm. I used Plucks & Pad from Noodle Twister (https://soundcloud.com/noodletwister/plucks-pad-disquiet0609) and combined it with SAMPLAIR's Disquiet 0609 (https://soundcloud.com/user-248104983/disquiet0609-60bpm). I altered the sounds and added LABS piano parts.

More on this 610th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 2 (The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed), at: https://disquiet.com/0610/

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-0610-speed-limit-pt-2/

air space feat. Noodle Twister & SAMPLAIR [disquiet0610]

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.

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