next to my city studio there is a great construction site... field recordings from there, SOMA ENNER takes care of the feedback

concrète construction site(disquiet0590)

Aiming to add more space in my compositions. 

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score (disquiet0597)

The Assignment: Make a piece of music that combines self-contained minimalist parts.

The idea for this piece was to have, on the one hand, some looping/repeating audio, and on the other hand looping/repeating audio effect automation. And then to create a piece on the fly by routing the audio into the effects channels, using a ‘matrix mixer’.
And then the hope was to have all of these patterns - patterns of played notes and patterns of changing effects - interact in interesting and unexpected, emerging, minimal-music like, ways.
Which, listening back, maybe happens… in some places… a little? But generally: not so much. 

That said, I’m not unhappy with the thing that came out of this little experiment. The piece has an interesting atmospheric feel to it, I think, not in the least due to the fact that I had the window open when recording (playing the bass part live while at the same time doing the routing of the audio). The wind and street noises - cars, seagulls - coming in and being fed into the effects chains, work rather well.

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Minimal Blend - disquiet0599

For Root of Seven Parts I recorded 7 self-contained parts using a virtual Max synthesizer and 4 different patches. Then I combined these 7 tracks using this formula:
7+4+5+3+6-7-6-3-(5+4)+1+2+3+7+4+5-7-(3+2+1)-5. Finally I applied a granular reverb on some of the tracks.

This project is the second of three that are being done in collaboration with the 2023 Musikfestival Bern, which will be held in Switzerland from September 6 through 10. The topic this year is « √ » — as the organization explains: “the radical, or square root symbol and the power of its symbolism are central to the festival and these will be translated into music in multifarious ways.” All three projects will engage with the work of Éliane Radigue, who is the Composer-in-Residence for the 2023 festival.

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Root Of Seven Parts [Disquiet0599]

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Because the prompt mentioned granular synthesis, I decided to do the whole piece in iDensity, which is a fun tool that also works stand alone on iPad. It accepts six samples so I went with six parts. First try was based on six drones recorded in the brilliant Dronecaster. The result was pretty dark, so I tried something else. The second try was based in different field recordings I made today: birds, church bells, a crowd and music at an art show. This version was fun but a little too diverse, sonically, to count as minimal. The third and final try is based on six short recordings of Clarinet, three held notes with a swoop, one Staccato, just blowing through and just the mechanics. The track was created by mixing the six parts live.

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Disquiet0599 - Clarinets At The Art Show

Made with Synthstrom Deluge and ASM Hydrasynth.

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Prone To Logic Mind (disquiet0599)

5 drone parts (plaits in fm mode thru wave folder + low pass filter + granular) recorded separately, rearranged in ableton (read - drawing volume envelopes) + some processing

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disquiet0599 - drone blend

Disquiet Junto Project 0599: Minimal(ist) Blend
The Assignment: Make a piece of music that combines self-contained minimalist parts.
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For this submission I started with percussions and wanted to use my modular for sequencing, but I changed my plans and decided to do it with Ableton and my Zoom H5 instead.
Since I play bass as a main instrument this time I decided to explore the higher part of the spectrum of frequencies. 
I started recording seven loops (parts) using different instruments: a cuban clave, a home-made shaker, a singing bowl, a pair of Tingsha (tibetan cymbals), bamboo sticks, some sheep bells and an african metal rattle. Ended up with something that reminds me of the hidden life in a meadow, a wood or a small pond, thus the title Microskopios. 

I started with a simple clave rhythm in 15/8 subdivided 4+3+4+4 at 101.96 BPM and heavily processed it. Pitched it up 36 semitones and then sculpt it with EQ, Compressors, Lagrange, Grain Strain, Echo and Void.
I then recorded bamboo sticks hitting them with the clave while they were on the floor following the 4+3+4+4 division, pitched them down 24 semitones and processed with Phaser, Slink Pan and Springs. 
Then I improvised some patterns with the home made shaker and the metal rattle. 
The shaker is pitched 31 semitones down, panned 10L and has Erosion, Saturator, Ego and Romb as effects. 
The rattle is modified with Corpus, GongAmp, Filterjam and ValhallaPlate. It's paned 30R.
I added the singing bowl and tingsha at the end. 
Singing bowl is split into two channels, one without effects, panned 25L 25R and the other panned 25L, pitch shifted down 24 semitones and processed with GrainSpace and Chorus-Ensemble.
Tingsha is just effected with a little bit of GrainSpace.

Mikroskopios (disquiet0599)

a blend of drones made with the BARP 2500 modules.

DLC-7E disquiet 0599

Cornerian Flight Academy, VGM Yume - Sweden Lofi (From Minecraft - Volume Alpha)

An electronic journey through the sonata form of a computer scientist with a strong weakness for pianoforte

Prone To Logic Mind (disquiet0599)

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