Combinations of poetry, reggae, and dub.  All music by me.  Poems by other people.

Rasta Poets

Ice cube in a wine glass sampled for Disquiet Junto 0523. Played around with the sample on the Circuit Rhythm, then into Ableton for layering those recordings and arranging. Duplicated a couple of the tracks and added some spectral resonance, very low in mix. Played some drums because the cube samples had some sweet rhythms and I couldn't get Beastie Boys "Ill Communication" out of my head.

More on this 523rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Chill Communication (The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it) — at: https://disquiet.com/0523/

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Got That Chill Communication [disquiet0523]

Part 2 of a 3 part Disquiet Junto collaboration.

I added a pad and guitar loops to the amazing drone track created last week by morgulbee. 

More on this 526th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Magic Number (2 of 3) (The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio) — at: disquiet.com/0526/

Artwork by The New Coma
thenewcoma.tumblr.com/

Drone Void [disquiet0526]

Major thanks to Saga Söderback for having come up with this project.

More on this 530th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Minimally Viable Music (The Assignment: How much less is just shy of too little? ) — at: https://disquiet.com/0530/

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Minimonte [disquiet0530]

Disquiet Junto Project 0529: Squared Off

Make the thing you think is the minimum viable music.

Major thanks to Saga Söderback for having come up with this project.


I considered what "Minimum viable music" means to me.

For me, musicality has always linked directly to musicianship. A great practitioner of their instrument has great musicianship, and great musicianship opens the path to great musicality. Musicality then breeds music.

So in a quest to go minimal, I took the road of a single C2 note from a Juno synth (TAL Uno LX) -a square wave oscillator, everything open. Nothing easier than hitting a note! 
Then I sent the audio from that single note, looped at 134 BPM, into a load of effect tracks, comprising reverbs, delays, pitch shifters, overdrive distortions, and digital degradation effects units.

I wanted to expose my love for effect units. Nothing but a C2 on a Juno was used here. Musicianship is minimised fully - musicality comes from performance of 'effects', not of 'instruments'. Set up and play the effect units in a digital DAW. Minimum Viable Musicianship....

Tal Uno LX, Wave H-Reverb, Eventide Little Plate, Surreal Machines Diffuse and Modnetic, Eventide Little Alter Boy, Eventide Effect Rack x3, Tritik Moodal x2, Replika XT x3, Glitchmachines Fracture XT x2, Sonic Charge Permut8. A shade of feedback here and there!

Thanks for listening...

A Pluck from a Punk (disquiet0530)

More on this 532nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Other Means (The Assignment: Make music about something you find difficult or unproductive to talk about) — at: https://disquiet.com/0532/

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Love Me [ disquiet0532 ]

Based on Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata...

More on this 535th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Jigsaw Disjunction (The Assignment: Break a familiar melody into pieces and play it in a different sequence) – at: https://disquiet.com/0535/ 1

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Sonlightatamoon [ disquiet0535 ]

More on this 536th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Metaphor Play (The Assignment: Take a favorite figure of speech as a creative prompt) — at: https://disquiet.com/0536/

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halF halF [disquiet0536]

This recording follows the inspiration of the Disquiet Junto Project 0537 (see below): How could a apologetic car horn sound like ?
The track presents a quiet side street, its atmosphere augmented by different musical elements. Some cars apologize for driving by and disrupting the calm by sounding their apologetic melody, and in the end this horn melody leads a life of its own.

I thank blaukreuz for providing the wonderful field-recording
https://freesound.org/people/blaukreuz/sounds/521000/
which inspired much of this track.

This project was proposed by Rob Walker.

More on this 537th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Penitent Honk (The Assignment: Do sound design for “a missing gesture” of vehicular life) – at: https://disquiet.com/0537/

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Apologetic Conveyance (Disquiet0537)

I rested a recorder on my chest and recorded a minute or so of breathing with a few stomach gurgles for good measure. I then recorded several passes of this recording through reverbs, delays, a soft simulation of Rings and faded the original in and out of the resulting drone. If you listen carefully you’ll hear my borborygmus



More on this 539th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Control Breath (The Assignment: Let your slow breathing guide a piece of music) — at: https://disquiet.com/0539/

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Respirator(disquiet0539)

essential oils

This piece is made up of the following components:

* Gertrude Stein reading her poem "If I Told Him" (recording from [Penn Sound](writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Stein.php))
* A recording of black holes colliding from the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) Scientific Collaborative

If I Told Him

Major thanks to Malka Older, the novelist, for having generously contributed her own reading of her short story "The Divided" as the subject and source audio for the 400th consecutive weekly Disquiet Junto project.

More on this 400th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sub Divided / The Assignment: Create a score to a Malka Older story using the author’s own voice as source audio — at:

https://disquiet.com/0400/

Malka Older – The Divided – Part 9/9 disquiet0400

I'm using the Croaker reggae riddim.  Instead of traditional drums, I'm using rauschen to create a beat.  There are bits of Ezra Pound reading "Hugh Sewlyn Mauberly (Contacts and Life)".

More on this 401st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Noise Pacing / Use background noise as a beat, as a rhythm — at:

https://disquiet.com/0401/

Noise Pacing - disquiet0401

"I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman.  Recited by John Richetti at the Kelly Writers House Wexler Studio, October 25, 2016.  

Musical backing by Paul Reiners.

See [PennSound](https://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Richetti-Song-of-Myself.php) for the original recording.

More on this 402nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Music for Tasks / The Assignment: Record music intended as the backdrop/soundtrack to a chore — at:

https://disquiet.com/0402/

I Hear America Singing - disquiet0402

This is a dub version of "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman. Recited by John Richetti at the Kelly Writers House Wexler Studio, October 25, 2016.

Musical backing by Paul Reiners.

See [PennSound](writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Rich…ng-of-Myself.php) for the original recording.

More on this 402nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Music for Tasks / The Assignment: Record music intended as the backdrop/soundtrack to a chore — at:

disquiet.com/0402/

I Hear America Singing (Version) - disquiet0402

"If We Must Die" written and recited by Claude McKay.

Reggae remix by Paul Reiners.

If We Must Die

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