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)

File updated Sep/7th/2021 after some  positive feedback, shorter, more dynamic...
Part of a work in progress (on hold, almost abandoned) I planned to build 5 repetitive pieces using percussion instruments and tempo delays. My plan was to build some hypnotic rhythms in odd time signatures (3/4 5/4 7/4 9/4 11/4) and make it more in the 1970's repetitive music vein and not on a groovy world music percussion track.
I'm not a serious percussion player really so I can't develop a swinging percussion solo, but I thought it was interesting to explore the "mechanical" development of repetitive, copy/paste grooves I can create using multiple percussion instruments and other objects.

I already shared here the first Pulse 3 track, this is the second I recorded, then a few months back I decided to stop, cause I don't think this is really interesting.
Is it?
I consider three options now:
1- Should I use these full tracks as the basis for something else? (adding other melodic instruments and textures above it?)
2- Should I make a 1 minute snippet and use  it as a rhythmic interlude on an album or something?
3-Or should I trash it and just extract some rhythmic loops for my Loop Vault?
Comments, opinions and critics are appreciated.
DD Sep2021

Performed  by DD June 2021 on several acoustic percussion instruments and objects, with further edits and copy/paste for the basic layers.

Pulse 5 (disquiet0505)

Day Traveler (disquiet0506) is a reverse time stretch of an unreleased track called Traveler.  Day Traveler is half the length at 1:04 and was created using Sony ExpressFX Time Stretch in an old version of Sound Forge.

The original source sounds are the "strings" from the iOS app Musyc using one of the many "sets" I've built, or whatever they're called, for randomized note generation.  All this is run through my Empress Echoplex and Empress Reverb boxes, likely the "yellow tape" and "green ghost" settings of some value.

The picture is from a webcam in late August 2021 on Derybasivska Street, Odessa, Ukraine.  I enjoy travelling by webcam.

More on this 506th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Wipe Out (The Assignment: Take something whole and erase half of it) — at: https://disquiet.com/0506/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Day Traveler (disquiet0506)

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.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0507-in-dds-key-of-c/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this project is by Thorsten Sideb0ard, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/bvKCrv

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In DD's Key of C - disquiet0507

My submission for
Disquiet Junto Project 0508: Germane Shepard
The Assignment: Use the Shepard tone to create a piece of music.
https://disquiet.com/0508/

Roger S (disquiet0508)

Contains replayed elements from 
"Sooner or Later" as performed by The Impressions
+ addtional drums
Made in 1h for LoopDiggers Sunday Roulette Challenge N°66

You're Gone ( LDSR66)

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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Techno at 10bpm is a challenge, how do you get a rhythmic pulse with such a sparse event grid. Rather than using the drum track to provide the thrum I used slow modulation and feedback to fill the space between trigger hits.
 I used Logic to send a 10bpm clock to my modular rig. I had it trigger a dfam, beads in wavetable mode and a soft pop 2 and then fed the outputs through delay and reverb to fill the space between the thuds.
Rather than dancing in a club to this I recommend being strapped on a gurney in front of a huge subwoofer and let those frequencies ripple through you


Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0541-10bpm-techno/

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

DXMDISCO (disquiet0541)

Collab with my Peru based amigo Myzelia (https://soundcloud.com/myzelia).

Photo: street art Loja, Ecuador 2013.

Equinox [ubo + Myzelia)

A different perspective. It's just being closer. It's being closer to the Earth.

In your eyes

‘Childhood Memories’ es una composición para piano y violín de música Clásica Ambient emocional en la que colabora la talentosa violinista Mirela Nita. 

Quería escribir una composición dedicada a los recuerdos de la infancia porque creo que son muy importantes en nuestras vidas ya que dan forma a nuestra personalidad y futuro. 

Los recuerdos de la infancia son preciosos ya que, en cierto modo, representan esa etapa de tu vida en la que todo era nuevo, tenías un mayor sentido de la curiosidad, estabas más dispuesto a descubrir cosas y, en su mayor parte, los errores que cometiste probablemente fueron bastante benignos. Realmente fué un tiempo lleno de innumerables momentos de "wow", en contraste con esos momentos de "no puedo hacer esto" y “yo lo sé mejor" que pueden atormentarnos cuando ya somos adultos. 

Todos deberíamos atesorar nuestros recuerdos de la infancia, ya que siempre pueden ser nuestro compañero, nuestra "dicha de la soledad". Las cosas simples tienen un significado cuando son de la infancia. Los días estaban libres de complejidades y llenos de inocencia. Es por eso que siempre los tenemos guardados en el corazón. 

“Los recuerdos de la infancia son tesoros eternos del corazón”. - Anónimo

Jan Uve (Compositor y Pianista)
Web: https://januve.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juansanchezpiano

In DD's Key of C - disquiet0507

paul.reiners