More on this 41st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0431: Solitary Ensembles x 3 — The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians — at:

https://disquiet.com/0431/

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Image associated with this track is by Abby, used thanks to a Creative Commons license and Flickr. The image has been cropped, colors shifted, and text added.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0431: Solitary Ensembles x 3

This track was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0522: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.
All sounds were created from the recording of an ice-cube rattling in five different glasses. The inspiration led to this piece, trying to find out how eternal ice sounds.

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/ 4

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 3: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0523-chill-communication/

The Eternal Ice (Disquiet0523)

Paul Beauodin Right channel, Caustic Gates Left Channel

Disquiet Junto Project 0527: Magic Number (3 of 3)

The Assignment: Complete an asynchronous trio begun by two other musicians.

More on this 527th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Magic Number (3 of 3) (The Assignment: Complete an asynchronous trio begun by two other musicians) – at: disquiet.com/0527/

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Veeliin. Disquiet0527 With Paul Beaudoin & Caustic gates

Disquiet0529 Question 23

Probably the simplest piece of music I've made. 3 tracks of the same static noise, offset slightly in pitch to create a phasing effect. Resonant filters fade in and out over time to create a chord with shifting emphasis.

Disquiet 0530 bare

This track was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0533: I created a remix of the @Sternklang track https://soundcloud.com/sternklang/disquiet0527-dead-center-with-dan-simpson-j-benjamin-niemi also incorporating the other two parts of that trio, https://soundcloud.com/user-931021867/january-21-look-again-disquiet0525 by J. Benjamin Niemi and
https://soundcloud.com/dan-simpson-497607106/disquiet0526-jan-21-look-again-2 by Dan Simpson.

Thank you @Sternklang, Dan Simpson and J. Benjamin Niemi for being part of the Junto and providing these great tracks!

I felt "Sternenklang" (the sound of stars) would be a great, poetic title for the resulting music. It reflects the mood to which the creative flow has lead me, and is at the same time a reverence to the creator of the original track.

More on this 533rd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Numbers Magik (The Assignment: Remix a trio — potentially using its subsets and variants) – at: https://disquiet.com/0533/

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Sternenklang (Disquiet0533)

By a strange bit of synchronicity (always sounds better than ‘coincidence’), I was already working on something inspired by this same concept. 

Very simple, just a short burst of sound culled from a work in progress, subjected to many passes through Audacity’s “Sliding Stretch” and further enhanced by modified sections of drone sourced from the stretched results. Some unexpected rhythmic pulses appear as well, adding to the fun.


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The Assignment: Get someone from tense to chill.

Step 1: Your goal with this piece is to guide someone from a place of intense stress to something more sedate. Keep that in mind.

Step 2: A lot of meditation-oriented music takes the end point as the start. Consider that it can be jarring to listen to calm music when you are anything but calm.

Step 3: Compose a piece of music that starts in a state of accelerated tension, allows the listener to align their own tension with that of the music, and then slowly proceeds to calm down, until the music is sustainably peaceful.

More on this 538th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Guided Decompression (The Assignment: Get someone from tense to chill) — at: https://disquiet.com/0538/

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Chill by degrees [disquiet0538]

It’s that time again

Lets get positive and dance our cares away its been a hard time of late

American Avenue

Friends over for tea [part 87]

Labyrinth

* "Bass Drones"
** Matthew Thomas Davis
** https://soundcloud.com/matthew-thomas-davis/bass-drones
** https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0429-solitary-ensembles/30277/113

* "disquiet0430" (Drums)
** vgmrmojo
** https://soundcloud.com/vgmrmojo/disquiet0430
** https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0430-solitary-ensembles-x-2/30579/100

* Test Tones » sine log sweep up down.wav
** Timbre
** https://freesound.org/people/Timbre/sounds/157553/

* 5 note version Czech lady
** Conet Project
** https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Conet_Project/The_Conet_Project/5_note_version_czech_lady

* come back alive whisper.mp3
** LadyImperatrix
** https://freesound.org/people/LadyImperatrix/sounds/503270/

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More on this 41st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0431: Solitary Ensembles x 3 — The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians — at:

https://disquiet.com/0431/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0431-solitary-ensembles-x-3/

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

Image associated with this track is by Abby, used thanks to a Creative Commons license and Flickr. The image has been cropped, colors shifted, and text added.

https://flic.kr/p/8LopPe

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

Solitary Ensembles x 3 - disquiet0431

took the beautiful collaboration by @forcedamage and @wasabicube https://soundcloud.com/wasabicube/force-damage-own-medicine-disquiet0430
and added a bit of fretless guitar, with some compression and delay. I tried to make minimal additions--the original is so sublime.

disquiet0431 force damage own fretless medicine

This is a collaboration between Paul Rose, Douglas Scott, and Douglas Murray. Some guitar improv from Paul, an overdub by Douglas, and anther overdub of waves by me, another Douglas. I had to take the hard panned previous two tracks and mix them together with my addition, which I did in Pro Tools, with minimal effects.

Tele Sunday - Morning Light - Waves - Disquiet0431

Daniel Diaz: bowed upright basses & filters (on original track)
@MarcoLucchi; mellotron é & synth
@michel-banabila: Synthesizer

My first contribution to this collaborative challenge, based on https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/der-steppenwolf that's Marco's collaboration with michel [banabila](https://llllllll.co/u/banabila)  adding to his track [Michel-banabila – Fase-1-disquiet-0429-solitary-ensembles](https://soundcloud.com/michel-banabila/fase-1-disquiet-0429-solitary-ensembles)

This one really liked and puzzled me, there's a mysterious modulating sound and performance on the mellotron that  reminds me of Gregorian chant, even if the sound is no "voices" but more like a string-harmonium sound. But it evokes a bunch of ancient Greek monks on acid , recorded on an old Geloso (what won't I give to lay my hands again on my mum's old Geloso that served as my first experimental recording device when I was 6 ?) Nevermind...
Thanks to Marco and Michel for their inspiring track.


For this Disquiet Junto Project 0431: Solitary Ensembles x 3
The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians.
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0431-solitary-ensembles-x-3/

der steppenwolf kommt zurück - disquiet0431 w/Marco Lucchi & Banabila

Third collaboration for this week's junto joint:
This one's a more standard track, with bass, guitar, drums and an overdub of accordina.
I performed over @howthenightcame 's track https://soundcloud.com/howthenightcame/c-disquiet0430-ryan-scott-mattingly
That was his duo over @ryanscottmattingly 's https://soundcloud.com/ryanscottmattingly/rabbit-food-disquiet0429
I played standard rhythm section (upright bass) over the basic guitar+drum track, then added an Accordina improvisation over it.
It’s nice, melancholic, it was a pleasure for me, cheers
dd

For this Disquiet Junto Project 0431: Solitary Ensembles x 3
The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians.
llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…tary-ensembles-x-3/

Solitary Trio - disquiet0431 (collaboration w/  htnc & ryan scott mattingly) -

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.

Solitary Ensembles x 3 - disquiet0431

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