A little slice and dice with a whole lot of echo - echo - echo. My goal was to maintain the integrity of each original track while adding a bit of myself to the mix.

More on this 161st Disquiet Junto project — “Create a new track from three tracks from three different netlabels” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/01/29/disquiet0161-netmixrelabel/

This track includes material from the songs “Dog Kiss” by Chtin Mara off the album Animus Animal Anima (Enough Records), “Qif Kiff” by Ayato & Natalia Kamia off the album Cluster (eg0cide Records), and “Espasmo” by Lingering Last Drops (Bump Foot). More on Enough at enoughrecords.scene.org. More on eg0cide at eg0cide.com. More on Bump Foot at bumpfoot.net. All work used courtesy of a Creative Commons license allowing for derivative use.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

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Killer Spasms - disquiet0161-netmixrelabel

**Production Notes**

1. Recorded myself spelling my name (H6). 
2. Extracted the melody of this recording via Ableton. 
3. Doubled it with an 303’is thingie (ABL). 
4. Added some drums and fine-tuned them. 
5. Somewhat frustrated about the harmonic content, I fiddled around with some chords which would fit - that took me half an hour. 
6. Doubled the 303 with some string sound (Reaktor Subharmonic)
7. After that, it was just laying out the music as prescribed. 
8. Mixed and mastered in Ableton Live.

The more often I heard my name the crazier I got. 

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**Disquiet Junto Project 0186: My Name**


Explore the sonic contours of a word you’ve spelled out loud frequently: your name.

These are the steps in this week’s project, which is a micro-exploration of the techniques employed by the composer Scott Johnson. It’s also about various spectra of repetition.

Step 1: Record the sound of you spelling your own name. Best to do just one word, either your first name or last name — whichever you’ve been more likely to enunciate clearly over the years.

Step 2: Slow the recording just a bit, to maybe 75% of the original speed. Adjust to your own taste, but don’t slow it too much: Your name should still be “audibly legible.”

Step 3: Listen very closely to the segment. Note the melodic shape, the rhythm, the inherent grace moments, other granular aspects specific to how you say your name.

Step 4: Record a short piece of music that emulates those shapes, that rhythm, those grace moments, and so forth.

Step 5: Set a loop of the newly composed piece of music over a loop of you repeating your name. Repeat for between 30 seconds and a minute.

Step 6: Go back and tweak the composed music over the length of the work.

Step 7: Set it so that the volume of you saying your name decreases, so that by the end of the length of the piece your name is no longer audible, with just the music remaining.

Step 8: Upload your completed track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 9: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This assignment was made in the late afternoon, California time, on Thursday, July 23, 2015, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, July 27, 2015.

Length: The length of your finished work is up to you, but a length between one and two minutes is recommended.

Upload: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, only upload one track for this assignment, and include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

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More on this 186th Disquiet Junto project (“Explore the sonic contours of a word you’ve spelled out loud frequently: your name”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/07/23/disquiet0186-myname/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

Image associated with this post by Yersinia Pestis and used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/68iWut

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Sketchy

Sketchy Boys In The Back Of The Bus

Bandcamp

Sketchy Boys In The Back Of the Bus

Had a few hours today so I deconstructed an improvisation from last week using Ambient V_03, the great SoundParticles and Ableton. The improvisation on a paper towel prepared upright piano, was recorded with a Sony walkman, at the music conservatory where I teach. Added an old (sorry should have made a new one) recording of a bonfire....

Deconstructed Piano Improvisation and Fieldrecordings Etude

Easy

Drone prepared in G with DPO wave folded with VCM. Played melodica in G-minor and used PTG as an envelope follower. Never touched the patch once it was set up and all changes derived from pitch and volume of melodica playing.

Breathfolding For Melodica

These are rehashes of a few collaboration tracks. Styles of different music are represented.

Alterno Groove 2

Poem

PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone (Bonus Track)

Scratch (vocal Fx Mix)

Big Takeover (1)

Written by Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice 1971

06 Fireball (Deep Purple Cover) (StiffaFish)

Apocalyptic Trash Rock. 

Disquiet tracks are a weekly assignment with specific restrictions.    disquiet.com/junto

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