20210906 Clarinet Loop

This is a track from Surfacing, the debut album by A Marble Calm, a loose semi-ambient improvising collective I formed with vibraphone / marimba player Jon Hart.

This track, built out of a very sparse piano loop with added texture, is the final track on the album. I think it's the composition I've written that I'm most happy with.

A Marble Calm - Submerging

I sat down at my computer shorty after 9pm UK time. I was thinking of making some music but wasn't sure what to work on... I have a few things I am working on but nothing lept out at me and demanded my attention. An email pops up... Disquiet Junto 0476. 
It's been ages since I took part and this seemed perfect... 
I went with the flow with this one... I went with some foggy sounding synth and pulled out an old field recording from the A11 dual carrageway by the Norfolk / Suffolk border. I let the field recording play and just improvised some synth at once over the top. I recorded that in 1 take and then went to the arrangement. 
I added a drum rack - an effect on the whole thing... making a nice dubby slow rhythm. It picks up a level or two and I added some other elements of synth and ambience. It was quick and simple to make. This was a good fun experiement to do.  

This weeks instructions are as follows;

Disquiet Junto Project 0476: IAH Forecast

The Assignment: Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it.

Step 1: This is the cover of your next single:
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Step 2: Now record your single.

Note: The photo was shot in Houston, Texas, by Robert Boyd and is used with his permission.

Seven More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0476” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your tracks.

Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0476” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation of a project playlist.

Step 3: Upload your tracks. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your tracks.

Step 4: Post your tracks in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0476-iah-forecast/

Step 5: Annotate your tracks with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: If posting on social media, please consider using the hashtag #disquietjunto so fellow participants are more likely to locate your communication.

Step 7: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Forecast [disquiet0476]

all-profaning (disquiet0476)

Grey View (disquiet0476)

This week's prompt was based off of a photo of Houston (which is the image I've used for my track) and we were told this image was the cover art for our new track--so write a track for it. I liked the dark haziness of the photo, but there's also plenty of cars and traffic that we're looking down on.

This week's track represents some firsts for me in the Junto. First, it is composed of three tracks, one of those tracks was recorded in stereo, and I used some plugins. The first track is an airy chord whose timbre is being modulated (Ensemble into LRMSMSLR, with M into QPAS and S into Mimeophon)with all modulation controlled by 16n. I recorded this track in stereo (placed center) and ran it through Valhalla Supermassive into Wavesfactory Cassette. The second track (panned to the right) is Tetrax into Bastl Thyme, which is run into Valhalla Shimmer into Wavesfactory Cassette. The third track is STO into LXd with a pattern from Control Forge run into LXd's strike. This went through Panharmonium and was processed with a touch of Valhalla FreqEcho.

Houston Haze (disquiet0476)

This week's junto was to make a track inspired by the image - so I put the image on screen while I worked at the modular, and this sort of spy-drama come Berlin school thing appeared.

More on this 476th weekly Disquiet Junto project — IAH Forecast (The Assignment: Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it.) — at:

https://disquiet.com/0476/

The image that is the source of this project is by Robert Boyd (www.thegreatgodpanisdead.com) and has been used with his permission.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0476-iah-forecast/

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

HiRise(Disquiet0476)

**Production Notes**

I live in the city center, and I hate street noise. Wherever I go, I use earbuds to listen to something, be it a podcast, an audio book, or music. I try to separate myself from the noise, but this Disquiet Junto reminded me to do otherwise. 

The image for this week’s Junto is amazing. The melancholy sucked me right in: the mist, the noise, the small rooms, the parking lot, that all made total sense. 

So the "Music for Distant Airports" approach seemed right.

I chose a field recording of a highway and let it play throughout the whole piece with some volume changes. The rest was made with Norns, Moog Matriarch, and the Arturia Easel plugin. 

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**Disquiet Junto Project 0476: IAH Forecast**

The Assignment: Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it.

Step 1: This is the cover of your next single:

Step 2: Now record your single.

Note: The photo was shot in Houston, Texas, by Robert Boyd and is used with his permission.

Seven More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0476” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your tracks.

Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0476” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation of a project playlist.

Step 3: Upload your tracks. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your tracks.

Step 4: Post your tracks in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0476-iah-forecast/

Step 5: Annotate your tracks with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: If posting on social media, please consider using the hashtag #disquietjunto so fellow participants are more likely to locate your communication.

Step 7: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Additional Details:

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, February 15, 2021, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, February 11, 2021.

Length: The length is up to you. However you picture it.

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More on this 476th weekly Disquiet Junto project — IAH Forecast (The Assignment: Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it.) — at:

https://disquiet.com/0476/

The image that is the source of this project is by Robert Boyd (www.thegreatgodpanisdead.com) and has been used with his permission.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0476-iah-forecast/

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

Soap Bubbles [disquiet0476]

Peter Chilvers is a musician and software designer. Best known for creating the iPhone applications Bloom and Trope with Brian Eno, he has also toured with Karl Hyde (Underworld) and recorded a number of albums Tim Bowness.

A Marble Calm - Submerging

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