This vibes player is a champ. Hangs in until the very end!

Really enjoying swinging vibraphone lurking right rear:-)

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Disquiet Junto Project 0242: Share Yer Knowledge

EXcursion9

This is an old demo i found while I was cleaning out some old project maps. At the time I wasn't too happy about it I guess, because I forgot all about it and it collected digital dust for a couple of years. Now I actually quite like it. So I'm uploading it for you guys to have a listen and tell me what you think. I'm going to work some more on this one, see where it takes me.

The Last Dance demo

https://youtu.be/yNl3KAMa6bo?si=cGLODvm3TOBkyelx

Last one in a series of short downtempo sketches that forms part of a set I'll be performing (in my living room to a tortoise called Leroy) on a SP404 - I'll put a continuous mix of the tracks on youtube with visuals at some stage soon, and meantime they're all there as shorts with degraded blue cartoon animations. This one is available to view here (like. subscribe, comment and all that):
https://youtube.com/shorts/gCAs8GKtqy4?feature=share

I have more of my style of house music coming soon, for those of you who like their music to be over 120bpm.

Aqua Soul

Please listen with headphones
Musique concrète August 2025

Ausflug 2

Twilight Mystery

ala65

Chapter 245 of 266

Enter the enigmatic world of "TAFFETA," a musical tapestry woven from the threads of dreams and tragedy. Born from a single night of profound dreaming, this ambitious project embarks on an exploration of the human psyche through the language of instrumental music.

This is a five-year project, comprising of what will eventually end at 266 chapters, each is a standalone piece of sonic artistry, "TAFFETA" unfolds like a novel, with each composition serving as a chapter in a larger narrative. Crafted with meticulous care and creative fervor, every piece is birthed within the span of a week, capturing the essence of inspiration in its purest form.

But "TAFFETA" is more than just a collection of songs; it's a journey of the soul. Set against the backdrop of loss and longing, the project follows the story of a woman who slips into a coma following the untimely death of her husband. Through the evocative power of music, listeners are transported into her world, where emotions ebb and flow like the tides of a restless sea.

Week by week, each chapter of "TAFFETA" unfolds on SoundCloud, inviting audiences to immerse themselves in its haunting beauty. From cinematic compositions to haunting electronic soundscapes, each piece adds a layer to the intricate tapestry of sound, weaving a narrative that transcends the boundaries of language.

As listeners embark on this sonic voyage, they are invited to ponder the mysteries of existence, to confront the depths of sorrow and the resilience of the human spirit. "TAFFETA" is not merely a musical project; it's an experience—a testament to the transformative power of music to touch hearts, stir souls, and awaken the imagination.

If you wish to take a dive into everything that has come before:
The TAFFETA Albums each contain 15 consecutive tracks and are available for free, exclusively on Bandcamp.

TAFFETA VOL. 16 will be available on 9/26, exclusively on Bandcamp. 

TAFFETA VOLUMES 1-15 are all available on Bandcamp
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The TAFFETA Playlist is always kept up to date:
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TAFFETA | 245

Noise Floor

Gain Stage

Movement 3

DnTape with Mood

Using a feedback delay you can add more color and variations by processing the feedback loop through an effect of choice. In this example I'm using a 5 second delay and a reverb to color the feedback loop. The first part lets you hear the dry loop and the second part with the wet feedback.

Unfortunately adding an effect to a feedback loop is not possible in any DAW. I use Bitwig and Reason for this purpose. In Reaper it should be possible too. Another option is using plugins like MXXX.

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The image associated with this project is by Susanna Bolle, and is used thanks to a Creative Commons license:
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Process The Feedback Loop [disquiet0242]

electronic
granulated, transverb'd, taldub3'd, mjucjr'd
k-blamo

Especial {disquiet0242}

See http://bassling.blogspot.com/2016/08/disquiet-junto-0242-share-yer-knowledge.html for track discussion and video.

More on this 242nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Make (and annotate) a track that provides an example of a trick/skill/tip you want to share about a piece of musical software or hardware” — at:

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Farewell [disquiet0242]

This track uses 2 tricks. 1) FEEDBACK is at the heart of everything electronic, oscillators and filters use it for instance, feedback in any process exaggerates the effects of that process and feedback is one of my favourite tricks, it gives you MORE but always suprises you. This is part of a piece i am working on using four “oscillators” which are feedback loops through delays. By cross-feeding and phase-shifting the feeding you can make anything from tuned harmonic drones to noise. I expect that this shares something with David Tudor’s work but this is all in software. (Max 7) They are difficult to control though and this is edited from a long recording when i was trying to write a song about Aleppo but couldn’t find the words. 2) In addition this piece is AMBISONIC to an extent. The oscillators are tapped at 4 different points (wxyz) to create a spatial image. Ambisonics is my other tip/trick/obsession, such an easy way to deal with 3d space and all the patents have expired so all the knowledge is mostly free and available - even for VR, just google it. Here using ATK plugins in Reaper to mix and Binaurally render the 4 channel recordings made in Max7 down to stereo. listen on headphones! and, off topic #0242 makes me think - who remembers Front 242? or the 242 Pilots for that matter?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ambisonic_Software

this track is dedicated to the people of Aleppo.


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Feed(Aleppo)[disquiet0242]

The stress off modern life can be a bitch so I often find a little bit of sonic mayhem is just the balm I need. First I must stress this point -that you MUST delete all prior tracks as you move along your path of destruction, do not hold onto anything no matter how much you like something that happened. You must commit fully to come out the other side. I do this mostly with drum tracks as they often have the hardest attack and shortest decays and kicks just rock. I put 2 drum loops in. The first one stays the same the 2nd I warp to 2/3 time and do some more warping to get it out of time. I then crossfade those tracks to a new track. This will still have a bit of rhythm to it and that will have to go. Take that track copy it another track and start a a different point. The crossfader will now start clipping those sounds,record that to a new track. Now record that track and using the mouse to change the tempo using big and little changes. That new track now must be unwarped in ableton so that the tempo changes stay. Now you can use the new track and do some transposing. Because it is not warped the transposing also changes the speed of everything. Each new track can be copied and crossfaded between using a different start point. Keep doing this process till you feel the stress leave your body. At no point do I add fx. Fx too early in the process kills the slicing effect of the crossfader. When you finally reach you last track then you copy and paste that to another track. Now add fx to it but record it with you scrolling through the presets at whatever rate feels right. Now crossfade that track with the track with no fx and record to one track. Copy that track once and add different drum master fx to each. Pan one a little left and the other right. Master the master to taste. You should not be attached to the final track. That is not the point. The point is where your head is at now.
More on this 242nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Make (and annotate) a track that provides an example of a trick/skill/tip you want to share about a piece of musical software or hardware” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0242/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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The image associated with this project is by Susanna Bolle, and is used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

http://flic.kr/p/8F9Jmz

How to Obliterate a Drum Track and Find Inner Peace (disquiet0242)

'sol lucet omnibus'
Track created for the Disquiet Junto Project. http://www.disquiet.com
0242 = Make (and annotate) a track that provides an example of a trick/skill/tip you want to share about a piece of musical software or hardware.

Background noises can really bring life in a digital world.
I often use them, sometimes imperceptibly… which is not the case in this track.
Here, there are nine different noises (samples from Sample Magic 'Analogue Noise') for the same piece played three times (voice loop : Marcel Duchamp talking about 'ready-made', synths : AudioRealism ABL2, AAS Chromaphone, KV331 SynthMaster).
Mixed in Logic Pro 9.

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Duchamp Background Noise [disquiet0242]

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.

Softs, synths & modules.
'On ne devrait jamais quitter Montauban' (Fernand Naudin).
Merci pour votre écoute / Thank's for listening.

Duchamp Background Noise [disquiet0242]

Petrus Major

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