Name: Keeping The Robot Busy disquiet0380 by pineyb
Duration: 3 min 15 s
Description: Random pitches and rhythm generated on the modular. Sounds are Karplus-Strong simulations of a string both hammered and plucked.

More on this 631st weekly Disquiet Junto project, In a Silent Waveform — The Assignment: Take one held tone and make it dance slowly — at: https://disquiet.com/0631/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0631-in-a-silent-waveform/

Disquiet0631 Toney Dancer

Recorded, mixed & mastered 07 Jun 2019, 27 Oct 2021 & 09-10 Feb 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

Process notes

09 Feb 2024
I have a 5-track Live template for my Bubble Memory project name, so I loaded a windy backyard recording of a kalimba & a glass from Oct 2021 into that. I split the backyard recording into the two tracks I have set aside for field recordings. Each has tons of processing loaded in already. The template includes kick and snare parts so I started by creating a minimal beat that might hopefully hold this thing together and added some lesser probability to those notes. 

I also have a Simpler track in the template so I loaded some of the backyard recording into that one too. I found the entire thing too constantly noisy and wrote some ideas to my notes about gating & adjusting some of the effects before shutting down for the night.

10 Feb 2024
Loading this back up, I first worked on adding some gates to a few of the tracks to thin out the noise bits. I added an iAbyssal recording I made in 2019 to the final track in the template. Added sparingly both an Arpeggiator to the Simpler track & a Note Repeat to the drum track. Then I worked a bit on other automations, including panning. This felt like it was done and I rendered both a mastered and unmastered mix for later use and for this Junto. It still felt like wind to me.

Instruments & stuff - Ableton Live 12 & native devices, K-Devices Shaper 2 & Secta, iZotope Ozone 9, kalimba, wind, iAbyssal, iPhone, iPad, tabletop, bottle

Artwork: From the LIRR, NY, USA, 27 Jan 2011, by Jim Lemanowicz

©2019, 2021, 2024 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “Brown Paper Lips” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0632: Shear Wind. The Assignment: Make the most of the disturbance within a field recording.

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

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Project discussion takes place on https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0632-shear-wind/

This track was originally released under the artist name "Bubble Memory."

Brown Paper Lips (disquiet0632)

More on the 638th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Center (3 of 3) — The Assignment: Complete a trio begun by two other musicians — at https://disquiet.com/0638/

Right (1 of 3) by @randomshuffle

Left (2 of 3) by @xhg

Brushed Off (feat. xhg and Marc Eisenschink) Disquiet0638

Samples of bubbles with filter processing and additional rhythm on the Serge modular. Choir and Ebow guiar.

Bubblicious X disquiet0642

Our prompt for Disquiet Junto #0642 was, loosely interpreted, to make something percussive from the sound of carbonation.

I broke out my stereo field recorder and sat down with a bottle of Sprite and a wine glass. I recorded various sounds from opening the bottle to pouring it, bubbles in crescendo and a bizarre but almost indiscernible tinkling sound of the soda in the wine glass from very close up.

I found the opening-the-bottle sample the most percussive, so I set to work on making it into a loop. It sounds a bit like Slender Fungus to me, but I like it. I added a few low-key layers for additional percussion, played a David J style bass part, and some very light electric piano to round things out.

Meanwhile, the script idea was percolating. I recalled how much fun I had with "Making Ice at Home May Seem Overwhelming" (https://soundcloud.com/coralineada/making-ice-at-home-may-seem-overwhelming-disquiet0627) and decided to do another absurd synthesized voiceover— this time, warning against the evils of soda pop.

Please enjoy "Diet Spite" with headphones that you know and trust.

Recorded at NOSIGNAL Multimedia Labs in The Shambles, Chicago USA.

More about Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0642

Disquiet Junto

Diet Spite (disquiet0642)

More on the 642nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Kick from Champagne — The Assignment: Use carbonation to make a beat — at https://disquiet.com/0642/

Disquiet0642pop

“Take the sound of the stone aging.”
Yoko Ono

Stones are the witnesses of: There are still deep connections to the archaic stories of our ancestors. We see the same skies, taste the same winds and tell the same stories about who we were and who we will become.

Stepping into the stones’s and sediments perspective: being exposed to the elements for ages and excavated, listening to the meandering tales of mankind.

More on the 643rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Stone Out of Focus — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a poem — at https://disquiet.com/0643/

This week’s project is based on a text by Yoko Ono, originally published in her book Grapefruit60 years ago, back in 1964.

tales from the archaic (disquiet0643)

Soundtrack for my possible birthday party one day...
(I stopped throwing birthday parties for myself decades ago)

This is a weird track, that started with a drum track (performed by Javier Estrella in Paris 20 years ago) for a project I was working that was scrapped and never used.
A couple of years later, when that project was confirmed dead, I removed all the other instruments and vocals and recorded a Hammond Organ and an upright bass part (again in Paris, different studio) just jamming around.
It had the charm of real instruments and real musicians playing but was really pointless.

Some years later I was recording my old upright piano in Buenos Aires and found this drums & bass jam on my hard drive and recorded a piano take on top of that, performed on that old piano.
Some years later I was travelling to Argentina again, bringing my laptop and microphones to make some recordings, and visiting family in Villa Gessel found my old requinto (one of the few instruments I left behind when moving away from Argentina) and decided to add a take to this "forever-ongoing-jam".
That master, never used, was mixed to be shared today May 2nd 2024.

For this challenge:
Disquiet Junto Project 0644: Event Horizon
The Assignment: Record music for a party of your choosing.

Step 1: Imagine a party you want to attend.

Step 2: Write some music that would be appropriate as background music for that event.

Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona

November Party Groove (disquiet0644)

Music for a house party where the houses do all of the partying. An homage to cheesy 1960s electronic novelty records. 

House Party disquiet0644

ticket to the subconscious

Disquiet Junto  Project 0644: Event Horizon 
The Assignment: Record music for a party of your choosing.

My subconscious celebrates a party, I am not invited to. 

Composition: patterns, textures and small melodic captures assemble around a dancing theme.
Gear: Fiel recordings, Bruel&Kjaer lock-in-filter and noise generator, Roland D-50 (theme), SLATE + ASH cycles, Lea Bertucci Acoustic Shadows

Enjoy!

More on the 644th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Event Horizon — The Assignment: Record music for a party of your choosing — at https://disquiet.com/0644/

ticket to the subconscious (disquiet0644)

Random pitches and rhythm generated on the modular. Sounds are Karplus-Strong simulations of a string both hammered and plucked.

Keeping The Robot Busy disquiet0380

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