Lovely composition and title – like it very much.

Disquiet Junto Project 0663: Drive Way
The Assignment: Record a piece of music that complements the hum and whir of a hard drive.

This week’s project was proposed by novelist Robin Sloan (Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Sourdough, Moonbound) in response to a post I made on social media about the annoying sound of an HDD drive I accidentally purchased. I had mistakenly thought it was an SSD drive. We previously did a project inspired by Sloan’s work almost exactly 7 years ago, at the end of August 2017 (more details at disquiet.com/0296).

Step 1: Either record the sound of an HDD drive or use a field recording available online, such as this one from Freesound:

https://freesound.org/people/eardeer/sounds/401271

Step 2: Consider how that drive sound, even when quiet, could be irritating if heard while one is listening to music.

Step 3: Per Sloan’s proposal, “record music to harmonize with, or play against, the whirr.” (It’s up to you if you want to include the sound of the drive along with your music.)

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Deadline: Monday, September 16, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

More on the 663rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Drive Way — The Assignment: Record a piece of music that complements the hum and whir of a hard drive — at https://disquiet.com/0663/

The image associated with this project is licensed thanks to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported. It was taken by Evan Amos — whom Popular Science has reportedly referred to as “gaming’s most famous photographer” — as a part of Vanamo Media.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Laptop-hard-drive-exposed.jpg

Disquiet Junto Project 0663: Drive Way

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acoustic bass and hard drive hum
hard drive sound courtesy of eardeer on freesound
https://freesound.org/people/eardeer/sounds/401271

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More on the 663rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Drive Way — The Assignment: Record a piece of music that complements the hum and whir of a hard drive — at https://disquiet.com/0663/

disquietjunto

disquiet0663_drivedriftingaway

I mixed a number of hard drive recordings and combined the result with a drone sequence created in Pure Data.

More on the 663rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Drive Way — The Assignment: Record a piece of music that complements the hum and whir of a hard drive — at https://disquiet.com/0663/

The image associated with this project is licensed thanks to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported. It was taken by Evan Amos — whom Popular Science has reportedly referred to as “gaming’s most famous photographer” — as a part of Vanamo Media.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Laptop-hard-drive-exposed.jpg

Drive Drone (disquiet0663)

Holly Myers — disquiet0663

Disquiet Junto Project 0663: Drive Way

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0663-drive-way/68624/1

Step 1: Either record the sound of an HDD drive or use a field recording available online.
Step 2: Consider how that drive sound, even when quiet, could be irritating if heard while one is listening to music.
Step 3: Per Sloan’s proposal, “record music to harmonise with, or play against, the whirr.” (It’s up to you if you want to include the sound of the drive along with your music.)

I wanted to add a futuristic element to this suggestion. The ambient drone is paired with distorted plucked synths, while evolving bass growls blend with the futuristic rumble of a cyberpunk car. I wanted to evoke the dystopian feeling of driving through abandoned, overdeveloped landscapes. The eerie atmosphere is intensified by dissonant, off-key sounds, with sharp, jarring moments created by the clashing harmonics of the lead synths. This track is designed to engage the listener’s imagination of this scenario while also provoking discomfort through sonic shocks. I hope you appreciate this piece by not enjoying it! 

*I used and AI image generator to create the cover art; suggestions described the  cyberpunk dystopia I wanted to present to the listener*

MAX DURHAM - CYBER-DRIVE (disquiet0663)

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August 2025 Currently on residency in Italy ! 
These are 3 short sketches using field recordings captured around Montegiovi, Tuscany. With these little works I am experimenting freely with what can be produced from each days sounds -  manipulating them and stiching them back together with the aim of producing a long format work at the end of the residency. 
I am truly thankful for this opportunity that has been provided for me by the Salamanca Arts Centre in Tasmania and Cultivate Projects/La Baldi residency in Italy and The USA. 
And of course the wonderful people of Montegiovi ! 

Tuscany Experiments 1 - 3

Maybe Shes Crazy After All

Deep in the jungle: moog--->soprano sax--->flute 

SELVATICO

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Unity /+/ When The Crowd Becomes A Single Body
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music written, arranged, performed, mixed, produced and provided
by mobygratis.com // the song 'Morning Span' licensed

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lyrics written and narration provided by fictionalive

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artwork illustration by Peter Uertz, Düsseldorf / Germany

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fusion of it all - 
fictionalive  with the popoems series and the hyper media reports

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dropped
Thursday, August 21, 2025
Time - 11:55 pm

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Unity /+/ When The Crowd Becomes A Single Body

Part of: Dark Bouquet. Variations on a theme. soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/dark-bouquet
All material - cut, altered, mixed at will - comes from a nocturnal solo improvisation with fretless acoustic bass guitar with piezo pickup, effect pedals (Carcosa - Dark Star - Obscura), non synchronized loops, three amps. Recorded in the room with Zoom H2n, edited in Audacity. All sounds made with the instrument. All sounds, mixing and production: Velvet Something Superdark.

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Dark Flower Overdose

Mac ,music , lyrics , vocals 
Scotty , lyrics , vocals
Shane , lyrics vocals

Hello and welcome back once again 
I used to be harmful now I’m just Shane 
I know what your thinking, terrible name 
Bang on the level with a Wayne or Dwayne again
I’m waffling , selling it as steak when I’ve snuck a lot of offal in
I’m throttling it up but still i’m filling it with fluff
Like some new cool teddy bear or tragic old school muff
It’s enough to grind your gears 
Always banging on in song about my probalems and my fears
It’s been the same for years
Fames the aim then tears
Till maccy b and Scotty clipped me hard behind the ears
They said “mate it’s like this int it””
“Even if the prize is piss it’d still be nice to win it “
“We know that you’ll jump ship but help us to begin it
Fuck it that’s enough thats gotta be a 
minute

It was just an idea a short while ago
Bouncing sounds of these two blokes I know
We may be scallies ,not fit for glue
Bringing our falsetto highs to you

Well, it's the one man verity show,
some of you know me better as Scotty.
And, I make sloppy
hasty home recordings every time that life has got me
feelin' fuckered up, and I assure you that's a lot. See,
by nature, I am naughty, and sometimes there's no dodging
a frenzied floozie that wants to field my caber tossing.
But, no, that is not me. Not anymore.
I'd rather be alone on the beach or front porch
or behind closed doors. Shut them out and ignore.
Plug in and play, fuck around and explore
to the sounds that my mates send me weekly, or more.
I live for this shit, even if the pay is poor.
So, mates, gimme more. For this group, I'm a such a whore.
And soon, with more tunes, we'll be in the i-store
collecting cyber dust as I trust we'll be deplored
by the superficial cunts who love the shit that makes me snore.
Zzzzzz

I love peace but I’m an architect of noise
In this musical sandwich with these two boys
Lincolnshire loafers, Canadian filling
Bodies broke but our minds are still willing
Could be here one minute the next we’re gone
So far so good , three heads better than one
So cheers for listening
You know that I’m ending this shit because it’s checkout time
Goodbye

Hot Scotty sandwich

Wintertime (Remix)

Once again, Hakan offered sounds and I had morphing tools at hand and a poem fermenting in gestation
all sounds by well: https://soundcloud.com/user-370942421-686440500/the-ox-2020-01-01-0244-unmastered
image*, poem, morphing and arrangement: copyright jo richter

she believes in the beauty
of pebbles and in the logic
of living sustainably -
amulet wheel, amnesic

as seasons and perfumes drift by -
a bearer of shields and magic,
her carpet is worn - she will die
an unapologetic aesthetic

* based on an image of a detail of the Gundestrup cauldron on wikipedia: By Claude Valette - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20700841

the lyre and the wheel

the lyre and the wheel -with well

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Coda Eternis

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.

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