More on this 375th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Despite Yourself / The Assignment: Make a piece of music that sounds as unlike you as you can accomplish — at:

https://disquiet.com/0375/

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

Image associated with this project adapted (cropped, colors changed, text added, cut’n’paste) thanks to a Creative Commons license from a photo credited to Heather:

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Disquiet Junto Project 0375: Despite Yourself

Bits of Disquiet

released 07.03.2019

double trumpet + free samples

verschillend (disquiet0375)

optiblam disquiet0375

Two probability based melodic sequences and one probability based rhythm created using the probability generators in the Ableton Probability pack from Sonic Faction. Plus addition modulation of parameters using Max4Live LFO and some additional drums from Native Instruments Maschine.

Image is a warped promo photo of yours truely.

More on this 375th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Despite Yourself / The Assignment: Make a piece of music that sounds as unlike you as you can accomplish — at:

https://disquiet.com/0375/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0375-despite-yourself/

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

I'm Not Really Here (disquiet0375)

i was gonna do an acoustic insane clown posse cover but that would just represent a shadow-self, thought about something i'd be indifferent to (but its still my choice) went with doing something that i'd find impossible to do (but i did do it.. oh no!)

i used performance rnn (https://magenta.tensorflow.org/demos/performance_rnn/index.html) at the highest note density, converted to midi controlling 3 drumkits in live8.

this is far more frenetic than i'd usually do. i actually used some music theory to ensure it wasnt a cacophony (i prefer gentle cacophony) and i'd usually never have a beat - let alone 3 at once so high in the mix. i didnt add any fx or remove clicks or do any mastering which was hard. i do work a lot with ai stuff but i'd usually rehumanize it a bit more (oh except i did gradually up the note density and reduce the pitches at the end)

i'd be interested if anyone thinks this track sounds like me

Blurred Jag - disquiet0375

Grabbing the first 12 sounds available in the first 12 categories of the first instrument (Analog) in my DAW (Ableton) - a process I would NEVER do, and use this to create something I enjoy, but is very unlike what I would normally do. 

This is the result of this, difficult, assignment on the Disquiet Junto.

The Assignment: Make a piece of music that sounds as unlike you as you can accomplish.

More on this 375th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Despite Yourself 
at http://www.disquiet.com/0375/

disquiet0375 - despite myself oscillating at johns bar & grill

Found floating amongst the stars, initially though to be an alien satellite, a yalpian blackstone organ was found in 1972 by Major Tom & Eva. 

After several years of experiments, Professor Spleet Von Gingle finally succeeded in taping a few minutes of it's song, after which (she claims) it broke completely. 

Rumour has it, though, that pieces and parts as well as some of the oscillating blackstones has been seen on stage or in the studios of some of the biggest bands throughout the '70'ies and '80'ies.

More on this 385th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Audubonus Instrumentum / The Assignment: Imagine a fake instrument, and make music with it — at:

https://disquiet.com/0385/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

disquiet0385 - etude for yalpian fields

This is part of the "disquiet junto" challenges (see more below).
For this months challenge,  choose 3 random instruments, I decided to do a quick “in the box” experiment. Amongst my, admittedly, too many plugins, I let google cast the dice. What I hadn’t foreseen was, of course, that my plugins are a mix of instruments and mixing/mastering tools… so I was given with the following three numbers: 15, 53 and 51 - giving me the following three plugins:

15 - Arturia Piano V2
53 - iZotope Stutter Edit
51 - iZotope Ozone 7 Vintage Tape

The title is an anagram of "more random" - but feels somehow relevant to the result...

More on this 388th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Random Less / The Assignment: Make a single piece of music with very few tools, all selected at random — at:

https://disquiet.com/0388/

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https://disquiet.com/junto/

disquiet0388 - mr marooned

This was an old experiment with some minimal house - where I, in response to this weeks Disquiet Junto challenge, took a serious dive in tempo compared to the original, shaved off a lot of stuff, put in a few experimental bleeps - which gave everything a very dubby feeling, I think. The original (called "Old House"), is maybe 10 years old...

Hope you like and find a nice summer spot to enjoy!

More on this 389th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Long Then / The Assignment: Take an old song, and make it (much) slower, and add something — at:

https://disquiet.com/0389/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

disquiet0389 - since then (old house)

This track is based on an old industrial loop I made a while ago - but sped up considerably in response to this weeks “Disquiet Junto” challenge. I’ve build a new arrangement around the track and even, just to try it out, speed up the piece by a total of 7bpm during the short run of the track. 

It’s primarily “in the box”, with a few field / modular samples thrown in. Big up to Output’s Exhale plugin in this one, by the way.

More on this 390th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Pace Quickens / The Assignment: Take an old song (or field recording), and make it faster, and add then something — at:

https://disquiet.com/0390/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

disquiet0390 - run with It

This is a response to the Disquiet Junto challenge "Front Page"; a small sentence is taken from a headline (CNN; France just had its hottest day ever recorded!) and mangled... 

I've created a "voice avatar" at LyreBird, and had that AI voice (that to me sounds like a digital ghost of myself) read a single line of the news bit. Then it has been mangled and a few extra sounds added. It's a short piece. But... an important subject.

More on this 391st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Front Page / The Assignment: Make music that fills in where the news trails off — at:

https://disquiet.com/0391/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

disquiet0375 - despite myself oscillating at johns bar & grill

PopGoblin