MELODIC TECHNO MIX • AMNESIA (Vasho Mix)

interlude: broken piano with orchestral waves

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I've create a "live eurorack case", that hasn't seen much action lately. So - I decided to see if I could take it for a spin, create something and then "dress it up" in the daw. This is the result.

Pianos, drums, some strings and samples added - a lot of processing etc. (Waaaaay too much processing...)

While I know I need to exercise this case more - with this prompt, I finally got started ;)

More on this 520th weekly Disquiet Junto project – On the Clock (The Assignment: Get that thing done before the end of the year) – at: https://disquiet.com/0520/

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disquiet0520 - them on ice

This is a short re-tracing of the "disquiet junto's" of 2021. 

Last year, I tried sequencing really small snippets of renderings of former "juntos". This year, to try something different, I found one for each month of 2021, dived into the "daw" sourcecode, and tried to pick up some of what I still thought as interesting parts and just sequence them. It might not "stand alone" as a coherent piece - but, if nothing else, it gives me a quick nostalgic sum-up of some of the nice evenings I've had with the "disquiet junto"...

More on this 522nd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Just Backdated (The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments) – at: https://disquiet.com/0522/

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disquiet0522 - back thru 21

Every year, the "Disquiet Junto"  poses the same project, ever since the very first Junto project, back in January 2012: "Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it"

Here, I've recorded 3 icecubes tumbling down in a drinking glass - and then spent a couple of hours mangling, stretching, reverbing, reversing, delaying, eq'ing, deleting, restarting, re-recording, giving-up'ing, and then still posting...

...it's a great, but difficult, challenge to make something. This is, as is probably the easiest, an "ethereal" version of my experiments. 


More on this 523rd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Chill Communication (The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it) – at: https://disquiet.com/0523/ 

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

disquiet0523 - chilllllllls

Inspired by this weeks Disquiet Junto prompt, I constructed this piece of music as a vehicle for a very, very simple hidden message - using a combination of the “German Method”, morse, cutting up with ciphers and, finally, the 70’ies “Reverse Backtrack” message.

(See more about these Steganographic methods in the excellent talk about hidden messages in music by Scott Fradkin in this talk https://youtu.be/gLXqZVHrFa4 )

The message itself is thus encoded in the notes being played, in the beat as morse-code (BD = short, SD=long) as well as in actual my own voice, obscured and reversed. Notes are cut up using Sound Toys Tremolator - and (most of) the instruments are using presets (sorry!), where the name contains letters from the message. On the reversed voices, a Sound Toys Crystallizer preset called “BackTrack Delay” is used to complete the confusion.

And the message? Well, inspired by Schumann encoding his own name as SCHA -  “Es” (E-flat), C, H (B-natural) and A - leaving out characters for which there are no notes),  my message is both an encoding of my own last name as well as a concept that is creeping up on me with worrying haste… “a g e”.

More on this 546th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Code Notes (The Assignment: Make music that includes a secret message) — at: https://disquiet.com/0546/

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disquiet0546 - age

This piece is a response to the 550’th prompt from Disquiet Junto  - this time a collaboration between Tobias Reber from Musikfestival Bern.

I’ve taken four images, displaying the randomness in nature - boards from a deck, a flower, the sky and 3 pigeons on a roof, and enhanced, extracted and encoded random figures from it. (See the accompanying image). 

The resulting sequences of numbers are used either as rhythmical or pitch “notes” - and everything is scaled around A Super-Locrian scale.  Four tracks are thus constructed (theme, bass, pads and bd) around these encodings.

I’ve added small fx and extra “pulsing rhythms” for interest.

More on this 550th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Abrupt Probability (The Assignment: Make music based on a chance graphic score) – at: https://disquiet.com/0550/

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/

https://www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern

https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

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

disquiet0550 - n8ure

HOUSE MIXTAPE #1 (Ibiza inspired house tracks)

¡HARTY! HOUSE Mixtape #1

all these years

when its dark enough

As a response to this weeks challenge, I used samples from an interview from McLuhan, citing his father (who keyed famous phrases like "the medium is the message/massage" and "global village"). 

I've tried to create something that ended up reminding me of a (hopefully) updated version of the 80'ies Hardcastle song "19" (which I, at the time, soon grew to loathe due to too frequent visits to the local disco, who just WOULD NOT STOP PLAYING IT....).

Anyways; It is more uptempo beat than my previous Disquiet responses - made to keep practicing that particular "muscle"!

It was created in Ableton with various Sinevibes, Native and Eventide plugins - as well as a few of my own samples and performances thrown in.
More on this 382nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Understanding McLuhan / The Assignment: Remix samples of an interview with Eric McLuhan on his father and media theory — at:

https://disquiet.com/0382/ 3

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disquiet0382 - drowning In information

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