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/

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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 Graeme Ellis:

https://flic.kr/p/G74biR

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Disquiet Junto Project 0390: Pace Quickens

Bits of Disquiet

180 steps-per-minute Run Pacer - the total number of impacts you make with the ground in one minute — that is, count both feet. (Some people call this your cadence and measure the number of times a single foot impacts the ground, so you might hear some people refer to this as a “cadence of 90.”  Same thing.) Use the sound as guide to each steps...Run safe and have fun!

Minute 180bpm Run Pacer

Written and Produced by Alix Depauw & Gove Kidao.

SGNLTD 004, Side - A.

Alix Perez & Sabre - Solitary Native

Just 29 minutes of Navy Seal cadence laid over 150bpm track for pace. I just use it for running workouts.

Navy Cadence Run 29min - 150bpm Pace

I Will Run for you 180BPM (Running music)

Beats are time-wrapped/stretched so as to beat on the metronome clicks exactly! (With Audacity and Ableton Live). In the summer I will upload more playlists!!! Some pieces are on 120bpm exactly. This makes little difference since instead of having the strong beat on the "right" foot all the times it goes once on the right and once on the left foot (like music triplets).

Running at 180 bpm with Metronome clicks - April 2015

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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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/

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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

In November 2017, this dance club in Copenhagen was having a "10 BPM Dance Party" and requested submissions of dance songs with that tempo. So I cooked up this little number:

https://soundcloud.com/north_woods/10bpm

that was fun! Injudicious quantities of echo and reverb. 

so for this week's piece I sped it up 10X and added some little stabs created from outtakes from the original (also sped up). 

Listening, hmmm it seems I have inadvertently ripped off "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey! And there goes the last of my punk rock street cred, ladies and gentlemen! hahahaha


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/ 1

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0390-pace-quickens/ 1

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

disquiet0390 101bpm

After finding the whole lot of masters from my 2010 Tennessee Williams score (38 minutes were used but I had almost 3hs worth material) I’ve been on a rush reworking, recycling an remixing some tracks.
Last week project has been the most inspiring and collateral-work-firing challenge ever.
This is a track I remixed yesterday, added some little guitar and speeded up. Instrumentation is quite simple

-Bowed upright basses, filtered, playing the basic riff with rhythmic delays and some weird long notes and Fx.
-Field recordings (insects, frogs and other swamp/jungle noises from the Bayou)
-Electric guitars (both strummed chords and some feedback noise) 
-Cuica

Created for:
Disquiet Junto Project 0390: Pace Quickens
The Assignment: Take an old song (or field recording), and make it faster, and add then something. 
More info:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0390-pace-quickens

The Heartbeat Of The Jungle (Page 12) disquiet0390

guitar track from 2010 sped up 400% in audacity
duplicate layer upped 5 semitones with more echo and delay
worked surprsingly well given that i didnt listen to the original piece beforehand. that frenetic quality reminds me a bit of squarepusher
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https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0390-pace-quickens/
Disquiet Junto Project 0390: Pace Quickens
The Assignment: Take an old song (or field recording), and make it faster, and add then something.

Step 1: For this project you’ll be reworking either a field recording or an old piece of your own music. The slower the better, as far as the original recording is concerned. Reading through these instructions first may aid in your selection process.

Step 2: Choose a field recording or and old piece of music of your own. (Define “old” as you like. “Preexistence” is the main factor.)

Step 3: Speed it up considerably (at least by a third, maybe by more).

Step 4: Add one or two new elements that proceed at the piece’s new pace.

the stars (are still there) tomorrow's past mix (disquiet0390)

My first effort at a Disquiet Junto assignment.  Read about the assignment (0390: Pace Quickens) here:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0390-pace-quickens/

The Source Song:
In November 2018, I had just moved my [upright] piano to a new location in the house (which also involved reinforcing the floor structure under the new location). I improvised a slow (no metronome, but about 45-50 BPM) piece and recorded it with my DR-05 from the soundboard side. I posted it to Soundcloud as a sketch/work-in-progress:
https://soundcloud.com/oakbloodthree/black-saturday-piano-sketch

The Treatment:
I sped it up exactly 1/3 as suggested in the assignment, using just a resample. This brought the pitch up by a perfect fourth. Since the original recording was fairly organic, I added two synthetic elements: A slow bass synth and an arpeggiated synth that sometimes synchs up with the shaky time of the original recording.

Update: I created an Apollo 11 - themed video for this: https://youtu.be/vPYMFai9_FA

disquiet0390 - Still Black; Still Friday; Still Slow

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/

disquiet0390 - run with It

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