the way that beat emerges out of the weird bubbling sounds is brilliant. bravo!!

More on this 478th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Collage of Collages (The Assignment: Make a collage that will become part of a larger collage.) — at:

https://disquiet.com/0478/

The project is a collaboration with the radio show Kopfkino, initiated by Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka. More on Kopfkino at:

https://cba.fro.at/series/kopfkino

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-0478-collage-of-collages/

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

Image associated with this project is by the late Jeffrey Melton (a very early Junto participant), and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/4zoz46

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

Disquiet Junto Project 0478: Collage of Collages

Rüfüs Du Sol - Solomun - Pink Floyd - Depeche Mode - Moby • AMNESIA (Vasho Mix)

interlude: broken piano with orchestral waves

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/

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0520-on-the-clock/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

chalk floc

halF clocK [disquiet0520]

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/

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

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/

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

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/

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

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

From the sounds recently recorded on Mars (!) by the rover "Perseverance", I've mangled and manipulated them - cut them op, spectralized them and then added a simple collage on top, inspired by the Mars ambience. The purpose of this, is to try to make something, that others could cut up and maybe use for something else!

This is a response to the weekly "Diquiet Junto" challenge.

More on this 478th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Collage of Collages (The Assignment: Make a collage that will become part of a larger collage.) — at:

https://disquiet.com/0478/

The project is a collaboration with the radio show Kopfkino, initiated by Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka. More on Kopfkino at:

https://cba.fro.at/series/kopfkino

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

#disquiet0478

disquiet0478 - mars'n'kopf

©2021 JD Torian / Alpha Juno Records 

More on this 478th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Collage of Collages (The Assignment: Make a collage that will become part of a larger collage.) — at:

https://disquiet.com/0478/

The project is a collaboration with the radio show Kopfkino, initiated by Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka. More on Kopfkino at:

https://cba.fro.at/series/kopfkino

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0478-collage-of-collages/

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

Co - Lo disquiet0478

Tanpura
Santoor
Electric Bass
Synthesizers
Orchestral  Samples
Drum Programming


For this challenge:
Create a “musical collage,” however you might define it, likely using the equivalent of cut and paste. 

this is what I did:
1- Took and old track provided by my friends at Ethnic Fusion Sound (an Indian Raga with classical instrumentation and voice) kept the Tanpura and Santoor.
2- Took some tracks from and old song of mine, (titled Psyche, unreleased), kept electric bass and drum beats with synthesizers (here hardware old school: Emu Proteus, Emu Vintage Keys and a Korg T3, this was before software vst synths!)
3-Added some orchestral samples from my own collection of CD and vinyl (some usual suspects: Beethoven and Sibelius and a bit of Bach)

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More on this 478th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Collage of Collages (The Assignment: Make a collage that will become part of a larger collage.) – at:

https://disquiet.com/0478/

Margarethe has offered to produce an online segment in collaboration with the Disquiet Junto. The theme of the Kopfkino episode will be “collage.” The episode will itself be a collage of tracks produced in this week’s Junto project.

More on Kopfkino at: https://cba.fro.at/series/kopfkino

Psyche Collage (disquiet0478)

flagella hoc

halF collagE [disquiet0478]

This track is part of the Disquiet Junto 478. The assignment was to make a collage that will become part of a larger collage.

I chose 8 random audio files from my iPad Audioshare library and assembled them rhythmically in Ableton Live (shout out to Follow Actions!)

The files include my track from the Disquiet Junto 325 (Fake Book),  experimentation with the Mendeltone and Patterning iPad apps, a recording of a Make Noise O Coast and field recordings from Jordan Lake, NC, Joyce Kilmer Forest, NC, Moral March 2017, Raleigh NC, and my stepson and father-in-law singing Aphex Twin and Mary Robbins respectively in a car somewhere in Texas.

More on this 478th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Collage of Collages (The Assignment: Make a collage that will become part of a larger collage.) – at:

https://disquiet.com/0478/

The project is a collaboration with the radio show Kopfkino, initiated by Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka. More on Kopfkino at:

https://cba.fro.at/series/kopfkino

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0478-collage-of-collages/

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

Image associated with this project is by the late Jeffrey Melton (a very early Junto participant), and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/4zoz46

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

Collage For Collage (disquiet0478)

Old cassette recordings of guitar, glockenspiel, and viola sliced and diced by the awesome Shortcircuit plugin. Instruments performed by Simon Neufeld and Judith Klassen. Computer programmed by Simon.

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More on this 478th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Collage of Collages (The Assignment: Make a collage that will become part of a larger collage.) – at:
https://disquiet.com/0478/

The project is a collaboration with the radio show Kopfkino, initiated by Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka. More on Kopfkino at:
https://cba.fro.at/series/kopfkino 

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

Tape Collage by The Land [disquiet0478]

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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