A sequence of enhanced multiple-channel recordings created with the aid of an elderly laptop which may well be retired in the not too distant future, but not yet. On the other hand, the sounds were made with various pieces of junk destined for the recycling bin.

More on this 510th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Cold Turkey (The Assignment: Record one last track with a piece of music equipment before passing it on) – at: https://disquiet.com/0510/ 1

Thanks to @atomboyd for having come up with the idea for this project.

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The image associated with this project is by Richard Hemmer, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

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Junk (disquiet0510)

This wouldn’t sound out of place as a chart run down backing track, that’s the idea anyway.  I wrote this on the iPad using Korg Gadget v2, im heavily influenced by 80s bands like New Order, Heaven 17, Howard Jones, OMD etc

Nasty Glass (Final Edit - 4m53s)

An original, but with a title borrowed from the old blues standard. And inspired by some classic blues imagery.

Weeping Willow Blues

"The voice may well be the key to the presence of the present and to an unalloyed interiority, but it conceals in its bosom that inaudible object voice which disrupts both. (...) This object embodies the very impossibility of attaining auto-affection; it introduces a scission, a rupture in the middle of the full presence, and refers it to a void—but a void which is not simply a lack, an empty space; it is a void in which the voice comes to resonate."

(Mladen Dolar, The Voice and Nothing More, MIT Press, 2006)


This is my contribution to Disquiet Junto project #0515: Talking Cure. This week, the prompt consisted in creating a piece of music that you imagine hearing in a therapist's waiting room.

More on this 515th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Talking Cure (The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room) — at: https://disquiet.com/0515/

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Disquiet Junto #0515 - Talking Care

Le sujet-supposé-savoir (disquiet0515)

Waves

naviarhaiku414 – grim wartime relics

grim wartime relics
– white lichen circles brighten
their crumbling concrete
Raymond Cobley is an experimental composer and regular participant in or Haiku challenge. Now retired, Raymond aims to explore the possibilities afforded by open-source software, which he uses exclusively for creating and editing both sounds & images. All his works are published ​under a Creative Commons licence, and free for anybody to download or remix.

Lichen circles brighten (naviarhaiku414)

Where the Waves Will Take Us

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

That thing I've been putting off? Creating a longer form piece with a sci-fi space vibe. I've created short spacey and sci-fi loops in the past but nothing of any length or with structure. This track features a chaotic middle section with some chill at the beginning and end. 

Made with a mix of modular synth (voices: Hexinverter Mindphaser* and E352 Cloud Terrarium) Korg opsix hardware synth, and Ableton Live instruments. Effects: Valhalla Supermassive, Desmodus Versio, and various Ableton audio effects. 

*Just before this Junto was announced, I had put the Mindphaser in my focus case to get to know it better. What a perfect opportunity to see what kind of sci-fi vibe it could make. It's responsible for much of the middle section.

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/

disquiet0520 - them on ice

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