Bits of Disquiet

Floating amongst space debris - this electronic combination of random EuroRack modular synth noise and Una Corda Piano is inspired by the task of creating a Copernican piece of music for future alien encounters...

More on this 373rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Copernican Music / The Assignment: Record a piece of music intended for an alien species — at:

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This week’s project was made as a proposition by the artist Jonathon Keats.

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disquiet0373 - eva with the major

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

A piece for Pi...

The main theme is made up of the first 30’ish digits of Pi - played by a virtual Buchla at 314bpm. The theme is doubled through different instances of more orchestral instruments with very different envelopes - and finally everything is sprinkled with a little effects and rythmical elements.

More on this 376th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Pi Filling / The Assignment: Celebrate Pi Day — at:
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disquiet0376 - pi 4 ip

An algorithmically composed melody, with pieces added and mingled and effects applied to create an alien (for me) and slightly curious atmosphere.
Also… I found a little funk in the auditory corners of todays challenge.
All produced in Ableton, with U-he compressors, Soundtoys effects and isotope quick mastering.

This piece is composed as a response to Disquiet Junto Project 0377: Algorithms Assemble

The Assignment: Have fun with rules applied to scales, in coordination with the Algorithmic Art Assembly.

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disquiet0377 - argorylio

A piece for computer, glitchy beats and bluetooth loudspeaker - moving out of range….

I hooked up a fairly ok bluetooth speaker (JBL CLIP2), and send a small beat + pads from Ableton out through this speaker, and wandered around my studio to find dead-spots, dragging along a microphone equipped phone (SM88). 

I tried to combine some of the “best” bad connections with the original material, adding “ethereals” from NI Reaktor and Eventide.

More on this 378th weekly Disquiet Junto project: Blue(tooth) Haze / 

The Assignment: Experiment with the sonic qualities of a failing signal — at:

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disquiet0378 - elec-trek

This piece is a response to the challenge posed this week in the "Disquiet Junto": Compose a piece for an audience of one.

This is for my dad. He died last January. 

He loved "Rocket Love" by Stevie Wonder (https://open.spotify.com/track/5bYjwooathsSjgVaMCpHEp?si=CFoVSN0jTByV2-m3GbIwdA), and often sang - a little out of tune - the "doo-doo-doo" theme in the start. This small piece is inspired by that fond memory. I miss him very much.

More on this 380th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Ears Only / The Assignment: Record a piece of music for an audience of one — at:

https://disquiet.com/0380/

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disquiet0380 - reminiscing rocket love

All source sound in this small (and experimental) piece is from "leftover" eurorack modules - conforming to the few kinds, that this weeks challenge from the Disquiet Junto, #381, allows. 

The sequence/sound has then been imported into ableton and MANGLED like crazy - and a few drums then added...

More on this 381st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Shared System / The Assignment: make music using a free software synth assembled by Scanner — at:

https://disquiet.com/0381/ 

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disquiet0381 - short con/fused

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:

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disquiet0382 - drowning In information

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/

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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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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/

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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:

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disquiet0391 - hottest day ever

Out there on the third cloud on the left, a small tribe of ethereal beings live beyond reach and sight of the population on the ground. They don’t adhere to narrow ideas of nations and anthems - and still, this Ode to the Odyssey (or song for travelling) is probably the closest they’ll get. 

The piece is made out of several taiko samples, Spitfire Orchestra samples, exhale and other voices - and I’ve tried to glue it a little together with a few iZotope plugins (Trash, Ozone) and SoundToys.

More on this 392nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Another Country / The Assignment: Compose the national anthem for a fictional country — at:

https://disquiet.com/0392/

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disquiet0392 - ode to the odyssey

A combination of 3 different old pieces - experimentations with strings, harmonics and sub-stuff...

...I call it "all out in".





More on this 393rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Mix Master / The Assignment: Make a new composition from your favorite parts of three of your previous recordings — at:

https://disquiet.com/0393/

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disquiet0393 - all out in

This small piece is entirely constructed from recordings from the stage and area around the empty performance space for the upcoming Musikfestival in Bern.

Sounds have been cut, altered, resonated, hexonated, reverberated, stretched and generally thrown around to create this small curiosity. 

It's named "berning man", in honor of the immediately upcoming Burning Man festival where good friends, but not me this year, will convene shortly...

More on this 399th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Edges & Echoes / The Assignment: Make sonic art for a space with the sounds of that space — at:

https://disquiet.com/0399/

disquiet0399 - berning man

This piece is based on a sample of more than 100people discussing designing for meaningfulness. I’ve stretched and mangled the sample - and added fuzz and compression, side-chaining into a suitable rhythm.

On top of everything is a few vocal samples and some different granular-synths  - so most of the raw material to this small piece is from live samples and only bass and some drums are “synthesized”.

The piece is made in response to this weeks challenge of the disquiet junto.

More on this 401st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Noise Pacing / Use background noise as a beat, as a rhythm — at:

https://disquiet.com/0401/

This project is the third and final of a series being done in collaboration with Musikfestival Bern, which runs in Switzerland from September 11 – 15, 2019. The source audio was provided by the Tobias Reber. More details at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/

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disquiet0401 - breath of meaning

This piece inspired by a famous speech from William Shakespeare’s play As You Like It. The speech is the one that begins “All the world’s a stage,” and is spoken by the melancholy character Jacques.

This piece is divided in 7 parts - each one (except the last) layering upon each other - inspired by the passing of a life... In the end, everything falls apart and turns to silence... 

All created "in the box" with heavy use of the new Reason 11 Plugin functionality, sequenced by Ableton.

More on this 404th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Seven (St)ages / The Assignment: Record a piece of music that follows the arc of Jacques’ “All the world’s a stage” speech from Shakespeare’s play As You Like It — at:

https://disquiet.com/0404/

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disquiet0404 - a stage in seven

This is a response to a challenge - the 406'th - from the Disquiet Junto: "Phoneme Home - After a visit to Yellowstone National Park, you send a sonic report back to your planet of origin."

Video bits from geysers in Yellowstone have been edited together through EboSuite through Ableton Live - and I've added some GeoSonics samples as well. Also - I just had to add a sequence from Arturias virtual ARP2600...

The videos are from National Park Service and available for all here: https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/photosmultimedia/videolibrary.htm

The resulting video available here: https://youtu.be/-4PZbcREbDQ

More on this 406th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Phoneme Home / The Assignment: After a visit to Yellowstone National Park, you send a sonic report back to your planet of origin — at:

https://disquiet.com/0406

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disquiet0406 - earth phone two

This small piece inspired by late night road trips, radio waves, foreign and mythical languages and nighttime wonder and meditation.

Everything is based on a small radio-snippet, sampled through OP-1, in Denmark 18/10 2019 - and then with added different “phenomena” and samples. Off course, to add to the bladerunneresque vibe, I had to add a bit of CS-80 (soft-version by Arturia).

More on this 407th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Dark Pitch / What do you hear between stations on the radio dial during a drive in the middle of night? — at:
https://disquiet.com/0407/
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