This could be a track on its own, digging it.

This recording follows the inspiration of the Disquiet Junto Project 0537 (see below): How could a apologetic car horn sound like ?
The track presents a quiet side street, its atmosphere augmented by different musical elements. Some cars apologize for driving by and disrupting the calm by sounding their apologetic melody, and in the end this horn melody leads a life of its own.

I thank blaukreuz for providing the wonderful field-recording
https://freesound.org/people/blaukreuz/sounds/521000/
which inspired much of this track.

This project was proposed by Rob Walker.

More on this 537th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Penitent Honk (The Assignment: Do sound design for “a missing gesture” of vehicular life) – at: https://disquiet.com/0537/

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Apologetic Conveyance (Disquiet0537)

This track is intended as meditation music in a stressful situation: it allows the listener to connect with the music in their agitated state and then let it lead them into a state of relaxation as the composition slows down step by step, leaving the stressful elements aside.
The track starts in the chaos of city traffic and transforms into an underwater world intended to provide calm.

A new track building on and extending the first section can be found at https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/urban-traffic-folly

This composition was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0538, which proposed to create a piece of music for exactly the purpose described above.

I want to thank bkowshik for providing the recording of traffic in Bangalore https://freesound.org/people/bkowshik/sounds/439218/ and naturenotesuk who kindly provides the underwater field-recording https://freesound.org/people/naturenotesuk/sounds/625412/ under the Attribution 4.0 licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

More on this 538th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Guided Decompression (The Assignment: Get someone from tense to chill) – at: https://disquiet.com/0538/

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Assisted Deceleration: From Traffic To Underwater (Disquiet0538)

[disquiet0538] Pedal

Disquiet Junto Project 0539: Control Breath
The Assignment: Let your slow breathing guide a piece of music.

Being lazy, I wanted the breathing itself to do the music. So I used plugins on my breathing, that use the source audio more or less as something to resonate on. At the end it's mainly AAS Object Delay and Micheal Norris Spectral Filterbank / Blurring / Bin Shift / Grain Streamer / Harmonizer plus filters, panning, reverb.

More on this 539th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Control Breath (The Assignment: Let your slow breathing guide a piece of music) — at: https://disquiet.com/0539/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0539-control-breath/

disquiet III

Album on BandCamp

Odic Force [disquiet0539]

For the Control Breath project, I recorded breaths holding the mics close to give that breathing-into-a-comm-unit-in-an-enclosed-helmet sound.  It always sounds very close and isolated.  Accordingly, I composed sounds around it including woodwind and bellows sounds to keep with the "breath focus".  I had the radio on in the background for added helmet noise which I reversed to remove distracting language information.

Oxygenation(disquiet0539)

My submission for the Disquiet Junto 0539: Let your slow breathing guide a piece of music.
I recorded my breath and loaded it into Nysthi's Quad Simpler. I derived two melodies, a fast one and a slow bass melody, by applying sample & hold to the recording. The loudness of the recording also controls the brightness of the high melody. And then I introduced two more melodies that may have been inspired by Tangerine Dream's Atem and Pink Floyd's Breathe. The tempo is an approximation of the speed of my breath, but since my breathing is not perfectly regular, there is no strict rhythm in the whole piece.

More on this 539th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Control Breath (The Assignment: Let your slow breathing guide a piece of music) — at: https://disquiet.com/0539/

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

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Control Breath (disquiet0539)

Control Breath(disquiet0359)

My breath and our cat, Lulu's, purring. The original recordings are subjected to distortions, gatings, and convolution and blackhole reverbs. They are also filtered with frequenies and resonances modulated by envelope followers on the breath/purr. The original breath is allowed into the mix here and there.
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More on this 539th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Control Breath (The Assignment: Let your slow breathing guide a piece of music) – at: https://disquiet.com/0539/

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

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0539-control-breath/

with gated breath (disquiet0539)

The Garden of Invisibility

An unmistakable shadow

Quantum Detangler

PsychillI’m revisiting the first Zenlike Creature album and, I guess, tweaking the mix and remastering. Whilst I am very proud of my work, I’ve learned so much over the last few years that I listen back and wish I could have mixed it better.

Now, I know some folk are purists (see the Star Wars back against George and the 97 reissues) but all I want to do here is enhance what I wrote and produce, not add anything that wasn’t there in the original. Just a better balanced mix and master.

Beatfarmer - Courage (Zenlike Creature's Entheogenic Brew Remix 2025 Remaster)

RabMusicLab produces instrumental music of various genres from classical to electronic without shying away from excursions into pop or experimental music. The tracks are published for the pleasure, entertainment and inspiration of every listener.

RabMusicLab loves to participate in the Disquiet Junto Projects of https://soundcloud.com/disquiet to fuel his creativity . All tracks that have "disquiet" in the title were created as response to these projects. Further informations can be found in the respective track-information,

All images used are photographs by RabMusicLab, unless otherwise indicated in the track-informations.

Assisted Deceleration: From Traffic To Underwater (Disquiet0538)

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