has a pleasant contemplative feeling over it

Disquiet Junto Projects 2023

This track is my contribution to the traditional first Disquiet Junto Project of every year: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.

All sounds in this track were derived from recording an ice-cube in a champagne-glass and in a whiskey glass.

More on this 575th weekly Disquiet Junto project – On Ice (The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it) – at: https://disquiet.com/0575/ 1

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

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Love  Melts Ice (Disquiet0575)

This track was created mainly by improvisation. Four different sound layers and their very influential effects were played and mixed in a live session. The piano then was improvised to the drone created beforehand.

Following the Disquiet Junto Project 0576 the drone was divided into two sound parts, and these parts as well as the piano were played and re-recorded in different rooms. The track then was mixed from the three original and their re-recorded stems.

A "drone-only" version without the piano is available at https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/pondering-about-drone-only

More on this 576th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Casual Resolution (The Assignment: Get a musical New Year’s resolution out of the way), at: https://disquiet.com/0576/

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

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Pondering About (Disquiet0576)

This track was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project (details see below): Build a simple instrument and put it to use.
I chose this old wooden box from my mother's family, but I don't know its history. It would be great if one could wake the forgotten past of such objects...

I recorded four tracks, each time filling the "shaker" with other objects. This tracks were directly used in parallel as drums. Then the composition evolved around this elements...

More on this 577th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Make That Money Shaker (The Assignment: Make a simple instrument and put it to use), at: https://disquiet.com/0577/

Major thanks to Jason Wehmhoener for having proposed this project.

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

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Réveiller le passé de l'objet (Disquiet0577)

This track was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0578 (details see below): Make music for the year of the rabbit.

Everything started with the inspiring fieldrecording "rabbit drinking" (https://freesound.org/people/BeeProductive/sounds/376187/) kindly provided by BeeProductive on freesound.
I cut that recording into sections ressembling a drum-loop and built everything on top. Drums and bass follow the rabbit's rhythm of drinking, more instruments were added.
A song to celebrate the rabbit - also when drinking water!

More on this 578th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Rabbit Spirit Ally (The Assignment: Make music for Lunar New Year), at: https://disquiet.com/0578/ 1

Associated public-domain cover image by Johann Daniel Meyer (1748).

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Rabbit's Delight (Disquiet0578)

This is two versions of 'New Cross'. The song I originally wrote in 1989 after my first year at university, and a version I've just recorded.

New Cross - revisited (disquiet0579)

More on this 579th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Memory Serves (The Assignment: Rerecord a piece of music), at: https://disquiet.com/0579/

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There Was A Girl (disquiet0579)

Revisiting a disquiet junto recording from 3 years ago - https://soundcloud.com/caustic_gates/disquiet0420-third-quarter - even managed to find the rudimentary graphic score I jotted down for it at the time. 

Voices different this time, but picked a similar bright chord for halfway through.

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More on this 579th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Memory Serves (The Assignment: Rerecord a piece of music), at: Disquiet Junto Project 0579: Memory Serves – Disquiet

More on the Disquiet Junto at: Disquiet Junto F.A.Q. – Disquiet

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disquiet0579 - fourth quarter

[disquiet0579] Cracked

This track is a new version of the track https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/hoffnung-erfreut-den-traurigen-sinn. The intention is to create a new composition that retains the important elements but gives a new listening experience by shifting the focus.

The guitar-part of @Fnubi was replaced by guitar-loops provided by @roeland11 on looperman. The other instruments were adapted to the new harmonics. Some instruments were exchanged, new instruments were added (acoustic guitar, cello, an additional violin).

I owe my thanks to Roeland for providing the following loops used in this track:
https://www.looperman.com/loops/detail/231296/sad-grunge-guitar-chords-120bpm-grunge-acoustic-guitar-loop
https://www.looperman.com/loops/detail/231297/sad-grunge-guitar-melody-120bpm-grunge-acoustic-guitar-loop
https://www.looperman.com/loops/detail/231298/sad-grunge-guitar-strum-120bpm-rock-acoustic-guitar-loop

This track was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project:
More on this 579th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Memory Serves (The Assignment: Rerecord a piece of music), at: Disquiet Junto Project 0579: Memory Serves – Disquiet

More on the Disquiet Junto at: Disquiet Junto F.A.Q. – Disquiet

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Hoffnung ernähret die liebenden Hertzen (Disquiet0579)

Disquiet Junto Project 0579: Memory Serves
The Assignment: Rerecord a piece of music.

I chose https://krakenkraft.bandcamp.com/track/star-spawn from a 2017 release, which means I may have made it 2016 or 2015. 

Originally it was completely made with the compact DAW Caustic for Android. This time I used only the MIDI data export and rearranged it in Reaper with u-he Repro and Arturia Mellotron. 

Main objective was to get closer to my perception of the spirit of Berlin School style sequenced electronica. I put a lot of efforts in it and it is definitely more sophisticated. Nonetheless I'm not sure wether I really like it more than the original in every aspect. 

Artists name is now Etherkraken as he is my Berlin School personality, visible here: https://etherkraken.bandcamp.com/


Track cover via Stable Diffusion, prompting "a photo of a kraken made of red light in blue deep space image" https://stablediffusionweb.com/#demo


More on this 579th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Memory Serves (The Assignment: Rerecord a piece of music), at: https://disquiet.com/0579/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0579-memory-serves/

Star-spawned again

Etherkraken-Bandcamp

Etherkraken: Star-spawned again [disquiet0579]

Sinny: real and programmed jam block, ratchet, coins, samplebrain
Stubb: typewriter sample
Zott820: cash register sample

Calculation (disquiet0579)

This week's assignment was to redo an earlier track. I picked condensation: https://soundcloud.com/lazenbeeindustries/condensation-disquiet0557

More on this 579th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Memory Serves (The Assignment: Rerecord a piece of music), at: https://disquiet.com/0579/

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recondensation [disquiet0579]

for the disquiet junto //

old work, revisited and refreshed

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More on this 579th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Memory Serves (The Assignment: Rerecord a piece of music), at: Disquiet Junto Project 0579: Memory Serves – Disquiet

More on the Disquiet Junto at: Disquiet Junto F.A.Q. – Disquiet

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A Slow Progression Of The Sky Flooded With Light

[disquiet0579] A Slow Progression Of The Sky Flooded With Light

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I am revisiting a track from my project Illusion Of Safety, recorded in 2010 and finally just released on the new album Organ Choir Drone. It has been a struggle for me to keep this project purely experimental and challenging in line with my original intent. I want to make many kinds of music that I love and am interested in the form(s)of music and want to explore making them, so its apparent that i need to pursue that in other projects. I am grateful for the challenge and assignments of the Disquiet Junto in helping that along. I keep going cinematic in many musical attempts, probably thanks to 2001 A Space Odyssey's influence on my 9 year old mind, and maybe my moms love of Burt Bacharach have played a part in my nebulous musical desires that tend to go cinematic/dramatic/orchestral. Today I took the track Waste of Civilization and edited it to a shorter version, added melodic elements: multiple piano, woodwinds, + a max4live DX-7 emulation and built it up using no grid or quantization. Another goal has been to get to the point of making more music with real instruments in real time. No Grid, I have a ways to go before that is successful, so please forgive the imperfections. Plus it still sounds like IOS:(

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The album is the first of 4 planned releases for the 40th anniversary of the project and is released by No Part Of It, available as cassette, CD-r, & digital of course:
https://illusionofsafety.bandcamp.com/album/organ-choir-drone

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The Assignment: Rerecord a piece of music.
Step 1: The goal of this project is to simply perform and record again something you’ve performed and recorded previously. Think about something you’d like to revisit.
Step 2: Now rerecord the piece of music you decided upon in Step 1.
More on this 579th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Memory Serves (The Assignment: Rerecord a piece of music), at: Disquiet Junto Project 0579: Memory Serves – Disquiet
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Disquiet Civilization -disquiet0579

I decided to re-perfom / re-record my contribution to week [250](https://soundcloud.com/theatlasroom/drone-for-disquiet0250). Most contributions have made heavy use of samples, but this was one of the few based on midi.

I deleted all the existing instruments, piped the midi out to my Eurorack and recorded the results. The original project had a few audio FX chains, so i re-used them with the new tracks and made some more adjustments.

Erica Synths Midi CV -> ALA Pachinko -> Calsynth Rangoon + MI Plaits -> ALA Cumulus -> ALM Tangle
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More on this 579th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Memory Serves (The Assignment: Rerecord a piece of music), at: https://disquiet.com/0579/

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Redrone for ____ [disquiet0579]

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.

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