Disquiet Junto Project 0650: Doppler, Interrupted
The Assignment: Record a piece of music in which a passing siren blossoms into something else entirely

There is just one step this week:

Record a piece of music in which a siren — such as that of an emergency vehicle — passes by, across the stereo spectrum, from left to right, but as it passes through the center, it transforms into something else entirely, and that sound continues to evolve as it proceeds to the right and eventually fades into the distance.

Deadline: Monday, June 17, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

More on the 650th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Doppler, Interrupted — The Assignment: Record a piece of music in which a passing siren blossoms into something else entirely — at https://disquiet.com/0650/

Disquiet Junto Project 0650: Doppler, Interrupted

This is the playlist of all my contributions to the Disquiet Junto Projects in the year 2024.

Disquiet Junto Projects 2024

This is my contribution to this week's Disquiet Junto Project - as every first project of a new year the assignment is to create music from recording of an ice cube rattling in a glass.
I used PaulXStretch to create ambient sounds from two short, only 1 second long recordings I made rattling an ice cube in a glass. Then I added individual effects to the different sound-scapes and arranged those outputs to the track you can listen to here.

More on this 627th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Just Ice Society — The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at: https://disquiet.com/0627/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0627-just-ice-society/

Ice Forever  (Disquiet0627)

This track was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0628: Putting the third step of alchemist processes, the separation, into music.

I tried to create a mixture of natural and classical sounds that are overlaying like being mixed in a cauldron in the first section of the track, slowly separating and evaporating in the second section, and then existing as individual entity on their own in the third and final section.

The bird song was again kindly provided by @klankbeeld on freesound at https://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/718147/ under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
A short section was repeated and shifted to different pitches.

More on this 628th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Alchemical Brothers — The Assignment: Explore an aspect of the ancient occult science using music — at: https://disquiet.com/0628/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 1: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0628-alchemical-brothers/

Mother Nature's Alchemy  (Disquiet0628)

This track, my contribution to the Disquiet Junto Project 0629, was created in exceptional circumstances and has a very special meaning to me.

For creating this I selected the middle section of my track https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/rabbits-delight, cut in into a jigsaw puzzle of 6 pieces, present these pieces to the listener first, and then put the puzzle together piece by piece.

More on this 629th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Jigsaw Logic — The Assignment: Break a piece of your music and put it back together again — at: https://disquiet.com/0629/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0629-jigsaw-logic/

Rabbit's New Life  (Disquiet0629)

This improvisation on piano was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0630: Record a piece of music with a minimal amount of equipment and software. Every single VST-plugin counts, so this was quite a challenge. Including the keyboard, the DAW (Cubase) and the effects for mastering I needed 9 tools.

More on this 630th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Creative Sufficiency — The Assignment: Count your tools in advance of employing them — at: https://disquiet.com/0630/

This project was proposed by Alex (aka XHG) from Switzerland, who also drew the cover image.

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 1: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0630-creative-sufficiency/

The Less you use, the More you give (Disquiet0630)

Sometimes you don't need music, a dance floor or a crowd to dance, you just move to what's playing in your head...

This track creates music from a single held note on the synthesizer. Many different effects are used to build the composition, deriving rhythms, beats and additional soundscapes.
But everything is derived from the single note played.

This music was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0631.

More on this 631st weekly Disquiet Junto project, In a Silent Waveform — The Assignment: Take one held tone and make it dance slowly — at: https://disquiet.com/0631/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0631-in-a-silent-waveform/

Solitary Dance  (Disquiet0631)

Check out the accompanying video on YouTube at https://youtu.be/asYHnyxSXZc

Just a little experiment in ASMR-based halF unusuaL ... Let me know if you tingle! If ASMR is your thing, do check out YouTube.com/@paintbrushasmr ... 

This Disquiet Junto brief seemed the perfect vehicle to kick things off down this particular route!

More on the 650th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Doppler, Interrupted — The Assignment: Record a piece of music in which a passing siren blossoms into something else entirely — at https://disquiet.com/0650/

visuals (YouTube)

halF doppleR [disquiet0650]

Disquiet Junto Project 0650: Doppler, Interrupted
The Assignment: Record a piece of music in which a passing siren blossoms into something else entirely

The siren I used as raw material is an excerpt from my work with Sound Obsessed x Sónar+D: Temporal Tide

The collection of A/V pieces is currently exhibited at Sonar Festival in Barcelona. It's a collective work I enjoyed being part of https://www.soundobsessed.com/temporaltide

For my part of the exhibition piece "Exploring global temperatures since  1750" I processed Earth Surface Temperature Data for several cities as control voltage in VCV Rack. Noah Pred wrote a wonderful article about his sonification tool for  Ableton and how people approached the sonification task for Temporal Tide: https://manifest.audio/temporal-tide

Low Tide is inspired from that work. I heavily processed the siren and the first bleeps from the incoming
data in audacity (simulating a doppler effect, of sorts). I processed that sound in VCV Rack and added a synth from my Ksoloti Gills (Tiar SpaceViolin).

Low Tide (disquiet0650)

small dogs dream big

based upon a field recording, I developed a musical sketch about the brief moment of a passing by plane. A small dog was a little upset and – possibly – immerged into his own world for a second, conducted by this intense experience.

the assignment: record a piece of music in which a passing siren blossoms into something else entirely.

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More on the 650th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Doppler, Interrupted — The Assignment: Record a piece of music in which a passing siren blossoms into something else entirely — at https://disquiet.com/0650/

note of a world (disquiet650)

The Disquiet Junto prompt this week was an invitation to transform a siren as it passes from left to right.

My contribution features the transformation of an air raid siren by way of two layers of heavily effected slide steel guitar and an ambivalent synth pad. The vocal samples were generated with text-to-speech.

"Airships Over Chicago" is a stereophonic experience, so choose your listening environment with care. Recorded at NO SIGNAL Multimedia Lab, The Shambles, Chicago, USA.

More about Disquiet Junto 0650: https://disquiet.com/0650

Disquiet Junto

Airships Over Chicago (disquiet0650)

Electronic composition: a repeated sawtooth chirp with various effects & gradual slowing.

More on the 650th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Doppler, Interrupted — The Assignment: Record a piece of music in which a passing siren blossoms into something else entirely — at https://disquiet.com/0650/

Sliding Siren (disquiet0650)

Music can make you feel better, calm you down, lighten the situation or help you relax. So wouldn't it be great if you could call an orchestra in an emergency?

This track follows the inspiration of the Disquiet Junto 0650 project and gives you the opportunity to listen to an orchestral ambulance passing by.

More on the 650th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Doppler, Interrupted — The Assignment: Record a piece of music in which a passing siren blossoms into something else entirely — at https://disquiet.com/0650/

In Case of Emergency Call the Orchestra  (Disquiet0650)

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.