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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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0575-on-ice/

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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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0576-casual-resolution/

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/

Subscribe to project announcements here: Disquiet Junto by Marc Weidenbaum (Disquiet.com)

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0577-make-that-money-shaker/

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).

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-0578-rabbit-spirit-ally/

Rabbit's Delight (Disquiet0578)

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: Disquiet Junto by Marc Weidenbaum (Disquiet.com)

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

Hoffnung ernähret die liebenden Hertzen (Disquiet0579)

Is Life equal Music? Did music come into being when the first notes appeared in the primordial soup ?
The track is built on this idea: Out of the constant thunderstorm of the early earth raindrops begin to form melodies, the sounds evolving to piano-notes. Evolution starts with the first piano-melodies created by random processes.

This Musical Bots track was again created with the generative MIDI sequencer Transition (free VST-plugin available at www.codefn42.com/transition/index.html), The main instruments were played by groups of bots, the wonder of evolution mapped to the decreasing randomness of the movements.

I want to thank yle (Finnish Broadcasting Company) for providing the field-recording of the rain used as background of this track. The track is published under the https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ on freesound: https://freesound.org/people/YleArkisto/sounds/248282/

This track was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project:
More on this 580th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Evo Evol Evolve (The Assignment: Record a piece of music that develops like an organism evolves), at: Disquiet Junto Project 0580: Evo Evol Evolve – Disquiet

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

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 1: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0580-evo-evol-evolve/

Life Starts Here [A Musical Bots Research Project] (Disquiet0580)

Disquiet 0710 invited us to revisit a recent piece of music we’d made, and change it up so that one element becomes louder and busier.

I went back to the ebow drone that I made for 0696 Chain of Layers as my source material. The original version had this very low-key “bump, bum-bump” kick drum as its sole rhythmic component, so that seemed like a good candidate for getting loud and busy.

I added 8 overlapping drum parts that come and go, creating a unique (and busy) percussive pattern every 4 bars. The guitar drones are waaaaay in the background now as the drum machine does its thing, until the end when they make a noisy return.

This was a fun prompt— it was nice to get into programming drums and just stay in that mode all day.

More on the 710th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Let’s Get Loud — The Assignment: Make a piece of your own music louder/busier — at https://disquiet.com/0710/.

Nontrivial Pursuit (disquiet0710)

disquiet0710 (lofi drones to be trapped in the belly of this horrible machine to)

Part of the Naviar Records Haiku-Challenge:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku606-slightly-faint/

YT Short: https://youtube.com/shorts/T_rcCwfJNVw?feature=share

slightly faint-naviarhaiku606

"Hey ambiMatter, you have 100K plays in the last 12 months"

100K plays. I’d say it changed my life, but it mostly just means my laptop fan had to work overtime. Still — thanks for listening.

🔗 Listen & support:
Spotify · Bandcamp · YouTube · more → linktr.ee/amb1Matt3r

🎧 Music for:
sleep · deep focus · meditation · inner drift · slow time · space dreaming

📎 Tags:
#ambient #drone #granular #spacemusic #sleepmusic #darkambient #soundscape

Sculpting Frozen Light

🎵 Une valse de nos ombres
Un poème sonore mélancolique sur la mémoire et la maison – "Une valse de nos ombres" parle de la beauté douce-amère des jours passés, de rencontres fugaces et de la magie de la nostalgie. Porté par une fusion Reggae-Musette, un voyage musical se déploie à travers les rues d'une petite ville française.

🎧 Caractéristiques musicales :

Genre: Reggae-Musette Fusion, Cinématique

Ambiance: décontractée, chaleureuse, nostalgique, pleine d'espoir

Instruments: accordéon, violon, piano, ligne de basse reggae proéminente, batterie décontractée, guitare rythmique off-beat

Idéal pour: les fans de paroles poétiques, d'ambiances nostalgiques et de voyages musicaux.

💡 Thèmes :

La valse des souvenirs

L'écho des moments oubliés

La maison en tant que sentiment et lieu

La beauté des petites choses

📝 Extrait des paroles :
"On était peinards, sans foin, sans raison... Une valse à travers not’ coin d’paradis,.. sans demander pourquoi."

❓ Que signifie "Une valse de nos ombres" pour vous ? Est-ce un souvenir de ce qui a été, ou un désir de ce qui pourrait être ? Partagez vos pensées dans les commentaires !

📢 Appel à l'action :
Si ce voyage musical vous touche, n'hésitez pas à laisser un pouce levé 👍, à partager la vidéo et à vous abonner à la chaîne pour plus d'histoires sonores. Qu'entendez-vous dans cette valse des ombres ? Écrivez-le dans les commentaires !

Englische Version
🎵 Une valse de nos ombres
A melancholic sound poem about memory and home – "Une valse de nos ombres" tells of the bittersweet beauty of days gone by, of fleeting encounters, and the magic of nostalgia. Carried by a Reggae-Musette fusion, a musical journey unfolds through the streets of a small French town.

🎧 Musical Features:

Genre: Reggae-Musette Fusion, Cinematic

Mood: relaxed, warm, nostalgic, hopeful

Instruments: Accordion, Violin, Piano, prominent Reggae bassline, laid-back drums, rhythmic off-beat guitar

Perfect for: fans of poetic lyrics, nostalgic moods, and musical journeys.

💡 Themes:

The waltz of memories

The echo of forgotten moments

Home as a feeling and a place

The beauty of small things

📝 Lyrics Snippet:
"On était peinards, sans foin, sans raison... Une valse à travers not’ coin d’paradis,.. sans demander pourquoi."

❓ What does "Une valse de nos ombres" mean to you? Is it a memory of what was, or a longing for what could be? Share your thoughts in the comments!

📢 Call-to-Action:
If this musical journey touches you, give it a thumbs up 👍, share the video, and subscribe to the channel for more sonic stories. What do you hear in this waltz of shadows? Let me know in the comments!

📜 Copyright Notice: © 2025 Peter Maywald. All rights reserved. Use by permission only.

Une valse de nos ombres

I created this track for Disquiet Junto Project 0712. The assignment involved creating a rhythm by interpreting a barcode. I interpreted the thin lines of the barcode as snare hits and the thick lines as kick drum. I programmed the snare and kick hits into my sequencer with spacing loosely following the spacing in the barcode. I improvised various keys parts over this rhythm. The number code in the barcode guided note selection. To decide which notes I could select from, I set 0 at a Bb, then counting up or down in half steps I could use any notes that were numerically represented in the barcode. 
More on the 712th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Zebra Code — The Assignment: What rhythm do you hear in a bar code? — at https://disquiet.com/0712/.

Code Read [disquiet0712]

Response to Disquiet Assignment: What rhythm do you hear in a barcode? The first :30 of the piece consists of the barcode: vocal sounds to represent each size of the lines, and one sounds for the biggest space - followed by improvisational vocal sounds repeats of the barcode. More on the 712th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Zebra Code — — at https://disquiet.com/0712/.



disquiet0712 Al Dente

Created for Disquiet Junto 0712 Zebra Code, created in response to a prompt to use a bar code as a rhythmic source.

l.ife (Disquiet Junto 0712)

🔗 Listen & support:
Spotify · Bandcamp · YouTube · more → linktr.ee/amb1Matt3r

🎧 Music for:
sleep · deep focus · meditation · inner drift · slow time · space dreaming

📎 Tags:
#ambient #drone #granular #spacemusic #sleepmusic #darkambient #soundscape

Eternal Cycles - cycle 1

"And that's how I returned drone music to its rightful place in the discotheque."

Disquiet Junto 714 dared me to take a song I'd made before and create a remix from someone else's perspective. I had the idea to start with a lovely drone I did when I first got the vintage rackmount Yamaha TX-802. I didn't have any particular remix artist in mind for this, just more or less gave myself permission to play and explore and try to transform a monotonal piece into something you can dance to. 

In addition to the Yamaha, this piece features the rich bass of a Moog Minitaur and the irresistible bump of a Roland TR-08 drum machine.

More on the 714th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Remix Yourself — The Assignment: Rework your own music as if someone else had — at disquiet.com/0714/.

Drone in F (Club Mix) (disquiet0714)

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.

Life Starts Here [A Musical Bots Research Project] (Disquiet0580)

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