Disquiet Junto Project 0544: Feedback Loop
The Assignment: Share music-in-progress for input from others.

Step 1: This project is about two things: (1) requesting feedback and (2) providing feedback. Keep that in mind.

Step 2: Upload a track you’re working on and would appreciate input on from fellow Junto members. When doing so, consider mentioning the sort of feedback you’re looking for: tone, production, development, instrumentation, etc.

Step 3: After uploading your track, and in the days following the conclusion of the project, provide feedback to other people’s tracks, either on the Lines discussion (link below) or on the website where they’ve posted their track.

Note: The Lines BBS runs on a discussion platform called Discourse, which has some built-in restrictions. Among these is that you can’t reply too many times to the same thread before someone else replies first. This is a “consecutive replies” matter. The best practice is to compile feedback to multiple tracks, and to tag reach recipient in one reply. If those instructions aren’t clear, just wait a little while after tracks begin to appear on the thread. Soon enough you’ll see examples of people doing exactly this.

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Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, June 6, 2022, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, June 2, 2022.

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More on this 544th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Feedback Loop (The Assignment: Share music-in-progress for input from others) — at: https://disquiet.com/0544/

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Disquiet Junto Project 0544: Feedback Loop

This is the playlist of all tracks I have contributed to the Disquiet Junto Projects in 2022. For more information of this wonderful group and the inspirations by @disquiet see https://disquiet.com/2013/04/25/disquiet-junto-faq/

Disquiet Junto Projects 2022

This is a personal review of the year 2021 - consisting of twelve short musical sections, one per month. The sections were each cut from a RabMusicLab track released in the corresponding month. The tracks were chosen upon their personal or musical importance.

The picture is intended to show a symbol for the passage of time:
It is inspired by the "chronopteric birds" featured in the series of graphic novels "Azimut" by Wilfrid Lupano and Jean-Baptiste Andreae. According to the publisher this is an "incredible Terry Gilliam-esque fantasy tale" and has Time as one of its main subjects.
The photograph shows one of the metal water-spouting birds in the garden of Schwetzingen palace which remind me of these time-related animals in the graphic novel.

The list of tracks:
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/machinery
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/le-brouillard-du-desespoir
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/evening-contemplation
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/strange-weather
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/lost-and-found-feat-yaccn
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/pre-set-in-the-bay-of-plenty
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/the-devils-harp-of-glass
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/wilde-rosmarie
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/three-fifths-remain
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/vatn-is-vatn
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/bedtime-for-musical-bots
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/between-waves-and-stars

This track is following the Disquiet Junto Project 0522.

More on this 522nd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Just Backdated (The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments) – at: https://disquiet.com/0522/

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-0522-just-backdated/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

Sonic Diary 2021 (Disquiet0522)

This track was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0522: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.
All sounds were created from the recording of an ice-cube rattling in five different glasses. The inspiration led to this piece, trying to find out how eternal ice sounds.

More on this 523rd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Chill Communication (The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it) – at: https://disquiet.com/0523/ 4

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

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 3: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0523-chill-communication/

The Eternal Ice (Disquiet0523)

This piece of music is built on the track https://soundcloud.com/fnubi/cameo-unfinished-disquiet0525 by @Fnubi following the Disquiet Junto project 0526 (details below).
It was inspired by a concert of the lautten compagney Berlin playing arias of Johann Philipp Krieger in the rococo theatre of Schwetzingen Palace. The title of the track (english translation "hope delights the sad mind") is a quote from the aria "Hoffnung ernähret die liebenden Herzen" by Krieger.

More on this 526th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Magic Number (2 of 3) (The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio) – at: https://disquiet.com/0526/

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-0526-magic-number-2-of-3/

Hoffnung erfreut den traurigen Sinn [Duet with Fnubi] (Disquiet0526)

This piece of music is built on the track https://soundcloud.com/lazenbeeindustries/triad-disquiet0525 by @LazenbeeIndustries following the Disquiet Junto Projet 0526. A soundscape is created that shall represent what fish hear underwater.

More on this 526th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Magic Number (2 of 3) (The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio) – at: disquiet.com/0526/

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

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…agic-number-2-of-3/

Ocean Harmonies [Duet with LazenbeeIndustries] (Disquiet0526)

This track is the result of a asynchronous colloboration in the Disquiet Junto (see below) with super secret noise party (pidgin) @user-638188112  and @33per: This piece of music intends to enhance the wonderful atmosphere found in the track https://soundcloud.com/33per/jupiter-and-mars-disquiet0526 by adding more elements to the soundscape.

It is meant as homage to @Sigur-Ros - the title in icelandic meaning "Crying for joy".

More on this 527th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Magic Number (3 of 3) (The Assignment: Complete an asynchronous trio begun by two other musicians) – at: https://disquiet.com/0527/

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Grætur af gleði [with super secret noise party (pidgin) and 33per] (Disquiet0527)

Rejected production music demo/
Composed and recorded may 2022 in Paris.

I played guitars (using last week's rhythmic delays thing) and keyboards.

Another evrsion:
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/time-lapse-vers-motorik-disquiet0545


Photo by DD

For this weekly junto joint:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0544-feedback-loop

Time Lapse (disquiet0544)

For the conceptualization, I wanted to make a piece about different perspectives - how the “same story” can be told by different people and vary slightly or a lot.

There’s a tweak on the melody line “D E G E D C D E A” and this drop to the lower A can be A, A-flat, or G interchangeably. So, the accompanying bass line “C B A G” also changes from all natural to “C B natural or flat, A natural or flat, G” as well. The bass solo in the middle is, lol, I don’t know. I just felt like it. Does it work?

The title “Heron in moonlight” comes from the zen saying 銀椀盛雪、明月蔵鷺 (ぎんわんにゆきをもり めいげつにろをかくす) - Silver bowl full of snow, white heron in clear moonlight.

It’s the juxtaposition of things that look the same and seem to blend in but that are actually different. The snow may look like a part of the silver bowl, and the bowl may look like snow itself. A white heron in the bright moonlight may look like the moonlight itself, or is it the other way around?

The philosophized perspective of the saying might infer the natural vs. the manmade coming together, different groups of people coming together in harmony, etc.

More on this 544th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Feedback Loop (The Assignment: Share music-in-progress for input from others) — at: disquiet.com/0544/

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

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…0544-feedback-loop/

Heron in moonlight (disquiet0544)

More on this 544th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Feedback Loop (The Assignment: Share music-in-progress for input from others) – at: https://disquiet.com/0544/

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

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No Hook ? (disquiet0544)

a good friend of mine painted a series of images based on descartes' "meditations on first philosophy."

https://www.lowwintersun.org/work/descartes-meditations

i took painting number 6, sliced it into five strips, fed the images into photosounder, the converted the resulting .wav files to MIDI (quantized to 16ths). i used the MIDI clips separately to trigger various samples: kick; snare; low tom; floor tom; hi-hat. i added a steady hi-hat pedal to help navigate the slightly offbeat rhythms.

finally, i layered in a live guitar piece (played through VCV rack, which i first encountered through disquiet junto, many moons ago...)

some possible questions: how can we think about the relationship between something rhythmic (the "beat") and something a-rhythmic (the "ambient" guitar)?
do they feel like two utterly separate streams, or do they somehow inform each other?
also, my track is only one minute long - can something so short be called 'ambient'?
more generally, can such a brief composition claim to establish a mood or atmosphere?

(wittgensteinian thought: i can claim to have felt sad for one minute, but not to have been depressed for one minute. certain moods or states require longer stretches of time to operate.)

all the best, htnc

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More on this 544th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Feedback Loop (The Assignment: Share music-in-progress for input from others) — at: https://disquiet.com/0544/

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[disquiet0544] cartesian drummer

My submission for
Disquiet Junto Project 0544: Feedback Loop
The Assignment: Share music-in-progress for input from others.
More on this 544th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Feedback Loop (The Assignment: Share music-in-progress for input from others) — at: https://disquiet.com/0544/

LYRICS:
Staring at the sky. Living in green. Walking my path.
Thursday, July 20, 2014
"If you think you can, you can. If you think you can't, you're right" - Henry Ford
It's a strange phenomenon to stand in the middle of the wilderness with no idea of where you are or how to get to where you are going.
It's also quite strange to feel utterly lost, yet absolutely at home.
This is one of those moments in my life. I don't know where I am, yet I feel utterly at home.
Last week I spent a long weekend hiking in the Blue Mountains. A short distance from Sydney, the Blue Mountains are the oldest mountains in the world, and the oldest living thing in the Blue Mountains is the Old Man himself, William Bradley. The Blue Mountains have been around for 200 million years and are some of the most beautiful mountains in the world.
I was lucky enough to have the company of some awesome women. The hike was not easy, but it was very rewarding.
I love that place.
This is a picture of the Old Man himself. He is standing at the top of the mountain, so close that you can almost touch him.
This is a picture of my friend and hiking companion, Katherine.
This is a picture of me and my hiking companion, Katie.
This is a picture of the Old Man.
This is a picture of the Old Man.
This is a picture of the Old Man.
This is a picture of the Old Man.
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Bradley(disquiet0544) ver2

This track aims at creating a pleasant atmosphere by enlarging simple piano-melodies through (transformed) repetitions, echoes and other effects.

This track was recorded live; The generative MIDI sequencer Transition (free VST-plugin available at www.codefn42.com/transition/index.html) creates different piano-motives with certain randomness.
A set of effect-channels is faded in and out manually with a Korg nanoKONTROL2 while the sequencer is playing.

More on this 544th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Feedback Loop (The Assignment: Share music-in-progress for input from others) – at: https://disquiet.com/0544/

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

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Repeat Wait Repeat (Disquiet0544)

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.