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/

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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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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).

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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

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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/ 

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

A rhythmic field-recording of a downspout in Helsinki serves as the basis for this track, inspired by the Disquiet Junto Projet 0581 (details see below).

Somehow Helsinki immediately  triggered thoughts of Aki Kaurismäki and his many beautiful films. Especially https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drifting_Clouds_(film) came to mind and gave the track its title.
I hope the track does it justice. Since it was created rather technically it is a result of the versatility of randomness and the power of art.

I proceeded as follows: First, low-pass and high-pass filtered versions of the field-recording were created. Then hit-points and midi-notes were extracted from these three variants. These were assigned to different instruments.
Two variants of the field-recording created with PaulXStretch are also included.

More on this 581st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Helsinki Downspout (The Assignment: Use a rhythmic field recording as the foundation for a new track), at: https://disquiet.com/0581/

Thanks to Scott Fletcher for having provided the original material. It is used thanks to a Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0). Original track at: https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/helsinki-downspout/

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

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Kauas pilvet karkaavat (Disquiet0581)

This track was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0582 (details see below): Create a new subgenre of Techno. I invented Pianotechno.

Since the piano is my favourite sound at the moment I created a short track based only on piano-sounds. Different virtual piano-instruments were used here to produce a dance-track. Changing echoes/delays and reverbs also define this new subgenre.

More on this 582nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, X Techno (The Assignment: Make a new subgenre), at: https://disquiet.com/0582/

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Miniature technoïde № 1 (Disquiet0582)

Music is heard through a wall from the neighbouring room. Thoughts emerge and align to what is happening next door. Music arises matching to what is heard...

The track played behind the wall can be listened to directly here: https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/dreamless-and-sublime

This track was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0583:
More on this 583rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Wall to Wall (The Assignment: The Assignment: Use a building as a filter), at: https://disquiet.com/0583/

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

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Dreams float through Walls (Disquiet0583)

This track attempts to melt a drone with Schlager-music, trying to give more meaning and musical relevance to the often superficial genre Schlager.
It was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0584 (details see below).

I owe my thanks to @roses-sabra for generously supplying the vocals on freesound https://freesound.org/people/Roses1401/sounds/542449/ which are used here.

More on this 584th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Generations (The Assignment: Bridge a gap in your musical taste), at: https://disquiet.com/0584/

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Drone der Liebe (Disquiet0584)

This track describes fragments of memories appearing and floating by - memories of the wonderful movies of Aki Kaurismäki. Even if watched many years ago certain moments deeply buried in the mind can suddenly emerge - comforting and warming.

Following the Disquiet Junto Project 0585 the track https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/finnish-movies-should-always-end-with-hope was cut in irregular pieces with the help of a Sonic Pi algorithm developped for this project. Three versions created with the algorithm are combined for this track.

More on this 585th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Generations (The Assignment: Fast forward an old track to make a new one), at: https://disquiet.com/0585/

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Fragments of Memories of Kaurismäki Movies (Disquiet0585)

This track was created by randomly fading in and out individually the instruments and recordings of the original track https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/winter-slow-and-even-tempered. The created spaces enrich the track, give more emphasis to the remaining instruments - and a deeper meaning of its own to this composition.  As contradictory as this may seem...

The creation was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0586 (details see below).

I owe my thanks to @user-957729823 (Ha Kéko) for providing the great field-recording https://soundcloud.com/user-957729823/snow-removal_2. An ambient version of this recording was created with PaulXStretch.
These tracks can be heard if hazard determines to fade them in...

More on this 586th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chance the Eraser (The Assignment: Use probability to remove material from a track), at: https://disquiet.com/0586/

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Winter, slow and even-tempered, embracing Spaces (Disquiet0586)

An improvised track developed over the background noises of a washing-machine recorded with Sanyo Talkbook dictaphones, replayed at half speed.

This track was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0587 (details see below), which invited to let a composition get out of tune. This unintentionally happened here when the guitars joined in...

More on this 587th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Sour Mash (The Assignment: Let something go out of tune), at: https://disquiet.com/0587/

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Tone on Tone (Disquiet0587)

Inspired by fieldrecordings of the seaside town Great Yarmouth this tracks celebrates the typical sounds of a British resort. Behind all these different sounds the waves of the sea are always ever present. This is accentuated by the piano-music improvised to the soundscape.

This track is based on the great fieldrecordings of @stuartbowditch (http://www.stuartbowditch.co.uk), who created these recordings as part of the Yarmonics sonic arts festival 2018 (@user-146670016, https://www.yarmonics.com/).
I used the following recordings kindly provided on freesound:
Waves https://freesound.org/people/Yarmonics/sounds/446367/
Seaside ambiance https://freesound.org/people/Yarmonics/sounds/446363/
Bingo https://freesound.org/people/Yarmonics/sounds/446364/
Arcade https://freesound.org/people/Yarmonics/sounds/446360/

This track was initially inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0588:
More on this 588th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Swell Time (The Assignment: Make some surf music), at: https://disquiet.com/0588/ 1

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Yarmouth Waves (Disquiet0588)

This is an experimental track built from fieldrecordings using feedback. The creation was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0590 (details see below).
Two fieldrecordings of a dishwasher made in parallel with dictaphones and a fieldrecording of a brook (https://freesound.org/people/RabMusicLab/sounds/653906/) were enhanced with gentle feedback. The track presented here was combined from these three recordings and their feedback versions.

More on this 590th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Concrète Roots (The Assignment: Make music combining field recordings and feedback), at: https://disquiet.com/0590/ 1

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Dishwasher And Brook (Disquiet0590)

A pelican, living as a fresco on the facade of a house, far from its natural habitat. He dreams of getting away from the traffic, into nature.

This track has a meaning and a raison d'être of its own - but is intended as first part of an asynchronous trio as proposed by the Disquiet Junto Project 0591:



More on this 591st weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Loneliest Number (The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0591/

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The Loneliest Pelican (Disquiet0591)

This track is an asynchronous duet with @Krakenkraft. Based on the great track https://soundcloud.com/winterer/the-patient-earthworm-disquiet0591 I added further elements with the idea to transform the earthworm of the first part to a caterpillar dreaming of an unknown future...

The beautiful cover-art of this track was kindly provided by @the_robocat.

More on this 592nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Better Than One (The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0592/

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

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Caterpillar Dreams  [with Krakenkraft] (Disquiet0592)

This track is an asynchronous duet with @thefishermen_thepriestess. Following the great track https://soundcloud.com/thefishermen_thepriestess/the-loneliest-number-disquiet0591, I improvised on my keyboard to this wonderful melody and recorded this directly. No editing was applied.

More on this 592nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Better Than One (The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio), at: disquiet.com/0592/

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Sea Fish Swarm  [with the Fishermen & the Priestess] (Disquiet0592)

This track is an asynchronous trio with @encym and Marc Eisenschink (@randomshuffle). I had the wonderful opportunity to add my inspirations to the beautiful track https://soundcloud.com/randomshuffle/frugality-enner-nothingdisquiet0592 created by these two great musicians.

More on this 593rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Charm (The Assignment: Complete an asynchronous trio begun by two other musicians), at: https://disquiet.com/0593/

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& & &  [with encym and Marc Eisenschink] (Disquiet0593)

This track is an asynchronous trio with @andreas-kitzmann-27370936 and @encym. I enjoyed the great opportunity to add my inspirations to the beautiful track https://soundcloud.com/encym/tete-a-tete-disquiet0592 created by these two wonderful musicians.

The photograph used as cover-art was kindly provided by @the_robocat.

More on this 593rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Charm (The Assignment: Complete an asynchronous trio begun by two other musicians), at: https://disquiet.com/0593/

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

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La tête éblouissante  [with Andreas Kitzmann and encym] (Disquiet0593)

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.