Disquiet Junto Project 0591: The Loneliest Number
The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio.

Please note: While this is the start of a three-part project, you can participate in one, two, or all three of the parts, which will occur over the next three weeks.

Step 1: This week’s Junto project is the first in a sequence intended to encourage and reward collaboration. You will be recording something with the understanding that it will remain unfinished for the time being. Your part will be done, but more will happen. Read on.

Step 2: The plan is for you to record a short and original piece of music using any instrumentation of your choice. Conceive the piece as something that leaves room for something else — other instruments, other people — to join in.

Step 3: Record a short piece of music, roughly two to three minutes in length, as described in Step 2.

Step 4: This is important: be sure to make your track downloadable because it may be used by someone else in the next Disquiet Junto project, and then after that.

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Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, May 1, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, April 27, 2023.

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/

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

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Disquiet Junto Project 0591: The Loneliest Number

Disquiet Junto Project 0590: Concrète Roots 
The Assignment: Make music combining field recordings and feedback

I was in Paris and brought my recorder along. Our hotel was right outside of Gare de l’Est. The little four note tune that’s at the start of the French Railroad service announcements was in the room about every two minutes, and so became somewhat emblematic of the trip. Also, there was this fluorescent tube light in the hotel bathroom that had a… je ne said quoi. Perhaps it’s the sound of arriving in a work place — a garage, storage space or studio — in the very early morning, still dark, at an hour when no one who has any choice in the matter is not in bed, everything quiet, all alone, and then this tingling, almost glitchy tone as the lights come on. You don’t see/hear them as much as you used to. 
So those recordings, together with a recording of a departing train, became the basis of this track.

The field recordings are accompanied by a feedback part, which was inspired by things I read in the llllllll cybernetic music thread: https://llllllll.co/t/cybernetic-music-roland-kayn-feedback-systems-ai/40635. 
I suppose it is a take on work by Jaap Vink. The audio signal goes into a delay, is then sent through some effects (in Vink’s setup, a ring modulator and a filter, if I recall correctly), then a reverb, and then sent back to the input, with some form of attenuation that is controlled by an envelope follower. The result is an audio signal loop that keeps its feedback in check automatically.
In my case everything was made on an iPad, which is surprisingly good and versatile for creative audio routing. Instead of a ring modulator, I used an app that has a bunch of resonators that you can actually ‘play’ using a keyboard: playing a note on the keyboard will activate the resonator tuned to that note. Playing the resonators subtly shifts/nudges the feedbacking audio into different parts of the frequency spectrum (in a way that is roughly analogous to what the ring modulator and filter do in Vink’s setup).

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

Disquiet Junto

Concrète Roots- disquiet0590

a combination of electromagnetic recordings to generate the feedback for the assignment and some old field recordings of birds squabbling at local sheds, with occasional environmental noises and artifacts. 
both tracks had lots of noise i tried to use as texture
added various layers of fx
all mixed in ableton


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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Into Noise [disquiet0590]

This is just a simple ambient solo using the Buchla Music Easel and Christopher H.M Jacques "Sleepwalker" patch for the Zoia. Hopefully it will be of some use to someone for the trio project.

disquiet0591

took SOMA Enner, tried to make some inspiring ground for others

The Loneliest Number Part 1/3 (disquiet0591)

Part one a three part assignment - make a track for someone to add to.

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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five days a week [disquiet0591]

This will be fun! 

I built a patch in kontakt consisting of two voices that seemed to compliment each other and ran a simple midi pattern triggering both. There's a lot of texture and hiss, maybe too much but hopefully others might find some use in this. Feel free to chop, mangle or do what you like with this one, just make sure i get to hear it!


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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Locrian X [disquiet0591]

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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A textured drone around the note G2 (98 Hz). Could be used, with modifications as necessary, for the basis of a layered sequence.

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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Bass Base (disquiet0591)

Disquiet Junto Project 0591: The Loneliest Number
The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio.

I started with a track I'm working on since months and which does not work for me. I threw away all but what was originally some kind of Rhodes basis. I rearranged it until I liked it more than the original fully instrumented version. It's now Dmin with only two 4-bar-progressions to Gm and back. It's 90bpm, 6/4. I see plenty of space for Drums, Leads, Vocals, Noises - have fun, if you like ;-)

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Track cover: DALL·E "worm waiting under a clock, vermeer painting"

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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/

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

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The Patient Earthworm [disquiet0591] (The Loneliest Number)

Part 2 of a three-parter, using Krakenkraft's excellent The Patient Earthworm (https://soundcloud.com/winterer/the-patient-earthworm-disquiet0591?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0591).

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/

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@winterer

impatient earthed worm feat. Krakenkraft [disquiet0592]

Part two of an online collaboration with the Disquiet Junto Project 0592. Original track from @mikey_a (Dronely Bells)

Part one panned left part two panned right.

T For 2 disquiet0592

Part 2 of 3
Part 1 - Oh Well [ https://soundcloud.com/oh-well-360226041/untitled-disquiet0591 ]

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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/

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Better Than One

Better Than One [xiiixxi &  OhWell] - disquiet0592

This is the first of several pipe organ pieces I will be working on. The goal is to explore several types of organs for minimlist dronelike pieces of music. I am using the awesome virutal organs of the Virtual Organ Company, in this case the L'Orgue Couperin: http://www.virtualorgancompany.com/vritualvstfrenchbaroqueorgan.asp
The goal is to write music for the particular sound and sound possibilities of different pipe organs.
This project is inspired by the exceptional pipe organ work of Sarah Davachi, but of course I cannot imitate her, but have to go my own path.

More on this 597th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Goal Line (The Assignment: Get started on a plan by getting over getting started), at: https://disquiet.com/0597/

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Steps and Stasis for Baroque Organ [disquiet0597]

#industrial #lofi #noise #diy #garage #bedroom #basement

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Ambient Dreamscapes for you to enjoy. Relax, unwind, meditate and chillout.

NECRONOMICON DREAMS No22 HYPERSOMNIA

castle of ruins shifty 40 bpm take 3 111124

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

Abstract Sound Structures, Musique Concrète & Live Electronics.
Experimental abstract animation videos.
It is my aim to create and/or edit my tracks & videos using free or open-source software only.
Influences include: J.S. Bach, John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Giacinto Scelsi, Mauricio Kagel, Conlon Nancarrow, Christian Wolff, Harry Partch, Luc Ferrari, Morton Feldman, Cornelius Cardew, Bernard Parmegiani, Ana-Maria Avram, David Tudor, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Renaissance Polyphony.
All my work is published under a Creative Commons licence & can be freely downloaded (as wav) or remixed.

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