More on this 468th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mirror Rorrim (The Assignment: Create a new persona for yourself, and record a duet together), at:

https://disquiet.com/0468/

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:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0468-mirror-rorrim/

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

Image associated with this project is by Timothy Takemoto, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/36f8r

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Disquiet Junto Project 0468: Mirror Rorrim

Disquiet Junto Project 0488: Reverse Delay
Assignment: Do something you’ve been putting off.

While searching online for information about Ampex 601 tape recorders I came across the work of Joseph Hammer a Los Angeles improviser who works with tape loops on an Ampex 601. I was intrigued by his method, including the gloved hand, and wanted to try something similar.   

Three improvisations on 3 tracks. A long, layered background; a repeated short gesture recorded on a 10 second loop; and an animated improvisation using a 4 second loop. The sound source is a small modular synthesizer looped on an Ampex 601 tape recorder. Mixed in Audacity.

Reverse Delay for Ampex 601 tape recorder Disquiet0488

The Meta Monk Saga - Interdimensional Adventures

The Meta Monk awakens — a traveller between realms, carrying memories of countless lives and access to infinite knowledge. Guided by 100,000 years of hidden monk technology, he masters the fine arts of interdimensional travelling, crossing horizons where humanity meets its fate.

Through synchronicities and riddles, through sonic artefacts and citadels of frequency, the Meta Monk walks a path both timeless and uncharted. His journey is not only discovery but liberation — breaking the human cage and revealing the love of a free humankind. A saga told in sound, written across dimensions.

🎹️ Live-Music by Aentitaet 🎹️

Aentitaet is a Live-Music & Visual Artist creating psychedelic soundscapes with his own forged Hardware Synthesizers Set-Up. He'll give you a trip through the possibilities of velocities and tonal spheres as a Multi-Instrumentalist. He experiments live with the driving force of percussive Polyrhythms and Polymeters.

He invites you to "The Aentitaet Experience" with many concepts of dramaturgy and story-telling. Take a seat and listen to the psychedelic journey through the unheard realms of the meta. Float with him to the event horizon of human experience.

The audio is processed live with the RME UCX II in Studio Quality.
RME UCX II + BITWIG + ACCESS VIRUS TI2 + TR-8S + SP404 MK2 + Dirtywave M8 + Faderfox UC4 + Korg NTS-4 + MOOG Minitaur + TD-3 + Source Audio Atlas

More to come - so SUBSCRIBE and FOLLOW ME for more!
🪐️YouTube: www.youtube.com/@aentitaet
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01 Meta Monk Awakening

wasteland (MEGA SLOWED)

Avalanche!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥15/9/25.

Disquiet Junto Project 0467: Toolbox Show & Tell. The Assignment: Share a tip for making music that you learned during the pandemic.

80% of my music started on a cheap android DAW app called "Caustic". The sound is not perfect, but I like the workflow. Anyway, since 1 year or so I try to switch to Ableton Live. Because of the lockdown I had a lot of time to flatten the learning curve with this DAW.

My tip is about "Follow Action", to bee seen in the Clip Editor. Follow Action allows a clip to trigger other clips by probability, in the screen example of the track cover there is "play again" with prob 1, "play any other" with prob 2. The clip is one of of many clips which only contains some note on a scale or a chord.

Normally I somehow reject pure generative music, although I place a lot of value on chance in my own. It always seemed dishonorable to me to let a software (that I didn't write myself) generate music and claim this music to be "mine".

However, with "Follow Action" I have the possibility to achieve an (in my opinion) honorable mix of probabilities and composition.

In this case, there are different tracks with different signatures and different Gongs in A minor. I even added "empty" clips to get some "silence" into it. The probabilty for the different tracks differs, one could for example use one track to establish sequencial clip triggers, to include motives that are bigger than inside a bar.

(And please consider "honorable" a way to big word here…)

More on this 467th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Toolbox Show & Tell (The Assignment: Share a tip for making music that you learned during the pandemic), at:

https://disquiet.com/0467/

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:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0467-toolbox-show-tell/

Generative Gongs [disquiet0467]

The new artist is Northsir.  It's my last name, backwards, and somewhat spell-checked.

Northsir sits in his car "vocal booth" with an Android phone, bluetooth to the car's speakers, the Voloco app, and cranks out delayed Super Vocoder sounds.

Then Northsir takes those bits and hands them over to Mark Rushton who processes them into a not-Chopped but somewhat-Skewed track with multiple slow beats, reverse sub-bass, a sample of my disquiet0427 contribution "Noise Replacement", and a processed sample of Phil Kuhlenbeck's "Bitch You Off The Hook" - the backing track of which I made originally.  Mix about 16 tracks together in an hour, and here you go.

More on this 468th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mirror Rorrim (The Assignment: Create a new persona for yourself, and record a duet together), at:  https://disquiet.com/0468/

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

Off The Hook (disquiet0468)

For this collab I created a beautiful racket with someone close to me, THE_THE. The base for the track was some left over repeats in Mimeophon that had some gated noise being fed into it, so old looping feedback with new stacking clicks. Lots of modulation from around the rack was fed into Mimeophon.

After this, for the first time ever in the Junto, two more tracks were recorded with a Ciat-Londbarde Tetrax--the first multi-take, multi-part submission from me. I panned the three tracks slightly so they weren't sitting on top of each other, but they probably don't have enough space. That's okay. It was fun to make.

A CollAB (feat. THE_THE) (disquiet0468)

My submission for
Disquiet Junto Project 0468: Mirror Rorrim
The Assignment: Create a new persona for yourself, and record a duet together.
https://disquiet.com/0468/

Yourself New (disquiet0468)

SVELT(disquiet 0468)

I am not in the habit of using beats in my work but an alter ego has come up with a rhythm track & I have contributed a drone sequence.

More on this 468th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mirror Rorrim (The Assignment: Create a new persona for yourself, and record a duet together), at:

https://disquiet.com/0468/

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:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0468-mirror-rorrim/

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

Image associated with this project is by Timothy Takemoto, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/36f8r

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Split Persona (disquiet0468)

I used these two tracks as a starting point:  https://soundcloud.com/benn-demole/seven-strings-in-longji-disquiet0472 (mostly on the left channel);  https://soundcloud.com/noimspartacus/orphaned-loop-disquiet0472 (mostly on the right channel);  my contribution is in the centre.

More on this 474th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Police Action (3 of 3) / The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians – at:

https://disquiet.com/0474/

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:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0474-police-action/

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

Police Action (wayfare) (disquiet0474)

The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians.

A Disquiet Junto Project  collaboration with High Towers & Deep Wells (https://soundcloud.com/high-towers-deep-wells) and Torpid Scorpion (https://soundcloud.com/torpidscorpion). Added light drums and only re-used parts from the original track; pitched octave up or down; reversed. Some reverb.

Police Action (disquiet0474) with High Towers & Deep Wells and Torpid Scorpion

remix ofRay Cobley's Noise Tryptych https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley/noise-tryptich-disquiet0474?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0474

More on this 475th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Low End (4 of 3) / The Assignment: Remix a trio by doing forensics on its component parts — at:

https://disquiet.com/0475/

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:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0475-low-end/

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

Images associated with this project are by (left to right) Meg Jones, Israel Avila, and orangechallenger, all used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/mDRT9
https://flic.kr/p/5bFGMU
https://flic.kr/p/cGSjx7

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Asynchronic(disquiet0475)

This is a musical collage containing snippets from the following six instagram videos of mine

Cherry - https://www.instagram.com/p/CA-enWoHbHe/
Mahogany - https://www.instagram.com/p/CBVqhjJnSsj/
Fir - https://www.instagram.com/p/CBTBZSvnO2C/
Fern - https://www.instagram.com/p/CBs2tarhPdD/
Rosewood - https://www.instagram.com/p/CB-z9cMBbQj/
Guises - https://www.instagram.com/p/CBA-9C_nxZo/

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More on this 478th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Collage of Collages (The Assignment: Make a collage that will become part of a larger collage.) — at:

https://disquiet.com/0478/

The project is a collaboration with the radio show Kopfkino, initiated by Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka. More on Kopfkino at:

https://cba.fro.at/series/kopfkino

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:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0478-collage-of-collages/

Six Grams (disquiet0478)

Made with four instances on my korg wavestate

have fun

In The Wave Of State (disquiet0478)

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.

Split Persona (disquiet0468)

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