Disquiet Junto Project 0609: Speed Limit Pt 1
The Assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it.

Step 1: You’re going to record a simple track at 60 BPM in 4/4 that will be reworked subsequently by other musicians, including potentially being combined with other tracks. Think about how you want to structure something with that intention.

Step 2: Record a 60 BPM track in 4/4 based on the thinking that resulted from Step 1.

Note: This is the first part of a two-part project. You don’t need to participate in both. In the Junto, all projects are intended to be doable as standalones. However, there often are sequences. The intended second project of this project, next week, will build on this one, so please consider making your track downloadable and available for reworking/remixing.

Track notes:
 
I started by creating some simple 60bpm arpeggiated sequences on a Microkorg and improvised over the top of this with synth, guitar and a vibraphone patch. To top it off and give the track something a bit asynchronous, I added an 1950s field recording of a Australian Blue Faced Honeyeater, which provides a playful - and oddly complimentary - counterpoint to the otherwise rigid arrangement. 

This recording has 32 bars of the 60bpm track with no fades.

[Disquiet_Junto_0609] Refactored Drift (60 bpm)

Tristan Louth-Robins is a South Australian artist working principally in the medium of sound art and field recording. Ideas of sound and its signification are key elements in Louth-Robins' practice, traversing the space between the visual and aural his work is realised through the mediums of recordings, installation, visual art and performance. He is interested in sound and its associative implications - including its relationship to objects, technology, urban space, memory and the natural world. 


Since 2005, Louth-Robins has presented work in Australia and internationally as a solo artist, whilst also collaborating with artists, writers, researchers, musicians and performers. 

Working across a vast array of activities encompassing composition, sound design, installation art, field recording and workshops, his work has been featured in events such as the Adelaide Festival of Arts (2006), The National Regional Arts Festival (2012), Mildura-Wentworth Arts Festival (2013), Fairfax Festival (2013) and Adelaide Fringe Festival (2014); and selected works exhibited at galleries including The Australian Experimental Art Foundation (2009), SASA Gallery (2012, 2015), Light Square Gallery (2012) and FELT Space (2015). His audio works have been broadcast on radio including Radio National, Classic FM, The BBC (UK), Acoustic Frontiers (USA) and RBB (Germany).

M. Ackerman's second page, mostly for Disquiet Junto pieces projects.

mikey_a is an ambient and soundscape artist living in Melbourne, Australia.
Though now producing mainly in the box with a mix of VST and field recordings he still likes to occasionally crank out some of the physical treasures he's owned since the '80s: a Korg MonoPoly, a Roland TR-606, TB-303, S-10 and D-110 along with a TEAC 3440 reel-to-reel.
He is a frequent contributor to the Naviar Records' Haiku Challenge and Disquiet Junto projects.

Satoshi Sugiyama creates handmade books and music with his family in the small studio “Bonami” in Manazuru, Japan. He learned letterpress printing, hand-binding and playing the guitar on his own.
6 books and 3 music albums were released by Bonami so far.

Brillman has been an electronic online musician during the last 20 years using many different names: Brillman, Controlfreak, freakcontrol, Red Karma, Atmosphere, Zero Loop, Pan64, Randomcontrol, geometric delay and Superfreak! Brillman mainly creates original sounds from hardware synths but also uses guitar, samplers, vocals or even poetry. He primarily utilizes a 4 to the floor approach. The aesthetics behind the music is about finding a balance between minimalism vs. depth & improvisation vs. programmed.

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Influences: Eno, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, The Associates, Joy Division, Roxy Music, Bowie, Chemical Brothers, Frank Zappa, Hendrix, ELP, Polygon Window, G. Mahler, A. Bruckner, L.V. Beethoven, E. Satie, FSOL, The Orb, Laurie Anderson, Vangelis, Underworld, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Beck, Rory Gallagher, Miles Davis, Massive Attack, Black Sabbath, Prince, Sade, Etienne de Crecy, Daft Punk, Plastikman, Monolake, Japan, Pink Floyd, Resistance D, Talking Heads, Hawkwind, Gary Numan, J.M.Jarre…

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Synthesizers used (past or present):

Kawai K4
Korg Wavestation
Korg Wavestation SR
Kawai K3m
Kawai K4r
Yamaha AN200
Yamaha DX-7
Yamaha TG-500
Oberheim Matrix 1000
Roland SC-55
Roland JV1010
Roland JV1080
Roland JV2080
Korg M3r
Korg MS-20 mini
Roland D-110
Roland D2
Roland MC-505
Roland MC-09
Roland MC-808
Roland TB3
Korg ER-1
Korg MS2000r
Korg microkorg
Korg Kaossilator
E-MU Mophatt
E-MU Planet Earth
E-MU Proteus 1/2
E-MU Proteus 2000
Vermona DRM-1 mk iv
Waldorf Blofeld
Waldorf Pulse 2
Moog Subharmonicon
Moog Labyrinth
Moog Mavis
Freebass FB-383
Behringer TD3
Behringer Neutron
Behringer model D
Behringer K2
Behringer Syncussion SY-1
Arturia Microbrute
Arturia Minibrute 2s
Arturia Microfreak
Elektron Cycles
Elektron Digitone
Behringer Crave
Behringer Edge
Novation Mininova
Clavia Micro modular
Clavia Nord rack 2
Access Virus Snow
Twisted Electrons MEGAfm

M. Ackerman (formerly modus pony) is an instrumental composer and multi-instrumentalist. He likes toast with peanut butter and a little honey.