Disquiet Junto Project 0613: Test Drive
The Assignment: Do something you’ve been meaning to do.

Step 1: Think of something related to making music that you’ve been meaning to finally get around to.

Step 2: Do it. Don’t worry about messing up.

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Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, October 2, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, September 28, 2023.

More on this 613th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Test Drive (The Assignment: The Assignment: Do something you’ve been meaning to do), at: https://disquiet.com/0613/

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Disquiet Junto Project 0613: Test Drive

Something I've been meaning to do is explore the (electric) upright bass, which has hardly been used over the years it's been in the house. A disquiet YouTube video is also well overdue and I have also been meaning to experiment with a bottleneck on bass ... So, this is a triple whammy of stuff I've been wanting to get around to ...

Check out the accompanying video @ https://youtu.be/dJRC3Uw-EhQ

More on this 613th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Test Drive (The Assignment: The Assignment: Do something you’ve been meaning to do), at: https://disquiet.com/0613/

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visuals (YouTube)

halF tesT [disquiet0613]

Kibera (disquiet0613)

a reworked version now appears on:

https://howthenightcame.bandcamp.com/album/hostile-architects

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first time layering two sampled drum beats

More on this 613th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Test Drive (The Assignment: The Assignment: Do something you’ve been meaning to do), at: https://disquiet.com/0613/

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[disquiet0613] test drive

A have a few tracks in hand that I have been meaning to upload & this prompt gives me the opportunity to post this one. It is a live electronic composition in quasi-serialist mode created in Pure Data.

More on this 613th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Test Drive (The Assignment: The Assignment: Do something you’ve been meaning to do), at: https://disquiet.com/0613/

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Insouciant (disquiet0613)

I decided to test drive Enso Looper, which I bought a while ago but never properly used. So as in a proper test drive, I (briefly) consulted the manual, took the wheel, hit the gas pedal (record) and went for it. No change of course or second takes allowed. After this test drive I still don’t properly understand how Enso should be used - but something came out of it. Next step (maybe): read the manual again.

More on this 613th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Test Drive (The Assignment: The Assignment: Do something you’ve been meaning to do), at: https://disquiet.com/0613/

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

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Disquiet0613 - Singular Brushstroke

Last Beautiful Day

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.

Last Beautiful Day

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