Disquiet Junto Project 0597: Goal Line
The Assignment: Get started on a plan by getting over getting started.

Step 1: For a lot of people right now, it’s around the start of summer. For many of them, it can mean the start of one plan or another. You may very well have musical goals for the next few months. Think of one to focus on.

Step 2: Don’t wait. Record one piece of music that kick-starts whatever goal you’re working toward. Often the first step is the most difficult. Take that step.

This week’s project takes the start of summer as its theme. And if it’s the start of winter where you are, instead, I hope that it can still apply.

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, June 12, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, June 8, 2023.

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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Disquiet Junto Project 0597: Goal Line

[disquiet0597] Aight Jump

I've been meaning to engage with NI Playbox for a while now ... coupled with needing to start work on some of the video projects planned for the halF unusuaL YouTube channel, including this recording of a bee harvesting pollen from the first poppy to flower in the back garden ... https://youtu.be/I983Kk6enPI

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/

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

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0597-goal-line/

visuals (YouTube)

halF goaL [disquiet0597]

Among other projects, I intend to work on a range of tracks using Pure Data. This is is a live sequence recently created.

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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Gravity (disquiet0597)

A few minutes from my practice session with a simple improvisation setup: a portable electric piano through overdrive & compressor through tape delay.

I simply in love with how the stereo phaser & tremolo of the electric piano sound get transformed into that overdriven electric guitar soundscape that is constantly undulating and moving.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0597: Goal Line
The Assignment: Get started on a plan by getting over getting started.

Step 1: For a lot of people right now, it’s around the start of summer. For many of them, it can mean the start of one plan or another. You may very well have musical goals for the next few months. Think of one to focus on.

Step 2: Don’t wait. Record one piece of music that kick-starts whatever goal you’re working toward. Often the first step is the most difficult. Take that step.

This week’s project takes the start of summer as its theme. And if it’s the start of winter where you are, instead, I hope that it can still apply.

Support Your Local Sunrise [disquiet0597]

Ten days ago, summer started here with lovely warm weather, so this prompt is spot on. My goals were the following:
- Try out the new Microfreak firmware
- Be spontaneous, no DAW, plugins, iPad
- Use Bastl Dude, the two Kastles and Monome Norns
First, I tried to find a not too harsh rhythm on the Kastle Drum, then I connected it to the original Kastle to add a bassline. Next I improvised to this with one of the new Microfreak patches. I ran everything through Norns RPLS and recorded to tape. The first recording was a bit so-so, so I tried to find a better rhythm on the Kastle. But as always: turn one knob one mm and there is no way back to what you had before. So I ended up on a Kastle Odyssee of knobs and tiny patch cables, various short and long takes until for some reason the Kastle generated some sort of melody which finally led to the result you can hear now.

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/

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

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Generative Chords Variations No. 1 (disquiet0597)

Rob Precht