Name: Disquiet Junto Project #0564: Octave Lept by RPLKTR in Disquiet Junto Project 0564: Octave Lept
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Disquiet Junto Project 0564: Octave Lept
The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music.

This project has just one step: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music.

The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2. The prompt: “octave leap.”

Details at disquiet.com/0564

Disquiet Junto Project 0564: Octave Lept

Electronic sequences created in Pure Data & edited with Audacity, the 2nd & 4th sections one octave higher.

More on this 564th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Octave Lept (The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music) – at: https://disquiet.com/0564/

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-0564-octave-lept/

The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2. The prompt: “octave leap.”

8 - Up (disquiet0564)

for the disquiet junto //

arrangement of a classical piece, in half time, with an octave leap

Floating Through

[disquiet0564] Floating Through

The one instruction for this week's Disquiet Junto assignment was to use an octave leap, which is something I quite often do anyway. 

So, I just set about writing a new track without thinking too hard about the brief. I actually started with the percussion that shows up later in the track.

The root on the opening part steps down an octave before introducing the next chord in the progression.

A two-note synth part is just the minor 7 on two octaves (with a major 6 once for colour - still fits the Dorian mode but is pretty HELLO when it shows up imo).

A second synth part doubles the guitar harmonic sounds, coming in via an opening low-pass filter. That synth part has its pitch modulated by a little step sequence, so it steps up one or two octaves, and the rate at which that's happening in shifting about. That part then runs into a delay (Valhalla Delay) which as a descending octave shift in the feedback patch.

A synth bass part arrives later that is just sustained notes following the root of each chord, but an arpeggiator steps up and down an octave. Kind of like with the pitch modulation on the other synth, the tempo of the arpeggiator is being modulated by an LFO, then quantised, to make it less synth disco / Girls & Boys.

More on this 564th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Octave Lept (The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music) — at: https://disquiet.com/0564/

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-0564-octave-lept/

The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2. The prompt: “octave leap.”

[disquiet0565] Octave Leapt

Jet Jaguar - Sound 1 [disquiet0564] (Free download)

This track is part of Disquiet Junto Project #0564: Octave Lept. See more at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0564-octave-lept/59085

Disquiet Junto Project #0564: Octave Lept

Disquiet Junto Project 0564: Octave Lept
The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music.

I used a track on which I was already working on and added automatic tools to randomly add or substract up to two octaves to all tracks. The probability was chosen so that the octave jumps should go unnoticed.

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Track cover based on image from Dall-E2 prompting "Sudden jumps, not too hefty, edward hopper". This tool is so much fun!

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More on this 564th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Octave Lept (The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music) — at: https://disquiet.com/0564/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0564-octave-lept/

Krakenkraft-Disquiet

Sudden Jumps, Not Too Hefty [disquiet0564]

[disquiet0564] Royal Road

I thought I'd share this track with you having just discovered the tragic news that Nick is no longer with us. RIP Nick I never said thanks for putting us on the guest list at The Paradsio, Amsterdam in 2012 for your Gravenhurst show at London Rocks. 

Nick and I spoke about four weeks ago about these lost Assembly Communications tracks from 1996. I sent Nick the wav files as he wanted to enjoy his first band again, we never did establish what he intended to do with them. I'm sure Nick wouldn't mind me sharing one of them with you now in celebration of a true talent. Nick Bristol salutes you sir.
Mike Darby www.bristolarchiverecords.com 

Nick Talbot with Assembly Communications - Helicopter Spies - Live

Selected Ambient Works Volume II

2025-01-16

At High Tide

Inspired by Night Note (@mmastalka) who incorporates nature like sounds in their compositions I thought would give it a try too.

This song is mostly a Korg Volca Drum with some Yamaha Bells added in. The Volca Drum is pretty powerful for such a small package. While it only has 16 steps in its sequencer it has the ability to add probability to each step so the pattern doesn't get too repetitive. It has the ability to play pitched notes and the only thing it is lacking is the ability to play pitched notes via midi in its multi channel mode.

Amonst the Rushes (naviarhaiku576)

another one from my colours series..enjoy
available in 24bit 96khz:
https://30gradx.bandcamp.com/track/colours-summer-sky

Colours - Summer Sky

Composed and performed by DD, early 2025
Ukuleles, charango, ronroco, bass pulse

Photo by Andrew Small

for https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0684-early-bird

Lightness - disquiet0684

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 06 Feb 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, reverb, echo. 

Artwork/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, 12 Mar 2016, Massapequa, NY, USA

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “Decaying A Little More Each Day” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0684: Early Bird. The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening.

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

More on the 684th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Early Bird — The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening — at https://disquiet.com/0684/

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Decaying A Little More Each Day (disquiet0684)

In response to this week's @disquiet projetc, using six Alchemy presets on Logic Pro X I tried to capture that brief moment after dreaming upon awakening. More on the 684th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Early Bird — The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening — at https://disquiet.com/0684/

early bird (disquiet0684)

Composed, performed  by BardoCorda
For Hania.

Spectrone

AFR4

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.

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