More on this 104th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a 2013 audio diary with a dozen five-second segments”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/12/26/disquiet0104-audiojournal2013/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Photo associated with this project found via Creative Commons at:

http://goo.gl/AuZpPf

Disquiet Junto Project 0104: 2013 in 60 Seconds

tracks for the Disquiet Junto group
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

[disquiet junto]

"This week’s project is a sound journal, an audio history of the past year. You will select a different audio element to represent each of the past 12 months of 2013. You will then select one 5-second segment from each of these audio elements. Then you will stitch these dozen 5-second segments together in chronological order to form 1 single 1-minute track. There should be no overlap or gap between segments; they should simply proceed from one to the next."

I chose excerpts of 12 commercially unreleased tracks and recordings I made during 2013.  

As I have said in the past - "I make way too much electronic music."

Recordings are:

0:00 to 0:05 - "Galloping A Little" - a variation on the crazy 18 minute track "Galloping Again" from my album Crackle And Drift - I owe a significant debt to Fenn O'Berg on that one.

0:05 to 0:10 - "Ghosts of the Woods" - it goes on like that for 13 minutes.

0:10 to 0:15 - "Losting (version 5)" - poor recording but an interesting effect.  A couple variations of Losting will be released on an EP in very early 2014.  They're different than this, and very beautiful.

0:15 to 0:20 - "Snowflakes (version 3)" - If I find something I like, I keep working and reworking it.  The original version of Snowflakes will be released on an EP in early 2014.

0:20 to 0:25 - "EBG" - stands for electronic bluegrass.  I was messing with some blues loops in Samplr and it ended up kind-of bluegrass-like.  Interesting, but I won't be releasing that.

0:25 to 0:30 - me testing sound levels when Jon Harnish and I recorded in June at EEC in Iowa City.

0:30 to 0:35 - "Hollows" - an edited track from the same session with Jon.

0:35 to 0:40 - "Seven Sea" - Jon and I making magic happen live at EEC.

0:40 to 0:45 - Jon talking to Stephanie while I do a little demo of my iPad controlling Ableton Live.

0:45 to 0:50 - an untitled sketch from August 25th.  My archives are filled with this sort of stuff.

0:50 to 0:55 - "Laundromat" - a finished track that is waiting around and I'm unsure about releasing.

0:55 to 1:00 - "Assistance" - a Samplr-based remix of loops I used in my 2004 track "Adventitious", which is very heavily blues-based.  This will eventually be released, unless I can make something even better based on the same recordings.

Picture of the Soundcloud merch was taken by me and is via Instagram.  Soundcloud sent a nice care package this summer.  The t-shirt was excellent, a fine quality fabric from American Apparel.

For more about me and my music, visit:  http://markrushton.com/  or join my mailing list at http://mailinglist.markrushton.com/

More on this 104th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a 2013 audio diary with a dozen five-second segments”) at:  http://disquiet.com/2013/12/26/disquiet0104-audiojournal2013/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:  http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:  http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Mark Rushton Unreleased From 2013 (disquiet0104-audiojournal2013)

2013 is ending, so I wanna wish everyone another wonderful and productive year ahead! It's kind of interesting to review what I have over worked on over a year. Not only did it make me realize that I have a lot of WIP (Work-In-Progress) or unreleased work, it sums up the journey of my music-making so far…

The Snippets are:

 Jan - Chickie Chickie (WIP) 
Feb - Tito Lopez - I Got Blue (A remix I submitted for competition)  
 Mar - Light Seeping In (Unreleased) 
Apr - Vijaya Dharni (WIP)  
May - Iphone Recording of My Fan  
 Jun  - Pika Pika (WIP)
Jul - Regulator (WIP) 
Aug - Too Active (WIP) 
Sep - Drone out (WIP)
Oct - I Wish (WIP) 
Nov - Chang'e (Released in MINDPORT EP) 
Dec - Disquiet Junto 101 (Switch On / Off)

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More on this 104th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a 2013 audio diary with a dozen five-second segments”) at >> disquiet.com/2013/12/26/disquie…-audiojournal2013/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at >>disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at >> soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/


2013 In 60 Seconds [ disquiet0104-audiojournal2013 ]

2013 was a great year - I did so much work, played great concerts and got to travel a bit. I loved every minute of it…I decided to open up (and close) this journal with the one thing that really made a difference for me in 2013…thank you Marc for all the energy you must put into the Junto…
0:00 to 0:05 From 2 fingers 9 pianos and no screws disquiet0055-twoscrews
0:05 to 0:10 Hydrophone recording of snow/snowing
0:10 to 0:15 Fieldrecording of a transformerstation 
0:15 to 0.20 Live recording from a concert I gave in Copenhagen with Tore H. Boe playing his acoustic laptop
0:20 to 0:25 From my piece Sound of Kartofler  - that became a part of the release of Danish Soundart 2013 after being a part of the show "Kartofler is Coming" 
0:25 to 0:30 A collage made from recordings at the Emil Nolde museum in North Germany
0:30 to 0:35 Fieldrecording from Panera Bread in B'kln NY
0:35 to 0:40 Recording of wheat kernels popping in the sun behind my house
0:40 to 0:45 I worked most of September on a piece based on and inspired by an art book by Ken Denning titled "My Landscape" paintings, photos and prints of the landscape around the village where we both iive.
0:45 to 0:50 My contribution to the Extrospection groups October call (and the Junto # 0095)
0:50 to 0:55 Part of an etude based on a recording I made in Venice at the Art Bienale   
0:55 to 1:00 Disquiet Junto number 103 tinselsong
Happy new year to all /Robert

Disquiet Junto Project 0104: 2013 in 60 Seconds

This week’s project is a sound journal, an audio history of the past year. You will select a different audio element to represent each of the past 12 months of 2013. You will then select one 5-second segment from each of these audio elements. Then you will stitch these dozen 5-second segments together in chronological order to form 1 single 1-minute track. There should be no overlap or gap between segments; they should simply proceed from one to the next.

These audio elements will most likely be of music that you have yourself composed and recorded, but they might also consist of phone messages, field recordings, or other source material. These items should be somehow personal in nature, suitable to the autobiographical intention of the project; they should preferably of your own making, and not drawn from third-party sources.

Deadline: Monday, December 30, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your finished work should be 60 seconds long.

Information: Please, when posting your track on SoundCloud, list the source of each of the 12 elements.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0104-audiojournal2013” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting your track, be sure to include this information:

More on this 104th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a 2013 audio diary with a dozen five-second segments”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/12/26/disquiet0104-audiojournal2013/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Photo associated with this project found via Creative Commons at:

http://goo.gl/AuZpPf

*Disquiet Junto Project 0104: 2013 in 60 Seconds*

This was a lot of fun. What a crazy trip this year has been. It started out in Haiti (where the second sound clip is from). After that I headed across the U.S. landing in Alaska for a gig at a lodge. Then I spent some time in Utah and California, before heading home (to Maine). Over the course of this year I have had one split/collab release, I've been on 6 different compilations, and submitted work to countless Disquiet Junto Projects. 2013 has probably been one of my most fruitful years. And here I had thought all this travel would hinder my creative work. 

More at: 
http://subversiveintentions.wordpress.com/

More on this 104th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a 2013 audio diary with a dozen five-second segments”) at:


http://disquiet.com/2013/12/26/disquiet0104-audiojournal2013/


More details on the Disquiet Junto at:


http://disquiet.com/?p=16588


Join the Disquiet Junto at:


http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/


Photo associated with this project found via Creative Commons at:


http://goo.gl/AuZpPf

Fiftwa Upon (disquiet0104-audiojournal2013)

The final Disquiet Junto track for this year. Select one track from each month, and select 5 seconds from each one of those tracks.

It's a great assignment as it makes you go over what was done, and it's interesting to see the overall direction changes but at the same time you have some elements that keep reappearing in later tracks... And it was also interesting to notice how some months were much more productive and some not so much - I had to make one track public as there was nothing else for that month. And it's really cool that several of the tracks selected were either done for Disquiet Junto, or were inspired by it.

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Tracklist:

http://soundcloud.com/scannerdarkly/as-he-quietly-moves
http://soundcloud.com/scannerdarkly/serenity
http://soundcloud.com/scannerdarkly/bells
http://soundcloud.com/scannerdarkly/since-it-happened
http://soundcloud.com/scannerdarkly/you-do-disquiet0070
http://soundcloud.com/scannerdarkly/a-scanner-darkly-109
http://soundcloud.com/scannerdarkly/closer
http://soundcloud.com/scannerdarkly/hyper-loop-disquiet0086
http://soundcloud.com/scannerdarkly/optimize
http://soundcloud.com/scannerdarkly/chrome4
http://soundcloud.com/scannerdarkly/a-scanner-darkly-i-am
http://soundcloud.com/scannerdarkly/distance

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Disquiet Junto Project 0104: 2013 in 60 Seconds

This week’s project is a sound journal, an audio history of the past year. You will select a different audio element to represent each of the past 12 months of 2013. You will then select one 5-second segment from each of these audio elements. Then you will stitch these dozen 5-second segments together in chronological order to form 1 single 1-minute track. There should be no overlap or gap between segments; they should simply proceed from one to the next.

These audio elements will most likely be of music that you have yourself composed and recorded, but they might also consist of phone messages, field recordings, or other source material. These items should be somehow personal in nature, suitable to the autobiographical intention of the project; they should preferably of your own making, and not drawn from third-party sources.

More on this 104th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a 2013 audio diary with a dozen five-second segments”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/12/26/disquiet0104-audiojournal2013/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

over and out [disquiet0104-audiojournal2013]

"They encounter
A cathedral of ice
At the end of the world"

                       Nite Rote

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my first contribution to NaviarHaiku group.

a recording of ice cubes in a glass Paul Stretched
a recording of obsidian windchime pitched down
additional sounds from SonicCouture music box and Gamelan libraries
Ableton Live reverb

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Disquiet Junto Project 0117: Naviar Junto Haiku

This week’s project involves members of the Disquiet Junto participating in another music-making community: the Naviar Haiku Project. Already members of the Junto have joined in the Naviar, and this is an opportunity to add to those ranks. Each week participants in the Naviar Haiku Project compose original pieces of music in response to a shared, provided haiku. The following are the steps for this week.

Step 1: This is the haiku for the 12th Naviar Haiku project entry:

“They encounter
A cathedral of ice
At the end of the world”

Step 2: Compose an original piece of music in response.

Step 3: Upload the file to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud and describe your approach and process in the text field associated with the track.

Step 4: Also consider uploading the file to the Naviar Laboratory group on SoundCloud.

Step 5: Listen to other members’ tracks as they appear in the Disquiet Junto feed on SoundCloud, and comment on them when you have the time.

Additional Background: (1) At the end of every month a selection of tracks will be available on Naviar’s Bandcamp page as a pay-what-you-want album. (2) The haiku by Nite Rote. (3) The Naviar deadline is Wednesday, April 2, but this Junto project is to be completed by March 31. (4) The haiku was inspired by Werner Herzog’s documentary Encounters at the End of the World.

More on this 117th Disquiet Junto project — “Compose an original piece of music in response to a haiku” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/03/27/disquiet0117-naviarjunto/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Join the Naviar Haiku Project at:
https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

More on Naviar at:
http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/

Haiku by Nite Rote, more from whom at:
http://niterote.com/

Picture by Chris Zielecki 

obsidian [naviarhaiku012 – they encounter / disquiet0117-naviarjunto]

the main idea for this track was to build a patch on the eurorack modular that would involve joystick, and replicate the swype gesture with joystick

the main sound is played on Sidrassi, which has 7 wooden barres with attached piezo elements which you play by touching, pressing or simply tapping

so, another association for the task - 7 letters in the word "silence", 7 keys on Sidrassi, the way it invites you to play is by interacting with the barres, and one of the techniques is to leave your fingers on the barres and just change the pressure, something that is related to the "swype" gesture

finally, this track is about 2 people not being able to express themselves in words anymore so they have to speak in silence, using their gestures only.

the patch: Sidrassi goes through some effects, and also through some eurorack effects, including ADDAC Filterbank, which outputs envelopes based on different frequency bands. these envelopes in turn control everything else in the patch together with the joystick. the second voice is the Braids oscillator in Flute mode. joystick modulates the geometry and the air pressure parameters. i repeat the gesture for "silence" twice throughout the track.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0146: Swyping Silence

The Assignment: Make a short piece of music based on a typographic symbol for the word “silence.”

In this week’s project a symbol for the word “silence” will be probed for its sonic associations. The image is available at this URL: http://goo.gl/swcNxA

As is evident in the image, this is the “Swype” gesture for the word “silence.” Swype is an alternate text-entry system in which a single stroke along the various keys that spell a word trigger the word’s appearance, in contrast with the traditional keyboarding method of typing with one keystroke after another. The resulting symbols for words can take on a certain familiarity and even a kind of enchantment as time passes and frequency of use increases. The symbol that results from the word “silence” has many characteristics, including bit not restricted to the sideways hourglass timer, the inherent asymmetry, and the mix of sharp angles and curves.

The steps for this week’s project are as follows:

Step 1: Consider the symbol that results from using the Swype technique to enter the word “silence” on a keyboard, as shown in image at this URL: http://goo.gl/swcNxA

Step 2: Develop sonic associations with this symbol.

Step 3: Produce a short piece of music informed by those associations.

Step 4: Upload the finished track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 5: Listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

More on this 146th Disquiet Junto project — “Make a short piece of music based on a typographic symbol for the word ‘silence’″ — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/10/16/disquiet0146-swypingsilence/

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

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
http://disquiet.com/forums/

speak in silence [disquiet0146-swypingsilence]

this was a fun task to do, the hardest part was to stop and record

the idea was to make a subtly non repeatable pattern
Guru plays 2x16 patterns and 1x14 pattern
+ Synplant
+ outboard effects

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Disquiet Junto Project 0153: Groove Lock
The Assignment: Record a short sound intended to be set on repeat.

SoundCloud recently introduced the ability for a track to be looped on the website. That is, the listener can hit a button (details at disquiet.com/QVvCF) and the track will play over and over. This week’s project will make use of that feature. This week’s project will also, I should note, inform next week’s project. But you can do next week’s without doing this week’s, and vice-versa.

Step 1: Record a short, original piece of music/sound of between roughly 3 and 9 seconds intended to be set on repeat.

Step 2: Upload the finished track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 3: Listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

More on this 153rd Disquiet Junto project — “Record a short sound intended to be set on repeat” — at:
disquiet.com/2014/12/04/disquiet0153-groovelock/

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

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
disquiet.com/forums/

Image associated with this project by Stuart R Brown:
flic.kr/p/mFQC3

disquiet0153-groovelock
quantum [disquiet0153-groovelock] by scanner darkly is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence.

quantum [disquiet0153-groovelock]

one thing i wish the html5drummachine had would be mute buttons, but then again it's about the limitations in this case

(another limitation i discovered by pressing Backspace before i saved)

additional limitation was not using perc1, perc2 and crash sounds from the techno pack as i couldn't fit them in any way

some programming on the fly and also since it can switch between 2 patterns i took advantage of that

no layering, no additional processing, direct output from the browser

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Disquiet Junto Project 0169: HTML505
Make a track using only an HTML5 drum machine.

Step 1: Go to the following webpage in a browser that supports HTML5:
http://html5drummachine.com

Step 2: Create an original track using only this tool.

Step 3: Upload your track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 4: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This assignment was made in the evening, California time, on Thursday, March 26, 2015, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, March 30, 2015.

Length: The length of your finished work should be roughly between one and four minutes.

More on this 169th Disquiet Junto project — “Make a track using only an HTML5 drum machine” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2015/03/26/disquiet0169-html505/

More on the drum machine at:
http://html5drummachine.com/

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

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
http://disquiet.com/forums/

antipattern [disquiet0169-html505]

This is a track for Disquiet Junto group. This week's task was to create a track using only sounds from 2 tracks ("Do" and "Re") from the free solo piano album 'Screws' by Nils Frahm. 

You can here the album here: https://soundcloud.com/erasedtapes/sets/nils-frahm-screws

The inspiration for this track was the idea behind the album. From the description:

"Nils experienced an unfortunate accident which saw him fall from his bunk bed located directly above his studio, which resulted in a broken thumb. 
...
With four screws surgically placed inside his thumb, he started recording with his remaining 9 fingers, what later resulted in 9 intimate piano recordings."

I imagined what would happen to somebody who couldn't play music anymore, sitting by the piano many years later, trying to remember one of his tunes and trying to play it again.

For this track I cut up the original recordings and rearranged the bits in Ableton Live and then recorded it additionally processing it through BugBrand modular, Cocoquantus and A/DA Stereo Tapped Delay.


More on this 55th Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/01/17/disquiet0055-twoscrews/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

More on the Frahm project at:
http://reworked.nilsfrahm.com/

broken [disquiet0055-twoscrews]

i write music and code that writes music. all tracks with a very few exceptions are under CC license and downloadable, so remixes / overdubs / collaborations are always encouraged.