More on this 189th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a dense stack of attack-free tonal material from one audio source”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/08/13/disquiet0189-tonelayer/

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:

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Disquiet Junto Project 0189: Tone Layer

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

[disquiet junto]

"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]

A quick demo of three layers of a wavetable synth patch I've been working on for another piece.

The only difference between each instance of the instrument is filter settings.

"Many" loops became 3 in this compressed scale.
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More on this 189th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a dense stack of attack-free tonal material from one audio source”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/08/13/disquiet0189-tonelayer/

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/

[Disquiet's] Image associated with this project by Nicholas D., and used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/ca1iLd


fairchild demo [disquiet0189-tonelayer]

edit: re-posted because i realized i could combine all 4 takes together

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simple modular patch
shapeshifter played with pressure points
envelope from quadra
echophon as a looper and erbeverb as the only effect

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Disquiet Junto Project 0189: Tone Layer
Create a dense stack of attack-free tonal material from one audio source.

This project involves layering loops, or a loop of layers. It’s preferable that you do so with live looping, allowing the layers to accrue in real time. However, if live looping is not a capacity of yours, then feel free, certainly, to layer them in Audacity or by some other means.

These are the steps:

Step 1: Choose an instrument that can create extended tones.

Step 2: Record a short loop of a single held tone on that instrument. Use a volume pedal or other tool to eliminate the attack at the start of the tone.

Step 3: Create many more such loops, all with the same instrument, and layer them atop the original loop.

Step 4: Record a document of these layered loops lasting approximately 1 minute.

Step 5: Upload your completed track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 6: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

More on this 189th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a dense stack of attack-free tonal material from one audio source”) at:
disquiet.com/2015/08/13/disquiet0189-tonelayer/

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/


threads [disquiet0189-tonelayer]

After an 1 hour messing around with the modular trying to figure out a ridiculously complex way of doing this week's task; I gave up and did this Basinski -style thing in 10 minutes with my new lapsteel guitar and a forthcoming software looper whose name I'm not allowed to mention yet...
The track was done in real time. (Hence the fact it's more than 1 minute long) The guitar was processed through Native Instruments Guitar Rig 5 and I added some Tape delay, Eq and Limiting in Ableton Live.

More on this 189th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a dense stack of attack-free tonal material from one audio source”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/08/13/disquiet0189-tonelayer/

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/

Image associated with this project by Nicholas D., and used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/ca1iLd

Sediment Layers (disquiet0189-tonelayer)

Looped the viola a number of times live - some with 100% wet signal from a couple of delay and reverb pedals and some 100% dry. I liked the effect of hearing the layers build up, but due to the time constraint of 1:00 I selected a chunk in the middle  of the piece before it got a bit too cacophonous and muddy (I may have got carried away with the number of loops I had running towards the end...)

More on this 189th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a dense stack of attack-free tonal material from one audio source”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2015/08/13/disquiet0189-tonelayer/

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/

Image associated with this project by Nicholas D., and used thanks to a Creative Commons license:
https://flic.kr/p/ca1iLd

Slap Another One On There Disquiet0189 - Tonelayer

**Production Notes**

There’s a nice little free Reaktor ensemble, which I used for this piece. It’s called vFripp. It combines a synth with a frippertronic style mono delay. 

Played for 5 minutes to build up something, then let the loops flow. 

Maybe I put up the longer version, also. 

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** Disquiet Junto Project 0189: Tone Layer**


Create a dense stack of attack-free tonal material from one audio source.

This project involves layering loops, or a loop of layers. It’s preferable that you do so with live looping, allowing the layers to accrue in real time. However, if live looping is not a capacity of yours, then feel free, certainly, to layer them in Audacity or by some other means.

These are the steps:

Step 1: Choose an instrument that can create extended tones.

Step 2: Record a short loop of a single held tone on that instrument. Use a volume pedal or other tool to eliminate the attack at the start of the tone.

Step 3: Create many more such loops, all with the same instrument, and layer them atop the original loop.

Step 4: Record a document of these layered loops lasting approximately 1 minute. 

Step 5: Upload your completed track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 6: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This assignment was made in the afternoon, California time, on Thursday, August 13, 2015, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, August 17, 2015.

Length: The length of your finished work should be roughly one minute.

(…)

More on this 189th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a dense stack of attack-free tonal material from one audio source”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/08/13/disquiet0189-tonelayer/ 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/

Image associated with this project by Nicholas D., and used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/ca1iLd 
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Fripp’s Layer Cake [disquiet0189-tonelayer]

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. 
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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.