Just a rough draft idea for a song I've been kicking around recently. Just a draft recording.

Surrender of Me

Track15 (Unit 12)

Track13 (Unit 10)

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The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians.

I went with the intriguing collaboration track: https://soundcloud.com/chaonaut/placebo-effect-restled-disquiet0473?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0473 My contribution is panned dead center.

More on this 474th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Police Action (3 of 3) / The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians – at:

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Police Action - Fever with Stray wool & chaonaut (Centered) (disquiet0474)

This is a submission for the Disquiet Junto 0474: Police Action

I built this track from the excellent collaboration of @daniel-diaz and @forcedamage from Junto 0473. Respect.

Fifths Damage (https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/fifths-damage-21012021-disquiet0473) had a very strong western feel, and also a feeling of being balanced between sentiment and action. We are each trapped in a dynamic equilibrium that gets us through the day, but the ground is shifting and the system is out of balance. The Ostrich is one of the last remaining flightless birds; surely that is not our fate? Make a plan.

I added a rhythm track to what I received, starting with the output form the Logic Drummer in hip-hop mode and then editing the results until they locked to the groove that was there, choosing a nice acoustic kit emulation, and running the track through a Fatso EL7X. Other tools used included a coles 4038, an iphone, Phil Moore's excellent Retro PowerStrip, an A&H board, Valhalla plugins, and Ozone for a quick and dirty mastering pass.

The lyrics came from the feeling above, and from fighting off stockholm syndrome from all the decades since Reagan and Thatcher.

The samples are from the 'crying indian' public service announcement of the last century, and the extinction rebellion of this century.

- Torpid Scorpion


More on this 474th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Police Action (3 of 3) / The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians – at:

https://disquiet.com/0474/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

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There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is by orangechallenger, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/cGSjx7 1

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Future Damage - 1970

Future Damage - 1970 (disquiet0474) w Daniel Diaz and Force Damage

I took https://soundcloud.com/mattmadd/duo-jet-no-34-in-a-minor-disquiet0473
which was a duet between https://soundcloud.com/ChrisLedwidge and https://soundcloud.com/mattmadd and added some field recordings that were treated a bit.

Walk in the forest in the am in a-minor - Disquiet0474

Metallurgy

I used these two tracks as a starting point:  https://soundcloud.com/benn-demole/seven-strings-in-longji-disquiet0472 (mostly on the left channel);  https://soundcloud.com/noimspartacus/orphaned-loop-disquiet0472 (mostly on the right channel);  my contribution is in the centre.

More on this 474th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Police Action (3 of 3) / The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians – at:

https://disquiet.com/0474/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Police Action (wayfare) (disquiet0474)

info/context - https://disquiet.com/2021/02/11/disquiet-junto-project-0476-iah-forecast/

disquiet0476

Untitled - disquiet0476

The first thing that stuck out to me from this image was the traffic, so I got some traffic samples. The balconies made me think of replicating the moment of hearing other people in the distance/through walls/in an obfuscated way so I downloaded samples of people talking. All the samples are from freesound.

The image has a haunting, distant quality to it, something I wanted to capture with a synth. I played around with the Applied Acoustics Systems Ultra Analog Session plugin in Ableton and I quite liked the synthy sound of it. The bit at the end is the same synth but pitched down. 

All the samples have a low-pass filter applied, the vocal samples have multiple echos, delays and instances of Multiband Dynamics to create a distant, removed feeling to it. I chopped up some bits from the traffic samples and spread them through the song. 

And that's it. Enjoy!
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More on this 476th weekly Disquiet Junto project — IAH Forecast (The Assignment: Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it.) — at:

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The image that is the source of this project is by Robert Boyd (www.thegreatgodpanisdead.com) and has been used with his permission.

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Ghost Town (disquiet 0476)

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