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/

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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)

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

Seramind - Octave October (disquiet0564) [Electronic]

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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.”

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Octave October (disquiet0564)

Everything Dies - Album Preview
Music composed, produced & mastered by Rodrigo Passanannti
Label: @cyclicaldreams
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/everything-dies-cyd-0139

Everything Dies - Album Preview

bunkermoles

thinking of us
the sound of wind
among the pines

Andrea Cecon is a hearing aids technician, a traveler, and a haijin published all over the world. His first ebook won 3rd place in the Sharp Writ Book Awards contest in 2011 (category: poetry). Residing in Cividale, Italy, with his wife, Russian haijin Valeria Simonova-Cecon. He finds his inspiration in memories, travels, and everyday life…

Haiku by Andrea Cecon

Picture by Ali Kazal

600 among the pines_Navairhaiku600

20250719 c# 2

Older song reworked/renamed, aka. that one time I pretended to be a Swans/Neubauten/Birthday Party/Test Dept collaboration from 1983 ish. Bass guitar, 2 drum machines, harmonica and other noises

Revok

In spring sunlight
the rows of tea bushes
ripple like waves

by Tōge Morita


https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku604-in-spring-sunlight/

wind through the tea bushes (naviarhaiku604)

Noise Floor

Headroom

Crate Digger

August 2025 . The residency has just finished, heading home soon to start work on developing a couple of long format works from all the sound captures. 
These are the 3rd batch of 3 short sketches using field recordings captured around Montegiovi, Tuscany. With these little works I am experimenting freely with what can be produced from each days sounds - manipulating them and stitching them back together with the aim of producing a long format work at the end of the residency. I have done maybe 20 or so  since the beginning of August. The idea is to have them done by the end of the day (or night) then move on to something fresh the next day.
I am truly thankful for this opportunity that has been provided for me by the Salamanca Arts Centre in Tasmania and Cultivate Projects/La Baldi residency in Italy and The USA.
And of course the wonderful people of Montegiovi !

Tuscany Experiments - Final batch for now : )

Check out the visuals here:
https://youtu.be/Nbl2qvJHBB8

Abstracted

I am Elias Epp, musician and software engineer from Ulm (Germany). Seramind is my music project.

Curator of the Audioscenarion and Testexperiment podcasts.

Most of my stuff is ambient, techno or dub related music.

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.

Octave October (disquiet0564)

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