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In a nice synchronicity i'd already halfway completed the project before it was announced: i'd done an extended version of https://soundcloud.com/thereflectors/c-swells where i'd looped the track a few times (and added a bit of echo n blur in the middle) so that i could listen to it a bit longer

had it playing while i went through last week's tracks and it mixed well with https://soundcloud.com/benn-demole/swallowed-disquiet0189-tonelayer i liked the added bass and incidental sounds, so took a loop at the end of that and had that faded in and out throughout

for the glue i had the mix playing in the next room while i played along on my old technics electric piano and recorded through the mic on my mp3 player.. the idea was that some syncopation would blur the phasing a bit. unfortunately the recorder picked up the sound of me hitting the keys really loudly, and i didnt feel like redoing it so just had it lower in the mix but the clatter kind of helps a bit

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Disquiet Junto Project 0190: Missed Connections
Set two disjointed loops atop each other, and then add sonic glue.

Last week’s project involved using loops to accrue layers. This week’s project involves layering loops. You needn’t have participated in last week’s project to participate in this week’s.

These are the steps:

Step 1: Choose two tracks from last week’s Disquiet Junto project. Be sure to use tracks that include a license that allows for non-commercial reworking. If you’re not sure, either choose a different track, or inquire with the musician. the project is here:

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet0189-tonelayer

Step 2: From each of those two tracks, select one loop-able segment. Be sure the segments are of different lengths.

Step 3: Create a long string of each of the two loops from Step 2 by repeating them over and over. That is: make one long string of AAAAA… and make one long string of BBBBB…, where A and B are the two loops. (That is: Do not go ABABAB.)

Step 4: Layer the two tracks resulting from Step 3 for a single track of about one to two minutes in length.

Step 5: Add one element of your own to the result of Step 4 that serves to combine the two disparate loops into one composition.

Step 6: Record a document of these layered loops lasting approximately one to two minutes in length (longer is certainly fine).

More on this 190th Disquiet Junto project (“Set two out-of-sync loops atop each other, and then add sonic glue”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/08/20/disquiet0190-missedconnections/

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/

Westy Reflector / Benn DeMole - C Swellowed (disquiet0190)

loved this track https://soundcloud.com/adamintilia/burning-into-time-2010 wanted to hear it blurred at first and gradually getting more intricate and detailed

Adam Intilia - Burning Into Time (sevenism blurring into time mix)

crowdsourced publicity for new 0PN album: http://warp.net/news/oneohtrix-point-never-melodies-from-garden-of-delete-premiered-as-midi-files-live-dates-announced/

found some midi files off youtube plugged them into live 8 with instrument/fx, avoided obvious arpeggios, recorded onto tape .. tape ran out at the end so mixed in digi recording 

full piece

oneohtrix point never - garden of delete .mid {ezrambient tapemix} trk1

had a horribly stressful time moving house.. it's bad enough usually but everything seemed to go wrong this time.. 

after a week or so i just needed to get some of the tension out in a constructive way: i didnt want my pounding head and spasmodic rage to get in the way of xmas 

i like the combination of solo guitar on some tracks contrasted with the walls of fx feedback.. i think it goes some way to illustrate the emotional pendulum that this sort of intense experience brings. 

the coda at the end was recorded in the zen room when i felt myself a bit more 

recorded christmas eve 2015 
track 14 part 2 recorded 4th feb 2016

track/times:
1. no perspective 03:33
2. intro 01:04
3. lost 03:43
4. muddle . resigned. 04:23
5. brief respite 01:02
6. overcaffeinated 04:17
7. frustration 1 & 2 03:20
8. anger. 02:29
9. company shit 01:50
10. company( flow of )shit. 05:19
11. overtired 04:32
12. cold draught 02:00
13. [less] hope[less] 02:24
14. feedback + intro (zen room reprise) 06:52

pay what you can

move blues intro

was at the spa yesterday. they had an aqua meditation room where the ripples of drips were projected/amplified on the ceiling. my partner thought the ripples matched the new age music but i thought it was just the brain forcing an arbitrary pattern. i was thinking about this project about sound waves bouncing off each other like ripples; and this is the sound i wanted to get across (couldnt record unfortunately, couldnt sneak phone in ..no pockets in the complementary robes)

i played the guitar thru podfarm with heaps of echo and delay all unsynced, not playing to a particular tempo.. following and ignoring the echoes variously / resolutely un-new age
then i put the recording thru izotope ddly to get more delays at different speeds

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Disquiet Junto Project 0218: Sound Passage
The Assignment: Following the path of artist Kate Carr, explore sounds from a distance.

The artist and musician Kate Carr generously agreed to provide a prompt this week for the Junto.

Step 1: Consider the ways that sound changes as it travels across space, moving through specific human-built architectures and/or natural geographies. I live near Belfast’s major football stadium, and the roar that travels from the stadium, across the train tracks, up my street, and into my ears is a very different sound to the roar heard when standing in the stadium itself.

Step 2: Record a distant sound, and reflect on what frequencies have made it to your ears from the source, and which ones have bounced or decayed away.

Step 3: Compose a piece based on this recording, and your meditation on the ways its very journey to you has changed the sounds inherent in it.

Background: Kate Carr composes soundscapes based on field recording and non-conventional instrumentation to explore the relationship between people and place. Weaving together real and imaginary journeys , intensive explorations of sonic enclaves and the re-broadcast of sound in public places, her work is centred on both human and natural geographies. More on Kate Carr at gleamingsilverribbon.com.

More on this 218th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Following the path of artist Kate Carr, explore sounds from a distance”) at:

http://disquiet.com/0218/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

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

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

candescent

liquid audio {{ripple fx}} (disquiet0218)

নিাটriverine 
forthcoming on @32jnqwn
twitter.com/s_e_v

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vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42GOYgDMkug&index=6&list=PLEmllIk802-Z0cVk5sttvtmCIp37ySZeZ

beach nostalgia: / grew up near brighton beach / landlocked now

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originally recorded for naviar haiku

In his eyes
Sunlight glistens
The universe reflected

Poem by maxstjohn http://www.maxstjohn.com

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

waves (in his eyes)

squarepusher + sevenism - midi sans frontieres (unity fade)

done an album of mixes here https://sevenism.bandcamp.com/album/midi-sans-fronti-res

this is a modified version of one them. i've listened to loads of the remixes - some great stuff out there - but somehow i havent listened to the original yet! (i like to start playing with samples before i listen to them)

DOWN˩OAⱭ

MIDI Sans Frontières

http://llllllll.co/t/foreground-effect-disquiet-junto-project-0241/4134/4

full track https://hearthis.at/sevenism/tendentious/

i used acidrack and pressed the same key over and over again.
i had a heap of fx in ableton - ddly>podfarm2>feed me back>six string ambience>loop slippery
lots of echo, distortion .. 6 string ambience mulches things up a bit.. loop slippery added that beat

perfect project for me - i'm always adding way too much fx 

hear it all

Tendentious xrpt (disquiet0241)

made from a sample from this https://ryanlutton.bandcamp.com/track/ambient-improv-xxii by @ryanlutton

meteor shower
a gentle wave
wets our sandals

DEADLINE: 24th August

Poem by Michael Dylan Welch

Picture by James Wheeler

    Make music in response to the assigned haiku.
    If you're a Soundcloud user, upload the track on Soundcloud and message me privately the track's URL; alternatively you can send me your composition directly via Dropbox
    Include the assignment number in the title of your track, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku137)”

For more information visit naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Meteor Shower (naviarhaiku137)

remix of https://soundcloud.com/boson_spin/collaboration-base-track-2 
forgot to look at the bpm ah well!

your turn

boson spin + sevenism - emerald shoal

Vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI4oZrWAdGs

i didnt listen to the samples beforehand. loaded them into protoplasm tsm synth (2 instances of the foghorn, 1 of the train), clicked the lazy button, adjusted the oscillator transition. added a guitar amp, chorus delay echo thru podfarm, > then dimension expander > neutrino

then just played and adjusted the octaves of the samples live

pulled the recording into audition and eq'd / mastered.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0254: Fog and Steam
Make music from two provided samples.

Fog Horn: http://www.freesound.org/people/schaarsen/sounds/69663/

Train Whistle: http://www.freesound.org/people/ecodios/sounds/119963/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
llllllll.co/t/music-of-fog-and-steam-disquiet-junto-project-0254/

Blue sky in cold

blue sky in a cold world (disquiet0254)

'Halocline', another track taken from Saline Celestial by Sevenism, available on limited edition cassette and digital. 
More info and links to buy: www.naviarrecords.com/discography/se…line-celestial

“Saline celestial” brings together intricate soundscapes, haunting atmospheric textures and calming field recordings in an expressive, emotive and spontaneously deep concept album: close your eyes, and let the journey begin.

Sevenism - Halocline (NR001)

"Eight Tonne Eyelids" is the second of 9 tracks on the new album "eightyseven" recorded by myself and sevenism.

Full album: https://shadowmaster.bandcamp.com/album/eightyseven
For more sevenism: https://soundcloud.com/sevenism

Eight Tonne Eyelids

was thinking about space dilating as i imagined speeding through time.

i got some cello samples and put them thru the protoplasm tsm synth, lots of oscillation, then had dimension expander and crystal reverb automated so they'd get bigger throughout. 
pulled into audacity and sliding time stretch applied so gradually speeds up
audition - duplicated track, stereo widened, then crossfaded with previous track to gradually get wider. mastered

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Disquiet Junto Project 0264: Time Travel
Record a piece of music that plays with the perception of time.

Step 1: Recorded music is, generally speaking, a fixed object. It’s a document. It proceeds linearly, over time. It is, in the terminology of fine art, “time-based.” That said, music has the power to change one’s perception of time. Slowing and speeding tempo alone can alter a listener’s understanding of what is happening. Backward masking, sublimated hints of themes yet to come, the sound of a tape in fast forward mode — those are just a few ways that a composer can suggest that time is not moving linearly. Now, consider for a moment the tools available to give an impression of time doing things other than proceeding in a steady forward motion.

Step 2: Record a short piece of music that takes time travel as its theme, using ideas that resulted from the consideration in Step 1.

Five More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: If you hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to include the project tag “disquiet0264″ (no spaces) in the name of your track. If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to my locating the tracks and creating a playlist of them.

Step 2: Upload your track. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your track.

Step 3: In the following discussion thread at llllllll.co please consider posting your track:

http://llllllll.co/t/music-for-time-travelers-disquiet-junto-project-0264/6157/

Step 4: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

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

Deadline: This project’s deadline is 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, January 23, 2017. This project was posted in the morning, California time, on Thursday, January 19, 2017.

Length: The length is up to you, but two to three minutes sounds about right.

Title/Tag: When posting your track, please include “disquiet0264″ in the title of the track, and where applicable (on SoundCloud, for example) as a tag.

Upload: When participating in this project, post one finished track with the project tag, and be sure to include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

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 the track online, please be sure to include this information:

More on this 264th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Time Travel: Record a piece of music that plays with the perception of time”:

http://disquiet.com/0264/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

llllllll.co/t/music-for-time-travelers-disquiet-junto-project-0264/6157/

temporal pulse (disquiet0264)

i was thinking about this project while making (causing?) some other music.. i dont know what distinguishes a theme tune .. but then this other music  kind of seemed a bit themey with the strings and what almost appears to be a bassline , how unusual. i think there's something strange and contemplative that fits the subject matter too. i prefer to work intuitively/subconsciously . and not realizing i'm doing a junto track might be my preferred mode!

theres some cello trumpet and harmonica samples fed through protoplasm. electronic stuff from crystal vst. midi file generated from fakemusicgenerator.com (de-randomized). lazy/random buttons pressed a lot

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Disquiet Junto Project 0267: The Metronomic Society
Create a theme song for a fictional organization.

Step 1: There’s a fascinating book from 1988 titled The Metronomic Society. Written by the Michael Young, it is an academic study of the rhythms of human existence, with an emphasis on organization and societal systems. It’s not necessary to read it. It’s just helpful to know where we’re borrowing the term from.

Step 2: Imagine there is an actual group called the Metronomic Society. You might also imagine what they’re up to. Maybe it’s a Man Ray fan club, or a bunch of disgruntled piano tuners, or maybe they explore arcane theories about quantum mechanics. Who knows?

Step 3: Now compose and record a short piece of music — a sound cue, a theme, a sound logo, a jingle — for the Metronomic Society.


More on this 267th weekly Disquiet Junto project, “The Metronomic Society: Create a theme song for a fictional organization”:

http://disquiet.com/0267/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/2

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

llllllll.co/t/the-metronomic-society-disquiet-junto-project-0267/6449

metamorphanomic (disquiet0267)

mossy harmonica harmonics
slow pulsing silence
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  as petals
fall on moss 
 -- silence

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http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/157277602108/naviarhaiku163-as-petals

A regular contributor to the Haiku and Renku challenges, Kashyapi just opened a Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/kashyapi: if you like her poems, consider becoming a patreon and support her and her work, and get some incredible rewards.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned poem. Enjoy!



DEADLINE: 22nd February

Poem by Kashyapi http://kashyapi.co

Picture by Austin D https://unsplash.com/@adelau1

beginning [naviarhaiku163]

i played something still on my old technics piano
made it more fluttery and liquid in ableton

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http://naviarlab.tumblr.com
This week’s poem was written by Ryuin, over 300 years ago. Very little is known about this haiku writer, who was contemporary of Matsuo Basho and died in 1690. As always, seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku poem: more info at: http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku



DEADLINE: 29th March

Poem by Ryuin  http://www.haiku-hia.com/about_haiku/selections_en/heuvel_select.html

Picture by Caleb George http://www.caleb-morris.com

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