Disquiet Junto Project 0529: Squared Off
The Assignment: Explore the number 23.

Major thanks to Eanna Butler for helping come up with this project:

Step 1: This is the 529th consecutive weekly Disquiet Junto project. The number 529 is what happens when you take the number 23 and multiply it by itself. Consider various interesting aspects of the number 23. For example: Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes. It’s the number from the Birthday Paradox (read up!). Also, 529 is an “octagonal number” (read up some more!). The earth’s axis tilts at 23° (rounded down). Anyhow, have fun exploring.

Step 2: Make a piece of music that engages with the number 23.

Details at disquiet.com/0529

Disquiet Junto Project 0529: Squared Off

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Ouroboros & Enigma23 (disquiet0529)

Disquiet Junto Project 0529: Squared Off
The Assignment: Explore the number 23.
Major thanks to Eanna Butler for helping come up with this project:
More on this 529th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Squared Off (The Assignment: Explore the number 23) — at: https://disquiet.com/0529/
More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

NonsenseXXIIIcablesloop(disquiet0529)

Times Itself [disquiet0529]
Created as part of Disquiet Junto weekly project 0529:  to make a piece of music that engages with the number 23.
This track has bars of 23 beats, it is 23 bars long.
I doubt the ear can discern the 23beat bar -but the rhythm is 123&12&12&123&12&12&123
The track has 3 drum tracks – done in bitwig. A Spitfire Audio piano, cello and violin plus acoustic drone recording of a metal sheet and a bit crushed megaphone announcement (in Japanese).The metal sheet friction drone is gate sequenced to an Euclidian patter on a 23 beat cycle.
The scale for the piano and strings is E+ F+ A B C+
Think it would make good closing credits music for a psychological thriller where a serial killer feasts on minor celebrities and influencers. The agent assigned to the case of course has his demons and struggles with his own autism -only to discover no one else has empathy for the victims either. It could be called LIKES!
Additional project info:
Major thanks to Eanna Butler for helping come up with this project:
More on this 529th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Squared Off (The Assignment: Explore the number 23) – at: https://disquiet.com/0529/
More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1
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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0529-squared-off/

Times Itself [disquiet0529]

Synths, sampled drums & sampled strings, electric guitars experiment inspired by this challenge:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0529-squared-off

DD, Paris Friday 18th February 2022.

Twenty Three (disquiet0529)

Disquiet0529 Question 23

The first few seconds of this song also appear during the intro of "New Positive", an early disquiet submission.

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Shifting 23 (disquiet0529) By SinnySounds is licensed under a  Creative Commons License.

Shifting 23 (disquiet0529)

Left - To - Right (disquiet0619)

I used the track of:https://soundcloud.com/xiiixxi/disquiet-junto-beat-accrual-disquiet0619
release date :16/11/2023 
More on this 620th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beat Accrual Accrual (The Assignment: Turn someone’s slow-build beat into a finished track), at: https://disquiet.com/0620/

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Loop Fragment   X I I I X X I   Euclidean~~~(disquiet620)

I took the track by x i i i x x I  from project 619 & simply added a compatible bass drone.

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Beat Accrual Bass - With X I I I X X I (disquiet0620)

[disquiet0620] Augm

Following last week's 0619 entry, I took Lee Evan's Euclidean Dub and made a story of it. I wanted to experiment with foley and recording voices, and all I could think about when I heard the song was going to a creepy doctor. I was channeling Fear's "I'm a Doctor a bit"

Please, Try to Relax - Lee Evans Euclidean Dub Story [disquiet0620]

More on this 620th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beat Accrual Accrual (The Assignment: Turn someone’s slow-build beat into a finished track), at: https://disquiet.com/0620/

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Broke Beatdown (feat. Grant Lucas Miller) Disquiet0620

this track has been "broken" for a long time - some recent inspiration (and a leftover prompt) led me to this rework.   A bit more cinematique than I usually make.

from the long day

An electronic composition, original sounds created in Pure Data.

Sea Dance (naviarhaiku516)

More on this 627th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Just Ice Society — The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at: https://disquiet.com/0627/

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The Ice Cubes are Waiting (disquiet0627)

This track was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0628: Putting the third step of alchemist processes, the separation, into music.

I tried to create a mixture of natural and classical sounds that are overlaying like being mixed in a cauldron in the first section of the track, slowly separating and evaporating in the second section, and then existing as individual entity on their own in the third and final section.

The bird song was again kindly provided by @klankbeeld on freesound at https://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/718147/ under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
A short section was repeated and shifted to different pitches.

More on this 628th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Alchemical Brothers — The Assignment: Explore an aspect of the ancient occult science using music — at: https://disquiet.com/0628/

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Mother Nature's Alchemy  (Disquiet0628)

Disquiet Junto projects and other sonic experimentations. For additional compositions, check out my main account, https://soundcloud.com/sinnyseven.

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.

Shifting 23 (disquiet0529)

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