This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0631: In A Silent Waveform

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0631 discussion thread:

I saw a video a while back of a two module setup using Plaits to create a nice self-oscillating soundscape with nothing patched to any inputs. It was then patched out through Ripples and processed with a DAW using Valhalla reverbs. After reading this week’s description, I decided I wanted to duplicate that setup to see what would happened. This drone is the result after several minutes of fooling around. I tweaked the Timbre and Morph controls slightly on Plaits to create the tone variations. Added Valhalla reverbs in Ableton Live. I can see future experiments using this patch by adding other types of modulation and effects. Here’s the original YouTube link this was based on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o5SU-5Ikpk   

More on this 631st weekly Disquiet Junto project, In a Silent Waveform — The Assignment: Take one held tone and make it dance slowly — at: https://disquiet.com/0631/
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Here is a drone in C# major for Disquiet Junto. The filter cutoff frequencies are slowly modulated by hand to give it some breathing. Hopefully there's enough space for you to add additional parts to it. It's a stereo recording but I expect it to be panned partially or fully to the left 

Created on Elta Music Solar 42 "ambient machine" post-processed with some EQ to limit the frequency spectrum. Just got the Solar 42 yesterday so there is much to learn.

More on the 636th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Left (1 of 3) — The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0636/

leftydrone

Leftydrone - Disquiet0636

Disquiet Junto Project 0636: Left (1 of 3)
The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio.

Please note: While this project is the start of a three-part sequence that will unfold over the course of three weeks, you can participate in any or all three of those parts.



Step 1: This week’s Junto project is the first in a sequence intended to encourage and reward collaboration. You will be recording something with the understanding that it will remain unfinished for the time being. Your part will be done, but more will happen. Read on.

Step 2: The plan is for you to record a short and original piece of music using any instrumentation of your choice. Conceive the piece as something that leaves room for something else — other instruments, other people — to join in. (Keep in mind that your piece would appear panned to the left in the finished recording, after three weeks.)

Step 3: Record a short piece of music, roughly two to three minutes in length, as described in Step 2.

Step 4: This is important: be sure to make your track downloadable because it may be used by someone else in the next Disquiet Junto project, and then after that.

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Track notes:

One of the few things I haven't been doing much of this year is playing guitar, which is my 'primary' instrument. However, since late last year the one guitar (within reach) has been a Danelectro electric 12-string, stripped back of its thick strings to only six strings and put through through a variety of modal open tunings. A few years ago I listened to Lee Renaldo talk about this kind of retrofitting, which was called an Angel Hair guitar and was pioneered in the 1960s by country guitarists to create a light, jangly accompaniment, that in some ways is reminiscent of a pedal steel guitar's upper timbre.

I don't know how much open tunings figured at this time, but I could certainly appreciate Lee's attraction to all things unconventional and open-tuned. My current set up for this guitar is a D-A-C-E-A-E tuning, which gives it a kind of pentatonic, suspended tonality. Given the unconventional order of string gauges from bottom to top, the unison notes have an especially interesting appeal. From a fingerpicking approach, it all opens up the guitar in unexpected ways, since a regular picking technique can be inverted by the string gauge order and also feels quite different too.

So with this in mind, I recorded a repeated fingerpicking figure which exploits the unique qualities of this setup, such as the unisons and harmonic attributes of the tuning. The main guitar (soft left) is run through an EHX Holy Grail Reverb with a smidge of spring reverb, whilst an accompaniment (same guitar and tuning) is on the soft right, also run through the Holy Grail, but with the weird 'Flerb' reverb, which is a kind of modulated effect.

It's at 72bpm and runs just a shade over 2 minutes, starting a fade at the 1:46 mark.

[Disquiet_Junto_0636] Epochs (Left 1 of 3) 72 BPM

modified an existing patch for this week's disquiet track - intentionally more sparse, fewer effects - leaving room for collaborators

patch with burst triggers going into plaits processed by rings, sort of call/response thing via beads, added a pulsing low end drone from a looping sample of a previous recording

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More on the 636th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Left (1 of 3) — The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0636/

disquiet0636 - spaced repetition

Based on
https://soundcloud.com/encym/neat-disorder-layer-3 
by @encym

My right-panned track was made using the following: piano by Olafur Arnalds Stratus on the Looped Rhythms setting, then fed through the following plug-ins: Puremagnetik's Small Winters; Chow Tape Model's TC-260 setting; and Valhalla Supermassive's 80's Mod Room reverb.

A note from encym (creator of the original layer, 0636, panned left): "This week's Junto project has always been one of my favourites -- so I recorded the first third of what will eventually become a trio. 

"I played it on my Tele through a simple, straightforward signal chain of Chase Bliss Mood (the main sound), fed through a Dark Star and a Polymoon to add space and variations in terms of timbre. No further editing in the DAW. I went for as sparse a track as I could, to provide as much space as possible for my potential collaborators. My hope is that you feel inspired by my "almost crumbling to pieces" vibe, and I look forward to hearing what you will be adding over the coming weeks for it to become a trio recording."

More on the 637th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right (2 of 3) — The Assignment: Record the second third of an eventual trio — at https://disquiet.com/0637/

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'Neat Disorder' by Wodwo and encym--disquiet0637--2of3

This track is an asynchronous collaboration with @noodletwister and @hugh-g-stonah for the Disquiet Junto Projects.
The two artist have created the great track https://soundcloud.com/hugh-g-stonah/bnd-duet-with-noodle-twister, and I have now added my part to make it even bigger.

More on the 638th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Center (3 of 3) — The Assignment: Complete a trio begun by two other musicians — at https://disquiet.com/0638/

Pheasantry  [with Noodle Twister & Hugh G Stonah] (Disquiet0638)

Left track: Marsh Bone - by Raincat
Right track: Marsh Bone Epoch - by Tristan Louth-Robins

More on the 638th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Center (3 of 3) — The Assignment: Complete a trio begun by two other musicians — at https://disquiet.com/0638/

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