following a prompt 

Step 1: Think about stereo for a moment.

Step 2: Now think about it a bit more — specifically, think less about using stereo as a means to give a sense of a physical space to a recording, and more about using stereo as a compositional tool.

Step 3: Record a piece of music in which you engage with stereo based on the ideas you formulated in Step 1 and Step 2.

disquiet0549 Far Edge Of The World

Track made for the Disquiet project 0549 Sidelines.

Anomia (disquiet0549)

the concept for this work is to take two abstract rhythmic sections both panned hard left & right each with their own rhythm and tones but together, when combined creating something "other"

sounds are effected drumracks in ableton on the left with field recordings of me bashing stuff in the garden on the right

Some randomized autopan is applied to give the pieces movement in the mix

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July 7th [disquiet0549]

stereo storm - disquiet0549

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PolyRhythmic Phase I

Disquiet Junto | Sidelines | Polyrhythmic Phase I - disquiet0549

4 voices hard panned on L and R.
An old exercise on counterpoint from my student years (this was a Fugue really) , first time I take this from ink and paper to sound and the speakers.
Recorded 4 voices on piano
Voices I + III on the left
Voices II + IV on the right
Recorded Friday July 8th in the morning.

4 pianos, reverbs and delays for the glitchy background track (the actual piano tracks on a wet FX bus)

Stereo Counterpoint (disquiet0549)

This is a response to the 0549'th Disquiet Junto challenge - this time, prompting the composer to thing about stereo, and how it can influence like a compositional tool. 

This piece is put together with many experiments of pan'ing, rhythmical and otherwise, through different LFO's, copy of tracks, rhythmical gating of synth VST's and effects - and this is what I ended up with. I wonder, if anyone else can hear, how the concept of stereo influenced this piece?

Tools used include Valhalla SuperMassive, MaxForLive LFO and LFO Cluster, Sinevibes Switch and U-He's DIva for synth lead and SpitFires "Hammer" for percussion. 

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disquiet0549 - Be Ips

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Needs Mo Stereo (disquiet0549)

Starting with a bouncing table tennis ball and adding percussion, arpeggio and a very distorted bass, all the while messing with the stereo field with modulation (both Ableton native LFOs and CableGuys' ShaperBox).
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bounce (disquiet0549)

disquiet0549 for e ver.2

Score derived from a photograph of a blanket we have on our bed for our two cats. The photograph was then pixelated to represent an octave, then the pixels lightened until the white pixels were knocked out to leave chords. The image was then converted to MIDI with velocities based on the darkness of the pixels. The MIDI was also inverted. Once instance played through Felt Instruments Helenko and the inverted one through Ciemno. Both were processed by Unfiltered Audio's Silo. Meanwhile, the lowest notes of the original pixelation were played through Softube Monoment.
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More on this 550th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Abrupt Probability (The Assignment: Make music based on a chance graphic score) – at: https://disquiet.com/0550/

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

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https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

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disquiet0549 for e ver.2

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