Disquiet Junto Project 0490: In Conversation
The Assignment: Compose a piece of music structured like dialog.
https://disquiet.com/0490/

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ristomilner, samulis and soneproject

Ancient Wisdom(disquiet0490)

Disquiet Junto Project 0599: Minimal(ist) Blend
The Assignment: Make a piece of music that combines self-contained minimalist parts.
More info on Disquiet Junto: disquiet.com/0599

For this submission I started with percussions and wanted to use my modular for sequencing, but I changed my plans and decided to do it with Ableton and my Zoom H5 instead.
Since I play bass as a main instrument this time I decided to explore the higher part of the spectrum of frequencies. 
I started recording seven loops (parts) using different instruments: a cuban clave, a home-made shaker, a singing bowl, a pair of Tingsha (tibetan cymbals), bamboo sticks, some sheep bells and an african metal rattle. Ended up with something that reminds me of the hidden life in a meadow, a wood or a small pond, thus the title Microskopios. 

I started with a simple clave rhythm in 15/8 subdivided 4+3+4+4 at 101.96 BPM and heavily processed it. Pitched it up 36 semitones and then sculpt it with EQ, Compressors, Lagrange, Grain Strain, Echo and Void.
I then recorded bamboo sticks hitting them with the clave while they were on the floor following the 4+3+4+4 division, pitched them down 24 semitones and processed with Phaser, Slink Pan and Springs. 
Then I improvised some patterns with the home made shaker and the metal rattle. 
The shaker is pitched 31 semitones down, panned 10L and has Erosion, Saturator, Ego and Romb as effects. 
The rattle is modified with Corpus, GongAmp, Filterjam and ValhallaPlate. It's paned 30R.
I added the singing bowl and tingsha at the end. 
Singing bowl is split into two channels, one without effects, panned 25L 25R and the other panned 25L, pitch shifted down 24 semitones and processed with GrainSpace and Chorus-Ensemble.
Tingsha is just effected with a little bit of GrainSpace.

Mikroskopios (disquiet0599)

Disquiet Junto project:    Minimal(ist)    Blend     disquiet0599
great prompt to continue one of my musical quests, beautiful ambient music made with real instruments in the spirit that Brian Eno meant it, and Erik Satie and Mark Hollis achieved it. (or at least not what it became later with excessive digital reverb or overtly digital synthetic tones or the beat/glitch driven music that it became, which is fine, that deserves to exist too:) but not where i usually want to go.  
5 guitar passages w/ minimal processing were recorded into ableton. further movement of the parts in editing, with the focus to keep it spare, hopeful, & open, not too much action or overlap. further processing was minimal, just a bit of convolution reverb and echo in abelton. as suggested granular synthesis was used by dropping one of the guitar parts into Robert Henke's excellent max4live device Granulator II. in addition one guitar part was processed intermittently with Tone Tree max4live device from Inspired by Nature/Dillon Bastan. these parts are also kept at minimal use throughout never overpowering the natural guitar parts, only complementing and extending them. 

another welcome assignment this week, initially i was tempted to go the glass/reich minimalist approach as I am playing a lot of piano in this style recently, but my ability to play the parts live without manipulating or editing them to fit is not there yet and i preferred to go the ambient guitar route as it so close to my heart for many years, and achievable for me without too much "correction" in the editing.
I'm fine with using any means necessary to achieve the goal but more of that kind of minimalism from me when i can pull it off in one take god help me...

More on this 599th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Minimal(ist) Blend (The Assignment: Make a piece of music that combines self-contained minimalist parts), at: https://disquiet.com/0599/
About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1
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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0599-minimal-ist-blend/

ToneForest -disquiet0599 by Daniel James Burke

See the accompanying (explanatory) visuals @ https://youtu.be/sglaEZlQwcg

Making use of two files from Marcus Fischer: 600_nacre_voit-mfischer.wav (which begins and ends the track) and 600_PSU_stairs-mfischer.wav. Each was used with the max/msp nn~ object, with AI models of a human voice and sounds from NASA.

More on this 600th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reaching Out (The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer), at: https://disquiet.com/0600/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0600-reaching-out/

This project’s cover image is a detail of a photo by Marcus Fischer.

visuals (YouTube)

halF reacH [disquiet0600] with Marcus Fischer and AI (see description)

This track celebrates the 600th Disquiet Junto Project!
For this jubilee project Marcus Fischer provided seven WAV files that were used in different ways to generate this track. All sounds audible in this track originate from these files but may be transformed heavily.

One synth melody and the drums were created using the generative MIDI sequencer Transition - but the sounds originate from the pitched down files provided.

More on this 600th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reaching Out (The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer), at: https://disquiet.com/0600/

Please credit Marcus Fischer when posting your track.

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0600-reaching-out/

Regenerating Sounds - Building New Worlds (Disquiet0600)

30-06-2023 
3 sample    Marcus Fischer   
More on this 600th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reaching Out (The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer), at: https://disquiet.com/0600/ 1

Please credit Marcus Fischer when posting your track.

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0600-reaching-out/

This project’s cover image is a detail of a photo by Marcus Fischer.

3sample (disquiet0600)

Hugs and kisses for Disquiet 600 for everyone and especially for Marc who kept it going for such a long time!

My contribution starts and ends with „Nacre Voit“ and goes granular in between, using all samples by Marcus Fischer in their entirety. Added a field recording of a recent party, which seemed fitting.

More on this 600th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reaching Out (The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer), at: https://disquiet.com/0600/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0600-reaching-out/

Disquiet0600 - Jubilee

Many thanks to @marcus_fischer who provided the samples used as the exclusive building blocks for this track.

More on this 600th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reaching Out (The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer), at: https://disquiet.com/0600/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0600-reaching-out/

600 views of noise, silence and inspiration (disquiet0600)

bird polyphony
– treble, alto, tenor, bass,
Spring meadow concert

Raymond Cobley is an experimental composer and regular participant in our Haiku challenge. Now retired, Raymond aims to explore the possibilities afforded by open-source software, which he uses exclusively for creating and editing both sounds & images. All his works are published ​under a Creative Commons licence, and free for anybody to download or remix.

Artwork by Jackie McMaster

spring meadow concert [naviarhaiku495]

Disquiet Junto Project 0601: Hard Six
The Assignment: Let a roll of the dice determine the relative prominence of various parts of a track.

Basically made six tracks filled with different loops of about 20 seconds. Randomly chose between 1-6 for each track to determine how many loops would appear.  Then organized the result in a way that seemed to work compsitionally.

More on this 601st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Hard Six (The Assignment: Let a roll of the dice determine the relative prominence of various parts of a track), at: https://disquiet.com/0601/

The project was inspired in part by recent correspondence with Junto participant Robert Precht. More to come in that regard.

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Harte Sechs(disquiet0601)

Original by encym https://soundcloud.com/encym 

Dubbed & mixed 15 Mar 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. This was also Day 1338 of the 100 Day Project.

Music distributed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 DEED

Process notes
Last week, encym(https://soundcloud.com/encym) recorded & uploaded “Neat Disorder” and I downloaded it on 3/13 

His original post and notes -
https://soundcloud.com/encym/neat_disorder_disquiet0636

“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.”

My own additional process notes - 
On 3/15, I recorded about 9 minutes of prepared cuatro and picked some bits I liked for this piece. I used a few native Ableton Live effects, panned to right.

Artwork: Edit and additions to encym’s original using Adobe Photoshop 2024 and Q’MIC-Qt.

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This original version of “Ataxophobia, Right?” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0637: Right (2 of 3). The Assignment: Record the second third of an eventual trio.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto

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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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