Music for insomniacs

Disquiet Junto Project 0530: Minimally Viable Music
The Assignment: How much less is just shy of too little?

Major thanks to Saga Söderback for having come up with this project. There is just one step:

Step 1: Make the thing you think is the minimum viable music.

Details: disquiet.com/0530

Disquiet Junto Project 0530: Minimally Viable Music

22.02.2022

A single note played in 6 octaves at gradually increasing tempo.

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Major thanks to Saga Söderback for having come up with this project.

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Minimally Viable Music (disquiet0530)

Major thanks to Saga Söderback for having come up with this project.

More on this 530th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Minimally Viable Music (The Assignment: How much less is just shy of too little?) – at: https://disquiet.com/0530/ 2

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enormt minimal (Disquiet0530)

Minimal Peace  (disquiet0530)

The phrase minimally viable music reminded me of listening to The Caretaker's Everywhere At The End of Time. It's a harrowing listen as over six and a half hours what starts as wistful, joyful melodies become stripped of timing, tuning and coherence. Towards the end you're disoriented by a grey sonic plaque of scratches, pops and detritus.
I took a very abbreviated route and took a simple loop from my 2hpPluck and ran it on successive passes through more and more destructive fx until almost all pitch, timing and timbre information was removed. The end result plays at the beginning before the original loop fades in and starts to be messed with.
Major thanks to Saga Söderback for having come up with this project.

More on this 530th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Minimally Viable Music (The Assignment: How much less is just shy of too little? ) — at: https://disquiet.com/0530/

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

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Non Viable (disquiet0530)

Minimally Viable Music

The sound in this track is from a sine wave oscillator, sent through a self-oscillating low pass filter and then into a reverb. As the track progresses, the filter and oscillator are modulated by several LFOs, a CV joystick, and a CV sequencer. The minimalistic sine wave tones and rhythms at the beginning evolve toward the edge of chaos before settling back into minimalism.

Performed on a modular synth using Dixie II+, Ripples (og), Ochd, Batumi, Planar 2, SPO, Quadratt, Pamela's New Workout, Mimetic Digitalis, and Desmodus Versio.

More on this 530th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Minimally Viable Music (The Assignment: How much less is just shy of too little? ) — at: https://disquiet.com/0530/

Signs of Sines

Signs Of Sines - Disquiet0530

Torpa

During a lunch break I recorded the ambience of a nearby park and the wind playing with last seasons dry leaves (An audible transition from winter to spring). This is a place I often go to recalibrate my mind after long meetings or stressful work. Often listening to some music I am working on. So this is my mental aid to induce “the sort of reorientation that used to be provided by breaks and travel between meetings.” Not so much to say about the music itself, other than that I started with the field recording and set the mood based on the ambience from a small city´s noises.

More on this 534th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Transition Capsule (The Assignment: Record music to help people efficiently reorient between two zones) — at: https://disquiet.com/0534/

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Transition(Disquiet0534)

Sternklang from Norway. I make electronic music, often with elements from field recordings.
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