A set collecting the tracks from the 52nd weekly project from the Disquiet Junto group.

The Assignment: Celebrate the Creative Commons by remixing three tracks from the Bump Foot netlabel.

More on the specific project at:

http://disquiet.com/2012/12/27/disquiet0052-bumpcc/

More information on the group at:

https://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto

Disquiet Junto Project 0052: Bump Foot CC

disquiet

I created a phasing piece in the style of Steve Reich with the notes E, G and D.  The sound source was a pulse wave created with an emulation of the Commodore 64's SID chip (using Plogues Chipsounds softsynth).  I could've used one of my C64 as the sound source, but my studio is a mess and this was the path of least resistance.

The project instructions were as follow: Record a piece of music with an 8-bit flavor. It should begin with a replication of that same three-note Xbox One pattern (E G D), repeated several times, and then veer off into whatever direction you desire. As the track goes along, feel free to add common video game sounds like explosions, karate chops, crowd noises, engines revving and so forth. Try to keep the whole thing under 90 seconds.

More on this 99th Disquiet Junto project (Compose an 8-bit melody based on the "E G D" startup sound of the Xbox One) at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/11/21/disquiet0099-EthenGthenD/

Background: This project was informed by a post on Kotaku.com by Kirk Hamilton:

http://goo.gl/OpjWSg

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto

8-bit Phase [disquiet0099-EthenGthenD]

I took an icicle that formed on my house and recorded some sounds it made rattling around in a glass jug.  I isolated a couple samples and used Plogue's Sforzando for playback.  I generated the midi messages that triggered the sampler with Common Music 3.8.  I pitch-shifted the samples and repeated the process four times.  I mixed the resulting four versions together to include progressively more voices.

More on this 105th Disquiet Junto project (“Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something of it”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/01/02/disquiet0105-ice2014/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Photo associated with this project found via Creative Commons at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaukay/384109969

Icicle Shuffle [disquiet0105-ice2014]

This composition was made for Disquiet Junto Project 148: Peripheral Listening

The Assignment: Make music inspired by and suitable for listening to while reading William Gibson’s novel The Peripheral.

I selected the following sentence from the book as a starting point:
Chapter 6 (“Patchers”): “The square filled with a low moaning, the island’s hallmark soundscape.”

I interpreted the humming sound described in the sentence as the electrical ambiance that would surround "patchers".  I used the following two sounds exclusively:
https://www.freesound.org/people/jameswrowles/sounds/248217/
https://www.freesound.org/people/EdEditz/sounds/165562/

I accounted for the "island" part of the quote by using island rhythms played by two groups of three instruments.  Each instrument of the first group play clave rhythm out of phase with each other.  The instrument of the second group play cinquillo rhythm out of phase with each other.

humming with the wiring [disquiet0148-peripherallistening]

Short loop made with my meta-trombone: http://no-insects.blogspot.ca/2014/10/meta-trombone-on-ios.html

Background:
Disquiet Junto Project 0153: Groove Lock
The Assignment: Record a short sound intended to be set on repeat.

SoundCloud recently introduced the ability for a track to be looped on the website. That is, the listener can hit a button (details at disquiet.com/QVvCF) and the track will play over and over. This week’s project will make use of that feature. This week’s project will also, I should note, inform next week’s project. But you can do next week’s without doing this week’s, and vice-versa.

Step 1: Record a short, original piece of music/sound of between roughly 3 and 9 seconds intended to be set on repeat.

Step 2: Upload the finished track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 3: Listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Length: Your finished work should be between roughly 3 and 9 seconds long.

Bleep bop [disquiet0153-groovelock]

Disquiet Junto Project 0168: Three of a Kind
Create an original, multi-part piece with a single audio source.

Step 1: You will be making a single track with three different parallel lines. It might be easiest to think of them as melody, rhythm, and an ambient foundational bed, but you might also do three counterposed rhythms, or a drone of three varying ambient beds. It’s up to you.

Step 2: Select a single source of audio. Perhaps it’s a segment of pre-existing track, or a single note on a favorite instrument, or a short recording of you humming or breathing.

Step 3: Transform that single source of audio to produce each of the three separate lines you plotted in Step 1.

Step 4: Record the track with those three lines running simultaneously.

Step 5: Upload your track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 6: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

whistling roaring sound going past my head  [disquiet0168-threeofakind]

I haven't attempted any of the Junto projects in 10-12 weeks -- and haven't completed one since #32 -- mostly due to them either not catching my interest or presenting technical issues, but occasionally through not having time or not feeling well enough to work on music.

Anyway, I picked up some new VSTs as well as a couple of software upgrades, and I figured this was a good opportunity to test them out. I clipped out the first 20 seconds of the "Bongo" track as per the instructions, and selected three clips each from "Broken Robots" and "The Cat in the Ocean", picking sections I felt would work well together, all in Sound Forge.

I then brought these seven clips into Acid Pro, and with some experimentation made an arrangement, using the beginning of "Broken Robots" as the most recurring section. The application of various VSTs on the individual clips changed their sound significantly from the original source -- again, this was a trial-and-error process as many of the plugins I used were new -- and a selection of plugins on the master channel brought everything together despite originally being sections of three unrelated tracks.

Also, the new Soundcloud layout is horrible. I am not sure if I will get used to it.

This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Bump Foot netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally released on Bump Foot: "Bongo" off the Aguas Tonicas album titled Los Desposeídos, "Broken Robots" off the Gridline album titled Red Music, and "The Cat in the Ocean" off the Pics Frunk album titled Low Voltage. More on the Bump Foot netlabel, and the original versions of these tracks, at http://www.bumpfoot.net/.


More on this 52nd Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2012/12/27/disquiet0052-bumpcc/


More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

[disquiet0052-bumpcc] Cats and Robots

<b>Disquiet Junto Project 0052 - Bump Foot CC</b>

Some serendipity involved in this one, as well as a certain amount of initial laziness on my part. The 20 second Bongo intro ended up as an over-stretched drone by accident, but after being cut up and mixed was irresistible. A short section of Broken Robots provide a counter-drone with a melodic feel and part of "The Cat in the Ocean" was stretched, reversed and processed through a number of ambient filters and delays to provide a weird, backwards rhythm track. All of this ended up as a rich, soaring ambient drone with a chorale quality.

But I couldn’t let go of the fact that Robots and Cat sound great played together, just as they are, so I mixed them together and used part of that as a tuneful sprinkle over the drone – I was going to fade that out, but quite by accident (again) the abrupt ending seemed to work.

Accidents can be fun.

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This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Bump Foot netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally released on Bump Foot: "Bongo" off the Aguas Tonicas album titled Los Desposeídos, "Broken Robots" off the Gridline album titled Red Music, and "The Cat in the Ocean" off the Pics Frunk album titled Low Voltage. More on the Bump Foot netlabel, and the original versions of these tracks, at http://www.bumpfoot.net/. ; 

More on this 52nd Disquiet Junto project at: 

http://disquiet.com/2012/12/27/disquiet0052-bumpcc/ ;


More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info

Cat Bump & Bongobots [disquiet0052-bumpcc]

This is my contribution to the 52nd disquiet collaboration project, and brings together tracks from three separate artists. 

I sat down tonight to see where I'd land with this. I started by figuring out what key and bpm the three separate uploads were, and imported them to Propellerhead Reason. Once I had them playing nicely together in the same tempo and key I started playing with filters, and particularly tempo-synced filters to create new rhythms from the original ones. 
I tweaked EQ here and sound levels there, and added a wide reverb and an echo over yonder, and finally added a beat, a bass and a pad and called it a day.

The first half is all original sources, except for a new kick/snare. The second has a lot more of me in it.

On a related note, Disquiet Junto has been an incredibly helpful initiative for me to be part of this year. Marc is a heck of guy to have continued to drive this for a full year, and I'm really grateful for his efforts.

Original project notes below:

"This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Bump Foot netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally released on Bump Foot: “Bongo” off the Aguas Tonicas album titled Los Desposeídos, “Broken Robots” off the Gridline album titled Red Music, and “The Cat in the Ocean” off the Pics Frunk album titled Low Voltage. More on the Bump Foot netlabel, and the original versions of these tracks, at http://www.bumpfoot.net/.

More on this 52nd Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2012/12/27/disquiet0052-bumpcc/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/"

bamipafutu [disquiet0052-bumpcc]

Downloaded the three original tracks and converted into wav (with Audacity).  Used Ableton Live to create six core sounds/loops (two from each original piece) and treated/processed them for pitch, texture, etc. Then basically played the resulting Live set (using two Korg nanoKontrollers) with the available sounds.

Some minor edits done afterwards (small volume adjustments throughout, removed a few bars to fit under 5 minutes, put a limiter at the end before rendering), but this is basically the Live set, as "played".

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This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Bump Foot netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally released on Bump Foot: "Bongo" off the Aguas Tonicas album titled Los Desposeídos, "Broken Robots" off the Gridline album titled Red Music, and "The Cat in the Ocean" off the Pics Frunk album titled Low Voltage. More on the Bump Foot netlabel, and the original versions of these tracks, at www.bumpfoot.net/. ;

More on this 52nd Disquiet Junto project at:

disquiet.com/2012/12/27/disquiet0052-bumpcc/ ;

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: Groups – Disquiet-junto

The boatman's dream [disquiet0052-bumpcc]

This track is entirely sounds from 3 tunes off the Japanese Bump Foot netlabel.  (Not sure if we were free to add our own sounds for this week's Junto, but I liked the challenge.)  Links to the Disquiet Junto instructions are down below my description...

From "Bongo" I only took a muffled bass stab, transposed a few times through the track.

From "The Cat In The Ocean" I took the guitar lick that comes up throughout.  I've stretched it out to suit the tempo I had in mind and EQed it, but otherwise it's intact.

All other sounds are (duh) from "Broken Robots".  I cut out tiny bits of percussive sound and tweaked them a lot to make the drum sounds.  Lots of transposing, etc.

The chord stabs and so on are a 4-bar loop played at half-speed, with some tape stop-start effects made by messing with the tempo in AudioMulch while the loop was set to automatically stretch to match tempo.  I exported that stuff and chopped it up to try to get it in time with the beat I'd written. 

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This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Bump Foot netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally released on Bump Foot: "Bongo" off the Aguas Tonicas album titled Los Desposeídos, "Broken Robots" off the Gridline album titled Red Music, and "The Cat in the Ocean" off the Pics Frunk album titled Low Voltage. More on the Bump Foot netlabel, and the original versions of these tracks, at http://www.bumpfoot.net/ .


More on this 52nd Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2012/12/27/disquiet0052-bumpcc/


More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Jet Jaguar - Stubbed [disquiet0052-bumpcc] (free DL)

Specifics:
Small segments of all three tracks were imported into Samplewiz on my iPhone.  I recorded three performances, one for each songs.  I then mixed them together to create a bit of a mess.


Background:
This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Bump Foot netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally released on Bump Foot: "Bongo" off the Aguas Tonicas album titled Los Desposeídos, "Broken Robots" off the Gridline album titled Red Music, and "The Cat in the Ocean" off the Pics Frunk album titled Low Voltage. More on the Bump Foot netlabel, and the original versions of these tracks, at http://www.bumpfoot.net/.

More on this 52nd Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2012/12/27/disquiet0052-bumpcc/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/


a bit of a mess [disquiet0052-bumpcc]

A philosopher by training, Sylvain Poitras explores circularity and self-reference in the fields of video, comics and electroacoustic music: that he uses images, words or sounds, he primarily seeks to blur the boundaries between the object and its designation. Software designer and trombonist, it was only natural that he invented the "meta-trombone", a sophisticated processing system which curiously leads him to the origins of free jazz.