Disquiet Junto Project 0655: Soothing Sounds II
The Assignment: Make music for babies.

Step 1: Back in the early 1960s, Raymond Scott released a set of music for infants, titled Soothing Sounds for Baby. We’re going to produce music along those lines. Feel free to revisit Scott’s great collection. (Not one but two Junto participants give birth this month — one did a week-ish ago, and one is due to very soon. We’re doing this project in their honor and with their approval. Perhaps there are other brand new parents in our digital midst, as well. We did a project just like this one way back when we hit the 250th consecutive week 2, in October 2016.)

Step 2: Compose a piece of music intended for a newborn child, something peaceful as they first experience the world outside the womb.

I have a 2 year old great-grandson, the Tommaso to whom I dedicated the piece. The piece begins with a sample that forms the basis for the entire track. It is the sound of the sea which, like other sounds very similar to white/pink noise, rain, water etc... is used to calm him and help him fall asleep. Very common practice for all newborns/children.

This type of repetitive mechanical dance is grafted onto this element, with sounds reminiscent of music boxes.

Track instruments/tools: Euclidean sequencer, percussive and (prepared) piano sounds, cello pizzicato...the usual "palafernalia".

 Picture of Tommaso by Maura Marongiu

PS.: above all, so as not to be hypocritical and live only on aesthetics and superstructure, let's remember the daily massacres in many parts of the planet which, apparently, are now the distinctive sign of our civilization, so advanced and fake.

Tommaso's Lullaby [disquiet0655]

In response to the recent disquiet junto challenge: Compose a piece of music intended for a newborn child, something peaceful as they first experience the world outside the womb.

More on the 655th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Soothing Sounds II — The Assignment: Make music for babies — at https://disquiet.com/0655/ 1

The image associated with this project is from an early patent for a pacifier.

Dear Donald (disquiet0655)

More on the 656th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Soothing Sounds II RMX — The Assignment: Make music for babies’ parents — at https://disquiet.com/0656/

I chose the wonderful track by Raincat to remix for this project: https://soundcloud.com/raincat-306596410/welcome-to-the-world-disquiet0655

Enjoy! 🤗🙏

more halF unusuaL

halF welcomE [disquiet0656] with Raincat

Disquiet Junto Project 0656: Soothing Sounds II RMX
The Assignment: Make music for babies’ parents.

Original track by halF unusuaL:
https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-soothing-disquiet0655?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0655

HalF ST BS DR [disquiet0656]

Marco Lucchi : synthesizer

playing with
https://soundcloud.com/raincat-306596410/welcome-to-the-world-disquiet0655?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0655

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for the current Disquiet Junto challenge
https://disquiet.com/2024/07/25/disquiet-junto-project-0656-soothing-sounds-ii-rmx/

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30 luglio 2024

dreamcatcher [disquiet # 0656] w/raincat

More on the 657th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Straight Edged — The Assignment: Held tones, sharp edges — at https://disquiet.com/0657/

It's fascinating that the halF unusuaL track released yesterday for Naviar Records - https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-ahead-naviarhaiku552 - was not considered 'music' enough to warrant it being recommended to people who might want to hear it ... This track, however, the SoundCloud algorithm deems appropriate ... 

I would argue this one is LESS 'music', but there you go, lol! 😂 All part of this wonderful algorithmic world we inhabit 😜 Let me know what you think!

halF straighT [disquiet0657]

More on the 657th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Straight Edged — The Assignment: Held tones, sharp edges — at disquiet.com/0657/

By using the SynQuaNon Eurorack Hex guitar processing system and the sustainer on the Cycfi Thor guitar, low pass gates are sequenced to create blips of notes of varying length that intersect in different ways. I am using the SpiderCapo and letting all strings sustain as I change chords.

More patch details: https://www.synquanon.com/post/using-low-pass-gates-and-sustain-to-create-ambient-soundscapes

Straight Edged (disquiet0657)

“Kokytos” is part of a series of organ improvisations that were recorded with a wide range of microphones placed both inside and around the instrument. This assignment will build on Glaus’ work and take it a step further.

This original track was replayed in 1KSQFT untreated room at high volume and recorded using a rode Mic. 

Three samples were created and looped together. Treatment for the samples is as follows. 

1 - THE HEAD SAMPLE
[Reverb, Compression, Saturation, Dirt, Limiter, Re-Pitched]
2 - THE BODY SAMPLE 
[Reverb, Note Repeat] 
3 - THE SOUL SAMPLE
[Guitar Rig 6]

Koyotos Resampled “disquiet0658”

leaned into the noise of the original recording. loaded sample into disting, first obligatory step to slow down the sample by one oct, and used marbles to skip around the sample, with a shorter sequence to begin with. output routed through low pass filter, with its cutoff being sequenced. 

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More on the 660th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Louis Blues St. — The Assignment: Break a public domain song into parts and reorganize them — at https://disquiet.com/0660/

Background: More on the source track here:
https://archive.org/details/78_st-louis-blues_ted-lewis-and-his-band-handy_gbia0268157b

disquiet0660 - st. blues shuffle louis

Disquiet Junto Project 0661: Consumer Drone Product
The Assignment: Record a piece of drone music using sounds from your home.

I hadn't read the task properly and therefore recorded all kinds of things in the flat, and it's also the case that I'm currently living in Vienna and the flat is very minimalist: apart from the fridge, dishwasher and kettle, I don't have anything electronic that makes sound. (What is perceived as ‘minimalist’ here...) This two-part composition is dominated at the beginning by the fridge, which is slowly attacked by the kettle at around 3:00, which the dishwasher uses to push itself into the foreground (which is of no use to it, however, because that damn fridge can also be heard on the dishwashers recording). The squeaky floorboards of the flat, the sound of the stairwell being cleaned and the ambience of my balcony provide some consumer cosiness. The drummed upholstery of the sofa (at least somehow also a consumer good) serves as the bass drum in the second part. Some stacking of sounds, a little bit of FX. And yes, it's too long, but isn't the sound of this fridge wonderfully apocalyptic? It also hit me hard that I had to fade out the gurgling water drain at the end to at least get it under 9 minutes...

More on the 661st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Consumer Drone Product — The Assignment: Record a piece of drone music using sounds from your home — at https://disquiet.com/0661/

Discussion https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0661-consumer-drone-product/68444

Slow Moving Consumer Goods [disquiet0661]

aeolian (dsiquiet0661)

Made of the sound of a small ventilator and wipers.

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More on the 661st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Consumer Drone Product — The Assignment: Record a piece of drone music using sounds from your home — at https://disquiet.com/0661/

aeolian (disquiet0661)

layered collage of recordings of pc fans, dehumidifier and oven

resonant bandpass filters applied to bring out key frequencies in each layer for more drone like effect

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More on the 661st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Consumer Drone Product — The Assignment: Record a piece of drone music using sounds from your home — at https://disquiet.com/0661/

disquiet0661 - rpm

Be careful! ... The SoundCloud algorithm has deemed this not 'music' so won't be recommending to potentially interested listeners 😁 I wonder why I take that as a compliment?! 😉

More on the 662nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Spin Cycle — The Assignment: Record a piece of music that pits one bicyclist against another — at https://disquiet.com/0662/

halF spiN [disquiet0662]

went for a techno kind of thing, with the two competing elements ending up as a crossfading patch between two voices with crossfade cv also acting as modulation (via comparator + slew) for some fx during each crossover 

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More on the 662nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Spin Cycle — The Assignment: Record a piece of music that pits one bicyclist against another — at https://disquiet.com/0662/

disquiet0662 - competitive advantage

(with apologies to mark fell)

sample of failing hdd, looping, going into a slew limiter and a comparator to derive some semblance of rhythmic patterns, these used to trigger percussion, chord pads and high pitch bursts

freesound ref for sample: Old crashed hard drive by tix99 -- https://freesound.org/s/626912/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

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More on the 663rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Drive Way — The Assignment: Record a piece of music that complements the hum and whir of a hard drive — at https://disquiet.com/0663/

The image associated with this project is licensed thanks to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported. It was taken by Evan Amos — whom Popular Science has reportedly referred to as “gaming’s most famous photographer” — as a part of Vanamo Media.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Laptop-hard-drive-exposed.jpg

disquiet0663 - cyclic redundancy

Thanks for stopping by - please enjoy what you hear! 🤗 Any time you want to look as well as listen, head over to the YouTube channel ...

Apparently, the ‘hai’ in ‘haiku’ translates to ‘joke’, ‘fun’, or ‘unusual’, which is part of the inspiration for the odd name of this venture; an evolving project nurtured by Darren Bourne, in collaboration with countless others, past and present. The ongoing obsessions of halF unusuaL are improvisation, chance and the music / non-music boundary, with the aim of (impossibly) creating sound worlds never heard before ... Thank you so much for your support 🥰

"I'm a mellow artist, aging 68. I love and release eclectic music, from post-classical to drone. My fave instrument is the Mellotron."

Così, sinteticamente, di solito mi presento.

In genere compongo musica partendo dal suono delle tastiere, ma il mio vero strumento è il registratore.

O i software di registrazione.

"I was made for loving and making recorded music."

Confido da sempre nel potere evocativo e orfico della musica, nella sua capacità di riconsegnarci a mondi più veri e più giusti, più belli di quelli in cui di solito viviamo.

"Ich bin ein kosmische Kurier"

I'm using these tools: Mellotron micro, Waldorf Blofeld synthesizer, Behringer Crave, IK Multimedia Uno synth, Roland Juno synth, Volca keys, Casio digital piano, micropiano Korg, Manetron (iPad app), iTampura (iPad app), Eko 11 (...) string acoustic guitar, electric violin, Orla analogic expander, tenor, treble and descant recorders, soprano and tenor tin whistle, Akai, Roland, Alesis and Arturia controllers, upright piano, Squier 3/4 electric guitar, melodica, Bubble Harp (iPad app), Schoenhut toy harp, soprano ukulele, Eko acoustic guitar, Peavey Composer acoustic guitar, Kurzweill micropiano, Boss and JamMan loop stations , Behringher multi-fx, Olympus portable digital recorder, Phonic, Behringer and Yamaha mixers, Audacity, Paulstretch, various players and plug-ins .. (that's all, folks, I think ..)

latest releases

https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/lieder-ohne-worte 
https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/suggestiva
https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/venusia
https://hibernate.bandcamp.com/album/as-riddled-as-the-tide

for further works please go to my bandcamp page
https://marcolucchi.bandcamp.com/

and to 
http://webbedhandrecords.com/
http://www.laverna.net/home/
https://silentflow.org/

iTunes and Spotify as well ..
feed and share ..
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1TRilVaDaQw0ksGqU5tuCh?si=zXD-0xFWS-2yrUs542SH9A

SoundCloud è la piattaforma musicale che preferisco perché è soprattutto il regno degli amateurs, di quelli che fanno musica per sé e per gli amici .. come quando da ragazzi si condividevano con gli altri le invenzioni e le creazioni .. io sostanzialmente sono rimasto lì e così .. non sempre, ovviamente, ma spesso ci trovo delle cose che valgono altrettanto - se non di più - rispetto a quelle più affermate e conosciute

Ambient electronica, Berlin School, Chillout & Kosmische Space Musik from Munich, Germany. ► Soundcloud is my musical diary - expect lightfooted drafts, soundchecks, playthings & misfits here. ► Go Bandcamp for finished pieces & more serious musical works.

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