A 'sedate' 8 bit track to soundtrack Cory Angel Super Mario Clouds ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCmAD0TwGcQ)

Recorded for  Disquiet Junto Project 0704: Right on Cumulus

The Assignment: Compose 8-bit music inspired by a Cory Arcangel / Super Mario video.

Step 1: You’re going to record 8-bit music (or something approximately like it). If you’re not familiar with means by which to do so, read up a bit. Also, there may be some discussion on the Lines (llllllll.co) message board for those new to it.

Step 2: In 2002, the media artist Cory Arcangel created a work of art titled Super Mario Clouds, which removed everything from the 1985 Super Mario Bros. video game except the blue sky and passing clouds. This means that Arcangel’s video was silent, because also excluded was Koji Kondo’s classic score. Read up about the work, which is well-documented.

Step 3: Part of the reason that the original Super Mario Bros. music wasn’t included in Super Mario Clouds may have been to do with how it, naturally, wasn’t aligned with how sedate the Arcangel hack turned out to be. Please now record very sedate 8-bit music that does feel aligned with Super Mario Clouds.

More on the 704th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right on Cumulus — The Assignment: Compose 8-bit music inspired by a Cory Arcangel / Super Mario video — at https://disquiet.com/0704/

Going out for chips [disquiet0704]

This is my submission for this week's Disquiet Junto assignment.

More on the 704th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right on Cumulus — The Assignment: Compose 8-bit music inspired by a Cory Arcangel / Super Mario video — at https://disquiet.com/0704/

Cumulus Phase [disquiet0704]

Music for / inspied by the first line of Crime and Punishment, which reads as; 
At the beginning of July, during a spell of exceptionally hot weather, towards evening, a certain young man came down on to the street from the little room he rented from some tenants who lived in Stolyarnyi Lane, stepped out onto the street, and slowly, almost hesitantly, set off towards the Kokushkin Bridge.

I picked that line, in part because its the beginning of July as I make this and also we've had a spell of hot weather. I read this book probably 25 years ago and read it again at the start of this year.  
For this track I jumped onto Freesound.org and got some street sounds from St. Petersburg and the horse drawn carriage sounds - this seemed to fit the 19th century feel. I new then the music and field recordings should merge together. I wanted tension and the sense of the character in the book being alone with the music I added - soft tension strings and ambient keys. 



Raskolnikov's Walk [disquiet0705]

This is my submission to this week's Disquiet Junto assignment.

More on the 705th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Book Start — The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0705/. This week’s project was proposed by Neil Stringfellow.

250704 [disquiet0705]

Disquiet Junto Project 0705: Book Start
The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music. 

The chosen text is a poem by Giuseppe Ungaretti (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Ungaretti),
written in July 1918 in the trenches during the First World War.

Si sta come 
d'autunno 
sugli alberi 
le foglie 

https://www.sololibri.net/Soldati-poesia-Ungaretti-si-sta-come-d-autunno-sugli-alberi.html


I obtained a sequence of 7 notes (AFDGBCE – 9 5 1 7 e 0 4), which I distributed across various sequencers and instruments. In particular, I used several old patches from SampleTank 2/3.

Soldati [disquiet0705]

This is my submission to this week's Disquiet Junto assignment.

More on the 706th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Tile One On — The Assignment: Make the most of your bathroom — at https://disquiet.com/0706/

250714 [disquiet0706]

More on the 707th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Practice — The Assignment: Make music from how you make music — at https://disquiet.com/0707/

Ich ergründe einen Klang in meinen Gedanken ^^ und breche ihn auf ^^ um seine alltäglichen und bekannten Elemente zu schichten ^^ und in serieller Weise sein Timbre aus alten und neuen Teilen nachzuformen.
Ich erforsche was wirklich einen Klang ausmacht und wie ich mit dessen langweiligen und meist überflüssigen Teilen etwas originelles schaffen kann das bekannte Sounds in einen hoffentlich neuen und inspirierenden Kontext setzt.

I explore a sound in my mind and break it down to layer its everyday and familiar elements and serially recreate its timbre from old and new parts.
I explore what really makes a sound and how I can take its boring and mostly superfluous parts and create something original that hopefully puts familiar sounds into a new and inspiring context.

the assignment was to come up with a sentence that describes our approach, my practice of creating a new track. took ages to find some words that really match in that context and accompany a true to it concept for this project. i usually wont work with vocals and/or spoken word so this was quite tricky and until mixing and mastering stage it took such a long time giving me real headache (again) but i like with what i came up reflecting what really reflects my work agenda. you should decide if in my track a certain vibe of "chain" or chained parts is to be heard or not, i personally thing i somehow missed that part of this compositional concept. anyway this might well be one of my best tracks this year so far.

produced  on Fostex TH7 headphones, mixed and checked on Fostex pm0.5D and a cheap 2.1 system, arranged in Bitwig Studio
tools used: beyerdynamic FOX, Flechtwerk, Curve2, Kontakt

be save, vegan love (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶)

Coma -- Practice -- Disquiet707

Disquiet Junto Project 0708: Vocal Chords
The Assignment: Do something with layers of the sound of your voice.

Step 1: Create simple chords by layering the sound of your voice.

Step 2: Do something with those chords.

Tutte le parti non propriamente strumentali sono create usando la voce (droni, fasce etc...)
Non avendo un timbro di voce decente  (estremamente nasale), nelle parti in cui la voce risulta più nitida, ho cercato in qualche modo di mascherarla/trattarla con FX vari.

All the non-strictly instrumental parts are created using the voice (drones, pads, etc.).

Given my rather nasal tone, which lacks a pleasing timbre, I treated the more exposed vocal parts with various effects to blur, shape, or disguise their raw character.



VC LAYERS (disquiet0708)

This is my submission to this week's Disquiet Junto assignment.

More on the 709th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Overclocked — The Assignment: Speed up a machine (or process) until it falters — at Disquiet Junto Project 0709: Overclocked – Disquiet.

250731 [disquiet0709]

Disquiet Junto Project 0709: Overclocked

Free samples (pixabay).
Reaktor Instruments and FX.

HI, it's me. (disquiet0709)

a mix of sketches, tracks and ideas from the past 3 months:

- 1-2:30 - drone excerpt (attic)
- 3:30-4 - granular experiment*, field recording: pennsylvania bird feeder
- 4:30-6 - await
- 6-6:30 - granular experiment, field recording: sea lions
- 6:30-8:15 - window
- 8:15-10:15 - barcode
- 10:15-10:30 - granular experiment
- 10:30-11:45 - voice
- 11:45-12:30 - field recording: upstate NY pond
- 12:30-13:45 - layer
- 13:45-end - granular experiments, etc, field recording: san francisco's musee mechanique


qmixv14

Disquiet0715

Disquiet Junto Project 0716: Dense Fog Advisory
The Assignment: That’s your band’s name; now record something.

There is just one step this week. You’re now recording music under the name Dense Fog Advisory. Record a new track, appropriate to your name.

Seashore and ocean landscapes, Weather and Forecast (USA), Reaktor Ensembles.

d.f.a. 0716--disquiet0716

This is my submission to this week's Disquiet Junto assignment. 

More on the 717th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Generation Gambit — The Assignment: Layer two eras of recordings, one of them imaginary — at https://disquiet.com/0717/.

Fujara [disquiet0717]

After hundreds of years of space exploration, I finally discovered a planet inhabited by beings most likely similar to us. The drone photographed a world composed of enormous metal platforms and vast tropical forests.
From all this, every 50 square kilometers, these enormous, towering metal columns rise. 
Each column has a huge speaker that plays the music/sound I recorded. Very similar to our concept of sound and music.  Then I noticed that this music can only be heard at an altitude of 10 kilometers, exclusively in the space surrounding the planet. 
Then I realized that all this is primarily a form of protection from the outside, from any kind of external intrusion. 
The intelligent entities on this planet intercept your vital signals, understand which civilization you come from, and immediately camouflage themselves.
Because they know full well that if the white man approaches, entire continents and entire civilizations will disappear.

Drum and percussiones: Nuvex Mini (Reaktor)
Samples from "Wahn" (Atem, Tangerine Dream)
Samplers: GranMaster and Korrell (Reaktor)

Free samples from PIXABAy.com

Planet MIMESIS-disquiet0718

Basic metronome created with piano + delay. Other sequencers with different tempos control some percussive sounds (prepared piano, cello  and percussion).

Metro- Nomos-disquiet0719

This is my submission to this week's Disquiet Junto assignment.

More on the 725th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Rack It — The Assignment: Change the “focus” of a track as it plays — at https://disquiet.com/0725/.

251122 [disquiet0725]

This is my submission to this week's Disquiet Junto assignment.

More on the 726th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chord of Omnis — The Assignment: Make music with a browser-based Omnichord as your sole sound source — at https://disquiet.com/0726/.

Omnidub [disquiet0726]

My other account.. since I stopped my paid account and somewhere to upload bits and bobs

This account is mostly for sketches and experiments. For completed recordings and albums visit my bandcamp page: https://hippieswearingmuzzles.bandcamp.com/
For older sketches and experiments go here: https://soundcloud.com/hippieswearingmuzzles

--all tracks are under CreativeCommons0/PublicDomain and free to download
--feel free to sample and re-use them, no need for asking
--account reset #6
--Soundcloud is dead

--i maxxed out in trying to offer new ideas and approaches to contemporary musik making for all but noone cares so here will now be more Noise and stupid shit

peace and
ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧ vegan love <3

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