Disquiet0613 Chandelier Sax Quartet 2023-09-30

This is a ~5 min segment from a recent recording session of an atonal ambient/drone patch, inspired by Jaap Vink’s ‘screen patch’ explorations. New territory for me, been trying out feedback patching for awhile and this is a first attempt in doing one on this style. The sound source is ring modulated feedback created by patching a handful of Eurorack modules together.

The key modules are a Doepfer BBD delay, Make Noise Mimeophon, Make Noise Maths, Make Noise Rxmx w/ Fxdf, and Mutable Instruments Blinds. Altogether, a simple "record head / playback head" feedback loop is created that slowly builds by itself, and using Maths to suppress/compress the signal by acting as an envelope follower that controls the overall patch amplitude.

Blinds is patched as a ring modulator, and Rxmx/Fxdf stand in for the 'third octave filter' suggested in the original Screen Patch. This allows the feedback to be processed through 6 bandpass filters, including being able to scan through one or more filter bands. 

I also added another multi-mode filter, wave folder, and through zero FM VCO into the patch, allowing for more timbral range and ending up with a metallic resonance that I was pleased with.

If you're interested, check out Jaap Vink's work in the 1970s at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, exploring ring modulated feedback patching with the 'screen patch'. More on the process here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Bcr_HS9XM

Also see this inspiring collection of Jaap Vink recordings:
https://recollectiongrm.bandcamp.com/album/s-t

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Ring Modulated Feedback • [ disquiet0613 ]

This track was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0613: Do something you’ve been meaning to do!

This prompt gave me the inspiration to finally dive deeper into the Koma Field Kit. In this track a smartphone- and a dictaphone-recording of shopping in the supermarket are routed to speakers fixed to an acoustic guitar. In parallel a solenoid motor fixed to the strings is triggered if a certain gate-level is passed by the volume of the recordings. All these sounds are recorded with a contact microphone fixed to the guitar.
In a second take an improvised piano melody was recorded via this detour of speaker and contact microphone fixed to the acoustic guitar.

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Poppy Field Kit  (Disquiet0613)

This is an acoustic cover of Wellerman, the 20th century NZ folksong about whaling. 

This was recorded in Long Island, NY in the summer of 2023
Vocals: Cora
Production: torpid scorpion

For more on the song, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellerman

This release is part of the weekly Disquiet Junto.
Note that as this is a demo of an upcoming release NO DERIVATIVE WORKS applies

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Wellerman (ft Cora)

Wellerman (acoustic demo) ft Cora (via disquiet0613)

disquiet0613
Tester
    • Key: Bb maj/G min     BPM: 100     Time signature: 4/4     DAW: Reaper
    • Instruments:  Congas, Daluo, Khol, Tombak, Shakers
    • Plug-ins: Native Instruments
    • The Assignment: Do something you’ve been meaning to do. 
    • Started with Reaktor blocks then added percussion of various kinds

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Tester - disquiet0613

[disquiet0613] Momijigari

The Assignment: Do something you’ve been meaning to do.

Thinking about things I’d been meaning to get around to, I realised that perhaps the biggest was to take some time to clean up and reorganise the corner of my home that I use most for music making.

So, that’s what I did. 
I packed up stuff that I don’t use so much. I gave the things I do use often  — or that I’d like to keep close, because they inspire me — a better, more prominent, more natural place. I did some woodworking to create custom storage solutions, as well as some extra surface area, allowing me to more easily switch between (or combine) different instruments and ways of playing.

Since this took a fair bit of the weekend, and the results are of cleaning and reorganising are not themselves immediately musical, I figured that having a musical entry for this week was probably not going to happen. But then tonight I had a bit of spare time and decided to do a little improvisation using three elements I wasn’t really able to combine very easily before my reorganising effort:
1. My home grown software matrix routing setup (of which I ended up using only a delay/reverb effects chain and a granular effects chain)
2. A (semi modular) synth as input to the matrix
3. A musical saw as input to the matrix

The entire recording of the improvisation was around 20 minutes. I took a portion of around 3 minutes that I found interesting and chopped off the rest. Bit of a fade in and fade out and a bit filtering in the beginning.

Some Space - disquiet0613

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Disquiet0613 - Hadrian - Three

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Disquiet0613 Harshnoodles

Sinny: processed kazoo

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Domesticated Didgeridoo (disquiet0613)

Disquiet Junto projects and other sonic experimentations. This account is no longer active as I have reached my upload limit, so I instead post on Sinnysounds2. For additional compositions, check out my main account, https://soundcloud.com/sinnyseven.

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During the early 1990s I studied Mathematics and Computer Science. The world wide web was still largely text-based and mostly empty. Today things are obviously different, though I still thoroughly enjoy art, design, cinema and music in all its forms. I have traveled all over the world for nearly two decades, visiting just over 140 countries. Japan is my favorite. All of this I attempt to incorporate into my music and art.

Drummer and Digital Musician. Creating an experiment in sound while exploring my own unique style. Useing rhythm and sound design .Give me a listen and let me know what you think.  vgmrmojo@outlook.com   vgmrmojo@gmail.com

Jonathan Zorn works as a composer, performer, and curator of experimental, electronic, and improvised music. His electronic music pairs improvising musicians with interactive computer systems to create hybrid, human-machine ensembles. Zorn's interest in vocal utterance has resulted in a series of pieces in which spoken language is interrupted by electronic forces, drawing attention to the gap between speech and sound. Zorn has been active as an improvisor on bass and electronics for 15 years and has performed at Red Cat, the Walker Art Center, the Verona Jazz Festival, the Library of Congress, the Seattle Festival of Improvised Music, Line Space Line Festival, and the Chelsea Art Museum. His work has been published in Ord und Bild, the SEAMUS Journal, Notations 21, and UbuWeb. 

RabMusicLab produces instrumental music of various genres from classical to electronic without shying away from excursions into pop or experimental music. The tracks are published for the pleasure, entertainment and inspiration of every listener.

RabMusicLab loves to participate in the Disquiet Junto Projects of https://soundcloud.com/disquiet to fuel his creativity . All tracks that have "disquiet" in the title were created as response to these projects. Further informations can be found in the respective track-information,

All images used are photographs by RabMusicLab, unless otherwise indicated in the track-informations.

Torpid Scorpion is the electro-acoustic project of London based musician Rens Troost. 

My soundcloud is where I put up experiments and collaborations that may or may not see release someday.

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