Because, on some level, you just gotta root for the little fellas...

[no actual cicadas were harmed in the making of this track]

cicada love song

Been trying to figure out the Elektron Digitakt, with mixed success. 

Picked up where I left off a few months ago with a sample set that wasn't 'gelling', threw out all but one of the samples (the first you hear) and then retried it in a new track, with a few other newly chosen samples.

This is all one take on the Digitakt, basically "live" into a Tascam dp008ex and then added a little COMP/EQ afterwards to balance it out a bit.

Purgatory [disquiet0496-isolation-room]

Used AudioMulch (Bass plugin, Korg virtual synths) to design and record each of the three stems (a beat, a drone and a melody).

These were then loaded into Ableton Live. The melodic riff is aggressively panned for the first 30 seconds.  The beat starts to go errant at 30 seconds.  Then the drone is run through a pingpong delay for the final 30 seconds.

Creative Commons license.  Feel free to remix (with attribution).

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Disquiet Junto Project 0088: 3D

This week’s project focuses on the spatial aspect of sound. The instructions are as follows: 

Part 1: Your track will consist of three simultaneous segments: a drone, a beat, and a melodic fragment. 

Part 2: Each of those three segments will repeat consistently for the length of the finished track. 

Part 3: The only thing that will change is that you will manipulate them to simulate three-dimensional motion for someone listening to the track on headphones. You can do this by using stereo effects, volume shifts, filters, or any other technological means. 

Part 4: Your track will last one minute and thirty seconds. For the first 30 seconds, the drone and the beat will remain consistent, but the melodic fragment will move around in 3D. For the second 30 seconds, only the beat will move around, and for the final 30 seconds, only the drone will move around.

Deadline: Monday, September 9, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your track should have a duration of one minute and thirty seconds.

Title/Tag: Include the term “disquiet0088-3d” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

More on this 88th Disquiet Junto project, which explores 3D sound, at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/09/05/disquiet0088-3d/

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

you must march back towards the things you had forgotten [disquiet0088-3d]

There are seven drones here (assorted softsynths, including Arturia Pigments). Two of them are ‘doubled’ and linked to give them a ‘dancing in and out’ effect. One simple percussion line comes in towards the middle to guide it to its ending.

All done in Ableton Live.

For Disquiet #0599: https://disquiet.com/2023/06/22/disquiet-junto-project-0599-minimalist-blend/

a shiny curtain [disquiet0599]

Downloaded the seven source tracks (samples by Marcus Fischer). 

Didn't modify/manipulate any of the initial stem sounds all that much. (Chose to make a "stir fry" instead of a "casserole" when it came to remixing these pieces).

For Disquiet600: https://disquiet.com/2023/06/29/disquiet-junto-project-0600-reaching-out/

the fisher's mark [disquiet600]

Once again, no actual pianos were involved...

Quasi-Piano Study #2

for you must keep on crawling upwards, oh my strange children...

No actual pianos were harmed in the making of this track...

Quasi-Piano Study, #3

Quasi-Piano Study #4

Quasi-Piano Study #5

#6 of a series. no actual pianos were harmed...

Quasi-Piano Study #6

once again, no actual pianos were harmed in the making of this track...

Shanty #7

Brother, Can You Paradigm...?

The DAWlessness continues...

Several semi-modular synths at work. Neutron, East Beast, West Pest, some processing and mastering in Ableton Live.

Bloop and Brisk

Uncle Jack & Auntie Marjorie live across the street. Having a Party like it's 1949.

Circuit Rhythm, Roland S-1, P-6, maybe some other stuff...?
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Disquiet Junto Project 0667: Neighbor of the Beast
The Assignment: What’s it sound like when the devil lives across the street?

There is just one step for this project. The devil happens to live across the street from you. What’s it sound like on an average evening?

Thanks to Paolo Salvagione, who proposed this project many hundreds of projects ago. 

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0667” (no spaces/quotes) in the name of your track.

Upload: Post your track to a public account (SoundCloud preferred but by no means required). It’s best to focus on one track, but if you post more than one, clarify which is the “main” rendition.

Share: Post your track and a description/explanation at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0667-neighbor-of-the-beast/

Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

Uncle Jack's Party [disquiet0667]

Two sounds serve as stems: the 'rocks' beneath and the 'air' above.  Sliced each into several sub-stems. Played 'live' in Ableton. 

The 'air' sound (processed guitar) recovered from an old cassette tape from 1987-8.  The 'rocks' are one of the Ableton soft synths.
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More on this 222nd weekly Disquiet Junto project (Compose a piece for contemporary dance — with a “soft top” and a “shifting bottom”) at:

http://disquiet.com/0222/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

The image associated with this project is by Tom Gill and is used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/qX8pyN

the pebbles are voting [disquiet0222-boundedfoundation]

Downloaded the two samples, used these to create five stems:

-The 'sad piano' loop
-each sound turned into an instrument with Sampler (Ableton)
-a 'wavy static' sound for background
-the foghorn itself, barely treated.

Set up the 3 loops, 'played' the two sampler tracks over that, some cleanup/mixing afterwards.

Picture is mine: Moon over Marblehead (view from front porch), April 2016.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0254: Fog and Steam
Make music from two provided samples.

For the 254th weekly project, we’re going to revisit the second project, from back in early January 2012.

Step 1: Download these two samples:

Fog Horn: http://www.freesound.org/people/schaarsen/sounds/69663/

Train Whistle: http://www.freesound.org/people/ecodios/sounds/119963/

Step 2: Create an original piece of music utilizing just those samples from Step 1. You can only use those two samples, and you can do whatever you want with them.

Deadline: This project was posted in the late morning, California time, on Thursday, November 10, 2016, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, November 14, 2016.

Length: The length is up to you, but three minutes sounds about right.

Title/Tag: When posting your track, please include “disquiet0254” in the title of the track, and where applicable (on SoundCloud, for example) as a tag.

Upload: When participating in this project, post one finished track with the project tag, and be sure to include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

Download: It is necessary, due to the licensing of the source audio, that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting the track online, please be sure to include this information:

More on this 254th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Fog and Steam: Make music from two provided samples” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0254/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

llllllll.co/t/music-of-fog-and-steam-disquiet-junto-project-0254/

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Fog horn sample by Schaarsen: http://www.freesound.org/people/schaarsen/sounds/69663/

Train whistle sample by Ecodios: http://www.freesound.org/people/ecodios/sounds/119963/

Image associated with this project is by Paul Johnson and used with a Creative Commons license:
flic.kr/p/6mZQGm

disquiet0254-fogandsteam

different winds, rival shores [disquiet0254]

Been on disquiet hiatus.  Good to be back...

breakmind [disquiet0274]

Very appropriate to visit older unfinished material as Mercury goes retrograde.

A track in progress. had started and abandoned the beginnings of this early last fall, but as luck would have it, have been revisiting and remaking it lately.  

Seemed appropriate for this Disquiet project.

a field of springs [disquiet-0275]

Three tracks made with the LittleBits Korg Synth kit.

Mixed together.

(Nice review of the littlteBits here: http://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/korg-littlebits)

Bitsy

Took this quite literally.  Looked at the spectrum of LED warm indoor house lighting.  That in Hz is roughly E-flat/D-sharp.  Made several pad/deep flute drones in that tone.

The "ribs" of the lantern housing is a comb filter.

The 'ambient glow': shimmery delays/reverbs, focused on the core tone.

For Disquiet #0291:  https://disquiet.com/2017/07/27/disquiet-junto-project-0291-lantern-effect/

the diogenes filter [disquiet0291]

your possible futures

...of sorts.

For Disquiet Junto #0308: http://disquiet.com/0308

Original background sample is from: https://freesound.org/people/lonemonk/sounds/69437/

The rest,, soft synth(s) in Ableton.

Creative Commons, w Attribution

disquiet0308

a thanksgiving prayer [disquiet0308]

Ye old  time sounds.

For Disquiet Junto #0325: https://disquiet.com/2018/03/22/disquiet-junto-project-0325-fake-book/

Source tracks are Edison cylinders:

https://archive.org/details/edbell-735
https://archive.org/details/EDIS-SRP-0194-01
https://archive.org/details/edgm-9107

step right up... [disquiet0325]

For Disquiet #0326: https://disquiet.com/2018/03/29/disquiet-junto-project-0326-wave-turntable/

Audiomulch and a Korg nanoKONTROL for the basic sine sounds.

Then Ableton Live. Several mixed vinyl/static sources...

disquiet0326

sun-sine [disquiet0326]

downloaded the four one-minute samples.

didnt modify the samples all that much... cut, snip, clone, pitchshift as needed, minor effects... and cut up.

For Disquiet Junto #0338: https://disquiet.com/2018/06/21/disquiet-junto-project-0338-imaginary-quartet/

Original tracks by: Ikjoyce, Audio Obscura, Subsepai, and sevenism.

disquiet-0338 imaginary quartet

QUADRIPLEXIA [disquiet0338]

approached this very loosely.. a mix of "metallic" synths, chaotic lines, and processing.

(the coincidence of the name vs mine is not lost on me...)

For https://disquiet.com/2018/06/28/disquiet-junto-project-0339-rude-mechanicals/

copper and lead [disquiet0339-rude mechanicals]

"It was all going so well at first, but then the ship's computers started talking to each other..."

For Disquiet #0453:

https://disquiet.com/2020/09/03/disquiet-junto-project-0453-dial-up/

The track was done in Ableton Live, but all the sounds are sampled from various and sundry Korg Volcas and a Neutron.

the bell mechanical

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