Disquiet Junto Project 0216: Thin Layers
The Assignment: Add a thin foundational bed to beats of pin-prick audio.

Step 1: For this project you’ll be adding sounds to a pre-existing track of your choosing. Select one track from the previous Junto project, in which beats were made with five tiny, pin-prick sounds:

http://disquiet.com/0215

Step 2: Confirm the track you selected in Step 1 is available for creative reuse. If you’re not sure, correspond with the musician. If you’re short on time, select a different track.

Step 3: Create a new track by adding a thin layer, or several thin layers, of an ambient foundational bed to the pre-existing track. Don’t alter the pre-existing track significantly. Maintain its original length.

Step 4: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process — identify the source track and include a link to its SoundCloud page.

Step 5: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This project was posted at noon, California time, on Thursday, February 18, 2016, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, February 22, 2016.

Length: The length of your track should be the same as that of the source track.

Upload: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, only upload one track for this project, 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.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please in the title to your track include the term “disquiet0216-thinlayers.” Also use “disquiet0216-thinlayers” as a tag for your track.

Download: It is preferable 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, please be sure to include this information:

More on this 216th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“The Assignment: Add a thin foundational bed to beats of pin-prick audio”) at:

http://disquiet.com/0216

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:

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The image associated with this project is by Evelyn Flint, used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/rKoG1i

Disquiet Junto Project 0216: Thin Layers

Tom Anderson - Disquiet Junto

**Production Notes**

I went for emi minami’s lovely „tinyrhythms“, a mixture of pins and insects, recorded with a contact mike. You find it here: [https://soundcloud.com/emiminami/tinyrhythms]

Picked some tonal parts of a newer drone piece, arranged them. I cheated a bit in the length, it’s not quite the same, but otherwise the loops would have sounded somewhat strange. 

Some EQ’s and sidechain compression… and that’s all.

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**Disquiet Junto Project 0216: Thin Layers**

The Assignment: Add a thin foundational bed to beats of pin-prick audio.

Step 1: For this project you’ll be adding sounds to a pre-existing track of your choosing. Select one track from the previous Junto project, in which beats were made with five tiny, pin-prick sounds:

http://disquiet.com/0215
Step 2: Confirm the track you selected in Step 1 is available for creative reuse. If you’re not sure, correspond with the musician. If you’re short on time, select a different track.

Step 3: Create a new track by adding a thin layer, or several thin layers, of an ambient foundational bed to the pre-existing track. Don’t alter the pre-existing track significantly. Maintain its original length.

Step 4: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process — identify the source track and include a link to its SoundCloud page.

Step 5: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This project was posted at noon, California time, on Thursday, February 18, 2016, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, February 22, 2016

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More on this 216th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“The Assignment: Add a thin foundational bed to beats of pin-prick audio”) at:

http://disquiet.com/0216
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 Evelyn Flint, used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/rKoG1i

Bed & Crackers [disquiet0216-thinlayers]

Disquiet Junto Project 0216: Thin Layers (Introduction)

i used my own track (Disquiet0215) as the source material 

in ableton live   
track 1 Helm played live
track 2 Disquiet0215
track 3 Disquiet0215 with delay 
track 4   armed  to record 

done in one take :) 

track 4 was exported  to audacity  where the .wav was trimmed 
a general compressor was applied 



ambient  synth 
Helm synth by Matt Tytel
http://tytel.org/helm/



Eps Sample Disk94SIDE B Disquiet0216- Thin Layers

I really like the collaborative aspect of this weeks assignment and strongly feel this could be the main strength of the whole junto idea. The main track I choose to work with was Emi Minami's gentle and understated piece "disquiet0215-tinyrhythms"https://soundcloud.com/emiminami/tinyrhythms?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0215  I liked the outdoors vibe and thought it offered a lot of room to roam around in. I went to free sound looking for some nature sounds. I downloaded and used the following sound files.
1)62487__sagetyrtle__1103campfire1
2)13576__acclivity__batwalk
3)269570__vonora__cuckoo-the-nightingale-duet
4)190112__tran5ient__flail6
I added the files onto the Minami track. I then proceeded to do a lot of fx and proceesing and crossfading which got out of hand and I decided to stick to the simplicity of the original and left the files as is except for looping the very short flail sample to give it more of a rhythm. I still decided it needed more of a tempo so I added the beginning of Audio Obscura's excellent track https://soundcloud.com/audio-obscura-music/super-tiny-sound-disquiet-junto-project-0215-tiny-rhythms?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0215 looping that in. The title "Night of the Cuckoo Batwalk" came from the free sound files.    More on this 216th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“The Assignment: Add a thin foundational bed to beats of pin-prick audio”) at:

http://disquiet.com/0216

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:

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The image associated with this project is by Evelyn Flint, used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/rKoG1i

Night Of The Cuckoo Batwalk (disquiet0216-thinlayers)

Acquired a superb loop track through https://soundcloud.com/kuromiya-hideyuki/fugadisquiet0215-tinyrhythms?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0215 and denoised it a little.

In FL Studio, set the bpm to 70 and converted the loop track to piano score. Made three tracks from the single piano score and added a high hat. Added various ducking and echoing and volume swells and some other (dis)similar effects to these. Mixed all tracks except for the original to a "thin" state. 

More on this 216th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“The Assignment: Add a thin foundational bed to beats of pin-prick audio”) at:

http://disquiet.com/0216

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 Evelyn Flint, used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/rKoG1i

Fuga Luda [disquiet0216-thinlayers]

https://splice.com/twocs/random 
https://soundcloud.com/tom-anderson-18/random-disquiet0235

3 minutes
5 sections (each ~36 seconds)

number of layers for each section

1	4
2	2
3	5
4	2
5	3

number of notes per layer
1.1	6
1.2	6
1.3	4
1.4	6
2.1	3
2.2	2
3.1	6
3.2	5
3.3	6
3.4	5
3.5	3
4.1	6
4.2	2
5.1	1
5.2	5
5.3	1

Created section 1, then randomly modified the layers in the smallest way possible to achieve the next section. In other words, to make section 3, section 1 loop 1 was used the same (because both rolls were 6) but section 1 loop 2 had one note removed to make section 3 loop 2. The notes to be removed were selected randomly. The notes to be added were just kind of added on a whim...

And notes in different loops don't start at the same time.

More on this 235th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Create a piece of music based on a structure determined by the roll of a single die” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0235/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

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Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place on a Slack (send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for inclusion) and at this URL:

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Image associated with this project by Chris Gladis, used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/f24Vc/



Random

Random [disquiet0235]

This track was recorded with an aim towards reverb destruction. The aim was to use reverb to be the focus but whether it works. Created in FL Studio. flp available at splice.com/twocs/salty-freckles

The painting of the old man and his grandson was by Ghirlandaio with some after effects by me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Old_Man_and_his_Grandson

More on this 241st weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Compose a piece of music in which the material processed is secondary to the processing” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0241/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

http://llllllll.co/t/foreground-effect-disquiet-junto-project-0241/4134

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

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

https://flic.kr/p/iaNB

Salty Freckles [disquiet0241]

Read the details for the Disquiet Junto weekly and then looked at Wikipedia Phase Music (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_music)where there's a . Promptly created a 3xOsc 8-note ostinato, extended it four times with a dip on the final note. Then I created another track with the same notes but this time I stretched it to half a beat shorter. Wrapped the two tracks so eventually one track offsets half the ostinato of the other. The rest of the time was spent filters and other mixing. All in native FL studio.

You can get the FL Studio files for the track at: https://splice.com/twocs/phase

You can get the audio at: soundcloud.com/tom-anderson-18/phase-disquiet0249

More on this 249th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Wish the minimalist composer Steve Reich a happy birthday” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0249/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

http://llllllll.co/t/happy-birthday-steve-reich-disquiet-junto-project-0249/

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

Phase [disquiet0249]

Rolled the word "forgetting" and forgot what the other instructions were. FL Studio, recorded a quick bassline, then used auto generation based on the existing parts to create new parts until the track was too full. Mixed it and uploaded it. The original idea was that the fourth bar was always something purely improvisational. Could you tell?

More on this 279th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Word Interiorities: Dissect the sonic properties of a single spoken word” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0279/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

http://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0279-word-interiorities/

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

Image associated with this project is a detail of a public domain photo of Luciano Berio, from:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luciano_Berio.jpg#mw-jump-to-license

Forgetting

Forgetting [disquiet0279]

Word Interiorities - Rolled the word "forgetting" and forgot what the other instructions were. FL Studio, recorded a quick bassline, then used auto generation based on the existing parts to create new parts until the track was too full. Forgot to include the "forgetting" vocalisation until that point so doubled many instrument tracks to a TTS sample of "forgetting".

Released without the vocals here:
https://soundcloud.com/tom-anderson-18/forgetting-disquiet0279

More on this 279th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Word Interiorities: Dissect the sonic properties of a single spoken word” — at:

disquiet.com/0279/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…word-interiorities/

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

Image associated with this project is a detail of a public domain photo of Luciano Berio, from:

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luci…ump-to-license