Tonal qualities remind me som much of the upright Clark piano I plonked away on in my home growing up. Love the addition of something like phase.

Disquiet Junto Project 0636: Left (1 of 3)

The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio.

Recording of a Jolana Galaxis into a Zoom Multistomp Fx.

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Jolana+ParticleVerb (disquiet0636)

First of a series....the last of its species

sparse piano chords that take a parabolic flight into low earth orbit before making one last effort. A harmonic base for further development:

G minor, 115 bpm.

As far as process and kit, this was made with an upright piano, a coles4038, and stock ableton effects. I played for 20 minutes, kept the good bits, and edited it to be AABA with forward progress.

Make something cool with it!

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Dissolve Left! (disquiet0636)

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Uno With Wild Card-40 BPM (disquiet0636)

A three-voice electronic sequence, 84 & 168 bpm, panned toward the left.

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Clockwork Left (disquiet0636)

This is an entry to a prompt given by the Disquiet Junto (see below). If you want to listen to piece in its full "stereo glory", you find it here: 
https://soundcloud.com/analoc/left-shark-stereo-version

Found an old, noisy loop, added a bass in Generate (my new VST du jour), added a "guitar" line (also in Generate) and finally some stabs with Lux from Fors (lovely M4L playground). 

It has 78 BPM, is in F sharp, and I hope it's not too dense.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0636: Left (1 of 3)

The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio.

Please note: While this project is the start of a three-part sequence that will unfold over the course of three weeks, you can participate in any or all three of those parts.

Step 1: This week’s Junto project is the first in a sequence intended to encourage and reward collaboration. You will be recording something with the understanding that it will remain unfinished for the time being. Your part will be done, but more will happen. Read on.

Step 2: The plan is for you to record a short and original piece of music using any instrumentation of your choice. Conceive the piece as something that leaves room for something else — other instruments, other people — to join in. (Keep in mind that your piece would appear panned to the left in the finished recording, after three weeks.)

Step 3: Record a short piece of music, roughly two to three minutes in length, as described in Step 2.

Step 4: This is important: be sure to make your track downloadable because it may be used by someone else in the next Disquiet Junto project, and then after that.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0636” (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-0636-left-1-of-3/

Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you. Two to three minutes is best.

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Left Shark [disquiet0636]

Used Pigments and its FX to generate some drippy splong sounds. Feel free to warp, cut, resample or whatever you feel like.

Key is C Major even though its not that tonal and tempo is 100 BPM.

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Splong

Splong 1 of 3 (disquiet0636)

Disquiet Junto Project 0636: Left (1 of 3)
The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio.

My idea for this first part of the trio was to create something that sounded like a single acoustic instrument, while sounding like no known instrument.

The piece was basically made with a home made version of the Vietnamese Dan Bau instrument, which I played with a bow (non traditional). I selected some recordings that sounded interesting and re-recorded those played back through a software effects chain with a resonator (physical model of a pipe) and a feedback mechanism. I played this feedback-resonator-device using a 3D midi control surface, mapping the many parameters of the physical model and feedback mechanism to the 3 of the controller by using a technique called preset morphing. Finally, I collaged several recordings together to get the final piece, trying to leave room for contributions of others — i.e. sparse arrangement, minimal stereo image, hold back on reverb.

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The Creature From Left Field (disquiet0636)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 09 Mar 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

Process notes
This is my Danelectro 12-string electric guitar in four similar variations in Live 12 Suite.

Each variation is through Live's 2x12 Near On-Axis amp preset and my own channel strip, including compression, sometimes high. I quantized these pretty close to whatever grid I was using at 76 bpm, if that matters to anyone. Use them as you would like!

Variation 01 - three notes, stretched out a bit in the Texture warp mode, with one note stretched a bit more. Live's overdrive is on here at mid-high frequencies.

Variation 02 - five notes, I think I left the speed alone here. Just put it through Beat Repeat in mix mode, my second-gen deconstruction of their Deconstruct preset with some fading decay, a 12 tone octave  and almost 100% chance of glitching.

Variation 03 - sped this up, slowed it back down and re-quantized this a few times. Then I used the newer Live distortion device, Roar, and edited/adjusted their Alien Symphony preset.

Variation 04 - I left the speed alone but applied reverse and fades to this one. This one is through the Redux at 4 bits and 11.7 kHz at a modest 20% wet.

Further variations will probably work their way into a future Heatsink track when I am ready to compile my next album under that name. 

Artwork: From the LIRR or somewhere in NYC or the Upper East Side, 09 Mar 2015 

©2015,2024 Jim Lemanowicz - music distributed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 DEED

This original version of "Four Variations for Left" was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0636: Left (1 of 3). The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio

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Four Variations for Left (disquiet0636)

This track is a slow drone using 11 different panned Logic Pro X organs. 7 play bottom C1, 2 play Aflat1, 1 plays A1, 1 plays G1. Added are arpeggiators, reverbs and other effects to give texture and pulse.

This in response to the first of this year's three part @disquiet collaborative project. More on the 636th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Left (1 of 3) — The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0636/

left 1of3 disquiet0636

Composed and created in Ableton 12. This was a great excuse to play around with some of the new instruments in Live 12.

There is a lot of spatial quality to the instruments. Best probably to pan the sound to the left if you like, or if extreme, take only the left side. Combining L+R to make a mono track will alter the tonal quality considerably.

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Created for the Disquiet Junto

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Image credit:
"Day 8 - Winter forest at night" by Vladimir Agafonkin
CC BY 2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/80849382@N00/3347741916

2024 - 03 - 10 Night Walk - disquiet0636

Watch out for the hairpin turns on this dusty track out back of Lone Pine.

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disquiet0636 - Mallard Drone

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.

Dissolve Left! (disquiet0636)

Torpid Scorpion

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