I recorded a simple pattern with two bells playing over a metronome (58 BPM). You can see the bells on the cover drawing.

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Disquiet0636 - Left Bells

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)

This is part of Disquiet Junto 0636: Left (1 of 3). See more at https://llllllll.co/t/66416/.

Disquiet Junto 0636: Left - 1 of 3 [disquiet0636]

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0636: Left (1 of 3)

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0636 discussion thread:

Created this generative ambient track using SDKC Helical on my little ALM 3U 52hp rig. No other modules were used except for a bit of reverb with FX Aid. Manually adjusted note spread, envelope, filter cutoff, etc. while recording. Mangle, chop up or do whatever you’d like for your creation. The main thing of course is to enjoy the process. Busy few weeks coming up so not sure whether I’ll be able to participate 100% in this series, we’ll see.
This is in C# Major.
River image by Nitish Kadam via Unsplash.     

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View From The Left Bank [disquiet0636]

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.

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bass flurry [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)

sound art for disquiet0636

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marsh bones (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

Lo-fi, ambient, base for a future track, perhaps? Cm at 115BPM.
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woozy (disquiet0636)

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.