More on this 468th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mirror Rorrim (The Assignment: Create a new persona for yourself, and record a duet together), at:

https://disquiet.com/0468/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

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

Image associated with this project is by Timothy Takemoto, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/36f8r

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Disquiet Junto Project 0468: Mirror Rorrim

More on this 447th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Listen Ahead (The Assignment: Make some music for the near future), at:

https://disquiet.com/0447/

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Dawn

Dawn (disquiet0447)

Boson Spin : synthesizers and electronics
Marco Lucchi : synthesizers and electronics

from
https://soundcloud.com/boson_spin/early-thursday-morning-230720

for Disquiet Junto 0447 : Listen ahead
https://disquiet.com/2020/07/23/disquiet-junto-project-0447-listen-ahead/

Boson Spin & Marco Lucchi -  Six (light) months from home [disquiet0447]

This is a composition based on the letters of the names of my children. I rendered a distinctive sample to each letter and composed a piece of music from these samples. They are mainly field recordings, but there are some synth parts too. I dedicate this piece to my children.

More on this 454th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Lsoo Vneg (The Assignment: The Assignment: Encode the name of someone you love into a piece of music), at:

https://disquiet.com/0454/

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Anesztrko [disquiet0454]

wind tunnel ...
a hummingbird fans
the morning glory

haiku by Kala Ramesh https://livinghaikuanthology.com/index-of-poets/alphabetic-index/72-r-poets/kala-ramesh.html

picture by Wes Hicks https://unsplash.com/@sickhews

Hummingbird [naviarhaiku355]

Composed and performed by DD (Friday 30th October 2020) and Luis Rigou (circa 2015)

for this junto challenge "Record a piece of music that moves back and forth between two inhospitable zones before finding one, à la Goldilocks and the Three Bears, that is just right."


I made a parallel accompaniment for a discarded quena (south-american indian flute) performed years ago by my friend the great Luis Rigou.
Completely removed the old acoustic  tracks/accompaniment and made a "comfort" one ( a tame groove of pizz strings samples and upright bass C minor pentatonic) and an uncomfortably one (C diminished performed on dystopian orchestral samples and a different flute performed on a different key)

The final mix goes back and forth from the comfort and the disturbing track.
Love

dd



https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0461-goldilocks-zone/3

Looking For The Comfort Zone (disquiet0461)

Disquiet Junto Project 0466: [ ] Sound Machine

Sound Machine 0komma98765 (disquiet0466)

“The thing with analog circuits is they follow very simple, natural laws,” says synthesizer designer and builder Jessica Rylan, “just like breaking a tree branch, or like water, or even like birds flying in a V — they push and are pushed into that pattern because it’s the path of least resistance … like you turn on the power, it’s just following whatever the vibration would do. And the sound it produces is the exact same as the electricity producing it.”

There are many such nuggets to be found in Tara Rodgers’ excellent book Pink Noises, which compiles interviews with twenty-four women working in electronic music and sound art. Rodgers’ conversation with Rylan, coupled with pandemic isolation, inspired Suss Müsik to explore the craft of DIY synthesis and digital instrument hacking.

As a result, Suss Müsik’s toolbox is now teeming with circuit boards, jumper cables, soldering equipment, resistors / capacitors / inductors of all sizes, a kaleidoscope of LED lights, touch-sensitive / knob potentiometers, plastic casing of varying sizes, and a lifetime supply of 9-volt batteries. It’s great fun.

A key learning was that acoustic instruments create sound by moving air — a string is plucked, a drum is hit, a mouthpiece receives wind — while electronic instruments make sound by moving voltage. Nature is a rich ecosystem of patterns, and the ability to manipulate patterns of electrical current is the core of synthesized music. 

This short piece is an excerpt from a series of compositions played mostly with custom-built and hacked instruments. In this particular instance, you’ll hear an piezo-amplified kalimba, a homemade sawtooth oscillator, and a photo-sensitive harmonic generator played with a flashlight and touch-ring interface.

The cover image is by visual artist B.G. Madden.

More on this 467th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Toolbox Show & Tell (The Assignment: Share a tip for making music that you learned during the pandemic), at:

https://disquiet.com/0467/

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SixOverEight [Disquiet0467]

The new artist is Northsir.  It's my last name, backwards, and somewhat spell-checked.

Northsir sits in his car "vocal booth" with an Android phone, bluetooth to the car's speakers, the Voloco app, and cranks out delayed Super Vocoder sounds.

Then Northsir takes those bits and hands them over to Mark Rushton who processes them into a not-Chopped but somewhat-Skewed track with multiple slow beats, reverse sub-bass, a sample of my disquiet0427 contribution "Noise Replacement", and a processed sample of Phil Kuhlenbeck's "Bitch You Off The Hook" - the backing track of which I made originally.  Mix about 16 tracks together in an hour, and here you go.

More on this 468th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mirror Rorrim (The Assignment: Create a new persona for yourself, and record a duet together), at:  https://disquiet.com/0468/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:  https://disquiet.com/junto/

Off The Hook (disquiet0468)

For this collab I created a beautiful racket with someone close to me, THE_THE. The base for the track was some left over repeats in Mimeophon that had some gated noise being fed into it, so old looping feedback with new stacking clicks. Lots of modulation from around the rack was fed into Mimeophon.

After this, for the first time ever in the Junto, two more tracks were recorded with a Ciat-Londbarde Tetrax--the first multi-take, multi-part submission from me. I panned the three tracks slightly so they weren't sitting on top of each other, but they probably don't have enough space. That's okay. It was fun to make.

A CollAB (feat. THE_THE) (disquiet0468)

My submission for
Disquiet Junto Project 0468: Mirror Rorrim
The Assignment: Create a new persona for yourself, and record a duet together.
https://disquiet.com/0468/

Yourself New (disquiet0468)

SVELT(disquiet 0468)

I am not in the habit of using beats in my work but an alter ego has come up with a rhythm track & I have contributed a drone sequence.

More on this 468th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mirror Rorrim (The Assignment: Create a new persona for yourself, and record a duet together), at:

https://disquiet.com/0468/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

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

Image associated with this project is by Timothy Takemoto, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/36f8r

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Split Persona (disquiet0468)

This is our contribution for the Disquiet Junto Project 0468: Mirror Rorrim. 

It's a duet version of the Kitchen Blues that was published before by Matthias here: https://youtu.be/eegHXNXH3ZU

More on this 468th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mirror Rorrim (The Assignment: Create a new persona for yourself, and record a duet together), at:

https://disquiet.com/0468/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0468-mirror-rorrim/

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

Image associated with this project is by Timothy Takemoto, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/36f8r

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

seulB nehctiK (disquiet0468)

This is my submission for this week's Disquiet assignment.

The two people playing together here are different instances of myself -- the experimental electronics guy of recent years, and the "traditional" guitarist of yesteryear. They had this jam when they met.

Enjoy the duo, and here's some more insight about this project:


More on this 468th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mirror Rorrim (The Assignment: Create a new persona for yourself, and record a duet together), at:

https://disquiet.com/0468/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

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

Dual(disquiet0468)

Created for the Disquiet Junto Project 0474: Police Action
@disquiet

The Project: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians.

I added two tracks of a Volca FM organ patch + Avalanche Run delay/reverb to fill out the bass and add some mid-high overtones and slight counter melody to tracks from @anotherbenjamin and @homeontheland . You can find their first two parts of our trio here:
https://soundcloud.com/anotherbenjamin/jam-time-2-of-3
https://soundcloud.com/homeontheland/jam-time-1-of-3-by-the-land-disquiet0472

More on this 474th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Police Action (3 of 3) / The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians – at:

https://disquiet.com/0474/

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Land, Bow and Stars - [ disquiet0474 - policeaction (3 of 3) ]

This is a compilation from an over night recording in Kirpakka woods with 15 small cracks in chronological order and as last a bigger bang from one long recording earlier in february.

I had the microphones out in Kirpakka small preservation area over night (from sunset to midday) during the coldest days when temp went down to -20C.  There was practically no sign of life except some road noise and machines from a nearby farm.  Daytime there were a few Crows and two Ravens, one Great Spotted Woodpecker and in early night the distant call of a Tengman's Owl.  

One recording of 18 hours earlier didn't result in any sound of life except a very weak Crow at 11 am. and the big crack in the end of this recording.

There seems to be a great loss of tits and crossbills in Finnish forests today.

But the trees were keeping a good amount of cracks and pops, specially in the early night when the temperature change was as fastest. 

http://www.rupuranta.net/weblog/filet/210215/

(MKH8020ab80cm, MixPre 32>24/48, no processing, +3dB, flac)

Jan Eerala Finland

Snaps and cracks - 15/2/2021 - Freezing Kirpakka Forest

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

seulB nehctiK (disquiet0468)

Torsten Goerke

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