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Disquiet Junto Project 0358: Rhythm + Blue(s)

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rhythm (disquiet0358)

Disquiet Junto Project 0358: Rhythm + Blue(s)Step 1: Consider the term “rhythm and blues.” Not the genre, just the term.
Step 2: Imagine what you might think “rhythm and blues” meant in terms of music had you never previously heard “rhythm and blues” music.

I got infatuated with Blues when I was a kid (Howling Wolf, John Mayall and Muddy Waters mostly) but back then the term Rhythm and Blues was a bit confusing to me, I remember somebody pointing out that The Who and the Stones were considered as R&B bands at their beginning. The Who R&B? ok...
In my young little head it was more mashed up with soul and funk, Stax and Motown music from the 60’s. 
Anyway, R&B was way far from the “Pop-HipHop” thing they refer to now with that moniker.
So I took all this as a license to submit whatever I’m working on really.
If somehow aliens studying mammals on this part of the universe end up thinking Fats Domino, The Who and Rhianna all play the same style off music, you can count me in (out?).

For this one I went for a 6/4 beat (4+2 unusual for R&B I presume) but used normal instruments for that style:
Electric Guitars (x2)
Wurlitzer piano
Farfissa Organ
Electric Bass
Drums

Sounds more complex than it is actually, it is just a lazy Friday jam.
DD, Paris, Friday 9th November 2018


More on this 358th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Rhythm + Blue(s) / The Assignment: An exercise in genre — at:
https://disquiet.com/0358/

Rhythm No Blues (disquiet0358)

released 11.09.2018


with pure data + trumpet

hey you, give me the rhythm (disquiet0358)

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Smile

Smile (Disquiet0358)

a demo experimenting with Native Instrument's Reaktor freebie "Blocks WIred"
4 Instances.

Created on Friday 19th April 2019 inspired by 
https://disquiet.com/0381/

Blocked & Wired

Created as part of Disquiet Junto 0391 using samples of Boris Johnson describing his passion for making buses.

Full discussion here: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0391-front-page/23563/14?u=mdh

Front Page (disquiet0391)

Uploaded with AudioShare app - http://kymatica.com/audioshare
all iOS

Ch 5 - 120 bpm - 001{disquiet0392}

'Departure' EP / August 2019
https://paulgstewart.bandcamp.com/album/departure-ep

Track for https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0402-music-for-tasks/25429

All made with an iPad in AUM.

Recorded samples with the built-in microphone in AUM with Brusfri for noise reduction. Selected samples with AudioShare.

Instruments:
5 x E-L-S-A sampler instances
1 x Tardigrain

Plugins:
FAC Maxima
FAC Bandit
FAC Chorus
Replicant 2
FuzzPlus 3 Distortion
Kosmonaut Delay
EOS2 Reverb

Controlled by Rozeta Cells, Particles and LFO
Patterns controlled by custom Mozaic script that allows me to switch the patterns in each Cells instance. 

Uploaded with AudioShare.

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One of my favorites in a long while. Vibe with me, loves <3

Another Way

Dance To The Death

there's no us
there's no we
i am invisible

don't expect
you to see
i am invisible

in the safety of my shadow
that's where you'll find me
i expect to wait forever
i suspect you'll never see

there's just you
there's no me
i am invisible

that is all
i can be
only invisible

in the darkness of my shadow
that's where you hide me
perpetually waiting
you'll never see

i'm right here
you can't see
so i must be invisible

like the air
that you breathe
i must be invisible

in the corner of some memory
that's where you forget me
my light and colours fading
i regret you'll never see

invisible (single version)

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.

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