I"play" piano just as I type - one finger, one thumb. Felt a connection with your not-self here!! 

Haunting opening. Immediately interesting.

News from the RSH Impro course… which, by the way, happens to have a new account, please check it out if you happen to like our past products:

https://soundcloud.com/rsh-improkurs

While this one is certainly not a techno track, at least it works with beats!
Claudio Huerta Honores, accordion; Natalie Schönberger, clarinet; Qirici Ermir, French horn (most of the beats are processed horn sounds); Hyeongjin Oh, tuba (the high "sky sound" that runs through most of the track); Joaquim Simões, guitar; Anastasia Deligiannik, violoncello; Ella Sternstedt, bass guitar;  recording Benedikt Wild; additional tracks + mixed + produced by Hubertus Dreyer.

DistantSummer

Created with Hyve Synth.

More on this 554th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Cage Chord (The Assignment: Riff on a chord by John Cage) – at: https://disquiet.com/0554/

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/
https://www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern
https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

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

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Cage Chord Sustain (disquiet0554)

wash of looping sampled ambience

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More on this 591st weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Loneliest Number (The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0591/

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disquiet0591 - patchouli wash

Zwischen den Räumen

This is a ~5 min segment from a recent recording session of an atonal ambient/drone patch, inspired by Jaap Vink’s ‘screen patch’ explorations. New territory for me, been trying out feedback patching for awhile and this is a first attempt in doing one on this style. The sound source is ring modulated feedback created by patching a handful of Eurorack modules together.

The key modules are a Doepfer BBD delay, Make Noise Mimeophon, Make Noise Maths, Make Noise Rxmx w/ Fxdf, and Mutable Instruments Blinds. Altogether, a simple "record head / playback head" feedback loop is created that slowly builds by itself, and using Maths to suppress/compress the signal by acting as an envelope follower that controls the overall patch amplitude.

Blinds is patched as a ring modulator, and Rxmx/Fxdf stand in for the 'third octave filter' suggested in the original Screen Patch. This allows the feedback to be processed through 6 bandpass filters, including being able to scan through one or more filter bands. 

I also added another multi-mode filter, wave folder, and through zero FM VCO into the patch, allowing for more timbral range and ending up with a metallic resonance that I was pleased with.

If you're interested, check out Jaap Vink's work in the 1970s at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, exploring ring modulated feedback patching with the 'screen patch'. More on the process here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Bcr_HS9XM

Also see this inspiring collection of Jaap Vink recordings:
https://recollectiongrm.bandcamp.com/album/s-t

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More on this 613th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Test Drive (The Assignment: The Assignment: Do something you’ve been meaning to do), at: disquiet.com/0613/

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Ring Modulated Feedback • [ disquiet0613 ]

Runa Dos

SenSen - Y+X

SenSen - Room 850

Andreas' orchestral musings (listen here: https://on.soundcloud.com/6DcQotEVL1dtwric8) inspired me to dust off a couple of old favourites, amongst them the Moog MurF, to try and come up with some pulsating, filtered low end guitar as well as a bunch of more hissy, trebly improvs. Recorded quite a few takes and selected those bits that complement his gorgeous, sweeping, cinematic track. A fair bit of editing in Logic Pro ensued, adding and subtracting, until the pacing & the mix felt right, with enough room to add to for the next stage, the third track.


Hope you enjoy it and inspires some of you to add your part on top of this!


More on the 637th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right (2 of 3) — The Assignment: Record the second third of an eventual trio — at https://disquiet.com/0637/

Ago (disquiet0637 - Andreas Kitzmann & encym)

Original Track By :
https://soundcloud.com/arcondenieze4/orage-gen-19-argile
A Reminder... ARCO5:
https://soundcloud.com/arco5

ORAGE [gen~] - Gen19 (Senglar Lament Rmx)

This week's assignment was to make something as unlike yourself as you can.

After some rumination ("Is music I don't like necessarily unlike me?") I decided to make the kind of electronic music I generally turn off as fast as I can - the kind that has one good-sounding loop that is played OVER and OVER again accompanied by a generic boombap beat.

I play piano, but I wanted to play piano like someone who didn't know how to play piano. So, I used the Random MIDI VST in Ableton to "play" some piano whose pitches were not related to the keys I was pressing. Then, I found some bits that sounded good and pieced them together in a melody.

Then I added a boomBAP. Ok, that was easy. Then I added some bass, but, still pretending to not know how to play an instrument, I drew it into the piano roll and tried to keep it simple.

At this point I felt like I was making a Ninja Tune track (or, specifically, a spiritual heir to Four Tet's "No More Mosquitos"), so I engaged in some contemporary crate-digging, aka freesound.org. I found a nice processed sample of some Central European(?) violin playing, some kids chattering that I turned into a chant, and some wackadoodle scratching vinyl that you'll hear on the bridge. I've never used freesound this much before, so it was really fun to find cool sounds and layer them into my track!

Other techie stuff - all the bass sounds and the first electronic freak-out sound are u-he's Tyrell N6, which I'm beginning to think is pretty nifty.

Violin sample from wjoojoo - https://freesound.org/people/wjoojoo/sounds/417667/
People talking - https://freesound.org/people/ZyryTSounds/sounds/222993/
Vinyl scratching - https://freesound.org/people/Ryding/sounds/412536/

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More on this 375th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Despite Yourself / The Assignment: Make a piece of music that sounds as unlike you as you can accomplish — at:

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Me Repellent (disquiet0375)

Composer and producer who puts together noise and pretty sounds. Hear my releases on Bandcamp: https://natetrier.bandcamp.com/

Me Repellent (disquiet0375)

Nate Trier

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