Disquiet Junto Project 0717: Generation Gambit

Second part of a three part project. This uses Daniel Diaz's unfinished https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/unfinished-disquiet0525. I added a guitar which I played with an Ebow and ran through some effects in FL Studio.

More on this 526th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Magic Number (2 of 3) (The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio) — at: https://disquiet.com/0526/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0526-magic-number-2-of-3/

trial run disquiet0526

asynchronous mash-up for  junto project 0533 with tracks by @zedkah , @paul-reiners-1 , @isonomia , @user-130801280

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0533-numbers-magik

18/MAR/2022

asynchronous mashup (disquiet0533)

Snippet from an unused session for an upcoming album :
Minino Garay: percussion
Daniel Diaz: Upright bass, marimba

work in progress, unfinished.

dedicated to Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond en May 5th 2022

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0540-5ive-4our

May Five (outake) disquiet0540

Disquiet Junto Project 0593: The Charm 
The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio. 
More info on Disquiet Junto: disquiet.com/0593

@triermusic last submission (https://soundcloud.com/triermusic/two-of-three-disquiet0592) inspired me with his melody added to Andreas Kitzmann (https://soundcloud.com/andreas-kitzmann-27370936/disquiet0591). It reminded me the great Augustus Pablo. So I decided to dub and pay a tribute to the great melodica master.

I recorded bass and guitar tracks and a rhythmic experimental track with AudioThing Noises. Guitar & Noises are processed by AudioThing Outer Space for delay and reverb. I then added encoderaudio Ferro to give some tasty tape hiss, wow & flutter to my tracks.
It was challenging to work without a BPM and with such fluid structure.

Dem Three (disquiet0593)

https://soundcloud.com/leonclowes/right-2of3-disquiet0637-with-nate-trier
More on the 638th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Center (3 of 3) — The Assignment: Complete a trio begun by two other musicians — at https://disquiet.com/0638/

Plug 123 (Trio with Leon Clowes and Nate Trier).disquiet0638

Disquiet Junto Trio part 2 of 3

This is my second contribution this week. I started with Nate Trier's one-one-five-bee-poem, which I would classify as a rhythmic noise blend. I felt some soothing classical music would help balance the noise, so I mixed in two of my past Junto contributions where I used and mangled well known classical music with some twists: "Pachelbel's Cannon" (note: not Canon) from Disquiet0521 and "With Apologies to J.S.Bach" from Disquiet0489. The final mix is a combination of rhythmic noise, familiar soothing classical music, and frenzied chaos. Apologies to whoever might try to add something to this in part 3.

nine-one-one-chaos-poem - disquiet0698

Enjoy this with the visuals on the halF unusuaL YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/wkS2xkqAu-Y ... 

We recently unearthed a VERY rare set of tin cylinders with some of the creations from my unusually great uncle - dated 1910! I've taken the opportunity to riff on top of his proto-EDM - with sounds WAY ahead of their time! No way would they have found an audience in his lifetime ... Let's try again 😜

Family legend has it that my Great Uncle Crackleton P. Valve was not so much born as assembled! His crib rattled with loose copper coils, his lullabies were hummed through wax cylinders, and his first word was said to be a faint but distinctly glitchy “bzzzzzt” ...

By the turn of the last century, when most men were proud to own a sturdy hat, Uncle Crackleton was already soldering strange contraptions in the garden shed, where every evening the glow of red-hot valves spilled out into the hedgerows. He refused to play the piano “like a commoner,” preferring instead to hammer phonograph needles against tin cylinders until they shrieked, warbled, and sang with a peculiar beauty only he seemed to understand.

The neighbours swore they could hear his experiments late at night: a ghostly stutter of sound, like church bells melting, or a brass band tumbling downstairs. He called it Music of the Future, although others called it a dreadful racket.

It’s said he once built a mechanical echo chamber out of two bathtubs, a bicycle pump, and a dozen mismatched radio valves. When he cranked it up, it produced a looping hiccup that terrified the vicar's cats and made their milk curdle. Even so, he declared it his masterpiece.

Though none of his recordings were thought to have survived, until now (most cylinders were repurposed as makeshift candle holders), family lore insists that without him, modern glitch music would not exist. Every time a record skips, a tape warbles, or a speaker crackles, somewhere, faintly, Uncle Crackleton P. Valve is smiling.

More on the 717th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Generation Gambit — The Assignment: Layer two eras of recordings, one of them imaginary — at https://disquiet.com/0717/

visuals (YouTube)

halF 1910 [disquiet0717]

Recorded, edited, mixed & mastered on 25 Sep 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA.

Synths, effects

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 30 Oct 2015, Central Park, Manhattan, NYC, USA

Music & art © 2015, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “You Dance Like A Paranoid Old Goat” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0717: Generation Gambit. The Assignment: Layer two eras of recordings, one of them imaginary.

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

More on the 717th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Generation Gambit — The Assignment: Layer two eras of recordings, one of them imaginary — at https://disquiet.com/0717/.

Discussion - https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0717-generation-gambit

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You Dance Like A Paranoid Old Goat  (disquiet0717)

Ancient or ancestral dance rhythms emerging from the mists of time and combined with a modern drone. Or is it an ancient drone with modern rhythms?

More on the 717th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Generation Gambit — The Assignment: Layer two eras of recordings, one of them imaginary — at https://disquiet.com/0717/.





Ancient and Modern (disquiet0717)

This week's Disquiet Junto, number 0717, invited us to collaborate with an ancestor. I recalled my kinship with a certain pioneering electronic musician, my reclusive great aunt Carly Wendos. (Her catalog is strangely absent from most streaming services, but she was something of a sensation in classical music.)

The piece is a favorite of hers, an interpretation of Beethoven's Piano Trio #5 in D Major, Op. 70 No.1, the so-called "Ghost Movement". Aunt Carly rocks the Moogs while I supply the string section via live electric violin.

In all seriousness, this one is dedicated to my trans elder Wendy Carlos. Thank you for making a way for us. 

(Cover photo is a shot of her studio circa 1968.)

More on the 717th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Generation Gambit — The Assignment: Layer two eras of recordings, one of them imaginary — at https://disquiet.com/0717/.

Ghost Movement (with Carly Wendos) (disquiet0717)

This is my submission to this week's Disquiet Junto assignment. 

More on the 717th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Generation Gambit — The Assignment: Layer two eras of recordings, one of them imaginary — at https://disquiet.com/0717/.

Fujara [disquiet0717]

This week's #disquietjunto prompt was to record something that could have been made by an ancestor and then add something modern to it.

Apparently, one of my great-great-uncles said the only cure for his asthma was to get away from our Midwestern family farm and head out towards the dry climes of the American west...where he had a grand old time playing piano in saloons and other similar places. As a fellow asthmatic who wanted to spread his wings and who has spent many happy nights playing in bars and clubs, his story resonates with me!

I found an upright piano tucked away at my workplace and banged out some oom-pah chords and melodies. The first take, I kept it fairly straightforward, and then I tried a different take with more adventurous chords, rhythms, and melodies. In my DAW, I added some RC-20 to get that beat-up old record sound, and I also tried to add some reverb as a little homage to The Caretaker (whose album "Everywhere at the end of time" also deals with old timey music and memories).

Then, I considered what I had access to now that my ancestor would not have, and I figured drum machines would have blown his mind. So, I got to try out BabyAudio's Tekno by making a lighter beat in the beginning of the track and then a heavier beat at the end.

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More on the 717th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Generation Gambit — The Assignment: Layer two eras of recordings, one of them imaginary — at https://disquiet.com/0717/.

Way Out West (disquiet0717)

if anyone uses it in a mix please let me know!!! would be so honored / love to hear how you used it!

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was obsessed with this Charli XCX style track from APOLLO (https://soundcloud.com/mmixasi/how-to-write-a-charli-xcx-song-starter-pack), he kindly let me use the instrumental to cobble together this remix

my first ever full length remix! let me know what you think

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i made this remix for educational purposes - hope to receive critique from listeners in order to progress in my music making. this is my first ever full remix! it is thus protected under Section 107 of the Copyright Act, as it should be considered Fair Use. no profit is made off this remix.

Style (Hyperpop Taylor Swift Remix)

Solo upright bass
Harmonica
Synthesizers and Fx.

Image: Friendship by Agnes Martin.

For this challenge:
Disquiet Junto Project 0456: Line Up
The Assignment: Interpret a painting by Agnes Martin as if it were a graphic score.

Step 1: Look at the work of painter Agnes Martin, best known for her parallel lines.

Step 2: Select an individual work that suggests itself to you as a musical score.

My imagination is not flamboyant today, I just went for some linear playing, both an upright bass linear impro and an harmonica and synth simple straight drone.

DD 25th Sep 2020

Parallel Lines (disquiet0456)

On Bandcamp: https://orix.bandcamp.com/album/flim-aphex-twin-rework

Flim (Aphex Twin Rework)

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

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.

Way Out West (disquiet0717)

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