I like the electronic cricket sound. The whole song has a widely frustrating tension

there seems to be a beat but i was totally unable to count it - i like that sense of being disorientated. if this was my track, i'd try something like adjusting a filter or an eq as the track progresses, just to give it a bit more movement

This is really very interesting.  There are tons of folks out there that work years to get such restraint.  It's like I am on the edge of my seat the whole time!   I would love to hear what you were thinking when you did this.

This is cool. I would probably just reinforce what others have said. Build some subtle movement with LFO's on a couple of the sounds. I think your panning could also be pushed and more movement added here too. Great palette of sounds.

This recording follows the inspiration of the Disquiet Junto Project 0537 (see below): How could a apologetic car horn sound like ?
The track presents a quiet side street, its atmosphere augmented by different musical elements. Some cars apologize for driving by and disrupting the calm by sounding their apologetic melody, and in the end this horn melody leads a life of its own.

I thank blaukreuz for providing the wonderful field-recording
https://freesound.org/people/blaukreuz/sounds/521000/
which inspired much of this track.

This project was proposed by Rob Walker.

More on this 537th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Penitent Honk (The Assignment: Do sound design for “a missing gesture” of vehicular life) – at: https://disquiet.com/0537/

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Apologetic Conveyance (Disquiet0537)

Created Thurs 19/05/2022, mixed Fri 20/05/2022 for this junto challenge: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0542-2600-club
I learned about the 2600 Hz thing and , on my usual further reading I learned a new word: Phreaking.
Nice.

This one's for Βαγγέλης Παπαθανασίου.
RIP


DD: synths
Photo by Wendy Scofield

A 2600Hz Phreaking Abstraction (disquiet0542)

Uses modifications of Supercollider code: (the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 14th, and 15th code chunks from https://archive.org/details/sc140 and http://sccode.org/1-5eT).

More on this 542nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — 2600 Club (The Assignment: Make some phreaking music) — at: https://disquiet.com/0542/

Thanks to Alan Bland for proposing this concept for a project.

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

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Image by arbyreed. And it is used (cropped, with text added) thanks to a Creative Commons Attribution-license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/. Original at https://flic.kr/p/56Efud.

Phreaky Colliders [ disquiet0542 ]

For Disquiet Junto 0543. The Assignment: Share a tip from your method toolbox. Also shared version of this over on Weekly Beats. 
A lot of this track was made using a technique I love: taking a piece of audio then using the Ableton Push 2 and the Simpler device to retrigger, chop manipulate and play around with the sample to create something new. There are many ways to manipulate samples, but I like this method because it's fast, I can improvise musically without a lot of fussing around, and I can do it fully on the Push hardware, no computer or mouse needed. Simpler is simple, and the 64 pads and 8 knobs on the Push 2 make playing with samples fun, fast and easy. Happy accidents occur, and things usually sound to my liking with minimal fussing about, so I can just flow and have fun.
Another attribute I like to add to songs are my own voice sounds, but heavily altered since I'm not much of a  traditional singer. Bonus points when the voice can turn into perscussion or another instrument. I often take these voice recordings and chop and play with them in Simpler as described above. The intro and middle of this song has some of my early experiments with a talkbox pedal. It's harder than it looks. And kind of a wet mess. But I'll keep playing with it. Used the Circuit Monostation as the instrument into the talkbox. So not sure if talkbox will turn into a favorite method for voice manipulation, but I know I'll keep messing around with vocals sounds.

More on this 543rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Technique Check (The Assignment: Share a tip from your method toolbox) — at: https://disquiet.com/0543/

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feel what you - need - what you feel [disquiet0543] [Weekly Beats 19]

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a good friend of mine painted a series of images based on descartes' "meditations on first philosophy."

https://www.lowwintersun.org/work/descartes-meditations

i took painting number 6, sliced it into five strips, fed the images into photosounder, the converted the resulting .wav files to MIDI (quantized to 16ths). i used the MIDI clips separately to trigger various samples: kick; snare; low tom; floor tom; hi-hat. i added a steady hi-hat pedal to help navigate the slightly offbeat rhythms.

finally, i layered in a live guitar piece (played through VCV rack, which i first encountered through disquiet junto, many moons ago...)

some possible questions: how can we think about the relationship between something rhythmic (the "beat") and something a-rhythmic (the "ambient" guitar)?
do they feel like two utterly separate streams, or do they somehow inform each other?
also, my track is only one minute long - can something so short be called 'ambient'?
more generally, can such a brief composition claim to establish a mood or atmosphere?

(wittgensteinian thought: i can claim to have felt sad for one minute, but not to have been depressed for one minute. certain moods or states require longer stretches of time to operate.)

all the best, htnc

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More on this 544th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Feedback Loop (The Assignment: Share music-in-progress for input from others) — at: https://disquiet.com/0544/

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[disquiet0544] cartesian drummer

Cosmic Energy

Naive Game

Inner Waterfalls

Friends over for tea [part 89]

More on this 569th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Think Thank (The Assignment: Make music inspired by something or someone you’re thankful for) – at: https://disquiet.com/0569/

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The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2, where “open door, party inside, digital art” was the prompt.

Particulate (disquiet0569)

Audio postcards for friends. Thanks for tuning in!

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