getting back into disquiet junto a bit this year, me hopes, after year or fews absence. this track is made with the UDO Super Gemini. i wanted to do some fancy sequencing, and had all kinds of fancy compositional ideas to do with unringing a bell, but i ran into problems, so ended up just playing over myself a few times with the bell-like (plenty ring mod) patches I had created. the playing is really bad/i can't - but weirdly i feel this gives it, along with its simple nature, some kind of wonky heroism that does after all remind that there ain't no goin' back (unless we is torquin waaaaay back). peace peeps, all the best for 202555zzz.

unrung heroes wonk disquiet0682

"Record not so much an alarm as a guided awakening."

A few little bops on my chimes over three tracks from the Super Gemini (a fair whack of paddy bass, a swelling arp, some synthetic binaural piano - all the raw untreated synth) while the song of a robin slowly fades in. I'd recorded the robin the day before receiving the prompt, which feels nicely in sync with the first signs of spring around here. This is the second version I have uploaded, it now ends with a short spoken word "affirmation". 

Wishing everybody the best! I find the disquiet junto is such a nice thing to take part in, I might not always comment but I listen to every piece and end up feeling like I've been to a pleasant party full of nourishing (often wordless) conversations of many varieties. Cheers!

dawn in the second degree [disquiet0684]

Multitracked Super Gemini. My idea was to represent the physiological-involuntary via heartbeat and synthesised flatulence, with the behavioural-volitional suggested by an attempt at melodic apology.

More on the 687th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Applied Science — The Assignment: Record a piece of music that includes physiological and behavioral techniques — at https://disquiet.com/0687/

sorry i phart [disquiet0687]

An offering for the first part of three, for the annual collaborative disquiet trio project. A melodic sequence derived from the word "collaboration" programmed on my super gemini, panned hard left then just a little let back into the centre again. Kind of weird awkward timing due to 14 steps - the thirteen letters and a rest - but I quite like that kind of thing. Mellow acid vibes. Three minutes of subtle tweaking. Hope someone finds it useful!

left up to me disquiet0697

More on the 698th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Second Third — The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0698/

this a collaboration with Mister Jason The Bassling on drummages !!!

( ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWoGdFKZBCg )

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green light coming through the leaves
white light bouncin off the stream

old friends dancin through my dreams
pixies a-wigglin in the sun beams

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down in the ground there is a tiny voice
but i can't pick it up because it has no body

(you can have mine)

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i treat the beetles well
i do my best with worms / i'm even kind to worms
i speak to birds
i speak to birds / i don't need words

but the world is beyond me
too big to need saving
the creatures around me
not money we're spendin

if you were just hungry
needed some honey
trapped in a window
no need to get angry
i'd buzz you outside
water your soil
don't need to clean up your slime
water won't spoil
garden no toil
not that kind of oil

but i love my computer
you're programming me
we're better together
no end can be seen
but the one we are at
you on the world web
and me on your lap

lap lap lap


green light (disquiet0698)

More on the 699th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Third Third — The Assignment: Record the final third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0699/

This is the third part of a trio incorporating works by Jimmy Lem (@blisterpop) and 14 Below Zero (@14belowzero) 

https://soundcloud.com/blisterpop/interjection-105-disquiet0698-by-14-below-zero-jimmy-lem

https://soundcloud.com/14-below-zero/hydrasynth-105bpm-cmaj_disquiet0697-6-chords-disquiet0697

I got up early this morning and put a sequence together on the Alpha Base, to add a third piece to the disquiet duet I'd selected to work with. At one point I went through the track manually triggering the clap, forgetting my wife was still in bed asleep a few metres away. "Just a minute" I said, when she reminded me of her presence, almost too quiet to hear through my headphones. Two minutes later she was up and about, looking a little pissed off with me. I apologised, told her I was done with clicky buttons for a bit if she wanted to rest more. That was when she gave me the title:

"Too late, I'm triggered."



too late im triggered [disquiet0699]

More on the 700th weekly Disquiet Junto project, View Frame — The Assignment: Share the view and some sounds inspired by the view — at https://disquiet.com/0700/

(brief tinkle on the super gemini with two layers, a sort of pad and a sparrow-inspired chirrup, recorded on my phone in the room as well as into the mixer, then blended and grotted up with some speshul air windows gribble grabbles)

oot thair windah [disquiet0700]

Year's ago, soon after I first discovered puredata, I started a project to build a sequencer for my volca sample. I got quite far, but too far in some ways and not far enough in others. I could make a crazy pattern, but I never got around to sorting out a simple save/load system. It had a somewhat elaborate gui before it even had proper functionality. It was an unwieldy mess and I ended up giving up on it. Then recently I started a similar project for some new hardware I'd bought, but an error with uploading some corrupted firmware saw it away for repairs, so I dug this old project out. I started again from scratch and can see that I've made a lot of progress in terms of my understanding of the program and also the principles of design/making things, but the sequencer remains in a rudimentary state. It already has a simple save/load system built in, however, and I'm quite excited still by the prospects of it. This time around I'm producing some more generic components/abstractions, so the work will also help towards building other things. There's no crazy sequencing in this example, just a simple pattern put through a few changes. I had bigger ideas but this is all that worked in the end. It's made from a little song I sang after a day of messing around with frog samples. I think it drove me somewhat crazy, but mostly in a happy way and at least it didn't kill me.

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More on the 703rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, That’s How You Got Killed Before — The Assignment: Revisit something that you just couldn’t get to work last time — at https://disquiet.com/0703/

to the mellow green fellow [disquiet0703]

Found these nice little Gameboy waveforms https://musical-artifacts.com/artifacts/2546 & loaded them on to my Super Gemini. Made a simple sequence then tinkled along as the 8-bit clouds went by.

More on the 704th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right on Cumulus — The Assignment: Compose 8-bit music inspired by a Cory Arcangel / Super Mario video — at https://disquiet.com/0704/

8bitcloudage disquiet0704

I haven't been reading much this year, but my mum bought me a book for my birthday back in spring: Raising Hare. It's an account, by Chloe Dalton, of her time as custodian of a young hare (known as a leveret). I still haven't read it yet, but the morning I received the prompt for last week's junto I found myself sat in a doctor's waiting room with the book in my bag. I just about had time to read the first couple of paragraphs. The first line is simply, "January was arctic." But the author paints a fine picture and I was very soon immersed into the scene, feeling the cold hard ground, and watching pregnant mother hare making her heavy-bellied way across it. The funny thing is that I was having my own experience of raising a hare around the same time, just before covid hit. That's a photo of him crouched on one the vegetable beds one cold january morning in 2020. We called him Little Odin as an accident with a lawnmower had damaged one of his eyes.

So all this was on my mind when I sat down to try to improvise something. I took an arp patch I programmed a while ago on the Super Gemini, which has a kind of bouncy sweetness that reminds of hare folk, and I made a slow steady beat on the Alpha Base which was meant to evoke Mother Hare making her way across the cold hard landscape. I played around for nearly half and hour and would've liked to have spent more time editing together "the best bits", but it got late, and so I have done a live mix of the last 9 minutes and left it at that. Thanks for reading and listening. Look at that lovely creature! :-) 

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More on the 705th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Book Start — The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0705/. This week’s project was proposed by Neil Stringfellow.

raising hare [disquiet0705]

I had a good old thunk about how to describe my artistic practise in a single sentence. "Even better than better is good," is what I went with in the end. It's not that I don't want to improve this or that, surely I do, but it isn't my aim, it isn't really what or why I practise. "Not just anything is better than nothing." That was another one. And you're not "just anything", and something about you, and what you do, is already plenty good enough. I dunno. Our good friend Lascaux the bunny rabbit got taken by a fox yesterday, that's really what I want to say. He was a really good little creature, a good friend. I made this on the volca sampler. It's funny because there were much more immediate options available, but somehow I wanted all the awkwardness of preparing the samples and waiting 10 minutes while they uploaded... Right there, somehow, an example of good being better than better. Satisfaction without complacency. Hope everybunny is well, peace peeps!

More on the 707th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Practice — The Assignment: Make music from how you make music — at https://disquiet.com/0707/.

even better [disquiet0707]

This is a remix, of sorts, of this ( https://soundcloud.com/michel-banabila/fase-3-disquiet-solitary-ensembles-x-3 ) by @michel-banabila, which itself featured ( https://soundcloud.com/supple_be_disquiet_junto/disquiet0430 ) by @supple_be_disquiet_junto which itself featured ( https://soundcloud.com/matthewh538/solitary-ensembles-disquiet0429 ) by @matthew538 ...well that's a few layers deep but then this stage 4 (remix) of the disquiet collaborative junto thingy, which has been loads of fun and good for thee elf. 

In the end with this track I chose, well I just loved the vibe, like Mr Banabila said "just pretending nothing is wrong in the world" - that really came across, and I found it to have a sweet funny buoyant vibe - and so early this morning I just played it out loud a couple of times and improvised, just recording straight into my phone, and those recordings open & close the remix. The central section is words I wrote quickly after, with the general idea of a kind of weird dad and his daughter talking, performed while listening to the tracks. Actually something weird happened and one of the tracks said the tempo was 83bpm, so I changed it to that, from 120, not realising that would slow the whole thing down, thus recorded my performance at 2/3rd speed - for a while I quite liked this ultra-slow wonky version, but in the end I felt it was better for everyone if I just put it back to its original tempo :) Anyway I really enjoyed doing this, I hope it gives some peeps pleasure to hear. It's a bit weird maybe, but weird is good. Weird is good. 

Peace.

unclewaybaaack

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