[encym disquiet collection]

faves of this month
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in the pic: John Fahey

"musica assoluta" (marzo 2024)

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/

Disquiet Junto Project 0637: Right (2 of 3)

These four tracks are duets created by four different musicians, all based on an initial solo track by encym. The original piece was created as part of the 636th Disquiet Junto project, and these duets were created as part of the 637th Disquiet Junto project. After these were completed, musicians in the 638th Disquiet Junto project proceeded to turn the various duets into trios.

encym "Neat Disorder" variations

Unquiet developments atop @encym Trioism (disquiet0525), controlled >50% live

https://soundcloud.com/encym/trioism-disquiet0525

In terms of the Disquiet assigment, this is part two of a trio... which you could complete! https://disquiet.com/2022/01/27/disquiet-junto-project-0526-magic-number-2-of-3/

If you would like a more left/right panned edit, allowing greater room in the centre to add more, that is available here: https://soundcloud.com/muterial/time-machine-panned/s-erlbPf1VoPp?si=e40e9e3b35b24448b28b401e33d6f95d&

My additions were at 30 bpm

This track has a short video: https://www.instagram.com/p/Caxu-KHIRrW/

Time Machine

Time Machine (disquiet0526) - encym | muterial

Short guitar improvisation (consisting of overdubbed layers) of one minute in length. Stratocaster (buzzing), Delay (tape crinkle), Logic (recording). 

Gentle innit?
But it also contains an unsettling moment amidst all the warmth and tenderness.

Find the extended version here: https://soundcloud.com/encym/brushstroke-faulty-ext

More on this 102nd weekly Disquiet Junto project (Record original secular holiday music: glistening, reflective, gentle) at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/12/12/disquiet0102-sonictinsel/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

brushstroke, faulty [disquiet0102-sonictinsel]

Thanks, Tobias & Marc, for this fun assignment!

My process in a nutshell: Using two instances of Ableton's Sampler loaded with my guitar recordings, I sequenced the provided "John Cage" chord, using the first version of Marc's MIDI file, so it's actually the wrong Cage chord --- hence the title "noncage". 
With some pushing around of this source material, a slow-morphing, overlapping atmospheric track fell into place. 
To top it all off, I just flipped the whole thing, turning it into a lovely background echoey backwards guitar concoction. 
So as to make things more listenable, I provided a little bit of supplementary fodder and smoothed out some of the rougher edges in Cubase.

Enjoy!

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/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0554-cage-chord/

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noncage II disquiet0554

One of the first people I met on this platform was the wonderful Societe Cantine. He listened with open ears and offered indepth thoughts on my music and sparked conversation and experimentation. He, himself a mind-blowing sound artist, has released a  string of albums over the last decade that still sing with originality and genre breaking optimism. We danced round the edges of collaboration for a longtime, adding little bits of sound to bigger projects or producing video. Just before COVID hit the world we finally met in Paris - I had so much talk about, as did he.. like children we struggled with face to face language; his english is good, my french is terrible : ) We decided that we should finally start collaborating in depth and this is the first piece - conceived and played with, back and forth during lockdown COVID times. Naturally enough we titled it Language Gap after our initial stumbling meeting. It got an honourary mention in the 2023 One Minute Radio Festival and through that has been played all over the world . Fardeau Losange (as he now known) and I are working now, very slowly on some sort of album - it will take forever, but its almost secondary to the friendship that has grown around the music we have listened to, written and shared on this platform.   https://societecantine.bandcamp.com/album/lopacit-des-interlignes

Language Gap (Fardeau Losange/Mat Ward)

Electronic composition, basic sounds created in Pure Data.

Easy (naviarhaiku530)

1Mar24

My naviarhaiku530 track
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/743612557262274560/naviarhaiku530-taking-it-easy
:D

taking it easy [naviahaiku530]

Marco Lucchi : piano, mellotron and tape
Akemi Takeya : shamisen and voice

marzo 2024

Iki no kôzô # 2 - w/Akemi Takeya

I sent music I titled "Ravine" to Paulo Chagas, who listened closely to it and responded with his alto sax. Our album explores this close listening in context of various mental landscapes, with this piece, being in a metaphoric ravine.

In A Ravine, (Matthies And Chagas)

I used Tristan Louth-Robins  (@red_robin) guitar track as a basis for this. 

https://soundcloud.com/red_robin/disquiet_junto_0636-epochs-left-1-of-3-72-bpm

I added electric bass, playing a quite standard bass line and some harmonics.

This still sounds like a "basic track", hope somebody has an idea to complete this next week.
This collaboration between two austral guys is called Australopithecus.

I did alter the original to suit my taste, I added an intro (copy paste form the original's first bars) 'cause Tristan's track started a bit abruptly. And then added the coda using an Ecophlex tape delay simulation. My best contribution to the track  if you ask me.
So , yeah, I didn't follow rule number 3 "When composing and recording your part, don’t alter the original piece of music at all" so shoot me!
The pitch here:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0637-right-2-of-3/

Australopithecus - disquiet0637 with tristan louth robins

Based on 
https://soundcloud.com/tunelight/disquiet0636-1of3-implexus
by @tunelight

My soft R panned synth track (a soloist impro using a mono lead on AAS Ultra Analog) over his L panned original.

I improvised over 6 tracks from last week to see what happened on "first take" , decided to keep 3 for the second week.
Today, while choosing just 2 to share here, I decided to keep this one, even if I didn't develop nor edit my take I thinks it's nice to have a pure 2 synth duet and I like his basic track (reminds me of Penguin Cafe Orchestra's "...Found Harmonium" track) and my impro as as good as I can get, it is rambling  but I am  really happy with of it.

I interpreted his title as "I'm Plexus" before realizing that  implexus was a thing...
Too late, my track was already titled "We'r Plexus"...


The pitch here:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0637-right-2-of-3/

WERPLEXUS - disquiet0637 w/tunelight

I improvised on the track of Daniel Diaz https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/live-bass-soundscape-disquiet0636.
release date:14/03/2024

Semantic Field- Daniel Diaz - Euclidean~~~ (disquiet0637)

Built upon 33per's "(Rock the) Firebells" piece: https://soundcloud.com/33per/firebells

This instrument made of fireballs immediately made me think of the two organ pipes I have in my studio. I took them outside and played them with a shop vac. A bit noisy, but there it is.

Added two elements to 33per's track, both are made from samples of the lowest organ pipe. Left lots of empty space.

As the original track is stereo and makes use of that, my mix is also stereo with my parts layered on. I have a version with hard panning if you prefer.

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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/

Firebells And Pipes - Stereo - disquiet0637

Disquiet Junto 0637 

                                                              Right 2 of 3 

 

The Assignment: Record the second third of an eventual trio. 

DAW: Ableton 12 

Key: C minor/F minor? 

Time Signature: 4/4 

Length: 1:14 seconds 

Randomly chose track #47 by zoundsabar 

https://soundcloud.com/user-189958162/cowherd-tone-disquiet0636-zoundsabar?utm_source=llllllll.co&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Fuser-189958162%252Fcowherd-tone-disquiet0636-zoundsabar 

Dropped his .wav file into Granulator 3 in Ableton 12 then played some notes into the track while listening to the original track. Notes were an octave lower than original track and panned to the right.

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/

disquiet0637 - Right (2 of 3)

I downloaded the track by encym - https://soundcloud.com/encym/neat_disorder_disquiet0636 - then added an electronic microtonal sequence created in Pure Data.

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/

Diluted Disorder - with encym (disquiet0637)

Original by encym https://soundcloud.com/encym 

Dubbed & mixed 15 Mar 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. This was also Day 1338 of the 100 Day Project.

Music distributed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 DEED

Process notes
Last week, encym(https://soundcloud.com/encym) recorded & uploaded “Neat Disorder” and I downloaded it on 3/13 

His original post and notes -
https://soundcloud.com/encym/neat_disorder_disquiet0636

“This week’s Junto project has always been one of my favourites – so I recorded the first third of what will eventually become a trio. I played it on my Tele through a simple, straightforward signal chain of Chase Bliss Mood (the main sound), fed through a Dark Star and a Polymoon to add space and variations in terms of timbre. No further editing in the DAW. I went for as sparse a track as I could, to provide as much space as possible for my potential collaborators. My hope is that you feel inspired by my “almost crumbling to pieces” vibe, and I look forward to hearing what you will be adding over the coming weeks for it to become a trio recording.”

My own additional process notes - 
On 3/15, I recorded about 9 minutes of prepared cuatro and picked some bits I liked for this piece. I used a few native Ableton Live effects, panned to right.

Artwork: Edit and additions to encym’s original using Adobe Photoshop 2024 and Q’MIC-Qt.

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This original version of “Ataxophobia, Right?” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0637: Right (2 of 3). The Assignment: Record the second third of an eventual trio.

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

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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/ 

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Ataxophobia, Right? by encym & Jimmy Lem (disquiet0367)

For the second third of what will become a trio, I improvised over the neat track: https://soundcloud.com/encym/neat_disorder_disquiet0636?si=b9ddc52764ed4a2aa016f867b517e4fc&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing by @encym

The right side was made with a meaty and glassy combo instrument using Pigments and Falcon. 
Following the approach of the original track on the left, I made a sparse arrangement, with plenty of air and spectrum for future collaborators.

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/

encym & undermulden - Picks & String 2 of 3 (disquiet0637)

This is an asynchronous collaboration between three musician, each recorded one week apart. Left channel recorded first by encym (https://soundcloud.com/encymlll/first-chair-by-encym-disquiet0315) the right channel second by Nate Trier (https://soundcloud.com/triermusic/they-call-me-the-backwoods-debussy-disquiet0316) then I added the saxophone in the centre.

The harmonic space created by encym and Nate, along with the "liveness" of each recording made a real pleasure to add my part to. Thanks unmet collaborators!

Photo by Teddy Kelley on Unsplash, https://unsplash.com/photos/abVkUkfyAJE

More on this 317th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Triadic Awareness: Record the third part of a trio, adding to a pre-existing track of two parts) at:
https://disquiet.com/0317/

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

Subscribe to project announcements here:
http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0317-triadic-awareness/11271/

Through The Woods Not Alone [disquiet0317] - encym, Nate Trier & Benn DeMole

I had the pleasure of adding to last week's minimal-ish composition https://soundcloud.com/bearp-aw/revolving-spoons-disquiet0368?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0368 by @jesuisgentil and @bearp-aw.

Thanks guys for throwing down such a nice gauntlet!

I added various drum sounds (one IDM-ish, heavily gated one and a 4-to-the-floor bass drum with side-chaining to the basic track) as well as e-bowed guitar.

Enjoy!

More on this 369th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Final Solo / The Assignment: Record the final third of a trio, adding to a pre-existing track, based itself on a prior pre-existing track) at:

https://disquiet.com/0369/ 2

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0369-final-solo/ 7

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is adapted (edited, color altered, text added) from a photo by Anna J and is used via Flickr thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/gcojn 1

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

spoonfuls (disquiet0369)

Electronic music, field recordings and weird electroacoustic sounds.