For this challenge, Exactly That Gap, I composed a short piece (which I have called "Mind the Gap", comprised of a series of chords in C minor using software piano and ethereal voices from Kontakt.

Mind The Gap(disquiet0482)

For this challenge, Type Set, I used the sound of a keyboard typing the first two stanza's of Edgar Allan Poe's, 'The Raven' .  The typing was performed and recorded by my close collaborator, JC Petkovich, who used a JD40 which he built and dropped into a CNC'ed aluminum case. JC also added foam between the PCB and case to dampen the noise, the switches are Aqua Zilent switches which are also very quiet. The keyboard recording was then processed using Supercollider to "tune" the key sounds using a band pass filter. In addition,  recordings of raindrops as well ravens were also similarly processed and used in the final piece. The work was assembled and mixed in Ableton Live 10 and some software instruments were added.

TY PO(disquiet0483)

The recording of Chris Kallmyer’s travelling wind chimes was played back at various speeds (from 1/10 to 3.5x)and compiled in Supercollider. Bells of any kind are so rich they sound incredible at any playback speed.  Reaktor was used to compose a track of electronic bells to accompany the wind chimes.  The final composition was mixed in Ableton Live.

Hidden Life Of Bells

This track is the electric razor alone, as processed in Supercollider as indicated below.

Close Shave(unaccompanied)

On Seine(disquiet0499)

For this prompt, Global Swarming, I used the great strings-based piece composed by project-dirigent(Chris) and expanded it into a swarm using Supercollider.  At one point there are approximately 80 loops of Chris' track. The resulting track was mixed in Ableton Live.

Gregaria(disquiet0502)

Thanks to DD for compiling such a rich set of motifs.  I took all of them and layered them like autumn leaves, forward and backward, using faders and repetition to generate longer stretches.  Compression and some reverb to tie things together.  The result felt like the sun through leaves on a tree at the end of summer - thereby came the title.

Parkbench Sun(disquiet0507)

For the "The Long Detail" prompt, I took a segment from a previous piece I named "Sevensevenseven" from the Disquiet0404 challenge, and turned it into an interpretation of waves on an ocean beach, hence the name.  The segment was no more than 10 seconds in length but I multiplied it and registered some of the units, stacked and rhythmically panned them, added some reverb and spiced it up with an Output app called Portal.
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Oceans777(disquiet0509)

This is my first submission in a while - glad to be back. I compose a fair of minimally viable music, but not intentionally!  To aim for the line is somewhat more difficult.  I chose a simple marimba sound from a Kontakt percussion VST and ran it through a tape loop function to give it a slow beat and slow decay.  My intention was to make it sound like water dripping from a leaky faucet - surface tension playing an important role in the percussive sound generation - thus the name.

Surface Tension(disquiet0530)

Transition Capsule - from one meeting to another must (at least in my case)involve coffee.  So in this piece, I tried to find a combination of darkness and lightness that brings the components of a Cortado together.  Piano, some synths along with trumpet and bass clarinet, the latter 2 representing espresso and milk in equal measure.

Cortado(disquiet0534)

Once when I was trying to drive through a traffic node in Toulouse intersecting 6 or 7 different streets, I stopped in the middle, confused as to which lane/road I should enter.  The driver opposite watched me in frustration as I was blocking his progress forward. Then cacophony of horns erupted as I jammed the intersection.  After a brief chorus, the driver opposite started to give me the slow clap.  I guess it was quite a performance.  Nonetheless, in this piece - Fanfare for the common van- I have tried to capture a fanfare of horns and squealing brakes in traffic edging along at a slow pace. Soft woodwinds and horns from SA.  It's a little longer than necessary, but I guess traffic is  like that.  Composition in C major.

Fanfare For The Common Van(disquiet0537)

Fin d'Orage - 'the end of a storm', uses dissonance, comprising about a dozen different string samples, to depict the chaos of a storm, which could be meteorological or emotional. The storm resolves to drops of rain falling from trees, represented by harp and bell sounds.

Fin D"Orage(disquiet0538)

For the Control Breath project, I recorded breaths holding the mics close to give that breathing-into-a-comm-unit-in-an-enclosed-helmet sound.  It always sounds very close and isolated.  Accordingly, I composed sounds around it including woodwind and bellows sounds to keep with the "breath focus".  I had the radio on in the background for added helmet noise which I reversed to remove distracting language information.

Oxygenation(disquiet0539)

This is a simple study combining a steady 5/4 time with string parts in both 5/4 and 4/4.  I started with a piano part keeping a beat on 1 and 3 counts and added other parts as the piece progresses.  It is rather short but I am thinking about expanding this into a longer piece.  I found it very inspiring to shake up the time signature a little but Ableton does not like it very much!  Thanks again Marc for a fun and interesting challenge.

5 To 4(disquiet0540)

In this little sketch entitled "HZ So Bad", I used Massive in Ableton to generate a note, which I tuned to 2600hz and then truncated and looped to sound like a rhythmic bell which the piece starts with.  I then added various tracks - simple guitars and soft bassoon to fill it out.

Hz So Bad(disquiet0542)

This track was inspired by this great prompt and two outdoor lounge chairs covered with lichen - I can't seem to bring myself to get rid of them, they really have developed a beautiful covering that continues to grow - apparently, species of all types are entitled to lounge in the sun.  A series of instruments make up this drone piece, some software from Spitfire and guitar pedalled through Hors d'Oeuvre?, Meet Maude and Mercury7.

Apothecia(disquiet0566)

Experiment using Supercollider to control and filter a collection of recorded sounds to generate ambient music.

Apt12(disquiet0383)

Resonant was generated in Supercollider.  For this track, the project sound clips were loaded into the SC buffer, selected randomly and played each between 3 and 7 times at randomly chosen variations of playback rate.  The resonance that is carried above the ambient white-noise was generated from the soundtracks using a band pass filter tuned to a lydian scale and these selected frequencies were also chosen at random. So all of the generated sounds were derived directly from the clips (cover artwork - K.J.)

Resonant(disquiet0399)

For the Marquee Ghosts challenge, I tried to recreate the atmosphere of an old cinema using recordings of an old film projector and an empty hall.  Both samples are pulled together in Supercollider where they were looped and played at different rates.  The deep concussions are the product of super slow playback of single clicks from the projector.  The samples were remixed in Ableton Live 10.

Projection(disquiet0421)

I liked the beautifully restrained solo piano track by @bellyfullofstars and unrestrained it by duplicating it and putting one copy each through two different tape loopers.  I added some choral vocalizations to pick up some of the overtones of the piano.

BFOSThreeLeaves Joule Remix(disquiet0432)

For the Seamless Bridge challenge, I chose to bridge – Dish of Orcas, Track 8. Knot from here, by Tay_ploops with semi auto biO graphical - Track 7, Auto 3, by haLF unusual.  The result is all about being around family during a quarantine.  Thanks (with apologies) to the creative minds of Tay_ploops, and half unusual.

Quarantine(disquiet0448)

For the "Phrase Shift", disquiet0458, I wanted to capture a rapidly changing dreamscape experienced at the subway station while waiting for a train.  I basically threw the kitchen sink at this one, which made me laugh - mostly from Spitfire Audio and Output software.

Subway REM Sleep(disquiet0458)

I randomly selected the contribution "Comma-Cosmic Duet", from @JochenEdmund and @comma which features the coffee machine at the data center.  With some synths to pull this together, I arrived at Cosmic Java.  I can't guarantee that you will like it but I can promise this piece is better than the coffee at the data center without ever having tasted it!

Cosmic Java(disquiet0474)

Using cut and paste, this piece is comprised mostly from small repetitive elements linked together.  Starting from two piano loops copied repetitively, I added some shorter elements to give some movement including some choral loops which were cut into defined segments.

K Joule

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