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Techno at 10bpm is a challenge, how do you get a rhythmic pulse with such a sparse event grid. Rather than using the drum track to provide the thrum I used slow modulation and feedback to fill the space between trigger hits.
 I used Logic to send a 10bpm clock to my modular rig. I had it trigger a dfam, beads in wavetable mode and a soft pop 2 and then fed the outputs through delay and reverb to fill the space between the thuds.
Rather than dancing in a club to this I recommend being strapped on a gurney in front of a huge subwoofer and let those frequencies ripple through you


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DXMDISCO (disquiet0541)

This week's Disquiet Junto was to make a drone using only your voice.

I recorded each of the syllables of the word Amoeba into my old Sony cassette dictaphone using the in-built mic. Then sampled each of these into a track on the Elektron Octatrack, plus a nice inhale I liked and a section of the tape noise.
I then set up a somewhat unpredictable playback system using conditional playback trigs so the samples don't always play. I also performed over the top of this changing fx parameters, sample pitches and levels. Finally everything is run through a master on the Octatrack with a tuned comb filter and huge Dark Reverb, and because it's drone it's also sent through an almost infinite modulated reverb on an Alesis Quadraverb+
Sorry it's 12 minutes long, I'm really not sure how that happened.

More on this 548th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Drone Vox (The Assignment: Make a drone using just your voice.) — at: disquiet.com/0548/

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emptyvessel_Amoebic Dissonance [disquiet0548]

Disquiet Junto Project 0551: The Bends
The Assignment: Get less strict about something you’re strict about.

Step 1: Think about things you’re strict about when you make music. Maybe you only work in a minor key, or you never use drum machines, or you always stick in 4/4, or you never revisit past work, or something else entirely.

Step 2: Choose one thing from the list you made in Step 1 and think of it as a rule.

Step 3: Think about how you could be less strict in regard to the rule you focused on in Step 2.

Step 4: Record a piece of music in which you bend the rule, as you determined in Step 3.

The Bends disquiet0551

Falling leaves
deep in the forest
I see a buddha

A wandering poet and ascetic Zen priest, Santōka was a disciple of Ogiwara Seisensui, one of the first poets to discard the traditional use of the 5-7-5 structure in haiku.

Santōka’s poetry emphasizes the necessity of sabi (solitude) in order to achieve spiritual enlightenment and serenity.

Deep in the forest I see (naviarhaiku453)

Well, this was fun. And fast, which is important for me at the moment, since I'm having a hard time splitting my spare time between several demanding projects. Oh well.

First of all, I found out THE BRAIN can only process .wav, so I had to convert mp3 and aiff. Afterwards I loaded my samples, choosing the "rainwhispers" as the loop. And then I recorded, manipulating mainly the "mix" section. The resulting wavs I put into Ableton Live, faded in the audio and exported. I like how most passages are "raining" at you.

I wouldn't necessarily call this a piece of music, but it is interesting sound, especially the wet sounds starting at about 3:15. I am absolutely unsure if I could reproduce what I did here ;)

More on this 561st weekly Disquiet Junto project – Samplelicker (The Assignment: Rework environmental sound recordings with Aphex Twin’s new software) – at: https://disquiet.com/0561/

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Samples used:

Rain:
https://freesound.org/people/tomcat9uk/sounds/4846/
https://freesound.org/people/RHumphries/sounds/2523/
https://freesound.org/people/Legnalegna55/sounds/545250/
https://freesound.org/people/Eugene7_eSwan/sounds/200328/

Birds:
https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/401190/
https://freesound.org/people/Snapper4298/sounds/166707/
https://freesound.org/people/Bidone/sounds/69575/


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disquiet0561: BrainTesting (Samplelicker)

When I was thinking about this week's Disquiet Junto prompt, I had the oompah-pah lullaby bass pattern in my head and the idea of repeating it to fade. Improvising using five soft sounds on Garageband, I keep the wavering bum notes in the middle (that bit where you're just drifting off and be a bit startled), with the idea of returning to the plain I-V chords (E major to B major) to rock you to sleep.

More on this 562nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sheep Music (The Assignment: Record something to help someone fall asleep) — at: https://disquiet.com/0562/

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The project’s image was produced using DALL·E 2. “Three sheep floating over a suburban house at night, realistic photograph” was the prompt.

Scheep Shleep (disquiet0562)

I rarely listen to music in bed, because the struggle between my body wanting to shut off and my brain listening to interesting bits keeps me awake. So I wanted to dumb things down a it and use a long volume fade to drift away. 

I used a new generative base track for a session with Lucid Grain, thinned it out gradually, let it run in a very long delay (Augustus Loop) and then... zzzzzzzz.

Placideque Quiescas [disquiet563]

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When The Sleep Kicks In (disquiet0562)

Disquiet Junto Project 0564: Octave Lept
The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music.
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Octavio Paz - disquiet0564

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)

This is my submission for this week's Disquiet Junto project. The assignment was to create a piece of music that moves between and overlays 5/8, 6/8 and 7/8 time signatures. 

More on this 567th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Three Meters (The Assignment: Make music in 5/8, 6/8, and 7/8 time signatures) – at: https://disquiet.com/0567/

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Apothecia(disquiet0566)

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