Whenever I hear a rhythmic noise like the sound of this downspout, or a windshield wiper, or ceiling fan, I always find myself filling out the beat in my head. So, for this submission, I decided to cut up the sample in to “calls” and did about four takes of “responses” on my drums. After that, I went back in Ableton, chose my favorite parts and added a random effect on each section, automating each one on and off.

Regardless of how I feel about the resulting recording, the important thing about this track is that I really, truly had fun making it. It was the first time in as long as I can remember that I started laughing out loud playing my drums.

More on this 581st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Helsinki Downspout (The Assignment: Use a rhythmic field recording as the foundation for a new track), at: https://disquiet.com/0581/

Thanks to Scott Fletcher for having provided the original material. It is used thanks to a Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0). Original track at: https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/helsinki-downspout/ 36

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Drum Battle With A Downspout Disquiet0581

[disquiet0590] It's Different

took SOMA Enner, tried to make some inspiring ground for others

The Loneliest Number Part 1/3 (disquiet0591)

For Disquiet 0591 (https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0591-the-loneliest-number/62108).

Rumble Bed (disquiet0591)

This was my contribution for part 1 – Disquiet Junto Project 0591: The Loneliest Number

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0591 discussion thread:

64 step synth sequence created using Devicemeister StepicVST and ThePhonoLoop Tapes.01 plugins in Ableton Live. The sequence repeats with subtle random variations to note duration and velocity till the end. 

Created in D major pentatonic, 96 BPM. Have fun chopping, slicing,  distorting, layering, etc.

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Maybe Going Somewhere [disquiet0591]

Playing with the Torso is curating, more than creating. 
The Torso T1 presents musical ideas you can select from. And T1 is a time traveller. Sends you music from the past. What a beautiful machine. 
This is a curated track, Lots of  step events on FS1r vocals
Some Midi FX with a Future Retro Zillion.
Congenial track-title is taken from Fredric Jameson, "Postmodernism, or the cultural logic of late capitalism". Head of chapter Nine. Jameson, a good read.
Photographer: unkonwn. 
Das Wiener Boheme Quartett: https://grammophon-platten.de/page.php?170

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Nostalgia for the present

Nostalgia for the present disquiet0591

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[disquiet0591] The Loneliest Number tt16tt

Disquiet Junto Project 0591: The Loneliest Number
The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio.

Experimenting a bit more with feedback after last week’s DisquietJunto.
From a longer recording of these experiments I stitched together different sections, choosing mainly ones that were relatively sparse, in order to leave room for more layers.

Practical info: Although the use of envelopes and filters makes the sounds mostly percussive, I did use specific notes/chords to create them, and so it may be useful to know these:
Am7 (a-c-e-g); B/A (a-d#-f#-b); G+/A (a-b-d#-g). Notes are from the A dorian #4 scale (mode of E harm minor).
The tempo is 78.5 bpm.

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A Loneliest Number(disquiet0591)

Voice improvisations through VCV rack, edited into an A-B-A-B form.

Disquiet Junto Project 0591: The Loneliest Number
 The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio.
Please note: While this is the start of a three-part project, you can participate in one, two, or all three of the parts, which will occur over the next three weeks.

Step 1: This week’s Junto project is the first in a sequence intended to encourage and reward collaboration. You will be recording something with the understanding that it will remain unfinished for the time being. Your part will be done, but more will happen. Read on.

Step 2: The plan is for you to record a short and original piece of music using any instrumentation of your choice. Conceive the piece as something that leaves room for something else — other instruments, other people — to join in.

Step 3: Record a short piece of music, roughly two to three minutes in length, as described in Step 2.

Step 4: This is important: be sure to make your track downloadable because it may be used by someone else in the next Disquiet Junto project, and then after that.

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Photo: Sochu Maekawa no ame: Rain at Maekawa, Sochu., 1932, Tokyo, by Kawase Hasui, Shozaburo Watanabe. Purchased 2016. Te Papa (2016-0008-11)

Untitled [disquiet0591]

Part 2 of 3
Part 1 - Oh Well [ https://soundcloud.com/oh-well-360226041/untitled-disquiet0591 ]

For context, when posting the track online, please be sure to include this following information:

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Better Than One

Better Than One [xiiixxi &  OhWell] - disquiet0592

ThisIsWhereItEnded

Somewhere on the California Central Coast

Maybe Going Somewhere [disquiet0591]

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