Vocal Samples courtesy of:

Tourdille [https://www.looperman.com/acapellas?page=1&mid=Tourdille&dir=d]
Fragile [ also at Looperman but the link seems to be dead now ]

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Memory Serves

The Euclidean Chromaticon | Memory Serves - disquiet0579

A track I originally made in Summer 2020 with North American writer Francisco Cantú.  For the re-recording of this track I kept the lockdown themed Spoken word by Francisco but created a whole new backing music, much more stripped down then the old verion.
Very pleased with how this sounds.  
The original track can be heard on this album. 
https://audioobscura.bandcamp.com/album/love-in-the-time-of-the-anthropocene

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Disquiet Junto Project 0579: Memory Serves
The Assignment: Rerecord a piece of music.

Step 1: The goal of this project is to simply perform and record again something you’ve performed and recorded previously. Think about something you’d like to revisit.

Step 2: Now rerecord the piece of music you decided upon in Step 1.

Audio Obscura  - Three Sisters (with Francisco Cantú) [disquiet0579]

Disquiet Junto Project 0579: Memory Serves
The Assignment: Rerecord a piece of music.

Step 1: The goal of this project is to simply perform and record again something you’ve performed and recorded previously. Think about something you’d like to revisit.

Step 2: Now rerecord the piece of music you decided upon in Step 1.

Track notes:

Something a bit different this week and certainly something I couldn't perform in SuperCollider! 

For as long as I've been seriously making music (25-ish years) I've written songs as part of that continuum. Sometimes the songwriting has become my primary activity and other times it's been consigned to the background. My 30s during the 2010's were pretty interesting in that regard. I'd started off not writing lyrics (let along performing) for quite sometime and then mid-decade songwriting and performing became my primary creative activity. That's where and when this song, "Queen Tide" first materialised. 

It's a song that's been hanging around for about 7 to 8 years now and I've never been able to settle on a structure that feels quite right. Initially, it fell square into a strummed acoustic folk idiom and I'd often perform it under my Garden Ruin moniker with my friend Tom accompanying on guitar. I've included a video of a live performance from back in 2017 that gives an indication of what it sounds like and how I've attempted to record it in the past.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO0kNIsKyro

For whatever reason - and about 12 versions later - it just hasn't happened. As this year began, I realised I hadn't worked on songs in quite some time and thought it might be time to revisit some older material and see if it motivated me to work on some newer material. I was up super-early this morning and upon seeing the Junto prompt this morning my thoughts drifted towards revisiting "Queen Tide" and approaching it a bit differently.

Turning my thoughts to a song like "Queen Tide" could have also been the byproduct of the bizarre climactic interlude that has interrupted an otherwise straightforward summer here in Adelaide, South Australia. For the past couple of days, wind gusts have been huge, a cold southerly whipping from the Antarctic has dumped rain and the skies have looked volatile and foreboding. It's pure climate change stuff. "Queen Tide" is about climate change as well and is written from the perspective of wandering around my hometown of Normanville on the Fleurieu Peninsula in the aftermath of a climactic catastrophe.

One of the things I've always liked about the song is the use of an Em sus9 (or Em+2) chord in the main verse. My partner Lauren has often referred to this as the 'Twin Peaks' song, since the melody and structure does echo the TP theme a little bit. It's always sounded fine on guitar, but this morning I thought I'd change it up and find a way to replicate it on piano. I've been listening to a lot of John Cale's work lately as well, so I thought I'd drop the key by a few increments and sing it a bit lower.

So that's how it started and I spent a few hours on it with a few overdubs that turned into several. That was what became the 'kitchensink' version, completely with an 'iPad pedal steel' in the bridge and two simultaneous sets of algorithmically programmed drums. I've spared you of the 'kitchensink' version and presented a more sensibly austere version with a bit of additional keyboard accompaniment, restrained guitar and backing vocals.

[Disquiet_Junto_0579] Queen Tide (redux)

An electronic sequence created with Samplebrain. Although using the same input elements as 'Birdbrain Bash' (my track for disquiet0561), it has turned out very different.

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Birds of Change (disquiet0579)

This was my contribution for the Disquiet Junto Project 0579:Memory Serves.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0579 discussion thread:
I produced this track back in August 2022 but wasn’t quite happy with the way the mix turned out. This week’s assignment gave me the incentive to re-visit the piece and make some tweaks. Created with the o-o-o script on the Norns Shield along with Ableton Live instruments and Max for Live effects. Globular Cluster NGC 1850 image by NASA Hubble Space Telescope.

More on this 579th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Memory Serves (The Assignment: Rerecord a piece of music), at: Disquiet Junto Project 0579: Memory Serves – Disquiet
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Space Shifter (redux) [disquiet0579]

Revisiting a disquiet junto recording from 3 years ago - https://soundcloud.com/caustic_gates/disquiet0420-third-quarter - even managed to find the rudimentary graphic score I jotted down for it at the time. 

Voices different this time, but picked a similar bright chord for halfway through.

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More on this 579th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Memory Serves (The Assignment: Rerecord a piece of music), at: Disquiet Junto Project 0579: Memory Serves – Disquiet

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disquiet0579 - fourth quarter

Disquiet Junto Project 0579: Memory Serves
The Assignment: Rerecord a piece of music.

I chose https://krakenkraft.bandcamp.com/track/star-spawn from a 2017 release, which means I may have made it 2016 or 2015. 

Originally it was completely made with the compact DAW Caustic for Android. This time I used only the MIDI data export and rearranged it in Reaper with u-he Repro and Arturia Mellotron. 

Main objective was to get closer to my perception of the spirit of Berlin School style sequenced electronica. I put a lot of efforts in it and it is definitely more sophisticated. Nonetheless I'm not sure wether I really like it more than the original in every aspect. 

Artists name is now Etherkraken as he is my Berlin School personality, visible here: https://etherkraken.bandcamp.com/


Track cover via Stable Diffusion, prompting "a photo of a kraken made of red light in blue deep space image" https://stablediffusionweb.com/#demo


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Star-spawned again

Etherkraken-Bandcamp

Etherkraken: Star-spawned again [disquiet0579]

for the disquiet junto //

old work, revisited and refreshed

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A Slow Progression Of The Sky Flooded With Light

[disquiet0579] A Slow Progression Of The Sky Flooded With Light

Juniper

Hace mucho tiempo, tuve la dicha de presenciar una fiesta en un pueblito en medio de la nada. Esa fiesta hizo comprender lo mucho que se disfruta la música acompañadx de la familia, amigxs y unx que otrx invitadx. El olor de comida recién hecha le dio un extra a toda esa realidad de aquel recuerdo. Cuando cayó la noche y se encendieron fogatas, se puso música y se comenzó a bailar, fue cuando nació la idea de un track llamado “Así bailan los olvidados”, que fue incluido en un compilado de 21 canciones titulado “VEINTIUNO” en 2021.

La escena, aunque parecía hermosa, resultaba nostálgica. También se sentía miedo ante la idea de que toda esa felicidad y paz se extinguiera en cualquier momento, cualquier día, a cualquier hora, por alguno de los tantos bandos que deciden qué les pertenece y qué no.
Había preocupación por ellxs, pero la realidad es que tanto ellxs como todxs lxs demás no estamos exentos a las decisiones de aquellos que deciden qué les pertenece y qué no. Somos parte del olvido también.

Pero este EP no se trata de aquel recuerdo. Este EP es de un recuerdo actual de cómo lxs olvidadxs viven día con día caminando “entre aguas negras”, haciendo 4 o 5 horas en un transporte o vialidades que no ayudan y que hacen desear solo una cosa: “llegar vivx a casa”. Este EP, aunque está inspirado en sucesos no muy gratos, pretende hacer bailar, porque siempre la música y el baile hacen que todo sea mejor en la vida.

Este EP es un homenaje a los bailes sonideros que existen porque llenaron una necesidad de música, fiesta y cohesión social en los barrios populares. Es un gracias por resistir.
Eternas gracias a todxs lxs que escuchan y ponen mis rolitas entre sus rolitas. ¡Mil gracias!

Estoy feliz de poder haber llegado vivo a casa y subir esto.

El irreal Veintiuno - Así bailan lxs olvidadxs

ECOUL SND presents ECOUL177, featuring @substak with a deep reinterpretation by @ft-dubtechno
The fifth installment of the UnRMXD series unfolds in atmospheric layers of dub and minimal rhythm - a dialogue between SubstaK’s experimental depth and Tamburrano’s refined, hypnotic touch
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https://ecoulsnd.bandcamp.com/album/unrmxd-5

Substak - Starfield

Somewhere on the California Central Coast

Space Shifter (redux) [disquiet0579]

he_nu_ri