[disquiet] 0621 Lyra Leftover

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0621: The Leftovers

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0621 discussion thread:

Great prompt to revisit some random projects. Searched through this year's Ableton Live folder and found a few unfinished and half-baked files. Decided to use one from last March when I was fooling around with the Puremagnetik Microtron sample pack. I recently acquired Slate+Ash Spectres, so used a couple presets from it to get familiar with the software. Also added a couple tracks using Choreographs. Not sure what flavor I was going for but I'm ok with the result. 
 
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Whenever I doodle with an instrument, I record if something sounds vaguely interesting. Often these chance bits become the basis of a new track. For this assignment I had four 1-minute-stems, ranging from piano and drums to a drone. 

Added a vibraphone and additional drone from Teletone, plus some Slate & Ash bells. Mixing was hell, as everything was pretty much in the frequency spectrum - that took twice the time of writing the track.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0621: The Leftovers
The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new.

Step 1: At the end of the calendar year, people often participate in holidays that result in lots of leftover food. Think about the leftovers — discarded tracks, or MIDI files, or ideas — that result from your music-making process.

Step 2: Scrounge around on your hard drive and recording equipment, and in your memory, to access the sort of creative leftovers that came to mind in Step 1.

Step 3: Make a new track primarily using the resources that surfaced in Step 2. You can, of course, add new material. And be sure to reheat sufficiently.

Seven Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0621” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your tracks.

Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0621” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation of a project playlist.

Step 3: Upload your tracks. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your tracks.

Step 4: Post your track in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co:

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Step 5: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: If posting on social media, please consider using the hashtag #DisquietJunto so fellow participants are more likely to locate your communication.

Step 7: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Note: Please post one track for this weekly Junto project. If you choose to post more than one, and do so on SoundCloud, please let me know which you’d like added to the playlist. Thanks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you. How far can you stretch your leftovers?

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, November 27, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, November 23, 2023.

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Leftovers [disquiet0621]

This track was mainly composed in November 2019 - 4 years ago.
The music was inspired by the character Markus Cheng by the author Heinrich Steinfest. This one-armed detective, a Viennese of Chinese descent, is the main character of several of his novels.

The Disquiet Junto Project encouraged me to rediscover and publish old and forgotten tracks.

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Cheng (Disquiet0621)

Thanks Marc for this  - it is quite useful to get one to review forgotten files that didn't quite make it anywhere.   I was thinking to name this "No light for the jealous night", but it didn't quite fit the theme, so I named it "Night Leftover".  I found this scrap and realized why I scrapped it.  It was too long, and it is still too long for which I apologize, but shortening it was very difficult.  Nevertheless, I still like it and wanted to get it out there.  The background piano and bits of software instruments here and there provide the atmosphere for the guitar harmonics that I played throughout.More on this 621st weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Leftovers (The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new), at: https://disquiet.com/0621/

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Night Leftover(disquiet0621)

Some leftover arpeggios, filter sweeps and simple drum beats.

disquiet0621

I found a the beginnings of track using Felt Instruments' Helenko, and AudioThing's Noises as a drone. I added some muted piano with Felt Instruments' Lekko, and an additional drone with Arturia's Augmented Strings and TAL's Sampler. 
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muffled (disquiet0621)

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Otherness

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e O is the shared moniker of sibling artists eleu and Olson, whose debut self-titled album ‘e O’ arrives as a beautifully blurred portrait of two inner worlds colliding. Raised on parallel but distinct soundtracks, their collaboration captures the hazy overlap of childhood memory and present-day influence—filtered through a language all of their own.

The record shimmers at the edges of genre, folding together fragments of ambient pop, left-field R&B, experimental electronics, and traces of shoegaze. Olson’s production is built from gently layered textures that ricochet and swell, creating a sense of movement that feels both precise and ineffable, while eleu navigates the album with intimate, delicate vocals. It’s music that feels like stepping into a dream already in progress.

e O draws from a palette of softness and distortion, of digital haze and real-world textures, echoing those in-between hours where clarity and feeling drift in and out of focus. A work of intuition and subtle transformation, this is a debut that doesn't introduce itself loudly—but lingers long after.

Written and Performed by eleu
Produced by Olson
Mixed by Oshi Moon, Olson, eleu
Mastered by Oshi Moon
Artwork by eleu and Number One 

Precursor

Somewhere on the California Central Coast

Traversing The Counter-Flow [disquiet0621]

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