The Disquiet Junto is a group in which musicians respond to weekly, fast-turnaround projects to compose, record, and share new music — and provide feedback to and receive feedback from fellow participants. The idea is to use the constraints inherent in these assignments as a springboard for creativity. The first Junto project began on the first Thursday of January 2012, and the series has continued weekly since then. It was founded by and is moderated by Marc Weidenbaum.  Find out more at https://disquiet.com/2013/04/25/disquiet-junto-faq/

My Disquiet Junto

I recorded throwing ice cubes into the best crystal glass I own. a long stem glass which is the last of a set of six. It makes a beautiful ringing sound no matter how you hit it. All the sounds are made from the ice and the glass, including the ringing, and my voice.

I used a 32 bit float field recorder that I bought recently to test turning up very small sounds, like the glass ringing. Works well. The sounds are treated with Ableton to vary them (played back on a midi keyboard, then mixed and moved around), and for my voice I used, also for the very first time, a Korg Kaoss Pad 3 that I just acquired.

See photo of the glass.

Disquiet0627 ICE NINE

Took an old piece - is is music? Well, I came to “music” from a reverse angle. I was a spoken word radio producer in the 80’s, then got attracted to audio art, moved to Europe, tried installations, and found myself in the experimental music world. So this piece is from about ten years ago, and has been rejigged by me. I did it simply, using Ableton but not enhancing with synth.  Next time.

Disquiet0629DaysAreShort

Response to Junto 0650 - a chance to try out Granulator III in Ableton 12, and my Korg Monolog, which of course has sirens - and to sing crazy

Disquiet0650SheppardsSirens

Singing fridge and fan - and couldn't resist singing along.

More on the 661st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Consumer Drone Product — The Assignment: Record a piece of drone music using sounds from your home — at https://disquiet.com/0661/

Fridge vs Fan (Disquiet0661)

[What I Found on Pluto](https://on.soundcloud.com/2vcNNmGgdCa2ujddA)
I made this track by selecting my favorite little recordings from many years - all recorded by me - many of them are my voice, some are animals, tiny snippets harvested from past field recordings, many accidental - then I did a survey of effects in Ableton that I wanted to explore and treated everything, learning about various parameters until I got the atmosphere I wanted - a great practice opportunity. The photo is one I took of a balloon flight, altering the colors.

What I Found on Pluto (disquiet0671)

A response to Junto creative prompt: compose to a sign. 

I live in France, and once saw a sign on the autoroute that I, as an Anglophone, found funny. It said “Zone d’expérimentation.” I still don’t totally get it - it means they were trying something out, to watch out for debris, or failure, or something like that. They were talking about roads, but I related to it. This sign pictured here is the closest I could find online. Apparently a “voie douce” is a road for bikes, foot traffic - but not motorized vehicles. I take “douce” as soft, sweet or gentle. So I experimented with my new midi controller, Arturia Keyla essential, 49 piano keys, all white. Far from my first midi controller, but quite a fun one. It comes with a software plug in that over 2000 factory settings. I usually stay away from those,  but today we’re on the gentle road of experimentation. Let’s have fun! Included are some odd vocal noises from my collection.

More on the 688th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Sign Up — The Assignment: Interpret a routine public sign as a musical instruction — at https://disquiet.com/0688/

Disquiet0688Creation Voie Douce

sound art for disquiet0697.

More on the 697th weekly Disquiet Junto project, First Third — The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0697/



unmaking music (disquiet0697)

From disquiet's junto project 0697 (may 2025 https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0697-first-third/) I took Coraline Ada Ehmke's track
https://soundcloud.com/coralineada/the-minotaurs-lament

I played electric bass guitar (a maple Fender Jazz Bass with a pick, a mute, and a crunchy amp) and added an Oberheim DMX for the Motorik groove.

Coraline’s original track was already quite full, but I was hearing a Motorik rhythm underneath and thought a full bass & drums section might work. I think I was wrong—the result feels too busy, and the most interesting parts are still in the bass arpeggiator sequence and its variations.
I re-recorded the live bass five times with different arrangements, but none really landed the way I hoped.
To improve the flow, I ended up cutting sections and shortening the piece. In the second half, I also used a filter to tone down the original synths and make space for the rhythm section.
I probably spent four times longer on this than on the other collabs this week—and still couldn’t get it where I wanted. That said, it was a fun experiment. Coraline’s infectious sequence was a pleasure to work with, and I think the final result is nice (Motorik groove was a good idea, right?).
But in the end, I don’t think it really provides a solid foundation for a third collaboration—so for me, it doesn’t quite fulfill the prompt.

@coralineada

Minotaur's Run (with Coraline Ada Ehmke)

Based on a piano performance by @leonclowes, I played an OB-E (thanks, Tom Oberheim & @gforce-software) over Leon’s piano. I was going for a streamlined version of something quiet by Ravel — a kind of synthetic tone poem. Both the piano and strings are fake, but hopefully there’s still room to build.

Original:  https://soundcloud.com/leonclowes/hole-third-disquiet0697

for this challenge:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0698-second-third/

Maurice in a Hole (with leon clowes) - disquiet0698

Disquiet Junto 0698 is the second of three prompts aimed at creating an asynchronous trio.

This week, we had to select from one of last week's community submissions to add a second part. I was really moved by Torpid Scorpion's piece "First Third", featuring a gorgeous acoustic guitar. As soon as I heard it, I heard the complementary part. The trouble? I heard it on violin.

I've only been playing violin for 6 weeks, but I practiced this piece pretty hard and got a couple of good takes this morning. It's simple and understated, I don't think it's awful, and I'm calling it the best that I can do at this point.

There was some room sound on the guitar part, so I tried to match it with light reverb on my side of the song. I also applied a little bit of a reverb to both tracks to place the instruments in the same room.

I think this piece is spacious, sad, and lovely, and I can't wait to see how someone finishes it for next week.

Torpid Scorpion's starter track: https://soundcloud.com/torpidscorpion/disquiet0697-first-third

More on the 698th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Second Third — The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0698/

You're Not a Burden (with Torpid Scorpion) (disquiet0698)

A collaboration using the track by modusMatt (https://soundcloud.com/modusmatt/with-the-bathwater-disquiet0697) to which I added a sequence of recordings of noises made with stones.

More on the 698th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Second Third — The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0698/

Stones in the Bathwater - with modusMatt(disquiet0698)

For a second collaboration I used the track by alanblip (https://soundcloud.com/alanblip/b-drone-disquiet0697) and added another dark drone to the right.

More on the 698th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Second Third — The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0698/

Drone Double - with alanblip(disquiet0698)

[disquiet0698] rising with ray cobley's metallic

More on the 699th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Third Third — The Assignment: Record the final third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0699/

Source tracks:
Marjorie Van Halteren, "Disquiet0698 second with Torpid Scorpion"
https://soundcloud.com/vanwindmill/disquiet0698-second-with

Torpid Scorpion, "Disquiet0697 - First Third"
https://soundcloud.com/torpidscorpion/disquiet0697-first-third

tercero (third) (ft. Torpid Scorpion & Marjorie Van Halteren) [Disquiet0699]

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data.

Envy (naviarhaiku594)

Disquiet Junto 0699 

                                                    Third Third 

 

The Assignment: Record the final third of a trio. 

DAW: Ableton 12.1.11 

Key:  

BPM: 76 

Time Signature: 4/4 

Length:  approx.  2:50 sec 

Chose track #53 using a random number generator. Track is by XHG w Frankh 

https://soundcloud.com/xhg/disquiet0698-go-figure-ska 

Added bass drum, snare, hihat, congas, and vibraslap to enhance the rhythm section and create a more dynamic sound. 


More on the 699th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Third Third — The Assignment: Record the final third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0699/
 

 

 

 

          

disquiet0699 - Third Third

Sound artist and poet - American, living in the North of France. Member of Muzzix Collective.

Disquiet0688Creation Voie Douce

Marjorie Van Halteren

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