Disquiet Junto Project 0537: Penitent Honk
The Assignment: Do sound design for “a missing gesture” of vehicular life.

I bought this little pink plastic horn (current picture) at a flea market a few years ago, thinking it might one day be of musical value. And I should be right. For three days now I have tried to create an apologetic sound with the horn, and out of 10387546 samples I have chosen this one as the most convincing. It is slowed down to 0.25%, and for purely scientific reasons and consideration of future noisologist, I have added the original sound at the end. The reverb and the background noise is the ambient noise of my home office/studio, and I think the Mac decided to start it's backup on this very recording. Anyway, I find the sound of the horn sufficiently remorseful and repentant.

Photography: Krakenkraft

This project was proposed by Rob Walker. https://robwalker.substack.com/p/point-of-view-3?s=r

More on this 537th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Penitent Honk (The Assignment: Do sound design for “a missing gesture” of vehicular life) — at: https://disquiet.com/0537/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0537-penitent-honk/

Penitent Honk [disquiet0537]

Disquiet Junto Project 0572: Rhythm Kit
The Assignment: Make a beat that someone else will add to.

On ebay I shot an old, rancid, scuffed Casio PT-1 as a restoration object for the holidays. It came yesterday and at the same time the disquiet junto mail came in. And it worked. Ah, I liked these rhumba rhythms like I did 40 years ago. Originally I just wanted to contribute that. But then I recorded a 4 bar loop and used 4 tracks on reaper to play around with some fx. I exported it and gave it some structure in Reaper.  It's now only the original loop plus fx. I think there is plenty of room for a second voice. 

The pure PT-1 is hearable in the beginning. I also put the original loop to https://freesound.org/people/krakenkraft/sounds/665090/ 

It's plain vanilla 120bpms.

1x4 bars original loop 
4x4 bars modified loops coming in
1x4 bars original loop
4x4 bars modified loops
1x4 bars original loop
2x4 bars modified loops going out and back to unmodified

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More on this 572nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Rhythm Kit (The Assignment: Make a beat that someone else will add to) — at: https://disquiet.com/0572/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0572-rhythm-kit/

Casio PT-1 Rhumba 120bpm [disquiet0572]

Disquiet Junto Project 0580: Evo Evol Evolve
The Assignment: Record a piece of music that develops like an organism evolves.

Out of curiosity, I had just bought a sequencer called ZOA, so I decided to go with the "Game of Life" approach of this sequencer (chances are I'm not alone in this). In case you're not familiar with the concept: Conway's Game of Life is a cellular model of evolution in which the life of each cell depends on the life of neighboring cells. In ZOA, each cell is a note and four sequencers play these notes according to additional rules. ZOA adds features like MIDI, and I liked that a lot. 

What I didn't like was the randomness of the melodies, but hey, isn't life random in the first place? (Big debate… let's say: Sometimes it feels random...) I had pushed the development by changing the probability of the notes by hand. If the game of life had come to a halt with some dead pattern, I would have used that, but I didn't want to force it.

I played with many instruments and patterns, but in the end I reduced it to two tracks of eighth notes. For the beginning and the end I chose a cheap fade-in, fade-out, because life came quietly and very slowly out of nowhere, and I think that according to current scientific knowledge, one day it will end like that and just fade out.

Self verdict: The track is soulless and meaningless, like the evolution of life, which need not mean that listeners could not hear either soul or meaning in it if they felt like it.

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ZOA (Mac/iOS)
https://www.audiosymmetric.com/zoa.html
I'm in no way affiliated with it and there are many alternative MIDI tools doing "life" patterns. ZOA is not without its limits, but I found it a very interesting addition to my pattern park.

LIFE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life

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More on this 580th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Evo Evol Evolve (The Assignment: Record a piece of music that develops like an organism evolves), at: https://disquiet.com/0580/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0580-evo-evol-evolve/

What Comes Up Must Come Down [disquiet0580]

Disquiet Junto Project 0593: The Charm
The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio.

I decided for https://soundcloud.com/micheleisoni/the-mystic-disquiet0592 based on https://soundcloud.com/caustic_gates/disquiet0591-patchouli-wash because I liked it's mysteriosity and because it left some space. I added two tracks of rhythmic elements, both made with a patch from my AEmodular system, knobbed live to somehow fit the existing music. I allowed myself to decenter it a little bit and to change the volume balance. Thanks to Michele Isoni and Caustic_gates! 

Cover Image: DALL·E "wall of modular synthesizers, three persons playing with it in the foreground, photorealistic, 50mm lens, aperture f1.2"


More on this 593rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Charm (The Assignment: Complete an asynchronous trio begun by two other musicians), at: https://disquiet.com/0593/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0593-the-charm/

Mysterious Patchouli Triangle [disquiet0593] (Krakenkraft / Michele Isoni / caustic_gates)

Sometimes you don't hear the simple handiwork that went into a track, and I'm not usually the teller of the background story. But in this case, the sequence was a WAV I found in a UseMeLater folder, and I remembered doing the tape effects for real with a modified 4-track recorder some years ago. I liked the recording and wanted to use it. But the slowed down and wobbly tape had changed the character of the sequence so much (and constantly changing) that I couldn't actually use it anymore (hence UseMeLater). And even now, I never was able to return to the original scale or speed. To get the synchronicity I wanted, I had to cut the 2-minute sequence into many short snippets, mostly 4 plucks, and glue them back together, which was an epic job. On the other hand, the now very different sound (compared to the source, I think it was the then new Korg NTS-1 I was testing, as digital as 0101) was worth the effort.

Etherkraken

Eudaimonia

erwägungsmaschine

erwägungsmaschine (Krakenkraft)

Disquiet Junto Project 0637: Right (2 of 3)
The Assignment: Record the second third of an eventual trio.

This years beginning was full of work and I missed 1/3. This time I did not want to miss the collaboration. I went with Daniels piece https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/live-bass-soundscape-disquiet0636 simply because I liked it and I wanted to know what would come out if I tried it - if I would not like the outcome I would go on to another piece. I improvised a first track with a Hydrasynth Explorer. A second track is the rattling of a napkin ring with rattling shells on it, which I had bought in France just for this purpose. I went with my gut feeling until I had the feeling that I couldn't contribute any more. I always liked it in every step, probably because it's DDs. I think there is still room for a third person with something unusual.

If you need a left-right-version, just ask.

Track image based on a photo by Kelly Sikkema
https://unsplash.com/de/fotos/person-die-seifenblasen-im-freien-halt-hUuGUG9gdRg

More on the 637th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right (2 of 3) — The Assignment: Record the second third of an eventual trio — at https://disquiet.com/0637/

Reflecting Fragility [disquiet0637] 2/3 (first)

Disquiet Junto Project 0671: In the Air Tonight
The Assignment: Make an atmosphere of your own.

This is the atmosphere inside the possibility space (Möglichkeitsraum).
No Samples, only Synths, FX & Filters.

More on the 671st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right of Way — The Assignment: Music for turn signals — at https://disquiet.com/0671/
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0671-in-the-air-tonight/69337

Möglichkeitsraum 237b [disquiet0671]

Disquiet Junto Project 0673: Switch Back
The Assignment: Make the quiet part loud, and vice-versa.

I am busy right now but I wanted to participate and had already a track in mind. It's a simple remix from an unreleased ambient track, that was planned to have two silent noisefloors, one abstract, one of me walking trough leaves. It's now shorter, and I killed the abstract noise floor; the walking trough leaves is now dominant, the two tracks of music are now in the background.

More on the 673rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Switch Back — The Assignment: Make the quiet part loud, and vice-versa — at https://disquiet.com/0673/
Discussion: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0673-switch-back/69480

Autumn Leaves Loud [disquiet0673]

Disquiet Junto Project 0679: Ice Age
The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.

With my Zoom H5 I recorded some Ice Cubes falling into and moving inside a salad bowl made of glass. I made a lot of efforts to get most out of the sound, for example I placed the bowl on a clotheshorse, so that it can swing more freely … but at the end I didn't use these sounds. I applied a lot of diverse stretching and reverb to get some pads and made a Pigments granular patch with some sounds I liked most. What I had planned didn't work and I made a lot of unusable detours. Now it's mostly an improvisation over some kind of instable repetitive structure, and I like it. All sound is based on the ice cube glass recordings; you may assume there are water noises, but it's really (stretched) ice, maybe sometimes with some surrounding meltwater.

The recordings can be found on my Freesound page
https://freesound.org/search/?q=krakenkraft&f=&s=Date+added+%28newest+first%29

More on the 679th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Ice Age — The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at https://disquiet.com/0679/
Discussion: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0679-ice-age/70238

ICEDESCENCE [disquiet0679]

Disquiet Junto Project 0680: Reverse Resolution
The Assignment: Finish something (musical) you started last year.

I remember when I started this one year ago I was sitting in a train and in love with Abletons "Operator" FM synth and a mutating sequence on loop. There was no bass at all, because I had bad simple earphones and in the train I was only able to hear the high bells.

Honestly, everytime I listened to it, I thought "This is enough, you don't need more, I like it how it is.", but at the same time I felt guilty, because it was very simple. That's why I never finished it.

To finish the track, I quickly added a bassdrumish sound with Puremagnetik Foomph and added some droney pads. Now I feel guilty again, really like a cheater, because it is still very simple, but now it's finished and I like it.

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More on the 680th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reverse Resolution — The Assignment: Finish something (musical) you started last year — at https://disquiet.com/0680/

Discussion:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0680-reverse-resolution/70376

Cover: DALLE

Krakenkraft

God's Army [disquiet0680]

Disquiet Junto Project 0681: Drama Course
The Assignment: Record a piece of music to transform a walk or a run into something theatrical.

I started with a bassline and had a kind of wet step drum. I wanted the bass and drums to swell on and off, two people chasing each other and stopping to look around. The main motif that builds up depicts the chaser getting closer and closer. All but the mastering is done in my old trusted caustic app.

More on the 681st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Drama Course — The Assignment: Record a piece of music to transform a walk or a run into something theatrical — at https://disquiet.com/0681/

Discussion: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0681-drama-course/70495

Image based on a DallE pic.

BandCamp

Dwindling Distance [disquiet0681]

Disquiet Junto Project 0687: Applied Science
The Assignment: Record a piece of music that explores physiological and behavioral techniques.

I wanted to record a tape loop as a physiological rhythm and I tried to use a cheap cassette to mp3 recorder that I had bought some years ago (and never used until today). It didn’t work at first and instead I just recorded some noises.

The result you hear is the tape loop, as I finally managed to record, and two tracks of noises that serve as pads (low filtered noise) and texture (hi filtered noise, reverse).

So nearly everything here was in the beginning physiological and happened involuntarily, but the result is my composition by choice, and so it is behavioral. (Biologists: please forgive these rough descriptions...)

There is a nicer ten minute version with additional pads and strings, but for me this version felt more true to the assignment (and it felt enough).

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More on the 687th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Applied Science — The Assignment: Record a piece of music that includes physiological and behavioral techniques — at https://disquiet.com/0687/

Discussions at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0687-applied-science/71005

Embodied [disquiet0687]

Disquiet Junto Project 0692: Combust a Move
The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track.

While tidying up unfinished tracks I stumbled upon a somehow phasered pad that I liked very much and for which I have long forgotten what I once did it for and how. I did not want to delete it, but I was not able to do something with it either. The unruly sound simply rejected all my attempts to add something. But as much as I liked for itself (even in its original lenght of around 20 minutes) I wanted to do more with it. Then I was tidying up my mails and found the disquiet junto prompt. I downloaded a fireplace and added it to the pad - and I liked it. There was some optimizing, like the fireplace goes thru a gater (adding a slightly straight rhythm) and there is a decrackle plugin set to "output crackle only" (to reduce the noise without loosing the high frequencies), and there is a smoking person in the room.

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Fireplace CC0 by 16FThumaF
https://freesound.org/people/16FThumaF/sounds/499032/
Thank you!

Smoking female CC0 by Roses1401
https://freesound.org/people/Roses1401/sounds/442639/
Thank you!

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Track image by Dall-E

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More on the 692nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Combust a Move — The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track — at https://disquiet.com/0692/

Discussions
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0692-combust-a-move/71387

Full Free Album

free floating firespace [disquiet0692]

Disquiet Junto Project 0695: Clean After Each Use
The Assignment: Put a piece of music through the dryer.

I used "Waking Up in a Strange Room" from "Strange Rooms" https://krakenkraft.bandcamp.com/album/strange-rooms

The original from 2020 was heavy on delay and reverb. I removed all delay and reverb and even added two reverb-removing filters. So I "dryed" the sound. – I additionally made it shorter, because the dryer shrunked it. I changed all but the sequencer lines to strange sounds that are non-melodic, because the dryer changed the colour and totally ruined my clothing. – I like the result very much, because it's somehow an even wilder ride than the original.

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More on the 695th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0695: Clean After Each Use — The Assignment: Put a piece of music through the dryer — at https://disquiet.com/0695/

Discussion:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0695-clean-after-each-use/71665

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Some CC0 glitch sounds from:
youtu.be/P8Agc7G9098

Full Album

wake up in a strange room [disquiet0695]

Disquiet Junto Project 0697: First Third
The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio.

I made a simple sequence, that should leave a lot of room for two musicians. It should be Fminor with 70bpm in 6/4.

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Duets here:
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/alpha-crucis-with-krakenkraft
https://soundcloud.com/boundaryobjects/song-95-disquietjunto0698

Trios here:
https://soundcloud.com/lee-evans-722170034/third-third-disquiet0699-w
https://soundcloud.com/hugh-399766637/chef-money-junto-trio-with

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

Diskussion: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0697-first-third/71838

[disquiet0697] Crux

Disquiet Junto Project 0698: Second Third
The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio.

I chose ‘Unmaking Music’ because of its physical materiality. 

https://soundcloud.com/raincat-306596410/unmaking-music-disquiet0697

I had initially made a first version that contained many different movements on six tracks. That was pretty okay. But then I added some lurking piano - and somehow I felt that Raincat's hammering of whatever was the perfect partner for it. So I removed all the other tracks (only crow field recordings from Vienna remained, also the amplification of a kinda bell-like sounding Raincat “solo”). I didn't try to accompany Raincat, but let him accompany me. Thank you, Raincat, for your track!

I think this waits for a lead instrument. If someone wants to trio: The Piano is now 90bpm and somehow C-ish… (mainly CDCD, sometimes CDGC).

No total left-right-panning HERE, because I can't stand it. If you want to have one, download it THERE: https://soundcloud.com/winterer/panned-unmaking-together

Trio here:
https://soundcloud.com/blisterpop/composition-made-with-glue-disquiet0699-by-krakenkraft-raincat-jimmy-lem

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Image based on image by Олег Воронцов / Unsplash
https://unsplash.com/de/fotos/nahaufnahme-eines-klaviers-vor-einem-gebaude-kM46wOZKouY
Thank you!

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

Discussion: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0698-second-third/71900

Unmaking Together: Krakenkraft joins Raincat [disquiet0698]

Disquiet Junto Project 0698: Second Third
The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio.

For internal use only: this is a panned version of
https://soundcloud.com/winterer/unmaking-together-krakenkraft-joins-raincat-disquiet0697

PANNED Unmaking Together (Krakenkraft joins Raincat) [disquiet0698]

Disquiet Junto Project 0698: Second Third
The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio.

For the second track, I worked with a solo that no one else had used. I liked https://soundcloud.com/meccaniche-del-suono/first-tongue-ram-disquiet0697?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0697 by Meccaniche del Suono, because it somehow talked to me and seemed wonderfully inaccessible. Something I would fail at.

I added more layers of strings and flutes, some electronics and some ambience. I did all this by what felt right, hence the title, which may of course be a mistake. Thanks to Meccaniche del Suono / Marco Marongiu for his track!

No total left-right-panning HERE, because I can't stand it. If you want to have one, download it THERE: https://soundcloud.com/winterer/panned-do-the-right-thing

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Image by Krakenkraft

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

Discussion: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0698-second-third/71900

Do The Right Thing (Meccaniche del Suono + Krakenkraft) [disquiet0698]

Disquiet Junto Project 0698: Second Third
The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio.

For internal use only: this is a panned version of
https://soundcloud.com/winterer/do-the-right-thing-meccaniche-del-suono-krakenkraft-disquiet0698

PANNED Do The Right Thing [disquiet0698]

Disquiet Junto Project 0700: View Frame
The Assignment: Share the view and some sounds inspired by the view.

The cover picture shows the view from my window. I used a virtual modular system and wanted to create the feeling of crowded chaos, of structure and nervousness, of importance and frivolity. All from a distance, as I am still outside the picture looking out of the window.

The (cover) image does not perfectly equal the inner image I had in mind, as it is lazy sunday afternoon and vacation time, so the city is not that busy at the moment.  

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More on the 700th weekly Disquiet Junto project, View Frame — The Assignment: Share the view and some sounds inspired by the view — at https://disquiet.com/0700/

Discussion:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0700-view-frame/72046

Busy Street [disquiet0700]

Disquiet Junto Project 0718: Planet Jam It. The Assignment: Record the sound of an advanced alien civilization.

This recording was made in 2126 as part of Krakenkraft Interstellar Inc.'s ARP (Audio Reconnaissance Program), and its significance is only now being fully understood. We are most probably hearing the dream singers of Yith, a mentally time-traveling civilization. Unfortunately, despite intensive AI efforts, the drone's engine noise could not be removed, for which they have apologized repeatedly. Unfortunately, we do not know what happened before and after radio contact was lost... 

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Drone sound credit: andreauomogatto https://freesound.org/people/andreauomogatto/sounds/545315/

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More on the 718th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Planet Jam It — The Assignment: Record the sound of an advanced alien civilization — at https://disquiet.com/0718/.

Discussion https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0718-planet-jam-it/73184/16

disquiet25

Rare Recording Of The Dream Singers Of Yith [disquiet0718]

Disquiet Junto Project 0729: Community Remix (Nina)
The Assignment: Rework a shared recording from over 100 years ago

A beautiful recording of a violoncello solo with orchestra from 105 years ago, written around 250 years ago. Just image all that. – I first separated the music from the background noise, continued working with a noise-reduced version, and stretched it in various ways. I selected some of my favourite parts and inserted them into an overall structure. Since most of the spirit of the original was lost in the process, I inserted my most favourite part several times, for example at the beginning and end. I added some of the separated background noise back in, giving it its own space over time and finally an opportunity to fade away.

Original recording:
Performer: Hans Kindler
Writer: G. B. Pergolesi or V. L. Ciampi 
https://archive.org/details/78_nina_hans-kindler-g-b-pergolesi_gbia0055100a

More on the 729th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Community Remix (Nina) — The Assignment: Rework a shared recording from over 100 years ago — at https://disquiet.com/0729/.

Discussions 
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0729-community-rework-nina/73618

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Nina – Remix [disquiet0729]

Inspired by acoustic wooden experimental instruments I built my own: It mainly consist of an old metal box, to which I added parts from a cheap "thunder drum" and a set of piezo contact microphones. This gives the spiral of the thunder drum a massive body to resonate.

I also disassembled a Hohner Blues Harp and screwed the metal reeds contained in the mouth organ to the metal box. So, for disquiet0329 this is mainly a "extended harmonica" with some additional preparations.

I used different takes for recording the internal spiral as bass rhythm, the external spiral for some vague drone thunder, some manual scratching and the metal reeds, which are plucked like the teeth inside a music box, for two melodic parts. All sounds are from the The Music Box Of Erika Zann, with the exception of the recorded voice phenomenon – this must be Erikas ghost voice… Mixed in Reaper with a lot of VSTs to filter the immense noise from the mics and to get some ambience.

Obviously I'm a real bad do-it-yourselfer (gaffer tape etc.). And the metal reeds from the harmonica were to thin to pluck, so they broke after a while (you can hear one of the reeds breaking and falling into the box at around 2:28), it was not the only one … Should there ever be a Disquiet Junto project on the topic of "A musical instrument that gets completely used up by playing it" I'm gonna get The Music Box Of Erika Zann off the shelf again.

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More on this 329th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Extended Version / Make a piece of music in which you expand the functionality of an instrument — and document your technique) at:

https://disquiet.com/0329/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0329-extended-version/

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

The Music Box Of Erika Zann [disquiet0329]

Disquiet Junto Project 0411: Wrapped Up. The Assignment: Record a piece of music as a gift for someone special to you. Okay, he may not be that special, but I'm giving this to Nicolas Steven Miller, the developer of the Kosmische Synthesizer, because I like his app and often toy with it.

The track is made with Kosmische Pro -> Vox DelayLab -> Ditto Looper -> TC HOF2 and Reaper. Starting with some recorded sessions I used multiple (and heavily processed) layers to create something I felt "kosmisch" (cosmic) enough. Noise provided by https://soundcloud.com/peter-hostermann 

There is an remastered version on the album "The Beyond" https://krakenkraft.bandcamp.com/album/the-beyond

Thanks, Nicolas, to this wonderful reduced piece of software!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Nicolas+Steven+Miller 
https://github.com/zrnsm

More on this 411th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Wrapped Up / The Assignment: Record a piece of music as a gift for someone special to you — at: https://disquiet.com/0411/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:
http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0411-wrapped-up/

Kosmische Synthesizer [disquiet0411]

The Council Of Hesitant Persuasion

Rejectic

The Assignment: Make music inspired by a line from A Wizard of Earthsea: “For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.”

Also on album "Hearken Beach".
https://krakenkraft.bandcamp.com/album/hearken-beach

Originally I just wanted to make five minutes of interchanching deep pad and noisy something, with a lot of non-silent space between them. I added some ambient field recordings in these spaces, because the name of the track was intended to be 'The Impossibility of Being Silent'.

But then my mi clouds produced some sounds of it's own and I liked it. At the end I had to reintroduce silence to all parts. All in all I hope this to be considered as a tentative approach to silence, with an increase towards the end.

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More on this 451st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Ursula’s Silences (The Assignment: Make music inspired by a line from A Wizard of Earthsea), at:
https://disquiet.com/0451/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0451-ursulas-silences/

Album: Hearken Beach

A Tentative Approach To Silence [disquiet0451]

Disquiet Junto Project 0455: Inner Invertebrate. The Assignment: What does a moment (or a day) in the life of a jellyfish sound like to a jellyfish?

I was doing another track, Andromeda Blossoming https://soundcloud.com/winterer/andromeda-blossoming-studio-version, which was originally not meant to be some kind of underwater track and which is made with the App Samplr on iPad with some of my own tracks plus some cc0 field recordings from freesounds. In this track, I more or less imaginated another evolution of 'the andromeda strain', one of my favourite sci fi movies, with its strange "unfolding" effect on the lab screens in the movie.

However, a lot of it's sound seemed to fit to this disquiet, so I removed anything un-jellyfishy and un-underwatery and did some new balancing of the components. This Cassiopea andromeda lives on the bottom of the sea and she looks up to the billowing world above her…

Image of a 'Cassiopea Andromeda' based on PD / CC0 photo by 'Vassil'
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cassiopea_andromeda_K%C3%B6ln_zoo_31122014_1.jpg
Thanks!

More on this 455th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Inner Invertebrate (The Assignment: What does a moment (or a day) in the life of a jellyfish sound like to a jellyfish?), at:
https://disquiet.com/0455/

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Andromeda Blossoming (underwater remix) [disquiet0455]

Disquiet Junto Project 0461 - Goldilocks Zone: Navigate a sonic space between the hospitable and the inhospitable.

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Gliese 1061 is supposed to have 3 planets a, b and c, orbiting around he star itself, partly in the circumstellar habitable zone. The track uses mainly three sounds, which try to meander beetween habitable and inhabitable, more in terms of rhythm then of noise and dissonance. It maybe could have been more inhabitable, but for me it really feels perfectly inconvenient. ;-)

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More on this 461st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Goldilocks Zone (The Assignment: Navigate a sonic space between the hospitable and the inhospitable), at:
https://disquiet.com/0461/

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Gliese 1061 [disquiet0461]

Disquiet Junto Project 0469: [Missing in Caption]. The Assignment: Make music that pushes the constraints of descriptive television captions.

In one scene of this old war movie, the man is saying goodbye to go to another well-founded, short and successful war, and his wife is deeply worried.

The bells call to battle, the wife struggles to find parting words, and even the worn-out VHS tape is deeply moved.

Whispering provided by these two CC0 samples:
https://freesound.org/people/geoneo0/sounds/193818/
https://freesound.org/people/LadyImperatrix/sounds/503270/ <- the heartbreaking words!

Image based on David Monies: The Farewell
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monies-Farewell.jpg

More on this 469th weekly Disquiet Junto project:
https://disquiet.com/0469/
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[overly heartbreaking farewell music] ____ [disquiet0469]

Disquiet Junto Project 0473: Placebo Effect. The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio that others will complete.

EDIT: TRIO-Version here: https://soundcloud.com/melondruie/unsafe-approach-disquiet-0474

When showering in the morning I mostly listen to Soma FM Deep Space One. Yesterday I heard something interesting and checked the playlist: some guy named Louigi Verona. I found his website and checked his "none-random number generator" https://louigiverona.com/nrng/ which is some kind of insider joke for coders: While other "random number" generators try to give you an unreliable random number (which mostly, maybe never is really random (not only depending on how our universe really works)), his nrng reliably outputs the same, non-random number, in my case: 37. I'm telling you this, because its not important and just a chain of random events which lead to this track.

Anyway: So I took track 37 from the list, "safe", an ambient improv of some kind, in Cmajor, made by https://soundcloud.com/rheinmusic. I wanted to add some sequencing patterns but nothing I made intentionally did work out for me. So I ended up with a sequence from the CA2600 from Cherry Audio (25$ at some Xmas sales, btw my recommendation, a must-have no-brainer (for 2600-non-purists)) and improvised on it. Cm may be a "safe" scale, but the sequence sometimes misses the mark, especially at the beginning … hence the name of the track.

Sorry for the long story. I did not seek perfection and think there is room for example for a drum improvisation with cymbals (or a classic theme thingy).

Panned version here: https://soundcloud.com/winterer/semi-safe-approach-disquiet0473-panned
 
More on this 473rd weekly Disquiet Junto project:
https://disquiet.com/0473/

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Semi-safe approach [disquiet0473] JamTime2 (Rhein->Krakenkraft->?)

Disquiet Junto Project 0475: Low End (4 of 3). The Assignment: Remix a trio by doing forensics on its component parts.

When I heard some results from disquiet0472, I had instantly some favourites, but choose to go on with a RNG track. This time I ignored some rules by going back to the tracks from disquiet0472, where I had considered to build on https://soundcloud.com/noimspartacus/orphaned-loop-disquiet0472?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0472 (very minimalistic) and https://soundcloud.com/k-blamo/recording93disquiet0472 (just awesome), and by accident I this time stumbled upon https://soundcloud.com/anotherbenjamin/disquiet0472-paper-jam?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0472 (great theme).

All sound sources come from these three tracks.  I started with cutting out loops, went on to looping in Ableton, exported to stems and mixed in reaper. I was not pleased with the harmonica loop from Ableton (all loops were triggered by probabilities) and remixed the cutouts in GleetchlabX and added the results. Then I added the usual reverbs and fx.

More on this 475th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Low End (4 of 3) / The Assignment: Remix a trio by doing forensics on its component parts — at:
https://disquiet.com/0475/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0475-low-end/

A Question Of Timing [disquiet0475] Remix

Ambient electronica, Berlin School, Chillout & Kosmische Space Musik from Munich, Germany. ► Soundcloud is my musical diary - expect lightfooted drafts, soundchecks, playthings & misfits here. ► Go Bandcamp for finished pieces & more serious musical works.

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