the ultraslowed 303s are so bubbly and nice, might have to borrow this idea :))

The slowed down 303s remind me of whale song or the sounds of seals underwater

I really like the sounds. And I agree with Jet Jaguar, it sounds like underwater-techno

Es kostet Überwindung aber heute muss ich einfach in deinem Teich ein kühlendes Bad nehmen!

Disquiet Junto Project 0541: 10BPM Techno
The Assignment: Make some snail-paced beats.

There are two ways to do this project.

Option 1: Record some 10BPM techno.

Option 2: Record what you imagine it would sound like to attend a club event of 10BPM techno, including crowd noise.

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Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, May 16, 2022, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. 

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Details: disquiet.com/0541

Disquiet Junto Project 0541: 10BPM Techno

Track from the album 'Zijn'.

I have recorded the acoustic guitar in my home-studio with the doors open, you can hear some background noises like birds, cars in the distance. I have added a drone to the recording and a strange delay which sampled fragments from the recorded guitar and randomly give it back.

About the album:
I have continued to work with A=432Hz tuning, exploring the possibilities of sustained sounds. I have been working towards an even more static atmosphere than on my previous albums.

I'm very interested in the role of time in this kind of music. The sounds have a different effect and meaning depending on how long they last. To me, the music becomes a vehicle to accomplish a meditative state.

released November 15, 2021

Instruments used on this album: Acoustic guitar, Acoustic guitar with ebow, Sustainer guitar, Soma Lyra 8 synth.
Recording, Production, Photography and Design: Simon van Weelden
© Geluidenfabriek, 2021

Oorsprong

Production & Mastering : Farabi Toshiyuki Suzuki
Lyrics & Vocals : Mariam Zohra D : Myrh

From the EP "Chor Day"
Released by Sindhu Records 
https://sindhurecords.bandcamp.com/album/chor-day-ep?fbclid=IwAR2qQbWdap2FXCq7X1SFhvGNZuMRH9oXBhXF9AeEW2TJiIZrrpSDjjzSHsI

Chor (leave) Day Saathi (it my companion)
Kes nay kaha, kesay kaha, Chori! keyoo?
Who said, how could they say? Thief! why?
Leave it my companion

Sindhu Records

Chor Day Saathi | Farabi Toshiyuki Suzuki w. Myrh

10BPM Techno - Anders lays down a heavy, 10 BPM drum track, and BatU layers a warm Arp Pad synth arpeggio track, accompanied by delicious Galactic Layers on  a journey to their Black Hole Vacation

Disquiet0541 - Black Hole Vacation

#231

For the Disquiet Junto this week, I chose the option to "Record what you imagine it would sound like to attend a club event of 10BPM techno, including crowd noise."

I wrote a sequence at a normal-ish techno tempo, then slowed down the master tempo in my DAW to 10bpm. Techno typically evolves slowly, in blocks of 16 or so bars, and while I didn't quite stick to that, I thought it wouldn't feel really like it was 10bpm if I messed with the structure. So I decided to focus my efforts on making it sound at least a bit like being in a club.

I used convolution to feed the whole mix through a night club's PA,  using these free impulse responses. http://www.balancemastering.com/blog/free-funktion-one-impulse-responses-ir-irs-convolution/

I mixed the music with a couple of crowd / bar noise recordings from freesound.
https://freesound.org/people/Pfannkuchn/sounds/457606/
https://freesound.org/people/Tomlija/sounds/100904/

I faded the thing in and out, to give a bit more of a feeling of just a captured recording of a club night. I don't think the result is convincing, but it was fun to do.

More on this 541st weekly Disquiet Junto project — 10BPM Techno (The Assignment: Make some snail-paced beats) — at: https://disquiet.com/0541/

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Jet Jaguar - Slow Night [disquiet0541]

A common trope among social media posts are videos with enticing clickbait titles, such as: “Homeless Person Sits Down At Piano, Then THIS Happened.” The reveal is that the figure at the public piano is actually a professional musician. These scenes typically take place at a shopping mall, where an impromptu audience is delighted by the player’s unexpected dexterity.

Franco Bifo Berardi reminds us that “The goal of the [analyst] is to give him/her the possibility to see other landscapes, and to change the focus, to open some new ways of imagination.” One might imagine the reaction at Carnegie Hall if a virtuoso flubbed a performance so badly that it bordered on an Andy Kaufman skit.

This is why Suss Müsik cannot fathom a dance club scenario in which techno music plays at 10BPM. It’s not impossible, however, for such an event to occur in a setting such as a shopping mall. And rather than a DJ playing electronic techno music, it might be a very strange string quartet attempting to fit their odd time signatures within that 10BPM timestamp. 

This is the approach Suss Müsik took with this week’s project. A series of four cyclical phrases were played on fake violin, fake cello, fake harp and fake dulcimer. A single strike of a mallet keeps time in 10BPM; meanwhile, the instruments are bowed and plucked in 1/64 and 1/128 to give a sense of movement. The constant repetition is perhaps a nod to techno’s reliance on looped beats. 

All of this happens in front of a bewildered audience of mall shoppers (courtesy of public domain audio), who would just as soon be left alone in the food court without this distraction. Then again, as Violet Trefusis once wrote, perhaps it’s true that “love thrives on indifference” and some appreciation would be detected. Maybe we’ll try it one day.

The piece is titled Trefusis. The image may or may not be a shopping center somewhere in the US. 

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Trefusis [Disquiet0541]

Made on Christmas Day, 2020 as a demo for Portage Garage Sounds. Slowed to 10bpm on May 13, 2022 for Disquiet Junto.

PGS Trial 122520 "Ten BPM Techno" (disquiet0541)

Disquiet Junto Project 0541: 10BPM Techno
The Assignment: Make some snail-paced beats.

When I saw the mail for Disquiet Junto Project 0541, I also saw a mail from Samplescience, announcing free 303 Loops. As I am no techno musician, I thought of being lazy and just used some of these 303 loops to play around. Strechted from 120 to 10 bpm within reaper they became very melodious and ambientic. I added some percussion and a kickdrum to fullfill what I think are minimum genre conventions (there was a "riser" sound which I left out). This may not be techno at all, but I like the bleeping 303s and the resulting track very much. A nice project!

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Credits

303 Samples
https://www.samplescience.info/2022/05/abstract-303.html

Track image based on
https://unsplash.com/photos/m41k1lTzjVM

Party crowd ambience mostly
https://freesound.org/people/deleted_user_2104797/sounds/346683/

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disquiet sampler album

10bpm Techno [disquiet0541]

Song For Someone

fall 1997

I always look forward to the beginning of the year when this project comes around.  This year I used this piece as a study for a much larger work - specifically using it as a way to experiment with a complex scripting language I have built on top of the RTcmix (www.rtcmix.org) scripting language, MinC.
My scripts allow me to create algorithmic musical patterns in a large number of dimensions:  volume, pitch, sample selection, tempo, placement in a simulated room-space etc.  Each dimension can be moved about in via an algorithmic plug-in, for example, random choice, sequential access, fixed value, etc.
The Psychedelic Ice Machine uses three sets of ice sound samples I have recorded over the years.  The score loops, creating an ever-changing set of patterns.  The relationship between these is sometimes clear and sometimes obscured.

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More on this 575th weekly Disquiet Junto project — On Ice (The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it) — at: https://disquiet.com/0575/

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The Psychedelic Ice Machine

The Psychedelic Ice Machine [disquiet0575]

I was born in the year of the fire horse so I started with a gallop rhythm, with which I created a drumkit and sidechained all the other tracks, whilst removing the drumkit from the recording. The main voices are the Neutron and CZ-1000, with a very simple electric bass riff. Then the usual distortions, gatings and reverbs were applied.
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More on this 578th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Rabbit Spirit Ally (The Assignment: Make music for Lunar New Year), at: https://disquiet.com/0578/ 

Associated public-domain cover image by Johann Daniel Meyer (1748).

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horse (disquiet0578)

A newer version of this appears on https://music.blisterpop.com/album/love-it-when-it-slips

(NaviarHaiku498)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 21 Jul 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2023 Jim Lemanowicz - please feel free to remix/evolve https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

Process notes

- 4 tracks of my voice, originally recorded on 29 Oct 2005, processed with Ableton Live and plugins by encoder audio. Melda, iZotope Ozone 9 and Ableton native devices.
- I'm very slowly working on an album using my voice as source material. This was something initiated with Disquiet 0548 called "Prelude In Preparation" & continued on the more recent Disquiet 0603 in "Contagium." I've also released a track named "Forgot" for a Magpie Pirates compilation called Memory, Reflections under the Yeast With Teeth name too.  

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This original version of "Across The Idlewild Marshes" was submitted as part of ​naviarhaiku498 – Long days and warm nights. It is based on this haiku by TreniseFerreira - https://twitter.com/TreniseFerreira. 

Long days and warm nights
Laughter carried through the breeze
Summer sings to us

I also used as inspiration some of the artwork here - https://whitney.org/exhibitions/spilling-over. 

The title was inspired by a section in the book "Hidden Waters Of New York City" by Sergey Kadinsky.

More about Naviar Haiku and Naviar Records - 
https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

https://www.naviarrecords.com/

More about this challenge -
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/07/19/naviarhaiku498-long-days-and-warm-nights/

Tagging @naviar-records

This track was originally released under the artist name "Yeast With Teeth."

Across The Idlewild Marshes (NaviarHaiku498)

Clouds and fog march in over the north shore of Lake Superior.

In The Way disquiet0604

Void

Avoid memories

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

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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