I like this. You get a real sense of the space

Disquiet Junto Project 0491: Footsteps Sequencer. The Assignment: Compose a piece of music structured upon a walk through your home.

I considered recordings of the rooms, but my flat is too noisy. I thought about rooms in different chords or scales. Somehow I ended with abstrakt lyrics spoken by ttsmp3.com and some sound snippets. 

I had my doubts halfway through, but now I think it's nice and funny (and yes, not as clever as it may seem that it thinks it is).

I used six samples, all public domain:
https://freesound.org/people/lolamadeus/sounds/159732/
https://freesound.org/people/mialena24/sounds/364371/
https://freesound.org/people/Bed0uin/sounds/422106/
https://freesound.org/people/elonen/sounds/15475/
https://freesound.org/people/spanrucker/sounds/272236/
https://freesound.org/people/arseniiv/sounds/380660/
Thanks to the recorders!

Cover image based on a public domain floor plan:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:471_Park_Avenue._Typical_plan_of_mezzanine_or_chamber_floor;_Typical_plan_of_main_or_living_room_floor_(NYPL_b12647274-464812).tiff

More on this 491st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Footsteps Sequencer (The Assignment: Compose a piece of music structured upon a walk through your home) — at: https://disquiet.com/0491/

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

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0491-footsteps-sequencer/

7 Rooms [disquiet0491]

trailer miusic using my new "toy", @cinesamples musio libraries.

january 25th 2024
sample libraries by dd
photo by rob simmons


https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0630-creative-sufficiency/

Orchestralscapes (Trailer) - disquiet0630

This week, the prompt for Disquiet Junto 0634, "Bust a Move", asked us to build on a foundation of a piece of classical music heard through a wall or floor.

I chose Schubert's "Trio In E-Flat, Opus 100",  because I am a child of the 80s and The Hunger had a huge influence on me growing up as a babygoth.

I used a physical effect send to route the audio through a chain of guitar pedals, then loop back in to a new audio track in the DAW. I made three new tracks this way, with the pedals tweaked live, each one an interpretation of the source audio. The pedals I used were a Meris Enzo guitar synthesizer, an Eventide H9 Harmonizer, and the famous Walrus Audio ARP-87. 

NOTE: Headphones are recommended as a first line of defense against abduction. As a rule, Schubert never wore headphones. And we all know what happened to him.

Recorded at NOSIGNAL Multimedia Labs in The Shambles, Chicago USA

More about this week's Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0634/

Disquiet Junto

The Abduction of Schubert (disquiet0634)

Step 1: Listen to this short recording, under a minute, of a passing train, recorded by Todd (@Toaster) Elliott:
https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/train-source-1/ 25

And, if you’d like, to this longer one, which is a little over 10 minutes:
https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/train-source-1020 13

Both are available to download.

Step 2: Record a piece of music using the field recording as the rhythm track.

Blue coal train - disquiet0635

Disquiet Junto Project 0636: Left (1 of 3)
The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio.

Please note: While this project is the start of a three-part sequence that will unfold over the course of three weeks, you can participate in any or all three of those parts.



Step 1: This week’s Junto project is the first in a sequence intended to encourage and reward collaboration. You will be recording something with the understanding that it will remain unfinished for the time being. Your part will be done, but more will happen. Read on.

Step 2: The plan is for you to record a short and original piece of music using any instrumentation of your choice. Conceive the piece as something that leaves room for something else — other instruments, other people — to join in. (Keep in mind that your piece would appear panned to the left in the finished recording, after three weeks.)

Step 3: Record a short piece of music, roughly two to three minutes in length, as described in Step 2.

Step 4: This is important: be sure to make your track downloadable because it may be used by someone else in the next Disquiet Junto project, and then after that.

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Track notes:

One of the few things I haven't been doing much of this year is playing guitar, which is my 'primary' instrument. However, since late last year the one guitar (within reach) has been a Danelectro electric 12-string, stripped back of its thick strings to only six strings and put through through a variety of modal open tunings. A few years ago I listened to Lee Renaldo talk about this kind of retrofitting, which was called an Angel Hair guitar and was pioneered in the 1960s by country guitarists to create a light, jangly accompaniment, that in some ways is reminiscent of a pedal steel guitar's upper timbre.

I don't know how much open tunings figured at this time, but I could certainly appreciate Lee's attraction to all things unconventional and open-tuned. My current set up for this guitar is a D-A-C-E-A-E tuning, which gives it a kind of pentatonic, suspended tonality. Given the unconventional order of string gauges from bottom to top, the unison notes have an especially interesting appeal. From a fingerpicking approach, it all opens up the guitar in unexpected ways, since a regular picking technique can be inverted by the string gauge order and also feels quite different too.

So with this in mind, I recorded a repeated fingerpicking figure which exploits the unique qualities of this setup, such as the unisons and harmonic attributes of the tuning. The main guitar (soft left) is run through an EHX Holy Grail Reverb with a smidge of spring reverb, whilst an accompaniment (same guitar and tuning) is on the soft right, also run through the Holy Grail, but with the weird 'Flerb' reverb, which is a kind of modulated effect.

It's at 72bpm and runs just a shade over 2 minutes, starting a fade at the 1:46 mark.

[Disquiet_Junto_0636] Epochs (Left 1 of 3) 72 BPM

Watch out for the hairpin turns on this dusty track out back of Lone Pine.

More on the 636th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Left (1 of 3) — The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0636/

disquiet0636 - Mallard Drone

Original posted for #disquiet0637 by SinnySounds2 https://soundcloud.com/sinnysounds2 https://soundcloud.com/sinnysounds2/melancholic-2phoria-collab-with-rabmusiclab-disquiet0637 

This in turn used an original posted for #disquiet0636 by RabMusicLab https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab 
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/melancholic-euphoria 

Dubbed & mixed 23 Mar 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

For my (center) part here, I used a Danelectro 12-string guitar, Ableton Live 12, Ableton effects - Gated Delay & Echo, Arturia effects - Efx Fragments & Dist Tube-Culture.

Music distributed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 DEED

Artwork: Edit and additions to disquiet’s original using Adobe Photoshop 2024 and Q’MIC-Qt.

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This original version of "Melted Phosphoria" was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0638: Center (3 of 3). The Assignment: Complete a trio begun by two other musicians.

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

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

More on the 638th weekly Disquiet Junto project at https://disquiet.com/2024/03/21/disquiet-junto-project-0638-right-3-of-3/

"Melted Phosphoria" (disquiet0638) by RabMusicLab, SinnySounds2 & Jimmy Lem

I used two duets from the Disquiet Junto 637 project (see below): „Is still on the line“ by Andreas Kitzmann and 33per (https://soundcloud.com/33per/is-still-on-the-line-duet-with-andreas-kitzmann-disquiet0638) and „Take5“ by Actor Network and tunelight (https://soundcloud.com/tunelight/disquiet0637-2of3-take5-w-actor-network). So I ended up with four collaborators - thank you, Gentlemen! 

First step was Full Blotter, Giorgio Sanchristoforo’s new granulator, to get some pads from the material. Luckily the software treated the tracks as two mono lanes, so I ended up with four distinct pads. 

To get a pulse, I sped up the lovely clicky bassline from Take 5. EQ’ing and getting the levels right did take ages. 

Well, what else? Happy Easter, of course!

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Disquiet Junto Project 0639: Path Ways (4 of 3)
The Assignment: Rework musical trios using the constituent parts — one of two ways.

Step 1: In the previous project, we completed musical trios. Project 0638 was the third of three consecutive projects. In the first one, 0636, musicians recorded solos. In the second, 0637, musicians took those 0636 tracks, nudged them to the left side of the stereo spectrum, and then added their own music to the right, forming duets with a hole in the middle. In project 0638, other musicians introduced a third track down the center of the 0637 recordings, completing the trios. You can revisit the music via the blog posts disquiet.com/0636, disquiet.com/0637, and disquiet.com/0638, and you can follow the forking paths through the related Google Drive spreadsheet.

Step 2: The goal of this project is to rework the material that accumulated over the course of the previous three projects. There are two main ways to go about this. One is to simply choose one or more tracks and remix, combine, mash-up, or otherwise transform them. The other is to move on to Step 3.

Step 3: Choose one 0636 track, a solo, that yielded more than one 0638 trio. (These are highlighted in light blue, or maybe it’s teal, in the leftmost column of the spreadsheet.) Trace the various routes that 0636 track took. Perhaps it also led to some 0637 tracks that never went any further. Perhaps there are various 0638 versions based on varied 0637 versions. In any case, record a piece of music that lets the listener experience the branching paths that the original 0636 track took over the course of the three phases of the trios project sequence. Clearly you will be using a linear form to represent variations, so how to achieve that will require some compositional ingenuity. But you’re up to the task.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include either “disquiet0639remix” (if you follow the loose rules of Step 2) or “disquiet0639paths” (if you follow the more specific rules of Step 3) in the name of your track.

Upload: Post your track to a public account (SoundCloud preferred but by no means required). It’s best to focus on one track (but if you post more than one, clarify which is the “main” rendition).

Share: Post your track and a description explanation at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0639-path-ways-4-of-3/

Newsletter: https://juntoletter.disquiet.com/

More on the 639th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Path Ways (4 of 3) — The Assignment: Rework musical trios using the constituent parts — one of two ways — at https://disquiet.com/0639/

Tour Two One

Four Two One [disquiet639]

Remix of Morning on top (disquiet0638) by Marc Eisenschink feat. analoc & Torsten Goerke.

Response to the Wickedly collaborative challenge posed by Disquiet for even more audio pathways.

On The Same Team - disquiet0639remix

Rekiss

An electronic composition, original sounds created in Pure Data - both a response to the haiku & an elegy for John Hinks.

Wide-Arching - for John Hinks (naviarhaiku536)

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.

7 Rooms [disquiet0491]

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