This track is a tribute to my favourite song as a small child: "Der Mond ist aufgegangen". The melody was composed by Johann Abraham Petter Schulz (1790), and the poem serving as lyrics was created by Matthias Claudius (1779),

Following the Disquiet Junto Project 0535 the bars of the melody were brought into a new order and thus rearranged into a new melody, but with the intention to retain that deeply melancholic and peaceful ambiance I love so much in this song.

The picture is kindly provided by Klaus Stebani on Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/de/photos/mond-vollmond-mondlicht-moon-4545713/)

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Der Mond (Disquiet0535)

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.

How slow can you go - disquiet0541

For Disquiet Junto 0543. The Assignment: Share a tip from your method toolbox. Also shared version of this over on Weekly Beats. 
A lot of this track was made using a technique I love: taking a piece of audio then using the Ableton Push 2 and the Simpler device to retrigger, chop manipulate and play around with the sample to create something new. There are many ways to manipulate samples, but I like this method because it's fast, I can improvise musically without a lot of fussing around, and I can do it fully on the Push hardware, no computer or mouse needed. Simpler is simple, and the 64 pads and 8 knobs on the Push 2 make playing with samples fun, fast and easy. Happy accidents occur, and things usually sound to my liking with minimal fussing about, so I can just flow and have fun.
Another attribute I like to add to songs are my own voice sounds, but heavily altered since I'm not much of a  traditional singer. Bonus points when the voice can turn into perscussion or another instrument. I often take these voice recordings and chop and play with them in Simpler as described above. The intro and middle of this song has some of my early experiments with a talkbox pedal. It's harder than it looks. And kind of a wet mess. But I'll keep playing with it. Used the Circuit Monostation as the instrument into the talkbox. So not sure if talkbox will turn into a favorite method for voice manipulation, but I know I'll keep messing around with vocals sounds.

More on this 543rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Technique Check (The Assignment: Share a tip from your method toolbox) — at: https://disquiet.com/0543/

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feel what you - need - what you feel [disquiet0543]

This track aims at creating a pleasant atmosphere by enlarging simple piano-melodies through (transformed) repetitions, echoes and other effects.

This track was recorded live; The generative MIDI sequencer Transition (free VST-plugin available at www.codefn42.com/transition/index.html) creates different piano-motives with certain randomness.
A set of effect-channels is faded in and out manually with a Korg nanoKONTROL2 while the sequencer is playing.

More on this 544th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Feedback Loop (The Assignment: Share music-in-progress for input from others) – at: https://disquiet.com/0544/

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Repeat Wait Repeat (Disquiet0544)

Last week I attempted to blend drums and ambient guitar in a one minute track.
Several people kindly said they wished the track was longer, so this week I have tried to do that.
However, as a thank you to the people who provided feedback last week (both on lines and soundcloud), I integrated their user names into this week's drum programming.
I converted user names to morse code, then midi, and finally quantized everything to 16th beats.
The following users names were used to generate midi for the following drum parts:

KICK: Daniel Diaz / bassling / Glitcher
SNARE: krakenkraft / SonicSearch / Fake Genius
SIDESTICK: SinnySounds
SNARE PRESS: gis_sweden
LOW TOM: NoodleTwister
FLOOR TOM: RabMusicLab
HIHAT: tektik_ve_tedavi / 33per / LazenbeeIndustries
HIHAT PEDAL: kei

Various chance, velocity, and clip launch (follow action) settings were also used.
The drums are increasingly pushed into a return track containing Ableton's Convolution Reverb >> Lancaster Audio's ODR-1 distortion plugin.
The guitar layers started life last month as a live improvised piece called "the high interiors of the sea."
WavesFactory's Trackspacer was used to sidechain the drums to the guitar.
I apologise in advance if you commented last week but I didn't include your user name - it's been a long week at work...
Best wishes, htnc

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More on this 545th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Unself-Awareness (The Assignment: Learn from feedback intended for others) — at: https://disquiet.com/0545/

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[disquiet0545] cartesian coder

Made with Maschine+

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Climax Interruptus (disquiet0545)

the feedback sentence, which i found remarkable:
"Don’t think it “needs” anything else"(Daniel Diaz to track from lazenbeeindustries)

the trio: dfam, mother 32, subharmonicum

When the flood comes(disquiet0545)

Same last week's master reworked and remixed, with great feedback from friends and colleagues (see post herehttps://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0545-unself-awareness/56084/11?u=dede)

Original track here:
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/time-lapse

I did not completely delete and rework from the ground, (considered it as a pretty
I introduced some variation in the new 8 bar sections, dropping tracks completely sometimes for more clarity 
I tried to make a less confusing mix, something that bothered me from the original, albeit keeping the generous amount of melodic-rhythmic stuff)
I tweaked some timing between bass and arp, and added 36 extra seconds, tried to give more focus on the bass and kick that I edited and remixed drastically

and most notably I added some Krautrock drums.

Thanks ffsanton, lazenbeeindustries, Hugh_G_Twatt, gis_sweden, krakenkraft, RPLKTR, fakeg3nius, Glitcher, howthenightcame and blisterpop.
Thanks Mark @disquiet for the wonderful thread.

Time Lapse (Vers.  Motorik) disquiet0545

More on this 546th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Code Notes (The Assignment: Make music that includes a secret message) — at: https://disquiet.com/0546/

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Morse Eh? (disquiet0546)

The radio music banks are the key to unlocking the hidden 5 digit code..
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Image by Wapcaplet, used (text, color added) thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

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Encoded (disquiet0546)

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:
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Album: Hearken Beach

A Tentative Approach To Silence [disquiet0451]

Ambient electronica, noise drones, chillout & kosmische space music from Munich, Germany. ► Soundcloud is my musical diary - expect lightfooted drafts, soundchecks, playthings & misfits here. ► Go Bandcamp for finished pieces & more serious musical works.

A Tentative Approach To Silence [disquiet0451]

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