I was listening through the tracks and hit "The Lonely Pelican Has a Friend" and it absolutely wowed me with its gorgeousness combined with just a bit of glitchyness. The delay on the guitar made me think about setting up a Frippertronics-like loop and playing that over top.

I loaded the original track into AUM's file player on the iPad, fired up the iOdyssey app, and found a suitable fluty/chirpy patch; I've been itching to try it out more, and this seemed like just the right thing for it.

I added the K7D audio effects unit to give me a panning looper for the Odyssey, and recorded two takes of the original plus the Odyssey. Neither of which was quite what I wanted -- just a little thin...so I decided, why not try both? 

I loaded both takes and the original track into AUM, and played it all back in sync to record the final track. This slightly emphasized the grittiness in spots, but I decided that I liked the effect...partly because it is interesting, and partly because getting two more isolated takes was more time than I had to spend.

This was definitely couch (actually bed) synthesis; I did the whole performance, recording,  and mixing on the iPad. I only needed to move the final track to the Mac to MP3 encode and add the track metadata before uploading.

Downloaded the final track, as noted, and tagged the file with Fission, generating a quick bit of art with ML.

Lonely Pelican No More [disquiet0593]

Disquiet Junto Project 0594: Threemix
The Assignment: Remix an asynchronously produced trio.

I started with https://soundcloud.com/andreas-kitzmann-27370936/disquiet0593?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0593 by https://soundcloud.com/andreas-kitzmann-27370936 / https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley / https://soundcloud.com/dandante  because he wrote "I find it hard to break out of drone mold". I used his statement as guiding idea and tried to break out of the drone. 

For that I used https://soundcloud.com/thgirwnhoj/power-trio-drums-disquiet0591 by https://soundcloud.com/thgirwnhoj. I slowed down the drums because I like that. As his drum had a documented scheme, I rebuild the drone to fit to the drums. I separated the drums in hi and lo to get a softer kick and to play around with the Snare/Hihats (which didn't work out so well, and sorry, John, for being so cruel to your drums!) I added some noise from https://soundcloud.com/sinnysounds/plaza-howl-disquiet0591 by https://soundcloud.com/sinnysounds because I had a temporal regression into the drone mindset. Fortunately, while clicking and listening to all tracks from "The Loneiest Number"; I found https://soundcloud.com/isilence/140-bpm-riffs-disquiet0591 by https://soundcloud.com/isilence and gave them a fitting rhythm with a gate filter (sorry for that, PHCP!). Finally I needed a lead singer and because I'm currently experimenting with the hallucination abilities of Adobe Podcast Noise Reducer 'AI' I fed some of the material and got back wonderful babbling vocals.

Chopped up electric guitars, distorted drums, cryptic lyrics, hidden noise messages and complex pads - what more could you expect? (I didn't have enough time now to get this tonally on safe footing - but I think it's bearable.)

Track image: DALL·E "a drone and drums and a robotic singer on a stage, concept art, hyperrealistic"

More on this 594th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Threemix (The Assignment: Remix an asynchronously produced trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0594/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0594-threemix/

Drone Breakout [disquiet0594]

[disquiet0595] Minority

A Disquiet Junto assignment: subtly alter the frequency filter and resonance of a field recording. In this case, a recording of the beach at Saltcoats.

More on this 595th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Filter Progression (The Assignment: Make music by processing a static sound), at: https://disquiet.com/0595/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0595-filter-progression/

saltcoats 27523 [disquiet0595]

Disquiet Project 0595:

Step 1: Choose a static sound, such as a field recording of a specific place, or a held tone, or a recording of noise.

Step 2: Experiment with animating the static sound selected from Step 1 by slowly, subtly, manually modulating it, using only filter frequency and resonance.

Step 3: Record a track resulting from the techniques you developed in Step 2.

This project is the second of three that are being done in collaboration with the 2023 Musikfestival Bern, which will be held in Switzerland from September 6 through 10. The topic this year is « √ » — as the organization explains: “the radical, or square root symbol and the power of its symbolism are central to the festival and these will be translated into music in multifarious ways.” All three projects will engage with the work of Éliane Radigue, who is the Composer-in-Residence for the 2023 festival.

More on this 595th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Filter Progression at: https://gate.sc/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdisquiet.com%2F0595%2F&token=d5d684-1-1685358557197

Filter Progression [Disquiet0595]

Disquiet Junto Project 0598: Mixmaster Mic
The Assignment: Record the same sound with multiple mics; mix the results.
More info on Disquiet Junto: disquiet.com/0598

Inspired by Eliane Radigue and this interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dByqwi7Jvbo&t=1310s) where she sometimes mentions Larsen effect I wondered what effect could glass have on capturing sound and feedback.
I also took this opportunity to shake a bit of rust off my double bass playing.

I placed a glass with a contact mic attached on it on one of my loudspeakers and panned it 20 Right. 
I then put a glass covering the capsule of my SM-58 Beta and panned it 16 Left.
I then boosted the loudspeaker volume and improvised over an E drone. In the center a clean recording off my Underwood pickup.
A little bit of editing, EQ and ValhallaPlate reverb in Ableton.
Contact mic can be heard solo from 1:45 to 1:56.
From 2:45 to the end, while the Underwood pickup fades, you can hear the sound of SM-58 Beta.

Double Glass (disquiet0598)

Psychedelic type beat for some chill vibes! 

Mushrooms In The Forest

Composed by Roberto García.

There is a place where only emptiness resides.

Kenoma is the void that stretches within time and names. Here, indeed, there is war between gods, borders between pantheons; every thunder and rain, feathered serpent and northern raven, spear and lotus, hammer and lightning—all the divine powers once sung by human mouths—clash in perpetual discord, like notes of a broken and endless melody. It is neither heaven nor fullness, but the noisy space where every prayer offered to them is lost in the echo, and in its dispersion reveals that they were always separate, fragmented into shadows of themselves. Kenoma is that instant when sacred voices clash in disharmony, and for a moment the entire cosmos forgets that it could ever have been one.

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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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