Disquiet Junto Project 0536: Metaphor Play
The Assignment: Take a favorite figure of speech as a creative prompt.

The short story: Good Things Take Time, and so did this.

The long story: This was planned to be "My Memory Seems To Be Clouded" and it mainly consist of Bastl SoftPop2 recordings (sometimes via MI Clouds) plus some Drum VST, but I somehow did something wrong with the recording. In Reaper it was 4 Minutes and normal, after exporting it was 4 Minutes and way too fast. Just scaling down the tempo to the half didn't work, as the stretching algorithms destroyed the sound in a way I didn't like. I was sure that the problem was just some setting anywhere, but I was no able to locate it. I started things new, reinstalled things, re-arranged the crazy Mac aggregate device and so on, and after some time even old tracks had a wrong tempo and I checked my coffee for psychedelic mushrooms. At the end it was something with "96khz versus 48khz" after I had used another recorder for line recording this week. Learnings: Reaper has a general setting for the sample rate of recordings and a project based setting for only this project. Wave editors like ocenaudio can change the sampling rate without changing the lenght, editors like Audacity can change the sampling rate so that by reducing it to the half the track is double the lenght – and no stretching is needed, all samples are saved. By some unknown quantum karma this turned out to be the conversion I needed, although it is now 8 minutes. Fun fact: So at some stage Reaper definitely showed a wrong lenght, and I remember that I already thought "this somehow sounds longer than 4 minutes … is it ambient or just boring?". Anyway, it took some time to get this result as wanted, because Good Things Take Time (which may more be more of a proverb that a metaphor, but I did'n want to emphasize the Valley Of Dispair subtext …).

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More on this 536th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Metaphor Play (The Assignment: Take a favorite figure of speech as a creative prompt) — at: https://disquiet.com/0536/

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Good Things Take Time [disquiet0536]

For this week's Disquiet Junto prompt, we were invited to collaborate with a train sample that was provided to us.

I've often joked that it's only a matter of time before any given artist or band makes a song about a train. I never thought that day would come for me. A moral dilemma.

To get the full sensation of being tied up on the tracks, I recommend listening to "The Trolley Problem" with headphones.

Recorded and produced at NOSIGNAL Multimedia Labs, The Shambles, Chicago.

More about Disquiet Junto 0635: https://disquiet.com/0635

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The Trolley Problem (disquiet0635)

Used Pigments and its FX to generate some drippy splong sounds. Feel free to warp, cut, resample or whatever you feel like.

Key is C Major even though its not that tonal and tempo is 100 BPM.

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/

Splong

Splong 1 of 3 (disquiet0636)

Added a second line of (acoustic) guitar to Marc Eisenschink’s track “Guitar/Left1Mono”, helped by Monome Norns RPLS.

Left track by @randomshuffle

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/

Disquiet0637 - Guitar Talk (with Marc Eisenschink)

I heard a lot of duets last week, a lot of good ones. In the end I went with the German Romantic and played SOMA Terra.
thanks @analo & @torsten goerke for your inspiring duet:https://soundcloud.com/analoc/right-beside-you-disquiet0637?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0637&si=6ecc2889c9a2400dbeccda5796ff8c38&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Morning on top(disquiet0638) feat. analoc & Torsten Goerke

I downloaded this track: https://soundcloud.com/winterer/some-discriminative-finetuning-disquiet0637-23-second, with thanks to the original artists. I added a suitably adjusted and enhanced recording I made of men and machines at work.

Tuned Up - with Krakenkraft & Etherkraken and Soundoferror (disquiet0638)

For this one I downloaded: https://soundcloud.com/randomshuffle/disquiet0637gemastered (with thanks to the original artists). I added a textured drone sequence.

Spring Trio - with Marc Eisenschink and 337is (disquiet0638)

A collaboration for Disquiet Junto. I based my track on week 2's track by @undermulden and @encym. I played some chords and synth arps from my Deluge in some of the spaces, while trying to maintain the sparse ambient feel of the originals.

More on the 638th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Center (3 of 3) — The Assignment: Complete a trio begun by two other musicians — at https://disquiet.com/0638/

Orderly Disorder By Encym & Undermulden & Alanblip - Disquiet0638

Week 3 of a 3 part assignment, adding to disquiet0637 and 0636. 

Incorporating Roughshark by scénický rys (https://soundcloud.com/ackercz/roughshark-with-analoc-disquiet0637) and Left shark by analoc (https://on.soundcloud.com/imRuTwDmAo4eAUiw9)

More on the 638th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Center (3 of 3) — The Assignment: Complete a trio begun by two other musicians — at https://disquiet.com/0638/

shark tank [disquiet0638] with scénický rys & analoc

https://soundcloud.com/leonclowes/right-2of3-disquiet0637-with-nate-trier
More on the 638th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Center (3 of 3) — The Assignment: Complete a trio begun by two other musicians — at https://disquiet.com/0638/

Plug 123 (Trio with Leon Clowes and Nate Trier).disquiet0638

sound art for disquiet0638

This is the third phase of a three-phase sequence over the course of as many weeks during which, consecutively and asynchronously, musicians build trios together.

Image credits:
sky: https://soundcloud.com/user-807707609/left-and-right-mirage-disquiet0637

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metal mirage (disquiet0638) w/ blaaroed & he_nu_ri

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.

Good Things Take Time [disquiet0536]

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