great idea and realization, also those voices add so much to the point of being an essential part of it

Disquiet Junto Project 0552: The Radio in My Life
The Assignment: Record music in response to a John Cage and Morton Feldman conversation.

This was fun. I thought about intrusions. Mostly it's the loud street in front of my window and kids running in the flat above mine and people shouting at Siri, Alexa and OKgoogle in the backyard.

I checked my field recordings and there it was: the f… church bells. A bad ambient track, repeated relentlessly every sunday, never changing, a transcendent single-track playlist … 

I threw the field recoding of the bells into deCoda, and it calculated Aminor and 84bpm. I started a track from scratch with these parameters and improvised some beats and pads. The idea was to have a peaceful ambient track … that could be disturbed by acoustic intrusion of the church bells. 

The track seemed finished when I read the algorithm again and listened to the Cage-Feldman-Talk. I liked the pure oddity of the first minutes, so I added some parts of the beginning, accepting that this will draw focus to the conversation, so I didn't care that you don't understand much. 

Next sunday at seven, they will play my track …

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Track image credit: Ancient church in Lunigiana (Tuscany, Italy) by Daniele Levis Pelusi on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/rJo9jh9iORU

Talk samples credit: John Cage + Morton Feldman's Coffee-Sippin' ASMR Chat in a Room Full of Cigarette Smoke on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chEvxoypyUo

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Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

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https://www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern
https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

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Intrusive Bells [disquiet0552]

Great, a one step task, on vacation
spend a few days at the baltic sea
i played my guitar through Steinberg UR 22mkII
recorded in aum
added some granular effects
there were actually only two tempi
one slower, one faster

inner circle/outer circle(disquiet0553)

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Four Four Walks Into A Bar (disquiet0553)

An electronic sequence, sounds created in Pure Data.

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Rhythmic Breaks (disquiet0553)

This started as a generative modular patch run with a varying clock. The results were kinda wallpapery and the tempo shifts not that obvious, I needed something with a steady pulse to give context and contrast. I dug out an old drumloop from a project from 10 years ago which I abandoned cuz I wasn’t happy with the rigidity of the beat. I had the file playing while adjusting the tempo of the modular track. This led to a warbly tape like effect that reminded me of badly wound cassettes where the b-side would faintly bleed through



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Temporal Distortion (disquiet0553)

In this week's assignment, we were asked to abruptly change the tempo of a song. I hadn't read the instructions carefully enough and so the tempo changes throughout this one.

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tempo [disquiet0553]

There’s no such things as a free lunch, especially on the internet. 

Ads were always a nuisance, first in Radio, then in TV, now on YouTube. The problem is – and I don’t have to mention that in the Lines community - that other people are making the money, not the artist, unless you’re really popular. If I upload my track to YouTube (it’s Creative Commons), Google will inject at least 2-3 ads and cash in the money without my consent. And I’ll never see a cent of that. 

The idea of injecting ads to break the cycle, as the assignment says, came fast. But it took two days until I had „the product“  ready. It contains Playbox, the awesome Mercury from Cherry Audio, SQ-80, Reaktor and a ton of drums. I also recorded some ads from YouTube and skipped them after the obligatory seconds. Mixing took another half day, so I spent at least 12-18 hours with the assignment. 

I’ve uploaded an ads-free and free to download version on Soundcloud, also.
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Music In The Age Of Internet Capitalism (Ads Version) [disquiet0553]

There are two steps to this project.

Step 1: Think about what simplicity means to you.

Step 2: Produce a track taken to the extreme minimum. Use only pure waveforms (sine, sawtooth, triangle, pulse wave) and no effects. Restrict yourself to 5 voices.

Crazy donkeys - disquiet0555

Disquiet Junto Project 0564: Octave Lept
The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music.

I used a track on which I was already working on and added automatic tools to randomly add or substract up to two octaves to all tracks. The probability was chosen so that the octave jumps should go unnoticed.

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Track cover based on image from Dall-E2 prompting "Sudden jumps, not too hefty, edward hopper". This tool is so much fun!

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Krakenkraft-Disquiet

Sudden Jumps, Not Too Hefty [disquiet0564]

Sinny: string, synth, tuba, and percussion programming, kazoos, slide whistle, acme siren, duck call, tom-toms, splash cymbals, slapstick, vibraslap, flexatone, blocks, sleigh bells, monkey noises, bulb horn

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This week’s project was proposed by Junto participant El90.

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We're Going to the Fair (disquiet0571)

Primordial Stir

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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