Name: The Endless Static [disquiet0584] by Krakenkraft & Etherkraken in Disquiet Junto Project 0584: Generations
Duration: 1 h

This Theremin-like sound has some serious Kraftwerk vibes

Disquiet Junto Project 0584: Generations

The Assignment: Bridge a gap in your musical taste.

Step 1: Think of a sort of music you enjoy now that a much younger you might not have.

Step 2: Think of a sort of music that younger you enjoyed that you no longer are as fond of.

Step 3: Compose a piece of music that bridges the gap or otherwise finds common ground between the two types of music from Step 1 and Step 2.

. . .

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, March 13, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, March 9, 2023.

. . .

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Disquiet Junto Project 0584: Generations

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Generations

Disquiet Junto | Generations - disquiet0584

Instrumental cue, hybrid jazz-rock

Recorded February 2023, mixed Friday 10th march 2023.


Live studio  improvisation with Miguel Yanover on sax (@yanomito), I played a nylon-string electric bass.
We jammed over a pre recorded (by me) drum track and later I overdubbed a Hammond Organ trying to save this one from the trash lid.

Still, even if I love the live sax and bass interplay, this is a great candidate to be a  "forever unused" track. So I'm glad to mix it this morning and share it here.

Cheers
dd


photo by Reynier Carl


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Nocturnal Studio Jam Number 2 (disquiet0584)

Beethoven gradually transformed. The original is a 1938 Columbia recording of the Rondo from Piano Quartet in E flat major, op 16, performed by Robert Schmitz & the Roth Quartet, chosen at random & downloaded from the Internet Archive.

More on this 584th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Generations (The Assignment: Bridge a gap in your musical taste), at: https://disquiet.com/0584/

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Deromanticizing (disquiet0584)

Like most lads growing up in the late 70’s the guitar was the king of instruments and like most of my peers I worshiped at the various alters of the guitar gods. Here, subtlety was not a requirement and the louder and the more over produced the better. 

But then I graduated, went to university, read Deleuze and soon was grooving to the likes of Nurse With Wound, Throbbing Gristle, Brian Eno and Einsturzende Neubauten. I made music on tape machines, combed back alleys for old duct work to bring to my dorm room so that I could hook them up to contact mics and generally found pleasure in the obscure and at times unlistenable. 

Hence my homage and mangling of Boston’s “More than a Feeling,” which I would not listen to now. Although I would listen to listen to a cover of it by Genesis P-Orridge.

A note on method:

I sampled various bits of the song on a Music1010 BitBox, then sent various excerpts into Meng Qi’s Winger Pinger and recorded that. Then I randomly selected parts of that recording and sampled them with a Polyend Tracker, used the random fill and note section to jumble the samples and then played the whole thing through the Zoia to further chop and process it and recorded it once more. 

And true to the era, instead of just one song, I have created a concept album. So there are nine songs, all around 30 seconds long. Each one is less or more than a feeling I once had.

disquiet0584

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Vvvvv (disquiet0584)

Disquiet Junto Project 0584: Generations
The Assignment: Bridge a gap in your musical taste.

I wanted to start with a signature sound I enjoyed in my youth, the strings with phasers from early Jarre albums like Oxygene or Equinoxe (which in this case is Cherry Audio Voltage Modular with the Fifth Dimension Phaser Factory).

The original idea was to smoothly add noisy elements that represent my todays taste, in this case mostly voice recordings from myself whispering and again my squeaking chair (all in Ableton Simpler). The original track title was 'Phasernoised' and I was doing this in Ableton Live.

After adding some sequenced stuff, some kind of theremin-ish theme (Cherry Arp2600) and soft beats I really liked the loop playing for hours in the background while printing out paper for last years tax declaration (I do not make this up). And because of this I felt like it should be one of my 1h tracks in 2023, that try to be true to the ambient idea of background music. 

I don't feel wrong about it: After all, my taste hasn't changed so much, I enjoyed soft and lush sounds when I was young, and now I enjoy subtile changes, endless tracks and strange noises and even a kickdrum, that I would have rejected in my youth (in this genre of music, not in general).

So if you listen for a progression you have to ffwd and skip thru, but maybe you just want the fun of the complete hour.

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more 1h ambient

The Endless Static [disquiet0584]

A collection of compositions by Vincent Eoppolo ( Ioppolo )

AUTUNNO feat Ilaria Boffa

composition for viola

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 610:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku610-dropped-glass/

Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!

Photo by zenbytes (Bretagne, France, 2018)

dropped glass - Naviarhaiku610

dry times

Themes From Forgotten Films Vol 2:Vilniaus Arkikaredra

Ottoaso Ahsove (I Can't Turn Around)

Higher

Entry Level

Marco Lucchi : piano, synthesizers and tape

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found sounds
https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/779909/

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for the current Naviar Haiku challenge
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku616-whenever-we-meet/

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逢ふときはいつも雨なる青胡桃
au toki wa itsumo ame naru aogurumi

Tanaka Hiroaki

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piove sempre
quando ci incontriamo –
noci verdi

Traduzioni dal giapponese di Luca Cenisi

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whenever we meet
it’s raining
green walnuts

It's raining [Naviar Haiku # 616]

Obscurant

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

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.

The Endless Static [disquiet0584]

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