Hey, I did a kind of anti mix of your remix, just using the call to prayer sample  https://sevenism.bandcamp.com/track/want-to-want-to

Definitely deep RnB and meditative to boot! Wonderful ear and spirit to blend these sundry ingredients into flowing still water :)

More on this 358th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Rhythm + Blue(s) / The Assignment: An exercise in genre — at:

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Image adapted (cropped, text added) from a photo by KoiFish Communications, used via Flickr thanks to a non-commercial Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0):

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Disquiet Junto Project 0358: Rhythm + Blue(s)

Bender - So Far Away (Producers Corner #303)

LoopDiggers Sunday Roulette N°132
additional bass, drums, synth, percs, and beeda baddas by meorkat

BEEDAXBADDA [LoopDiggers Sunday Roulette N°132]

Disquiet Junto Project 0614: Alternate Route
The Assignment: Do something you often do, but differently.

Playing acoustic instruments into a system of effects is a thing I’ve been doing a lot. Usually I do this in an improvisational, exploratory way: having only a rough idea of what I want to start off with, and then just seeing (actually: listening) where the music will take me.
Something I’ve been thinking about is using this way of playing in a context where at least some of the material is composed, thought out before hand.
So I used the prompt to do a bit of experimenting in this area.

The piece I made uses Erik Satie’s Gnossienne 2 as its main material. 
My idea was to dissect that piece into its component parts, then play and explore around those separate parts and in the end stitch the recordings together into something that would stay true to the original score. A sort of rearrangement.
In the end I had to abandon that idea. Lack of time mostly. And also, I thought it worked better to give some of the non-melody parts a bit more space.

The instruments used are piano (actually: sampled piano), kalimba, duduk, zither. And I used mainly three effects chains: one centred around saturation (on the duduk), one around using lfo’d panning - and a bit of distortion - as a sort of tremolo effect (on the zither), and one around using reverb with varying room size - giving a sort of tape warble feel - (on the whole mix).

I can see some potential for this way of working with composed material (also using my own compositions), though using composed material while still retaining the notion of the music arising in the moment of playing (that is: without requiring a lot of editing), is a different matter.

More on this 614th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Alternate Route (The Assignment: Do something you often do, but differently), at: https://disquiet.com/0614/

Gnossiennesque - after Satie Gnossienne 2 (disquiet0614)

in dark autumn nights
dew and the new bamboo shoots
reaching out to moon

Shubham Dasgupta, hailing from the picturesque city of Guwahati, India, introduces himself as a student of law. However, his true passion lies in his enchanting affair with words and the mesmerizing world of poetry.

Dew And The New Bamboo Shoots (navku511)

Created with AUM on iPad, Make Noise Strega and Cubase 12 on PC

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 513:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/11/01/naviarhaiku513-a-black-dog/

Photo by zenbytes (2019, Austria)

dog transformed in snow - Naviarhaiku 513

Winter sky–
Distant dreams
Shattered and flown away
(Tr. by John Stevens)
A wandering poet and ascetic Zen priest, Santōka was a disciple of Ogiwara Seisensui, one of the first poets to discard the traditional use of the 5-7-5 structure in haiku.
Santōka’s poetry emphasizes the necessity of sabi (solitude) in order to achieve spiritual enlightenment and serenity.

shattered [naviarhaiku520]

This lovely haiku inspired a gentle improvisation on VST synth (LABS). Recorded in Reaper. Mastered with CloudBounce.
Naviar haiku challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Winter Sky (naviarhaiku520)

starting with https://soundcloud.com/blaaroed/disquiet0636-left-tt16tt, followed the branching paths in the trio of projects sequenced in a linear form

arranged in ableton live mostly drawing volume envelopes and a delay send at the end of each segment

based on these excellent contributions:
- https://soundcloud.com/blaaroed/disquiet0636-left-tt16tt
- https://soundcloud.com/user-807707609/left-and-right-mirage-disquiet0637
- https://soundcloud.com/raincat-306596410/metal-mirage-disquiet0638-w-blaaroed-he_nu_ri
- https://soundcloud.com/merlebardenoir/the-middle-path-disquiet0638
- https://soundcloud.com/encym/wc2h-8lh_disquiet0638
- https://soundcloud.com/alanblip/part-2-disquiet0637
- https://soundcloud.com/dandante/disquiet0637-right-2-of-3-suborbital-hang-glider
- https://soundcloud.com/analoc/0324-disquiet-junto-638-midways


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More on the 639th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Path Ways (4 of 3) — The Assignment: Rework musical trios using the constituent parts — one of two ways — at https://disquiet.com/0639/

disquiet0639paths - full house

Mandolin/1

Part of the Naviar Records Haiku Challenge:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku540-face-of-the-winter-pond/

face of the winter pond-naviarhaiku540

Faces

rhythm (disquiet0358)

Disquiet Junto Project 0358: Rhythm + Blue(s)Step 1: Consider the term “rhythm and blues.” Not the genre, just the term.
Step 2: Imagine what you might think “rhythm and blues” meant in terms of music had you never previously heard “rhythm and blues” music.

I got infatuated with Blues when I was a kid (Howling Wolf, John Mayall and Muddy Waters mostly) but back then the term Rhythm and Blues was a bit confusing to me, I remember somebody pointing out that The Who and the Stones were considered as R&B bands at their beginning. The Who R&B? ok...
In my young little head it was more mashed up with soul and funk, Stax and Motown music from the 60’s. 
Anyway, R&B was way far from the “Pop-HipHop” thing they refer to now with that moniker.
So I took all this as a license to submit whatever I’m working on really.
If somehow aliens studying mammals on this part of the universe end up thinking Fats Domino, The Who and Rhianna all play the same style off music, you can count me in (out?).

For this one I went for a 6/4 beat (4+2 unusual for R&B I presume) but used normal instruments for that style:
Electric Guitars (x2)
Wurlitzer piano
Farfissa Organ
Electric Bass
Drums

Sounds more complex than it is actually, it is just a lazy Friday jam.
DD, Paris, Friday 9th November 2018


More on this 358th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Rhythm + Blue(s) / The Assignment: An exercise in genre — at:
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Rhythm No Blues (disquiet0358)

released 11.09.2018


with pure data + trumpet

hey you, give me the rhythm (disquiet0358)

Zen Zero(disquiet0358)

This is RnB, right?

Used this track from Sevenism:
https://soundcloud.com/7777777b/silent-waves?in=sevenism/sets/silent-waves-collaborations

and also this sample from freesound:
https://freesound.org/people/3bagbrew/sounds/345029/

Disquiet Junto Project 0358: Rhythm + Blue(s)
The Assignment: An exercise in genre.

Thanks to Micah Stupak-Hahn for having proposed this project.

Step 1: Consider the term “rhythm and blues.” Not the genre, just the term.

Step 2: Imagine what you might think “rhythm and blues” meant in terms of music had you never previously heard “rhythm and blues” music.

Step 3: Record a short piece of music that expresses the idea of “rhythm and blues” that occurred to you in Step 2 above.

Six More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0358” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your track.

Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0358” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation a project playlist.

Step 3: Upload your track. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your track.

Step 4: Post your track in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0358-rhythm-blue-s/

Step 5: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Other Details:

Deadline: This project’s deadline is Monday, November 12, 2018, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are on. It was posted in the evening, California time, on Thursday, November 8, 2018.

Length: The length of your track is up to you.

Title/Tag: When posting your track, please include “disquiet0358” in the title of the track, and where applicable (on SoundCloud, for example) as a tag.

Upload: When participating in this project, post one finished track with the project tag, and be sure to include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

Download: Please consider setting your track as downloadable and allowing for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution, allowing for derivatives).

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More on this 358th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Rhythm + Blue(s) / The Assignment: An exercise in genre — at:

https://disquiet.com/0358/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0358-rhythm-blue-s/

There’s also a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet to join in.

Image adapted (cropped, text added) from a photo by KoiFish Communications, used via Flickr thanks to a non-commercial Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0):

https://flic.kr/p/7Pkq3f

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

Cetus & Sevenism-Prayers For RnB (Disquiet0358)

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.

Cetus & Sevenism-Prayers For RnB (Disquiet0358)

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