Created with AUM and various plugins on iPad, mastered in Cubase 12 with Ozone 10

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 510:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/10/11/naviarhaiku510-in-pre-dawn-darkness/

Photo by zenbytes (2023, near Pathfinder Dam, Wyoming, USA)

darkness of rainfall - Naviarhaiku 510

Disquiet Junto Project 0620: Beat Accrual Accrual
The Assignment: Turn someone’s slow-build beat into a finished track.

I decided to build on Going Modular's "Disquieting Polyrhythm" because of the haunting, repetitive synth and dramatic build of the piece. It's a soundscape that I've been living in now for days. I only made one alteration which was to short it a bit in the last two thirds. https://soundcloud.com/goingmodular

I also really wanted to see if I could combine that with yet another junto from last week just to be cheeky about the assignment. Lee Evans' "Euclidian Dub" worked quite well with this, bringing it in just at the end of the song, making this slow, driving, building piece extra climactic and almost dancy in the end. (https://soundcloud.com/hippieswearingmuzzles/euclidean-dub-disquiet0619)

I haven't been able to write lyrics for a long time but this really sparked it for me and I was able to jot out some words that relate to a lot that's on my mind - the Israel-Hamas war, a complicated relationship with an ill and possibly dying father, being almost 40 and still not knowing if I'll get to be a mother or "just" an artist or both...all the things! It felt cathartic to express some of that. (AND pretty vulnerable).

I love creating choirs in my music. I also loved the idea of once again building from something simpler to something more complex so I had the backing choir slowly emerge while the lead vocal gradually got more crunchy. I added a subby bass partway through and strings to mimic the melody of the synth and bring it out more for the climax. 

Oh! And it was raining when I recorded and I just needed that sound in there.

Thank you so much to Going Modular and Lee Evans for your creations!

More on this 620th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beat Accrual Accrual (The Assignment: Turn someone’s slow-build beat into a finished track), at: https://disquiet.com/0620/

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stone soup (w Going Modular and Lee Evans) (disquiet0620)

More on this 621st weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Leftovers (The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new), at: https://disquiet.com/0621/

There are two main aspects to the leftover-ness called for by the above disquiet brief in this. The first was discarded from a recent session which used the (software) Buchla Easel through two stages of Audio Damage's Enso looping machine, which resulted in a glitchy, spitty front end to the track. The second aspect was slightly outside of the brief, as it's not exactly 'recently' discarded - in fact, it comes from an Octave Cat retriggred bass loop made around 40 years ago! ... inspired by the Ultravox retriggered basslines of the early 80's, around 'Rage in Eden' era. I've posted the original recording of the bass loop too, so you can hear it in all its hissy cassette glory. It's posted @ https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/octave-cat-bass-loop

Feel free to download it and see what you are inspired to crowbar out of it! 🙃

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halF leftoveR [disquiet0621]

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The Leftovers

Disquiet Junto | The Leftovers - disquiet0621

Suss Müsik’s entire creative practice is centered around the quest to derive gold from detritus. It’s likely an attribute shared with carefree art school days of an earlier era: a time when post-modern photography, sweaty punk rock, and ramen noodles served as daily sustenance.

“Photographs, so much a part of our daily lives, become highly self-conscious when pulled from the fraying of their ordinary locations,” wrote the art critic Julia Ballerini in 1989. “They refer back to their origins in a different voice … suggest[ing] a complexity of potential attachments, detachments, and reconfigurations.”

For this week’s project, Suss Müsik utilized four handmade devices recently built from material laying around the workshop: a digital sample trigger, a joystick-activated grain synth, a touchscreen MIDI device, and a touchscreen modulation controller. These were used to manipulate sonic material (loops, found audio, etc.) from the backlog, some of which has been in the works for more than eight years.

Given the nature of this week’s offering, Suss Müsik captured the session on video. 

https://youtu.be/z-bk_wxwhMo

The piece has no title and was recorded live to a TASCAM 8-track.

More on this 621st weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Leftovers (The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new), at: https://disquiet.com/0621/

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Disquiet0621

I've made collage audio forever, so this sort of project is easy for me.  The hard part is finding audio scraps that I haven't used, or used much.

In 2011, when I was living in Iowa City, I went downtown and made a bunch of field recordings.  A lot of that material ended up on my album Hide Yourself In Plain Sight.

One thing that didn't make the cut was me capturing a writer starting to read, and starting over, at Prairie Lights Bookstore.  He was reading something he wrote about Norbert Wiener and juxtaposing it with some Gwen Stefani reference, which to me is an excellent example of modern academic and literary nonsense, or I guess a "signal to noise".  

As that short clip in the track finished, I included two quick samples, panned left and right.  Left is a girl asking a bus driver a question, and Right is some drunk guy saying "Viggo Mortenstein" instead of Viggo Mortensen.

Also in there are some other loops, largely recorded from apps on the first generation iPad I had at the time.

More about me and my music at:  https://www.markrushton.com

More on this 621st weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Leftovers (The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new), at: https://disquiet.com/0621/

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Norbert Wiener Signal Versus Noise (disquiet0621)

This piece uses material I had discarded in 2005 to create a new piano piece. 

Conceived, recorded, mixed, mastered 05 Feb 2005 & 23 Nov 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, NY.

Piano, effects

This original version of "Pinch Appeal" was submitted as part of ​Disquiet Junto Project 0621: The Leftovers. The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/
Project discussion took place at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0621-the-leftovers
Artwork: 11 Sep 2017, Massapequa, NY by Jim Lemanowicz

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This track was originally released under the artist name "Our Quiet Fog."

Music & art ©2005, 2017, 2023 Jim Lemanowicz

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Pinch Appeal (disquiet0621)

An electronic composition, original sounds created in Pure Data.

Sea Dance (naviarhaiku516)

Thanks Marc for this  - it is quite useful to get one to review forgotten files that didn't quite make it anywhere.   I was thinking to name this "No light for the jealous night", but it didn't quite fit the theme, so I named it "Night Leftover".  I found this scrap and realized why I scrapped it.  It was too long, and it is still too long for which I apologize, but shortening it was very difficult.  Nevertheless, I still like it and wanted to get it out there.  The background piano and bits of software instruments here and there provide the atmosphere for the guitar harmonics that I played throughout.More on this 621st weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Leftovers (The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new), at: https://disquiet.com/0621/

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Night Leftover(disquiet0621)

Hi, I imagined a ball bouncing on that concrete room (photo).
The room is huge.
the ball is hollow and metallic.


Used:
Hang (treated with a bouncing delay fx)
Synthesized field recording
Filtered and treated field recording.

Recorded on December 22nd 2023  during the morning.

for this junto:https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0625-noise-ceiling

Ball Bouncing in This Empty Room (disquiet0625)

Conversation at The Water Fountain (@prodzelkova)

All here, in reality, are works in progress and are therefore apt to change at any time. All those except XIII Sisters and RAW which, as many of you may have done, I literally gave away in return for their placement in a library. Something I won't be doing again any time soon. If you have a use for something you hear here please just ask.

 .ooO -------------------------------------- Ooo.

ChatGTP said of AI Music...
'Creative AI tools can be seen as sophisticated plagiarism software, as they do not produce genuinely original content but rather emulate and modify existing works by artists subtly enough to circumvent copyright laws'

Sometimes it takes a dispassionate, independent view to actually see the truth of it ...

 .ooO -------------------------------------- Ooo.

There are links to XiiixxiQ below. Your mileage may vary as to whether it decides to work on your system or not. It only runs on a Mac because I really don't have time to do all the necessary work to make it compatible with anything other than my 2015 MacBook Pro :-(. It is still being developed (for my own use) and improved, and I may yet get round to doing another release if I can find the time to tidy it all up.

Disquiet Junto | The Leftovers - disquiet0621

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