Disquiet Junto

XiiixxiQ - Track History [ 2022 -      ]

Disquiet Junto Project 0573: Float Mode
The Assignment: Add material atop a pre-existing beat to form a complete track.

Note: This week’s project is the second part of a two-parter, following up last week’s, but you don’t need to have participated last week in order to do this one.

Step 1: You will be adding musical elements atop beats created last week by other members of the Disquiet Junto. Select a beat. There are beats from 30 or so musicians in the SoundCloud playlist:

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0572

If you search for the project tag, you’ll find a few extras, I believe, from folks who did more than one:

https://soundcloud.com/search?q=disquiet0572

And there are two Bandcamp and one YouTube tracks in the discussion thread, along with details on many of the other entries:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0572-rhythm-kit/

Step 2: Add material to the beat you selected in Step 1. You can rework the beat if you like, even combine beats, but assuming you have limited time, the focus of your effort should be what you add, not what you do with the pre-existing material.

Step 3: When posting your track, be sure to credit which track(s) you employed as the foundation for your work.

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Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, December 26, 2022, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, December 22, 2022.

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More on this 573rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Float Mode (The Assignment: Add material atop a pre-existing beat to form a complete track) — at: https://disquiet.com/0573/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0573-float-mode/

Disquiet Junto Project 0573: Float Mode

Disquiet Junto Project 0573: Float Mode
The Assignment: Add material atop a pre-existing beat to form a complete track.

I liked https://soundcloud.com/tendigits/disquiet0572-rythm-kit by Tendigits and because it seemed to be made completely "by machine" I wanted to add only things without machines/automation. 
So I improvised around five additional tracks of sounds (and tried to leave room for some variation on the original drum track by Tendigits while doing it). In this week I also had field recorded the sound of icicles that I had knocked off the corrugated roof above the bicycle stand in the inner courtyard of my flat (my wife recorded, I knocked of the icicles – they can be seen on the track cover) and somehow felt they would fit as a mysterious element (hence the title) and because there was something like ice rain I heard in the original track (maybe its just me…). Finally I felt something was missing and added a live sung/spoken session of some kind of acoustic nagging to the track, which I edited with a lot of fx and manually painted parameter curves. 
It now feels like a hit.


There is a video on instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmem4hepeBb/

More on this 573rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Float Mode (The Assignment: Add material atop a pre-existing beat to form a complete track) — at: https://disquiet.com/0573/

Project discussion takes place on https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0573-float-mode/60250

Instagram video here

Icicle Hunt (by Krakenkraft & Tendigits) [disquiet0573]

A great glitchy beat produced in last weeks Junto by @calmnesia I have added some binaural feedback and guitar. Headphones recommended for the binaural sounds.
More on this 573rd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Float Mode (The Assignment: Add material atop a pre-existing beat to form a complete track) – at: https://disquiet.com/0573/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0573-float-mode/

Glitchy Beat (With Modulatia),Guitar & Feedback (disquiet0573)

Vocal sampled from - Odarka - Why’d You Lie [ https://www.looperman.com/acapellas/detail/20970/whyd-you-lie-by-odarka-120bpm-ambient-acapella ]

Rhythm Track - SinnySounds - Two Over Three [ https://soundcloud.com/sinnysounds/two-over-three-disquiet0572 ]

More on this 573rd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Float Mode (The Assignment: Add material atop a pre-existing beat to form a complete track) – at: https://disquiet.com/0573/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0573-float-mode/

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Float Mode (ft. SinnySounds and Odarka)

The Euclidean Chromaticon | Float Mode - ft. SinnySounds And Odarka - disquiet0573

This track is the result of an asynchronous collaboration with @daniel-diaz for the Disquiet Junto Projects (details below): I tried to embellish his wonderful track https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/2022wcgroove-disquiet0572 mainly with the addition of piano and harmonium.
According to my wife this is music for letting the world pass by...

More on this 573rd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Float Mode (The Assignment: Add material atop a pre-existing beat to form a complete track) – at: https://disquiet.com/0573/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0573-float-mode/

Letting The World Pass By [with Daniel Diaz] (Disquiet0573)

An electronic sequence added to: https://soundcloud.com/red_robin/disquiet_junto_0572-yr-squelchy-lyfe, partially looped.

More on this 573rd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Float Mode (The Assignment: Add material atop a pre-existing beat to form a complete track) – at: https://disquiet.com/0573/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0573-float-mode/

Squelchy Grains - with Tristan Louth-Robins(disquiet0573)

This week we had to take a rhythm track created by someone else for last weeks junto, and make it into a complete track.  I took a rhythm by @half-unusual  
(https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-kit-disquiet0572-70-bpm)
as it instantly had me jamming on the keys.  This track owes a bit of a debt to Jarre's Last Rhumba which I have been playing a lot lately, but just in terms of a few of the bass and rhythm patterns, which I have gone to town with a bit.

More on this 573rd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Float Mode (The Assignment: Add material atop a pre-existing beat to form a complete track) – at: https://disquiet.com/0573/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0573-float-mode/

Floating Free Improv (Disquiet0573)

Undercurrent

Just a Whisper in the Wind ...

More on the 692nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Combust a Move — The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track — at https://disquiet.com/0692/

Disquiet Junto | Combust a Move - disquiet0692

More on the 694th weekly Disquiet Junto project, 5/4ify — The Assignment: Add a beat to a pre-existing piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0694/

The original track can be found here [ https://soundcloud.com/xiiixxi/angelfish-or-unicorn?si=f9729764e685412aad5efce4e494ff09&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing ]

Disquiet Junto | 5/4ify - disquiet0694

More of these temporal phase tracks can be found here [ https://soundcloud.com/xiiixxi/sets/temporal-phase ]

More on the 695th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0695: Clean After Each Use — The Assignment: Put a piece of music through the dryer — at https://disquiet.com/0695/

Disquiet Junto | Clean After Each Use - disquiet0695

More on the 696th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Layers — The Assignment: Make music change by altering its layers — at https://disquiet.com/0696/

11 samples created from looping short sections taken from a pre-existing piece entitled 'Narrative' [ https://soundcloud.com/xiiixxi/narrative ]. The volume of each continuously sounding loop is auto-faded in and out using a pair of linked oscillators in addition to being shaped to bring each to the front once at least once throughout the duration of the piece.

Disquiet Junto | Chain of Layers - disquiet0696

Vocal Sample - Patricia Edwards - I Do - Today Is The Day [
https://www.looperman.com/acapellas/detail/14802/i-do-today-is-the-day-by-patriciaedwards-128bpm-house-acapella ]

Re- Sequencing - X I I I X X I via XiiixxiQ 
Tempo : 120bpm.

More on the 697th weekly Disquiet Junto project, First Third — The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0697/

Disquiet Junto | First Third - disquiet0697

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.

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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 ...

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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.

The Euclidean Chromaticon | Float Mode - ft. SinnySounds And Odarka - disquiet0573

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