palette sources — sampled feedback from moogerfooger delay (various channel inputs from lapsteel, mother32, dfam)sampled into MPC3K. The field recording is of a trip to a coffee shop where four young teenagers were trying to keep each other laughing for approximately 1m30s.

concept — creating a foundation with the delay feedback from a bass-y synth segment, and layering sampled phrases on top of that developed around feedback swells.

More on this 590th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Concrète Roots (The Assignment: Make music combining field recordings and feedback), at: disquiet.com/0590/ About the Disquiet Junto: disquiet.com/junto/ Subscribe to project

DeAmaral [disquiet0590]

Circa Lites

Friday Night Aetherby Loop

Bad Eddies

Big thanks to Michiru Aoyama for providing a clip of audio for the second half of the song, from his track https://soundcloud.com/michiru-aoyama/sound-is-beginning

Bake Light Peaking

Garfield Evergrade

Svelp disquiet0001-ice

The 5 drone samples provided, after minor eq and fx, were dumped into an mpc 3k and given individual tracks on my mixer.  Each channel had some manner of input into the aux's: LP filter, Ring Mod, and MidiMurf—whose outs were also given their own discreet channels.

Notes on timing were on hand to aid in dialing the effects and fades, so they would begin and end in a mirror-like fashion (particularly the filter cut-off and the envelopes). The last step was some symmetrical volume automation. 

Samples courtesy of Mystified, aka frequent Disquiet Junto participant Thomas Park:

http://archive.org/details/Junto_23_Samples

Sebellebes [disquiet0023-palindrone]

an unmixed dropbox collab w/ https://soundcloud.com/wselman from '16

Hoarse

Mt. Mitre

I chose a minimal to dense, quiet to loud gradient for this. Two instruments — a lapsteel guitar (+memory man delay and eventide space) and a Microfreak synth.  I use gradient theory (ombré and abrash) quite often in two other active elements in my life, rug designing and indigo dyeing. I tried to channel my composition with those in mind, letting unexpected results do what they will, while controlling the palette with a few parameters. 



Disquiet Junto Project 0463: Making the Gradient
The Assignment: Make a piece of music inspired by the concept of a gradient.

Step 1: Think about how a gradient functions, as one thing transitions into another.

Step 2: Make a short piece of music that aims to explore the idea of a gradient in sound.

Yon Pinnacle

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