For this week's Disquiet we've been asked to imagine a path through fragile vegetation. Two synths hooked up to Stochas provide the "vegetation" and another synth provides the "path", echoed by a guitar.

More on this 528th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Landscape Architecture (The Assignment: Forge an unobtrusive path through musical flora) — at: https://disquiet.com/0528/

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keep to the path [disquiet0528]

Track made for the disquiet junto challenge with the theme 'Landscape Architecture' - an unobtrusive path through musical flora...

IDEA
With this assignment I immidiately thought of long walks in forests following the smallest wildlife trails instead of marked paths. Sometimes you start somewhere that seems an almost impassable wilderless, but gentle steps in the soft green leads the way to a path unfolding.

COMPO
I started with simply Cmajor. The happy feel associated with the major scale felt appropriate for the feeling you get when you know you are on the right track. Like I did before, I played with a generative tool for a while and took some fragments.
The percussive/drum part is quite heavy (an 808 kick, snare and crash) for my normal way of working, but I felt like it really underlined the idea of a path getting more obvious as you go.
Now, I dont know wheter the end result does fit the assignment "unobtrusive path", but all the same I'm happy with what came out.

GEAR
DAW: Samplitude X3
VST: Arturia Jupiter-8, NI Kontakt instument, heavy use of stock plugins
HARDWARE: Elka Rhapsody, Roland D10, Zoom R24
image:own

A Path Unfolding

A Path Unfolding [disquiet0528]

More on this 529th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Squared Off (The Assignment: Explore the number 23) – at: https://disquiet.com/0529/

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Ouroboros & Enigma23 (disquiet0529)

Synths, sampled drums & sampled strings, electric guitars experiment inspired by this challenge:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0529-squared-off

DD, Paris Friday 18th February 2022.

Twenty Three (disquiet0529)

Disquiet0529 Question 23

It was a convoluted process recording this track.
I started recording 115 bars (23x5 (5=2+3))of a Numerology drum and synth patch  fed into beads. Playback was slowed to 2/3 speed and I played over the top by hopping through recordings on a Radio Music module to emulate Burroughs 23 Skidoo cutup piece.
My MacBook kept crashing when trying to bounce the track down and would hang whilst rebooting - this behaviour was probably coincidental and unrelated to the number 23.
Major thanks to Eanna Butler for helping come up with this project:

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23voices(disquiet0529)

[disquiet0529] The Grid

This week's Disquiet Junto prompt was to consider the various interesting aspects of the number 23. In this track, you'll hear sections of 5/4 time, a percussion pattern of 5 and then 2, and scales/arepeggios constructed of alternating minor 2nds and minor 3rds. Also, many of the sections modulate up by minor 2nds and minor 3rds. This was a fun challenge, I really enjoyed it!

Sounds provided by AudioThing's Noises and Spitfire Lab's new "Glass Piano" samples.

Octagons and Squares (disquiet0529)

Minimally Viable Music - since being diagnosed with tinnitus my hearing, and my concept of music, has become affected by the additional sounds I hear...it colors what I hear, how I hear, and what I compose. This project represents the minimal viable music I hear when I take a walk in the woods, when I walk on a crowded city street, or when I perform or record my own music.

Disquiet0530 Minimally Viable Music Batu

# Credits

* Charlie Parker
    * [Solo on "Onithology"](https://jazzomat.hfm-weimar.de/dbformat/synopsis/solo61.html)

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Major thanks to Saga Söderback for having come up with this project.

More on this 530th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Minimally Viable Music (The Assignment: How much less is just shy of too little? ) — at: https://disquiet.com/0530/

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Minimally Viable Music - disquiet0530

 Livingstone found the source of the Nile.

This track is an entry to  the disquiet junto project group on Soundcloud. Project 29 invites  tracks exploring the sound of running water inspired from a quote from the novel Count Zero describing the sound of water on stone as the ‘oldest song’.

More information at http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info 

Main source recording was of an ornamental waterfall in the remembrance garden in City of London Cemetery, Aldersbrook. The pond  is home to a large number of turtles ( dumped unwanted pets I presume – certainly nothing native to UK) recorded on Saturday 21 July 2012. Some loops and slightly time-slipped parts of the recording are played alongside the main recording. Other samples with similar sonic properties are also buried in the mix – a synthy crackle, radio static, some pulsey traffic noises, an unidentified techno track. I mixed this at high volume on headphones -  not sure how it will end up sounding on soundcloud but that’s part of the experiement.


Source of the Nile [Disquiet0029-countzero]

Interested in collaborative projects -  The more inappropriate the better.  London based. home built noise toys and circuits, broken tape recorders, hex bugs in biscuit tins. Field recordings of air conditioning outlets.broken cassettes. and maybe the odd bit of class gear.

maxims:

If you dont like the sound of out of tune guitars  then you dont like the sound of  guitars.

Try again, fail better


Source of the Nile [Disquiet0029-countzero]

Zedkah