Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:31:14 +0200 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/ en-EN contact@hearthis.at contact@hearthis.at https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/ https://img.hearthis.at/0/8/9/_/uploads/dummy/user/w1400_h1400_q70_ptrue_v2_----cropped_user_00980.png no no https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/cybermonk-2000/
Because. Future.]]>
Because. Future.]]> 1497394 no no Thu, 10 Aug 2017 07:58:58 +0200 2017-08-10T07:58:58+02:00 5:28 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/the-synodic-blues-disquiet0292/
Layered many Korg soft synths. Because... 80s.

Welcome to the future.

For Disquiet #0292: https://disquiet.com/2017/08/03/disquiet-junto-project-0292-eclipse-music/]]>
Layered many Korg soft synths. Because... 80s.

Welcome to the future.

For Disquiet #0292: https://disquiet.com/2017/08/03/disquiet-junto-project-0292-eclipse-music/]]> 1497395 no no Sun, 06 Aug 2017 01:24:43 +0200 2017-08-06T01:24:43+02:00 3:02 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/the-diogenes-filter-disquiet0291/
The "ribs" of the lantern housing is a comb filter.

The 'ambient glow': shimmery delays/reverbs, focused on the core tone.

For Disquiet #0291: https://disquiet.com/2017/07/27/disquiet-junto-project-0291-lantern-effect/]]>
The "ribs" of the lantern housing is a comb filter.

The 'ambient glow': shimmery delays/reverbs, focused on the core tone.

For Disquiet #0291: https://disquiet.com/2017/07/27/disquiet-junto-project-0291-lantern-effect/]]> 1497396 no no Fri, 28 Jul 2017 04:16:27 +0200 2017-07-28T04:16:27+02:00 3:45 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/the-nixon-shuffle/
Props to treated Nixonian resignation audio from: http://freesound.org/people/exsidus/sounds/136103/]]>
Props to treated Nixonian resignation audio from: http://freesound.org/people/exsidus/sounds/136103/]]> 1497397 no no Thu, 20 Jul 2017 04:02:14 +0200 2017-07-20T04:02:14+02:00 2:35 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/bitsy/
Mixed together.

(Nice review of the littlteBits here: http://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/korg-littlebits)]]>
Mixed together.

(Nice review of the littlteBits here: http://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/korg-littlebits)]]> 1497398 no no Thu, 06 Jul 2017 07:34:28 +0200 2017-07-06T07:34:28+02:00 8:02 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/your-broken-crying-sea/
It's crying.]]>
It's crying.]]> 1497399 no no Thu, 29 Jun 2017 08:03:54 +0200 2017-06-29T08:03:54+02:00 7:44 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/tadpole/ 1497400 no no Fri, 09 Jun 2017 08:22:45 +0200 2017-06-09T08:22:45+02:00 2:36 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/a-field-of-springs-disquiet-0275/
A track in progress. had started and abandoned the beginnings of this early last fall, but as luck would have it, have been revisiting and remaking it lately.

Seemed appropriate for this Disquiet project.]]>
A track in progress. had started and abandoned the beginnings of this early last fall, but as luck would have it, have been revisiting and remaking it lately.

Seemed appropriate for this Disquiet project.]]> 1497401 no no Sun, 09 Apr 2017 23:34:49 +0200 2017-04-09T23:34:49+02:00 6:03 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/breakmind-disquiet0274/ 1497402 no no Sat, 01 Apr 2017 08:50:40 +0200 2017-04-01T08:50:40+02:00 1:56 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/pulses/ 1497403 no no Fri, 03 Feb 2017 05:52:29 +0100 2017-02-03T05:52:29+01:00 5:48 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/different-winds-rival-shores-disquiet0254/
-The 'sad piano' loop
-each sound turned into an instrument with Sampler (Ableton)
-a 'wavy static' sound for background
-the foghorn itself, barely treated.

Set up the 3 loops, 'played' the two sampler tracks over that, some cleanup/mixing afterwards.

Picture is mine: Moon over Marblehead (view from front porch), April 2016.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0254: Fog and Steam
Make music from two provided samples.

For the 254th weekly project, we’re going to revisit the second project, from back in early January 2012.

Step 1: Download these two samples:

Fog Horn: http://www.freesound.org/people/schaarsen/sounds/69663/

Train Whistle: http://www.freesound.org/people/ecodios/sounds/119963/

Step 2: Create an original piece of music utilizing just those samples from Step 1. You can only use those two samples, and you can do whatever you want with them.

Deadline: This project was posted in the late morning, California time, on Thursday, November 10, 2016, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, November 14, 2016.

Length: The length is up to you, but three minutes sounds about right.

Title/Tag: When posting your track, please include “disquiet0254” 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: It is necessary, due to the licensing of the source audio, that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting the track online, please be sure to include this information:

More on this 254th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Fog and Steam: Make music from two provided samples” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0254/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

llllllll.co/t/music-of-fog-and-steam-disquiet-junto-project-0254/

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Fog horn sample by Schaarsen: http://www.freesound.org/people/schaarsen/sounds/69663/

Train whistle sample by Ecodios: http://www.freesound.org/people/ecodios/sounds/119963/

Image associated with this project is by Paul Johnson and used with a Creative Commons license:
flic.kr/p/6mZQGm]]>
-The 'sad piano' loop
-each sound turned into an instrument with Sampler (Ableton)
-a 'wavy static' sound for background
-the foghorn itself, barely treated.

Set up the 3 loops, 'played' the two sampler tracks over that, some cleanup/mixing afterwards.

Picture is mine: Moon over Marblehead (view from front porch), April 2016.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0254: Fog and Steam
Make music from two provided samples.

For the 254th weekly project, we’re going to revisit the second project, from back in early January 2012.

Step 1: Download these two samples:

Fog Horn: http://www.freesound.org/people/schaarsen/sounds/69663/

Train Whistle: http://www.freesound.org/people/ecodios/sounds/119963/

Step 2: Create an original piece of music utilizing just those samples from Step 1. You can only use those two samples, and you can do whatever you want with them.

Deadline: This project was posted in the late morning, California time, on Thursday, November 10, 2016, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, November 14, 2016.

Length: The length is up to you, but three minutes sounds about right.

Title/Tag: When posting your track, please include “disquiet0254” 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: It is necessary, due to the licensing of the source audio, that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting the track online, please be sure to include this information:

More on this 254th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Fog and Steam: Make music from two provided samples” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0254/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

llllllll.co/t/music-of-fog-and-steam-disquiet-junto-project-0254/

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Fog horn sample by Schaarsen: http://www.freesound.org/people/schaarsen/sounds/69663/

Train whistle sample by Ecodios: http://www.freesound.org/people/ecodios/sounds/119963/

Image associated with this project is by Paul Johnson and used with a Creative Commons license:
flic.kr/p/6mZQGm]]> 1497404 no no Sun, 13 Nov 2016 20:09:35 +0100 2016-11-13T20:09:35+01:00 4:09 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/the-voice-factory-disquiet0244/
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Disquiet Junto Project 0244: Euro Mixin
The Assignment: Combine tracks from three different European netlabels (Portugal, Spain, Switzerland) into one sonic union.

Project Steps:

Step 1: This week’s project is a remix. The following three tracks are available for creative reuse thanks to a Creative Commons license. Please download them and extract the specified source segments:

Use the first 20 seconds of “The Station and the Underclass,” performed by the Phonetic Orchestra, released on the Insub. netlabel based in Geneva:

http://insub.org/insub44/

Use the first 20 seconds of “Cloud Scissors” composed by Lo Wei; performed by Cristián Alvear, Santiago Astaburuaga, Gudinni Cortina, and Rolando Hernández, released on the Impulsive Habitat netlabel based in Portugal:

http://impulsivehabitat.com/releases/ihabp001.htm

Use the first 20 seconds of “Zraerza,” performed by Geeksha Beka and Berio Molina, released on the Alg-a netlabel based in Galicia:

https://archive.org/details/alg-set05-zraerza/

Step 2: Create an original piece of music based on the source audio from Step 1.

Five More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Per the instructions below, be sure to include the project tag “disquiet0244” (no spaces) in the name of your track. If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to my locating the tracks and creating a playlist of them.

Step 2: Upload your track. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your track.

Step 3: This is a fairly new step, if you’ve done a Junto project previously. In the following discussion thread at llllllll.co post your track:

http://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0244-euro-mixin/4361

Step 4: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 5: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

This project was posted in the morning, California time, on Thursday, September 1, 2016, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, September 5, 2016.

Length: The length is up to you. Around three minutes seems like a good length.

Title/Tag: When posting your track, please include “disquiet0244” 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: Due to the Creative Commons license allowing for this work to be remixed, it is necessary that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting the track online, please be sure to include this information:

More on this 244th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Combine tracks from three different European netlabels (Portugal, Spain, Switzerland) into one sonic union” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0244/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

http://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0244-euro-mixin/4361

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is by Thomas, used via Flickr and a Creative Commons license:

flic.kr/p/92xKFZ]]>
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Disquiet Junto Project 0244: Euro Mixin
The Assignment: Combine tracks from three different European netlabels (Portugal, Spain, Switzerland) into one sonic union.

Project Steps:

Step 1: This week’s project is a remix. The following three tracks are available for creative reuse thanks to a Creative Commons license. Please download them and extract the specified source segments:

Use the first 20 seconds of “The Station and the Underclass,” performed by the Phonetic Orchestra, released on the Insub. netlabel based in Geneva:

http://insub.org/insub44/

Use the first 20 seconds of “Cloud Scissors” composed by Lo Wei; performed by Cristián Alvear, Santiago Astaburuaga, Gudinni Cortina, and Rolando Hernández, released on the Impulsive Habitat netlabel based in Portugal:

http://impulsivehabitat.com/releases/ihabp001.htm

Use the first 20 seconds of “Zraerza,” performed by Geeksha Beka and Berio Molina, released on the Alg-a netlabel based in Galicia:

https://archive.org/details/alg-set05-zraerza/

Step 2: Create an original piece of music based on the source audio from Step 1.

Five More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Per the instructions below, be sure to include the project tag “disquiet0244” (no spaces) in the name of your track. If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to my locating the tracks and creating a playlist of them.

Step 2: Upload your track. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your track.

Step 3: This is a fairly new step, if you’ve done a Junto project previously. In the following discussion thread at llllllll.co post your track:

http://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0244-euro-mixin/4361

Step 4: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 5: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

This project was posted in the morning, California time, on Thursday, September 1, 2016, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, September 5, 2016.

Length: The length is up to you. Around three minutes seems like a good length.

Title/Tag: When posting your track, please include “disquiet0244” 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: Due to the Creative Commons license allowing for this work to be remixed, it is necessary that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting the track online, please be sure to include this information:

More on this 244th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Combine tracks from three different European netlabels (Portugal, Spain, Switzerland) into one sonic union” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0244/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

http://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0244-euro-mixin/4361

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is by Thomas, used via Flickr and a Creative Commons license:

flic.kr/p/92xKFZ]]> 1497405 no no Fri, 02 Sep 2016 20:49:40 +0200 2016-09-02T20:49:40+02:00 4:16 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/music-for-whatever-is-the-last-thing-that-will-ever-live/ 1497406 no no Fri, 05 Aug 2016 02:19:02 +0200 2016-08-05T02:19:02+02:00 6:36 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/ex-cathedra/ ]]> ]]> 1497407 no no Sun, 24 Jul 2016 22:51:37 +0200 2016-07-24T22:51:37+02:00 7:06 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/lastdance-reprised/
Remixed, slightly.]]>
Remixed, slightly.]]> 1497408 no no Fri, 17 Jun 2016 04:27:39 +0200 2016-06-17T04:27:39+02:00 9:04 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/the-pebbles-are-voting-disquiet0222-boundedfoundation/
The 'air' sound (processed guitar) recovered from an old cassette tape from 1987-8. The 'rocks' are one of the Ableton soft synths.
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More on this 222nd weekly Disquiet Junto project (Compose a piece for contemporary dance — with a “soft top” and a “shifting bottom”) at:

http://disquiet.com/0222/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

The image associated with this project is by Tom Gill and is used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/qX8pyN]]>
The 'air' sound (processed guitar) recovered from an old cassette tape from 1987-8. The 'rocks' are one of the Ableton soft synths.
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More on this 222nd weekly Disquiet Junto project (Compose a piece for contemporary dance — with a “soft top” and a “shifting bottom”) at:

http://disquiet.com/0222/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

The image associated with this project is by Tom Gill and is used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/qX8pyN]]> 1497409 no no Sun, 03 Apr 2016 22:44:51 +0200 2016-04-03T22:44:51+02:00 4:16 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/dystorphia/ 1497410 no no Mon, 15 Feb 2016 22:53:43 +0100 2016-02-15T22:53:43+01:00 4:38 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/a-christmas-carol/
sources are all softsynths in Logic or Ableton.

Happy Solstice, kids...]]>
sources are all softsynths in Logic or Ableton.

Happy Solstice, kids...]]> 1497411 no no Fri, 25 Dec 2015 05:25:37 +0100 2015-12-25T05:25:37+01:00 4:40 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/parsons-walk/ 1497412 no no Mon, 09 Nov 2015 03:34:28 +0100 2015-11-09T03:34:28+01:00 5:24 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/choiroid-dub-11/ 1497413 no no Tue, 01 Sep 2015 03:46:31 +0200 2015-09-01T03:46:31+02:00 4:00 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/a-carnival-of-beats-disquiet0161-netmixrelabel/
Released under a Creative Commons license (c) the bell mechanical 2015
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Disquiet Junto Project 161: Netmix Relabel
The Assignment: Create a new track from three tracks from three different netlabels.

These are the steps:

Step 1: Create a new piece of music by using nothing but the following segments of the following songs:

The first 15 seconds of “Dog Kiss” by Chtin Mara off the album Animus Animal Anima (Enough Records), available for free download at: http://goo.gl/iWcJJs

The first 10 seconds of “Qif Kiff” by Ayato & Natalia Kamia off the album Cluster (eg0cide Records), available for free download at: https://eg0cide.bandcamp.com/album/eg0-131-ayato-natalia-kamia-cluster

The first 10 seconds of “Espasmo” by Lingering Last Drops (Bump Foot Records), available for free download at: https://lingeringlastdrops.bandcamp.com/

Step 2: Upload the finished track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 3: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This assignment was made in the evening, California time, on Thursday, January 29, 2015, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, February 2, 2015.

Length: The length of your finished work should be between two and four minutes.

More on this 161st Disquiet Junto project — “Create a new track from three tracks from three different netlabels” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/01/29/disquiet0161-netmixrelabel/

This track includes material from the songs “Dog Kiss” by Chtin Mara off the album Animus Animal Anima (Enough Records), “Qif Kiff” by Ayato & Natalia Kamia off the album Cluster (eg0cide Records), and “Espasmo” by Lingering Last Drops (Bump Foot). More on Enough at enoughrecords.scene.org. More on eg0cide at eg0cide.com. More on Bump Foot at bumpfoot.net. All work used courtesy of a Creative Commons license allowing for derivative use.

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

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
http://disquiet.com/forums/
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Released under a Creative Commons license (c) the bell mechanical 2015
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Disquiet Junto Project 161: Netmix Relabel
The Assignment: Create a new track from three tracks from three different netlabels.

These are the steps:

Step 1: Create a new piece of music by using nothing but the following segments of the following songs:

The first 15 seconds of “Dog Kiss” by Chtin Mara off the album Animus Animal Anima (Enough Records), available for free download at: http://goo.gl/iWcJJs

The first 10 seconds of “Qif Kiff” by Ayato & Natalia Kamia off the album Cluster (eg0cide Records), available for free download at: https://eg0cide.bandcamp.com/album/eg0-131-ayato-natalia-kamia-cluster

The first 10 seconds of “Espasmo” by Lingering Last Drops (Bump Foot Records), available for free download at: https://lingeringlastdrops.bandcamp.com/

Step 2: Upload the finished track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 3: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This assignment was made in the evening, California time, on Thursday, January 29, 2015, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, February 2, 2015.

Length: The length of your finished work should be between two and four minutes.

More on this 161st Disquiet Junto project — “Create a new track from three tracks from three different netlabels” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/01/29/disquiet0161-netmixrelabel/

This track includes material from the songs “Dog Kiss” by Chtin Mara off the album Animus Animal Anima (Enough Records), “Qif Kiff” by Ayato & Natalia Kamia off the album Cluster (eg0cide Records), and “Espasmo” by Lingering Last Drops (Bump Foot). More on Enough at enoughrecords.scene.org. More on eg0cide at eg0cide.com. More on Bump Foot at bumpfoot.net. All work used courtesy of a Creative Commons license allowing for derivative use.

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

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
http://disquiet.com/forums/
]]> 1497414 no no Mon, 02 Feb 2015 08:50:55 +0100 2015-02-02T08:50:55+01:00 3:06 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/the-enoch-express-extrospection-january-2015/
Uses the sample "a passing train" by ingeos (Cedric Peyronnet) on freesound.org:

https://www.freesound.org/people/ingeos/sounds/9260/

This track released under Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA)

[ the bell mechanical - (c) 2015].
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Uses the sample "a passing train" by ingeos (Cedric Peyronnet) on freesound.org:

https://www.freesound.org/people/ingeos/sounds/9260/

This track released under Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA)

[ the bell mechanical - (c) 2015].
]]> 1497415 no no Tue, 20 Jan 2015 03:46:16 +0100 2015-01-20T03:46:16+01:00 4:24 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/horror-in-sudbury-disquiet0158-syllablegumbo/
The Boston Globe is there.

Submitted, for your approval...

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This piece was done in audio mulch.

Selected the article, recorded a reading of the text, and ran the voice through a dl granulator (with parameters manipulated in real time). Then two "rhythm" tracks (processed guitar) far off in the distance. Then an MS20 (emulated). Arranged and processed the sounds a little, then mixed down to this.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0158: Syllable Gumbo
The Assignment: Go from noise to signal with words.

Quite often Disquiet Junto projects actively avoid the human voice. This week’s project engages directly with the voice, and with language.

Step 1: Select the least important story on the front page of your local newspaper or the home page of your local newspaper’s website.

Step 2: Select the first or first two sentences of that story. Combined the resulting text should have between roughly 15 and 25 words.

Step 3: Record yourself, or someone else, reading the text aloud. You can use text-to-speech, though it is by no means required.

Step 4: Break the recording from step 3 into tiny parts.

Step 5: Produce an original piece of music in which the randomized “noise” of those tiny parts heard out of order slowly, over the course of one or two minutes, comes to form the full original statement.

Step 6: Add tonal and rhythmic material to the results of step 5.

Step 7: Upload the finished track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 8: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, January 12, 2015.

Length: The length of your finished work should be between one minute and two minutes.

More on this 158th Disquiet Junto project — “Go from noise to signal with words” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/01/08/disquiet0158-syllablegumbo/

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

Join the Disquiet Junto at:http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:http://disquiet.com/forums/

Photo associated with this project by Beanbag Amerika used via Creative Commons license: https://flic.kr/p/uvuHK
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The Boston Globe is there.

Submitted, for your approval...

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This piece was done in audio mulch.

Selected the article, recorded a reading of the text, and ran the voice through a dl granulator (with parameters manipulated in real time). Then two "rhythm" tracks (processed guitar) far off in the distance. Then an MS20 (emulated). Arranged and processed the sounds a little, then mixed down to this.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0158: Syllable Gumbo
The Assignment: Go from noise to signal with words.

Quite often Disquiet Junto projects actively avoid the human voice. This week’s project engages directly with the voice, and with language.

Step 1: Select the least important story on the front page of your local newspaper or the home page of your local newspaper’s website.

Step 2: Select the first or first two sentences of that story. Combined the resulting text should have between roughly 15 and 25 words.

Step 3: Record yourself, or someone else, reading the text aloud. You can use text-to-speech, though it is by no means required.

Step 4: Break the recording from step 3 into tiny parts.

Step 5: Produce an original piece of music in which the randomized “noise” of those tiny parts heard out of order slowly, over the course of one or two minutes, comes to form the full original statement.

Step 6: Add tonal and rhythmic material to the results of step 5.

Step 7: Upload the finished track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 8: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, January 12, 2015.

Length: The length of your finished work should be between one minute and two minutes.

More on this 158th Disquiet Junto project — “Go from noise to signal with words” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/01/08/disquiet0158-syllablegumbo/

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

Join the Disquiet Junto at:http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:http://disquiet.com/forums/

Photo associated with this project by Beanbag Amerika used via Creative Commons license: https://flic.kr/p/uvuHK
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Disquiet Junto Project 0155: Mix Match
The Assignment: Take a track and its remix and meld them into something new.

This is the next to the last project of 2014. It’s a remix of a remix, and of the track the remix was based on. These are the steps:

Step 1: Download the following two tracks. The first is “Waiting…” by Yellow Salamand’r and the second is a reworking of it, titled “Waiting (A Yellow Salamander Re-hash),” by Colab.

https://soundcloud.com/yellow-salamandr-4-1/yellow-salamandr-4-waiting

https://soundcloud.com/colab/waiting-a-yellow-salamander-re-hash

Step 2: Create a new track that combines the two source tracks. Don’t add any new audio, though you can transform the source material as you wish.

Step 3: Upload the finished track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 4: Listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Length: Your finished work should be between roughly 3 to 4 minutes long.

More on this 155th Disquiet Junto project — “Take a track and its remix and meld them into something new” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/12/18/disquiet0155-mixmatch/

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

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
http://disquiet.com/forums/

Image associated with this project by Chris Beckett via a Creative Commons license:
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Disquiet Junto Project 0155: Mix Match
The Assignment: Take a track and its remix and meld them into something new.

This is the next to the last project of 2014. It’s a remix of a remix, and of the track the remix was based on. These are the steps:

Step 1: Download the following two tracks. The first is “Waiting…” by Yellow Salamand’r and the second is a reworking of it, titled “Waiting (A Yellow Salamander Re-hash),” by Colab.

https://soundcloud.com/yellow-salamandr-4-1/yellow-salamandr-4-waiting

https://soundcloud.com/colab/waiting-a-yellow-salamander-re-hash

Step 2: Create a new track that combines the two source tracks. Don’t add any new audio, though you can transform the source material as you wish.

Step 3: Upload the finished track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 4: Listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Length: Your finished work should be between roughly 3 to 4 minutes long.

More on this 155th Disquiet Junto project — “Take a track and its remix and meld them into something new” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/12/18/disquiet0155-mixmatch/

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

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
http://disquiet.com/forums/

Image associated with this project by Chris Beckett via a Creative Commons license:
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@extrospection-playlists

Subscribe to this link in order to receive news about this group:
tinyletter.com/Sozu-project

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Complete playlists:
@extrospection-playlists

Subscribe to this link in order to receive news about this group:
tinyletter.com/Sozu-project

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Disquiet Junto Project 0138: Video Sonic Void
The Assignment: Compose a 2.5-minute soundtrack to complement a work of silent video art.

More on this 138th Disquiet Junto project — “Compose a 2.5-minute soundtrack to complement a work of silent video art″ — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/08/21/disquiet0138-videosonicvoid/

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

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
http://disquiet.com/forums/

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Disquiet Junto Project 0138: Video Sonic Void
The Assignment: Compose a 2.5-minute soundtrack to complement a work of silent video art.

More on this 138th Disquiet Junto project — “Compose a 2.5-minute soundtrack to complement a work of silent video art″ — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/08/21/disquiet0138-videosonicvoid/

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

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
http://disquiet.com/forums/

The image associated with this track is a still from the video that inspired it: “Untitled #8, 2004″ by Josh Azzarella.]]> 1497419 no no Sat, 23 Aug 2014 04:38:59 +0200 2014-08-23T04:38:59+02:00 2:31 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/vi-disquiet0133-sixnotesong/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-
Disquiet Junto Project 0133: Six-Note Song
The project is this: Compose a song that consists of just six notes. There should just be one short passage, with one “voice,” on whatever instrument you elect to use.
When you are done, upload the track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud, following the directions below.
Background: The idea of a “six-word story” was spurred by a reported challenge from Ernest Hemingway, who supposedly — though perhaps apocryphally — wrote the following when dared to be as brief as possible: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
Deadline: Monday, July 21, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: The length of your finished work will likely be under one minute.
More on this 133rd Disquiet Junto project — “Compose an especially short and concise composition” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/07/17/disquiet0133-sixnotesong/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
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Disquiet Junto Project 0133: Six-Note Song
The project is this: Compose a song that consists of just six notes. There should just be one short passage, with one “voice,” on whatever instrument you elect to use.
When you are done, upload the track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud, following the directions below.
Background: The idea of a “six-word story” was spurred by a reported challenge from Ernest Hemingway, who supposedly — though perhaps apocryphally — wrote the following when dared to be as brief as possible: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
Deadline: Monday, July 21, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: The length of your finished work will likely be under one minute.
More on this 133rd Disquiet Junto project — “Compose an especially short and concise composition” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/07/17/disquiet0133-sixnotesong/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
http://disquiet.com/forums]]> 1497420 no no Sat, 19 Jul 2014 03:52:06 +0200 2014-07-19T03:52:06+02:00 0:58 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/in-c-for-three-disquiet0132-posthumousnofitrio/ https://soundcloud.com/jan-van-den-brink-1/in-c-disquiet0066-nonofi?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet0066-nonofi

The rest is acoustic guitar (with mic and pickup). Some processing, but this was the one take.

RIP

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Disquiet Junto Project 0132: Posthumous Nofi Trio

Each Thursday at the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just over four days to upload a track in response to the assignment. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate.

This assignment was made in the mid-afternoon, California time, on Thursday, July 10, with 11:59pm on the following Monday, July 14, 2013, as the deadline.

These are the instructions that went out to the group’s email list (at tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto):

This week’s project is a tribute to the late Jeffrey Melton, the talented musician, best known on SoundCloud and Twitter as @nofi. The project builds on the Disquiet Junto Project 0066, which took place 66 weeks ago.

The Disquiet Junto Project 0066 had participants perform live over a segment of a live recording of Melton himself playing solo. The result was a series of posthumous duets. This week we’ll produce a series of posthumous trios. The steps are as follows:

Step 1: Choose one of the tracks that resulted from Disquiet Junto project 0066:

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet0066-nonofi

Step 2: Listen to your chosen track several times, to get to know it.

Step 3: Extend the file by 10 to 15 seconds.

Step 4: Record yourself performing live along with the track. Any instrumentation is fine. Just no voice. Be sure to play alone for approximately 10 seconds after the original track ends.

Step 5: Upload the track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud, following the directions below.

Background: Melton passed away March 30, 2013, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he lived with his wife and seven-year-old son. He was 42. Melton had been involved with the Disquiet Junto since the very first Junto project, back in January 2012, and he early on volunteered to create a Twitter list of the handles of participating Junto members.

Deadline: Monday, July 14, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: The length of your finished work will be 10 to 15 seconds longer than the track you selected.

More on this 132nd Disquiet Junto project — “Collaborate with the late Jeffrey (Nofi) Melton using a previous tribute track” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/07/10/disquiet0132-posthumousnofitrio/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
http://disquiet.com/forums
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The rest is acoustic guitar (with mic and pickup). Some processing, but this was the one take.

RIP

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Disquiet Junto Project 0132: Posthumous Nofi Trio

Each Thursday at the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just over four days to upload a track in response to the assignment. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate.

This assignment was made in the mid-afternoon, California time, on Thursday, July 10, with 11:59pm on the following Monday, July 14, 2013, as the deadline.

These are the instructions that went out to the group’s email list (at tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto):

This week’s project is a tribute to the late Jeffrey Melton, the talented musician, best known on SoundCloud and Twitter as @nofi. The project builds on the Disquiet Junto Project 0066, which took place 66 weeks ago.

The Disquiet Junto Project 0066 had participants perform live over a segment of a live recording of Melton himself playing solo. The result was a series of posthumous duets. This week we’ll produce a series of posthumous trios. The steps are as follows:

Step 1: Choose one of the tracks that resulted from Disquiet Junto project 0066:

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet0066-nonofi

Step 2: Listen to your chosen track several times, to get to know it.

Step 3: Extend the file by 10 to 15 seconds.

Step 4: Record yourself performing live along with the track. Any instrumentation is fine. Just no voice. Be sure to play alone for approximately 10 seconds after the original track ends.

Step 5: Upload the track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud, following the directions below.

Background: Melton passed away March 30, 2013, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he lived with his wife and seven-year-old son. He was 42. Melton had been involved with the Disquiet Junto since the very first Junto project, back in January 2012, and he early on volunteered to create a Twitter list of the handles of participating Junto members.

Deadline: Monday, July 14, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: The length of your finished work will be 10 to 15 seconds longer than the track you selected.

More on this 132nd Disquiet Junto project — “Collaborate with the late Jeffrey (Nofi) Melton using a previous tribute track” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/07/10/disquiet0132-posthumousnofitrio/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
http://disquiet.com/forums
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Disquiet Junto Project 0117: Naviar Junto Haiku
This week’s project involves members of the Disquiet Junto participating in another music-making community: the Naviar Haiku Project. Already members of the Junto have joined in the Naviar, and this is an opportunity to add to those ranks. Each week participants in the Naviar Haiku Project compose original pieces of music in response to a shared, provided haiku. The following are the steps for this week.
Step 1: This is the haiku for the 12th Naviar Haiku project entry:
“They encounter
A cathedral of ice
At the end of the world”
Step 2: Compose an original piece of music in response.
Step 3: Upload the file to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud and describe your approach and process in the text field associated with the track.
Step 4: Also consider uploading the file to the Naviar Laboratory group on SoundCloud.
Step 5: Listen to other members’ tracks as they appear in the Disquiet Junto feed on SoundCloud, and comment on them when you have the time.
Additional Background: (1) At the end of every month a selection of tracks will be available on Naviar’s Bandcamp page as a pay-what-you-want album. (2) The haiku by Nite Rote. (3) The Naviar deadline is Wednesday, April 2, but this Junto project is to be completed by March 31. (4) The haiku was inspired by Werner Herzog’s documentary Encounters at the End of the World.
Deadline: Monday, March 31, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: Length is for you to determine, but between one and five minutes is recommended.

More on this 117th Disquiet Junto project — “Compose an original piece of music in response to a haiku” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/03/27/disquiet0117-naviarjunto/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Join the Naviar Haiku Project at:
https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory
More on Naviar at:
http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/
Haiku by Nite Rote, more from whom at:
http://niterote.com/
Image associated with this Junto project is by William Warby, via a Creative Commons license:
https://flic.kr/p/8HqHv9
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Disquiet Junto Project 0117: Naviar Junto Haiku
This week’s project involves members of the Disquiet Junto participating in another music-making community: the Naviar Haiku Project. Already members of the Junto have joined in the Naviar, and this is an opportunity to add to those ranks. Each week participants in the Naviar Haiku Project compose original pieces of music in response to a shared, provided haiku. The following are the steps for this week.
Step 1: This is the haiku for the 12th Naviar Haiku project entry:
“They encounter
A cathedral of ice
At the end of the world”
Step 2: Compose an original piece of music in response.
Step 3: Upload the file to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud and describe your approach and process in the text field associated with the track.
Step 4: Also consider uploading the file to the Naviar Laboratory group on SoundCloud.
Step 5: Listen to other members’ tracks as they appear in the Disquiet Junto feed on SoundCloud, and comment on them when you have the time.
Additional Background: (1) At the end of every month a selection of tracks will be available on Naviar’s Bandcamp page as a pay-what-you-want album. (2) The haiku by Nite Rote. (3) The Naviar deadline is Wednesday, April 2, but this Junto project is to be completed by March 31. (4) The haiku was inspired by Werner Herzog’s documentary Encounters at the End of the World.
Deadline: Monday, March 31, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: Length is for you to determine, but between one and five minutes is recommended.

More on this 117th Disquiet Junto project — “Compose an original piece of music in response to a haiku” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/03/27/disquiet0117-naviarjunto/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Join the Naviar Haiku Project at:
https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory
More on Naviar at:
http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/
Haiku by Nite Rote, more from whom at:
http://niterote.com/
Image associated with this Junto project is by William Warby, via a Creative Commons license:
https://flic.kr/p/8HqHv9
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image:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Hope_(Antarctica).jpg

]]> 1497423 no no Sat, 29 Mar 2014 22:09:22 +0100 2014-03-29T22:09:22+01:00 3:40 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/time-of-the-sines-disquiet0114-60hz/ Created an AudioMulch patch (see a picture here: http://thebellmechanical.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/ampatch.png), where each one of the source tracks was routed through one or more AM devices.
Set up a KORG nanoKontroller2 to control the volume of each track, and also attached the knobs to one effects parameter per track. This allowed me to mix and alter in real time.
Played one mix “live”, this is the recorded output.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0114: Five Sines
This week’s project is a celebration of the new album by Dave Seidel, who also goes by Mysterybear. Titled ~60 Hz, it just came out on the great Irritable Hedgehog record label. Seidel has extracted five parts of one track from his album and made them available for reworking by the Disquiet Junto. The album is based on combining sine waves, and in keeping with that approach we will in this project combine parts of his album. These are the 5 steps:
Step 1: Download the following file, a Zip archive that contains 5 different tracks:
http://goo.gl/rrIzU4
Step 2: Extract the five files and listen to them.
Step 3: Combine elements of the files into one track. You cannot add anything, but you can process them as you wish. An emphasis should be put on layering the material.

Step 4: Upload the file to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud and describe your approach and process in the text field associated with the track
Step 5: Listen to other members’ tracks as they appear in the Disquiet Junto feed on SoundCloud, and comment on them when you have the time.
Deadline: Monday, March 6, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: Your finished work should be between 2 minutes and 5 minutes.
More on this 114th Disquiet Junto project — “Combine elements of Dave Seidel’s album ~60 Hz (Irritable Hedgehog)” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/03/06/disquiet0114-60hz/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
The source audio is from Dave Seidel’s ~60 Hz album, released on the Irritable Hedgehog record label. More on the album at:
http://recordings.irritablehedgehog.com/album/dave-seidel-60-hz
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Set up a KORG nanoKontroller2 to control the volume of each track, and also attached the knobs to one effects parameter per track. This allowed me to mix and alter in real time.
Played one mix “live”, this is the recorded output.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0114: Five Sines
This week’s project is a celebration of the new album by Dave Seidel, who also goes by Mysterybear. Titled ~60 Hz, it just came out on the great Irritable Hedgehog record label. Seidel has extracted five parts of one track from his album and made them available for reworking by the Disquiet Junto. The album is based on combining sine waves, and in keeping with that approach we will in this project combine parts of his album. These are the 5 steps:
Step 1: Download the following file, a Zip archive that contains 5 different tracks:
http://goo.gl/rrIzU4
Step 2: Extract the five files and listen to them.
Step 3: Combine elements of the files into one track. You cannot add anything, but you can process them as you wish. An emphasis should be put on layering the material.

Step 4: Upload the file to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud and describe your approach and process in the text field associated with the track
Step 5: Listen to other members’ tracks as they appear in the Disquiet Junto feed on SoundCloud, and comment on them when you have the time.
Deadline: Monday, March 6, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: Your finished work should be between 2 minutes and 5 minutes.
More on this 114th Disquiet Junto project — “Combine elements of Dave Seidel’s album ~60 Hz (Irritable Hedgehog)” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/03/06/disquiet0114-60hz/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
The source audio is from Dave Seidel’s ~60 Hz album, released on the Irritable Hedgehog record label. More on the album at:
http://recordings.irritablehedgehog.com/album/dave-seidel-60-hz
]]> 1497424 no no Sat, 08 Mar 2014 21:26:55 +0100 2014-03-08T21:26:55+01:00 3:17 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/march-on-the-commons-disquiet0111-actsofcommons/ Extracted and processed part of B to get the main rhythm. Loaded A and C into Max for Live devices to create two distinct sample processing instruments for the other two tracks (which were recorded ‘live’ as played).
Released under Creative Commons license (non-commercial, share alike, derivatives ok).
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Disquiet Junto Project 0111: Acts of Commons
Create a new piece of music by using nothing but the following elements from these three pieces of music:
The last 30 seconds of Juan Manuel Castrillo’s “Horizontales,” from the album by that name on the netlabel Impulsive Habitat:
http://impulsivehabitat.com/releases/ihab084.htm
The first 10 seconds of J. Surak’s “Improvisation for Prepared Autoharp,” from the album If You Smell Gas on the netlabel Zeromoon:
http://museumofmicrocassetteart.bandcamp.com/album/moma086-if-you-smell-gas
The first 20 seconds of Maddame Cell’s “Auto Tempo 1,” from the album Autotempo on the netlabel Xylem:
http://xylemrecords.bandcamp.com/album/autotempo
Background: all of this music is available for free, non-commercial download and creative reuse thanks to a Creative Commons license. This project is part of a series of “netlabel remixes” intended to promote that sort of thoughtful, collaborative sharing. The audio was sourced from reviews posted originally at the excellent website actsofsilence.com, which is run by David Nemeth.
Deadline: Monday, February 17, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: Your finished work should be between 2 minute and 5 minutes.
Thanks to a Creative Commons license, this track contains elements of music by Juan Manuel Castrillo (“Horizontales,” from the album by that name on the netlabel Impulsive Habitat), J. Surak (“Improvisation for Prepared Autoharp,” from the album If You Smell Gas on the netlabel Zeromoon), and Maddame Cell (“Auto Tempo 1,” from the album Autotempo on the netlabel Xylem).
More on this 111th Disquiet Junto project (“Rework work from Impulsive Habitat, Xylem, Zeromoon (via actsofsilence.com)”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/02/13/disquiet0111-actsofcommons/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
The source audio for this track is available for free download from these netlabel websites:
http://impulsivehabitat.com/releases/ihab084.ht
http://museumofmicrocassetteart.bandcamp.com/album/moma086-if-you-smell-gas
http://xylemrecords.bandcamp.com/album/autotempo
The audio was sourced from reviews posted originally at the excellent website actsofsilence.com, which is run by David Nemeth.

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]]> Extracted and processed part of B to get the main rhythm. Loaded A and C into Max for Live devices to create two distinct sample processing instruments for the other two tracks (which were recorded ‘live’ as played).
Released under Creative Commons license (non-commercial, share alike, derivatives ok).
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Disquiet Junto Project 0111: Acts of Commons
Create a new piece of music by using nothing but the following elements from these three pieces of music:
The last 30 seconds of Juan Manuel Castrillo’s “Horizontales,” from the album by that name on the netlabel Impulsive Habitat:
http://impulsivehabitat.com/releases/ihab084.htm
The first 10 seconds of J. Surak’s “Improvisation for Prepared Autoharp,” from the album If You Smell Gas on the netlabel Zeromoon:
http://museumofmicrocassetteart.bandcamp.com/album/moma086-if-you-smell-gas
The first 20 seconds of Maddame Cell’s “Auto Tempo 1,” from the album Autotempo on the netlabel Xylem:
http://xylemrecords.bandcamp.com/album/autotempo
Background: all of this music is available for free, non-commercial download and creative reuse thanks to a Creative Commons license. This project is part of a series of “netlabel remixes” intended to promote that sort of thoughtful, collaborative sharing. The audio was sourced from reviews posted originally at the excellent website actsofsilence.com, which is run by David Nemeth.
Deadline: Monday, February 17, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: Your finished work should be between 2 minute and 5 minutes.
Thanks to a Creative Commons license, this track contains elements of music by Juan Manuel Castrillo (“Horizontales,” from the album by that name on the netlabel Impulsive Habitat), J. Surak (“Improvisation for Prepared Autoharp,” from the album If You Smell Gas on the netlabel Zeromoon), and Maddame Cell (“Auto Tempo 1,” from the album Autotempo on the netlabel Xylem).
More on this 111th Disquiet Junto project (“Rework work from Impulsive Habitat, Xylem, Zeromoon (via actsofsilence.com)”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/02/13/disquiet0111-actsofcommons/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
The source audio for this track is available for free download from these netlabel websites:
http://impulsivehabitat.com/releases/ihab084.ht
http://museumofmicrocassetteart.bandcamp.com/album/moma086-if-you-smell-gas
http://xylemrecords.bandcamp.com/album/autotempo
The audio was sourced from reviews posted originally at the excellent website actsofsilence.com, which is run by David Nemeth.

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Copied the first 18 sentences into TextEdit. Used the native speech synthesizer to read out the 18 sentences. Used Audacity to cut up the 18 sentences into fragments (i.e. cut up was done in the audio domain). Used Ableton Live to arrange the fragments into the required order. Added several beats and instruments throughout to turn it into a "song".

released under creative commons.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0110: WSB100

The day before this project began marked the 100th birthday of William S. Burroughs, who passed away in 1997. We celebrate his literary legacy by employing one of his classic artistic subroutines, the cut-up. (Special thanks to C. Reider of Vuzh Music for the centennial reminder.)

These are the steps:

Step 1: Take the lead article from your local newspaper and write down the first 18 sentences on separate slips of paper — or, if you prefer, extract the first 18 lines on separate strips of paper.

Step 2: Label these pieces of text from 1 to 18.

Step 3: Either read them out loud or use text-to-speech and record them.

Step 4: Construct the vocal of a song using the material. Sequence the vocal in the following order. Note that text element 3 serves as the chorus and text element 15 serves as the bridge. The remaining elements are in random sets of four, with no repetition.

3 3 3 3
14 10 5 7
3 3 3 3
8 18 11 4
3 3 3 3
6 17 12 9
15 15 15 15
3 3 3 3
13 2 16 1
3 3 3 3

Add music, whatever instrumentation you choose, to flesh this out into a proper song.

Step 5: When posting the track be sure to include a link to the originating source article. If you cut up the text by hand, please include photos of your process.

Deadline: Monday, February 10, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: Your finished work should be between 1 minute and 4 minutes.

More on this 110th Disquiet Junto project (“Celebrate the 100th birthday of that old cut-up, William S. Burroughs”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/02/06/disquiet0110-wsb100/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]> http://www.salemnews.com/local/x1262678588/A-closer-look-at-Alternative-Therapies
Copied the first 18 sentences into TextEdit. Used the native speech synthesizer to read out the 18 sentences. Used Audacity to cut up the 18 sentences into fragments (i.e. cut up was done in the audio domain). Used Ableton Live to arrange the fragments into the required order. Added several beats and instruments throughout to turn it into a "song".

released under creative commons.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0110: WSB100

The day before this project began marked the 100th birthday of William S. Burroughs, who passed away in 1997. We celebrate his literary legacy by employing one of his classic artistic subroutines, the cut-up. (Special thanks to C. Reider of Vuzh Music for the centennial reminder.)

These are the steps:

Step 1: Take the lead article from your local newspaper and write down the first 18 sentences on separate slips of paper — or, if you prefer, extract the first 18 lines on separate strips of paper.

Step 2: Label these pieces of text from 1 to 18.

Step 3: Either read them out loud or use text-to-speech and record them.

Step 4: Construct the vocal of a song using the material. Sequence the vocal in the following order. Note that text element 3 serves as the chorus and text element 15 serves as the bridge. The remaining elements are in random sets of four, with no repetition.

3 3 3 3
14 10 5 7
3 3 3 3
8 18 11 4
3 3 3 3
6 17 12 9
15 15 15 15
3 3 3 3
13 2 16 1
3 3 3 3

Add music, whatever instrumentation you choose, to flesh this out into a proper song.

Step 5: When posting the track be sure to include a link to the originating source article. If you cut up the text by hand, please include photos of your process.

Deadline: Monday, February 10, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: Your finished work should be between 1 minute and 4 minutes.

More on this 110th Disquiet Junto project (“Celebrate the 100th birthday of that old cut-up, William S. Burroughs”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/02/06/disquiet0110-wsb100/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]> 1497426 no no Mon, 10 Feb 2014 04:08:06 +0100 2014-02-10T04:08:06+01:00 4:27 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/awake-in-the-garden-disquiet0107-aeolianmetrics/
Derived three sample loops from the chimes (two rhythmic, one "background" noise). Also used a granulator to create one playable instrument from the chime sound.

All done in Ableton Live.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0107:
Aeolian Metrics

For this week’s project, use the sound of a wind chime as the rhythmic foundation for a track. (You can record the wind chime yourself, or use a pre-existing one, such as the recording at freesound.org.
Deadline: Monday, January 20, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: Your finished work should be between 2 and 4 minutes in length.
More on this 107th Disquiet Junto project (“Use a wind chime as the rhythmic foundation for a track.”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/01/16/disquiet0107-aeolianmetrics/

More on the Disquiet Junto at
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Photo associated with this project by Nik Stage, used via Creative Commons license from:
http://flic.kr/p/2EZm]]>
Derived three sample loops from the chimes (two rhythmic, one "background" noise). Also used a granulator to create one playable instrument from the chime sound.

All done in Ableton Live.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0107:
Aeolian Metrics

For this week’s project, use the sound of a wind chime as the rhythmic foundation for a track. (You can record the wind chime yourself, or use a pre-existing one, such as the recording at freesound.org.
Deadline: Monday, January 20, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: Your finished work should be between 2 and 4 minutes in length.
More on this 107th Disquiet Junto project (“Use a wind chime as the rhythmic foundation for a track.”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/01/16/disquiet0107-aeolianmetrics/

More on the Disquiet Junto at
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Photo associated with this project by Nik Stage, used via Creative Commons license from:
http://flic.kr/p/2EZm]]> 1497427 no no Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:59:48 +0100 2014-01-20T22:59:48+01:00 2:50 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/the-nessus-shirt-emporium/ 1497428 no no Sun, 19 Jan 2014 22:43:21 +0100 2014-01-19T22:43:21+01:00 18:20 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/the-chaldean-social-club/ 1497429 no no Sun, 19 Jan 2014 22:41:29 +0100 2014-01-19T22:41:29+01:00 5:17 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/tomorrow-came-2013-in-review-disquiet0104-audiojournal2013/
Granted, having a Junto project as an option every week does help with that (a lot), and the bulk of these were Disquiet Junto projects.

Jan:
From “Woodpecker Summons Time” (for disquiet0056-matteroftime)
https://soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical/woodpecker-summons-time

Feb:
From an unreleased, yet-unused track made in AudioMulch (no link)

Mar:
From “Three Pure(ish) Tone Studies in Audiomulch: Part 3- Fminor(ish)”
https://soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical/three-pure-ish-tone-studies-1

Apr:
From “on the head of a pin” (for disquiet0066-nofi)
https://soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical/on-the-head-of-a-pin

May:
From “impassible fractures” (for disquiet0073-faultynotation)
https://soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical/impassible-fractures

Jun:
From “last train homebound” (for disquiet0077-netlabelsplice]
https://soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical/last-train-homebound

Jul:
From “les mains du mal” (for disquiet0079-juntofate).
https://soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical/les-mains-du-mal-disquiet0079

Aug:
Spent August painting and reflooring the room that serves as my office/studio (which required disassembling my recording equipment) so no music was made this month. But I did spend a fair amount of time listening to records, so please enjoy five seconds of simulated vinyl noise.

Sep:
From “you must march back towards the things you had forgotten” (for disquiet0088-3d)
https://soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical/you-must-march-back-towards

Oct:
From “trickledown” (for disquiet0093-netlabelhybrid]
https://soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical/trickledown-disquiet0093

Nov:
From “the purposes of reason” (for disquiet0098-wovenaudiobio)
https://soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical/the-purposes-of-reason

Dec:
From “the bath of athena” (part of a series-in-progress)
https://soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical/the-bath-of-athena



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Disquiet Junto Project 0104: 2013 in 60 Seconds

This week’s project is a sound journal, an audio history of the past year. You will select a different audio element to represent each of the past 12 months of 2013. You will then select one 5-second segment from each of these audio elements. Then you will stitch these dozen 5-second segments together in chronological order to form 1 single 1-minute track. There should be no overlap or gap between segments; they should simply proceed from one to the next.

These audio elements will most likely be of music that you have yourself composed and recorded, but they might also consist of phone messages, field recordings, or other source material. These items should be somehow personal in nature, suitable to the autobiographical intention of the project; they should preferably of your own making, and not drawn from third-party sources.

Deadline: Monday, December 30, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your finished work should be 60 seconds long.

Information: Please, when posting your track on SoundCloud, list the source of each of the 12 elements.

More on this 104th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a 2013 audio diary with a dozen five-second segments”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/12/26/disquiet0104-audiojournal2013/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Photo associated with this project found via Creative Common
http://goo.gl/AuZpPf]]>
Granted, having a Junto project as an option every week does help with that (a lot), and the bulk of these were Disquiet Junto projects.

Jan:
From “Woodpecker Summons Time” (for disquiet0056-matteroftime)
https://soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical/woodpecker-summons-time

Feb:
From an unreleased, yet-unused track made in AudioMulch (no link)

Mar:
From “Three Pure(ish) Tone Studies in Audiomulch: Part 3- Fminor(ish)”
https://soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical/three-pure-ish-tone-studies-1

Apr:
From “on the head of a pin” (for disquiet0066-nofi)
https://soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical/on-the-head-of-a-pin

May:
From “impassible fractures” (for disquiet0073-faultynotation)
https://soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical/impassible-fractures

Jun:
From “last train homebound” (for disquiet0077-netlabelsplice]
https://soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical/last-train-homebound

Jul:
From “les mains du mal” (for disquiet0079-juntofate).
https://soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical/les-mains-du-mal-disquiet0079

Aug:
Spent August painting and reflooring the room that serves as my office/studio (which required disassembling my recording equipment) so no music was made this month. But I did spend a fair amount of time listening to records, so please enjoy five seconds of simulated vinyl noise.

Sep:
From “you must march back towards the things you had forgotten” (for disquiet0088-3d)
https://soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical/you-must-march-back-towards

Oct:
From “trickledown” (for disquiet0093-netlabelhybrid]
https://soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical/trickledown-disquiet0093

Nov:
From “the purposes of reason” (for disquiet0098-wovenaudiobio)
https://soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical/the-purposes-of-reason

Dec:
From “the bath of athena” (part of a series-in-progress)
https://soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical/the-bath-of-athena



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Disquiet Junto Project 0104: 2013 in 60 Seconds

This week’s project is a sound journal, an audio history of the past year. You will select a different audio element to represent each of the past 12 months of 2013. You will then select one 5-second segment from each of these audio elements. Then you will stitch these dozen 5-second segments together in chronological order to form 1 single 1-minute track. There should be no overlap or gap between segments; they should simply proceed from one to the next.

These audio elements will most likely be of music that you have yourself composed and recorded, but they might also consist of phone messages, field recordings, or other source material. These items should be somehow personal in nature, suitable to the autobiographical intention of the project; they should preferably of your own making, and not drawn from third-party sources.

Deadline: Monday, December 30, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your finished work should be 60 seconds long.

Information: Please, when posting your track on SoundCloud, list the source of each of the 12 elements.

More on this 104th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a 2013 audio diary with a dozen five-second segments”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/12/26/disquiet0104-audiojournal2013/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Photo associated with this project found via Creative Common
http://goo.gl/AuZpPf]]> 1497430 no no Sun, 29 Dec 2013 01:30:58 +0100 2013-12-29T01:30:58+01:00 1:00 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/the-bath-of-athena/
Poor old Teiresias went blind, for this one.]]>
Poor old Teiresias went blind, for this one.]]> 1497432 no no Mon, 23 Dec 2013 04:00:57 +0100 2013-12-23T04:00:57+01:00 4:00 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/a-golden-sleep-beneath-a-grainy-shiny-tree-disquiet0103-tinselsong/
Sample A: Rauschgold, by L-A-J:
http://soundcloud.com/l-a-j-1/rauschgold-disquiet0102

Sample B: Grains and Pitch, by Jacob Newman:
http://soundcloud.com/captured-space/grains-and-pitch-disquiet0102

Sample C: Asleep Under the Tree, by lordofoverstock :
http://soundcloud.com/lordofoverstock/asleep-under-the-tree

Arranged into ABACABAC as directed. I eventually introduce some harmonizing elements (simple pitch shifts) as the piece goes on. Made a chorus/bridge/break using modified versions of the same loops (in a different “key”).

The “bell” sound that comes in later is from my own disquiet #0102 track from last week:

http://soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical/a-shining-tree

Made w Ableton Live. Released under Creative Commons [BY-NC-SA].

And please enjoy whatever December-Soltiscey thing your particular culture celebrates right about now.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0103: Tinsel Song

This week’s project, the 103rd, is based on last week's, the 102nd. The instructions are as follows:

Step 1: Select three different works from last week's project, as collected at this URL: 

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet0102-sonictinsel

Step 2: Label them Source A, B, and C.

Step 3: Create an underlying foundation for a song by creating a loop-able segment structured as follows: four beats of Source A, four beats of Source B, four beats of Source A, four beats of Source C. 

Step 4: Let that loop repeat twice before introducing any additional elements.

Step 5: Continue to loop the segment and augment/distort/filter it as you so desire, and introduce any additional material, toward the goal of creating an original piece of music.

Bonus Round: If you are inclined, create a chorus for the song by holding Source B for an extended period of time, and create a bridge by holding Source C for an extended period of time. Again, feel free to augment/distort/filter them.

Deadline: Monday, December 23, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your track’s length should be between 1 and four minutes.

More on this 103rd weekly Disquiet Junto project (Make a song based on last week's "sonic tinsel" project) at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/12/19/disquiet0103-tinselsong/

Source audio from these three tracks:
http://soundcloud.com/captured-space/grains-and-pitch-disquiet0102

http://soundcloud.com/l-a-j-1/rauschgold-disquiet0102

http://soundcloud.com/lordofoverstock/asleep-under-the-tree

http://soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical/a-shining-tree

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Image associated with the project adopted from one found via Creative Commons at:
http://goo.gl/FUIcVq]]>
Sample A: Rauschgold, by L-A-J:
http://soundcloud.com/l-a-j-1/rauschgold-disquiet0102

Sample B: Grains and Pitch, by Jacob Newman:
http://soundcloud.com/captured-space/grains-and-pitch-disquiet0102

Sample C: Asleep Under the Tree, by lordofoverstock :
http://soundcloud.com/lordofoverstock/asleep-under-the-tree

Arranged into ABACABAC as directed. I eventually introduce some harmonizing elements (simple pitch shifts) as the piece goes on. Made a chorus/bridge/break using modified versions of the same loops (in a different “key”).

The “bell” sound that comes in later is from my own disquiet #0102 track from last week:

http://soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical/a-shining-tree

Made w Ableton Live. Released under Creative Commons [BY-NC-SA].

And please enjoy whatever December-Soltiscey thing your particular culture celebrates right about now.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0103: Tinsel Song

This week’s project, the 103rd, is based on last week's, the 102nd. The instructions are as follows:

Step 1: Select three different works from last week's project, as collected at this URL: 

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet0102-sonictinsel

Step 2: Label them Source A, B, and C.

Step 3: Create an underlying foundation for a song by creating a loop-able segment structured as follows: four beats of Source A, four beats of Source B, four beats of Source A, four beats of Source C. 

Step 4: Let that loop repeat twice before introducing any additional elements.

Step 5: Continue to loop the segment and augment/distort/filter it as you so desire, and introduce any additional material, toward the goal of creating an original piece of music.

Bonus Round: If you are inclined, create a chorus for the song by holding Source B for an extended period of time, and create a bridge by holding Source C for an extended period of time. Again, feel free to augment/distort/filter them.

Deadline: Monday, December 23, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your track’s length should be between 1 and four minutes.

More on this 103rd weekly Disquiet Junto project (Make a song based on last week's "sonic tinsel" project) at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/12/19/disquiet0103-tinselsong/

Source audio from these three tracks:
http://soundcloud.com/captured-space/grains-and-pitch-disquiet0102

http://soundcloud.com/l-a-j-1/rauschgold-disquiet0102

http://soundcloud.com/lordofoverstock/asleep-under-the-tree

http://soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical/a-shining-tree

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Image associated with the project adopted from one found via Creative Commons at:
http://goo.gl/FUIcVq]]> 1497433 no no Mon, 23 Dec 2013 00:58:17 +0100 2013-12-23T00:58:17+01:00 3:24 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/a-shining-tree-disquiet0102-sonictinsel/
Two instruments, with treatments. Korg soft synths and effects, for the most part.

Process details at: http://thebellmechanical.com/2013/12/15/a-shining-tree-disquiet0102-sonictinsel/
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Disquiet Junto Project 0102: Sonic Tinsel

This week's project has a simple, fairly open-ended instruction. Tis the season, so we will contribute by creating secular holiday music. Record a one-minute track of loop-able background music that can be described as glistening, reflective, and gentle.

Deadline: Monday, December 16, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your track’s length should be one minute.

Title/Tag: Include the term “disquiet0102-sonictinsel” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

More on this 102nd weekly Disquiet Junto project (Record original secular holiday music: glistening, reflective, gentle) at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/12/12/disquiet0102-sonictinsel/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]>
Two instruments, with treatments. Korg soft synths and effects, for the most part.

Process details at: http://thebellmechanical.com/2013/12/15/a-shining-tree-disquiet0102-sonictinsel/
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Disquiet Junto Project 0102: Sonic Tinsel

This week's project has a simple, fairly open-ended instruction. Tis the season, so we will contribute by creating secular holiday music. Record a one-minute track of loop-able background music that can be described as glistening, reflective, and gentle.

Deadline: Monday, December 16, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your track’s length should be one minute.

Title/Tag: Include the term “disquiet0102-sonictinsel” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

More on this 102nd weekly Disquiet Junto project (Record original secular holiday music: glistening, reflective, gentle) at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/12/12/disquiet0102-sonictinsel/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]> 1497434 no no Sun, 15 Dec 2013 05:05:02 +0100 2013-12-15T05:05:02+01:00 1:00 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/the-bethel-construction-company/ 1497435 no no Sat, 14 Dec 2013 01:19:33 +0100 2013-12-14T01:19:33+01:00 4:31 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/for-whom-the-boole-tolls-disquiet0101-analogbinary/
In Ableton Live, loaded the sounds and made a few permutations of each, both in length and pitch. They are brought into and out of the piece throughout.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0101: Analog Binary

Record the audio of three objects in your home or workplace that have on/off switches. Capture the unique sound of them being turned on and off. For each of the switches, record several seconds of this on/off action so you can create loops of a steady pace. Then create an original piece of music that employs phase shifts — that is, in which the tiny distinctions between loops create noticeable patterning as time progresses. You can use some light processing, but the sense of "switch-ness" of the source audio should never be lost.

Deadline: Monday, December 9, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your track’s length should be between two and five minutes.

More on this 101st Disquiet Junto project (Make a phase composition based on the sounds of three switches) at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/12/05/disquiet0101-analogbinary/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]>
In Ableton Live, loaded the sounds and made a few permutations of each, both in length and pitch. They are brought into and out of the piece throughout.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0101: Analog Binary

Record the audio of three objects in your home or workplace that have on/off switches. Capture the unique sound of them being turned on and off. For each of the switches, record several seconds of this on/off action so you can create loops of a steady pace. Then create an original piece of music that employs phase shifts — that is, in which the tiny distinctions between loops create noticeable patterning as time progresses. You can use some light processing, but the sense of "switch-ness" of the source audio should never be lost.

Deadline: Monday, December 9, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your track’s length should be between two and five minutes.

More on this 101st Disquiet Junto project (Make a phase composition based on the sounds of three switches) at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/12/05/disquiet0101-analogbinary/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]> 1497437 no no Sun, 08 Dec 2013 04:47:07 +0100 2013-12-08T04:47:07+01:00 3:02 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/abraxas-incorporated/
(Ableton Live, additional sounds made in Audiomulch).]]>
(Ableton Live, additional sounds made in Audiomulch).]]> 1497438 no no Sun, 01 Dec 2013 21:06:57 +0100 2013-12-01T21:06:57+01:00 6:10 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/the-purposes-of-reason-disquiet0098-wovenaudiobio/
Wrote three texts of the appropriate lengths, recorded in Live and moved only the starting point to line up the texts. No real processing beyond compression and vol/pan.

The background music is my previous disquiet junto track, done for [disquiet0093-netlabelhybrid] (it strangely fit)

The Text:
100 words
----------
this morning i had a sense that
it was time to make a change.
nothing had felt quite right or true
for a very long time.
on my way to the drive through coffee place,
i drove past three road construction sites
the road was
all torn up, chunks of asphalt, concrete, ripped open.
and you could see places where the rebar had been ripped up,
bent back, exposed to the sun like a giant vivesected ribcage.
and i remembered the story of all those
unfortunate stray dogs, back in the 1600s, abducted
by decartes for the purposes of reason.

　
90 words
--------
this morning i had a sense that
there were invisible mice running around my room.
of course there were no actual real live invisible mice
running around my room, but i had just been dreaming
about my two cats running around the house,
and in the dream they had been chasing
invisible mice around my room. and i had just
woken up from this dream where my two cats
had been running around, chasing invisible mice
around my room.
and in waking up, i had made
the invisible mice disappear.

　
80 words
---------
this morning i had a sense that
it was time to make a change.
i had woken up to a semi-lucid dream
of cats chasing invisible mice and driven to lurid images
of early medicine performed in renasissance ampethetres
for no particular reason.
when i got home,
the old woman i found rummaging through my trash
on the sidewalk apologized to me.
i said 'its ok, have a good one' and went upstairs.
(if that was a test,
i failed).
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Disquiet Junto 0098: Woven Audiobiography

The steps for this week’s project are as follows:

Step A: Choose a number from 1 through 6. You can roll a die or use an online number generator, or come to a decision on your own.

Step B: Write a 100-word text beginning with one of the following phrases, depending on the number you selected. Where there are brackets fill them in with the appropriate information.

“I was born in [ ] and I like …”
“My name is [ ] and I was thinking …”
“This morning I had a sense that …”
“Try as I might, the same thing …”
“The last book I read was and …”
“On a Sunday morning I usually …”
Step C: Write a 90-word text beginning with the same phrase.

Step D: Write an 80-word text beginning with the same phrase.

Step E: Record yourself reading the three texts as three separate tracks. Record each at the same pace. Speak slowly and take an extended pause after any period.

Step F: Layer the three tracks into one track. They should all begin at the same point and the first few words should, more or less, overlap to the point of being indistinguishable.

Step G: Take a couple passed through audio, lightly balancing relative volume levels to emphasize key phrases or, for that matter, to enhance the low-key cacophony.

Step H: If you desire to, weave in one tonal element, though not so loud as to overpower the speaking.

Deadline: Monday, November 18, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your track’s length will be determined by the longest of your three recordings.


More on this 98th Disquiet Junto project, in which three original spoken texts are combined into one track, at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/11/14/disquiet0098-wovenaudiobio/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]>
Wrote three texts of the appropriate lengths, recorded in Live and moved only the starting point to line up the texts. No real processing beyond compression and vol/pan.

The background music is my previous disquiet junto track, done for [disquiet0093-netlabelhybrid] (it strangely fit)

The Text:
100 words
----------
this morning i had a sense that
it was time to make a change.
nothing had felt quite right or true
for a very long time.
on my way to the drive through coffee place,
i drove past three road construction sites
the road was
all torn up, chunks of asphalt, concrete, ripped open.
and you could see places where the rebar had been ripped up,
bent back, exposed to the sun like a giant vivesected ribcage.
and i remembered the story of all those
unfortunate stray dogs, back in the 1600s, abducted
by decartes for the purposes of reason.

　
90 words
--------
this morning i had a sense that
there were invisible mice running around my room.
of course there were no actual real live invisible mice
running around my room, but i had just been dreaming
about my two cats running around the house,
and in the dream they had been chasing
invisible mice around my room. and i had just
woken up from this dream where my two cats
had been running around, chasing invisible mice
around my room.
and in waking up, i had made
the invisible mice disappear.

　
80 words
---------
this morning i had a sense that
it was time to make a change.
i had woken up to a semi-lucid dream
of cats chasing invisible mice and driven to lurid images
of early medicine performed in renasissance ampethetres
for no particular reason.
when i got home,
the old woman i found rummaging through my trash
on the sidewalk apologized to me.
i said 'its ok, have a good one' and went upstairs.
(if that was a test,
i failed).
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Disquiet Junto 0098: Woven Audiobiography

The steps for this week’s project are as follows:

Step A: Choose a number from 1 through 6. You can roll a die or use an online number generator, or come to a decision on your own.

Step B: Write a 100-word text beginning with one of the following phrases, depending on the number you selected. Where there are brackets fill them in with the appropriate information.

“I was born in [ ] and I like …”
“My name is [ ] and I was thinking …”
“This morning I had a sense that …”
“Try as I might, the same thing …”
“The last book I read was and …”
“On a Sunday morning I usually …”
Step C: Write a 90-word text beginning with the same phrase.

Step D: Write an 80-word text beginning with the same phrase.

Step E: Record yourself reading the three texts as three separate tracks. Record each at the same pace. Speak slowly and take an extended pause after any period.

Step F: Layer the three tracks into one track. They should all begin at the same point and the first few words should, more or less, overlap to the point of being indistinguishable.

Step G: Take a couple passed through audio, lightly balancing relative volume levels to emphasize key phrases or, for that matter, to enhance the low-key cacophony.

Step H: If you desire to, weave in one tonal element, though not so loud as to overpower the speaking.

Deadline: Monday, November 18, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your track’s length will be determined by the longest of your three recordings.


More on this 98th Disquiet Junto project, in which three original spoken texts are combined into one track, at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/11/14/disquiet0098-wovenaudiobio/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]> 1497439 no no Tue, 19 Nov 2013 03:21:53 +0100 2013-11-19T03:21:53+01:00 0:43 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/trickledown-disquiet0093-netlabelhybrid/
Creative Commons. All non-commercial derivative works (with attribution) are authorized.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0093: Netlabel Hybrid

This is a shared-sample project. Create a single new piece of music by employing the selected material of each the following three tracks. See below.

All three of these tracks were initially posted to the Internet with a Creative Commons license encouraging derivative reworking. This project — one in an ongoing series of netlabel remixes undertaken by the Disquiet Junto — is intended to address the unfortunate popularity of “ND” (i.e., “no derivatives”) licenses among netlabels.

Please only use the following material in your piece; you can transform in any way you choose, but do not introduce any new source material. The music originated on these three netlabels: Birdsong, Inoquo, and Qunabu.

1: Use the first 10 seconds of “Dark City” by Marc Pastco off the 12AX7 album, released by inoquo.com, based in Barcelona, Spain.

MP3: http://goo.gl/MXDTJv

2: Use the second 10 seconds (i.e., from :11 to :20) of “Zamenhof Blues” by Digital_Me (Shay Librowski) off the The Accordion E.P., released by birdsong.co.il, based in Israel.

MP3: http://goo.gl/ysydcH

3: Use the third 10 seconds (i.e., from :21 to :30) of “Archean” by PlotKA off the Circulation of Deposits EP, released by netlabel.qunabu.com, based in Gdańsk, Poland.

MP3: http://goo.gl/pM9AqI

Deadline: Monday, October 14, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your track should have a duration of between one and five minutes.

More on this 93rd Disquiet Junto project, in which the music from three different netlabels was combined to create one track, at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/10/10/disquiet0093-netlabelhybrid/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

This track is composed from material extracted from three pre-existing tracks: “Dark City” by Marc Pastco off the 12AX7 album, released by inoquo.com, based in Barcelona, Spain; “Zamenhof Blues” by Digital_Me (Shay Librowski) off the The Accordion E.P., released by birdsong.co.il, based in Israel; and “Archean” by PlotKA off the Circulation of Deposits EP, released by netlabel.qunabu.com, based in Gdańsk, Poland.]]>
Creative Commons. All non-commercial derivative works (with attribution) are authorized.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0093: Netlabel Hybrid

This is a shared-sample project. Create a single new piece of music by employing the selected material of each the following three tracks. See below.

All three of these tracks were initially posted to the Internet with a Creative Commons license encouraging derivative reworking. This project — one in an ongoing series of netlabel remixes undertaken by the Disquiet Junto — is intended to address the unfortunate popularity of “ND” (i.e., “no derivatives”) licenses among netlabels.

Please only use the following material in your piece; you can transform in any way you choose, but do not introduce any new source material. The music originated on these three netlabels: Birdsong, Inoquo, and Qunabu.

1: Use the first 10 seconds of “Dark City” by Marc Pastco off the 12AX7 album, released by inoquo.com, based in Barcelona, Spain.

MP3: http://goo.gl/MXDTJv

2: Use the second 10 seconds (i.e., from :11 to :20) of “Zamenhof Blues” by Digital_Me (Shay Librowski) off the The Accordion E.P., released by birdsong.co.il, based in Israel.

MP3: http://goo.gl/ysydcH

3: Use the third 10 seconds (i.e., from :21 to :30) of “Archean” by PlotKA off the Circulation of Deposits EP, released by netlabel.qunabu.com, based in Gdańsk, Poland.

MP3: http://goo.gl/pM9AqI

Deadline: Monday, October 14, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your track should have a duration of between one and five minutes.

More on this 93rd Disquiet Junto project, in which the music from three different netlabels was combined to create one track, at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/10/10/disquiet0093-netlabelhybrid/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

This track is composed from material extracted from three pre-existing tracks: “Dark City” by Marc Pastco off the 12AX7 album, released by inoquo.com, based in Barcelona, Spain; “Zamenhof Blues” by Digital_Me (Shay Librowski) off the The Accordion E.P., released by birdsong.co.il, based in Israel; and “Archean” by PlotKA off the Circulation of Deposits EP, released by netlabel.qunabu.com, based in Gdańsk, Poland.]]> 1497440 no no Sun, 13 Oct 2013 03:48:29 +0200 2013-10-13T03:48:29+02:00 4:27 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/lonesome-for-the-heliopause-disquiet0089-vger/
Long after the pyramids have been rubbed down into dust, long after the Sun has swollen red and boiled off the oceans... she'll still be out there.

Godspeed, little Voyager. One day, you will be all that's left of us.

Process:
Used AudioHijack to capture the two 12-second plasma samples. Then loaded these into Ableton Live and created 8 permutations (the original two, plus selected transpositions-- I chose the numbers {-1, -2, -3, -5, -7, -11} because those are prime). These are being played in and out throughout the piece.

Also added additional public-domain space audio (available at http://www.nasa.gov/connect/sounds/#.UjSkVGTXhyH). The lonesome beeping is a slightly modified sample of Sputnik's famous tracking signal from 1957.

Finally added some low-level 'musical content' using one of Live's Instrument Racks to build a bell and space sound.

Creative commons. Feel free to remix with attribution.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0089: V’Ger

This week’s project is as follows. On its voyage beyond the bounds of our solar system, the Voyager 1 recorded two bursts of sound, which NASA has uploaded as part of the information video at the following URL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIAZWb9_si4

The musical noise can be heard in two 12-second segments, from 0:12 to 0:24 and then from 0:33 to 0:45.

Those sounds will serve as the source material for your track. Now that Voyager 1 has left the solar system, you will write a short piece of goodbye music to send it on its way, using these sounds recorded in the outer space. You can add whatever you want to them, and you can transform the noise as you see fit, but you should retain elements of the original source material so that it remains recognizable to the listener. In particular, pay attention to the source audio’s melodic content.

Deadline: Monday, September 16, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your track should have a duration of of between one and five minutes.

More on this 89th Disquiet Junto project, in which the sounds of interstellar space are used to make “goodbye music” for the Voyager 1 space probe, at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/09/12/disquiet0089-vger/

Source audio courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Iowa via:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIAZWb9_si4

Special thanks to Mark Ward (mark-ward.org) for having suggested this material as the subject for a Disquiet Junto project.

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]>
Long after the pyramids have been rubbed down into dust, long after the Sun has swollen red and boiled off the oceans... she'll still be out there.

Godspeed, little Voyager. One day, you will be all that's left of us.

Process:
Used AudioHijack to capture the two 12-second plasma samples. Then loaded these into Ableton Live and created 8 permutations (the original two, plus selected transpositions-- I chose the numbers {-1, -2, -3, -5, -7, -11} because those are prime). These are being played in and out throughout the piece.

Also added additional public-domain space audio (available at http://www.nasa.gov/connect/sounds/#.UjSkVGTXhyH). The lonesome beeping is a slightly modified sample of Sputnik's famous tracking signal from 1957.

Finally added some low-level 'musical content' using one of Live's Instrument Racks to build a bell and space sound.

Creative commons. Feel free to remix with attribution.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0089: V’Ger

This week’s project is as follows. On its voyage beyond the bounds of our solar system, the Voyager 1 recorded two bursts of sound, which NASA has uploaded as part of the information video at the following URL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIAZWb9_si4

The musical noise can be heard in two 12-second segments, from 0:12 to 0:24 and then from 0:33 to 0:45.

Those sounds will serve as the source material for your track. Now that Voyager 1 has left the solar system, you will write a short piece of goodbye music to send it on its way, using these sounds recorded in the outer space. You can add whatever you want to them, and you can transform the noise as you see fit, but you should retain elements of the original source material so that it remains recognizable to the listener. In particular, pay attention to the source audio’s melodic content.

Deadline: Monday, September 16, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your track should have a duration of of between one and five minutes.

More on this 89th Disquiet Junto project, in which the sounds of interstellar space are used to make “goodbye music” for the Voyager 1 space probe, at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/09/12/disquiet0089-vger/

Source audio courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Iowa via:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIAZWb9_si4

Special thanks to Mark Ward (mark-ward.org) for having suggested this material as the subject for a Disquiet Junto project.

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]> 1497441 no no Sat, 14 Sep 2013 20:25:11 +0200 2013-09-14T20:25:11+02:00 3:08 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/you-must-march-back-towards-the-things-you-had-forgotten-disquiet0088-3d/
These were then loaded into Ableton Live. The melodic riff is aggressively panned for the first 30 seconds. The beat starts to go errant at 30 seconds. Then the drone is run through a pingpong delay for the final 30 seconds.

Creative Commons license. Feel free to remix (with attribution).

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Disquiet Junto Project 0088: 3D

This week’s project focuses on the spatial aspect of sound. The instructions are as follows: 

Part 1: Your track will consist of three simultaneous segments: a drone, a beat, and a melodic fragment. 

Part 2: Each of those three segments will repeat consistently for the length of the finished track. 

Part 3: The only thing that will change is that you will manipulate them to simulate three-dimensional motion for someone listening to the track on headphones. You can do this by using stereo effects, volume shifts, filters, or any other technological means. 

Part 4: Your track will last one minute and thirty seconds. For the first 30 seconds, the drone and the beat will remain consistent, but the melodic fragment will move around in 3D. For the second 30 seconds, only the beat will move around, and for the final 30 seconds, only the drone will move around.

Deadline: Monday, September 9, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your track should have a duration of one minute and thirty seconds.

Title/Tag: Include the term “disquiet0088-3d” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

More on this 88th Disquiet Junto project, which explores 3D sound, at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/09/05/disquiet0088-3d/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]>
These were then loaded into Ableton Live. The melodic riff is aggressively panned for the first 30 seconds. The beat starts to go errant at 30 seconds. Then the drone is run through a pingpong delay for the final 30 seconds.

Creative Commons license. Feel free to remix (with attribution).

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Disquiet Junto Project 0088: 3D

This week’s project focuses on the spatial aspect of sound. The instructions are as follows: 

Part 1: Your track will consist of three simultaneous segments: a drone, a beat, and a melodic fragment. 

Part 2: Each of those three segments will repeat consistently for the length of the finished track. 

Part 3: The only thing that will change is that you will manipulate them to simulate three-dimensional motion for someone listening to the track on headphones. You can do this by using stereo effects, volume shifts, filters, or any other technological means. 

Part 4: Your track will last one minute and thirty seconds. For the first 30 seconds, the drone and the beat will remain consistent, but the melodic fragment will move around in 3D. For the second 30 seconds, only the beat will move around, and for the final 30 seconds, only the drone will move around.

Deadline: Monday, September 9, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your track should have a duration of one minute and thirty seconds.

Title/Tag: Include the term “disquiet0088-3d” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

More on this 88th Disquiet Junto project, which explores 3D sound, at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/09/05/disquiet0088-3d/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]> 1497442 no no Sat, 07 Sep 2013 22:43:11 +0200 2013-09-07T22:43:11+02:00 1:30 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/the-curious-case-of-herr-haydns-head-disquiet0082-minimalhaydn/
Some years later, the body was to be moved. The head of course was found to be missing. When pressed for the skull, our dear phrenologist (apparently the only obvious suspect in the crime), presented a false skull (source unknown) for internment with Herr Haydn's body. Herr Haydn's true skull was instead kept in a decorated wooden box, and passed down through the generations.

In 1895, the true skull of Haydn was finally returned. And buried with the rest of him. The substitute skull (source still unknown) was left in the grave, alongside the proper one.

And that is the story of how Herr Haydn ended up with two skulls in his grave.

Downloaded the source, converted that to 16-bit wav.

Permutated into 8 distinct sounds. Used these to make a minimal techno piece (Ableton Live)
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Disquiet Junto Project 0082: Minimal Haydn

This week’s project is another in a series of explorations of the concept of genre as a constraint. (The “downtempo” exercise went well several weeks ago, project 79, and this is another in that mode.) The genre this time is “minimal techno.” The source material is from another genre entirely: “classical,” specifically chamber music in the form of a string quartet. The goal of this project is to derive elements from the source material in the service of a track that would fit in the prescribed genre.

These are the steps:

Step 1: Download the MP3 track at the following URL. The track is the third movement of Franz Haydn’s String Quartet in F Major:

http://goo.gl/7MMHRA

Step 2: Listen through the full 1:55 of the track, noting the time codes of source elements that could lend themselves to a minimal techno track. Aim for roughly between three and six.

Step 3: Extract the handful of elements that you located in Step 2.

Step 4: Compose and record an original track that you feel conforms to the genre of minimal techno, using only the elements from Step 3. You can manipulate them in any way you choose, though at some point in the track they should each be somewhat recognizable from the source material. You cannot add any other sounds.

The source Haydn audio is from:
http://goo.gl/7MMHRA

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]>
Some years later, the body was to be moved. The head of course was found to be missing. When pressed for the skull, our dear phrenologist (apparently the only obvious suspect in the crime), presented a false skull (source unknown) for internment with Herr Haydn's body. Herr Haydn's true skull was instead kept in a decorated wooden box, and passed down through the generations.

In 1895, the true skull of Haydn was finally returned. And buried with the rest of him. The substitute skull (source still unknown) was left in the grave, alongside the proper one.

And that is the story of how Herr Haydn ended up with two skulls in his grave.

Downloaded the source, converted that to 16-bit wav.

Permutated into 8 distinct sounds. Used these to make a minimal techno piece (Ableton Live)
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Disquiet Junto Project 0082: Minimal Haydn

This week’s project is another in a series of explorations of the concept of genre as a constraint. (The “downtempo” exercise went well several weeks ago, project 79, and this is another in that mode.) The genre this time is “minimal techno.” The source material is from another genre entirely: “classical,” specifically chamber music in the form of a string quartet. The goal of this project is to derive elements from the source material in the service of a track that would fit in the prescribed genre.

These are the steps:

Step 1: Download the MP3 track at the following URL. The track is the third movement of Franz Haydn’s String Quartet in F Major:

http://goo.gl/7MMHRA

Step 2: Listen through the full 1:55 of the track, noting the time codes of source elements that could lend themselves to a minimal techno track. Aim for roughly between three and six.

Step 3: Extract the handful of elements that you located in Step 2.

Step 4: Compose and record an original track that you feel conforms to the genre of minimal techno, using only the elements from Step 3. You can manipulate them in any way you choose, though at some point in the track they should each be somewhat recognizable from the source material. You cannot add any other sounds.

The source Haydn audio is from:
http://goo.gl/7MMHRA

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]> 1497443 no no Sun, 28 Jul 2013 06:07:14 +0200 2013-07-28T06:07:14+02:00 4:46 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/les-mains-du-mal-disquiet0079-juntofate/
Downloaded the MP3 and converted to 16-bit WAV in Audacity. Then loaded multiple instances of the file into Ableton Live, slicing out five distinct loops, altering pitch/processing of each loop as needed.

Mapped mixer and loop triggers to MIDI controllers. The piece was "played" live and recorded. Some minor remixing and processing in Audacity done afterwards.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0079: Junto of Fate

This week’s project involves shared source material, and it is an exploration of genre, specifically “downtempo instrumental.” The score to the film Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) has been made available for free download as part of a remix contest being held by the netlabel Happy Puppy Records, the company releasing a restored copy of the film, and the great website freemusicarchive.org. You will be reworking the material with the goal of constructing a track that would be considered “downtempo instrumental.” One standard, six-sided die is required. The steps are as follows:

Step 1: Role a die six times and add the results.

Step 2: Role the die once and subtract this from the amount resulting from Step 1. If the result is zero, then start again at Step 1.

Step 3: The number that results from Step 2 is the track number from the album that will serve as the source material for your remix. You can locate and download your designated track from this page:

http://goo.gl/kTWGA

Step 4: Cut up and reuse material from the track resulting from Step 3 in the service of producing an original piece of music that would be considered “downtempo instrumental.” Also follow this language from the official contest: “no explicit adult material please. By submitting, you agree to license your track under the same BY-NC-SA license. If you include outside samples in your remix, please ensure they are of a similar sharable license.”

More on this 79th Disquiet Junto project, in which the score to the movie Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) is remixed to make a downtempo instrumental, at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/07/04/disquiet0079-juntofate/

More on the contest at:
http://goo.gl/GXAXf

More on the original film at:
http://www.manosinhd.com/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]>
Downloaded the MP3 and converted to 16-bit WAV in Audacity. Then loaded multiple instances of the file into Ableton Live, slicing out five distinct loops, altering pitch/processing of each loop as needed.

Mapped mixer and loop triggers to MIDI controllers. The piece was "played" live and recorded. Some minor remixing and processing in Audacity done afterwards.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0079: Junto of Fate

This week’s project involves shared source material, and it is an exploration of genre, specifically “downtempo instrumental.” The score to the film Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) has been made available for free download as part of a remix contest being held by the netlabel Happy Puppy Records, the company releasing a restored copy of the film, and the great website freemusicarchive.org. You will be reworking the material with the goal of constructing a track that would be considered “downtempo instrumental.” One standard, six-sided die is required. The steps are as follows:

Step 1: Role a die six times and add the results.

Step 2: Role the die once and subtract this from the amount resulting from Step 1. If the result is zero, then start again at Step 1.

Step 3: The number that results from Step 2 is the track number from the album that will serve as the source material for your remix. You can locate and download your designated track from this page:

http://goo.gl/kTWGA

Step 4: Cut up and reuse material from the track resulting from Step 3 in the service of producing an original piece of music that would be considered “downtempo instrumental.” Also follow this language from the official contest: “no explicit adult material please. By submitting, you agree to license your track under the same BY-NC-SA license. If you include outside samples in your remix, please ensure they are of a similar sharable license.”

More on this 79th Disquiet Junto project, in which the score to the movie Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) is remixed to make a downtempo instrumental, at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/07/04/disquiet0079-juntofate/

More on the contest at:
http://goo.gl/GXAXf

More on the original film at:
http://www.manosinhd.com/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]> 1497444 no no Sat, 06 Jul 2013 18:22:01 +0200 2013-07-06T18:22:01+02:00 4:58 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/teslas-revenge-disquiet0078-minusmusic/
Split the input mono file into four mono paths, each with a mono parametic eq on it. Each of the four had one selected frequency band filtered out. Panned these throughout the field.

Used MIDI to attach four of the buttons on a MIDI controller to the mute of each of the four filtered channels. Attached a fifth button to 'mute all'. Ran through and 'played' the buttons live.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0078: Less Sound, More Music

The 78th weekly Disquiet Junto project revisits the most popular project in the year and a half thus far of the ongoing Disquiet Junto series. It’s a shared-sample project. Everyone will work from the same source audio, which is provided below. You will take the provided sound sample and from it make an original work. You will do this only by subtracting sound from the sample. You won’t add anything to it. You won’t slow it down. You won’t speed it up. You won’t cut it up, and you won’t otherwise reorganize its contents. You won’t play it backwards. You will only “remove.” The word “remove” is up for interpretation — but generally speaking, I’d say that it means various acts of lowering the volume of a narrow or wide band of the audio spectrum for either a short or long period of time. And, of course, “lowering the volume” can be interpreted to mean muting outright. The act here of “removing” is the sonic equivalent of sculpting something from a solid block.

The track that will be the focus of our collective effort is a 1902 recording by the Edison Symphony Orchestra of “Angel’s Serenade,” or “La Serenata,” by composer Gaetano Braga. This link goes to the source MP3:

http://goo.gl/9sWNe

Deadline: Monday, July 1, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your piece will, due to the nature of the assignment, be the exact same length as the original recording on which it is based: two minutes and seven seconds (2:07).

More on this 78th Disquiet Junto project, in which sound is removed from a century-old Edison Symphony Orchestra recording, at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/06/27/disquiet0078-minusmusic/

This track a reworking of a 1902 recording by the Edison Symphony Orchestra of “Angel’s Serenade,” or “La Serenata,” by composer Gaetano Braga. The source audio is from this URL:
http://archive.org/details/EdisonSymphonyOrchestra-01-10

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]>
Split the input mono file into four mono paths, each with a mono parametic eq on it. Each of the four had one selected frequency band filtered out. Panned these throughout the field.

Used MIDI to attach four of the buttons on a MIDI controller to the mute of each of the four filtered channels. Attached a fifth button to 'mute all'. Ran through and 'played' the buttons live.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0078: Less Sound, More Music

The 78th weekly Disquiet Junto project revisits the most popular project in the year and a half thus far of the ongoing Disquiet Junto series. It’s a shared-sample project. Everyone will work from the same source audio, which is provided below. You will take the provided sound sample and from it make an original work. You will do this only by subtracting sound from the sample. You won’t add anything to it. You won’t slow it down. You won’t speed it up. You won’t cut it up, and you won’t otherwise reorganize its contents. You won’t play it backwards. You will only “remove.” The word “remove” is up for interpretation — but generally speaking, I’d say that it means various acts of lowering the volume of a narrow or wide band of the audio spectrum for either a short or long period of time. And, of course, “lowering the volume” can be interpreted to mean muting outright. The act here of “removing” is the sonic equivalent of sculpting something from a solid block.

The track that will be the focus of our collective effort is a 1902 recording by the Edison Symphony Orchestra of “Angel’s Serenade,” or “La Serenata,” by composer Gaetano Braga. This link goes to the source MP3:

http://goo.gl/9sWNe

Deadline: Monday, July 1, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your piece will, due to the nature of the assignment, be the exact same length as the original recording on which it is based: two minutes and seven seconds (2:07).

More on this 78th Disquiet Junto project, in which sound is removed from a century-old Edison Symphony Orchestra recording, at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/06/27/disquiet0078-minusmusic/

This track a reworking of a 1902 recording by the Edison Symphony Orchestra of “Angel’s Serenade,” or “La Serenata,” by composer Gaetano Braga. The source audio is from this URL:
http://archive.org/details/EdisonSymphonyOrchestra-01-10

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]> 1497445 no no Sun, 30 Jun 2013 03:55:48 +0200 2013-06-30T03:55:48+02:00 2:06 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/last-train-homebound-disquiet0077-netlabelsplice/
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This is a shared-sample project. Create a single new piece of music by employing the selected material (see below) of each the following three tracks. All three were initially posted to the Internet with a Creative Commons license encouraging derivative reworking. This project — one in an ongoing series of netlabel remixes undertaken by the Disquiet Junto — is intended to address the unfortunate popularity of “ND” (i.e., “no derivatives”) licenses among netlabels. Please only use the following material in your piece; you can transform in any way you choose, but do not introduce any new source material. The music originated on the netlabels tecnonucleo, Split Notes, and Tonstube.

1: The first 30 seconds of “20 200 2000 20000” off the album Sean but not Heard by Sean Archibald:

http://goo.gl/HqRY6

2: The final 30 seconds of “Aftermath” off the album Transmission by Unicode:

http://goo.gl/85ql3

3: From 3:00 to 3:30 of “C2” off the album Cràter by Adrià Bofarull and Joan Saura.

http://goo.gl/W8Y4T

More on this 77th Disquiet Junto project, in which the music from three different netlabels was combined to create one track, at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/06/20/disquiet0077-netlabelsplice/

This track is composed from material extracted from three pre-existing tracks: Adrià Bofarull and Joan Saura’s Cráter, Sean Archibald’s Sean but not Heard, and Unicode’s Transmission. More on Adrià Bofarull and Joan Saura’s album at http://www.tecnonucleo.org/index.php?page=release&release=38. More on Sean Archibald’s album at http://www.split-notes.com/011/. More on Unicode’s Transmission at http://archive.org/details/TON006.

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]>
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This is a shared-sample project. Create a single new piece of music by employing the selected material (see below) of each the following three tracks. All three were initially posted to the Internet with a Creative Commons license encouraging derivative reworking. This project — one in an ongoing series of netlabel remixes undertaken by the Disquiet Junto — is intended to address the unfortunate popularity of “ND” (i.e., “no derivatives”) licenses among netlabels. Please only use the following material in your piece; you can transform in any way you choose, but do not introduce any new source material. The music originated on the netlabels tecnonucleo, Split Notes, and Tonstube.

1: The first 30 seconds of “20 200 2000 20000” off the album Sean but not Heard by Sean Archibald:

http://goo.gl/HqRY6

2: The final 30 seconds of “Aftermath” off the album Transmission by Unicode:

http://goo.gl/85ql3

3: From 3:00 to 3:30 of “C2” off the album Cràter by Adrià Bofarull and Joan Saura.

http://goo.gl/W8Y4T

More on this 77th Disquiet Junto project, in which the music from three different netlabels was combined to create one track, at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/06/20/disquiet0077-netlabelsplice/

This track is composed from material extracted from three pre-existing tracks: Adrià Bofarull and Joan Saura’s Cráter, Sean Archibald’s Sean but not Heard, and Unicode’s Transmission. More on Adrià Bofarull and Joan Saura’s album at http://www.tecnonucleo.org/index.php?page=release&release=38. More on Sean Archibald’s album at http://www.split-notes.com/011/. More on Unicode’s Transmission at http://archive.org/details/TON006.

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]> 1497446 no no Tue, 25 Jun 2013 05:06:16 +0200 2013-06-25T05:06:16+02:00 4:17 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/impassible-fractures-disquiet0073-faultynotation/
Interpreted map color as 'instrument/sound', left-to-right distance as 'time', thickness of the area the volume/gain, and the vertical position to be pitch. Mapped six midi instruments and two looped/processed samples (both lifted from older works of mine).

The midi instruments were played 'by hand' (Korg nanoKontroller). The two loops were drawn into place.

Done in Ableton Live.


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Disquiet Junto Project 0073: Faulty Notation

This week’s project is about earthquakes. Each participant will receive a distinct section of a map of the San Andreas Fault. The section will be interpreted as a graphic notation score. The resulting music will, in the words of Geoff Manaugh of BLDG BLOG, “explore the sonic properties of the San Andreas Fault.”

More on this 73rd Disquiet Junto project, which involves reading a map of the San Andreas Fault as if it were a graphic notation score, at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/05/23/disquiet0073-faultynotation/

This project was conducted as part of a course of study led by Geoff Manaugh (BLDG BLOG). More on his research at:
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/san-andreas-architecture-for-fault.html

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

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Interpreted map color as 'instrument/sound', left-to-right distance as 'time', thickness of the area the volume/gain, and the vertical position to be pitch. Mapped six midi instruments and two looped/processed samples (both lifted from older works of mine).

The midi instruments were played 'by hand' (Korg nanoKontroller). The two loops were drawn into place.

Done in Ableton Live.


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Disquiet Junto Project 0073: Faulty Notation

This week’s project is about earthquakes. Each participant will receive a distinct section of a map of the San Andreas Fault. The section will be interpreted as a graphic notation score. The resulting music will, in the words of Geoff Manaugh of BLDG BLOG, “explore the sonic properties of the San Andreas Fault.”

More on this 73rd Disquiet Junto project, which involves reading a map of the San Andreas Fault as if it were a graphic notation score, at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/05/23/disquiet0073-faultynotation/

This project was conducted as part of a course of study led by Geoff Manaugh (BLDG BLOG). More on his research at:
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/san-andreas-architecture-for-fault.html

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

]]> 1497447 no no Mon, 27 May 2013 00:03:50 +0200 2013-05-27T00:03:50+02:00 3:05 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/a-brief-survey-of-the-elements-disquiet0069-4elements/
Gave each sound a 'character' with a mix of built-in contraptions and a couple of Korg Classic VST Plugins. Mapped mixer and selected effect parameters to knobs/sliders on a Novation MIDI controller, and (after 3 rehearsal runs) "played" and recorded this result.

Minor levelling/tweaking done in Audacity before uploading.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0069: The 4 Elements

This is a shared-sample project. Its theme is “The Four Elements.” The goal is to create a new piece of music by employing the following four source recordings, each of which is intended to represent one of the elements: earth, water, air, and fire. (Alternately, you can record your own source audio for any or all of the elements.) Your track should be be divided into four segments of roughly equal length, one for each element. Any two consecutive segments may overlap, but only briefly, up to three seconds. You can manipulate the source audio in any way you choose, but you cannot add any other source audio.

More on this 69th Disquiet Junto project, which involves creating a single piece of music from samples that represent each of the four elements, at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/04/25/disquiet0069-4elements/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

All the source audio is from Freesound.org. The earth sample is by ABouch, the water by aesqe, the wind by Bosk1, and the fire by suonho:

Earth: http://www.freesound.org/people/ABouch/sounds/174938/
Water: http://www.freesound.org/people/aesqe/sounds/39901/
Wind: http://www.freesound.org/people/Bosk1/sounds/144083/
Fire: http://www.freesound.org/people/suonho/sounds/3202/]]>
Gave each sound a 'character' with a mix of built-in contraptions and a couple of Korg Classic VST Plugins. Mapped mixer and selected effect parameters to knobs/sliders on a Novation MIDI controller, and (after 3 rehearsal runs) "played" and recorded this result.

Minor levelling/tweaking done in Audacity before uploading.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0069: The 4 Elements

This is a shared-sample project. Its theme is “The Four Elements.” The goal is to create a new piece of music by employing the following four source recordings, each of which is intended to represent one of the elements: earth, water, air, and fire. (Alternately, you can record your own source audio for any or all of the elements.) Your track should be be divided into four segments of roughly equal length, one for each element. Any two consecutive segments may overlap, but only briefly, up to three seconds. You can manipulate the source audio in any way you choose, but you cannot add any other source audio.

More on this 69th Disquiet Junto project, which involves creating a single piece of music from samples that represent each of the four elements, at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/04/25/disquiet0069-4elements/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

All the source audio is from Freesound.org. The earth sample is by ABouch, the water by aesqe, the wind by Bosk1, and the fire by suonho:

Earth: http://www.freesound.org/people/ABouch/sounds/174938/
Water: http://www.freesound.org/people/aesqe/sounds/39901/
Wind: http://www.freesound.org/people/Bosk1/sounds/144083/
Fire: http://www.freesound.org/people/suonho/sounds/3202/]]> 1497448 no no Sat, 27 Apr 2013 20:15:01 +0200 2013-04-27T20:15:01+02:00 4:22 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/you-cannot-hide-disquiet0068-deriv/
Not the quietest of weeks. But "Boston Strong", indeed...
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Used Audacity to decode and excerpt the required source material. Created variants of each sound to use as raw materials, then played/mixed/effected in Ableton Live.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0068: deriv.deriv.cc

This is a shared-sample project. Create a single new piece of music by employing the selected material (see below) of each the following three tracks. All three were initially released on the new netlabel deriv.cc, and were posted to the Internet with a Creative Commons license encouraging derivative reworking. In fact, the impetus for the label, which was founded by C. Reider, was to draw attention to the intrinsic benefits of allowing for derivative works. Like deriv.cc, this project — one in an ongoing series of netlabel remixes undertaken by the Disquiet Junto — is intended to address the unfortunate popularity of “ND” (i.e., “no derivatives”) licenses among netlabels. Please only use the following material in your piece; you can transform in any way you choose, but do not introduce any new source material.

1: The final 20 seconds of “The Find Beauty, Even in the Mundane”:

http://deriv.cc/stream/d1/02.ogg

2: The first 20 seconds of “Immaterial Girl”:

http://deriv.cc/stream/d1/04.ogg

3: The portion of “Libertarian Entertainment Automaton” that runs from 1:10 to 1:30:

http://deriv.cc/stream/d1/06.ogg

More on this 68th Disquiet Junto project, the intent of which is to draw attention to the benefits of a Creative Commons license allowing for derivative works, at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/04/18/disquiet0068-deriv/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto

This track is composed from material extracted from three pre-existing tracks (“The Find Beauty, Even in the Mundane,” “Immaterial Girl,” “Libertarian Entertainment Automaton”) by C. Reider, all of which were released on the album The Conjuncts on the deriv.cc netlabel, and were themselves derived from the following: “Garden City” and “Ventilation” from Tulse Hill by Hannah Marshall; “LichenWall” from Gardening by Steve Moyes; “Eighteen Events” from Not One Nor by Daniel Barbiero; “Awkward Customer” from [m2012/30-09] by Restive; “cues two three” and “cue six” from Cue Sheet by Sighup; “Sending Dreams to She Downstream” from Pocket Suite by He Can Jog; “The Palsgraf Scale” from Weights and Measures by Gurdonark; “Bonus Track” from Pale by Leo Bettinelli and Pol Nieva; “Haunted Grace” from Haunted Grace on SoundCloud by Jess Lemont a.k.a. Be A Waterwolf; “Ochiita” from Gently Annoying by Xesús Valle; and “Once More With Intellect” from [m2012/30-09] by Restive.]]>
Not the quietest of weeks. But "Boston Strong", indeed...
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Used Audacity to decode and excerpt the required source material. Created variants of each sound to use as raw materials, then played/mixed/effected in Ableton Live.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0068: deriv.deriv.cc

This is a shared-sample project. Create a single new piece of music by employing the selected material (see below) of each the following three tracks. All three were initially released on the new netlabel deriv.cc, and were posted to the Internet with a Creative Commons license encouraging derivative reworking. In fact, the impetus for the label, which was founded by C. Reider, was to draw attention to the intrinsic benefits of allowing for derivative works. Like deriv.cc, this project — one in an ongoing series of netlabel remixes undertaken by the Disquiet Junto — is intended to address the unfortunate popularity of “ND” (i.e., “no derivatives”) licenses among netlabels. Please only use the following material in your piece; you can transform in any way you choose, but do not introduce any new source material.

1: The final 20 seconds of “The Find Beauty, Even in the Mundane”:

http://deriv.cc/stream/d1/02.ogg

2: The first 20 seconds of “Immaterial Girl”:

http://deriv.cc/stream/d1/04.ogg

3: The portion of “Libertarian Entertainment Automaton” that runs from 1:10 to 1:30:

http://deriv.cc/stream/d1/06.ogg

More on this 68th Disquiet Junto project, the intent of which is to draw attention to the benefits of a Creative Commons license allowing for derivative works, at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/04/18/disquiet0068-deriv/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto

This track is composed from material extracted from three pre-existing tracks (“The Find Beauty, Even in the Mundane,” “Immaterial Girl,” “Libertarian Entertainment Automaton”) by C. Reider, all of which were released on the album The Conjuncts on the deriv.cc netlabel, and were themselves derived from the following: “Garden City” and “Ventilation” from Tulse Hill by Hannah Marshall; “LichenWall” from Gardening by Steve Moyes; “Eighteen Events” from Not One Nor by Daniel Barbiero; “Awkward Customer” from [m2012/30-09] by Restive; “cues two three” and “cue six” from Cue Sheet by Sighup; “Sending Dreams to She Downstream” from Pocket Suite by He Can Jog; “The Palsgraf Scale” from Weights and Measures by Gurdonark; “Bonus Track” from Pale by Leo Bettinelli and Pol Nieva; “Haunted Grace” from Haunted Grace on SoundCloud by Jess Lemont a.k.a. Be A Waterwolf; “Ochiita” from Gently Annoying by Xesús Valle; and “Once More With Intellect” from [m2012/30-09] by Restive.]]> 1497449 no no Sun, 21 Apr 2013 01:59:01 +0200 2013-04-21T01:59:01+02:00 4:34 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/national-poetry-month-the-bell-mechanical-disquiet0067-odysseymachine/
Book: {4,3} gives a 7.

Line: {4,2,3} gives a 24.

Quote:
But ere he enter'd yet the pleasant town,
Minerva azure-eyed met him, in form
A blooming maid, bearing her pitcher forth.
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Used the built-in Mac voice synth to generate the original speech/text. Changed the timing somewhat in Audacity to improve the cadence and rhythm of the speech. Loaded the result into Ableton Live, created four distinct voices (plus some forest crickets). "Played" and recorded this.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0067: Odyssey Machine

This week’s project is an adaptation of the ongoing National Poetry Month project at SoundCloud. The Junto will, collectively, produce new fragments of The Odyssey of Homer. A die and access to text-to-speech software are required. There are seven steps.

These are the steps:

Step 1: Roll a die twice (or two dice once) and add the results. This number will tell you which of the first dozen books of The Odyssey by Homer you will be working from.

Step 2: Roll a die three times (or three dice once) and multiply the results (i.e., if you get a 3, a 5, and a 6, then 3 x 5 x 6 = 90). This will tell you which line of the book from Homer’s Odyssey you will be working with.

Step 3: Locate that line in the version of The Odyssey at this URL:

http://archive.org/stream/theodysseyofhome24269gut/24269-0.txt

Step 4: Select the phrase that begins at your assigned line and ends with the next full stop (that is, with the next period) in the text.

Step 5: Record the selected text as audio using an automated text-to-speech tool. You can alter this text in any way you choose, but make certain that it remains inteligble.

Step 6: Record a new piece of background music for the spoken text. The sole source material for this background music should be the audio that resulted from step 5. You can transform the source audio in any way you choose. You can add up to three full seconds at the beginning and end of the spoken audio to allow for the music to build up and to fade out.

Step 7: This is the final step. Combine the audio from steps 5 and step 6 into one track, adjusting the relative volume levels as necessary.

Deadline: Monday, April 15, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

More on this 67th Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/04/11/disquiet0067-odysseymachine/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

This project was inspired by the National Poetry Month event at SoundCloud, more details on which here:
https://soundcloud.com/groups/national-poetry-month-collaborations

The source text for this project is William Cowper’s translation of The Odyssey of Homer, available here:
http://archive.org/stream/theodysseyofhome24269gut/24269-0.txt]]>
Book: {4,3} gives a 7.

Line: {4,2,3} gives a 24.

Quote:
But ere he enter'd yet the pleasant town,
Minerva azure-eyed met him, in form
A blooming maid, bearing her pitcher forth.
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Used the built-in Mac voice synth to generate the original speech/text. Changed the timing somewhat in Audacity to improve the cadence and rhythm of the speech. Loaded the result into Ableton Live, created four distinct voices (plus some forest crickets). "Played" and recorded this.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0067: Odyssey Machine

This week’s project is an adaptation of the ongoing National Poetry Month project at SoundCloud. The Junto will, collectively, produce new fragments of The Odyssey of Homer. A die and access to text-to-speech software are required. There are seven steps.

These are the steps:

Step 1: Roll a die twice (or two dice once) and add the results. This number will tell you which of the first dozen books of The Odyssey by Homer you will be working from.

Step 2: Roll a die three times (or three dice once) and multiply the results (i.e., if you get a 3, a 5, and a 6, then 3 x 5 x 6 = 90). This will tell you which line of the book from Homer’s Odyssey you will be working with.

Step 3: Locate that line in the version of The Odyssey at this URL:

http://archive.org/stream/theodysseyofhome24269gut/24269-0.txt

Step 4: Select the phrase that begins at your assigned line and ends with the next full stop (that is, with the next period) in the text.

Step 5: Record the selected text as audio using an automated text-to-speech tool. You can alter this text in any way you choose, but make certain that it remains inteligble.

Step 6: Record a new piece of background music for the spoken text. The sole source material for this background music should be the audio that resulted from step 5. You can transform the source audio in any way you choose. You can add up to three full seconds at the beginning and end of the spoken audio to allow for the music to build up and to fade out.

Step 7: This is the final step. Combine the audio from steps 5 and step 6 into one track, adjusting the relative volume levels as necessary.

Deadline: Monday, April 15, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

More on this 67th Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/04/11/disquiet0067-odysseymachine/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

This project was inspired by the National Poetry Month event at SoundCloud, more details on which here:
https://soundcloud.com/groups/national-poetry-month-collaborations

The source text for this project is William Cowper’s translation of The Odyssey of Homer, available here:
http://archive.org/stream/theodysseyofhome24269gut/24269-0.txt]]> 1497451 no no Sat, 13 Apr 2013 02:52:36 +0200 2013-04-13T02:52:36+02:00 0:36 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/on-the-head-of-a-pin-disquiet0066-nonofi/
Loaded this into Ableton, treated the original excerpt slightly, and just played Strat with a couple of Ableton effects. Tried to play not so much 'with' the piece, as 'under' it.

RIP.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0066: Communing with Nofi

This week’s project is a tribute to the late Jeffrey Melton, the talented musician, best known on SoundCloud and Twitter as @nofi. Melton passed away a few days ago, on March 30, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he lived with his wife and seven-year-old son. He was 42. Melton had been involved with the Disquiet Junto since the very first Junto project, back in January 2012, and he early on volunteered to create a Twitter list of the handles of participating Junto members.

The theme of this project, the 66th in the weekly Disquiet Junto series, is “posthumous collaboration”: communing through music.

These are the steps:

Step 1: Download the following live session of Jeffrey Melton performing. It was recorded in June of last year. Warning: it’s fairly sizable, at over 350 MBs:

http://nofi.org/media/2012-06-15-Unwind-live-session.mp3

Step 2: The track is quite long, so select a segment of between 2 and 5 minutes. The best way to go about this might be to do it at random (just put the needle down, as it were), but of course feel free to listen at length and select a favorite section.

Step 3: Once you have your extracted segment, set the opening of the track to fade in.

Step 4: Set the ending of the track to cut out suddenly.

Step 5: Listen to it several times, to get to know it.

Step 6: Record yourself performing live along with the segment you have selected. Any instrumentation is fine. Just no voice. Be sure to play alone for approximately 10 seconds after Melton’s performance cuts off.

Deadline: Monday, April 8, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your finished work should be the length determined in steps 2 and 6 above.

This track is a posthumous collaboration with Jeffrey Melton, aka Nofi, who passed away on March 30, 2013. It was recorded live in April 2013 atop a June 2012 Melton live recording.

More on this 66th Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/04/04/disquiet0066-nonofi/

More of Melton/Nofi’s music at:
http://www.nofi.org/

Read Melton’s obituary here:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/fortwayne/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=163988588

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]>
Loaded this into Ableton, treated the original excerpt slightly, and just played Strat with a couple of Ableton effects. Tried to play not so much 'with' the piece, as 'under' it.

RIP.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0066: Communing with Nofi

This week’s project is a tribute to the late Jeffrey Melton, the talented musician, best known on SoundCloud and Twitter as @nofi. Melton passed away a few days ago, on March 30, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he lived with his wife and seven-year-old son. He was 42. Melton had been involved with the Disquiet Junto since the very first Junto project, back in January 2012, and he early on volunteered to create a Twitter list of the handles of participating Junto members.

The theme of this project, the 66th in the weekly Disquiet Junto series, is “posthumous collaboration”: communing through music.

These are the steps:

Step 1: Download the following live session of Jeffrey Melton performing. It was recorded in June of last year. Warning: it’s fairly sizable, at over 350 MBs:

http://nofi.org/media/2012-06-15-Unwind-live-session.mp3

Step 2: The track is quite long, so select a segment of between 2 and 5 minutes. The best way to go about this might be to do it at random (just put the needle down, as it were), but of course feel free to listen at length and select a favorite section.

Step 3: Once you have your extracted segment, set the opening of the track to fade in.

Step 4: Set the ending of the track to cut out suddenly.

Step 5: Listen to it several times, to get to know it.

Step 6: Record yourself performing live along with the segment you have selected. Any instrumentation is fine. Just no voice. Be sure to play alone for approximately 10 seconds after Melton’s performance cuts off.

Deadline: Monday, April 8, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your finished work should be the length determined in steps 2 and 6 above.

This track is a posthumous collaboration with Jeffrey Melton, aka Nofi, who passed away on March 30, 2013. It was recorded live in April 2013 atop a June 2012 Melton live recording.

More on this 66th Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/04/04/disquiet0066-nonofi/

More of Melton/Nofi’s music at:
http://www.nofi.org/

Read Melton’s obituary here:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/fortwayne/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=163988588

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]> 1497452 no no Sun, 07 Apr 2013 03:41:59 +0200 2013-04-07T03:41:59+02:00 4:28 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/2809-outer-space-is-really-you-disquiet0065-pianoverlay/
Random Sequence Generator
For Disquiet Junto Project 0065: Piano Overlay

What follows are the start point and length of your assigned segment of Jared Brickman's hour-long composition.

Start Point: 28 minutes 9 seconds

Length: 2 minutes 30 seconds

More on the project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/03/28/disquiet0065-pianoverlay/

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Used Audacity to snip out the excerpt. Ran a guitar through an Audiomulch patch (with the actual guitar muted out from the mix) to add to the existing piece.]]>
Random Sequence Generator
For Disquiet Junto Project 0065: Piano Overlay

What follows are the start point and length of your assigned segment of Jared Brickman's hour-long composition.

Start Point: 28 minutes 9 seconds

Length: 2 minutes 30 seconds

More on the project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/03/28/disquiet0065-pianoverlay/

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Used Audacity to snip out the excerpt. Ran a guitar through an Audiomulch patch (with the actual guitar muted out from the mix) to add to the existing piece.]]> 1497453 no no Sat, 30 Mar 2013 18:30:16 +0100 2013-03-30T18:30:16+01:00 2:30 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/three-pureish-tone-studies-in-audiomulch-part-3-fminorish/
Part Three of Three. Process description at:

http://thebellmechanical.com/2013/03/29/upload-three-pureish-tone-studies-in-audiomulch/]]>
Part Three of Three. Process description at:

http://thebellmechanical.com/2013/03/29/upload-three-pureish-tone-studies-in-audiomulch/]]> 1497454 no no Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:56:15 +0100 2013-03-29T22:56:15+01:00 7:12 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/three-pureish-tone-studies-in-audiomulch-part-2-eflat-bflat-eish/
Part Two of Three. Process description at:

http://thebellmechanical.com/2013/03/29/upload-three-pureish-tone-studies-in-audiomulch/]]>
Part Two of Three. Process description at:

http://thebellmechanical.com/2013/03/29/upload-three-pureish-tone-studies-in-audiomulch/]]> 1497455 no no Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:49:18 +0100 2013-03-29T22:49:18+01:00 6:37 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/three-pureish-tone-studies-in-audiomulch-part-1-a-e-dish/
Part One of Three. Process description at:

http://thebellmechanical.com/2013/03/29/upload-three-pureish-tone-studies-in-audiomulch/]]>
Part One of Three. Process description at:

http://thebellmechanical.com/2013/03/29/upload-three-pureish-tone-studies-in-audiomulch/]]> 1497456 no no Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:44:59 +0100 2013-03-29T22:44:59+01:00 7:19 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/bucket-o-monks-disquiet0063-gregorianorianian/
No suitable space was available, so I placed an Android tablet ("the player") and an iPhone ('the recorder") inside an empty, cylindrical metal can that once held caramel corn (adorned with Disney characters, oddly enough-- so I can't photograph it for you), 12" wide by 18" tall (about 30x45cm). Hit play/record, then closed the cover.

This improvised 'reverberant environment' created a usable (somewhat lo-fi) sample.

Created an Audiomulch patch that read in four instances of this altered sample. Started each sample successively, and a little over halfway through began to apply stereo delays on two of these playing samples.

Everything after the four-minute mark is the sound of the effects loops, dying.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0063: Gregorian-orian-ian

This week’s project involves the role of architectural spaces in the composition of music. It is a shared-sample project that takes a piece of Gregorian chant as its source material.

These are the steps:

Step 1: Download this OGG audio file that contains a recording of monks singing Gregorian chant at the Abbey of Sant’Antimo in Italy:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Sanantimo_gregorian.ogg

Step 2: Play back that recording loudly in a highly reverberant space and record it. Your best bet may be a bathroom.

Step 3: Create a new piece of music using the recording you just made as your primary source material. You cannot add any new source material. You can manipulate the audio recording as you please, but restrict yourself to effects that simulate echo, such as delay, reverb, and looping. You may also use the original OGG file, but only in addition to your own recording of it being played back in the reverberant space.

Background: For additional thinking on the role that architecture has played in the evolution of music, this 2010 talk by David Byrne is recommended:

http://blog.ted.com/2010/06/11/how_architectur/

Deadline: Monday, March 18, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

More on this 63th Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/03/14/disquiet0063-gregorianorianian

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

The source of this piece is a recording of monks singing Gregorian chant at the Abbey of Sant’Antimo in Italy:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sanantimo_gregorian.ogg]]>
No suitable space was available, so I placed an Android tablet ("the player") and an iPhone ('the recorder") inside an empty, cylindrical metal can that once held caramel corn (adorned with Disney characters, oddly enough-- so I can't photograph it for you), 12" wide by 18" tall (about 30x45cm). Hit play/record, then closed the cover.

This improvised 'reverberant environment' created a usable (somewhat lo-fi) sample.

Created an Audiomulch patch that read in four instances of this altered sample. Started each sample successively, and a little over halfway through began to apply stereo delays on two of these playing samples.

Everything after the four-minute mark is the sound of the effects loops, dying.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0063: Gregorian-orian-ian

This week’s project involves the role of architectural spaces in the composition of music. It is a shared-sample project that takes a piece of Gregorian chant as its source material.

These are the steps:

Step 1: Download this OGG audio file that contains a recording of monks singing Gregorian chant at the Abbey of Sant’Antimo in Italy:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Sanantimo_gregorian.ogg

Step 2: Play back that recording loudly in a highly reverberant space and record it. Your best bet may be a bathroom.

Step 3: Create a new piece of music using the recording you just made as your primary source material. You cannot add any new source material. You can manipulate the audio recording as you please, but restrict yourself to effects that simulate echo, such as delay, reverb, and looping. You may also use the original OGG file, but only in addition to your own recording of it being played back in the reverberant space.

Background: For additional thinking on the role that architecture has played in the evolution of music, this 2010 talk by David Byrne is recommended:

http://blog.ted.com/2010/06/11/how_architectur/

Deadline: Monday, March 18, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

More on this 63th Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/03/14/disquiet0063-gregorianorianian

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

The source of this piece is a recording of monks singing Gregorian chant at the Abbey of Sant’Antimo in Italy:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sanantimo_gregorian.ogg]]> 1497457 no no Mon, 18 Mar 2013 01:17:21 +0100 2013-03-18T01:17:21+01:00 4:35 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/sine-on-you-crazy-diamond-disquiet0062-lifeofsine/
This gives you a triad in A Major. (Actually, "A Majorish", since 277 and 330 are technically a smidgen off, but the software only accepts integer values).

In addition to the original sine tones, developed several other tones via processing contraptions and effects. Then used simple mixing techniques "live" to accentuate various beat frequencies as the piece progressed.

Went a little over 4 minutes (apologies... got a little carried away!).

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Disquiet Junto Project 0062: Life of Sine

This week’s project involves making music from the basic building block of sound: the sine wave.

You will compose and record a piece of music using just three different sine waves, and nothing else — well, nothing else in terms of source material, but the waves can, after the piece has gotten underway, be transformed by any means you choose.

These are the steps:

Step 1: Devise which three sine waves you will employ. They should be different from each other in some evident way.

Step 2: The track should open with just one of the sine waves.

Step 3: Add the second sine wave at 5 seconds.

Step 4: Add the third sine wave at 10 seconds.

Step 4: Only at 15 seconds should you begin to in any way manipulate any of the source waves.

Deadline: Monday, March 11, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your finished work should be between 1 and 4 minutes in length.

More on this 60th Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/03/07/disquiet0062-lifeofsine

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]>
This gives you a triad in A Major. (Actually, "A Majorish", since 277 and 330 are technically a smidgen off, but the software only accepts integer values).

In addition to the original sine tones, developed several other tones via processing contraptions and effects. Then used simple mixing techniques "live" to accentuate various beat frequencies as the piece progressed.

Went a little over 4 minutes (apologies... got a little carried away!).

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Disquiet Junto Project 0062: Life of Sine

This week’s project involves making music from the basic building block of sound: the sine wave.

You will compose and record a piece of music using just three different sine waves, and nothing else — well, nothing else in terms of source material, but the waves can, after the piece has gotten underway, be transformed by any means you choose.

These are the steps:

Step 1: Devise which three sine waves you will employ. They should be different from each other in some evident way.

Step 2: The track should open with just one of the sine waves.

Step 3: Add the second sine wave at 5 seconds.

Step 4: Add the third sine wave at 10 seconds.

Step 4: Only at 15 seconds should you begin to in any way manipulate any of the source waves.

Deadline: Monday, March 11, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your finished work should be between 1 and 4 minutes in length.

More on this 60th Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/03/07/disquiet0062-lifeofsine

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]> 1497458 no no Sat, 09 Mar 2013 18:41:44 +0100 2013-03-09T18:41:44+01:00 4:57 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/a-rusty-old-door-disquiet0061-textinstagrambient/
Second roll was a 5, this gave me "X Pro II" as the filter ("Effect: Warm, saturated tones with an emphasis on aquas and greens").

Created a suitable patch in Audiomulch (contraptions, and VST filters/softsynths), played the piece with a nanoKey2 (in keeping with the 'snapshot' spirit of the project, one take).

Image credit. FreeFoto: http://www.freefoto.com/preview/11-32-1/Rusty-Door (I don't have an instagram account, so I just used Preview to saturate and tint the image).

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Disquiet Junto Project 0061: Textinstagr/am/bient

This project requires a single die, or the digital equivalent.

Here are the steps in the project:

Step 1: Roll a die six times (or six dice once), add up the combined results, and then subtract five from it. Make note of the resulting number. If you don’t have access to a die, you can use various digital equivalents. This link, for example, will roll six dice simultaneously:

http://www.random.org/dice/?num=6

Step 2: Visit this Twitter account:

https://twitter.com/textinstagram

Step 3: Count the tweets of that account backwards from the most recent tweet at the time of your visit until you reach the tweet that coincides with the resulting number from step 1 above. Make note of this tweet, unless it begins with an @ sign. If the tweet begins with an @ sign, then use the next tweet (continuing down in reverse chronological order). If the next tweet also begins with an @ sign, then continue until coming to a tweet that doesn’t begin with an @ sign. This final tweet will serve as the title of the track you will soon begin composing and recording.

Step 4: Now, roll a die twice (or two dice once), add up the combined results, and then subtract one from it. Make note of the resulting number. This link will roll two dice simultaneously:

http://www.random.org/dice/?num=2

Step 5: Visit this web page and locate the list of Instagram filters:

http://goo.gl/MWPb0

Step 6: Count down the list of filters on that page until you come to the filter that coincides with the resulting number from step 4 above.

Step 7: Close your eyes and imagine a simple photograph that would be described with the tweet that is the title of your track, and that would have been treated with the filter that resulted from the step 6.

Step 8: Now imagine that the image from step 7 is the cover of your next single. Record a track of original ambient music that would be this single. It should be between one and two minutes in length, true to the postcard-like quality of Instagram — and, by extension, Textinstagram.

. . .

Background: This project is a low-key followup to the Instagr/am/bient compilation that I developed at the end of 2011, and that was in many ways the direct precursor of the Disquiet Junto. Various contributors to Insta/gr/ambient were among the initial participants in the Junto.

Deadline: Monday, March 4, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: Your finished work should be between one and two minutes in length.

More on this 61st Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/02/28/disquiet0061-textinstagrambient

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]>
Second roll was a 5, this gave me "X Pro II" as the filter ("Effect: Warm, saturated tones with an emphasis on aquas and greens").

Created a suitable patch in Audiomulch (contraptions, and VST filters/softsynths), played the piece with a nanoKey2 (in keeping with the 'snapshot' spirit of the project, one take).

Image credit. FreeFoto: http://www.freefoto.com/preview/11-32-1/Rusty-Door (I don't have an instagram account, so I just used Preview to saturate and tint the image).

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Disquiet Junto Project 0061: Textinstagr/am/bient

This project requires a single die, or the digital equivalent.

Here are the steps in the project:

Step 1: Roll a die six times (or six dice once), add up the combined results, and then subtract five from it. Make note of the resulting number. If you don’t have access to a die, you can use various digital equivalents. This link, for example, will roll six dice simultaneously:

http://www.random.org/dice/?num=6

Step 2: Visit this Twitter account:

https://twitter.com/textinstagram

Step 3: Count the tweets of that account backwards from the most recent tweet at the time of your visit until you reach the tweet that coincides with the resulting number from step 1 above. Make note of this tweet, unless it begins with an @ sign. If the tweet begins with an @ sign, then use the next tweet (continuing down in reverse chronological order). If the next tweet also begins with an @ sign, then continue until coming to a tweet that doesn’t begin with an @ sign. This final tweet will serve as the title of the track you will soon begin composing and recording.

Step 4: Now, roll a die twice (or two dice once), add up the combined results, and then subtract one from it. Make note of the resulting number. This link will roll two dice simultaneously:

http://www.random.org/dice/?num=2

Step 5: Visit this web page and locate the list of Instagram filters:

http://goo.gl/MWPb0

Step 6: Count down the list of filters on that page until you come to the filter that coincides with the resulting number from step 4 above.

Step 7: Close your eyes and imagine a simple photograph that would be described with the tweet that is the title of your track, and that would have been treated with the filter that resulted from the step 6.

Step 8: Now imagine that the image from step 7 is the cover of your next single. Record a track of original ambient music that would be this single. It should be between one and two minutes in length, true to the postcard-like quality of Instagram — and, by extension, Textinstagram.

. . .

Background: This project is a low-key followup to the Instagr/am/bient compilation that I developed at the end of 2011, and that was in many ways the direct precursor of the Disquiet Junto. Various contributors to Insta/gr/ambient were among the initial participants in the Junto.

Deadline: Monday, March 4, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: Your finished work should be between one and two minutes in length.

More on this 61st Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/02/28/disquiet0061-textinstagrambient

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]> 1497459 no no Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:59:49 +0100 2013-03-01T23:59:49+01:00 2:16 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/i-io-disquiet0059-vwls/
Used Audacity to record the three core sounds (i, i & o) at different pitches, for 10 seconds each. Did minor editing (fade ins and fade outs) to make these suitable for looping.

Then loaded the three sounds into Audiomulch. Applied multiple delays with times set to produce interesting beat frequencies. Also used a DLGranulator contraption (on 'o') to produce a fourth tone (which I think of as the comma).

Mapped these tones to a korg nanokontroller, and ran a 'live' session for ~5 minutes.

Minor compression/EQ applied after (in Logic) to make it more listenable.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0059: Vowel Choral Drone

This week’s project involves the human voice. You will create a choral drone from three samples that you will create with your own voice. This project requires a single die, or the digital equivalent.

Here are the steps in the project:

Step 1: Roll a die three times (or three dice once) to determine which vowels you will use. Depending on your luck, you may end up with two or even three of the same vowel.

1 = A (“a” as in “yay”)

2 = E (“e” as in “bee”)

3 = I (“i” as in “die”)

4 = O (“o” as in “yo”)

5 = U (“u” as in “you”)

6 = Y (“y” as in “Sylvia”)

If you don’t have access to a die, you can use various digital equivalents. This link, for example, will roll three dice simultaneously:

http://www.random.org/dice/?num=3

Step 2: For each vowel that you have been assigned by the dice, record a 10-second sample of you holding that vowel as a constant tone (volume, timbre, note, etc.).

Step 3: Create a choral drone that utilizes only these three sources of audio. You can treat them with effects lightly, but they should be recognizable as the human voice throughout the duration of track.

Deadline: Monday, February 18, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your finished work should be between 2 and 5 minutes in length.

More on this 59th Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/02/14/disquiet0059-vwls

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]>
Used Audacity to record the three core sounds (i, i & o) at different pitches, for 10 seconds each. Did minor editing (fade ins and fade outs) to make these suitable for looping.

Then loaded the three sounds into Audiomulch. Applied multiple delays with times set to produce interesting beat frequencies. Also used a DLGranulator contraption (on 'o') to produce a fourth tone (which I think of as the comma).

Mapped these tones to a korg nanokontroller, and ran a 'live' session for ~5 minutes.

Minor compression/EQ applied after (in Logic) to make it more listenable.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0059: Vowel Choral Drone

This week’s project involves the human voice. You will create a choral drone from three samples that you will create with your own voice. This project requires a single die, or the digital equivalent.

Here are the steps in the project:

Step 1: Roll a die three times (or three dice once) to determine which vowels you will use. Depending on your luck, you may end up with two or even three of the same vowel.

1 = A (“a” as in “yay”)

2 = E (“e” as in “bee”)

3 = I (“i” as in “die”)

4 = O (“o” as in “yo”)

5 = U (“u” as in “you”)

6 = Y (“y” as in “Sylvia”)

If you don’t have access to a die, you can use various digital equivalents. This link, for example, will roll three dice simultaneously:

http://www.random.org/dice/?num=3

Step 2: For each vowel that you have been assigned by the dice, record a 10-second sample of you holding that vowel as a constant tone (volume, timbre, note, etc.).

Step 3: Create a choral drone that utilizes only these three sources of audio. You can treat them with effects lightly, but they should be recognizable as the human voice throughout the duration of track.

Deadline: Monday, February 18, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your finished work should be between 2 and 5 minutes in length.

More on this 59th Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/02/14/disquiet0059-vwls

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]> 1497460 no no Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:46:55 +0100 2013-02-18T23:46:55+01:00 4:51 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/let-me-tell-you-disquiet0057-phonemetransmit/
Then selected four words from each piece, as instructed.

Loaded these twelve core sounds into Ableton Live. Added some effects (mostly dub delays with strategic timing), and used Korg nano-kontrollers to develop a three-part piece (angry, vulnerable, and exultant/triumphant).

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Disquiet Junto Project 0057: Phoneme Transmit

This is a shared-sample project. It focuses on language and emotion.

You are being provided with three audio recordings from the Phonetics Lab Archive at UCLA. As the lab’s webpage (at archive.phonetics.ucla.edu) explains, “The materials on this site comprise audio recordings illustrating phonetic structures from over 200 languages.”

You will use these three MP3s as source material for the project. They are from the languages Buryat, Navajo, and Zulu.

http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/Language/ZUL/zul_word-list_1982_01.mp3
http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/Language/BXM/bxm_word-list_1991_01.mp3
http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/Language/NAV/nav_word-list_1993_03.mp3
From each of these three language-specific MP3s you will select four words. (Don’t use the voice of the technician, who is occasionally heard.) From this total of 12 words you will, through cut and paste, construct new sentences. These nonsense sentences will serve as the a cappella vocal of a new song. All literal meaning is lost in the process; all that is left are emotions.

Your piece should consist of three parts, each of equal length. The first part should sound “angry.” The second part should sound “very silent, vulnerable.” The third part should sound “happy, exultant.”

No other sounds or instruments should be used. You can pitch, stretch, or process the source audio as you please, but it should always sound like someone trying to say something.
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This project was developed for the Disquiet Junto by Michel Banabila (banabila.com).

The source audio is from the UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive:
http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu.

More on this #57th Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/01/31/disquiet0057-phonemetransmit

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]>
Then selected four words from each piece, as instructed.

Loaded these twelve core sounds into Ableton Live. Added some effects (mostly dub delays with strategic timing), and used Korg nano-kontrollers to develop a three-part piece (angry, vulnerable, and exultant/triumphant).

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Disquiet Junto Project 0057: Phoneme Transmit

This is a shared-sample project. It focuses on language and emotion.

You are being provided with three audio recordings from the Phonetics Lab Archive at UCLA. As the lab’s webpage (at archive.phonetics.ucla.edu) explains, “The materials on this site comprise audio recordings illustrating phonetic structures from over 200 languages.”

You will use these three MP3s as source material for the project. They are from the languages Buryat, Navajo, and Zulu.

http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/Language/ZUL/zul_word-list_1982_01.mp3
http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/Language/BXM/bxm_word-list_1991_01.mp3
http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/Language/NAV/nav_word-list_1993_03.mp3
From each of these three language-specific MP3s you will select four words. (Don’t use the voice of the technician, who is occasionally heard.) From this total of 12 words you will, through cut and paste, construct new sentences. These nonsense sentences will serve as the a cappella vocal of a new song. All literal meaning is lost in the process; all that is left are emotions.

Your piece should consist of three parts, each of equal length. The first part should sound “angry.” The second part should sound “very silent, vulnerable.” The third part should sound “happy, exultant.”

No other sounds or instruments should be used. You can pitch, stretch, or process the source audio as you please, but it should always sound like someone trying to say something.
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This project was developed for the Disquiet Junto by Michel Banabila (banabila.com).

The source audio is from the UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive:
http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu.

More on this #57th Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/01/31/disquiet0057-phonemetransmit

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]> 1497461 no no Sat, 02 Feb 2013 23:13:14 +0100 2013-02-02T23:13:14+01:00 3:58 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/woodpecker-summons-time-disquiet0056-matteroftime/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Found a battery-powered mantle clock in the house that had a discernable tick. I have no contact/piezo mics handy, so put the clock on a stool and recorded with an SM57 running through an RP355 guitar pedal with all the effects/amps turned off (easiest way to sample the tick).

Loaded into Audacity. Did one stage of minimal noise filtering to get rid of some hiss. Then generated eight basic variants of the initial tick. From there on it's Ableton Live.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0056: Matter of Time

This week’s project requires you to make a field recording to serve as the source audio. These are the steps:

Step 1: Locate a clock that has an audible, even if very quiet, tick to its second hand. A watch or other timepiece is also appropriate to the task.

Step 2: Record the sound of the clock for at least 30 seconds, and do so in a manner captures the sound in the greatest detail. A contact mic is highly recommended.

Step 3: Adjust and otherwise filter the recording to reveal the various noises that make up its tick. The goal is to get at the nuance of its internal mechanism.

Step 4: Create an original piece of music employing only layered loops of that sound. These layered loops can individually be transformed in any manner you choose, but at least one unaltered version of the original recording should be included in your piece.

Deadline: Monday, January 28, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: Your finished work should be between 2 and 5 minutes long.

More on this 56th Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/01/24/disquiet0056-matteroftime/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/


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Found a battery-powered mantle clock in the house that had a discernable tick. I have no contact/piezo mics handy, so put the clock on a stool and recorded with an SM57 running through an RP355 guitar pedal with all the effects/amps turned off (easiest way to sample the tick).

Loaded into Audacity. Did one stage of minimal noise filtering to get rid of some hiss. Then generated eight basic variants of the initial tick. From there on it's Ableton Live.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0056: Matter of Time

This week’s project requires you to make a field recording to serve as the source audio. These are the steps:

Step 1: Locate a clock that has an audible, even if very quiet, tick to its second hand. A watch or other timepiece is also appropriate to the task.

Step 2: Record the sound of the clock for at least 30 seconds, and do so in a manner captures the sound in the greatest detail. A contact mic is highly recommended.

Step 3: Adjust and otherwise filter the recording to reveal the various noises that make up its tick. The goal is to get at the nuance of its internal mechanism.

Step 4: Create an original piece of music employing only layered loops of that sound. These layered loops can individually be transformed in any manner you choose, but at least one unaltered version of the original recording should be included in your piece.

Deadline: Monday, January 28, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: Your finished work should be between 2 and 5 minutes long.

More on this 56th Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/01/24/disquiet0056-matteroftime/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/


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The core of this piece was done "live" w/ Ableton Live. Minor EQ/processing done to the result before upload.]]>
The core of this piece was done "live" w/ Ableton Live. Minor EQ/processing done to the result before upload.]]> 1497463 no no Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:03:10 +0100 2013-01-22T20:03:10+01:00 11:25 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/splice-nine-disquiet0055-twoscrews/
Out of this pool chose nine, five from 'Do', four from 'Re'. Loaded these into Ableton Live. So as not to offend Re, chose four additional (very small) snippets from that to build the background noises. Seemed fair: 'Re' loops, 'Do' doesn't. Transposed and/or added effects as needed, and assigned triggers to pads on a Korg nanocontroller.

Allowed myself a bit to find out which-went-with-whatsit, hit record and improvised for a little over four minutes.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0055: Two Screws

This week’s project involves a shared set of source material. The source audio is the free solo piano album ‘Screws’ by Nils Frahm.

Frahm, who’s based in Germany, posted the nine-track album of short solo works for free download while he was recuperating from busting one of his thumbs. He subsequently created a site to house all the remixed/reworked versions that admirers sent to him, as well as the videos and other responses that he received.

For this project you will take two of the source tracks — “Do” and “Re” — and create a new track from them, in the process creating a work for two pianos.

Source Audio: You can download the files as sets of MP3 or AIF audio:

http://public.erasedtapes.com/screws/ERATP046NilsFrahmScrewsmp3.zip
http://public.erasedtapes.com/screws/ERATP046NilsFrahmScrewsaif.zip

Or download the individual file directly from their links here:

https://soundcloud.com/erasedtapes/sets/nils-frahm-screws

You can only use those two Frahm tracks as audio source material for your track, and you cannot add anything other sounds, but you can transform the two Frahm tracks as you please. In the end, though, the sound of a piano should be evident.

More on this 55th Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/01/17/disquiet0055-twoscrews/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

More on the Frahm project at:
http://reworked.nilsfrahm.com/
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Out of this pool chose nine, five from 'Do', four from 'Re'. Loaded these into Ableton Live. So as not to offend Re, chose four additional (very small) snippets from that to build the background noises. Seemed fair: 'Re' loops, 'Do' doesn't. Transposed and/or added effects as needed, and assigned triggers to pads on a Korg nanocontroller.

Allowed myself a bit to find out which-went-with-whatsit, hit record and improvised for a little over four minutes.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0055: Two Screws

This week’s project involves a shared set of source material. The source audio is the free solo piano album ‘Screws’ by Nils Frahm.

Frahm, who’s based in Germany, posted the nine-track album of short solo works for free download while he was recuperating from busting one of his thumbs. He subsequently created a site to house all the remixed/reworked versions that admirers sent to him, as well as the videos and other responses that he received.

For this project you will take two of the source tracks — “Do” and “Re” — and create a new track from them, in the process creating a work for two pianos.

Source Audio: You can download the files as sets of MP3 or AIF audio:

http://public.erasedtapes.com/screws/ERATP046NilsFrahmScrewsmp3.zip
http://public.erasedtapes.com/screws/ERATP046NilsFrahmScrewsaif.zip

Or download the individual file directly from their links here:

https://soundcloud.com/erasedtapes/sets/nils-frahm-screws

You can only use those two Frahm tracks as audio source material for your track, and you cannot add anything other sounds, but you can transform the two Frahm tracks as you please. In the end, though, the sound of a piano should be evident.

More on this 55th Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/01/17/disquiet0055-twoscrews/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

More on the Frahm project at:
http://reworked.nilsfrahm.com/
]]> 1497464 no no Mon, 21 Jan 2013 23:26:29 +0100 2013-01-21T23:26:29+01:00 4:13 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/the-ice-factory-disquiet0053-ice2013/
Used Ableton Live to slice out various segments, treated and processed those to end up with a total of six distinct 'voices'. Played the resulting set in Live with Korg nano-Kontrollers.

Used Audacity to process the rendered result and convert to FLAC for upload.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0053: Ice for 2013

Happy new year! This week’s project is as follows:

Please record the sound of an ice cube rattling in a glass, and make something of it.

Background: Longtime participants in, and observers of, the Disquiet Junto series will recognize this single sentence as the very first Disquiet Junto project, the same one that launched the series on the first Thursday of 2012. Revisiting it a year later provides a fitting way to begin the new year. A weekly project series can come to overemphasize novelty, and it’s helpful to revisit old projects as much as it is to engage with new ones. Also, by its very nature, the Disquiet Junto suggests itself as a fast pace: a four-day production window, a weekly habit. It’s beneficial to step back and see things from a longer perspective.

Deadline: Monday, January 7, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your finished work should be between 2 and 4 minutes in length.

More on this 53rd Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/01/03/disquiet0053-ice2013/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]>
Used Ableton Live to slice out various segments, treated and processed those to end up with a total of six distinct 'voices'. Played the resulting set in Live with Korg nano-Kontrollers.

Used Audacity to process the rendered result and convert to FLAC for upload.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0053: Ice for 2013

Happy new year! This week’s project is as follows:

Please record the sound of an ice cube rattling in a glass, and make something of it.

Background: Longtime participants in, and observers of, the Disquiet Junto series will recognize this single sentence as the very first Disquiet Junto project, the same one that launched the series on the first Thursday of 2012. Revisiting it a year later provides a fitting way to begin the new year. A weekly project series can come to overemphasize novelty, and it’s helpful to revisit old projects as much as it is to engage with new ones. Also, by its very nature, the Disquiet Junto suggests itself as a fast pace: a four-day production window, a weekly habit. It’s beneficial to step back and see things from a longer perspective.

Deadline: Monday, January 7, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your finished work should be between 2 and 4 minutes in length.

More on this 53rd Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/01/03/disquiet0053-ice2013/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/]]> 1497465 no no Sun, 06 Jan 2013 03:05:56 +0100 2013-01-06T03:05:56+01:00 3:08 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/the-boatmans-dream-disquiet0052-bumpcc/
Some minor edits done afterwards (small volume adjustments throughout, removed a few bars to fit under 5 minutes, put a limiter at the end before rendering), but this is basically the Live set, as "played".

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This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Bump Foot netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally released on Bump Foot: "Bongo" off the Aguas Tonicas album titled Los Desposeídos, "Broken Robots" off the Gridline album titled Red Music, and "The Cat in the Ocean" off the Pics Frunk album titled Low Voltage. More on the Bump Foot netlabel, and the original versions of these tracks, at www.bumpfoot.net/. ;

More on this 52nd Disquiet Junto project at:

disquiet.com/2012/12/27/disquiet0052-bumpcc/ ;

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: Groups – Disquiet-junto]]>
Some minor edits done afterwards (small volume adjustments throughout, removed a few bars to fit under 5 minutes, put a limiter at the end before rendering), but this is basically the Live set, as "played".

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This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Bump Foot netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally released on Bump Foot: "Bongo" off the Aguas Tonicas album titled Los Desposeídos, "Broken Robots" off the Gridline album titled Red Music, and "The Cat in the Ocean" off the Pics Frunk album titled Low Voltage. More on the Bump Foot netlabel, and the original versions of these tracks, at www.bumpfoot.net/. ;

More on this 52nd Disquiet Junto project at:

disquiet.com/2012/12/27/disquiet0052-bumpcc/ ;

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: Groups – Disquiet-junto]]> 1497466 no no Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:34:32 +0100 2012-12-30T00:34:32+01:00 3:59 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/never-again-disquiet0050-morsebeat/
http://disquiet.com/2012/12/13/disquiet0050-morsebeat/

"This week’s project explores invokes Morse Code for its rhythmic content. The instructions are as follows: Select a word or phrase. Encode that word or phrase by the Morse method. Record a rhythmic foundation in which the dash is represented by a long beat and the dot by a brief one. Use that rhythmic foundation as a loop for the length of your track, at the speed you desire — speed can vary over the length of the recording. Record accompanying drone/melodic material that takes the underlying rhythm as its compositional foundation."

Translated the basic phrase "never again" into morse code. Then assigned (essentially arbitrary, for the sake of rhythm) time values to the characters {dot = 1 beat, dash = 2 beats, space-inside-character = 1 beat, space-between characters = 2 beats}, used simple MIDI to "draw" the rhythm.

Then a brassy softsynth with resonance set to match was put on top. Several processed/treated low-register instruments floating throughout.

Used Logic Pro and Audacity.
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http://disquiet.com/2012/12/13/disquiet0050-morsebeat/

"This week’s project explores invokes Morse Code for its rhythmic content. The instructions are as follows: Select a word or phrase. Encode that word or phrase by the Morse method. Record a rhythmic foundation in which the dash is represented by a long beat and the dot by a brief one. Use that rhythmic foundation as a loop for the length of your track, at the speed you desire — speed can vary over the length of the recording. Record accompanying drone/melodic material that takes the underlying rhythm as its compositional foundation."

Translated the basic phrase "never again" into morse code. Then assigned (essentially arbitrary, for the sake of rhythm) time values to the characters {dot = 1 beat, dash = 2 beats, space-inside-character = 1 beat, space-between characters = 2 beats}, used simple MIDI to "draw" the rhythm.

Then a brassy softsynth with resonance set to match was put on top. Several processed/treated low-register instruments floating throughout.

Used Logic Pro and Audacity.
]]> 1497467 no no Sun, 16 Dec 2012 19:34:24 +0100 2012-12-16T19:34:24+01:00 2:03 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/comes-pale-horse/ 1497468 no no Sat, 08 Dec 2012 20:34:01 +0100 2012-12-08T20:34:01+01:00 14:34 https://hearthis.at/the-bell-mechanical-mj/montebanque/
a work in progress.]]>
a work in progress.]]> 1497469 no no Thu, 06 Dec 2012 06:18:30 +0100 2012-12-06T06:18:30+01:00 4:12