#35

https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/om-gam-ganapataye-namaha-disquiet0323

Hello.
Hybrid Eb minor/major nine minutes meditational soundscape.
Drone performed on my Harmonium from New Delhi, using all 3 possible stops and a “drone”.(4 tracks)
Live Hang improvisation recorded with two microphones in Paris.
Upright bass (bowed ) softly a root note all along.

Track dedicated to Ganesh, inspired on this mantra:
Om Gam Ganapataye namaha

An old clock guests chiming at 3’30.
The bell (1 minute marks) is from Toledo, Spain, circa 1972.

Cheers

dd

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#36

https://soundcloud.com/cboulter/march-9th-2018-disquiet0323

Here’s mine.

The little I know about the zen form of mediation is that it exists in a place that isn’t really about concentration and thinking at all, but more in the areas of neutral observation and acceptance. And that music might actually provide too much focus. So I’ve gone for some form of slow polyrhythmic chimey kind of effort with a background drone.

Instrumentation is various eurorack modules and some added field recordings; I’m sending some of the eurorack through the Nearness panned mixer which was developed in part on a thread on the Lines community.

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#37

https://soundcloud.com/jeanreiki/nights-at-brommadisquiet0323

First time posting in here, hope I did it right. Been a long while since I contribute any track to the community. Good to be back in 2018. Added my field recordings which was done via Zoom Recorder and Soundman OKM binaural ear mic .

Started off with rainy nights and end it with nature reserve sounds. Best to listen this piece with headphones / earphones as I used binaural mic to record them, hence the 3D like sound of the field recordings. Been exploring the parameters in Logic Pro Alchemy synth, so layering all the textures, tones and pads to create this meditative piece, which is mainly inspired my restful stay in a house at Bromma (Stockholm) last year. Hope y’all find some sort of inner zen meditating to this piece…

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#38

https://soundcloud.com/ethanhein/rez-meditation-disquiet0323

Eight minutes of meditation music. Sounds in order of appearance:

A synth patch that Francis Preve helpfully made for me as a way of explaining how the synth in “Rez” by Underworld works. I added some Max For Live LFO randomization.

My two-year-old daughter improvising vocals through Auto-Tune, which, as it turns out, she loves doing.

A Wavetable preset called Endomorph.

The opening two bars of Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean”, slowed down and lowered in pitch by an enormous amount.

A sample of “Haitian Fight Song” by Charles Mingus, also slowed down a lot.

Berimbau sampled from “Africadeus” by Nana Vasconcelos.

Gamelan sampled from I forget where.

A bell I recorded with my phone in a sculpture garden in Long Island.

Me playing harmonica through Auto-Tune.

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#39


my partner and I made this collab-o yesterday morning, and then meditated to it.

We just used Ableton presets, making a couple of slightly out of phase loops, then added some very slow parameter automation. The idea being that you go on a journey, where nothing perceptibly is changing.

The bells at the one, and 16 minutes mark, might have got lost a bit - because there are bells throughout the entire track.

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#40

So much great stuff in this playlist! I’m glad I jumped on this project.

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#41

https://soundcloud.com/user-849250038/where-are-you-disquiet0323

i had an idea of what i wanted to do - i was gonna do some harsh noise interspersed with gongs. the idea being that the music is not imbued with peace but rather that peace is a byproduct of being present where you are.

of course, there’s still the intent of making meditation music : indirectly influenced by the new agey nicey nicey bollox i was trying to avoid.

fortunately i forgot about all this. i went to the buddhist centre for a meditate and then had to rush to some work. later i was making some music (classical instruments in iris 2) feeling peaceful and present but also with an undercurrent of unaccepted stress and anxiety. an important insight from meditation is how complex my inner emotional landscape can be.

once i realized this was appropriate for the junto, i stretched the track to 7 minutes and recorded my meditation bowl (there happened to be a penny in there which made a nice buzz)

i can hear my sense of peace in the track but also the dissonance and distortion

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#42

https://soundcloud.com/ohm-research/manifold-disquiet-0323

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#43

Based on my recollection of the sounds and feelings of meditation at a handful of places over the years, almost all of which were in the lineage of the San Francisco Zen Center. I’ve been re-reading Shunryu Suzuki’s collection of essays “Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind” since the late 90’s when I first found it in the Boulder Book Store. I don’t know that I agree with all the thing that Zen is, but in my head somewhere for a while now. My interpretation of SFZC mediation is that it’s not about transcendence, but about grounding. You’re taught to meditate with your eyes open. The sounds in the room are there to keep you in the room.

My piece is heavily manipulated recordings of a zill and sruti box that I made this morning. Recorded to a Tascam DR-05 stereo field recorder, manipulated in Makenoise Morphagene, further manipulated in Mutable Instruments Clouds and Mannequins Three Sisters, recorded to four-track cassette, mixed to stereo to a second cassette, then recorded to digital via Audacity. Some editing in Audacity to get timing right.

The three minutes of tape hiss in the middle…that’s on purpose.

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#44

Hi all,

Really enjoying what I’ve heard so far.

Here is my take on it - along with my comment on SC:

While working on this assignment, I found out once again how incredibly hard it is to do very little: Since music for meditation should allow for emptying the mind. It should not distract. And yet, there should be something there that helps one get into a spiritual, contemplative mood, let any thoughts pass and then, a state of non-thinking, of pure presence.

As a consequence, music for this purpose might have several properties:

Modal - which allows a stable, calm state of mind

Quietness and space - making sure the music doesn’t overwhelm, neither by quantity nor by information overload

Far-eastern sound connotations - As in many “spiritual” purpose-made music releases, this seems to aid obtaining a certain mood, often by raga-type sounds, or sounds that get used in “puja” ceremonies in India (and heard in yoga/spiritual paraphernalia shops all over in places such as Rishikesh).

Since all of these are optional anyway - and are cliché-ridden on top of that - I chose to simply use an electric guitar, for drone-like sounds, and after considering sitar-like moves, opted against those (for reasons of economy). Everything got recorded into Logic Pro, with generous helpings of delay and reverb, obviously.

I layered six guitar tracks (plus one track for the chime) on top of each other and tried for them not to get into each others’ way too much, to allow for the composition to consist of very little information.

Enjoy your meditation!

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#45

Here is mine! Just Friends, Rings and Mangroves recorded into the ER-301 and Manual Grain-ed down to half speed. The Rings loop also plays over the top of the manipulated loop. There is also a field recording of my studio room with the windows open.

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#46

I wanted to explore an orchestral but highly textured / cinematic dream like response.

Kit used :

Custom sampled instrument of vocals by Kelly Snook
Spitfire Audio Olafur Arnalds Chamber Evolutions
Spitfire Audio Albion One ( Winds and Brass )
Spitfire Labs Hand Bells
Hollow Sun Moog Taurus
TC VSS3 Reverb
Ableton effects
VEQ4
J37 Tape Saturation

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#47

Pretty simple modular patch: The QuBit NanoRand feeds cv to The Make Noise Telharmonic, and that gets filtered by the AI Synthesis AI004 OTA Filter. Then it goes into ableton for delays and reverb.

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#48

I’m really happy that I found the time to participate in the Junto again.

More recordings of quartz crystal bowls with feline generated background noise and a drone thrown in for good measure. Edited in Ableton Live with a generous amount of Valhalla Shimmer and Vintage Verb.

From soundcloud: “For the third eye. Quartz crystal bowls at 323.24 Hz, 168.26 Hz, and 257.3 Hz. Verbos Harmonic Oscillator at 64.32 Hz into Makenoise MMG modulated by a Bubblesound ULFO. Vocals by Clive Owen Wilson, a cat, and water bowl percussion by Banjo, also a cat.”

Thanks for listening.

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#49

Really love this track. I think you nailed with the layout, very spacious and with very few elements happening at the same time.

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#50

Love the slowness if this one!

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#51

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#52

A collaboration between me and and a friend. Our first Junto! A fun and rewarding experience, looking forward to participate in forthcoming projects. We were aiming for something vast and spacious. The pulsating drone and subtle waves of noise reminds me of the ocean. Timelessness as a concept came to mind.

Some technical info:
On my end I recorded a drone with the grackler through the t-resonator - moving slowly between the two filters. The warbles is a benjolin with high filter settings through a spring reverb (the knas ekdahl moisturizer). There’s also some bass sounds from a C-L plumbutter 2. My friend did the keys on a vst called addictive keys through a soundtoys reverb + tremolo. The whole master track is run through a meris poly moon.

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#53

First track for Disquiet. Time stretched some synths and samples into loops. Cut and chopped loops into tracks. Ended up with 4 tracks total. Added lots of effects and washes.

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#54

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