#5

Hey All, Hope you are having a great holiday season. This assignment is always the fastest render of the year. I am messing with sound just about everyday and it brings me joy and keeps the devil away because my hands aren’t idle. A track a day keeps the devil away. Fun to look back but I really look forward to 2020 and the chance to do it a little longer. Cheers to Marc for another year and all the great artists that find the time to participate in the Junto.

Peace, Hugh

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#6

My first Disquiet Junto in some time. Here’s a handful of collaborations, field recordings and a work-in-progress or two. Wishing everyone here a happy new year -
1, Chimey Pulse, for a film by Lynne Sachs
2, Phone mix, for a video by Andrew Deutsch
3, Long Rhodes Sunday Night Panner, for a compilation published by Moreau (https://moreaueast.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-comp-for-rfcrc)
4, percussion track for Tony Oursler’s installation “6th”
5, Recording moths on Peters Mountain
6, Waves on Fire Island (moments after releasing my mother’s ashes)
7, Memory Echo, with Danny McCarthy, for a video by Andrew Deutsch featuring Pauline Oliveros
8, I Always Wanted a Standing Cat 4 with Steve Roden, for a single published by Champion version (http://championversion.com/#/cv201913/)
9, track with Brendan Canty for a work of choreography by Dean Moss
10, solo concert, Poitiers, France
11, Mental Radio, an LP with Molly Berg, published by IIKKI Books (https://www.iikki-books.com/iikki-010-i-drew-a-fish-hook)
12, First loop with Blooper

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#7

I didn’t follow the directions that closely–the pieces overlap and fade, and the last piece is included in its entirety. The pieces are taken from playlists I put together every month from March. (I started recording little ideas to use in shows, partly to document what I was working on). All this stuff is coded in ChucK:

Glitch Vector, weird combos of fuzz, filter and envelope https://soundcloud.com/north_woods/glitch-vector

Leadership, glitched piano samples, glitched drum kit https://soundcloud.com/north_woods/leadership?in=north_woods/sets/april-2019

Prime Minimus, nonlinear combos of LFOs drive note choices https://soundcloud.com/north_woods/prime-minimus?in=north_woods/sets/may-2019

Aftermath, processed noise envelopes, kick => reverb => filter => envelopes, various STK synths, randomized looper https://soundcloud.com/north_woods/sets/june-2019

Trust, flute model that makes an amazing noise when you pitch it out of its normal range, into echo and stuff https://soundcloud.com/north_woods/trust?in=north_woods/sets/july-2019

Over, pitch shifted saws https://soundcloud.com/north_woods/over?in=north_woods/sets/august-2019

Sundowner, super slowed down guitar intro https://soundcloud.com/north_woods/sundowner?in=north_woods/sets/september-2019

Cantor, messed with the pitch on a sample of my friend reading a poem https://soundcloud.com/north_woods/cantor?in=north_woods/sets/october-2019

Cascade5, 5 layer FM synth https://soundcloud.com/north_woods/cascade5?in=north_woods/sets/november-2019

Under the Whale, envelope bank, 3-osc with varying time lapse, pan and randomized note trigger and note https://soundcloud.com/north_woods/under-the-whate?in=north_woods/sets/december-2019

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#8

Here’s my sonic diary for 2019, not a bad year for me.

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#9

Hello everyone!!

Thank you Marc for organising and supporting us all through the year, and thank you to everyone here who writes, composes, posts, listens, comments… The Junto has become a great haven for me, and I’m sure I’m not alone in feeling that way.

Here’s my year - a snippet from every month - and everything is an unused demo. Most of it revolves around my reading this year: Homer, Borges, Ovid, Dante. Next year I’m aiming to reread Beowulf, Kant, and others.

I think 2020 will be a guitar heavy and looping/experimental year for me. Can’t wait!!

Best wishes, as always, Martin

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#10

January: Six Seasons in a Jar – abstraction of a field recording, I don’t remember what
February: Sympathic Plaque – abstraction of contact microphone recording of wood stove
March: Sketch towards “Grand Fou Utile” 1 – the “1” was optimistic: “Grand Fou Utile” was going to be composed using the patterns of OCR transcription errors across multiple copies of the 1872-73 Harvard University Catalog where the title phrase appears… but I couldn’t settle on any linkages between the patterns and musical parameters
April: Grosifism – I don’t know; it has a beat and you can dance to it (slowly)
May: Askophone Étude (Junto 385)
June: Smirky Smarm – a.k.a. the one I should take down because it’s so badly mixed and the tempo should maybe be higher. I still like this section.
July: Silver Wife (Twirling Ground) (Junto 393)
August: a recording of a thunderstorm through my furnace chimney’s barometric…regulator…thingy
September: Builder Fox (Junto 403, withdrawn) – for the “Filter Box” project I decided to “sequence” my sounds in frequency space rather than in time, i.e. with nonoverlapping bandpass filters. Then I decided I didn’t like that idea anymore and didn’t have time to do something else.
October: Grey Dart – A simple SuperCollider script that generates random pitches from the harmonic series of A0 and C1 while a notch filter tied to a pitch follower crudely attempts to suppress the pitches. Then Greyhole. That was mixed with a recording of pulling my trash bin to the road.
November: How Do I Work This Thing: Bass and Red Panda Tensor Edition
December: WIP using a voicemail from “Eunice at CashCall” (scam or legit wrong number? who knows anymore?) and a recording of a freight train that for no apparent reason was compressed to, like, 8 kbps, yes I’m still bitter about it

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#11

Basing music on transcription errors distributed across texts would be such a fun project!! I recently wrote a little bit about basing music on the distributions of words and letters in texts. The processes were convoluted and arbirary, but they might connect with something you were doing - maybe there is way of laying out your spreadsheet, and then taking a screenshot of that as a starting point. Then there are the OCR images. Just a thought!!

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#12

The first few months worth of sounds come from old unfinished projects I have on my computer. There is a bit of Laurie Spiegel talking (I found her describing the sounds people needed and wanted to hear so beautiful) and a Paulstretch’d Princess Bride theme - which I don’t really remember doing but thought it was quite amusing.

From May onwards was when I started sharing music with some other musician friends in a WhatsApp group - the rest of the tracks mostly come from pieces I’ve shared there. I’m not very disciplined so struggled to trim them down to 5 seconds and there’s actually 13 tracks (for anyone counting!)

Junto 0366 Ice Breaker was my first time ever sharing sounds online and I’ve participated in well over half this year since then. Overall I’m much happier musically than I was at the beginning of the year and the Disquiet projects have been a bit part of that. So I’m forever grateful to Marc for setting all of this up and devising interesting projects this week and for everyone who takes part, discusses and listens to these projects :slight_smile:

I think next year will finally be the year where I stop prepending “Well, I haven’t been for very long…” to my answer when people ask if I make music.
Happy new year everyone and see you all in the disquiet threads to come :kiss:

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#13

  1. “At first exactly and first exactly and do they do.”
    • “If I Told Him” was written and recited by Gertrude Stein.
  2. We Real Cool
    • “We Real Cool” was written by Gwendolyn Brooks and recited by Morgan Freeman.
  3. The Tropics in New York
    • “The Tropics of New York” was written and recited by Claude McKay.
  4. Pi Filling - disquiet0376
  5. “sreyarp her hguorht hurries ohw woman a am I” - disquiet0416
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#14

This is a super short and mangled recap of some events of my musical 2019.

From each month of 2019, I’ve sampled a short piece of one of my compositions (mostly Disquiet Junto stuff - but also other pieces). These 12 pieces have been stringed and sonically stitched together - and after that, the whole piece was reversed and sped up to twice the speed.

This (in my mind) have created a magic and (super?)sonic high speed timemachine, taking me from december and back to january this year in 30 seconds…

The image for this piece will hopefully be a reminder of what I’d love to happen in 2020!

Marc, thank you for a year of inspiration and community…

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#15

A one-minute audio retrospective of 2019, comprised of twelve 5-second snippets of original music I created throughout the year, arranged chronologically. As with last year, it’s an eclectic mix of electronic music inspired by science fiction, technology and nature, covering moods of serenity, whimsy and urgency.

The segments in order:

  1. Ice Planet, Disquiet Junto, January 2019
  2. Holes in the Wall, Disquiet Junto, February 2019
  3. Pi, Disquiet Junto, March 2019
  4. Lonely Starships, Disquiet Junto, May 2019
  5. Locomotive Motif, Disquiet Junto, May 2019
  6. Krell, E352 and Teletype modular synth generative patch, June 2019
  7. Sharp New Flats (for Butterflies and Bees), Disquiet Junto, July 2019
  8. Eight Hundred Eight, Disquiet Junto, August 2019
  9. Drifting, Naviar Haiku, September 2019
  10. Hello 2019, Disquiet Junto, October 2019
  11. Messenger, Disquiet Junto, November 2019
  12. Alien Lifeforms, Voltage Research Laboratory generative patch, December 2019

Created for the final Disquiet Junto project of 2019.

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#16

https://soundcloud.com/user-208844089/disquiet0417

Disquiet Junto Project 0417: Changes Tracker

Here’s my first submission to Disquiet Junto. I’m very happy to find such peaceful and inspiring place and hope it won’t be my last submission.

Track is a compilation of some unfinished works I’ve done during this year.
Except for the summer time which I spent mostly outdoors trying to catch every single day with a good weather. So I included sound from memorable videos I captured during this time.

The aim for the year was to find comfortable ways to make music on my phone simply because spending 9 hours a day in front of laptop turned it to programming machine, not a place to rest.

Here’s the tracks and recordings:

  1. afraid dribble (title was generated by Audiobus)
    2), 3) — during winter/spring I’ve been learning to play live hip-hop accompaniment with my guitar and looper for my friend.
  2. — first helicopter take off in my life in Pacific Ocean
  3. — waves of the Caribbean sea
  4. — main summer activity: learning to handle a wakeboard
    7 - 12) More mobile sessions throughout which I’ve been learning a new ways to make music

Happy New Year’s Eve to everyone!

And thank you for your music!

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#17

Thanks for joining in!

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#18

The playlist is now rolling:

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#19

disquiet0417
Remodeled Route
• Key: D# minor BPM: 120 Time signature: 4/4 DAW: Reaper
• Instruments: N/A
• Plug-ins: N/A
• Chose 12 tracks from my files for the year 2019
• Placed them on 12 separate tracks in Reaper
• Kept the first 5 seconds of each track then trimmed away the rest of the track
• Track 1: Date: 2018-01-15
• Time: 11-12-14
• Track 2: Date: 2019-01-29
• Time: 15-02-37
• Track 4: Date: 2019-04-22
• Time: 19-16-17
• Track 5: Date: 2017-05-24
• Time: 19-44-26
• Track 6 : Date: 2017-05-21
• Time: 21-38-24
• Track 8: Date: 2014-08-23
• Time: 22-56-49
• Track 10: Date: 2018-10-07
• Time: 22-43-01
• Track 11: Date: 2015-04-20
• Time: 23-05-08
• The other tracks I was unable to determine the date of rendering
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#20

In my non digital life I work as a saxophone player
here are 12 things I played this year

1 unreleased solo from a recording session - tenor sax
2 jazz trio gig in a club - alto sax
3 rehearsal for a stage show - tubax
4 jazz quartet gig in a club - tenor sax
5 unused section of a recording session - duduk
6 unreleased solo from a chamber recording - soprano sax
7 warming up at a recording session - alto sax
8 unused take from a duo recording - soprano sax
9 sax mic track from jazz album recording - alto sax
10 unused saxophone recording - soprano saxophone
11 recording of a festival performance - alto sax
12 live jazz trio album recording unused take - alto sax

looking forward to hearing more beautiful music from everyone in 2020

SityPhoxx

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#21

Been unable to participate for the last month or so as I’ve been super busy with gigs for the holidays, which has been great. Glad to be back.

A collage of projects that I’ve worked on this year, randomly chosen from a chronological list… except for the end section, which is self explanatory.

1 through 6 are base tracks from Junto projects.
7 Is something that I played processed steel guitar on… I cant reveal details.
8 is from a video that I’m working on at.
9 Something that I played steel on… a while back, but had to do remixes for.
10 I played very ambient steel on this track for another project that I can’t disclose… but with someone well known.
11 from an album of harp and vocal music that I produced/engineered. My wife is the harpist/vocalist.
12 An original outer space Christmas song that my wife wrote. I played ebow steel, produced, and engineered. This is from a while back, but we’ve been playing it live quite a bit this last month.

The outro is obvious… and public domain from the Library of Congress.

Happy New Year All!

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#22

Hi everybody, I’ve participated in the Junto before, but never posted on “lines”, so I thought I’d pop over and see how it works. I find that I get inspired by the premise every week, but rarely have the time to actually complete it, so when I saw this relatively low intensity prompt, I jumped at it.
My year in 12 sound segments — including music clips, field recordings, and sound sketches. Most of the year was focused on creating minimal synthesizer tracks for the upcoming (?) Murmurer project.

January: Can you guess the sound source?
February: Opening track from the unreleased Murmurer album
March: Cover of Cupcake Ductape’s “Champagne Birthday”
April: Unreleased Murmurer track
May: Unreleased Murmurer track
June: Unreleased…Blunderspublik track? I dunno
July: Hitting a satellite dish in Montreal
August: A song recorded for The Guelph Outdoor School promo video
September: A song recorded for “The Ghost of Thomas Lacey” podcast
October: Unreleased Murmurer track
November: Collaboration with a toddler
December: Work-in-progress idea

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#23

Couldn’t figure out how to embed the Soundcloud player :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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#24

A series of snippets of 12 tracks based on SoundCloud play stats for each month of this year. The latter part of the year is all Disquiet Junto. Thanks Marc and everyone involved in suggesting these challenges and for kickstarting my creativity.

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