#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!

3 Likes
#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

2 Likes
#23

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

1 Like
#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.

3 Likes
#25

Along with all the other things I do, I make cut-up and heavily altered recordings using Phil Kuhlenbeck’s voice and voicemails over music and sounds. We release them, but don’t promote them. It’s fun. We have a laugh at it all. How do I describe this stuff? Williams S. Burroughs crossed with DJ Screw? I don’t know. Maybe… This is some of the stuff we made in 2019.

  1. “Backsleeper” - “my penis on her body - then I closely examined it in the dream”

  2. “The Full Armor of God” - “jo jo’s always on my my my… I’m in a fucking David Lynch movie with Denny”

  3. “Blowing a Fuse in the BMW” - “OK, there’s turn signals. There’s front turn signals and there’s back turn signals, left right”

  4. “I Unfriended the Dead Guy” - “(gibberish)… So anyway, I think I’m having a heart attack, but I don’t know”

  5. “Half a Billion Dollars” - “Don’t worry about me, I’m sober, I’m not smoking, I’ve got a perfect bill of health.”

  6. “Sales Call, Service Call” - “I was going to say something brilliant. Damn Ozzy Osbourne music”

  7. “Dreamland Lullaby” - “There’s a little baby…”

  8. “Congress and Oltorf” - “Mission accomplished. I’m here at the H-E-B on Congress and Oltorf”

  9. “Legal Weed in 420 States” (released as Cannabis Unanimous) - “Waldorf, Maryland. I did that in Amarillo.”

  10. “Monterey” - “Monterey… Monterey”

  11. Field recording of a train crossing in Chillicothe, Iowa. This was recorded an hour or two before we made “Dreamland Lullaby”.

  12. “Once” (unreleased Cannabis Unanimous track that might be released in 2020) - “Once in the beginning, once in the middle, and once at the end.”

You can hear more Phil Kuhlenbeck at Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2k7fGWNcdjRtggrJ7VWbYn?si=s0tUpy7VQmmCEub1mHqnvA or Bandcamp: https://philkuhlenbeck.bandcamp.com/

EDIT - turns out, I did the same sort of thing for the Audio Journal from 2014, but with just raw voicemails: https://soundcloud.com/markrushtoncom/voicemails-disquiet0156-audiojournal2014

1 Like
#26

I took care of it. Just needed to have a double hard return before it. All set now.

1 Like
#27

I always appreciate Marc’s perennial prompt to [more-or-less] arbitrarily go back through my 2019 folder, make some sort short, strange, scrap-book of the sounds i’ve recorded, rendered, left to approximate whatever the equivalent of dust might conceivably be for such tenuous but undeniably * real * objects…

All selections were made arbitrarily; i was more likely to audition a sound if i couldn’t quite remember it & i was more likely to use it if it offered a definite contrast to the sound used for the section before, if you see what i mean.

C O N T E N T S : : :

0.00:0.05: 150119-02.wav [modified 15/01/2019 04:46]
0.05:0.10: cccccc.wav [modified 02/02/2019, 15:58]
0.10:0.15 STE-016-02.wav [modified 11/03/2019, ‏‎21:30]
0.15:0.20 rattle looped.wav [modified 24/04/2019, ‏‎09:47]
0.20:0.25 01-190522-152411.wav [modified 22/05/2019, ‏‎21:29]
0.25:0.30 bbc sounds+++ long.wav [modified 13/06/2019, ‏‎22:03]
0.30:0.35 140719+++.wav [‎modified 14/07/2019, ‏‎16:58]
0.35:0.40 STE-037.wav [modified 31/08/2019, ‏‎13:28]
0.40:0.45 bowl++b.wav [modified 29/09/2019, ‏‎11:38]
0.45:0.50 STE-046.wav [modified ‎06/10/‎2019, ‏‎18:56]
0.50:0.55 hnbhmshjgh.wav [modified 24/11/‎2019, ‏‎19:35]
0.55:1.00 pgjdkh.wav [modified 15/12/‎2019, ‏‎11:33 ‏‎17:38]

2019 was not a good year; but then, which of them ever is? Nothing else to do but keep on keepin’ on, right? Right.

Peace.

JKS 2k19

Market leading promos, only here: ████████. com

100% Money Back Guarantee
Trusted by thousands of clients
Years of experience

4 Likes
#28

it’s been too long since I’ve joined in on the junto. Here are excerpts, fragments, and works in progress from the last year.

2 Likes
#29

Hi!

My first Disquiet Junto ever, very happy to be part of it!

2019 was a good year. Released a double cassette beat tape, made beats for a label that I like podcast and send a beat to a nice V.A compilation. The beats below are a selection of those works.

All of them were made with Teenage Engineering stuff: mostly OP-Z (alone or sequencing stuff) and sometimes the OP-1. In some way, they worked as a study of the tracker spirit and generative capabilities of the OP-Z, although I worked under a relatively formal aesthetic frame (hip-hop) - some of the music is very sample based. The samples were a mix of vinyl records, cassette mixtapes & field recordings that I dig in Japan and some pirate DVDs and Youtube videos. Oh! I also tried to use a variety of scales as a music theory study.

Everything was recorded and mixed on cassette tape (Tascam Portastudio 424mkii, mostly Sony UX PRO 60 tape), in one or two tracks (hard L/R pan trick). Additional mix and one (eventual) extra sample track done in Ableton Live 10.

All the beats were (gently) processed with the Oto Biscuit analog 8-bit bitcrusher and the Strymon Deco hifi tape emulator for extra punch. The delays/echo fx were made with the Strymon El Capistan or using the OP-1 as an fx unit (Delay and/or CWO fx).

  1. (https://aeoner.bandcamp.com/track/i-love-ramen) - single loop beat in OP-1 - if I´m not wrong, from a 7-inch record (maybe Lone Wolf? don´t remember) + the OP spring reverb fx with the LFO controlled by the gyroscope/accelerometer;

  2. (https://aeoner.bandcamp.com/track/suntory) - sampling citypop joint in OP-1 + CWO fx;

  3. (https://aeoner.bandcamp.com/track/oni) - sampled with the OP-Z + OP-Z piano melody; an intro fragment from a very boombap beat;

  4. (https://aeoner.bandcamp.com/track/zansho) - OP-1 + OP-Z beat. “hand synced” as the og OPLAB was very (ground) noisy;

  5. (https://www.mixcloud.com/dubtemplerecords/dtr-podcast-41-belo-horizonte-edition-aeoner-dj-garrell-dj-larissinha-dj-belisa/) - beat done for the Dubtemple Records podcast. Generative OP-Z melodies.

  6. (https://aeoner.bandcamp.com/track/-) " 秋葉" beat 8-bitcrushed with the Oto Biscuit. I like the little acid-esque ressonance of it;

  7. (https://aeoner.bandcamp.com/track/local-izakaya) - OP-1 loop-based beat, sampling citypop records again;

  8. (https://aeoner.bandcamp.com/track/bombeat-95) - OP-Z + OP-1 beat sampling a japanese rap mixtape from early 2000s;

  9. (https://aeoner.bandcamp.com/track/club-sega) - OP-Z + OP-1. Again, hand synced. I absolutely love the Dr. Wave synth in OP-1. It´s a very complex synth engine as explained by the amazing OP 101 blog: “my best guess is that a digital waveform (an array of samples) is generated, using a variably-shaped oscillator (continuously morphable between sawtooth->square->triangle) passed through a fixed-resonance lowpass/highpass filter. Possibly it’s this initial step which occurs in the frequency domain; regardless, this is just the beginning of the synthesis process.The generated array of samples is then scanned/resampled at a variable samplerate (i.e skipping some of the samples) and speed (i.e sweeping through the array in a variable amount of time) to generate a final waveform, which can then be doubled; the duplicate wave’s pitch is modulated by an LFO to produce a detuning/phasing/chorus effect.” (even if the fragment from that beat that I choose is more straightforward with this chiptune vibe :P)

  10. (https://aeoner.bandcamp.com/track/--2) another generative OP-Z beat - this one is a little refresh from the more syncoped works of this year as it is a very straight 4/4 beat, although this section is beatless - I also like the way that the OP-Z can sound organic, I can feel a kind of…wood ressonance on it ? :stuck_out_tongue: Listening to it again I think that I didn´t used the Strymon El Capistan in that one - the delay is probably from the amazing Ableton 10 Echo.

  11. (https://aeoner.bandcamp.com/track/hidden-onsen) - OP-1 + OP-Z. Two
    different synth string engines + drums full of OP-1 spring reverb. This one I
    did an overdub;

  12. (https://jardim.bandcamp.com/track/akasaka) - Did this one for a massive V.A of the brazillian underground electronic scene - OP-Z + Moog Model 15 iPad app + tons of Strymon El Capistan Delay.

Happy New Year! <3

6 Likes
#30

I chose one piece per month, but overall this year I made at least 30 new pieces of music, which is pretty great, in retrospect. It’s late and that’s all I’ll write for now :smiley:

2 Likes
#31

My first time participating, finally! I chose 1-3 field recordings per month (some months had more than others). All recorded on an iphone 6s. I spend a lot of time in transit. I also do spatial recordings but decided to only use my iphone recordings for this project. I don’t know how to make the soundcloud track show up in the post?

1- New years day train kids laughing chicago to NYC
2-drummer on platform
3-kid crying
4-‘helpmeplease’
5-broken printer
6-streetlight tick for blind
7-‘thankyou lord’
8-thompkins park birds
9-fighht
10-babay crying
11-com ed high tone
12-scrap metal guy plays some metal
13-child
14-subway station echoey announcement
15- angry guy at fulton
16-ice cream truck
17-machine
18-ferry
19-ferry dock squeal
20-water
21-church bells
22-coins in laundry machine
23-helicopters and big machines
24-basketball
25-street fest
26-LUIC religious fest and band
27-guy singing in subway and rolling luggage
28- water

1 Like
#32

lost track of time didnt realize it was tuesday
did this a few days ago but then didnt upload here
initially i loaded all the albums id done this year into vlc and clicked on each one but it didnt really work because it seemed to take me somewhere else in the list and it was hard to find the albums

so i just played about 50 random tracks from the list to represnt each album. added a bit of reverb because i couldnt have it abrupt

2 Likes
#33

Eeeek I am also late! Then again, it’s not bad timing since it’s NYE here right now :smiley:

I really enjoyed doing this last year and this year was no exception. It was really fun to look back at what I managed to do this year. I kept it diverse :wink:

Track order:

Jan - Snippet of an interview from a documentary that covered the inaugural Girls Rock WA music camp, where I was a band mentor.
Feb - Field recording of birds and noisy generators in Macau during my trip.
March - Recording of a morning chorus taken in Mandurah, Western Australia.
April - Recording of me walking around Buckley’s Breakaway, around 350km east of Perth.
May - When I adopted my dog, Nira <3 Here she is, chewing on a goat horn.
June - Two recordings - first one was playing live with Marley Wynn, second from a field recording in Glenshee, Scotland [as part of the Murmuration workshop]
July - Recording of New Music ensemble Decibel playing my graphical notation piece, The Light That Is Waiting
August - Snippet from the play The Dirty Mother as part of the Winter Nights Festival, where I was a musician, performer and sound designer [we’re doing the full show middle of Jan!!]
Sept - Snippet from my live performance as part of the JOLT Sonic Festival in Melbourne, Australia.
Oct - Snippet from my live performance as part of Outcome Unknown in Perth, Australia.
Nov - Playing with my band Broken Gnomes.
Dec - A short snippet of my collaboration with Melbourne modular whiz Gravy Murphy - album out soon :slight_smile:

3 Likes