Disquiet Junto Project 0472: Jam Time

[kn00t]

This is inspired by a patch by Omri Cohen and follows his idea of unsynced loops that I found relieving. For a long time my hesitation with electronic music creation was the idea of proper syncronisation…

• Arpeggiated synth plus FM voice recorded into Lilac Looper in VCV Rack
• C minor scale
• 115 BPM

This is a great learning experience and very different to my previous
contributions to the Junto. I needed to think a lot about the intermediate steps and what I share with you for further collaboration. How many tracks? Are the levels OK? Include
effects or not? 16 or 24bit? How to record stubs? Etc.

Therefore I decided to create something very simple that allowed me to redo it several times until I managed to record something that I can share.

[Calmnesia]

This cinematic piece developed from just exploring the synth Generate, which uses chaotic math for its oscillators. Over the next few weeks, other people will layer their own music on top of it as part of a disquiet junto project.

For collaborators: This is at 100bpm, regular 4/4 time. It’s entirely atonal though, so I can’t give you a scale or chord progression.

If you want the panned version you can download it here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1dhkyxfjrw7inw2/0472%20final%20panned.wav?dl=1

[mode.analogue]

glad to be back for another disquiet contribution. and a happy new year to you all.

as per the requirements, a version of below track which is panned hard left can be found for download at the following link: https://we.tl/t-XLZNRGtIEj
i have otherwise chosen to upload the piece un-panned to soundcloud, just to allow a better listening experience when trying to decide whether to use this base track or not.

if you chose to utilise this track for any future disquiet assignment, please feel free to edit the track length according to your requirements. the piece has been arranged in a way which allows for it to be used in any kind of length or format desired by any future collaborators. THERE IS NO NEED TO STICK WITH THE ORIGINAL LENGTH. thank you:)……
i am looking forward as to how this droney base track will be incorporated into other peoples works.

this is ¶radio hummingbird’s contribution to this week’s disquiet junto with the serial number 0472. in short, the requirement for this contribution was to create a piece of music which can be used for a three-fold collaboration by other disquiet contributors in the future.

this is a simple droney base track layer, created entirely by a microphone, looping pedals, delay and echo pedals and some clever (feedback) routing with my mixer and other routing devices. all of this has then been recorded onto cassette tape by a multi tracker.

a daw or computers were only used for a little mastering in ableton live. easy.

this track has two distinctive parts: the first half features crackling and rattling sounds subtly in the background of the drone whereas the second half of the track is solely the drone without any distractions.

please feel free to shorten the track to your needs. it is created in a way which allows for it to be used in any length required.
there is, as requested in the assignment notes, a version of this song available which is panned hard left. a download link for this file can be found in the top section of this post.

please enjoy and listen loud.

edit: and here, as always, a short instagram clip showing a little glimpse of the process:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CKKK2t3KhfW/?igshid=16xpsw8g5ud5m

[mdh]

I’ve been spending a lot of time with Orca recently so figured it was nice to start putting it to use in disquiet projects.
For this I basically just have a repeating slower pattern & an echo pattern playing a melody of randomized notes which then have themselves echoed at different octaves / velocities (though I’m not sure that part was actually working as I imagined in my head originally…)

These are going into Pigments for the pad & Ableton’s collision for the bell-ish stuff. The tempo is at 120 BPM and is mostly panned left.

Look forward to checking everyone’s submissions out, these have been great fun in previous years

[rhein]

I went pretty safe with some minimal synths hanging out in cmaj.
Used a Juno 6 and Prophet-5

[stefans]

Hi there, hope you are all doing well in these difficult times. Concerning difficulty: My piece is some abstract, kind of polyrhythmic thing based on a heavily treated loop from old Casio SK1 processed though my new Hikaru Monos synth and further modified by Ableton Live’s Beat Repeat. This same instruments was used for the chords which happen some time and the first additional track. The more abstract noisy piece is done my running Bast Kastl though Monos again and processing this time with Buffer Shuffler effect. Hope that anyone will get crazy ideas playing to this.

[krehg]

https://soundcloud.com/ohm-research/ouka-disquiet0472

A low-fi sample playback with some slow lfo modulation.

[morgulbee]

An undercurrent of sci-fi industrial sound. The “heartbeat” is a D pitch that repeats 16 times, then 16 beats on F, then back to D, repeat until done. Should be plenty of space for someone to add melody, chords, drums, or just more sci-fi effects.

Made on a modular synth using three oscillators processed through Arbhar (granulator) and Desmodus Versio (reverb), along with some sci-fi samples on Bitbox Micro.

[blunderspublik]

I guess I should have learned my lesson last year when no one took me up on my synth arpeggio…but check out this year’s synth arpeggio! It’s in A minor at 96bpm, and should line up nicely to a click track once that weird 128 bpm envelope fades out:

…and @mdh, I don’t know what an ORCA is, but that’s a sexy looking screenshot! And the track is great too!

[Pineyb]

I thought that I’d try something different with this one.
This is a link to a Drive folder with a rhythm track from the modular. There are 5 mono files, plus a sixth audio click track. The rhythm parts have 5 clicks at the top to line things up in your DAW. Mix and match.
The sequence is in 5/4… depending on your outlook. 98 BPM

The Patch:

The Files

[Disquiet 0472 - Google Drive]

[BennDeMole]

An idea I started for a Haiku response that didn’t get developed, some adjustments and it feels ready for some layers to be added by others.

The notes A, C#, D, F#, G#, A, C#.
BPM 62

Created in Logic Pro using the Sculpture modeling synth. One instance for each note.
Enjoy.

[sevenism]

a cello sample played around with in vital

all over the place in terms of frequency
but quite slow and lots of quiet bits

needs to be panned left

[comma]

hey folks,

here is something noisy/ambient, with plenty of quiet for others. panned left.

• soma lyra-8
• lom elektrosluch mini city listening to phone running openmw

[ntrier]

These are always so fun! I made this part of my twice-a-week livestream, during which I fired up VCVRack and made a whole bunch of weird noises and recorded most of them (well, some of them). What really grabbed my attention were the drones, so I used those.

This track is basically just three samples - I took a drone and split it up into four frequency bands using Klevgrand’s Gaffel plug-in - each gets its own placement in the stereo field and slightly unique processing. They enter one by one at the beginning of the piece.

Once they enter, a new competing drone makes an appearance, and also a rhythm.
That’s pretty much it!

There’s some weird audio artifacts showing up in weird places - maybe I should run it through a vinyl emulator plug-in and pretend it was intentional…

[Chris_Ledwidge]

Hi all,

A long time since I’ve contributed to a Junto project so this is a good one to come back to it. Here’s my piece. A short piano piece, it’s not too abstract to make it easier for others to get into. There’s a couple of timings to look out for. I’m very much looking forward to seeing what people do with this.

ChrisLedwidge · No. 34 In Am - disquiet0472

I recorded it using ableton. My usual piano sound when recording midi only is a stock ableton piano layered with a spitfire audio soft piano and Felt Instruments Wolno piano too. The Wolno sounds great. That’s all that’s on this one.

I used this kind of method to make the arrangement…

This just outlines for me what’s happening in each bar in each half of the piece.

[wagneric]

This is a slow, 8 seconds-per-chord, left-channel-only (minus a little reverb that spilled over) ambient chord progression that unfolded. I resisted adding in the rest of the kitchen sink in case anyone else is moved to fill in more.

[gibbsdavidl]

David Gibbs · Reverse Java [disquiet0472]

Hey all, first time participating, very excited.

This is guitar and bass recorded with amp sims and a lot of lexicon reverb.
The progression is I, vi, II, V in E major. So it’s E6, C#m7, F#7, B…
however, the bassline and melody go forwards while the chords are reversed.
It’s at 70bpm. thanks -)

hmmmmm not sure how to post the embedded player…

[disquiet]

Hi. A few things for participants:

1. The SoundCloud playlist is up to date. If I’m missing your track, please let me know.

2. Make sure your tracks are set as downloadable in advance of the second stage of this project (0473), which begins Thursday.

3. On Thursday, when the second phase of this project goes live (project 0473), the rules will be that you can submit up to two duets for inclusion. Usually the limit is one track per project, but for project 0473 it will be two. The primary purpose of this expansion is to increase the likelihood that as many as possible tracks from 0472 are turned into duets. (In the past, folks have created a list to note which first-stage solos have been yet to be turned into duets. It’d be great if someone can manage that again this time around. Thanks.)

4. If you submit an 0472 solos track that isn’t on SoundCloud (or is private on SoundCloud), that’s totally fine. I’ll include a link in the project description for 0473.

5. And you don’t need to have participated in this past week’s solos project (0472) to participate in this week’s duets project (0473).

[hardworking]

Hello, here is a short piece of solo percussion from a Pure Data patch of mine that I’ve called ‘kick and snare trigger popcorn’. It’s a kick, a snare, and a tangle of various clock sources, multipliers, dividers and randomisers, assembled with the aim of outputting somewhat chaotic rhythms. Definitely inspired by Mark Fell and his Multistability system(s), though much much less developed.

Its quite dense and quick, but on the other hand it only contains two sound elements and is functional as a rhythm track, as long as you don’t mind your rhythms a bit frantic.

More than happy for this to be edited, treated, slowed down etc. btw if anyone wants to use it. I haven’t hard-panned it (as I figured people generally prefer their kicks centred), but it is mono. I use bandcamp, not soundcloud, but I’ve set it so the audio should be as easy as possible to download (let me know if any issues).

Excited to collaborate!

[rens]

Hi, this is my first contribution to this Junto, and my first post to lines, though I am a long time lurker. I need to somehow overcome the torpor of the COVID-19 plague so i hope that together we can do that!

An Ableton pianowobble with some gentle filter movement via a max LFO.

I played this for about five minutes to a drum loop to provide the groove, and then edited it down to fit the criteria: not too long, left channel only.

Its 90bpm and in Am

I was thinking about how tomorrow, the 19th of January 2021, the world takes a deep breath and then exhales; many people worked to get here but some of them didn’t make it. This is OK because none of us ever make it to our destination, even though both the destination and the journey are themselves forever, immutable.

Almost midnight in London.

-Torpid Scorpion