#65

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.

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#66
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 :smile: -)

hmmmmm not sure how to post the embedded player…

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#67

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).

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#68

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!

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#69

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

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#70

Today, having had the studio [MY studio] available to Me, I diverted My attention away from a dobro piece I was working on with a Friend, Gil Borguez, and decided to set out to create something brand new.

I always know the Marc Weidenbaum’s [and Everyone’s] disquiet junto project will furnish some ideas, should I wish to participate; thus, I checked My email, and discovered this week’s assignment, “Jam Time [part 1],” and just, simply, ‘got to work.’

The notes and three-chord-structure of “Monk’s Placid Pillow,” I realized earlier – but after the fact – somewhat loosely parallel, and carry the rudimentary chord structure, of My Friend, Gil’s dobro song, “Cry.” I can’t be blamed, really, because Gil’s song is all I’ve been working on for days – it’s fixed in My darned psyche!

Cautiously, and desiring to not ‘finish’ the piece, I ceased My work upon it, and submit it here for the consideration of Others. I uploaded a 16-bit, 44.1kHz WAV file to SoundCloud for Others to download, but can provide a higher-quality, 32-bit floating point version, if anyone desires one.

“Monk’s Placid Pillow” [part 1 of 3]

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#71

ICY RHYTHM - pt 1 of 3 disquiet0471

This is a reworked and sparser ice percussion piece based on my submission for last week’s disquiet0471. I left it (a bit) sparse intentionally, hoping for some foreground elements that could lead this beat somewhere. 120 bpm 4/4

Mono on left, as specified in the challenge, but a stereo download is available at:

(Right click on play arrow to download audio, I think)

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#72

Morn Lighting (solo voice track)

January 13, 2021 Naviar Haiku #367, a poem by Morikawa Kyoroku:

morning light
the first blossoms of spring
bloom over-night

The Haiku was divided into 12 syllables and randomly reordered. This was done 12 times creating 12 lines of random text from the original Haiku. I recorded myself reading the text.

The track can be chopped into phrases to make it longer or add space for other sounds.

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#73

A lot of cool stuff on this thread already!
Here’s my contribution. It’s a pretty simple improvisation on electric guitar (Gretsch Duo Jet), recorded straight into Ableton Live and processed with a little bit of reverb and delay.
The inspiration/point of departure is the opening notes of the theme to of a certain TV show that I’m guessing most people in this group are the type to have watched unironically in their youth.
I’m playing in A using a G pentatonic that keeps it pretty open, I think. At the very end it transitions to mainly harmonics and I hit a high C# a few times for a bit of resolution.
There’s not really a rhythm or set pattern to it but I recorded it with a metronome playing at 90bpm in case someone wants to add rhythm to it.

If you use this track feel free to chop it up, add effects or other modulations to it (as long as it falls within Marc’s rules of course!)

I look forward to hearing the next stage.

PS I’m going to post another instrumental piece on my Soundcloud today or tomorrow, not a Disquiet project but a short, atmospheric piece made partly from a sample swiped from an Eno documentary from 1974 that improbably showed up on Youtube recently. I’ll post the link in a comment when it’s ready.
PPS
Here’s my other little song. Not intended for this project necessarily but if anyone wants to use it, let me know:

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#74

Key of D (actually just Ds and As, no thirds), 115 bpm. This is made with samples recorded on my Bulgarian tamboura.

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#75

Wow, there’ve been some amazing submissions so far! Mine is not so inspired, but, like Jimi said, “We’re just jammin here, you can leave if you want to.” Got a fairly nice Kala uke the other day and was testing out the harmonics with this door chime melody through the Canyon delay pedal. Added to that is a recording of pigeons cooing on my windowsill run through Yann Seznec’s granular sampler in Pure Data.

Rats! I forgot to pan the thing left – you see how they zap me with the mind ray?
*fixed and updated!

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#76

All sounds from recordings of my tongue drum. I had big groaning, creaking sounds in mind. Created in hotel room on day three of a power outage caused by falling trees after a windstorm. Took a walk and found this big pile of fallen trees by the river. So here’s some droniness, some crunchy textures. A little melody because there’s always some of that around.
Experimenting with Ableton Live’s warping modes for most of the sounds. Some delays and verbs. Rolled off a little low and high end. I hope its not too full and dense for someone to add more to it!
Panned left as requested for the project.

BPM: 100
KEY: D minor (?) The notes on the tongue drum are in D “celtic” minor scale: D3 A3 C4 D4 E4 F4 G4 A4 C5 I have pitched some notes up and down.
Arrangement:
Intro: 8 Bars
A section: 9 bars
B section: 8 bars
A section: 12 bars
B section: 8 bars
Outro: 4 bars

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#77


Evening, Used Roli Noise app

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#78

I wrote a short chord progression with string libraries from Kontakt and then processed it in different ways (fx, granular) and laid it down. I hope I left enough room for others to have ideas. Some parts are a bit more full than others though I think I left a lot of space for transitions. I haven’t been here for other iterations of this particular prompt, but I would love to hear this completely reimagined or just finished, or whatever winds up coming of it.

It’s 100 bpm, the chords I used were Dm, Cm9, Gm and Fmaj6

As a side note I was very glad to find this. Having difficulty finishing things.

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#79

This is beautiful - the notes you play and the instrument you’re playing them with. I have listened while looking at your diagram and still don’t understand what’s going on, but I’m into it!

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#80

Hey Simon,

Thanks, I’m very happy you like it. I’ve been writing a lot of piano music like this lately. On the diagram, the I is where the 3 notes cover a beat each, so 3 beats for a bar, the O is where the 3 notes cover 4 beats, theres a note held for 2 beats. I’ve no idea how I came to use this system, it just kind of happened when I was writing it yesterday. Then to create variations I made each section of 4 bars with a different IIOO combination. Hope that explains it a tiny bit.

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#81

Project Update: I believe there are 61 tracks in the playlist, not counting the ones that aren’t available to be included. When I post the resources in the duets project announcement, I’ll have the complete number. If your track is missing, let me know. And certainly, if you’re straggling and didn’t get it in last night, that’s fine. Feel free to still add it.

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#82

Maybe I’m going blind, but can’t see mine on the playlist. Here’s the link again (in case I’m not going blind): -

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#83

Thanks. I’ve added now. I think the playful title somehow eluded SoundCloud’s search engine.

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#84

Marc, I’ve just uploaded another version panned left, if you care to replace the stereo version. I found that taking just the left side of the stereo version leaves even more space, as opposed to combining stereo channels and panning both hard left. Probably would have done things differently had I actually conceived this in mono, if we’re heading for some sort of Zaireeka-like experiment. But I will trust the plan. :wink:

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