Disquiet Junto Project 0591: The Loneliest Number

AlvaroDeCampos · 2023-04-30T21:58:13.589Z

Experimenting a bit more with feedback after last week’s Junto.

From a longer recording of these experiments I stitched together different sections, choosing mainly ones that were relatively sparse, in order to leave room for more layers.

Although the use of envelopes and filters makes the sounds mostly percussive, I did use specific notes/chords to create them, and so it may be useful to know these:
Am7 (a-c-e-g); B/A (a-d#-f#-b); G+/A (a-b-d#-g). Notes are from the A dorian #4 scale (mode of E harm minor).
The tempo is 78.5 bpm.

fectoper · 2023-04-30T22:00:17.696Z

An improvisation using two rsf kobol expanders, a Korg MS-20 and some touches of edition, reverb, delay and Lexicon resonant chords. The tile has to do with the anxiety generated by things that are left unfinished, as it was the case with this track.

undermulden · 2023-04-30T23:19:51.103Z

A piano pattern and some Solina. 84 BPM, Key: F Major.

SkylarkDuquesne · 2023-05-01T01:00:07.102Z

A very simple response to the prompt! 2:24 of some improvised guitar over a couple of motifs, thinking ahead that it could be added to with other elements.

There’s an amplified electric guitar in one speaker and a mic’d acoustic in the other. I’ve done this trick many times by mic’ing my Ovation while running the piezo pickup direct into the DI box. This time, though, I flipped it around: I ran the bridge pickup of my Gretsch Electromatic direct and mic’d the sound hole of the semi-hollow. I used one of Logic’s virtual amps on the electric and then added some tremolo to both. Thinking ahead to a future collaborator, the song is in C mixolydian, 120bpm so that should be pretty easy

The song is tired, happy, maybe a little pleased, but ready to be done, like the college kids on Pittsburgh’s South Side waiting alongside the locals at the grocery store bus stop for the last 83 bus.

I put the song as a .wav in my OneDrive shared folder for downloading; Soundcloud as usual for listening.

OneDrive: Disquiet Junto Files

Soundcloud:

fakeg3nius · 2023-05-01T07:37:52.689Z

Escaped my country for a few days to visit Naples, an interesting mix of ugly and beauty. Food, fantastic views and football, everywhere. For this Junto I recorded some street sounds and kids playing soccer (and calling each other names). On top there is a simple DX7 pad with a progression in Gm, with a sparse beat (no kick, no snare) at a 130 BPM.

AlvaroDeCampos · 2023-05-01T15:16:15.623Z

poets.org

Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas - Poems | Academy of American Poets

Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs

One of my favorite poems in the English language.

But, yeah, “some human speech with superfluous intelligibility”… fair enough

cjm · 2023-05-01T15:32:21.053Z

I expanded on an older jam I did with Ableton’s Voice Box pack, with a drone in C using Tree Tone. 117 BPM. A-B-C structure, with different layers of voices in each section. Loosely in C min.

tt16tt · 2023-05-01T17:20:29.185Z

I played drums for a lot of years before transitioning into electronic music - a part of this was not having the money to pay for a rehearsal room, so my drums are currently in storage.

So for this Junto, I wanted to focus on creating a beat, that other people could use. I had purely sample based focus with a focus on different sample techniques (slicing, reversed, pitch shifting etc.) using samples from Lux Cache I tried to keep the beat minimal with sparse ambient beds and other weird stuff. The tempo is 140 BPM with a short intro, an a section, a break and b section that ends rather quick.

I looking forward to seeing, what people will do with it.

Alyce_Santoro · 2023-05-01T18:29:58.333Z

Hello! This is a fresh-off-the-presses piece I hope may dovetail well with this week’s prompt! While the track consists of a trio for alto flute and two C flutes, it was composed with the hope that others may add to it, improvise on top, or otherwise re-envision it.

All tracks were recorded by me, alone in my studio…a trio for soloist (the loneliest number!). I am getting a kick out of the idea that a trio could form the basis for another trio…a trio-within-a-trio…there’s something fractal-like going on here.

Here’s the description I put with an accompanying video:

Imagery: Mammillaria heyderi (Little Nipple Cactus, or Heyder Pincushion Cactus) in bloom, far west Texas, Spring 2023

Sound: This trio for one alto and two C flutes was inspired by a lecture titled “Georgia O’Keeffe’s Radical Abstraction” in which one of O’Keeffe’s works — Abstraction White Rose — was described as existing on a spectrum between realism and abstraction…or perhaps it is paradoxically both at the same time?

“Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.” — Georgia O’Keeffe

Sheet music available upon request.
All are welcome to use this piece as a basis for improvisation.

LNDF · 2023-05-01T18:30:27.729Z

Le Nom Des Fleurs · disquiet0591

Hello everyone !

It’s my first time participating to a Junto:
I’m learning supercollider since a week or two,
and decided to force myself to finish something by participating

It has been harder that I thought it was gonna be, I’m still struggling a lot with supercollider
(hence de ambient drone to avoid the use of pattern in proxy space)

Far from being the best thing I’ve done, but done it is, and learned I have.

AThousandPlateaus · 2023-05-01T18:39:50.215Z

I just finished up one of the first chapters in the Allen Strange book reprint that dealt with harmonics of sawtooth waves and wanted to play around with those a bit. So, I made a chord progression with an appeggiated sequence based off of the chord that’s used to demonstrate the harmonics (CCACEGBflat).

encym · 2023-05-01T19:57:14.942Z

Hi all - Happy to be back to posting for a Junto project. Thanks, @disquiet Marc! These collaborative ones are my favourites.

So basically, I had just a couple of hours left to do this after coming back from a trip, so I just found a good setting on my Pladask Elektrisk Fabrikat and played what you’re hearing here, off the top off my head, after which I edited to condense it down to what I thought is a good length.

Really looking forward to hearing everybody’s “basic track”, and to adding to them for next week’s project!

PS – FYI, the piece is roughly in Db minor, with two detours to D major in the second half.

Here you go:

leonclowes · 2023-05-01T21:22:33.624Z

It was great listening to all the different tracks starting off this challenge, I’m looking forward to working with what others have been coming up with. I thought I’d offer a rhythm track to the mix, created from preset drum sounds on Logic Pro, live looping and quantizing each of the 9 parts, panning them out then cutting and moving various patterns to spice it up a little.

unsociable_hours · 2023-05-01T22:57:45.543Z

I’m not sure when it ends.

Soundoferror · 2023-05-02T00:55:36.624Z

Started with the Bass VI in freeform improv AMM mode. pretty soon the riff happened and felt good so hit record. Then went back to doing freeform Bass improv. i like them both so combined them into one longer track. feel free to use only the improv part or the groove riff or portions thereof.

thgirwnhoj · 2023-05-02T00:57:27.833Z

I tried to think of different styles of music that made me picture actual trios of musicians playing live. I had a short window of time to play the drums this past weekend, so I sat down and just started playing whatever came to mind. I tried playing a jazz beat and also played a more folk/country beat, but ultimately started grooving to this harder, funky rock beat that makes the first part of the song. Part B is just what felt natural when I wanted to create an A-B-A-B pattern and then I just did a variation on Part B for the bridge. So, this short little song framework goes A-B-A-B-C-A. I played it through a handful of times until I was able to get a few good takes. Then I did a little editing, mixing and added some effects. It is a very raw recording and I honestly have no preconceptions about what might be layered over it. This is my first collaborative Junto project and I am excited to take part! Thanks!

(BPM is 114)

beto · 2023-05-02T01:05:45.858Z

A track with the OP-Z and the Korg Kaosspad 2S Mini.

ntrier · 2023-05-02T01:23:36.512Z

I’ve been wanting to sample some modular synths and use them as the basis of a pitched instrument, so I patched some relatively stable tones on my PO-400 and record some experiments which I turned into instruments.

The musical material came pretty quickly out of trying to find a portion of the sample. Basically, I’d find something that sounded promising, test it out, and hey there’s an idea for a section!

I went for a pretty straightforward ABCABC structure, figuring that whoever my future collaborators might be, they could chop this up and move it around.

I can definitely hear some parts to add to turn this into a song - I hope you do too!

The tempo is 90 bpm and the key is, overall, Db/C# minor.

I also livestreamed the process of making this track on Twitch - I’m a little rusty, but hopefully it’s interesting seeing how the sausage gets made: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1809105721

jzed · 2023-05-02T03:24:38.527Z

I put together an ambient ambiguous chord progression for my loneliest submission.

The tempo is 60 BPM.

The chord sequence is:
Emin, Eb, Emin, C#
Caug, Bb #4, Caug, Fmin
Gsus, F #4

I’m looking forward to catching up on this thread and working on the next part of the project.

SonicSearch · 2023-05-02T03:36:25.127Z

Took a break from Juntos recently to deal with life and trying to re-think my studio practice.

It’s so nice to be back. Hoping to get into the “actually finishing creative work” mode again.

Here’s a short ambient piece based on this idea I’ve been developing recently:

a few unsynchronized loop layers washing over like waves, endlessly recombining in new ways.

There’s plenty of room for new material:

there’s no BPM as such - all sounds are coming as waves from a few unsynced loops
sound is mostly located in this part of the spectrum, leaving space in the bass and treble parts for new layers

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Key: D minor, 10-15 cents above the reference note.
Tempo: none (multiple unsynced looping waves).
Instrumentation: bowed electric guitar + reverbs + tape emulation.

Enjoy! Can’t wait to hear what you add