#22

yes! My bizarre ideas seem normal!! :slight_smile:

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#23

https://soundcloud.com/suss-musik/lewitt-disquiet0300

Suss MĆ¼sik owns a copy of Ted Greeneā€™s Chord Chemistry, an artifact from classical guitar lessons taken long, long ago. The book is like a skinny encyclopedia for guitar nerds, diving into the nuances of systematic voice leading and harmonic progressions as an approach to composition. Weā€™d tell you more if we could remember any of it.

Suss MĆ¼sik is fascinated by the way that a singular component can be modularized and extended to create a system. The artist Sol Lewitt understood this concept very well, developing a complex visual language from a single geometric form. Chords are the linear elements that give shape to modular structures we call ā€œsongsā€ ā€” itā€™s amazing the emotive depth a single chord can carry in the right context.

For this short piece, Suss MĆ¼sik selected the chord Eb7 for piano, mellotron and 12-string guitar. We chose this chord because itā€™s one of those chords that sounds ghastly played in isolation, and yet when bridged between other voices it has an almost lyrical quality.

The mellotron was played on dual ā€œchurch organā€ settings, creating a harsh phasing as the cycles overlapped in unison. The guitar was played with a Vox amplifier that for some reason picked up a pleasant background hum. The piano increased in force and volume as we neared the 100-second mark. The piece is titled Lewitt.

On this 300th Disquiet Junto Project, Suss MĆ¼sik extends sincere appreciation to Marc for kickstarting the endeavor, and to all who share your gifts of creativity and fellowship every week. Thank you for letting Suss MĆ¼sik be a part of it.

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#24

https://soundcloud.com/audio-obscura-music/disquiet-300

Here it is, pulled myself out of bed (I have a nasty lung infection) and did this in a couple of hours as I really wanted to be part of the 300th disquiet!

Peace

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#25

my track:
https://soundcloud.com/user-941288896-491859901/generative-peace-disquiet-0300

a quick healing for audio obscura

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#26

Apologies to Marc for misspelling his name in the first edit of our post. Corrected and mea culpa.

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#27

Chose a chord on guitar as EADGCF, straight down open frets + a bit at the top. Recorded a short fade in/out sample of this using simple, slightly ā€˜phase driftyā€™ sine generators. Built 3x instruments based on convolution of each with the sine ā€˜chordā€™. (1) a randomly chosen field recording, doesnā€™t matter what it was; you canā€™t hear it! Some modulated spectral sampling to pack out texture after the convolution (2) Guitar into long sustain delay lines, played over 5 inversions & some scale runs on the chosen chord. (3) tracks 1&2 vocoded onto white noise, then high passband filtered.
Due to the action of convolution/correlation, all three instruments can sustain ā€˜infinitelyā€™, obliged to serve harmonics from the chord. Solely used JSFX processing under Reaper, no synths in this one.

Time went over the 100, based on the arbitrary length of the original field recording ā€¦ got carried away with the experiment & never went back to trim it before laying down the live played guitar track.

https://soundcloud.com/tosowgreennettles/disquiet-junto-project-03003-chords-x-100-seconds

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#28

Try tuning a Danelectro 12-string to a mellotron while the high-G string keeps snapping. We feel your pain :slight_smile:

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#29

That is awesome. We once put a paper towel tube on a mic to record something inside a drain.

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#30

https://soundcloud.com/richardfair/open-your-eyes-disquiet0300

My first Disquiet Junto was 0157 back in January 2015. As I head towards my third year Iā€™ve lost count of how many tracks Iā€™ve created. Iā€™ve learned so much from the projects and from other contributors yet still feel uneducated compared to what my peers create each week. I remain in awe.

For this weekā€™s I struggled a bit. I had an idea in my head about using some vocals and Iā€™m too stubborn to let it go. The chord is there in the form of three instruments from Ableton - Decaying Daffodils (Synth Rhythmic), Ambi Reversible Guitar and the Basilica Lute. The vocals are from Black Octopus Sound - Echoes by Holly Drummond. An added drum rhythm and some basic effects (reverb and delay).

We all start in the same place. We all end up somewhere different. Itā€™s what make Disquiet Junto so pleasurable and exciting. Hereā€™s to the next 300.

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#31

https://soundcloud.com/wilfried-hanrath/wil-threehundredsdisquiet0300

Congratulations for 300 disquiet junto projects. - I always feel kind of insecure if I understand the instructions right. The chord I chose was a random chord on my guitar. I splitted the guitar signal, so I had one part more with the reverb and the delay (and less of the original guitar sound), and a second one with the guitar signal and a little effects. I then translated this into something I could play on the bass and also on the drums. - Now I am eager to listen to more of the other contributions. Have a nice weekend everybody

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#32

https://soundcloud.com/cboulter/september-29th-2017-disquiet0300

Hi All - this is my first go at this so thoughts welcome. (Itā€™s a eurorack effort in C#m7. This seems a very obvious solution!)
Acoustic guitar into morphagene and then variously modulated.
4ms SMR doing itā€™s general thing.
Drone from Shapeshifter slowly sweeping through wavetables
Field recording into clouds in the background.

Everyone elseā€™s are really good - well done all. Hope Iā€™ve mastered the tagging process etc.

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#33

300 weeks is a pretty phenomenal achievement. i wonder how much music that is?

https://soundcloud.com/s_e-v/disquiet0300

instrument 1: self generating feedback in podfarm, echo added in audacity, faded out throughout
instrument 2: C harmonica. i entrusted audacity to pitch shift to E. paulstretched it into itself
instrument 3: 12 string guitar. bit of finger picking in Em. nothing added. well except reverb when i mastered in audition

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#34

I used Nord Electro 5D for all instruments:
1 choir (Orchestron library)
2 strings
3 vox organ
https://soundcloud.com/user-680123391/300-disquiet0300

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#35

https://soundcloud.com/tylerjohnarnold/outside-disquiet0300

Decided on a Gm chord, but ended up bending the rules a little bit. I started with just a single G note drone coming out of VCV Rack (https://vcvrack.com/). The oscillator module has a Spread control that allows for an almost note cluster type of sound - somewhat similar to the Swarmatron (http://www.dewanatron.com/instruments.php?page=swarmatron). So I guess in a microtonal sense that was its own distinct chord. I started there with some reverb and recorded the audio into Ableton Live. I then used the OB-Xd plugin to create a chord drone (G-A#-D). On its own it sounds a bit like an old, detuned home organ. I played with the filter over the course of the track, allowing more noise and cross modulation to reveal itself. The last track was another chord drone played on the free Linplug Alpha3 plugin. Itā€™s most noticeable in the high-pitched bits you hear around the edges. Itā€™s a pretty heavily modulated ghostly church organ sound. Once I had the three I played with a bit of EQ, some subtle delay, and spreading.

I went into this one specifically approaching it as an experiment for a track idea Iā€™m working on which will include some field recording/foley and ultimately be set to video. I think what I did here will make it into that expanded piece.

Congrats on 300! I need to go back and dig up my early Junto pieces. I think my earliest goes back to number 21 if I remember correctly.

EDIT: I just did some digging and it appears I have Junto tracks going all the way back to 0006! Wow!

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#36

This is a really, really beautiful piece. Well done!

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#37

Thanks - really appreciate that!

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#38

Love this one! Nice work.

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#39

I chose the ā€˜natural open tuningā€™ for each instrument, rather than a specific chord:

Instrument 1 - bathroom tap, running for 100 seconds
Instrument 2 - tibetan bell, trying to keep a more or less constant resonance for 100s
Instrument 3 - acoustic bass guitar, scraping with a pick from bridge to nut on the E string over 100 seconds (the harmonics and resonance of other strings provide some lovely chords)

:slight_smile:

hu x

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#40

I am laid out with a hideous cold, but how could I not do the 300th project?

Also because I am laid out with a hideous cold I misread the instructions and did 3 100 second chords each with 3 instruments - the first with sustaining instruments (cello, stylophone, wine glass), the second with wind (recorder, ocarina, harmonica) and finally plucked (kalimba, ukulele and banjo). What the hell, rules are there to be broken.

https://soundcloud.com/petemaskreplica/300pm-eternal

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#41

this is Ā¶radio hummingbirdā€™s contribution to this weekā€™s disquiet junto with the serial number 0300. what an achievement - happy celebrations!
in short, the requirement for this contribution was to create a piece comprising of three recordings of 100 seconds each, featuring one chord played by three different ā€œinstrumentsā€.

wow. 300 consecutive volumes of the disquiet junto - thatā€™s amazing! to celebrate this event accordingly i thought i might just put my personal spin on the interpretation of the term ā€œinstrumentā€: making use of a number of items and devices which are not normally considered musical.
but first things first: the chord i have chosen for this assignment is made of these three keys: D, E and G.

for the first track, three oscillators of my travel eurorack synth kit have been tuned accordingly and run, rather conservatively, through a filter and a vca while being sequenced. the output has been refined with a real tape echo created by a sony tcm-5000ev hooked up to my mixer.
the second track comprises of a cambodian gong played by a bow (attempting to get the pitch right), a tuned wine glass played with my finger plus an empty bottle spun on the floor tiles (trying to match the required pitch).
and lastly, the third track is made up of three different recordings trying to somehow emulate the chosen keys with a dried out lotus pod, 6 small bamboo chimes of three different pitches and a bunch of locust tree seed pods. this last track received some additional processing through a number of filter effects.

all combined and this is what 300 junto assignments sound like. cheers to you all, fellow creators and instigators.

enjoy listening.

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