#42

Lovely track - and get well soon!

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#43

I don’t know exactly when I started participating in these. I’ve deleted different iterations of my Soundcloud account, so I can’t easily figure out when I started. I know its been a while though, at least 4+ years. It’s been an amazing resource to push me in directions I wouldn’t have pursued otherwise. Even when I don’t submit a piece, the weekly prompts make me think. It’s also been a gateway to a community (disquiet slack, here) that I’m very happy to be a part of. Thanks @disquiet for all you’ve done for me and the rest of the Junto.

The three instruments I picked come from three distinct phases of my musicianship. All are playing a G-major chord. The first is a guitar loop via Phonogene, the second is a OP-1 volt synth pad and the third is a generative patch - DPO A/B and STO providing the notes of the chord, with Cold Mac, Maths and Teletype providing modulation and stereo movement. I also recorded the modular as a short loop on the OP-1 to provide a fourth track.

I’m happy with how this turned out, and especially happy to be a part of the auspicious 300th consecutive weekly Disquiet Junto project.

https://soundcloud.com/missushardy/disquiet-300

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#44

Ah, many thanks,off to bed with a Lemsip at 9pm on Saturday night!

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#45

Hello everybody,

Happy 300th Junto birthday!

For this one I used the Caustic-app on my phone, the C-chord, played with organ, pcmsynth and bassline and of course I misread the instructions… I recorded around 20 seconds iso 100 and started playing around with those 20.

https://soundcloud.com/user-242143924/300-kaarsjesdisquiet0300

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#46

Cheers everyone!
https://soundcloud.com/hypoidsound/interlude-in-amdisquiet0300


Interlude in A#m (disquiet0300)
With limited musical education, finding the specifics of the chord to use was the first hurdle. I know what I like and the notes involved are fairly obvious, but the naming of chords is not my forte. So, after finding my favorite(for this project), I consulted http://pianochord.org/ and found what I had chosen was A#m. Of course Logic informed me it was in fact a B flat minor, but I’m sticking with the piano experts ;-). The piece has two pads made from layering multiple synths in EXS24 and two tracks in Sculpture with one being a custom percussive mallet patch. The piece uses the base chord and both inversions during it’s progression, but is more about mood and feeling than actual song.

Video - Three different time lapse sessions were shot on the Nikon D7000 with a 35mm f1.8. Since iMovie has such a problem with time lapse, I turned to two free options available, Zeitraffer and Time Lapse Assembler, both were equally efficient at merging hundreds of pictures into movies in a few minutes! These movie files were then brought into iMovie for where music and final effects were added.

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#47

Here’s mine: https://soundcloud.com/plusch/a-major-add9-disquiet0300

I played piano, acoustic guitar, and recorder onto separate tracks. Piano was panned a bit left and guitar a bit right. Compression, delay, and reverb were added on the recorder track.

(Just ignore that metronome you hear at the end.)

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#48

Happy 300th Marc and all Disquiet Junto members! What a milestone! I’ve spent the past several months in the realms of video synthesis and haven’t been creating much in the audio realm, but I couldn’t miss being a part of this celebration. For my three instruments I focused on two within my modular (four notes from the Patch Chord driven by a DPO, and a voice of four notes from a Mutable Instruments quartet) and one from my Two Voice (where I used the classic cheat of tuning each of the four oscillators to serve as one of the notes in my chosen four note chord) … all were played and manipulated live on the fly. I chose the intervals as described in Wagner’s so-called “Tristan Chord” and played those four notes using the three instruments. Some have suggested that Wagner’s use of this chord signaled the end of Western tonal music. Obviously he did a lot more with it in his opera than I do here.

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#49

https://soundcloud.com/mtnviewmark-bits/1-100-10-disquiet300

Celebrating “round” numbers, like 300, is all about numerology. Hence, I used numbers as a basis for most aspects of the composition:

I took the factors of 300 in the order 5, 5, 2, 3, 2, as semitone steps. This leads to a 7sus4 chord with the 5th in the bass. I took the root to be D, since D4 is closest to 300Hz. So my chord is D7sus4/A.

I knew one instrument had to be my Serge modular, which would play one evolving chord for the duration. I played the du-Touch w/a marimba sample, playing the chord 100 times. Lastly, a digital piano, playing the chord 10 times. 1-100-10.

One other thought: D7sus4 wants to resolve, but this occasion is not an end, just a mile marker for the Junto,. So it is fitting to have no resolution…

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#50

Is this really your first Junto?!? Nice to see you here!

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#51

Happy 300th Junto, and thanks everyone for the ongoing inspirations. My contribution is now up at SoundCloud.
https://soundcloud.com/brad_frederiksen/300th-projectdisquiet300

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#52

It is! I put together a piece for an earlier one (the permutation one, A-B-AB… etc), but was unhappy with the results so I never published it.

Since I’ve been doing a lot of finger-picking exercises lately, the idea of a chord theme really fit well with me, so I thought I’d jump in

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#53

The playlist is now live. By my accounting, 41 participants so far on SoundCloud alone:

If I’ve left your track out, lemme know.

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#54

Points for that alone :slight_smile:

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#55

Hi everyone. Thanks for organizing this. Also a big thanks to moduS ponY for interviewing marc on caliper music in the first place. I wouldn’t have know about this awesome project otherwise.

Here’s my contribution:
https://soundcloud.com/theblankholidays/3_chords_disquiet0300

It’s a G Major chord played on a classical guitar, toy piano and balalaika at 120 , 119.99 and 119.98 strums per minute, respectively. Recorded on a Yeti USB microphone and mixed with reason limited.
There are 6 tracks total:
-Three tracks contain added reverb.
-Three tracks steadily increase in volume until distorted, additional distortion is added to the guitar track.

hope you like it!

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#56

my first disquiet submission; in an attempt to stretch myself musically and hopefully engage with a community.
Not sure i quite followed the rules entirely, though i tried. I suppose that’s part of the process, the deviation (intended or not) within the constraints.
Created with three voices of the virus ti using i think Cm.
One arpeggiated as i slowly adjust the resonance.
The others with cranked sustain, decay, release and tape emulation delay.
Overdubbed each part into ableton, no processing, maybe a little compression.
I’m fairly new to synthesis, sound production, and recording; if you have any thoughts, critiques, or suggestions please let me know.
thanks, bunny

(also my first venture into forum posting, please excuse any ineptitude with sharing links and such)

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#57

Happy 300th everyone.

Chord:
D11/G - G A C D F#

Instrumentation:
Electric Keyboard (software instrument)
Acoustic Micro Bass
Electric Guitar
Logic Pro Jiggery Pokery (mostly granular delay a la Tom Erbe)

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#58

Much thanks and respect to Marc (and everyone that has contributed) to making the junto what it is!

Anyway here is my interpretation of this weeks rule set

C minor triad
1st track was strummed/hit lap steel guitar
2nd track I sang the notes
3rd track are some loose piano chords

Matt

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#59

It’s been a long time since I’ve done a Junto, but after reading the directions and seeing it was #300, I had to give it a go.

The chord selected is C# F F# D#/root,third,fourth,ninth - C#maj11?

The instruments:

  1. Mersenne melodic percussion synth app fed by Fugue Machine app
  2. Baritone ukulele by David Ingalls
  3. C# Native American flute by Pat Haran

More details:

  1. Fugue Machine has 4 play heads playing the notes in different speeds and octaves. There is a strong noise component to the synth patch so the lowest octave is almost purely percussive and carries the beat from when it enters to the end. The tempo is 180bpm yielding exactly 300 beats in the 100 seconds. This part is centered in the mix.

  2. The uke is tuned to Ab linear so the base chord is 0560 which comes off as more of a D# minor ninth than C# major 11. Other voicings include 0568, 3530, 3560, etc. The part is played one note per beat with a quarter note delay effect to generate chords between the played notes and echoed notes. This part is panned mostly right in the mix.

  3. The NAF is tuned to C# and was the inspiration for the whole piece. Relative to the flute, the notes are A C# D high A and high B. This also used the quarter note delay to generate chords but is less effective than on the uke as I couldn’t play as fast. This part is panned mostly left in the mix.

Uke and NAF were recorded with OEM Apple EarPods mic.
Mix done in Cubasis.
Video done in Wizibel.

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#60

We chose the same basic chord (root, major third, fourth, ninth) but yours managed to stay with a “major suspended” sound while mine (#59 below) seemed to morph into a “minor 9” sound. Freaky! :scream::smile:

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#61

I’ve got a bloody cough now - blame you entirely! :wink: Get well (very!) soon!

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