This week’s Disquiet Junto project will be especially rhythmic/metric. This is a placeholder for when the project goes live later today.
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Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto group, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just over four days to upload a track in response to the assignment. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. A SoundCloud account is helpful but not required. There’s no pressure to do every project. It’s weekly so that you know it’s there, every Thursday through Monday, when you have the time.
This project was posted in the morning, California time, on Thursday, September 15, 2016, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, September 19, 2016.
These are the instructions that went out to the group’s email list (at tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto):
Disquiet Junto Project 0246: Double, Quadruple, Sextuple
Compose a piece of music that increases speed in stages as it proceeds.
Please pay particular attention to all the instructions below, in light of SoundCloud having closed down its Groups functionality.
Big picture: One thing arising from the end of the Groups functionality is a broad goal, in which an account on SoundCloud is not necessary for Disquiet Junto project participation. We’ll continue to use SoundCloud, but it isn’t required to use SoundCloud. The aspiration is for the Junto to become “platform-agnostic,” which is why using a message forum, such as llllllll.co, as a central place for each project can work well.
And now, on to this week’s project.
Project Steps:
Step 1: Per this week’s project number, 0246, the focus is on a sequence of increasing ratios: from doubling (2), to quadrupling (4), to sextupling (6).
Step 2: Record a simple, rhythmic piece of music increases speed as it proceeds. First it will double, then it will quadruple, and then it will sextuple. (It can do this once, or it can do it in repeating cycles.)
Five More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:
Step 1: Per the instructions below, be sure to include the project tag “disquiet0246” (no spaces) in the name of your track. If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to my locating the tracks and creating a playlist of them.
Step 2: Upload your track. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your track.
Step 3: This is a fairly new step, if you’ve done a Junto project previously. Post your track to this llllllll.co discussion.
Step 4: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.
Step 5: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.
Deadline: This project was posted in the morning, California time, on Thursday, September 15, 2016, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, September 19, 2016.
Length: The length is up to you. Three minutes seems like a good maximum.
Title/Tag: When posting your track, please include “disquiet0246” in the title of the track, and where applicable (on SoundCloud, for example) as a tag.
Upload: When participating in this project, post one finished track with the project tag, and be sure to include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.
Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).
Linking: When posting the track online, please be sure to include this information:
More on this 246th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Compose a piece of music that increases speed in stages as it proceeds.” — at:
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
Subscribe to project announcements here:
http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/
Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.
Image associated with this project is by Oliver Gouldthorpe and is used thanks to Flicker and a Creative Commons license:
flic.kr/p/sMDxq
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First out of the blocks this week! Full notes on the Soundcloud posting.
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I think it was smart to think ahead to just how fast it might get.
https://soundcloud.com/lordofoverstock/latticeworks-disquiet0246
First time posting, here goes.
This is based on a Pure Data patch I made called “Oval Noise” because it reminded me of Markus Popp’s ovalcommers-era sound.
The patch is a mess since I just kind of threw it together with 3 oscillators playing one of four pitches randomly, with 2 of them summed up and the other being sent to another effect along with being summed with the other 2.
Pure Data measures tempo by millisecond, so I started at 500 (i beat every half second), then divided it by 2, 4 and 6. The last little bit is divided by 8.
Recorded into Audacity where I cropped it and fixed some clipping issues.
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http://www.hecanjog.com/he_can_jog-junto246.mp3
My farfisa works again finally! This is based on a loop of farfisa noodles and a loop of induction mic recordings of my cell phone that I recorded into ardour.
Otherwise I’m just doing independent drunk walks through the speeds 1, 2, 4, 6 which affect the length and rhythm of the farfisa and induction mic recordings. The sampling / playhead position for each loop is stepped via another drunk walk.
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First time post.
This is made of a piece of music I play with my project Institut FATIMA. We don´t do the double, quadruple, sextuple thing, but adding it made a nice extra thing with it.
Love this Junto thing, this was just a very quick remix job for me as I am super time restrained. Better done than perfect, as they say in my bunker.
https://soundcloud.com/paulchristophrose/impossible-disquietjunto0246
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So glad you could join in.
I’ve been playing with the notes DEAF EFF for a little while as the literal message amuses me.
Realised when I saw this project that those notes could move from being a bassline in a 4/4 time signature to a 3/4 one, which was a technique I’d employed on a few tracks late last year after learning it from Dave at http://musictheoryisyourfriend.com/
It didn’t take long to plot the notes into Ableton Live’s MIDI roll on Friday night and then add an 808 kick. The track sounded okay but was lacking something until I decided to use it as the soundtrack for my latest toasted sandwich today.
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https://soundcloud.com/glsmyth/they-come-out-at-night-disquiet0246
Initial post.
I started with recording my heartbeat, then took several steps to remove most of the noise within the recording. I added a doubling, quadrupling, and sextupling, then reversed the series. I then added reverb to this track. I recorded the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 6th strings of my guitar (E, A, G, E.). I cut each to four seconds, copied and reversed each so that they would face in and out, normalized, and finally Paulstretched each twice.
Cheers -
george
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Hi, I’ve uploaded a track for this weeks project. I’m not sure if this embed link works, if not here’s another link
https://soundcloud.com/noimspartacus/temporal-shift-disquiet0246
thanks 
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Looks like it worked.
This directive reminded me of one of my favorite aural illusions - the hidden melody, where you can only hear a melody when played at certain speeds.
I decided to use a simple structure of a repeating piano line, that would double in speed every time it is played. It doubles until it’s a trill and then it halves in speed until it returns to the original form. The first piano line is repeated an octave below throughout, and in the second half I added what we just heard but two octaves above as an accent. I also recorded myself humming a drone, from which I clipped some breath sounds and ran those through various reverbs and delays to for the rhythmic underscore.
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Hey all, here’s my bits and pieces 
https://soundcloud.com/user-651760074/evens-rundisquiet0246
This started out with orchestral notions but ended up taking too much time for sorting this quickly. Working in Logic I reorganized the the elements for a slightly quicker approach. I did keep the celesta from the original arrangement though. I started with a tempo of 80 bpm and ended up at 480 bpm for a little nod to black midi Instruments used were EXS24, Retrosynth and ES2. The mix could be questionable as my ears are still messed up from recent flu, let me know… @disquiet
More on this 246th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Compose a piece of music that increases speed in stages as it proceeds.” — at:
http://disquiet.com/0246/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/junto/
Subscribe to project announcements here:
http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/
Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
Double, Quadruple, Sextuple Music (Disquiet Junto Project 0246)
There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.
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cheated a bit. i used my recording as the final six speed part and then slowed it down by 2 4 and 6
so the slowed down part means nothing much happens for a few minutes and it builds up
used protoplasm softsynth lots of oscillation and delay to confuse things further.
https://soundcloud.com/nowthatssevenism/understatement-disquiet-0-2-4-6
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Three Multiples of 2 in 3/2.
https://soundcloud.com/davedorgan/3-multiples-of-2-in-3-2-disquiet0246
- The piece has three sections.
- Time signature is 3/2. The base BPM is 60 with jumps to 120, 240 and 360. Automated in LogicPro.
- The 1st section.
- A made a six note riff was used. Track 1 played as whole notes (4 bars). Track 2 played as half notes (2 bars). Track 3 and 4 played as quarter notes (2bars). To get the quarter notes in 3 and four, the halfs were turned into quarters and then a second note was inserted to follow each quarter. The inserted note was up or down three semi-tones from the previous - loosely following the ascending or descending notes in the pattern.
- Tracks 1 and 2 used ambient tones, track 3 was more staccato with an echo, and track 4 was a bongo sound - all from SynthMaster.
- An Apple Loop was added for the drums. It was 16 bar 4/4 loops, but it worked well across the 3/2 patterns.
- The section starts at 60 BPM and then the BPM jumps every four bars, then drops back to 60.
- The 2nd section.
- I took the first section, removed the drum loop, bounced the remaining four tracks and ran it through ambient_v0.3. The acceleration is much more subtle.
- The 3rd section.
- A combination of sections 1 and 2, only the BPM jumps are done every two bars instead of four.
- The ending is the echo of 1 and a bit more of 2 fading out.
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https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/western-multipliers-disquiet0246
Disquiet Junto Project 0246: Double, Quadruple, Sextuple
Compose a piece of music that increases speed in stages as it proceeds.Steve Reich meet Western Spaghetti !
Mostly repetitive and simple guitar parts, nod to Electric Counterpoint perhaps?
Martin J15 acoustic and Schecter 1985 Stratocaster
I added an organ (Arturia’s Vox Continental) to glue everything, perhaps not a good idea?
Time (and you fellas) will tell.I
didn’t quite follow the increase speed in terms of overall tempo but in
terms beat subdivision. Both in performance and delay rhythms:70BPM throughout, always the same little motif: Ab-C-G-Ab-F
So you have 70 motif notes per minute at the beginning and we reach 420 per minute in the finale.
1st part is plain 1/4th notes melody with a large 4 beats delay.
2nd melody enters with delay in 1/8th notes
3rd 4th and 5th parts switches progressively to 1/16th notes delays over the same basic motif performed in quarter and eight notes simultaneously.
6th is performed in 8th notes but delays become triplets (1/8th notes triplets)
7th part is the melody performed in 1/8th notes with delays in 1/8th note triplets.
8th part is the melody performed in 1/8th note triplets with delays in 1/16th note triplets (thus multiplying tempo by 6, ie 420BPM on those staccato notes)
9th is the “grand finale” with every delay in 1/16th notes triplets and one Martin and 3 Strats playing simultaneously different versions of the 5 note motif + 2 Matin guitars playing simple
chords.
Instrumentation:
00:00 Martin 1 + Strat washes.
00:42 Martin 2 & Martin 3 (left-right) + Strat melody
01:13 Martin 1 + Martin 2 & Martin 3 chords (left-right) + Strat 1 melody + Start 2 staccato.
01:40 Martin 1 + Strat 1 staccato + Start 2 staccato.
02:08 Martin 1 + Martin 2 & Martin 3 (left-right) + Strat 1 melody + Start 2 staccato + Strat 3 staccato
02:35 Triplets: Martin 1 + Strat 1 chords + Start 2 staccato
03:03 Martin 2 & Martin 3 (left-right) + Strat 1 staccato
03:27 Finale (tutti)
More on this 246th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Compose a piece of music that increases speed in stages as it proceeds.” — at:disquiet.com/0246/More on the Disquiet Junto:
disquiet.com/junto/
Subscribe to project announcements here
tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/
Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
Double, Quadruple, Sextuple Music (Disquiet Junto Project 0246)
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Here is mine. Hope it fits into the project.