#37

Thanks Leslie for your always genuine and humanistic annotations.

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#38

Reunited with new friends and old gear while talking about and making music, sounds like an exceptional weekend :blush:

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#39

This needs to be used for a song title in either a Doom Metal or Blues project.

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#40

I can almost come up with a Kinky Friedman/Texas outlaw country chorus :smirk:

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#41

Wrong reply button, see below😁

I give up!

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#42

https://soundcloud.com/davedorgan/music-for-cleaining-disquiet0245

  • Not my type of music for cleaning. Serious cleaning requires Seconds Out or Yessongs.
  • I made the synth arpeggio first. Four bars with the second two having a flat third instead of a second. It worked nicely with C and G chords. That’s where the rhythm guitar came in. I’m still looking for the elusive good guitar sound on my computer:(
  • I played the rhythm guitar and harmonics parts.
  • The drums had a tape delay added on the second part to give a slight double time feel.
  • This was probably more fun to mix than to make;) But, I was trying to stay with the directions. It sounded a bit like the music you hear on DirecTv when your football game is over.
  • On the upside it does seem to loop just fine.
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#43

I have a longer version of this track, which I’ll release eventually. It’s got what I think is an irresistible beat from the Mick Fleetwood Total Drumming library, some simple chord changes, and a bunch of electronics and stuff that is relatively unobtrusive in the background. At three minutes, when it ends, I want to hit repeat to keep listening and keep working on whatever I’m doing around the house until it’s done. This weekend, when I published this piece, I listened to this on repeat while washing and lubricating the casement windows on my house and vacuuming the screens.

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#44

https://soundcloud.com/glenn-sogge/dancing-while-you-work

#45

https://soundcloud.com/triermusic/get-it-done-disquiet0245

This week’s Disquiet assignment: “Record a simple, rhythmic piece of music that exudes tidiness and efficiency, and that is eminently playable on repeat — music to listen to while doing routine tasks.”

To me this meant something like Devo meets The Jetsons. Eminently playable on repeat implies polyrhythms so that the piece will never quite be the same.

Not much free time this weekend, so this was a quick project. I set up some loops of uneven lengths using some stock Ableton synths. I drafted the lyrics on Sunday morning, arranged them Monday morning and recorded them Monday evening. The vocoder could have used some better enunciation but it’s been a long Monday. Mixed on earbuds, hopefully it’s not a mess.

I have something of an obsession with productivity systems but at the same time I love chance and unpredictability. These lyrics poke fun at my interest in to-do lists and how they relate to The Meaning of Life.

Lyrics:
Get it done!
You can do it!
Your productivity
has just begun!

Write it. Make it. Fix it. Create.
Blog it. Craft it. Remake. Repair.
Avoid existential despair.

Pomodoro timer system
Prioritize quadrant to-do’s
It’s a thing you won’t regret
There’s so much more to do yet.
Avoid the long shadow of death.

Inbox zero
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair
Inbox zero

Inbox zero
Do not go gently into that good night
Inbox zero

Inbox zero
So death kindly stopped for me
Inbox zero

Get it done!
You can do it!
Your productivity
has just begun

Sieze the day
Carpe diem!
We’ll all be dead soon
anyway

Picture by McGeddon

#46

This mix is perfecto! Great track!

#47

https://soundcloud.com/yawha/valleys-between-mountains

Ableton 9 on Win 7 32-bit. MaxForLive Turing Machine (encoderaudio.com), into two Pitch midi devices to limit octave spread and produce an unusual “low note threshold” behaviour, into a Midi scale, into FXpansion Strobe2, into FogConvolver (audiothing.net). Touch of bx_limiter on the master bus.
No automation of reverb - it wouldn’t make sense to automate reverb parameters, since it places the music in a space, and I wanted the sound parameters to be invariant over time, and let the random notes do the job…

In terms of being capable of being played on repeat - well, when you switch on the transport in Ableton, and enable the Turing Machine device on the track, straight away you have something that will forever loop… So, yeah, it definitely loops!

Could have left this on for hours. And did. But, you’ll get the idea here, in 2:30. Take it from me - it is never uninteresting over time!

It’s late in the day to be submitting something, but better late than never.

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#48

https://soundcloud.com/yawha/mountain

Did this track too for this week’s project

I enjoyed putting this track together, I tried to keep interest up and somehow make 7:30 pass quickly while you’re ‘getting stuff done’ (or not…)!

I feel the other track (Valleys between Mountains) is more suited to the brief Junto brief this week.

Ableton 9 on Windows. TAL Bassline 101 only here. Lots of tracks! Effects include Valhalla Ubermod, ReplicaXT, TAL Dub3, Decapitator, Mangleverb and Vapor by Audio Damage. Drums courtesy of two drum rack (one from the Thermionic bundle by Goldbaby, another from the Conundrums library).

Hope you enjoy…

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#49

https://soundcloud.com/midid/disquiet0245-order-in-the-r00m

So I’m super excited to finally be doing this. This is such an awesome community and I’m glad to be a part.

I personally enjoy it when my surroundings are clean and organized, but I can’t stand buckling down to actually clean and organize (my room in particular). I made this rhythmic yet kind of droning track to help aid me in zoning out from my lazy woes and maybe actually get some of that done.

I’m pretty new to all of this, so if you have any tips or constructive criticism… have at it! I’m just having fun and would like to get better :wink:

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#50

This is freaking amazing.

#51

Here’s my contribution to this week’s Junto.

I started with a simple melodic idea, not entirely sure what to do with it. Then I thought I could explore a new plug-in that I bought recently, so I decided to just use the XPand!2 synthesizer from AIR Music Technology and nothing else. Aside from one sound and a little bit of processing on the kick and snare, everything else is taken as-is from the XPand!2 presets.

https://soundcloud.com/alt-formant/purple-grass-pops-disquiet0245

#52

Love this track DeDe!! Compulsive listening.

#53

You are so kind, thank you!! Glad you like it.
Compulsive listening can’t hurt, can it? This one’s made to be looped, Loop it!
Love: Dede

#54

REPOSTING WITH DESCRIPTION & WHAT I LEARNED

Our task: “Write a piece of music for getting things done, suitable for playing on repeat”

I used the Beatstep sequencer to drive the Dune CM softsynth playing a modified version of the “Eastern Mallets” preset. This was an 11-step ostinato with upper / lower pitches so it is “almost a waltz.”

The floating harmelodic elements were a keyboard improvisation using the DSK ChoirZ plugin.

What I would do differently:

If I had had more time to spend on this (I spent most of the weekend at Knobcon, an electronic music convention), I might have realized that I should have “framed” the ostinato with the harmelodic elements rather the opposite (which is what I did.) This would give, especially in repeat mode, a more natural and useful respite every once in awhile. Everybody needs a breather now and then.

https://soundcloud.com/glenn-sogge/dancing-while-you-work

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#55

Perfect for looping indefinitely. Just like work.

https://soundcloud.com/otolythe/endless-work-disquiet0245

(better late than never…)

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#56

Different songs for different chores, I like them both :slight_smile:

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