#22

The first thing that came into my mind was call & response, so I ended up with this.
Don’t know what kind of thing you can get done with it. Maybe cutting weed.

https://soundcloud.com/rudzupuke/ill-take-you-there-disquiet0245

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#23

https://soundcloud.com/ethanhein/productive-disquiet0245

This track was designed for getting things done. There’s no better source material for such a track than “Work It” by Missy Elliott and “Harder Better Faster Stronger” by Daft Punk, so that’s what I used.

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#25

https://soundcloud.com/ohm-research/a-curious-journey-disquiet-0245

This piece is in the tradition of Cabaret Voltaire’s Taxi Music and
Potuznik’s Amore Motore (… Autobahn). The source material came from a
recording done over 18 years ago to celebrate the birth of my son Todd,
and the subsequent 350 mile drive by my parents within 24 hours of his
birth to meet the latest addition to our family. The original recording
was made with a Roland MC-505. This updated version was completed in
Ableton. Driving music for driving…

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#26

The drums are by Mick Fleetwood, from his Sony ACID disc Total Drumming. He made what I consider a really “IRRESISTIBLE” drum loop there. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

#27

https://youtu.be/Af1rtk0sGPA

Not sure how I ended up here but I started by randomising short Latin percussion patterns. Then I recorded half a dozen takes of a bassline that I thought would loop in on itself.

When I listened to the takes I noticed a few of them were in time. Which was funny when I looked at the videos and saw I’d count myself in at different points.

I layered up three takes and added two other takes of the final riff, which I settled on as it’s DEAF. The timing and notes drift a bit in the takes but it creates an interesting effect.

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#28

well I started to work on 0245 and then got stuck and then felt that I couldn’t do it before tidying my studio up, then felt guilty because the rest of the flat was such a mess, like really a mess… so I ended up calling a friend to come and help me clear up and we listened to the Junto 0245 playlist to keep us going. So although not contributing to the playlist in a musical sense we definitely tested it out in a very practical sense. Our firm favourite was Detritus Tabu which we looped for an age, but we enjoyed almost everything and I want to thank you all for having helped me clean my house thoroughly! Musical Marie Kondo’s the lot of you. Hope to get around to re-patching the studio this week. x gus

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#29

found some almost forgotten instrument racks from ableton,filled with nice african instruments and against my usual work i used these presets.
thought this track fits nicely for cleaning all the stuff in my tiny “studio” using a dust broom.

More on this 245th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Write a piece of music for getting things done, suitable for playing on repeat” — at:

disquiet.com/0245/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

disquiet.com/junto/
Swirl (disquiet0245) by WÜST is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

  https://soundcloud.com/wust/swirl-disquiet0245
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#30

Vacuum cleaning? Once a month and no music of course. Driving? Four ball joints making some noise (meaning about to break) so I kind of need my ears to stay alive. What about a good old blues then? I had an horrible week and saturday I just sat at the piano… as I’m a very bad pianist things come easily. I then went to my keys and after the shock (my acoustic piano is tuned one tone lower) I found my steps back, and later backwards. Is this loopable? You tell me.
https://soundcloud.com/claudelebelge/12092016-blues-a-proposal-for-disquiet0245

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#31

You can also use this space to describe your music, or a special effect you use, a compositional trick, just anything really. So, ok, you took an irresistible beat from Mr Fleetwood (whom I respect) to make your own track irresistible, and it failed. Man, that happened to many of us here, it’s not easy to compose for Disquiet. What I’d like to know is how you built on your own mistake to come up with such outstanding music in the end?

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#32

I loved this one- I’m a big sucker for that Library/Radiophonic/public TV science film vibe, and this hit the spot. Nice bounce and melody. It’s stuck in my head now!

#33

Here’s my entry. (No time for a description right now – I’ll try to write more later.)

Paul

https://soundcloud.com/plusch/routine-disquiet0245

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#34

For the benefit of those outside the UK (or not old enough!) who don’t know what I am talking about - back in the late 70s and early 80s, the UK only had three TV channels, none of which were on air all the time. The BBC used to start each day with Ceefax teletext, and then the Schools programming would start. In between each programme, there would be a clock shown (sometimes with dots around the outside that gradually disappeared as the time approached!). The music was always something instrumental and jaunty - like this actual footage from 1982 - the best bit comes in at just after a minute (after the totally black screen!) with a track that would fit the brief this week I think!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NwuHPfhHDE

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#35

Sounds like you can get really important, somehow tragic stuff done with that. Maybe dig a grave for a dead pet, write an important letter, or pay the bills. I like it.

#36

https://soundcloud.com/337is/drone-e-while-you-work-disquiet0245

This past weekend was Knobcon and I was running top speed throughout the three days with my eyes and ears wide open. Synths and sounds EVERYWHERE. :slight_smile: And even more importantly, friends, old and new, also there sharing in the excitement. I got to meet fellow contributor Glenn Sogge in person and we talked at length about everything. It was soo cool to cement a friendship formed through the Disquiet Junto with shared time experienced together in the waking world. I thought about this prompt while I was there and found myself talking a lot about the Disquiet Junto with others. Some knew about it and responded favorably. Others who were unfamiliar expressed curiosity.

The song that immediately leapt into my mind for this is the great Raymond Scott composition “Powerhouse;” www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaC0vNLdLvY as it clearly describes the feel of industrialized activity through its motorik compulsion. Activity often implies rhythm to me. So of course I had very little sense of rhythm in my piece. The only nod to rhythm might be felt in the scalar leaps moving throughout the improvised scale. I felt very much like Terry Riley and could easily play/hear this piece looped for hours in a day, gently prodding me forward while providing a bed to rest in from time to time.

The only sound source in this is my trusty Oberheim Matrix-6 which I got when I was 15. One of the voices gave out years ago, and I took it in to be repaired. The person trying to fix it didn’t know what they were doing and the store they worked at eventually went out of business. When I collected the synth back from them, I found it producing no sound at all. Finally, at last year’s Knobcon, I took it and my friends Logan Erickson and Eric Wistrand put a plan into place to rehabilitate it for me. Eric graciously donated another Matrix-6 which could be scavenged for parts and the mighty Logan set out to repair my board. This year it returned to me and it purrs like a kitten now. I was so eager to get my hands on it again and I sat down to create a patch from scratch and played for a few hours. This is a few minutes from those hours. :slight_smile:

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#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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