Very appropriate to visit older unfinished material as Mercury goes retrograde.

A track in progress. had started and abandoned the beginnings of this early last fall, but as luck would have it, have been revisiting and remaking it lately.

Seemed appropriate for this Disquiet project.

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Hi,

I went back to my first Junto(not that long ago), number 0250 ‘Soothing sounds’
The day after I posted that song, I regretted it a bit, because it was for a new born baby and I called the song: “Soothing nightmares for Junto”, not really suitable.
For my new version I only used flute sounds and that’s it, much better for babies to listen to.

https://soundcloud.com/user-242143924/soothing-dreams-for-juntodisquiet0275

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really dig the video.great idea.

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Hello Juntonians,
Broken China(disquiet0275) https://soundcloud.com/user-651760074/broken-chinadisquiet0275
https://soundcloud.com/user-651760074/broken-chinadisquiet0275

Music-When this prompt was emailed I had an idea for revisiting a track started before using some acoustic instruments I have about. Started out actually trying to find where they went to! Once found, the broken Hero toy accordion wouldn’t play nicely with the others :-/ So backup plan B, revisit an older recording that needed major board work. That proved time consuming as well and the results are still in question. Then for a mental break I recorded some ceramic bowl sounds in response to William Boldenweck’s talk of broken bell jars and another member (whos name I unfortunately can’t remember) mention of kintsukuroi, a Japanese technique of ceramic repair. The bowls where amazingly musical and so I created a clock chime sound signifying 10:00 and things went crazy! The first section is as recorded, the next 2x speed, the next 4x speed and the last 1/2 speed. They each play in succession and then collide for the last section, meanwhile a mixdown of that is introduced through the Dedalus delay/sampler/mangler in a separate track. The third track is a simple Micrologue bass line for mass :wink: Recorded through a Zoom H2 into AudioShare and sent to Cubasis for mixing and mangling. While not where I started, I did revisit something broken!

Video-Filmed on a bloggie and recorded sound through a Zoom H2(shown in the middle of the bowls) into an iPad running Audioshare. Video mangled and edited in iMovie.

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https://soundcloud.com/glsmyth/looking-for-planes-looking-disquiet0275

When I decided to start writing music again the first piece I envisioned was Looking For Planes, a reference to my granddaughter’s fascination with airplanes. The initial attempt ran out of steam and I shelved it, working on other things. With reflection I came to realize that I had not so much run out of ideas but that I needed bookends to what had been written.

This short piece is an introduction to the full piece, which I will return to, and will follow that with a coda.

This piece is written for two pianos.

The score is available at http://bit.ly/2oUqYh8

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tincture
ins cure
curtains

there are two sides to every tape.
i wanted to make something simple from the reverse side of a tapeloop i created a while ago. this ended up being a sort of crude b-side:

not quite as simple as the “original” track, but a sort of shadow version that exists as something else in itself. it’s sound collage with some cut up vocals i has recorded on a whim a couple months ago. wordplay was meaningless in the moment but becomes something when repeated. i would like to make an even simpler version of this.
the flipside

here’s “clink / glint” the a-side of the cassette tape loop track:

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i’ve been doing the junto coming on 2 years. i wanted to celebrate that by redoing my first junto track and kind of to mark how much i’ve learnt since then - largely in part by the breadth of these projects.

but then i was kind of uninspired by the original so changed my mind. weirdly, that same day the original track came on random on my phone (out of 14,000 tracks) and i took that a sign. also i reflected on how i used to put some of my own music on my, well, i used an mp3 player back then. getting back into music the tracks were more memorable but now i’m making so much i can barely remember how i made the tracks i did yesterday.

the structure is similar in that i’ve reversed the first half to create a palindrome but i’ve switched between ableton audacity and audition which is what i tend to do at the moment.

recreation of https://hearthis.at/sevenism/spring-palindromes-dark-winter-snippets-disquiet0177-netlabelportrait/

(original instructions:
Step 1: Create a new piece of music by using nothing but the following segments of the following songs:

Use the first 30 seconds from “Part 1″ off Scott Lawlor’s World of Ice and Snow:
www.darkwinter.com/dw095.html

Use the first 30 seconds from “Underground Shelter” off Nadador Nocturno’s Harsh Winters in the Distance:
www.darkwinter.com/dw096.html

Use the first 30 seconds from “DSM III – The Cristalline Entity” off Ovdk vs Seetyca’s Allegorik Symptom Before the Cataclysm:
www.darkwinter.com/dw097.html)

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+1 Really nice use of ghost images.

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Here’s mine: https://soundcloud.com/plusch/redo-disquiet0275

Not much time to work on this one. I revisited https://soundcloud.com/plusch/stitches-in-time-disquiet0264
I used the same sample as on the first one, but this time scanned through it in Reaktor, using a Stereo Sample Scanner with modulation from several other Blocks. (Made use of Michael Hetrick’s great Euro Reakt collection in the Reaktor User Library at www.native-instruments.com/en/reaktor-…/show/9093/)

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On reflection I think I prefer my earlier version of the track! Oh well whatever, never mind!
It was a good process and much fun revisiting this anyway.

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