noimspartacus

I've not had a lot of spare time recently but I didn't want to miss the tradition of playing around with ice cubes at the start of the year. As per all previous submissions I've stuck with the original recording I made the first time I entered the ice challenge.

I ran it through Borderlands on the iPad and experimented with other iPad apps. I found that when I loaded into Blocs Wave and slowed it done and fed it through an amp simulation you get a weird flangey, talk box type squawk which I thought was interesting if not that easy to listen to.

The drums and synth accompaniment were provided by Reaktor blocks

and the various elements were mushed together. Mixed on headphones with a hangover so apologies for any stray frequencies that have been missed by my deadened senses.

Please record the sound of an ice cube rattling in a glass, and make something of it.

Background: Longtime participants in, and observers of, the Disquiet Junto series will recognize this single-sentence assignment — “Please record the sound of an ice cube rattling in a glass, and make something of it” — as the very first Disquiet Junto project, the same one that launched the series back on the first Thursday of January 2012. Revisiting it at the start of each year since has provided a fitting way to begin the new year. At the start of the seventh (!) year of the Disquiet Junto, it is a tradition. A weekly project series can come to overemphasize novelty, and it’s helpful to revisit old projects as much as it is to engage with new ones. Also, by its very nature, the Disquiet Junto suggests itself as a fast pace: a four-day production window, a regular if not weekly habit. It can be beneficial to step back and see things from a longer perspective.

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Deadline: This project’s deadline is 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are on Monday, January 8, 2018. This project was posted in the morning, California time, on Thursday, January 4, 2018.

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More on this 314th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Cold Start: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something of it) at:

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I used a generative music patch in Reaktor Blocks, slowed it to 10bpm and 3/4 time and played along with this using geoshred.

Towards the end I faded in a sample from a loopy project and slowed it down to 10bpm.

Disquiet Junto Project 0299: 10bpm Waltz

Make super slow music in 3/4 time.

Step 1: This project is intended as a way to contribute to the 10 BPM Dance Club announced at tenbpm.tumblr.com and twitter.com/onetakerecords. Tracks submitted to One Take Records will be included at an inaugural event in Copenhagen at the end of this month, September 2017.

Step 2: Consider what 10 beats per minute means, what the pace of 10 beats per minute feels like. Think about the instance of the down beat. Think about how 10 bpm differs from, say, 20 bpm, or from 40 bpm.

Step 3: Think about how 3/4 time differs from 4/4 time, and for that matter from 6/8 time. Think about what 3/4 time means when slowed down extremely, all the way down to 10 bpm.

Step 4: Having reflected on the concepts described in Steps 2 and 3, proceed to compose and record a piece of music that is 10 bpm and in 3/4 time.

Step 5: Share your track with the Copenhagen event by sending it to [email protected], per the instructions at tenbpm.tumblr.com.

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Deadline: This project’s deadline is 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are on Monday, September 25, 2017. This project was posted in the morning, Denver time, on Thursday, September 21, 2017.

Length: The length is up to you.

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More on this 299th weekly Disquiet Junto project — 10bpm Waltz: Make super slow music in 3/4 time — at:

https://disquiet.com/0299/

Thanks to all the folks in the Junto Slack for proposing and helping to shape this prompt.

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Jam with a Korg ESX-1 and Native Instrument's Flesh

Fieldz by noimspartacus

I can remember the latin drills I went through as a kid, how we would chant the verb conjugations like mantras. I fed the present tense conjugations for to love into Alter Ego and used Numerology to experiment with different trigger patterns. The vocal synth pitch and rhythm info was also sent to Sinevibes zap and Demogorgon synth.

I had earlier tried using the Pink Trombone web app https://dood.al/pinktrombone/ as a vocals synth and mixed some of my efforts into the mix, added a drum loop and then got a bit carried away into my own private sound hole and veered off the main brief :)

Disquiet Junto Project 0290: Text-to-Beat

Use computer-generated speech as the rhythmic foundation for a track.

Step 1: This week we’re going to build a track around text-to-speech, the results of a computer-generated voice speaking. In past text-to-speech we’ve used pre-existing text as the source. In this case we’re going to build the text to order. Keep this in mind.

Step 2: Find a good text-to-speech system that you think you can work with musically. In MacOS, for example, there’s a built-in system shortcut: Just select the text you want to hear, highlight it (in a browser, or a text editor, wherever) and then hit the ESC button while holding down the OPT button. There are also other tools, including browser-based options, like the one here:

https://text-to-speech-demo.mybluemix.net/

Step 3: Experiment with different combinations of words to produce a rhythm you want to work with.

Step 4: Record the rhythm you developed in Step 3.

Step 5: Produce a track using the rhythm in Step 4 as the foundation. (Level Up: Use more than one text-to-speech pattern to create cross-patterns, phasing, among other polyrhythmic events and effects.)

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More on this 290th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Text-to-Beat: Use computer-generated speech as the rhythmic foundation for a track. — at:

https://disquiet.com/0290/

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It's been a warm evening and the bats have been weaving and swooping over my back yard which this time of year is an all you can eat buffet of gnats, mozzies and moths.

I wanted my duet to be between bats and moths so I dowloaded a Kaonaya's recording of a moth buzzing against a lamp

http://freesound.org/people/kaonaya/sounds/131339/download/131339__kaonaya__flying-moth-1.wav

and two recordings by Mauren of bats also downloaded from free sound.

http://freesound.org/people/mauhen/sounds/195855/download/195855__mauhen__bats-in-east-finchley.wav

http://freesound.org/people/mauhen/sounds/195854/download/195854__mauhen__bats-at-hampstead-ponds.wav

I ran the moths through Moebius Lab and the bats into Space Designer to emphasise the tone of the bats, and then jammed over them with Kaonaya's moth fed into Flesh.

More on this 288th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Interspecies Duet: Make music from samples of two different animals — at:

https://disquiet.com/0288/

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Mother 32 jam inspired after a session on a Dream Machine.

photo by Charles Gatewood

Raw Mother by noimspartacus

Spent all afternoon noodling with the tr-8 and used reverb setting four and time turned up to max to create a drone from the cowbell. I tweaked the gate which acted as a cutoff for the drone. I synced Circuit to the TR-8 and held a sustained synth note and this is what I ended up with.

The vocal is the text of the block chain definition loaded into alter ego.

Make a beat informed by blockchain that uses or is in someway inspired by the 808 drum machine.

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Deadline: This project’s deadline is 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, April 17, 2017. This project was posted in the morning, California time, on Thursday, April 13, 2017.

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More on this 276th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “808 Blockchain Beats: Make 808-style beats based on the blockchain” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0276/

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There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is from:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain/

For this project I tried to imagine how an individual's spirit can hold up in times of extreme adversity and deprivation. Those small respites from the grinding routine such as a glimpse of sky or a message from the outside world are the things that keep the spark of hope alive.

I played a simple piano line into Fieldscaper on the iPad and did a rough jam with the loop slowed and filtered. The clanks and low murmers are from a recording made from inside a prison.

Disquiet Junto Project 0271: Prison Sky

Mark the 5th anniversary of open-source software engineer Bassel Khartabil’s detention.

Step 1: Familiarize yourself with Bassel Khartabil. This coming Wednesday, March 15, 2017, will mark the fifth anniversary of open-source software engineer Bassel’s March 15, 2012, detention in Syria. It’s been more than a year since anyone has heard from him. Three times in the past the Disquiet Junto has done projects to raise consciousness about his predicament. We did the first one in January 2014, creating a soundscape to go with Bassel’s CGI reproduction of the ancient city of Palmyra:

disquiet.com/2014/01/23/disquiet0108-freebassel/

More on this 271st weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Prison Sky: Mark the 5th anniversary of open-source software engineer Bassel Khartabil’s detention” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0271/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

llllllll.co/t/prison-sky-disquiet-junto-project-0271/6877

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is a detail that Bassel Khartabil wrote to Jon Phillips on January 31, 2014, from the Damascus Central Jail. More on Bassell’s detention at freebassel.org. Major thanks to Christopher Adams, Niki Korth, Jon Phillips, and Barry Threw. See the full letter and information about actions to mark the fifth anniversary at:

http://freebassel.org/ca