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the ice factory (disquiet)

This week’s Disquiet exercise: More fun with Ableton Live.

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update (release notes, basically)

Haven’t had much time to write on here. I had to skip last week’s Junto, but managed this week’s (even with Arisia over the weekend). This week’s exercise (disquiet0055-twoscrews) had us rework two...

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woodpecker summons time (disquiet0056-matteroftime)

This was last week’s Disquiet, I wanted to post it here before I forgot (busy week): Process details are over there, no need to repeat them here. Used a simple drawing tablet as a ‘controller’ (ie pen)...

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let me tell you… (phonemetransmit)

Disquiet #0057 had us working with voice samples from three languages. Pick four words from each, and do something with the twelve. The full set is posted here. In other news: Laurie Anderson...

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disquiet: i, io.

I had started last week’s disquiet project, but then nature intervened with three feet of snow. That said, this week’s project had us using our own voices for raw material. This worried me (singing is...

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a few overdue updates

Last week’s Disquiet Junto project asked us to do an ‘audiobiography’. I had originally set out to do a faux BBC-style interview, but in-process this somehow mutated into the following abduction...

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Disquiet Junto projects 62 & 63.

Between dayjob demands and dealing with a seemingly non-ending stream of weekly blizzards, I’ve been lax at updating. Here’s the last two Disquiet Junto projects I participated in. Last week, everyone...

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Upload: Three Pure(ish) Tone Studies in Audiomulch

I’ve been playing around with Audiomulch for a couple of months now, to the point where it has managed to replace my aging copy of Ableton Live (v5.2.2… get off my lawn!!!) as my go-to environment for...

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new theme

Given the essential sadness of the 66th Junto Project, I’ll just point to that; and to the 65th.

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disquiet #0067: odysseymachine

Last week’s Disquiet had us perform another set of random processes to determine which Line from which Book of this translation of The Odyssey (well, technically Ulysses… this version uses the Roman...

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disquiet #0068-deriv : ‘you cannot hide’

This week’s Disquiet Junto had us remix three Creative Commons pieces to create a new one. Did this with Ableton Live, and the (to me) new Novation Zero SL mkII (still using the Korg nanoKey to trigger...

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disquiet #0069 : the four elements

This week’s Disquiet Junto project had us downloading four sound sources from freesound.org, one for each of the classical elements (earth, air, fire and water). I used Audiomulch for this one, along...

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Disquiet Junto 0073: Faulty Notation

The Disquiet Junto project for this week assigned us an excerpt of a geological/topographical map of the San Andreas fault line. Mine is below: san andreas fault map excerpt There were many map...

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Disquiet Catch-up (#77, #78 and #79)

Real life has been brutal, frankly, so I haven’t been updating the music blog even though I’ve managed to participate in a few Disquiet projects since the last post. First, #77,...

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New Bandcamp Release: Ghosted

Finally had a chance for final mastering and upload of this, my second bandcamp release: This is best described as a self-remix piece. The core sound materials were produced in the period 2001-2004....

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dolls of the uncanny valley

I am, of course, posting this because of the soundtrack. Though the visuals are… interesting. h/t io9.

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you must march back towards the things you had forgotten… (disquiet0088-3d)

I’ve been skipping the Disquiet Junto projects (and music in general) these past few weeks. Real life has been a bit… event-filled. But this week’s project appealed to me: We were told to generate...

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constraint groups, all the rage…

Newmusicbox has a brief interview with Marc Weidenbaum about the Disquiet Junto. (The newmusicbox site looks pretty good in general, I’m largely linking to the article so I’ll remember to check it out...

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“abraxas, incorporated” (new drone)

I’ve still been playing with Ableton 9, as time has allowed.  Gone back to drone for a bit: The main drone tones are two of Live’s “Resonator” presets, modified somewhat.  Also used four...

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For Whom The Boole Tolls (Disquiet #0101)

I participated in a Disquiet Junto project this week: My kitchen sink, a microwave, and a small battery-powered drill I bought at Costco years ago. More details at the SoundCloud link.

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