The Assignment: Remix the pure sounds of Chris Kallmyer’s traveling wind chimes to your own musical purposes. This is the second of two projects in a row we’re doing with artist Chris Kallmyer. You needn’t have participated in the previous one to do this one. First, some background: Kallmyer’s “Two hearts are better than one” is a pair of wind […]
I helped Kiggler with his current Disquiet Junto project. I mostly provided some textures and arpeggios from the modular and Kiggler expanded it out into a whole universe. His comment on the track: “This project was a collaboration between myself and Schemawound for the Oct 29th-Nov2 Disquiet Junto. This track takes the listener on a journey from outside a solar […]
The Assignment: Create a piece of music from sounds related to working with rocks. This project is the third of three that are being done over the course of as many months in collaboration with the 2020 Musikfestival Bern, which will be held in Switzerland from September 2 through 6 under the motto “Tektonik” (“Tectonics”). We are working at the […]
My submission for Disquiet Junto project 354: Rituals and Canticles. More information on the project at: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0354-rituals-canticles/16775 Uses samples of instruments built and recorded by Nathan Moody My process on this one was pretty straightforward. I chopped and repurposed the samples that Nathan provided in Renoise. I recorded some vocal breathes and dug into my library for additional percussion samples.
Disquiet Junto Project 0194: Clock PlayRecord the sound of a clock and make something playful and sweet out of it. Sometimes Junto projects have very detailed rules, and other times the rules are, true to very first Junto project, simple and open-ended. This week’s project is the latter. (Thanks to Brian Biggs for the timely creative nudge.) Step 1: Record […]
Today I was lucky enough to yet again be able to submit a track for the Disquiet Junto. Disquiet Junto Project 161: Netmix Relabel The Assignment: Create a new track from three tracks from three different netlabels. These are the steps: Step 1: Create a new piece of music by using nothing but the following segments of the following songs: […]
The Assignment: Make music from the near silence of phone calls. This week’s project explores the near-silence inherent in phone calls. These are the steps: Step 1: Record the near-silent sound of phone calls between your phone and three different other phones. Step 2: Develop a short, original piece that accentuates the differences between the sounds of these three calls. […]
Disquiet Junto Project 0131: Kettle Development These are the steps for this week’s project: Step 1: Record the sound of a tea kettle coming to a boil, preferably a tea kettle that whistles when the boil is achieved. Step 2: Create a piece of music that originates from the sound of that tea kettle reaching its climax. Employ the sound […]
Disquiet Junto Project 0124: Derive and Thrive Create a new piece of music by using nothing but the first 45 seconds from these three pieces of music: Erissoma’s “The miracle in the human brain” from the addSensor netlabel Kayaka’s “O” from the As4cords netlabel D’Incise’s “Graphein” from the Audiotalaia netlabel Background: All of this music is available for free, non-commercial […]
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 as the very first Disquiet Junto project, the same one that launched the series on the first Thursday of 2012. Revisiting it a year later, on the […]
Disquiet Junto Project 0104: 2013 in 60 Seconds This week’s project is a sound journal, an audio history of the past year. You will select a different audio element to represent each of the past 12 months of 2013. You will then select one 5-second segment from each of these audio elements. Then you will stitch these dozen 5-second segments […]
This week’s project takes as its source a comment attributed to the author Ford Madox Ford: “Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.” We will convert text from page 99 of various books into music. Step 1: Pick up the book you are currently reading, or otherwise the […]
@@VERSION by Schemawound I have been in a crunch mode all week at work but I was unable to resist the current project for Disquiet Junto. This track was created during a short lunch break More on this 89th Disquiet Junto project, in which the sounds of interstellar space are used to make “goodbye music” for the Voyager 1 space […]
Disquiet Junto Project 0083: R#d#ct#dThis week’s project is an open-ended exploration of surveillance and graphic notation. The page at the following URL is the score that you will perform: http://goo.gl/eYX80X You can use any instrumentation you choose, just no source audio for which you cannot yourself claim ownership or fair use. Background: The image is page 8 of recently declassified […]
@@ERROR by Schemawound Current Assignment:Disquiet Junto Project 0062: Life of Sine This week’s project involves making music from the basic building block of sound: the sine wave. You will compose and record a piece of music using just three different sine waves, and nothing else — well, nothing else in terms of source material, but the waves can, after the […]
@@ERROR by Schemawound This week’s project involves the human voice. You will create a choral drone from three samples that you will create with your own voice. This project requires a single die, or the digital equivalent. Here are the steps in the project: Step 1: Roll a die three times (or three dice once) to determine which vowels you […]
@@ERROR by Schemawound This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Endless Ascent netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally […]
@@ERROR by Schemawound Description of this weeks assignment: This week’s project requires you to make a field recording to serve as the source audio. These are the steps: Step 1: Locate a clock that has an audible, even if very quiet, tick to its second hand. A watch or other timepiece is also appropriate to the task. Step 2: Record […]
Description of the junto assignment: This week’s project involves a shared set of source material. The source audio is the free solo piano album ‘Screws’ by Nils Frahm. Frahm, who’s based in Germany, posted the nine-track album of short solo works for free download while he was recuperating from busting one of his thumbs. He subsequently created a site to […]
@@TRANCOUNT by Schemawound This was the assignment for this week: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 as the very first Disquiet Junto project, the same one that launched the series on the first Thursday […]
@@TRANCOUNT by Schemawound This was the assignment for this week:This is a shared-sample project. Create a new piece of music by employing segments from the following three tracks. All were initially released on the great netlabel Bump Foot: The first 20 seconds of “Bongo” off the Aguas Tonicas album Los Desposeídos “Broken Robots” off the Gridline album Red Music “The […]
I wrote the following code in preparation for a piece for Disquiet Junto 0051: 2012 In 60 Seconds. The instructions for the piece:This week’s project is a sound journal, an audio history of the past year. You will select a different audio element to represent each of the past 12 months of 2012. You will then select one five-second segment […]
@@TRANCOUNT by Schemawound This was the assignment for this week:This week’s project explores invokes Morse Code for its rhythmic content. The instructions are as follows: Select a word or phrase.Encode that word or phrase by the Morse method. Record a rhythmic foundation in which the dash is represented by a long beat and thedot by a brief one. Use that […]
@@TRANCOUNT by Schemawound I have long admired the concept of the Disquiet Junto but have not ever gotten involved until today. This was the assignment for this week:This is a shared-sample project. We’re going to celebrate the dual forces of the phenomenon known as the netlabel and of the Creative Commons license that allows for derivative works. We’ll do this […]