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Dreamy Blossoms (naviarhaiku611) by ray_cobley

An electronic composition with dense and muted sounds created using Pure Data with additional reverb, delay, etc. More on the 716th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Dense Fog Advisory — The Assignment: That's your band's name; now record something — at https://disquiet.com/0716/.

An electronic composition, original sounds created using Pure Data.

My take on this was to use glitches or extraneous sounds that crop up in field recordings. These are usually edited out but here I extracted some from a couple of recordings and joined them to form a continuous sequence. After extending this sequence and adding a touch of reverb and delay I combined it with an evolving electronic drone. More on the 715th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Err Apparent — The Assignment: Make a mistake on purpose. Build something from it — at https://disquiet.com/0715/.

An electronic composition, original sounds created using Pure Data.

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data.

An electronic sequence created using Pure Data in real time. More on the 713th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Airwave Workout — The Assignment: Record exercise music for an imaginary broadcast — at https://disquiet.com/0713/.

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data and Audacity.

A short electronic noise track inspired by a barcode, sounds created using Audacity with databending, delay, reverb, etc. More on the 712th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Zebra Code — The Assignment: What rhythm do you hear in a bar code? — at https://disquiet.com/0712/.

An electronic composition, original sounds created using Pure Data and Audacity.

Electronic composition, an evolving textured drone sequence, original sounds created using Pure Data.

I took my track Chippy Combo (disquiet0704) and reworked it to incorporate louder sections with additional reverb, etc. More on the 710th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Let's Get Loud — The Assignment: Make a piece of your own music louder/busier — at https://disquiet.com/0710/.

An electronic composition, original sounds created using Pure Data.

For this track I used a short electronic sequence. passed it through a granular vst with speed and other settings at maximum values then added a little delay and detuning. Needless to say, the result is totally different from the original. More on the 709th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Overclocked — The Assignment: Speed up a machine (or process) until it falters — at Disquiet Junto Project 0709: Overclocked – Disquiet.

An electronic composition, original sounds created using Pure Data.

A short voice recording repeated numerous times, slightly slowed down and arranged in a canon of six layers with a touch of delay and reverb. More on the 708th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Vocal Chords — The Assignment: Do something with layers of the sound of your voice. — at https://disquiet.com/0708/

A sequence of ten tracks, sounds from various sources including electronics and recordings of small or improvised percussion. For related video with abstract animation see: https://youtu.be/JXowoUQNtLw

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data.

The creative process is an addiction but not an obsession. This short sentence is repeated numerous times with one layer slowed down and the whole subjected to a chain of changing effects. More on the 707th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Practice — The Assignment: Make music from how you make music — at https://disquiet.com/0707/

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data.

A fairly random sequence of sounds recorded in the bathroom using appropriate paraphernalia: a comb. soap-dish, plastic tub and wrapping, tube, water, etc, with a touch of additional delay and reverb. Audacity was used for recording and editing. More on the 706th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Tile One On — The Assignment: Make the most of your bathroom — at https://disquiet.com/0706/

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data and Audacity.

A response in sound to the beginning of 'The Iliad': 'The Wrath of Achilles is my theme, that fatal wrath which, in fulfilment of the will of Zeus, brought the Achaeans so much suffering and sent the gallant souls of many noblemen to Hades, leaving their bodies as carrion for the dogs and passing birds.' (version by Penguin Classics, translation by E.V. Rieu). The track is a mix of electronic and recorded sounds. More on the 705th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Book Start — The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0705/. This week's project was proposed by Neil Stringfellow.

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data and Audacity.

An electronic sequence created using BeepBox and Audacity. More on the 704th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right on Cumulus — The Assignment: Compose 8-bit music inspired by a Cory Arcangel / Super Mario video — at https://disquiet.com/0704/

Sunshine after Storm (naviarhaiku598) by ray_cobley

I always keep a quantity of unfinished, discarded or 'dead' material which I attempt to resurrect from time to time. In this case, after considering and experimenting with various possibilities, I eventually combined two contrasting electronic sequences (drone and random noise), slowed them down by a quarter and added a touch of delay, etc. More on the 703rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, That's How You Got Killed Before — The Assignment: Revisit something that you just couldn't get to work last time — at https://disquiet.com/0703/

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data.

This track uses Gimp and Audacity to create sound from images. I uploaded two original images in different formats to Audacity, made various adjustments to the resulting sound and added some delay, reverb, etc. More on the 702nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Applications — The Assignment: Make music by misusing a piece of music software — at https://disquiet.com/0702/

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data.

An original electronic sequence split into nine sections with gaps between. The gaps are filled in with clips from other original tracks selected more or less at random, with cross-fading for smooth transitions. More on the 701st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Gap Ear — The Assignment: Break apart a piece of music and fill the resulting spaces — at https://disquiet.com/0701/

A textured drone sequence, sounds created using Pure Data.

The photo was taken yesterday morning when it happened to be raining. The track is an electronic sequence created using Pure Data with a touch of delay and reverb. More on the 700th weekly Disquiet Junto project, View Frame — The Assignment: Share a peek out your window and some sounds inspired by the view — at https://disquiet.com/0700/

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data.

For a second effort I took the track by Meccaniche del Suono and Krakenkraft (https://soundcloud.com/winterer/do-the-right-thing-meccaniche-del-suono-krakenkraft-disquiet0698) and added an electronic sequence. More on the 699th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Third Third — The Assignment: Record the final third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0699/

I took the track by half unusual and Torsten Goerke (https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-plastiq-disquiet0698-wtorsten-goerke) and added another recorded noise sequence. More on the 699th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Third Third — The Assignment: Record the final third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0699/

For a second collaboration I used the track by alanblip (https://soundcloud.com/alanblip/b-drone-disquiet0697) and added another dark drone to the right. More on the 698th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Second Third — The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0698/

A collaboration using the track by modusMatt (https://soundcloud.com/modusmatt/with-the-bathwater-disquiet0697) to which I added a sequence of recordings of noises made with stones. More on the 698th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Second Third — The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0698/

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data.

A textured drone sequence, sounds created using Pure Data.

A fairly uncomplicated electronic sequence with a basic tempo of 80 bpm. More on the 697th weekly Disquiet Junto project, First Third — The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0697/

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data.

A chain of layered sequences with a mix of electronic and recorded sounds. More on the 696th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Layers — The Assignment: Make music change by altering its layers — at https://disquiet.com/0696/

I took an unpublished electronic composition and passed it through various filters, in conjunction with some adjustments to dynamics etc, to produce a thinner and drier sound. I added a touch of echo for a smoother finish. More on the 695th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0695: Clean After Each Use — The Assignment: Put a piece of music through the dryer — at https://disquiet.com/0695/

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data and Audacity.

Bach's well-known composition with an extra beat to every bar, then a touch of detuning, delay and reverb added. The source is a 1928 recording by the Rosé Quartet downloaded from the Internet Archive. More on the 694th weekly Disquiet Junto project, 5/4ify — The Assignment: Add a beat to a pre-existing piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0694/

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data.

The source is the Burns song 'Ye Banks and Braes', which I selected more or less at random from an old songbook. I arranged the notes as instructed and played the resulting sequence on a recorder. The track has two parts and in the first I duplicated the recording several times, made various alterations to the pitch and created a round or canon, adding a degree of delay and reverb. The second part is the result of playing the notes in a totally random order, again with some additional delay and reverb. More on the 693rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Melody Sorted — The Assignment: Reorganize a familiar song note by note — at https://disquiet.com/0693/

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data.

An electronic composition created using Pure Data.

This track is made up exclusively of recordings of sounds made with matches - scraping, striking, rattling, etc, with extensive manipulations of pitch, tempo and dynamics, multiple repetitions and various fx. More on the 692nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Combust a Move — The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track — at https://disquiet.com/0692/