wasabicube tracks

I chose "gestalt" as my word for this challenge; the idea of the whole being more than the sum of its parts. Three Sampleson Meta Pianos playing the same melody, only the first plays the melody over 4 bars, the second plays the same melody but over 3 bars, and the third plays it over 2.5 bars. As the rounds continue an echo and reverb are brought to bear. -- More on this 602nd weekly Disquiet Junt...

Below the surface, behind the scenes.

I created a chord progression, then recorded six different arpeggios using the Klevgränd Tomophon plugin. Then, I wrote a Python script to generate six random integers between 1 and 6. These were used to gate the six tracks where 1 indicted a gate every beat, 2: one very second beat two beats long, 3: one very third beat three beats long, etc. Where two numbers came up the same, the starting point...

Entirely constructed from the stems provided by Marcus Fischer. Various sequences were created with HY-Slicer 2 and mixed into one of Marcus' stems, along with various reverb and granular effects. -- More on this 600th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reaching Out (The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer), at: https://disquiet.com/0...

Klevgränd Speldosa backed up by Softube Monoment, and Reason Objekt (making this particularly Swedish). Oh, and there's an KORG M1 bouzouki hidden in there, too.

Four sets of twin hardware oscillators mixed, and, eventually, granularly delayed in Ableton. -- More on this 599th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Minimal(ist) Blend (The Assignment: Make a piece of music that combines self-contained minimalist parts), at: https://disquiet.com/0599/ About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/dis...

I recorded the ambience in my office/home studio with seven different microphones. During some of the recordings there was reasonably heavy rain outside. I then loaded the recordings into HY-Plugins' HY-Slicer 2 and recorded a several tracks amounting to the noise of the room. I increased the gain slightly on these and then recorded some passages. These were then sent to my modular where they were...

Aiming to add more space in my compositions. -- More on this 597th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Goal Line (The Assignment: Get started on a plan by getting over getting started), at: https://disquiet.com/0597/ About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ Subscribe to project announcements: Disquiet Junto by Marc Weidenbaum (Disquiet.com) Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: ht...

From a blues bass walk to a subharmonicon-inspired crawl. -- More on this 596th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phylogeny Junto (The Assignment: Depict genres’ evolution over time in music), at: https://disquiet.com/0596/ About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/ Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: htt...

A field recording of our dehumidifier passed through several filters: FabFilter Volcano 3, AudioThing FilterJam and Felt Instruments Rysy. -- More on this 595th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Filter Progression (The Assignment: Make music by processing a static sound), at: https://disquiet.com/0595/ About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ Subscribe to project announcements: Disquiet...

A remix of @user-711331258's collaboration with @noodletwister and @sinnysounds for last week's Junto. The track and the reverse of the track were sent to my modular, where the audio was chopped based on varying decay envelopes. Some of the signal was overdriven and some sent though a Wasp filter. The resulting signal was filtered using a SEM filter to remove some of the harsher frequencies. Three...

Adding to @rshaddox's addition to @winterer's original. Trying to remain within keeping of the two that preceded me. -- More on this 593rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Charm (The Assignment: Complete an asynchronous trio begun by two other musicians), at: https://disquiet.com/0593/ About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.co...

I added to @encym's excellent, guitar-based, track, Frugality (https://soundcloud.com/encym/the-loneliest-number-disquiet0591?si=c7a742bc48e04018b5249a736278acdb&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing). I used this as an exercise in MIDI processing in Ableton. I used a MIDI pitch tracker on a filtered version of the original track (to reduce the range of notes), then pass...

A sequenced modular patch using the 2HP Pluck as the only voice and passed through a couple of guitar pedals (Digital Delay, then Digital Reverb). There are two KORG SQ-1s providing the sequence. One of seven steps and the other of five. The two CVs are XORed and passed to the V/Oct of the Pluck. Meanwhile, the gate from one SQ-1 is combined with the output of a 2HP Euclid, then passed through a M...

Saturday morning rain fed into the return channel of a Shakti self-feedback module combined with the send pinging a ladder filter. The two outputs from the Shakti are then separately processed. The first is passed through an almost resonating LPG and mixed with the second. These two are mixed with a feedback loop of the two of them through a Wasp filter. The result is passed through a filter bank...

Manual filter control. Normally I would automate the filter frequency. In this track there is a Shakti feedback module generating feedback via a Moog-style ladder filter and a reverb. Then the signal is split into several paths, one of which is passed through a Doepfer Wasp filter. The frequency is modulated by a ultrasound detector and actuated by my hand moving nearer and further away. There is...

A recording of a gentle surf mangled through several algorithmic effects (Infiltrator, Dedalus Delay, and Digitalis) along with a drum track and some guitar noodling. The feeling of being tumbled in the surf while a band plays in the distance. -- More on this 588th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Swell Time (The Assignment: Make some surf music), at: https://disquiet.com/0588/ About the Disquiet Ju...

Two Arturia Pigments instances, one with various levels of out-of-tuneness are panned back and forth, from left to right, in opposite phase. Meanwhile, a bass pluck plays a descending arpeggio and is joined by a KORG M1 bass towards the conclusion of the track. -- More on this 587th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Sour Mash (The Assignment: Let something go out of tune), at: https://disquiet.com/05...

I recorded three tracks, two based on the same chord sequence and the third using the incomplete track from last week’s prompt. The track I’d created as the basis for last week’s prompt, that I missed, ironically, due to time pressure, used VLC, skipping sections rhythmically, then played through a three part looper I made in MaxMSP, which was then fed through my modular to put it through some res...

I used to listen to a lot of baroque chamber music. Now I'm partial to drones and noise. (Having said that, this prompt was quite challenging as I like a broad range of genres. But it is true I've not listened to Telemann, Bach or Vivaldi for a while.) -- More on this 584th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Generations (The Assignment: Bridge a gap in your musical taste), at: https://disquiet.com/058...

Sometimes, you hear a beat through the wall, then you imagine what tune accompanies it. Reality does not always match my imagination. Here, I recorded a drum track, just kick and snare, through the wall. The mic in the other room picked up cicadas and a cat, outdoors, as well as the thumping beat. The track was then used to generate a series of recordings from my modular synth. I used a variety of...

Techno in three-four time? Three-quarter techno. I'm not sure this is really a thing. -- More on this 582nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, X Techno (The Assignment: Make a new subgenre), at: https://disquiet.com/0582/ More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/ Project discussion takes place on llllllll....

The original sample by Scott Fletcher (https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/helsinki-downspout - used with permission under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) licence), had an envelope follower applied and sent as CV to my modular, which also sent clock to a BeatStep Pro controlling a Volca Sample. A Turing machine was used to drive a Pluck triggered...

Various monosynth filter sweeps played against each other and modulated by a couple of Felt Instruments' Smugi sequenced filterbanks. The idea being the sound evolves until it reaches a point of overrunning the system and then extinguishes itself. As I write this, during a second extreme weather event in a matter of days, I can't help thinking of our tenure as a species and the likelihood our evol...

I was born in the year of the fire horse so I started with a gallop rhythm, with which I created a drumkit and sidechained all the other tracks, whilst removing the drumkit from the recording. The main voices are the Neutron and CZ-1000, with a very simple electric bass riff. Then the usual distortions, gatings and reverbs were applied. --- More on this 578th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Rabbit...