no peanuts in church…

"You might as well face the music. You've tried everything else…" -Sun Ra.


disquiet

  • 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 three elements: A beat, a drone, and a ‘melodic fragment’. We were then to use these to create a 90 second Continue reading

  • 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, ‘disquiet0077-netlabelsplice’: This project gave us links to three deriv-friendly netlabel tracks, and specified a time range for each of them. We were to take Continue reading

  • 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: There were many map excerpts, but this one was mine. I started out with no real idea as to how to approach this, but soon found myself making a detailed markup Continue reading

  • 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 with a couple of the Korg Legacy Collection VST plugins (specifically, the filter bank section of an emulated Korg M-20 –which I find Continue reading

  • 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 clips, though). Continue reading