Reality Wins Every Time [disquiet0240] by analoc

**Production Notes**

Over the years, I’ve worked in different offices. Most of them were nice, some bad; all of the were too noisy. As I need to focus, working with headphones and unintrusive ambience music, played at low volume, has become a must. Some years ago, I started to do my own ambiences and drones, not for my listening pleasure, but as „thinking music“.

The underlying drone you hear was done last week. The original is half an hour of pretty much „nothing“ (as in „keep working, nothing to listen here“).

As much as I enjoy the „autofocus“ mode these drones put me into, they put most listeners to the test. So if I add something to my drone environment, it either is too melodic, too per- cussive or outright wrong. For this piece, it took me four hours to get some sounds I though would have the right balance.

Used AAS Chromaphone, Elektron Analog Keys, some Reaktor ensembles, the amazing Madrona Labs Aalto (must have!) and even an old ambience from Generator (pre Reaktor) from 2002.
Oh, and the name came from a now defunct web name generator.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0240: Emerging from a Drone

The Assignment: Compose a piece of music in which a drone slowly, imperceptibly, gives way to something rhythmic and/or melodic.
Please note the new instructions below, in light of SoundCloud closing down its Groups functionality.

Big picture: One thing arising from the loss of the Groups functionality is the goal that an account on SoundCloud is not necessary for Disquiet Junto project participation. The aspi- ration is for the Junto to become platform-agnostic.

Project Steps:

Step 1: Record a short drone, something that suggests stasis, timelessness, something that could play forever and feel like it never substantially changes.

Step 2: Create a piece of music that slowly emerges from that drone. More to the point, cre- ate a piece of music for which the drone is the beginning — a drone that slowly, impercepti- bly, gives way to something rhythmic or melodic or both.

Six More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done :

Step 1: Per the instructions below, be sure to include “disquiet0240” in the name of your track.

Step 2: Upload your track. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your track. It is also helpful that you are a member of the discussion boards at llllllll.co.

Step 3: Add your track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud (this specific task will continue until the August 22 sunsetting of that service). The group is here:
https://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Step 4: This is a new task, if you’ve done a Junto project previously. In the following discus- sion thread at llllllll.co post your track:
http://llllllll.co/t/music-that-emerges-from-a-drone-disquiet-junto-project-0240/4027

Step 5: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto par- ticipants.

Deadline: This project was posted in the evening, California time, on Thursday, August 4, 2016, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, August 8, 2016.

Length: The length is up to you. Between one and four minutes seems about right. (...)

More on this 240th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Compose a piece of music in which a drone slowly, imperceptibly, gives way to something rhythmic and/or melodic” — at:
http://disquiet.com/0240/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/junto/

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Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place on llllllll.co and on a Junto Slack (send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion).