Wav-ing, not droning [disquiet 0240] by Tuonela

Disquiet Junto Project 0240 Emerging from a Drone

I made a drone out of a short passage from another track. In retrospect, it changes a bit more than just a little, but not “substantially”… oh well.

Then I mangled it, cut up the mangled track and laid the selected bits that you hear over the stretching drone. Some delay, reverb and ambient tinkering occurred, as well as some experimental equalisation.

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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 aspiration 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, create a piece of music for which the drone is the beginning — a drone that slowly, imperceptibly, 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 discussion thread at llllllll.co post your track:

http://llllllll.co/t/music-that-emerges-from-a-drone-disquiet-junto-project-0240/4027

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/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/