PODCAST · music
wasabicube tracks
by Peter Asquith
Arbitrary function generator
Episodes
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ninety (disquiet0771)
Happy birthday, Steve Reich -- More on the 771st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phase Incident — The Assignment: Celebrate Steve Reich’s 90th birthday — at disquiet.com/0771
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verbose (disquiet0770)
Reverb into reverb (into reverb) --- More on the 770th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reverb x Reverb — The Assignment: Use some reverb. Then use some more. — at disquiet.com/0770
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blink (disquiet0760)
Combining Michael's original recording, using AudioThing's Arguments, with sequences playing granular synthesisers using the original recording.
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pebble dash (disquiet0759)
Rhythmical piece; all sounds created from recording of stones banging against each other. --- More on the 759th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Rock Music — The Assignment: Make music with nothing but rocks — at disquiet.com/0759.
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flashed (disquiet0756)
A mangling of the soundtrack to 1940's Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, using the MIDI score of the original theme and applying various tube effects and AudioThing's Arguments plugin.
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pace (disquiet0751)
A dramatic chase. --- More on the 751th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Gastropod Meter — The Assignment: Go slow for an imagined nature documentary — disquiet.com/0751
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eπc (disquiet0750)
From E to C via π. --- More on the 750th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Let’s Get Heavy — The Assignment: Record something epic — disquiet.com/0750
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a third lung (disquiet0749)
This is the third addition to a track started by Andreas Kitzmann (https://soundcloud.com/andreas-kitzmann-27370936), then added to by he_nu_ri (https://soundcloud.com/user-807707609) as part of the Disquiet Junto. I added a rhythm to an AudioThing Arguments combination of the first two tracks…
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arachnid (disquiet0747)
A short track made with Arturia Augmented PERSIA, as the first part of a three-part collaboration. The bpm is 146.
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fry (disquiet0745)
Doubling down on emulated tube distortion and being late for the Monday midnight deadline…
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peal (disquiet0741)
Bells buried by a drone, inspired by Éliane Radigue -- More on the 741st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Balance Beam — The Assignment: Write music for bell and drone — at https://disquiet.com/0741/
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maximum red (disquiet0735)
Sometimes it all goes to maximum red -- More on the 735th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Spectrum Analysis — The Assignment: Write music inspired by a crayon — at https://disquiet.com/0735/
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aw169 (disquiet0733)
Recording from our lounge window as a Leonardo AW169 rescue helicopter flew past; sound design added with the helicopter in mind. -- More on the 733rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Window Drop — The Assignment: Add to the sound outside your window — at https://disquiet.com/0733/
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thin (disquiet0731)
On thin ice. -- More on the 731st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chill In — The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at https://disquiet.com/0731/
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sampler (disquiet0730)
Twelve snippets from another year contributing to the Disquiet Junto. A sampler. -- More on the 730th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Calendar Advent — The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments — at https://disquiet.com/0730/
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wakey wakey (disquiet0729)
Nina has been asleep for three days. It's time she got up. Here Hans Kindler's recording is given a breakbeat, bass, and pushed through a Marshall stack. -- More on the 729th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Community Remix (Nina) — The Assignment: Rework a shared recording from over 100 years ago…
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petering (disquiet0728)
Repeated melody petering out until there is none -- More on the 728th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Note Down — The Assignment: Delete a note at a time — at https://disquiet.com/0728/
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nodnaba (disquiet0727)
Armed with the oblique strategies of "abandon normal instruments" and "look at the order in which you do things", this is what I came up with. -- More on the 727th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Polar Strategies — The Assignment: Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Oblique Strategies card deck…
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0mn1 (disquiet0726)
Using the samples from onlineomnichord.com as the sound source, processed excessively. -- More on the 726th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chord of Omnis — The Assignment: Make music with a browser-based Omnichord as your sole sound source — at https://disquiet.com/0726/
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shift (disquiet0725)
Generative patch created with Sugar Bytes' Nest, using a shift register and some randomisation to output MIDI to a couple of samplers. -- More on the 725th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Rack It — The Assignment: Change the “focus” of a track as it plays — at https://disquiet.com/0725/
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klang (disquiet0723)
Mechanical beat with a clangorous breakdown -- More on the 723rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Do the Collapse — The Assignment: Make music that falls apart repeatedly — at https://disquiet.com/0723/
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cliché vs cliché (disquiet0722)
(Slightly) spooky spook film opening -- More on the 722nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Spook Street — The Assignment: The Assignment: Make music for a haunted spy film — at https://disquiet.com/0722/
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unkept (disquiet0719)
Wandering tempo -- More on the 719th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Riding on the Metronome — The Assignment: Play with and against a steady beat — at https://disquiet.com/0719/.
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where does that leave us? (disquiet0718)
The last deep-space transmission from the SS Inquisitive cut off suddenly, leading us to believe that, for our stealth drone, 'stealth' may have been doing some heavy lifting. We've not heard from the Inquisitive since. Where does that leave us? -- More on the 718th weekly Disquiet Junto project,...
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generative gap (disquiet0717)
From an imagined mournful ancestoral viola to a stuttering and mangled beat -- More on the 717th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Generation Gambit — The Assignment: Layer two eras of recordings, one of them imaginary — at https://disquiet.com/0717/.
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dense fog advisory - unfathom (disquiet0716)
Densely processed guitar and piano in the style of Dense Fog Advisory -- 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/.
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dscnte-25 (disquiet0714)
A remix of my track Descente (https://soundcloud.com/wasabicube/descente-disquiet0595?si=d4eebecacc574400a944fd7fe1d72bc3&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing), from May 2023, with a nod to Autechre. -- More on the 714th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Remix Yourself —...
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fingers in the pie (disquiet0712)
Recordings of the BART, recorded in San Francisco's Powell Street Station, manipulated with AudioThing's Noises, then modulated repeatedly using Cableguys' Shaperbox. All the Shaperbox modulations used the barcode from a packet of Walker's Shortbread Fingers to define the gates. These, depending…
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dyn bach (disquiet0708)
Chorded samples of my voice now, and when I was around seven or eight years old, singing a Welsh childrens' song about a small man who lived in the woods (y dyn bach yn y coed). All sounds come from chorded samples of my voice. -- More on the 708th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Vocal Chords —…
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slow accretion (disquiet0707)
All sounds based on a recording of "Naïvety, and the slow accretion of knowledge." -- 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/.
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sprawling (disquiet0705)
"The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel." Made with noise and modulation in Ableton Live. -- 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...
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cumulative (disquiet0704)
Slighly frenetic Mario clouds -- 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/
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refried (disquiet0702)
Feeding back Ableton tracks upon themselves both directly and through sidechained effects. -- 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/
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laminar flow (disquiet0696)
Ten instances of TAL Sampler each with a different sample and pitch, interleaved -- 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/
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tumbledmixeuclidean (disquiet0695)
I took a track I made for an ixi Music Patreon challenge and replaced all the instruments with Cherry Audio's Sines. -- 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...
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abflllnostu (disquiet0693)
With apologies to Nena. --- More on the 693rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Melody Sorted — The Assignment: Reorganize a familiar song note by note — at https://disquiet.com/0693/
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mechanical breath (disquiet0686)
Thinking about breathing -- More on the 686th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Catch Your Breath — The Assignment: Listen to yourself inhale and exhale; make music from what you sense — at https://disquiet.com/0686/
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shard (disquiet0679)
Generative track based on a recording of an icecube falling into a glass. Processed with Audio Damage Quanta 2, TAL Sampler, and Sonic Charge Synplant 2. -- More on the 679th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Ice Age — The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it —…
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hopscotched (disquiet0677)
Riffing on the rhythm of a game of hopscotch -- More on the 677th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Jeux d’enfants — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a children’s toy or game — at https://disquiet.com/0677/
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undercurrent (disquiet0676)
Two drones, slowed and combined together and with an almost subsonic melody line. -- More on the 676th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Sub Melody — The Assignment: Bury a slow melody deep inside a drone — at https://disquiet.com/0676/
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spacefreighter (disquiet0671)
Imagining the sound of a passing space freighter. -- More on the 671st weekly Disquiet Junto project, In the Air Tonight — The Assignment: Make an atmosphere of your own — at https://disquiet.com/0671/
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contraindication (disquiet0670)
Riffing around the sound of Suzuki Swift Sport indicators. -- More on the 670th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right of Way — The Assignment: Music for turn signals — at https://disquiet.com/0670/
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phonosynthetic (disquiet0669)
Synthesized basis for plant life? -- More on the 669th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phonosynthesis — The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate — at https://disquiet.com/0669/
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you ain't seen me, right? (disquiet0668)
Ever feel you've been manipulated? Thirty seconds of field recording subjected to much mangling and modulation. Don't ask. It didn't happen. -- More on the 668th weekly Disquiet Junto project, All Right Then, Keep Your Secrets — The Assignment: Bury a secret sound until it is no longer…
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always said hello (disquiet0667)
Imagining the devil across the road loves to bounce a basketball and erratically play his Hammond B3… -- More on the 667th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Neighbor of the Beast — The Assignment: What’s it sound like when the devil lives across the street? — at https://disquiet.com/0667/ Basketball...
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diabolique (disquiet0666)
Diabolical experiments with modulation. -- More on the 666th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beauty and the Beast — The Assignment: We’ve hit a devilish numerical milestone. Do your thing. — at https://disquiet.com/0666/
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click set (disquiet0655)
My take on a track inspired by the first Clicks + Cuts compilation. -- More on the 665th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Clicks + Cuts Music Factory — The Assignment: Record a track in honor of the late Achim Szepanski — at Disquiet Junto Project 0665: Clicks + Cuts Music Factory – Disquiet
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prime time (disquiet0664)
Playing with a 29/16 time signature. -- More on the 664th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mother Beat — The Assignment: Record a piece of music in 29/16 time — at https://disquiet.com/0664/
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platter chatter (disquiet0663)
From (and including) a recording of a backup drive. Expert Sleepers' Spectral Conquest is used on three tracks to isolate several pulsing frequencies. These tracks are used to sidechain a gate on three tracks containing a XILS 4 from XILS Labs, with the result being processed by various plugins,...
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maillot jaune (disquiet0662)
Two fairly evenly matched cyclists vying for the lead of the race. Ableton's 909 through AudioThing's Lines providing the beat for each rider. Sonic Charge's Synplant 2 providing the guiro-sourced sound of the free-wheeling hubs. Qui va gagner? -- More on the 662nd weekly Disquiet Junto project,...
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