The Atlas Room

The life of a plant kept springing to mind, full of life, growing new shoots breaking then eventually changing colour and beginning a slow decay into lifelessness, returning to the earth. I recorded a short organ loop to cassette, ran that into the CalSynth Rangoon, split into ALA cumulus and used 4x LFOs to vary amplitudes over time. Tascam ministudio DS -> Split into CalSynth Rangoon + ALA Cumulus + one dry signal. All outputs into ALM Tangle quartet with 4x LFOs applied to the CV inputs. Some light master FX applied in Ableton. ====================================================================== More on this 580th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Evo Evol Evolve (The Assignment: Record a piece of music that develops like an organism evolves), at: https://disquiet.com/0580/ 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.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0580-evo-evol-evolve/

I decided to re-perfom / re-record my contribution to week [250](https://soundcloud.com/theatlasroom/drone-for-disquiet0250). Most contributions have made heavy use of samples, but this was one of the few based on midi. I deleted all the existing instruments, piped the midi out to my Eurorack and recorded the results. The original project had a few audio FX chains, so i re-used them with the new tracks and made some more adjustments. Erica Synths Midi CV -> ALA Pachinko -> Calsynth Rangoon + MI Plaits -> ALA Cumulus -> ALM Tangle ====================================================== More on this 579th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Memory Serves (The Assignment: Rerecord a piece of music), at: https://disquiet.com/0579/ 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.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0579-memory-serves/

I collaborated with Luc Cage, not to be confused with Luke Cage. Luc is a not so well known sound engineer interested in the intersection of sound, space and mood, heavily influenced by the world of Musique concrète, drawing influence from the likes of Luc Ferrari, Arnold Schönberg and John cage, Luc wanted to provide a tension of maximalism and randomness teetering on the edge of anxiety, with a mild human touch. I contributed a set of field recordings that were re-imagined into loops as well as some sampled harp, delicately chopped stretched and reworked with the help of NI reaktor, after a few months wading through the world of hardware synthesis, it was refreshing to return to the computer, DAW and manual sound design that I started with so many years ago. ====================================================== More on this 468th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mirror Rorrim (The Assignment: Create a new persona for yourself, and record a duet together), at: https://disquiet.com/0468/ 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.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0468-mirror-rorrim/ There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion. Image associated with this project is by Timothy Takemoto, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes: https://flic.kr/p/36f8r https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Whipped this one up just before dinner, made a quick recording with the kitchen knife and the items on the bench, with a dash of saturation and pinch of reverb to spice things up.

Whipped this one up just before dinner, made a quick recording with the kitchen knife and the items on the bench, with a dash of saturation and pinch of reverb to spice things up.

Whipped this one up just before dinner, made a quick recording with the kitchen knife and the items on the bench, with a dash of saturation and pinch of reverb to spice things up.

Whipped this one up just before dinner, made a quick recording with the kitchen knife and the items on the bench, with a dash of saturation and pinch of reverb to spice things up.

Whipped this one up just before dinner, made a quick recording with the kitchen knife and the items on the bench, with a dash of saturation and pinch of reverb to spice things up.

Whipped this one up just before dinner, made a quick recording with the kitchen knife and the items on the bench, with a dash of saturation and pinch of reverb to spice things up.

Whipped this one up just before dinner, made a quick recording with the kitchen knife and the items on the bench, with a dash of saturation and pinch of reverb to spice things up.

Whipped this one up just before dinner, made a quick recording with the kitchen knife and the items on the bench, with a dash of saturation and pinch of reverb to spice things up.

This stem was part 2 of a trio of parts: https://soundcloud.com/theatlasroom/bass-drones-drums-disquiet0430

This stem was part 2 of a trio of parts: https://soundcloud.com/theatlasroom/where-i-am-disquiet0430

This stem was part 3 of a trio of parts: https://soundcloud.com/theatlasroom/the-ties-that-bind-disquiet0431

This stem was part 3 of a trio of parts: https://soundcloud.com/theatlasroom/old-earth-maa-disquiet0431

This stem was part 3 of a trio of parts: https://soundcloud.com/theatlasroom/nightwalkers-disquiet0431

Source track: https://soundcloud.com/ohm-research/maa-w-junklight-old-earth-a-beginningdisquiet0430 Stems: https://soundcloud.com/theatlasroom/stem-old-earth-maa Some beautiful drones and warm tones fill this piece, I added some rather erratic but faint taiko drums to fill in the void. =================================================================================== More on this 41st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0431: Solitary Ensembles x 3 — The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians — at: https://disquiet.com/0431/ More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ Subscribe to project announcements here: http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/ Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0431-solitary-ensembles-x-3/ There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion. Image associated with this track is by Abby, used thanks to a Creative Commons license and Flickr. The image has been cropped, colors shifted, and text added. https://flic.kr/p/8LopPe https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

Source track: https://soundcloud.com/user-711331258/ampfractcellorgdisquiet0430?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0430 Stem: https://soundcloud.com/theatlasroom/stem-nightwalkers-disquiet0431 The existing composition pits two contrasting instruments in the left and right channels, some nice interplay and slight divergence in their melodies provides some interesting tension. I felt it appropriate to play into this tension, adding an additional synth line that doesnt quite follow along but flows in harmony. Single take synth line from the Roland SH-01a, with some minimal effects added. =================================================================================== More on this 41st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0431: Solitary Ensembles x 3 — The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians — at: https://disquiet.com/0431/ More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ Subscribe to project announcements here: http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/ Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0431-solitary-ensembles-x-3/ There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion. Image associated with this track is by Abby, used thanks to a Creative Commons license and Flickr. The image has been cropped, colors shifted, and text added. https://flic.kr/p/8LopPe https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

Source track: https://soundcloud.com/damonholzborn/light-walk-disquiet0430?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0430 Stems: https://soundcloud.com/theatlasroom/stem-the-ties-that-bind Listening to this piece late at night, evoked some pretty strong images of nice rainforest walk, to round it out i thought it would be nice to imagine the sounds of the many insects and animals that inhabit this space. Single take of noise added from my Korg Volca Modular, with some minimal effects. =================================================================================== More on this 41st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0431: Solitary Ensembles x 3 — The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians — at: https://disquiet.com/0431/ More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ Subscribe to project announcements here: http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/ Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0431-solitary-ensembles-x-3/ There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion. Image associated with this track is by Abby, used thanks to a Creative Commons license and Flickr. The image has been cropped, colors shifted, and text added. https://flic.kr/p/8LopPe https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

Chosen track: https://soundcloud.com/joe-mcmahon/where-i-was-drone-only-disquiet-0429?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0429 Stem: https://soundcloud.com/theatlasroom/stem-where-i-am-disquiet0430?in=theatlasroom/sets/disquiet-stems A nice but surprisingly eventful drone to work from ============================================================================================================ More on this 430th weekly Disquiet Junto project — The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio that others will complete — at: disquiet.com/0430/ More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/ Subscribe to project announcements here: tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/ Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…tary-ensembles-x-2/ There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion. Image associated with this track is by Abby, used thanks to a Creative Commons license and Flickr. The image has been cropped, colors shifted, and text added. flic.kr/p/8LopPe creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

Chosen track: https://soundcloud.com/matthew-thomas-davis/bass-drones?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0429 Stem: https://soundcloud.com/theatlasroom/stem-bass-drones-drums?in=theatlasroom/sets/disquiet-stems I loved the tone, atmosphere and space afforded by this track, and took the chance to play with some semi random chopped drum samples. ============================================================================================================ More on this 430th weekly Disquiet Junto project — The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio that others will complete — at: https://disquiet.com/0430/ More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ Subscribe to project announcements here: http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/ Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0430-solitary-ensembles-x-2/ There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion. Image associated with this track is by Abby, used thanks to a Creative Commons license and Flickr. The image has been cropped, colors shifted, and text added. https://flic.kr/p/8LopPe https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

Thinking about doing the dishes a few elements struck me, the occasional clang of dishes, the hum of the running water, the shift from dry to humid in the kitchen, the drone of talking and televisions out the kitchen window and complete monotony of the whole experience. Moog mother 32 Roland SH-01A TR-808 News in German ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ More on this 402nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Music for Tasks / The Assignment: Record music intended as the backdrop/soundtrack to a chore — at: https://disquiet.com/0402/ More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ Subscribe to project announcements here: http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/ Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0402-music-for-tasks/

Sounds were borrowed from the previous 0398 junto project where this all began: - Carn mor by @samarobryn https://soundcloud.com/samarobryn/carn-mor-disquiet-0398?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0398 - RauschenKnisternFlackern By @randomshuffle https://soundcloud.com/randomshuffle/rauschenknisternflackerndisquiet0398?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0398 - Sough by S E V E N I S M: https://soundcloud.com/user-261631791777777777/sough-disquiet0398 Samples were taken and formed into a drum machine with some slowly shifting parameters with the additional melody coming from some layered synths and low frequencies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More on this 401st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Noise Pacing / Use background noise as a beat, as a rhythm — at: https://disquiet.com/0401/ This project is the third and final of a series being done in collaboration with Musikfestival Bern, which runs in Switzerland from September 11 – 15, 2019. The source audio was provided by the Tobias Reber. More details at: https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/ More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ Subscribe to project announcements here: http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/ Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0401-noise-pacing/ There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

I selected number 8 because I usually select 7 when i have to pick a random number from a set with 7 or more items. Sonically, I wanted to keep it airy and eerie. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More on this 400th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sub Divided / The Assignment: Create a score to a Malka Older story using the author’s own voice as source audio — at: https://disquiet.com/0400/ Thanks to Malka Older for providing the audio and collaborating on this. Thanks to Alex Hawthorn for audio technical assistance. More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ Subscribe to project announcements here: http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/ Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0400-sub-divided/ There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Back in the mouse and keyboard world of ableton, all samples were loaded into some custom made midi triggered auto samplers (arpegiator + random + velocity + scale + sampler). The samples were grouped roughly by the track titles and I played a few runs through adjusting the midi parameters and the sample lengths, start / stop parameters along the way. Topped with some light echo and reverb. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More on this 399th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Edges & Echoes / The Assignment: Make sonic art for a space with the sounds of that space — at: https://disquiet.com/0399/ This week’s project is the second of three being done in collaboration with Musikfestival Bern, which runs in Switzerland from September 11 – 15, 2019. The source audio was provided by the Tobias Reber. More details at: https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/ More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ Subscribe to project announcements here: http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/ Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0399-edges-echoes/ There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion. The image associated with this project was adapted from one by Tobias Reber and is used with his permission.

Had some fun pushing some sounds into overdrive while trying to emphasise how a sound collage could be physically sculpted, jagged edges, stacked chunks forming roughly arranged segments of a whole Everybody likes a bit of noise every now and again. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More on this 398th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Rauschen Bern / The Assignment: Make music by making a collage of noises — at: https://disquiet.com/0398/ This week’s project is the first of three being done in collaboration with Musikfestival Bern, which runs in Switzerland from September 11 – 15, 2019. More details at: https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/ More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ Subscribe to project announcements here: http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/ Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0398-rauschen-bern/ There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Nothing but my Roland TR-08 and 90mins of stretching, shifting and listening in Ableton. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More on this 397th weekly Disquiet Junto project — The Assignment: It’s 808 Day. Do it up — at: https://disquiet.com/0397/ More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ Subscribe to project announcements here: http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/ Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0397-numbers-racket/ There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion. Image associated with this project adapted (cropped, colors changed, text added, cut’n’paste) thanks to a Creative Commons license from a photo credited to Brandon Daniel via Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

The first samples I listened to from the big guitar sounded like they were straight from a nightmare, deep rumblings stretched across the lower sound spectrum. It only felt natural to embellish this. 7/4 808 pattern Improvised Moog mother 32 + Roland SH-01a ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More on this 395th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Acoustic Expanse / The Assignment: Make music with (samples of) the biggest guitar in the southern hemisphere — at: https://disquiet.com/0395/ Thanks to Jason Richardson for having proposed this project. More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ Subscribe to project announcements here: http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/ Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0395-acoustic-expanse/

Started late saturday night and 3 iterations later, its not done but its time for me to go to bed. Layered strings, woodwinds and rounded by a thick layered bass synth. Really just an attempt to finish an idea and share it before it becomes stale. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disquiet Junto Project 0350: Selected Insomniac Works The Assignment: Make very quiet music for very late at night for very fragile psyches. Step 1: It’s the middle of the night, long past dusk and long before dawn. You can’t sleep. Step 2: Think about what kind of music you’d want to hear right now — super quiet, super subtle, unlikely to wake you, potentially to ease you back to the comfort of your pillow, or at least to calm your mind. Step 3: Record the sort of music that Step 2 made you imagine. Six More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done: Step 1: Include “disquiet0350” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your track. Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0350” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation a project playlist. Step 3: Upload your track. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your track. Step 4: Post your track in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0350-selected-insomniac-works/ 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 participants.

Live improvisation: Korg Volca Roland SE-02 Roland SH-01a Korg SQ1 SP-404

Borjád by The Atlas Room

Excerpt from another new live set, consisting of stretched guitar loops and field recordings and a mixture of sine, saw and triangles waves.

Excerpt from a new live set, featuring some live looping and manipulation of fields recordings.

Indecipherable layers, stacked densely on each other, unrecognisable sounds pulsing in and out, lacking clarity but constantly shifting. This is what i think it might feel like for a newborn baby to listen to the world. Midi Keyboard, Ableton and lots of editing. ================================================== Disquiet Junto Project 0250: Soothing Sounds for Junto Make some peaceful music for an infant child. This project marks the 250th weekly occurrence of the Disquiet Junto series, and it is done as well to congratulate the Junto participants Antenna Research (aka Karin L. Kross and Bruce Levenstein) on the birth of their son. Project Steps: Step 1: Back in the early 1960s, Raymond Scott released a set of music for infants, titled Soothing Sounds for Baby. We’re going to produce music along those lines today. Feel free to revisit Scott’s great collection. Step 2: Compose a piece of music intended for a newborn child, something peaceful as they first experience the world outside the womb. More on this 250th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Soothing Sounds for Junto: Make some peaceful music for an infant child” — at: http://disquiet.com/0250/ More on the Disquiet Junto at: http://disquiet.com/junto/

I love the ability for overlapping sounds to produce their own internal rhythm, especially when they work in contrast to a more "defined" rhythm. Starting from a simple delayed 808 beat, "HNY" by Karl & Karlik was stretched pitched, filtered and overlaid to create a low rumbling drone and a higher pitched hiss. "Pepper Jelly" by Andre Darius and Riley Theodore was repeatedly chopped and pitched into increasingly smaller parts overlapping fragments of piano and other sounds. Finally I took "Autista 3" by Pablo Reche and tried to destroy it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disquiet Junto Project 0233: Netlabel (NND Remix) The Assignment: Make one track from three different netlabels, courtesy of a Creative Commons license. Seeing the “ND” tag on a netlabel release is a major buzzkill. The “ND” tag denotes a Creative Commons license that rules out creating derivative work. Fortunately lots of netlabels do allow for creative reuse, and this occasional series of collaborative remixes seeks to celebrate that activity, and encourage other netlabels to switch off the ND tag. Take “NND” to mean “not no derivatives.” Step 1: Download the three tracks that will provide source audio for this remix: Use the first 30 seconds of “HNY” off the album Wormbole by ʞık (Karl & Karlik) on the Bump Foot netlabel: http://www.bumpfoot.net/bump207.html Use the first 30 seconds of “Pepper Jelly” off the album Recombinations by Andre Darius and Riley Theodore on the Haze netlabel: https://hazenetlabel.bandcamp.com/album/recombinations Use the first 30 seconds of “Autista 3” off the album Autista by Pablo Reche on the Impulsive Habitat netlabel: http://www.impulsivehabitat.com/releases/ihab113.htm Step 2: Create an original piece of work including that source material. Step 3: Upload your completed track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud. Step 4: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process. Step 5: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants. Deadline: This project was posted in the late morning, California time, on Thursday, June 16, 2016, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, June 20, 2016. Length: Length is up to you, though between two and three minutes seems about right. Upload: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, only upload one track for this project, and be sure to include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated. Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please in the title to your track include the term “disquiet0233.” Also use “disquiet0233” as a tag for your track. Download: It is necessary that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing and attribution, per the Creative Commons license of the source audio. Linking: When posting the track, please be sure to include this information: More on this 233rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Make one track from three different netlabels, courtesy of a Creative Commons license” — at: http://disquiet.com/0233/ More on the Disquiet Junto at: http://disquiet.com/junto/