**Production Notes**
Hm. Two musical lines. Basslines? TB 303?
I extracted the MIDI harmony line from the first sample you hear in this piece (Ableton does that nicely).
Doubled the MIDI track, added two „ABL2“ TB 303 emulations and a ton of effects each. Made the second MIDI track a bar shorter, so the timing of the two tracks gets out of sync.
Couldn’t resist to add some rudimentary beats.
The lines intersect sometimes; also things begin to blur towards the end, as I added some delay.
That’s all.
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** Disquiet Junto Project 0193: Semi-Parallel Lines**
Record a short composition for two voices/instruments that occasionally intersect. This project explores how two simple lines can occasionally intersect.
Step 1: Plot out a short piece of music, maybe a minute in length. It will consist of two separate lines recorded by two distinct instruments.
Step 2: When plotting out the piece, plan on the two lines intersecting on occasion. Plot, for example, a three-note riff 20 seconds in, or a held chord at 30 seconds, and so forth. The number of intersections is up to you — four to six seems like a solid range.
Step 3: Record the two lines independently. (It’s a natural occurrence of this process that despite the planning, the periods of simultaneity may be slightly off. That’s great. It’s arguably even preferable.)
Step 4: Layer them atop each other, with little to no post-production effort, aside from adjusting relative volume and introducing a fade in and fade out.
Step 5: Upload your completed track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud. (Bonus points if you manage to sync the audio and animation and upload to a video service.)
Step 6: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.
Deadline: This assignment was made in the afternoon, California time, on Thursday, September 10, 2015, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, September 14, 2015.
Length: The length of your finished work will likely be about a minute long.
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More on this 193rd Disquiet Junto project (“Record a short composition for two instruments that occasionally intersect”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2015/09/10/disquiet0193-semiparallellines/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/junto/
Join the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at: http://disquiet.com/forums/
Image associated with this project by Tom Wachtel, used thanks to a Creative Commons license:
https://flic.kr/p/hZcuMd
