**Production Notes**
I started Thursday night. Robert Lally's „Square Pins in Thin Layers“ [https://soundcloud.com/rupertlally/square-pins-in-thin-layers-disquiet0216-thinlayers] immediately caught my attention. I extracted three four-bar-parts of his lovely piece which served as chords, pads and noises.
Added a simple beat, a ABL3 TB-303 emulation, two different leads (Ableton’s „Bass“ and iZotope Iris) for the verse and the chorus.
I was too tired to continue, so I did the finishing touches on Friday (arranging, tweaking, compression, sidechaining and mixing) - took me four hours all in all.
As usual, it doesn’t breathe, as I tend to cram my stuff. Maybe I’ll do a longer version… what do you think? Is it worth the effort?
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** Disquiet Junto Project 0217: Form Song**
The Assignment: Take an existing assemblage of rhythm and tone and turn it into verse/chorus/verse.
Step 1: For this project you’ll be working with a pre-existing track of your choosing. First, select one track from the previous Junto project, in which a thin foundational bed was added to beats of pin-prick audio. Visit either of these two URLs:
http://disquiet.com/0216
https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0216
Step 2: Confirm the track you selected in Step 1 is available for creative reuse. If you’re not sure, correspond with the musician. If you’re short on time, select a different track.
Step 3: Create a new track by taking the existing track from Step 1 and from it constructing something that follows the verse/chorus/verse format of a traditional song. You can include a bridge, too. No singing is required. You can alter the original audio, beyond just cutting and splicing, and certainly feel free to add a melody, but do maintain some sense of resemblance to the source material.
Step 4: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process — identify the source track and include a link to its SoundCloud page.
Step 5: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.
Deadline: This project was posted around noon, California time, on Thursday, February 25, 2016, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, February 29, 2016.
Length: The length of your track should be the same as that of the source track.
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More on this 217th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Take an existing assemblage of rhythm and tone and turn it into verse/chorus/verse”) at:
http://disquiet.com/0217/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/junto/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
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Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
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The image associated with this project is from the Flickr account tanakawho, used thanks to a Creative Commons license:
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