Spreadsheets can be wonderful. The semi-annual Disquiet Junto music community’s “trios” sequence of weekly projects is now well underway. I love seeing how this all takes shape over time. I waited to post an example until a track from project 0747 (in which musicians uploaded solos) yielded two different tracks in project 0748 (in which other musicians turn those solos into duets), and that just happened with Tay Ploops’ “eerie bean (and a one).” (And it’s now three, added below the day after this post first went live.) I love how charting the activity in a spreadsheet provides a means of tracking the evolution of the music, as it all splinters and morphs and recombines.
- Solo: Source solo track from 0747:
- Duo: A duet built on it — using “three layers of broken hulusi [Chinese woodwind], throat sounds and a bit of low vibration/scraping from a metal object”:
- Another duo: And a different duet built on it — “their serenading is accompanied by a chorus of their own voice. Mangled and processed using modular sampler, filter and delay”:
- A third duo: “I sat down one morning and simply sang along”:
Next week, in project 0749, this week’s duets will reach conclusion as proper trios. First, though, we have 53 musicians’ solos from last week to embroider and complement. And yes, that means we’ve been doing music projects starting every Thursday for 748 consecutive weeks, since all the way back at the start of January 2012. Details (and a full playlist-in-progress) at disquiet.com/0748.