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The last three weeks have been an iterative process working towards the final trio that came this week. The idea was for artists to add a new layer to a duet created by other musicians the previous week (which was created in the same way using a solo track from the week before that).

Judith and I improvised a bit on piano and guitar (respectively) and then snipped, looped, and granulated them gently up the middle between the excellent duet, “Whatever1”, created by @Joule with @Anatol.

If you want to follow the journey, here are the two previous iterations –

Solo: Disquiet Junto Project 0472: Jam Time – #34 by Anatol
Duet: Disquiet Junto Project 0473: Placebo Effect – #120 by Joule 1

This has been a really fun three weeks of collaboration!!

This week’s task was to add a new layer onto a solo track created by another musician last week.

Judith and I thought that the soft and fuzzy/chimey/drifting music that @mdh made would go well with Judith’s viola, so she improvised for a while through her Flashback delay and then I “collaged” her raw materials in Reaper with cut-paste, more delay, reversenesses, loops, granulars, &c. The two timbres match pretty closely!

It has been a while since we participated in the Junto, but this was a good prompt to jump back in for, since it comes with 2 follow-up assignments. For this week we are creating a solo track, panned hard to one side, that others will use in the following weeks to create duets and then trios.

The track is made using a new VST set-up that I’m still getting to know: I installed RedTron, a mellotron emulator that plays soundfonts, which means that it doesn’t only need to play the original mellotron samples. So I installed a soudfont editor and created a new “font” using a snippet of Judith playing a single pitch on her viola (through a TC Electronic Flashback set to tape delay, recorded on an old cassette recorder).

And from there, I played a little motif that will (hopefully) leave room for other instruments to join in! This track is in D major plus or minus a few cents. The tempo is loose. Hopefully someone here will feel inspired to have some fun with it!