from the album Naviar Haiku

from the album Naviar Haiku

from the album Naviar Haiku

from the album Naviar Haiku

from the album Naviar Haiku

from the album Disquiet Junto

from the album Naviar Haiku

from the album Disquiet Junto

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More on the 694th weekly Disquiet Junto project, 5/4ify — The Assignment: Add a beat to a pre-existing piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0694/

55 track album

55 track album

I publish a blog on my website and for a period of time I was trying to take my own photos for the header image on each blog post. I ran out of inspiration and started using images from Pixabay, but h...

And that’s a wrap! Wow, what a journey this project turned out to be. It’s hard to believe that this is actually the final week. I am ending with another wacky sample-based dance-style track in an odd...

For many of my tracks this year, I started out in Ableton Note loading samples into Drum Racks and Samplers. I find that this is a good way to get some initial preparation done while I’m waking up in ...

Disturbing Dreams... a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man… who does not exist. Xylander, a young(ish) loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the ambient, the experimental, the unusu...

For a number of weeks now, I have been doing fast-paced, upbeat songs in odd time using chopped samples. I started another one of those tracks for this week, but I could not get inspired. I pivoted to...

This track started off with a sample hunt. I did a quick internet search on what the most popular key is for electronic music - not thinking there is such a thing - and went with one of the first resu...

This song sandwiches a 5/4 breakdown between two build-ups in 9/4. I wrote the song starting with loops in 9/4 and then worked with each loop to adjust it to 5/4. I tried to put more work into this tr...

This song is in 6/4 and I found throughout the process that I kept hearing and writing parts in 4/4 to accompany the original beat. There were three separate occasions where I was listening to loops a...

Like another track I submitted recently, this song starts in 7/4, breaks down in 5/4, and then drops into 7/4 to finish. I worried less about making that all fit together and just tried to compose par...

At 44 weeks, it’s starting to feel like the home stretch of this project. I am definitely feeling fatigued creatively at this point and struggling to find the energy and enthusiasm to complete tracks ...

This is one of those songs that allowed me to stretch out of my comfort zone, but also left me wanting to put more time into it than I had available. I technically started in Ableton Note where I buil...

This track started out in Ableton Note with a Drum Kit I loaded with a handful of different vocal samples in the same key that I found on Splice. Then I created a Drum Kit with actual drum sounds that...

Well, I sat down to bounce this song and upload it, and Ableton decided to do a full plug-in scan including some that I was using. I’m glad I gave myself a small window of time so I can still get this...

I kept my streak going of working in non-standard time signatures, this week working in 9/4. I am not as excited about this one as I am with my tracks from the few weeks prior, but I am glad I tried. ...

I worked in 7 and 5 for the past couple of weeks, so this week I decided to start in 6. I set the project at 6/8 and drew in different beats until I found one that I felt grooved. I intentionally used...

My second late upload of the year! I have had ups and downs over the past nine months, but even during weeks where I experienced serious health issues, procedures and even a surgery, I was still able ...

I had all of these samples I found on BandLab Sounds, but when I went to work with them I just couldn’t make anything happen. So, I started searching in my Ableton browser for samples in the same key ...