This weeks prompt really intereted me...  I recorded the sound of my coffee grinder as I ground my morning beans on Friday morning. I had just read the Disquiet email a few minutes earlier after waking up and knew later on Friday I would have time to take part in the challenge if I wanted. I quickly made a recording of my morning grinding of coffee but wasn't till after I noticed I had left the radio playing in the kitchen.

After lunch on Friday I sat down and began to make this, cutting up the sounds of the coffee grinder and transposing the sounds and adding other musical sounds. I wanted to do something upbeat and fun and quite noisy! 


Disquiet Junto Project 0487: Carillon Quotidian
Assignment: Turn a recurring sound from your life into music.

This project was developed by Marty Petkovich (aka K Joule) as part of the celebration of the upcoming 500th consecutive weekly Disquiet Junto project.

Step 1: Identify a recurring sound in your daily life that isn’t generally considered musical. Try to locate a sound that you would normally ignore: the hum of the dryer, or the way the car trunk resonates when you drop it closed, the sound your boots make on certain stairs, the sound of the water coming out of the kitchen tap, etc.

Step 2: The goal is to explore the innate musicality of the sound you identified in Step 1. When recording the sound identified in Step 1, please keep in mind the effort may require some production techniques, because you want to try to isolate it as best as possible.

Step 3: Make an original piece of music employing the sample you recorded in Step 2 of the sound you decided upon in Step 1. Transpose the recorded sample and compose a short theme to use as the central voice in your composition. Complete your piece with other instrument lines as needed.

Quotidian Coffee Grinder [disquiet0487]

Puerto de El Musel, Gijón, Spain.
25/10/2014

Amarres en el Puerto de El Musel (Contact microphones)

Performed by Ben Clark and Antonin Granier on 13.6.19 at LOOSE, LINE, LAYER in St. Mary-at-Hill, London.

The piece invites a child-like curiosity towards the instrument, and simply investigates its sonic possibilities. The materials arose from working collaboratively with percussionists Ben Clark and Antonin Granier. The first movement explores flexibility, the second looping elements, the third resonance.

Piece for three tuned cowbells (2019)

Music : Deepman
Words and voice : Luciole Langevine

Raconte moi l'orage
La pluie qui tambourine
Raconte moi le vent
Qui siffle en chantant
Quand la nature est la musicienne
Et ta maison, son instrument

Au coeur de ton abri
Tu écoutes et tu vibres

Parle moi des rayons du soleil
Qui se faufilent à travers les persiennes
Et parsèment ta chambre de pointillés

Parle moi de cette partition de lumière
Qui s'infiltre, éclabousse tout
De ses variations sublimes

Raconte moi 
Quand tu ouvres ta porte
Cet immense arc-en-ciel 
Qui déploie juste au-dessus
La gamme infinie des couleurs

Debout sur le perron 
Tu exultes, tu vibres

Translation:
Tell me about the storm
The drumming rain
Tell me about the wind
Who whistles while singing
When nature is the musician
And your house, his instrument

In the heart of your shelter
You listen and you vibrate

Tell me about the sun's rays
That sneak through the shutters
And dot your room with dots

Tell me about this partition of light
That infiltrates, splashes everything
Of its sublime variations

Tell me
When you open your door
This huge rainbow
That deploys just above
The infinite range of colors

Standing on the porch
You exult, you vibrate

Raconte Moi - Deepman & Luciole Langevine

Experimenting Beat  // RL Synth  // Vocal O

...continuing the refinement of the composition, I have explored the possibilities of "feedback", utilizing it at few soundscapes while merging them all into the basic metallic noise playing throughout in the background...

Craftsmenship [Metalworks Take #04]

a cathedral of pines
rising into light 
echoes of birdsong

naviarhaiku345: a cathedral of pines

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J Felix - 06.01.2021

This track was produced by taking a recording of ice in a glass and repeating it at different speeds in Audacity. 

Based on the following prompt from the Disquiet Junto:

Please record the sound of an ice cube rattling in a glass, and make something of it.

More about Disquiet Junto 471: https://disquiet.com/2021/01/07/disquiet-junto-project-0471-phase-transition/

Ice Chimes (disquiet0471)

response to a "River in January" * Haiku -juxtaposed with the dry creek bed here in January (southern hemisphere) :)


A river in January
running through
a January valley

haiku by Iida Dakotsu https://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2007/03/iida-ryuta.html

https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

RiverChronographs(naviarhaiku368)

Old cassette recordings of guitar, glockenspiel, and viola sliced and diced by the awesome Shortcircuit plugin. Instruments performed by Simon Neufeld and Judith Klassen. Computer programmed by Simon.

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More on this 478th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Collage of Collages (The Assignment: Make a collage that will become part of a larger collage.) – at:
https://disquiet.com/0478/

The project is a collaboration with the radio show Kopfkino, initiated by Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka. More on Kopfkino at:
https://cba.fro.at/series/kopfkino 

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://disquiet.com/junto/

Tape Collage by The Land [disquiet0478]

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J Felix - 06.01.2021

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