Disquiet Junto Project 0669: Phonosynthesis

The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate.

A scientific research paper this month documented evidence that sound can help fungus grow. The conclusion: “Demonstrating a tangible impact on fungal activity, our findings suggest that carefully tuned acoustic parameters might be able to enhance ecological processes.”

Record music to help a forest grow. Imagine an array of solar-powered speakers is spread through a forest-in-need. Or come up with another deployment scenario of your own imagining. What sort of music would you play for the forest to encourage its regeneration?

The research paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0295.

Coverage in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/science/fungus-sounds-growth.html

The paper is the work of four people from the College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, in Australia.

Thanks to Michael Rhode for having shared with me the research coverage.

Deadline: Monday, October 28, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0669

Disquiet Junto Project 0669: Phonosynthesis

IG Caustic track (p)2023

Every child starts out in a state of oceanic consciousness, a sea of sensation and emotion with no boundaries at all. They cannot tell themselves from their mother, or any other outside object. The ego is essentially a boundary marker, a delineator of the self from every other thing. The development of the ego over time can be thought of as the sharpening and clarifying of that boundary. As we grow into adulthood, and our ego becomes mature, most people lose the ability to contact the earlier oceanic feeling because they cannot drop the acute feeling of separateness created by the ego. They have lost the sense of oneness with everything and are stuck in their “two-ness,” as it were. Practicing meditation, doing inquiry, and other methods, constitute a path for returning to this original undifferentiated state of the mind, at least for some time.

https://deconstructingyourself.com/nonduality-freud-and-the-oceanic-feeling.html

Oceanic Consciousness

HAIKU MUSIC CHALLENGE

Naviarhaiku 562

Through a world of sound
the only filter I have
my discerning ear
 
Jason Richardson is a Leeton-based musician and poet who’s collaborated with Naviar many times over the last few years: in 2014 his music was part of the sound installation we made for the State of Origin exhibition in London. In 2017, Jason and I curated together the exhibition Crossing Streams in Narrandera. In 2021, I interviewed Jason as part of our series of online events, Naviar Virtual. You can listen to our interview on Naviar’s YouTube channel.

Haiku by Jason Richardson

Picture by Nadiia Ploshchenko

Submission deadline: 16th October 2024

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Edge of Sound

Edge of Sound (naviarhaiku562)

More on the 669th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phonosynthesis — The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate — at https://disquiet.com/0669/

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halF fungaL [disquiet0669]

I’ve always had plants in my studio, and someone once told me that even if sunlight is limited, the constant presence of music playing every day helps keep the plants healthy.

I don’t know about that, , but they look great and seem to grow steadily.

“Record music to help a forest grow.”

I believe that simply having musicians play acoustic instruments in the forest would only bring good to it.

Here I just played “woody”, natural percussion instruments, bamboo drums, wood sticks and blocks, conch shells, cuica, marimba, bombo legüero, talking drum and some other toys. I recorded 3 versions, this is the “fast” one.

Rain Forrest (Fast) - disquiet0669

Phonosynthesis

Disquiet Junto | Phonosynthesis - disquiet0669

According to my research of various websites, the consensus seems to be that calmer types of music are more conducive to plant growth. This track was created using Pure Data & various plugins, etc.
More on the 669th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phonosynthesis — The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate — at https://disquiet.com/0669/

Dendrosymphonic (disquiet0669)

Regeneration(disquiet0669)

Video here https://youtu.be/0akHuIXUIgk?si=ggg7av6axK7fU7xX
Disquiet Junto Project 0669: Phonosynthesis
The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate.

A scientific research paper this month documented evidence that sound can help fungus grow. The conclusion: “Demonstrating a tangible impact on fungal activity, our findings suggest that carefully tuned acoustic parameters might be able to enhance ecological processes.”

Record music to help a forest grow. Imagine an array of solar-powered speakers is spread through a forest-in-need. Or come up with another deployment scenario of your own imagining. What sort of music would you play for the forest to encourage its regeneration?

The research paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0295.

Coverage in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/science/fungus-sounds-growth.html

The paper is the work of four people from the College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, in Australia.

Thanks to Michael Rhode for having shared with me the research coverage.

Phonosynthesis  - disquiet0669

Recorded, mixed & mastered 11 Dec 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

For this I used 3 instances of VCV Rack running Voxglitch ArpSeq within Ableton Live. In Live, I was running FL Studio with Sytrus loaded, Live's Wavetable and Arturia's Arp 2600. From about 23 minutes, I used this small section towards the end and did a bit of editing.

This original version of "So Glad To See You Again" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 571, Stillness.  

stillness:
the sound of petals
sifting down together.
by: Miura Chora

Miura Chora (1729-1780) was a Japanese poet from Toba (present-day Mie Prefecture). Early in his career, he came into contact with the Teimon School, and bonded with the great Yosa Buson. An admirer of Matsuo Bashō, he strived for a return to the simple tones and spirit of the latter's poetics, criticizing the vulgarization of haiku of his era and advocating the so-called "return" to a Bashō's style.

Photography/visual editing by Jim Lemanowicz, 30 Nov 2018, Whitney Museum Of American Art, NYC, USA

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

So Glad To See You Again (naviarhaiku571)

When you sleep, you don`t control your dream. I like to dive into a dream world that I've made, a world I chose and that I have complete control over.  --   David Lynch

Track list and start times:
00:00  David Lynch – Star Dream Girl
03:21  Kirchenkampf – Memories Past
13:39  John Ridenour – Wheel
18:36  Clock DVA — Psychoactive Magnetic Fields
24:13  Mood Exhibit – Guiding Voices
29:07  Percipient – AirbParadis
32:23  Night Note – Mystery
37:09  David Lynch – Woods Variation (excerpt)
44:25  Halcyon Hum – 56 (naviarhaiku560)
51:02  More Eaze & Claire Rousay – Limelight, Illegally
57:24  T.A.G.C. – Burning Water (excerpt)
1:05:01  Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto – Final Fight
1:11:26  Pier WILL – Mists
1:16:33  SilverlagE – Mackward Basking
1:28:17  Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto – Carrying Glass
1:31:00  Ari Porki – Neva
1:36:33  Tengui – Shadows
1:43:17  David Lynch & Marek Zebrowski – Night (A Landscape With Factory) (excerpt)
1:54:51  Oystein Q. Jorgensen – No Light
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Eclectic current – A midsummer night’s dream [RIP David Lynch]

Dropping a kind of teaser remix of sounds from two different upcoming album projects with some dubded synth embellishement, so this is a unique blend. Field recordings from Baltic coast, synthesizers and percussion by yours truly. JG

Baltic Ozones 3 Hybridity

This track is my interpretation of: 

Curve of time -
a thought takes flight,
scent of a rose.

Naviar Haiku challenge 577, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

All done with Voltage Modular (Virtual modular environment) from Cherry audio making heavy use of the modules from Dome Music Technologies.  There were too many elements to record this in one go, I neither have enough physical controls of hands. so split it into sections; each recorded as a live, one take performance, following on from and adding to each other.  

I think I hit all the elements for this one.
Curve of Time: A bit of obvious vintage synth, cheesy but who doesn't enjoy a bit of quality Gouda? 
One thought takes flight from the rest.
And I can scent a rose.
But beyond the obvious dairy products placing the element is up to you.

Curve Of Time - (naviarhaiku - 577)

#4065 (89.62% 471 left): Jan. 30 2025: The horned moon with one bright star within the nether tip (E.H.Coleridge from Sep. 2, 2024) 

Today's pure primal piano music here. Happy if this music makes you feel peaceful.. : )

Looking for absolute natural beauty every day for Piano Ten Thousand Leaves. Target number is 4536:
This piece may might have good 1/f fluctuation characteristic although I stopped investigating it each piece.

######## Latest Album: 28th SELECTION ALBUM JUST RELEASED ########
"Forest in Moon Light" - the 28th selection album of piano ten thousand leaves

youtube: FULL VIDEO with 20 full songs in very high quality sounds
https://youtu.be/CwTVgfDHCn4?si=1QktmBR1FEGA-tQH

spotify
https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/album/1RxJBVCU5vdt5O6kGUMbnv?si=hLjW3kbTThegEBOjgTHUbw

appleMusic
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/forest-in-moon-light/1773383143

amazonMusic
https://amazon.co.jp/music/player/albums/B0DJVSVF5K?marketplaceId=A1VC38T7YXB528&musicTerritory=JP&ref=dm_sh_V1XCbECO4uUYzRVs8apKAEEBl

all music streaming services:
https://linkco.re/SYNa3ueY?lang=en

the horned moon with one bright star within the nether tip - #4065 (471) by chair house 250130

finding time 20 bpm take 1 12425

"Delta" is an improvised soundscape from July 2025. It's both calming and a bit disconcerting at the same time. Ir would probably depend on your existing mood. #SoundCloud ☁️

Delta

Delta Δ (Yamaha EX 7 Synthesizer Keyboard, Recorded July 2025)

life

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

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