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A phenomenon that seems to have escaped the attention of many researchers is how insects in the area of Cambridge, UK, deal with heat waves - maybe because of the relative rarity of heat waves in that part of the UK until recently. Whan dealing with rising temperatures, local insects tend to swarm together and organise their vocalisations into regular patterns that follow a progression not unlike that of cellular automata. Surprisingly, different kinds and geni of insects tend to join in and lock into the pattern together, suggesting a kind of inter-species communication that has also escaped our scrutiny

In fact, in an unpublished article, Martin Gardner has ventured the hypothesis that the late John H. Conway might have been influenced by the sounds of insects while working on his particular version of cellular automata - what we nowadays know as Conway's Game of Life...


...Of course, I'm making things up again. "Insect Automata Swarm" is my contribution to this week's Disquiet Junto project #0503: "Global Swarming". For this project, I used no less than 39 of the available insect sounds, and structured the "swarm" by using four out-of-phase cellular automata objects in Pure Data. The result is a slightly cacofonous, part-machinic and part-organic, but always organised rumble and noise.

Sound sampled here proceed from two previous Disquiet Junto projects: 

Disquiet Junto #0494: "Insect Menagerie": 

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0494

and Disquiet Junto #0498: "Sonic Entomologist"

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0498

Samples include work by @analoc, @ausgesuchtestenohren, Bbob Drake, Bee Kind, Bick Brannigan III, Breanna Johnston, Caustic Gates, @creaturesonce, Fake Genius, Gary Barwin, Gerard Paresys, Karmic Resonance, K. Joule, Krakenkraft, Lewlaufer, @Losanch, Michael Ash, @Net, @morgulbee, Parallel Tool, Paul Beaudoin, Piney Boy, Radio Hummingbird, Richard Fichera, Scott Boone, @seramind, @wasabicube, @zedkah, @Zounzabar, et al.

More on this 502nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Global Swarming (The Assignment: Create a swarm of imaginary insects) — at: https://disquiet.com/0502/

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

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

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Disquiet Junto #0502: Global Swarming

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This track by Peter Strickmann was submitted to 'Intermission an Audio Portrait of Place' for a live broadcast event in 2013.

The project was produced by the artist collective Echoes for the Lisbon Architecture Treinnale and curated by Jennie savage. This track was selected from an international call asking people to record their 'local', in response to the question 'What can a sound recording tell us about architecture?'

This archive brings all of the recordings together. A full list of contributors can be seen here:

jenniesavage.co.uk/index.php/project/intermission/

Peter Strickmann St - Johann

This track by Kevin Logan was submitted to 'Intermission an Audio Portrait of Place' for a live broadcast event in 2013.

The project was produced by the artist collective Echoes for the Lisbon Architecture Treinnale and curated by Jennie savage. This track was selected from an international call asking people to record their 'local', in response to the question 'What can a sound recording tell us about architecture?'

This archive brings all of these recordings together. A full list of contributors can be seen here:

jenniesavage.co.uk/index.php/project/intermission/

Kevin Logan  De Zwaan

This track by Damir Kustic was submitted to 'Intermission an Audio Portrait of Place' for a live broadcast event in 2013.

The project was produced by the artist collective Echoes for the Lisbon Architecture Treinnale and curated by Jennie savage. This track was selected from an international call asking people to record their 'local', in response to the question 'What can a sound recording tell us about architecture?'

This archive brings all of these recordings together. A full list of contributors can be seen here:

jenniesavage.co.uk/index.php/project/intermission/

Damir Kustic Unfinished Structure

This track by Christopher DeLaurenti was submitted to 'Intermission an Audio Portrait of Place' for a live broadcast event in 2013.

The project was produced by the artist collective Echoes for the Lisbon Architecture Treinnale and curated by Jennie savage. This track was selected from an international call asking people to record their 'local', in response to the question 'What can a sound recording tell us about architecture?'

This archive brings all of these recordings together. A full list of contributors can be seen here:

jenniesavage.co.uk/index.php/project/intermission/

Christopher DeLaurenti Away From WNP - 5

This track by Munan Overlid & Marcellvs was submitted to 'Intermission an Audio Portrait of Place' for a live broadcast event in 2013.

The project was produced by the artist collective Echoes for the Lisbon Architecture Treinnale and curated by Jennie savage. This track was selected from an international call asking people to record their 'local', in response to the question 'What can a sound recording tell us about architecture?'

This archive brings all of these recordings together. A full list of contributors can be seen here:

jenniesavage.co.uk/index.php/project/intermission/

Munan Overlid and Marcellvs  Birds, Father And Mathematics, Balbakken October 2012 - April 2013

This track by Acoustic Mirror was submitted to 'Intermission an Audio Portrait of Place' for a live broadcast event in 2013.

The project was produced by the artist collective Echoes for the Lisbon Architecture Treinnale and curated by Jennie savage. This track was selected from an international call asking people to record their 'local', in response to the question 'What can a sound recording tell us about architecture?'

This archive brings all of these recordings together. A full list of contributors can be seen here:

jenniesavage.co.uk/index.php/project/intermission/

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Acoustic Mirror
This is a brief stroll through Madrid's quarter of Lavapiés, one of
the noisiest, most-multicultural, and most heavily-gentrified areas of
the city. The soundwalk starts out at Plaza Lavapiés, and progresses
all the way to El Rastro, Madrid's traditional bustling flea
market. The soundwalk attempt to register the multiplicity of noises,
but mainly the voices, languages and manners of speech typical in this part of the city.

Osso Radio

Acoustic Mirror Soundwalk in Madrid, Spain: Lavapiés to El Rastro

On May 27th and 28th, 1977, Maryanne Amacher presented "Listening at Boundary: Scenario for a Sound Saga" at The Kitchen. Though preceding the first formal iteration of Amacher's "Mini Sound Series" by 8 years, "Listening at Boundary: Scenario for a Sound Saga" marks a significant shift in Amacher's thinking toward the expanded notions of narrative that will accompany most of her later work. Amacher's 1977 introduction to the evenings is documented on a cassette tape made and signed by Rhys Chatham, then musical director of The Kitchen.

Thanks to Maryanne Amacher Archive and Robbie Lee.

Maryanne Amacher introduces "Listening at Boundary" at The Kitchen, 1977

Concert de l'Enric Casasses, en Pascal Comelade, en Gerard Meloux, en Pep Pascual, en Didier Banon, en Jean Paul Dayd i en Samy Surfer al Gamatzem per celebrar la Gran Festa de la Marededéu Fumadora per als Infants Entremaliats de l'any 2004. Gamatzem, Arenys de Mar, 11 de desembre de 2004 

Casasses, Comelade i la Bel Canto Orquestra directe al Gamatzem

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