There is so much space in your track that I can imagine sitting at the seaside, watching the sunset and listening to your music while the waves come and go - peaceful and calm. Great!

Sometimes you just have to shave the yak, but the results pay off occasionally, which is on display here.  

Be proud of the work you did.  It ended up being a lovely ambient piece, and a lot less harsh than what ended up with.  *envy*

This area here reminds me most of Spiritualized - the 'medicated' feel really works.! And nice use of Gymnopedie No. 1; it sounds happier here than in many renditions. This is the second Junto piece this week that has really made me miss my piano.

this track is a conversation between two distant ages. a wrinkle in time.

Track notes here: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0681-drama-course/70495/11

[Disquiet_Junto_0681] Neon Illuminated Bonehead Runner

Composed and performed by DD, early 2025
Ukuleles, charango, ronroco, bass pulse

Photo by Andrew Small

for https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0684-early-bird

Lightness - disquiet0684

Original work by Richard D. James. This is part of Disquiet Junto Project #0684: Early Bird. See more at https://llllllll.co/t/70788/3.

Start + On (Aphex Twin cover)

Tongue Drum
Chase Bliss MOOD MKII
SOMA COSMOS

More on the 684th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Early Bird — The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening — at https://disquiet.com/0684/

Early Bird (disquiet0684)

More on the 684th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Early Bird — The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening — at https://disquiet.com/0684/

SONG 70 - DisquietJunto0684 - Early Bird

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 06 Feb 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, reverb, echo. 

Artwork/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, 12 Mar 2016, Massapequa, NY, USA

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “Decaying A Little More Each Day” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0684: Early Bird. The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening.

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

More on the 684th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Early Bird — The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening — at https://disquiet.com/0684/

Decaying A Little More Each Day (disquiet0684)

Disquiet Junto Project 0684: Early Bird
The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening.

Step 1: You are going to record a piece of music intended for someone to listen to almost immediately upon waking up. Think about your mornings, and what a more optimal morning might entail.

Step 2: Consider a scenario in which someone wakes up and, rather than look at their work or check the news, they take a period of time to just get centered. Think about how long you might want this to take, say three minutes, or five minutes, or twenty minutes.

Step 3: Consider the stages of awakening, from quiet to loud, from slow to fast (or a middling pace), from simple to complex. Perhaps the sounds go full circle, returning to where they started.

Step 4: Consider what sound at the end — a gong, a bell, a bird call, etc. — might signal that the waking process has concluded.

Step 5: Having reflected on the topics brought up in the instructions thus far, record a track that might guide someone slowly into consciousness upon waking each morning.

More on the 684th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Early Bird — The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening — at https://disquiet.com/0684/

morning song disquiet0684

This week, members of the Disquiet Junto were invited to make a piece of music intended for listening to while awakening from sleep. My first thought was, "I'm going to try really hard to not make this creepy." Was I successful?

The title is an anagram of my full name— how cool is that? My composition is, as Bjork might say, not only musical but scientifical. I'm using binaural mixing to create a 6Hz oscillation that slowly transitions from theta waves to alpha waves, providing neural feedback that guides the listener from a  meditative state to a calmly wakeful one. Note that you can only experience this effect using headphones.

This track features many layers of evolving pads, gentle ebow guitar, and integrated field recordings. You might be surprised at which ones are which. The vocals are organic. 

Please tell me it's not creepy.

More on the 684th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Early Bird — The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening — at https://disquiet.com/0684/

A Dream Like an Echo (disquiet0684)

Track notes are here: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0684-early-bird/70788/25

**Disquiet Junto Project 0684: Early Bird**  
The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening.

Step 1: You are going to record a piece of music intended for someone to listen to almost immediately upon waking up. Think about your mornings, and what a more optimal morning might entail.

Step 2: Consider a scenario in which someone wakes up and, rather than look at their work or check the news, they take a period of time to just get centered. Think about how long you might want this to take, say three minutes, or five minutes, or twenty minutes.

Step 3: Consider the stages of awakening, from quiet to loud, from slow to fast (or a middling pace), from simple to complex. Perhaps the sounds go full circle, returning to where they started.

Step 4: Consider what sound at the end — a gong, a bell, a bird call, etc. — might signal that the waking process has concluded.

Step 5: Having reflected on the topics brought up in the instructions thus far, record a track that might guide someone slowly into consciousness upon waking each morning.

[Disquiet Junto 0684] Light blue ripples on the morning

The track starts off with simulated bird sounds, courtesy of the Wing Pinger. Gradually, a C+ chord emerges, which is then joined by a bouncy sequence and eventually a rather standard techno beat, which will hopefully get one out of bed and onto the sidewalk for a good morning run. 

disquiet0684

I'd missed the last two weeks' Junto assignments; a fortnight ago I was stumped for an idea, and last week I ran out of time due to having to deal with more pressing concerns. I didn't want to skip three weeks in a row, but I suspect this was not the best project on which to return.

The more-trouble-than-it-was-worth process for this week's entry primarily involved downloading a whole bunch of programs to try and record from the stunted Flash version of Nodebeat, as I don't have a smartphone or access to one. Once I'd finally managed to do so, I did a little light processing on the .wav (as there was some harshness in the recording) and used another downloaded program to convert it into a MIDI file. This done, I spent another couple of hours trying to figure out why my DAW wasn't working, and eventually found an update that fixed it, in the meantime hunting for some public-domain or creative-commons licensed MIDI files I could use as an accompaniment, many of which turned out to be duff, but I eventually managed to settle on a piece by Satie.

Assorted messing about with instruments and effects later, and we have this, which is a soporifically ambient version of Gymnopedie No.1, backed up with the quasi-random beeps and boops produced by Nodebeat. I suppose I was loosely inspired by Spiritualized, especially in the sleepy, medicated feel I tried to convey using DSP effects, and I was going to riff on their recent album title by calling the track "Lullabies in A&E".

Produced by feeding MIDI data into Reason Essentials, and adding a bunch of effects. Let's hope next week's assignment involves less banging my head against the proverbial wall.

This track employs the app NodeBeat, created by Seth Sandler, Justin Windle, and Laurence Muller. More information on NodeBeat at nodebeat.com.

Contains a MIDI arrangement of Erik Satie's "Gymnopedie No.1", produced by A-M Classical.
http://www.amclassical.com/midi/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info

[disquiet0020-nodebeat] Narcoleptic's Lullaby

"Composite things are like dreams. Fantasies. Bubbles. Thoughts. Like a dewdrop and a flash of lightning; A new dress and a burning tire; Grains of sand and sinking ships; The shadow of a statue and an entry in a diary; A brain tumor and an ice cream sundae. They are thus to be regarded."

[Æon Flux : Chronophasia]

[disquiet0020-nodebeat] Narcoleptic's Lullaby

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