Disquiet Junto Project 0569: Think Thank
The Assignment: Make music inspired by something or someone you’re thankful for

Step 1: Think of something or someone you’re thankful for.

Step 2: Make a piece of music inspired by what came to mind in Step 1.

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This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, November 28, 2022, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, November 24, 2022.

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More on this 569th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Think Thank (The Assignment: Make music inspired by something or someone you’re thankful for) — at: https://disquiet.com/0569/

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The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2, where “open door, party inside, digital art” was the prompt.

Disquiet Junto Project 0569: Think Thank

Composed and performed by DD (june/july/september 2022)
Upright piano, synthesizers, upright bass, orchestral (strings) samples, acoustic drums

Photo by Karim MANJRA


This particular track is a pure experiment, I was recording my acoustic piano, using some mechanical rubber mutes for a different project, and did this take just for me as a test.
I didn't know what to do with it, and abandoned.
Then, I overdubbed many different instruments over the past few months, an upright bass+acoustic drums rhythm section, an unexpected old-schools synth. Later I added an orchestral section.

There's a lot of work on this track but still I don't know where it's going nor what was i attempting when I started it. An experiment, a true one.

For this challenge:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0569-think-thank/

An Undertow Of Resilience (disquiet0569)

Project Details: https://disquiet.com/2022/11/24/disquiet-junto-project-0569-think-thank/

Arigatou - disquiet0569

Disquiet Junto Project 0569: Think Thank
The Assignment: Make music inspired by something or someone you’re thankful for

Laurie Andersons "Big Science" was one of the first "avantgarde" LPs I owned in a time, when teens like me used to listen to Kim Wilde or so. I remember listening endlessly to especially "From The Air", "O Superman" and "Example #22". 

Since then the beginning of the "voice sample" from "Example #22" is what I speak into microphones to test them. And as I had a podcast recording this week, I started the track with a sample from this recording. 

I noodled it thru some granulators and added some other stuff. I absolutely wanted to add some "O superman"-vocoder-oh-ohs with a XILS V+ I bought last week (don't miss the 75% sales, especially the XILS 4 https://www.xils-lab.com/products/xils-4-p-148.html, and no, I'm not connected to Monsieur Oudin) and it nearly drove me insane to get Reaper and the V+ to run as a vocoder. But it worked. 

The resulting track may be considered as what I have in mind when I think of these tracks from Laurie Anderson, which I am thankful for. Please notice that it is 40 years since "Big Science" – wtf am I old …

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More on this 569th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Think Thank (The Assignment: Make music inspired by something or someone you’re thankful for) — at: https://disquiet.com/0569/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0569-think-thank/

krakenkraft disquiet

Beispiel #23 [disquiet0569]

This track is a token of gratitude to the creators of the open source software I use in my work. It was constructed using Pure Data, Samplebrain, Audacity & various vst's.

More on this 569th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Think Thank (The Assignment: Make music inspired by something or someone you’re thankful for) – at: https://disquiet.com/0569/

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0569-think-thank/

The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2, where “open door, party inside, digital art” was the prompt.

Soundforest (disquiet0569)

More on this 569th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Think Thank (The Assignment: Make music inspired by something or someone you’re thankful for) – at: https://disquiet.com/0569/

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0569-think-thank/

The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2, where “open door, party inside, digital art” was the prompt.

Particulate (disquiet0569)

for the disquiet junto //

an attempt to express gratitude, but came out melancholic

Contemplating Benevolence

[disquiet0569] Contemplating Benevolence

Quadra Modular - Multi-Instrument and Sequence Designer
www.uvi.net/quadra-modular
Explore a creative multipart instrument that blends sounds from an exceptional collection of modular synthesizers, topped-off with powerful effects and advanced arpeggiators
Also included in SonicPass ➡️ www.uvi.net/sonicpass

Quadra Modular | Persistent Moon Madness by Brian Brylow

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

Photo by Andrew Small

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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/

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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

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.

"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]

[disquiet0569] Contemplating Benevolence

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