For the conceptualization, I wanted to make a piece about different perspectives - how the “same story” can be told by different people and vary slightly or a lot.

There’s a tweak on the melody line “D E G E D C D E A” and this drop to the lower A can be A, A-flat, or G interchangeably. So, the accompanying bass line “C B A G” also changes from all natural to “C B natural or flat, A natural or flat, G” as well. The bass solo in the middle is, lol, I don’t know. I just felt like it. Does it work?

The title “Heron in moonlight” comes from the zen saying 銀椀盛雪、明月蔵鷺 (ぎんわんにゆきをもり めいげつにろをかくす) - Silver bowl full of snow, white heron in clear moonlight.

It’s the juxtaposition of things that look the same and seem to blend in but that are actually different. The snow may look like a part of the silver bowl, and the bowl may look like snow itself. A white heron in the bright moonlight may look like the moonlight itself, or is it the other way around?

The philosophized perspective of the saying might infer the natural vs. the manmade coming together, different groups of people coming together in harmony, etc.

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Heron in moonlight (disquiet0544)

An electronic composition in four parts derived from a sequence created in Pure Data using four basic sounds.

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Four x Four (disquiet0557)

for the disquiet junto //

ambient(ish), jittery glitched sounds of wood, water, and glass, on a bed of audio produced by putting the project's image through photosounder

Tidings of Transfiguration

[disquiet0557] Tidings of Transfiguration

Condensation is a form of change, but this is only half of the story. Condensation is what happens when vapor transforms to a liquid state; evaporation is what happens when liquid changes back to vaporous form. It’s a constant, cyclical form of reclaiming what was lost.

Michael John Harris, author of the book The End of Absence, has an interesting perspective on loss vs. gain: “My child will never know the value of learning to read a map without GPS. This is the problem with losing lack: it’s nearly impossible to recall its value once it’s gone.“ 

Some cognitive scientists argue that digital media has rendered our brains into mush. Others believe that, like how the clouds above manage moisture content, it’s simply a matter of displacing one form of cognitive processing with another.

For this Junto project, Suss Müsik explored the cyclical nature of something being there and then not there. The original photo was scanned and rendered to high-contrast, which revealed two distinct patterns: the first a reasonably formed outline comprising a circle (we’ll call that v.1), the other a series of amorphous blobs (v.2). 

v.1 became the basis for a cyclical riff played on fake bass and a DIY synth device. v.2 was played by tracing a finger across a DIY piezo mic resonator (constructed from old hard drive enclosures) and passing the signal through a Meng Qi Wingie 2. Some sloppy piano was overdubbed; interruptions were designed per interpretation of the “score.”

The piece is titled after Hieronimo Squarciafico, the 15th-century Venetian editor who warned that the invention of the printing press would inhibit humankind’s ability to remember things. 

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Squarciafico [Disquiet0557]

A song in four parts, based on an image by John Cage and a statement by Brian Eno.

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condensation [disquiet0557]

This started with a kick in 5/8, snare in 6/8 and hats in 7/8. Then bass was added in 5/8 and modular in 7/8. I used Felt Instruments' Smugi filter bank sequencing the filters in 5/8 time for the bass and 5/8 and 7/8 for the modular. Modular voice was 2HP Pluck through a Doepfer Wasp filter, sequenced and modulated using CV Toolkit. Drums are Ableton's Core 909.
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all at fives, sixes and sevens (disquiet0567)

[disquiet0568] Hippodream

It felt like there was space to do free playing and scary sounds with the really full and luscious beat loop (https://soundcloud.com/triermusic/because-seven-point-five-v2) provided by @triermusic. I added a couple of basses and a string sound aiming for as dissonant as possible. Enjoyed doing this.

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Float Mode disquiet0573

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TRACK: FLAKE INTOLERANCE - THE TOMB OF DARKNESS

ARTIST: Flake Intolerance
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MASTER: MARKWØN
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ARTWORK: DARKWATER ARCHIVE
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Inspired by the surreal, disjointed moments when the world feels unreal.
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DE-realization

"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]

[disquiet0557] Tidings of Transfiguration

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