Visting your age again on what started as a stressful day. Always interesting to hear your unique sonic scapes. Looking foward to catchng up. I like the way this track evolves

Wonderfully evocative and atmospheric developments are awesome

Disquiet Junto Project 0557: Condensation Is a Form of Change
The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score that depicts four phases.

I didn't want to understand the picture as a kind of timeline to be read from left to right. From the beginning I felt the urge for simultaneity, as it is inherent in images. I saw four or five elements, of which the lower/left one is incomprehensible, condensing on a background and perhaps disappearing again like stains from a coffee cup.

With that in mind, I started playing around in Live, mostly with samplers like DecentSampler, Soundpaint, and Spitfire Labs, and a lot of destructive FX. I wanted to achieve the mysteriousness that I felt myself when I looked at the image. The only discernible motif kind of emerged as I played around, it was actually too clear to me, but then I didn't want to go without it.

Mysterious cover photo presumably by Marc Weidenbaum ;-)

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Album: 'disquiet III'

An Illusion Of 4 Or 5 [disquiet0557]

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Bottom Left, Top Right & Back (disquiet0557)

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CondenshakenNotStirred[disquiet0557]

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Ego Destroyed By Piano (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

A table by the sea and the condensation water of some bottles have left their mark. I like that. 

I interpreted the score as follows:

1. first, I see grains of sand on a surface. The grains suggest - simply put - a granular treatment of a pad or surface. 
2. the circles reminded me of the loop representation of the loopy app. So I recorded four loops. Wherever two "grooves" were visible, I played two notes, otherwise, I used just one; the fatter a groove, the greater the amplitude. I used Bardzo, Pigments, and SQ80-V. 
3. I ignored the fifth circle discreetly because it didn't fit into the piece anymore. Shame on me. 

First, the "table" (drone) starts, then the bottles (loops) are introduced with one time each. Once all four have played twice, they are removed again, until the piece ends. 

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Disquiet Junto Project 0557: Condensation Is a Form of Change
The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score that depicts four phases.

A combined play on a Brian Eno phrase and a John Cage visual motif is pretty much foundational Disquiet Junto territory. This week, interpret this image as a graphic score:

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Four on a Beach  [disquiet0557]

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. 

More on this 557th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Condensation Is a Form of Change (The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score that depicts four phases) — at: https://disquiet.com/0557/

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Squarciafico [Disquiet0557]

This track was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 557: A photograph with four prints left by a glass on a table was read as graphical score.
The scores for the 4 phases/sections of the track were interpreted as polar coordinates. The origin of the coordinate system is always at the centre of the circular print. The angle is defined as time, 10° being equal to 1 s, and the radius as pitch (or frequency).
Sections of the frequency-range were assigned to different instruments.

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Change might occur in Phases (Disquiet0557)

Angle lake

This is my track from the Petroglph Music compilation "One world"
Any donations for this compilation will go to Oxfam

This is a project created by Deborah Fialkiewicz and curated in collaboration with Øystein Q. Jørgensen (Petroglyph Music)
"In these times of hardship in many parts of the world this album strives to bring everyone together under the joy of music. DF"

Any donations for this compilation will go to Oxfam

IvanB

Is There Something Coming

This immersive electronic piece unfolds as a transcendent journey, commencing with a deep, echoing soundscape that evokes the profound stillness of interstellar space. Gradually, a subtle rhythmic pulse emerges, propelling the listener forward through layers of intricate synth melodies and expansive harmonic textures. The track builds to an uplifting, dynamic crescendo, imbued with a sense of wonder and boundless possibility, before gracefully receding into atmospheric tranquility. It’s an ideal sonic companion for narratives of discovery, futuristic landscapes, or moments requiring a blend of profound serenity and gentle, forward-moving energy.

Galactic Exploration #24

Anatol Locker
Ambient | Electronica | Experimental
also plays in Lucid Grain, MOC and Spheric Lounge

Feel free to download everything here for personal use

Four on a Beach [disquiet0557]

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