I get this poly rhythmical feel here.... after a few listens I hear it's just really laid back

swirling beat, waiting for some big house beat ;)

good, could use this as a nice house intro

More on this 167th Disquiet Junto project — “Marking the 3rd anniversary of Bassel Khartabil’s incarceration, turn the silence of a room into something soothing” — at:

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http://freebassel.org/

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Disquiet Junto Project 0167: Placid Cell

This is the inside of my bathroom, recorded on a Tascam DR-07 mkII. I edited the audio in ProTools 11. You can hear some cat sounds if you listen up!


More on this 167th Disquiet Junto project — “Marking the 3rd anniversary of Bassel Khartabil’s incarceration, turn the silence of a room into something soothing” — at:

disquiet.com/2015/03/12/disquiet0167-freebassel/

More on Bassel Khartabil at:

freebassel.org/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

disquiet.com/junto

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Placid Cell - [disquiet0167-freebassel]

created March 2015
@ dead_shrine

paulstretch/Ableton

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More on this 167th Disquiet Junto project — “Marking the 3rd anniversary of Bassel Khartabil’s incarceration, turn the silence of a room into something soothing” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/03/12/disquiet0167-freebassel/

More on Bassel Khartabil at:

http://freebassel.org/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto

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for_bassel(2015)[disquiet0167-freebassel]

The first 2 seconds you hear my bathroom's door closing.
The next 10 seconds you hear the silence in my bathroom.
Then a heartbeat evolves, made of a reflection of the closing door.
The chords, the lead melody and the bass sound are all made using the same microsound, a very short loop near the end of the silent part.
A shaker-like sound is made out of some noise, maybe my breath because I was in the room during the recording.
I used Bitwig's sampler, a lot of filters, some delays and Verberate for the plate-hall.
It took me about 2 hours to get the whole track done.
So I hope you enjoy it.

More on this 167th Disquiet Junto project — “Marking the 3rd anniversary of Bassel Khartabil’s incarceration, turn the silence of a room into something soothing” — at:
disquiet.com/2015/03/12/disquiet0167-freebassel/
More on Bassel Khartabil at:
http://freebassel.org/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
disquiet.com/junto
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Bathroom Lullaby [disquiet0167-freebassel]

**Production Notes**

The most quiet room in our flat is a tiny walk-in wardrobe. I was just recording the sound of the door closing, when my daugher, which played Skyrim in the living room, cursed in frustration. 

I isolated that bit and mangled it with Ambient V_03 for a steady pulse. This treatment went into Reaktors Molekular-Effect-Plugin, which turns noises into sine waves. That’s where I got all the tonal bits from. 

Compressed, added a a bit of RC 48 Reverb... and that‘s not all....

... I really hope they free Bassel Kathabir. 

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**Disquiet Junto Project 0167: Placid Cell**


Marking the 3rd anniversary of Bassel Khartabil’s incarceration, turn the silence of a room into something soothing.

￼This project is the second time that the Junto gathered its resources to pay tribute to the wrongfully imprisoned Creative Commons advocate and coder Bassel. Sunday, March 15, marks the third anniversary of Bassel’s incarceration in Syria.

In Bassel’s honor, this week we’ll make music by taking the loneliness of a small, closed room and making something beautiful and soothing from it.

Step 1: Go into the quietest room in your home and record the room’s tone. Also record the sound of the door being closed.

Step 2: Locate in that track a suitably quiet 10 consecutive seconds. Also locate the moment when the door is closed.

Step 3: Locate in those 10 seconds a handful of signature sonic events, moments, however small or subtle, that stand out from the general silence.

Step 4: Create an original composition that begins with the door being closed, proceeds through the 10 unadulterated seconds of room tone, and after which samples of those sonic events from Step 3 are transformed into something soothing. This being a project about isolation, you cannot add any external sound elements.

Step 5: Upload the combination of your accompaniment and the foundational track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 6: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Length: The length of your finished work should be roughly between two and five minutes.

(...) 

More on this 167th Disquiet Junto project — “Marking the 3rd anniversary of Bassel Khartabil’s incarceration, turn the silence of a room into something soothing” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2015/03/12/disquiet0167-freebassel/

More on Bassel Khartabil at:
http://freebassel.org/

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

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Thoughts [disquiet0167-freebassel]

See http://bassling.blogspot.com/2015/03/disquiet-junto-0167-free-bassel.html for track discussion and video.

More on this 167th Disquiet Junto project — “Marking the 3rd anniversary of Bassel Khartabil’s incarceration, turn the silence of a room into something soothing” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2015/03/12/disquiet0167-freebassel/

More on Bassel Khartabil at:
http://freebassel.org/

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In A Silent Room [disquiet0167-freebassel]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
186 week haiku
naviarlab.tumblr.com/

Yamaha mx49

2017-07-27

looping around town (Naviarhaiku 186)

Acoustic naive instrumental divertimento in 2 parts,  5/4 time signature
spacedrum
hang
ukuleles (2)
upright bass
synthesizer
marimba
xylophone 


Music for this Haiku:
"flood waters recede
narrandera eucalypts refelcted
which way is up?"


poem by Julie Briggs
picture by tommi saltiola

more info @naviar-records
http://www.naviarrecords.com/2017/08/02/naviarhaiku187-flood-waters-recede/

life after the flood (naviarhaiku187)

Flood waters recede
Narrandera eucalypts reflected
Which way is up

Haiku by Julie Briggs
Music by Fiona Caldarevic
Instrument sounds by ComposerCloud

For this haiku  I created a more classical piece for piano quintet (piano + string quartet). I imagined more turbulent floodwaters eventually receding into more calming sounds, with the sustained strings being the water and the more and more random high piano notes being the eucalypt leaves reflecting on the water.

Flood Waters (naviarhaiku187)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
187 week haiku
naviarlab.tumblr.com/

2017-08-03

Flood waters recede (Naviarhaiku 187 )

Chasing Echoes (naviarhaiku187)
Naviar Haiku Flood Waters Recede

Flood waters recede
Narrandera eucalypts reflected
Which way is up?

A collaboration with curator Jason Richardson and the Western Riverina Arts with a poem by Julie Briggs.

Chasing Echoes (naviarhaiku187)

Written for Naviar Haiku 188 
Haiku and photo by Jason Richardson

I do not apologize for the bird sounds.

Sepia Dawn [naviarhaiku188]

Inspired by Sue Killham's haiku:
Verdant town of trees
Poised upon the river's edge
Waiting for one day

This is an expressive piano piece with some viola in the background.  I was mainly inspired by the trees being poised upon the river's edge, so I thought about what the trees could see all day long in the river.

UPDATED with an improved sound mix.

The River's Edge (naviarhaiku189)

Haiku by Peita Vincent:
Poisoned Waterhole:
Violent Disregard Echoes.
Keenly Felt Today
http://www.naviarrecords.com/2017/08/23/naviarhaiku190-poisoned-waterhole/

Made with TTSH, Korg ER-1, Eurorack, iPad

Will Ever Change (NaviarHaiku190)

On 2nd December 1988, Solid Steel started broadcasting on pirate radio station Kiss FM. DK celebrates 30 years with a mix of personal favourites both old and new, including music from a whole host of guests that have appeared on Solid Steel from the likes of Helena Hauff, Four Tet, Pearson Sound, Peggy Gou, Lone, MF Doom, The Bug, Leon Vynehall, Autechre, Throbbing Gristle, Caribou, Martyn, Pangaea, Mark Pritchard, Robert Owens and Juan Atkins.

Hour 1 - DK 30 Years of Solid Steel

Bicep - Glue (Ambient/Beatless Mix) - Unreleased
Tessela - Hackney Parrot (Special Request VIP) - Houndstooth
Caribou - Sun (Bowski Remix) - Unreleased
Pearson Sound - Xlb - Pearson Sound
Bicep - Opal (Four Tet Remix) - Ninja Tune
Lone - Vengeance Video - R & S Records
Martyn - Viper (Ghost People Edit) - Ninja Tune
Juan Atkins - Flash Flood - Life’s Good
Helena Hauff - Qualm - Ninja Tune
Boddika - You Tell Me - Nonplus Records
Pangaea - Won't Hurt - Hessle Audio
Pearson Sound - Blanked - Hessle Audio
Herbie Hancock - Nobu  - Sony Japan
Reload - Amenity - Evolution
Leon Vynehall - Inside The Deku Tree - 3024
Percussions - KHLHI - Text
Moodymann - Black Mahogany - KDJ
Dan Shake & Medlar - Walk - Delusions of Grandeur
Robert Owens - Bring Down The Walls - Trax Records
Last Generation - Feel My Love (Inside) - Lower Level Records
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane) - Ninja Tune
Arnie Love & The Lovettes - We've Had Enough - TAP
Tarika Blue - Truth Is The Key - Chiaroscuro Records
Elbernita "Twinkie" Clark - Awake O Zion - Sound Of Gospel Records
Shirley Finney - Give Your Best To The Master - Savoy Records
Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir - Nobody Knows - Light In the Attic
Clams Casino - I'm God 
The Bug - Tune In (Version) - Ninja Tune
James Blake - Air & Lack Thereof - Hemlock Recordings
Débruit & Alsarah - Jibal Alnuba - Soundway
Burnt Friedman - Sorcier - Latency
Czelaw Nieman - Qss - Polskie Nagrania Muza
Burial - Dog Shelter - Hyperdub
Eprom - Love Number - Rwina Records
Flying Lotus - Aqua teen 24
King Geedorah - Fazers - Big Dada
Jay Electronica - Exhibit A (Transformations) - Decon
Steve Grossman - Zulu Stomp - PM
Shamek Farrah - First Impressions - Strata East
The People's People - Fritz - The Voice Of The People Record Co.
K Frimpong & His Cubano Fiestas - Adam Nana (Medley) - Off Bros
Shina Williams & His African Percussionists - Agboju Logun - Strut
William Onyeabor - Love Is Blind - Luaka Bop
The Flying Lizards - Steam Away - Virgin
Throbbing Gristle - Hot On The Heels of Love - Industrial Records
Dr. Philter Banx - High Heels and Mirrored Thighs - Criminal Records
Arthur Russell - Corn - Audika
Stanton Davis - Things Cannot Stop Forever - Outrageous Records
Milton Wright - Friends and Buddies - Alston Records
Young Mods - Who You Going To Run, Where You Going To Hide - Everblack
Marvin Holmes and Justice - You better Keep Her - Brown Door Records
The Vel-Vets - I Gotta Find Me Somebody - Harmless
The Frank Cunimondo Trio - Feelin Good - Mondo
Alice Clark - Don't You Care - Mainstream
Arthur Verocai - Na Boca do Sol - Luv N’ Haight
Ginga Trio - Carcara - Chantecler
Cesar Mariano & Cia - Fábrica - RCA Victor
Toni Esposito - L'Eroe Di Plastica - Numero Uno
Sun Ra - That's How I Feel - Philly Jazz
Harold McKinney - Ode To Africa - Tribe
Calvin Keys - BK - Black Jazz
Tony Newton - Groundshaker - NCI Records
The Lyman Woodard Organization - Saturday Night Special - Strata
Ira Sullivan - The Kingdom Within You - Strings Attached
Dawan Muhammad - Taumbu - Evidence Records
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - Peace Go With You Brother - Strata East
Yusef Lateef - Morning - Savoy Records
Lucio Battisti - La Canzone Della Terra - Numero Uno
David Axelrod - The Divine Image - Capitol Records

Solid Steel Radio Show

Solid Steel Radio Show 02/12/2018 Hour 1 - DK

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.

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