Conceived, recorded 02 May 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, NY. 

Two tracks of Piano V3, Ableton Live & native devices, Arturia FX.

This has been recorded for Brian Funk's MPC (Music Production Club), in response to the following prompt by Brian - "Try to make a piece of music each day from May 1-7." 

Photo taken 11 Sep 2017, Massapequa, NY

©2023 Jim Lemanowicz

This track was originally released under the artist name "Our Quiet Fog."

A Cucumber And An Invitation

A piano improvisation on the opening two lines of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood

More on the 705th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Book Start — The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0705/. This week’s project was proposed by Neil Stringfellow.



To Begin At The Beginning (Disquiet0705)

This is my submission to this week's Disquiet Junto assignment.

More on the 705th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Book Start — The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0705/. This week’s project was proposed by Neil Stringfellow.

250704 [disquiet0705]

Disquiet Junto Project 0705: Book Start
The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music.

For this assignment i read the first page of The Chukchi Bible by Yuri Rytkheu.

The Chukchi Bible is a collection of the myths and tales of Yuri Rytkheu’s own shaman father. The stories compose both a moving history of the Chukchi people who inhabit the shores of the Bering Sea, and a beautiful cautionary tale.

This book is a beautiful example for the guiding power of magic places, even when visited via reading.

In the track a field recording of rain in the night is added, recorded in Nunligran/Chukotka and published in the Public Domain on aporee.org: https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=61870&m=satellite


More on the 705th weekly Disquiet Junto project at https://disquiet.com/0705/.

Chukotka [disquiet0705]

More on the 705th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Book Start — The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0705/. This week’s project was proposed by Neil Stringfellow.

disquiet0705 - Lubadh

Lyrics:
I can relate to that
but i did it with only one cat
didnt take two weeks
cause we had to get over there fast
during the shut- down 
we decided to get some more room
moved cross the country
while the world was spelling its own doom

Test Drive [disquiet0705]

Track created for Disquiet(0705) inspired by text from Psycho by Robert Bloch, "Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him".

Tools for this track include Vital Synth

More on the 705th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Book Start — The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0705/. This week’s project was proposed by Neil Stringfellow.

Norman Bates(Disquiet0705)_ALT

took inspiration from the opening line of the classic post-apocalyptic novel, a canticle for leibowitz:

"Brother Francis Gerard of Utah might never have discovered the blessed documents, had it not been for the pilgrim with girded loins who appeared during that young novice's Lenten fast in the desert."

looping sample patch on eurorack + some editing/layering in ableton live

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More on the 705th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Book Start — The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0705/. This week’s project was proposed by Neil Stringfellow.



disquiet0705 - brother francis gerard of utah

One of my favourite books is the novel "The Light on the Mountains" (Birtan á fjöllunum) by Jón Kalman Stefánsson. It starts with the sentence 'Sometimes it is as if everything in the past becomes poetry', which is my translation of the German phrase 'Manchmal ist es, als würde alles Vergangene zu Poesie', as written in my German edition of this Icelandic novel.
I tried to set this sentence to music as part of this week's Disquiet Junto project.

More on the 705th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Book Start — The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0705/. This week’s project was proposed by Neil Stringfellow.

als würde alles Vergangene zu Poesie (Disquiet0705)

for some reason this contribution to the Disquiet community project took real long. not only did i have to micropitch a lot of this and do dozens of slight timing realignments to the MIDI in it. just to achieve that certain sound to the melody stuck in my head for this promt was real hard work. it definitely helped for further next projects in more than just one way. to grap the beginning of some book and put those first words in it into music isn't something one would just do in a few minutes. as is reading so is finding an equivalent to it in sound an act of giving in to that world, giving it room and time to reflect on thus jurney. so i came up with the intention to include something thats in most of the books around: the publisher and the year of publication, minor details on the text and/or its origin. that is the arpeggiated line in the beginning of my song. then the realy first words and sentences follow, this certain curiosity, that somehow suspense momentum to what might actually happen in the next few minutes and hours. for me this will always, for every book be that melody i worked on, again and again with every new book i try to get in to. hence it is all quite simple. i hope you enjoy.

More on the 705th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Book Start — The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0705/. This week’s project was proposed by Neil Stringfellow.

2 Worlds -- Book Start -- Disquiet0705

my submission for disquiet0705

the starting point for this music was the first line of James Joyce's Ulysses
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disquiet0705_ulysses

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A Cucumber And An Invitation

Jimmy Lem