cool, how about the rest of us?  good tune

nice chill tune. like the fx on your vocals!

"An Email From Sun Ra" by Blind River Jr

Submitted for the March Challenge 4 for Brian Funk's Music Production Club, prompts provided by mrtorian

Conceived, recorded, mixed & mastered Mar 23-27 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, NY and on East 70th St, NYC. Koala samples recorded on 19 Aug 2019 in the New York Burger Bar bathroom in Massapequa, NY. Some drum sounds from 10 Mar 2019, Massapequa, NY.

©2023 Jim Lemanowicz

Voice, Jay Turser Mustang, Zoom MS-70CDR pedal, Nobels ODR-1, Arturia Wurli V, Ableton Live 11, Ableton/M4L devices, (including Color Limiter, Vector Delay, Reverb, Random, Scale, Arpeggiator, Beat Repeat, Buffer Shuffler, Designer Drums - Carbonized), and iPhone Koala app.

The original prompt from mrtorian

Word Prompt: Dog Tried
I am dog tired but that has been said. Has ''dog tried'' been said? Maybe but for sure now!

Musical Prompt: make a 1/4 or 1/8  note alternating octave bass-line interesting. We all love them and maybe default to them, and they are amazing. As with the above, what's something that's not been done or done to death?

This track was originally released under the artist name "Blind River Jr."

An Email From Sun Ra (MPC March #4)

Inspired by this haiku written by Santōka, a wandering poet and ascetic Zen priest, he was a disciple of Ogiwara Seisensui, one of the first poets to discard the traditional use of the 5-7-5 structure in haiku.
Santōka’s poetry emphasizes the necessity of sabi (solitude) in order to achieve spiritual enlightenment and serenity.
Early morning,
One star remaining,
It’s a good day too.

Haiku by Santoka Taneda https://www.chzc.org/Nonin.htm
Picture by freezydreamin https://unsplash.com/photos/SV3V-D1G2q4
For more information visit https://soundcloud.com/naviar-records

My Naviar Haiku

In the rays of a morning star (naviarhaiku492)

In The Rays Of A Morning Star (naviarhaiku492)

Original by encym https://soundcloud.com/encym 

Dubbed & mixed 15 Mar 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. This was also Day 1338 of the 100 Day Project.

Music distributed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 DEED

Process notes
Last week, encym(https://soundcloud.com/encym) recorded & uploaded “Neat Disorder” and I downloaded it on 3/13 

His original post and notes -
https://soundcloud.com/encym/neat_disorder_disquiet0636

“This week’s Junto project has always been one of my favourites – so I recorded the first third of what will eventually become a trio. I played it on my Tele through a simple, straightforward signal chain of Chase Bliss Mood (the main sound), fed through a Dark Star and a Polymoon to add space and variations in terms of timbre. No further editing in the DAW. I went for as sparse a track as I could, to provide as much space as possible for my potential collaborators. My hope is that you feel inspired by my “almost crumbling to pieces” vibe, and I look forward to hearing what you will be adding over the coming weeks for it to become a trio recording.”

My own additional process notes - 
On 3/15, I recorded about 9 minutes of prepared cuatro and picked some bits I liked for this piece. I used a few native Ableton Live effects, panned to right.

Artwork: Edit and additions to encym’s original using Adobe Photoshop 2024 and Q’MIC-Qt.

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This original version of “Ataxophobia, Right?” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0637: Right (2 of 3). The Assignment: Record the second third of an eventual trio.

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

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More on the 637th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right (2 of 3) — The Assignment: Record the second third of an eventual trio — at https://disquiet.com/0637/ 

#DisquietJunto #AtaxophobiaRight #Encym #JimmyLem #MusicProject #Collaboration #Tele #ChaseBlissMood #DarkStar #Polymoon #AbletonLive #PreparedCuatro #Bowed #Struck #AbletonLive12 #disquiet0637

2024-03-15 Ataxophobia, Right? by encym & Jimmy Lem (disquiet0367)

Part two of three of the Disquiet Junto collaboration project. This takes the C# electronic drone created by @alanblip and adds a drop-tuned guitar for a rhythm track. What will it sound like with a 3rd part, I wonder?

Lefty Drone, Right English disquiet0637

More on the 637th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right (2 of 3) — The Assignment: Record the second third of an eventual trio — at https://disquiet.com/0637/

Dissolve Left! No, Right! (feat. Torpid Scorpion) Disquiet0637

For Disquiet Junto 0637: The Assignment: Record the second third of an eventual trio.
I added to Sinny Sound's "Lucky Link": https://soundcloud.com/sinnysounds2/lucky-link-disquiet0636?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0636
I wanted to add some light harmony to underscore the melody. Converted the melody to midi harmony in Ableton. Made some light adjustments to midi notes here and there. Used the Schwarzonator 2.0 device to help add some additional chord notes. Chose some light key sounds from Kontakt 40's keys and Playbox. Also light bass from Lode, and melodic tabla. Tapped in the shaker parts. Panned hard right with orginal panned left. 

Enjoyed listening Sinny Sound's lovely melody while making this. I'll be humming it all week!

It was fun listening to everyone's "Left" tracks this week, I'm always in awe by this community's talent and creativity!

More on the 637th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right (2 of 3) — The Assignment: Record the second third of an eventual trio — at https://disquiet.com/0637/

Lucky Link Village (with Sinny Sounds) [disquiet0637]

I spent the morning adding my third element to a few tracks and finally decided that my contribution to encym and Jimmy Lem's combo was the most coherent. I was struck by the contrasting tones of encym's off kilter Tele with the controlled chaos of Jimmy's cuatro. Sandwiched in between are some sparse tones from my Terra, fed through the "Vangelis Verb" on the Zoia.

disquiet0638

NOTES:

Slow AF
Long 
Single note or theme 
Structure
Formula 
Dusty 
Meandering 
Smooth 

Instruments

Sax
Sub Bass 
Cello 
Bell 
Crash Cymbal 

Eventually built a slow dance

The Aging Of Stone - disquiet0643

Only the moon remains
floating in the memory upon
Kinokawa River
 
There's so little information about this amazing renga poet that I decided to share another poem written by him. This one is part of a longer sequence, written in 1463:

Only the moon remains
floating in the memory upon
Kinokawa River—
pale glistening waves,
the blank wake of drowned men.
 
About this poem, the author said: "Among the hundreds and thousands who have drowned and perished in this river
due to the disorders in this province were those whom I knew in former days. Often I would walk along the river, gazing at the moon."

(Heart's Flower - The Life and Poetry of Shinkei)

Shinkei (1406-75) was a renowned renga poet and critic, best known for his two-part work "Sasamegoto" (Murmured Conversations). To find out more about this interesting and largely unknown poet-priest, I recommend reading Heart's Flower - The Life and Poetry of Shinkei by Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen

moon [naviarhaiku538]

Step 1: This project is inspired by a brief poem by Yoko Ono, in which she wrote, “Take the sound of the stone aging.” Consider that sound.

Step 2: Record your impression of the sound of stone aging.

Background: This week’s project is based on a text by Yoko Ono, originally published in her book Grapefruit 60 years ago, back in 1964.

More on the 643rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Stone Out of Focus — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a poem — at https://disquiet.com/0643/

This week’s project is based on a text by Yoko Ono, originally published in her book Grapefruit60 years ago, back in 1964.

stone piece [disquiet0643]

More on the 643rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Stone Out of Focus — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a poem — at https://disquiet.com/0643/

This week’s project is based on a text by Yoko Ono, originally published in her book Grapefruit60 years ago, back in 1964.

Disquiet0643 - Iwannarock

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