"Blurred Tofu Vision" by Our Quiet Fog

Conceived, recorded 03 May 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, NY. 

Two tracks of Piano V3, Ableton Live & native devices, iZotope & Valhalla effects.

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."

Blurred Tofu Vision

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

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

Marco Lucchi: synthesizer and tape

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playing with
https://soundcloud.com/stan_magendanz/nodicurin

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for the current #disquiet junto challenge
https://disquiet.com/2025/07/03/disquiet-junto-project-0705-book-start/

Walden [disquiet # 0705]

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 DeadTV.wav

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.

I Got My Things and Left [disquiet0705]

The sky blinked twice before the broadcast began
And everyone who still had eyes turned to see it

The Sky Blinked Twice disquiet0705

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

The chosen text is a poem by Giuseppe Ungaretti (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Ungaretti),
written in July 1918 in the trenches during the First World War.

Si sta come 
d'autunno 
sugli alberi 
le foglie 

https://www.sololibri.net/Soldati-poesia-Ungaretti-si-sta-come-d-autunno-sugli-alberi.html


I obtained a sequence of 7 notes (AFDGBCE – 9 5 1 7 e 0 4), which I distributed across various sequencers and instruments. In particular, I used several old patches from SampleTank 2/3.

Soldati [disquiet0705]

[disquiet0705] lot-49

Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy by obviously by Douglas Adams

"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."

Pretty sparse, but this could be the start of a track I may build up some more. Fun prompt to work with. I went spacey to match the sentence but not much deep thought beyond that. The track was done in Bitbox Micro sequenced by Orca. The chord / pad sound is a chord I found on the card already and loaded up as a granular type to mess with it a bit. 

Hitchhikers disquiet0705

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Blurred Tofu Vision

Jimmy Lem