Disquiet Junto Project 0684: Early Bird
The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening.

Step 1: You are going to record a piece of music intended for someone to listen to almost immediately upon waking up. Think about your mornings, and what a more optimal morning might entail.

Step 2: Consider a scenario in which someone wakes up and, rather than look at their work or check the news, they take a period of time to just get centered. Think about how long you might want this to take, say three minutes, or five minutes, or twenty minutes.

Step 3: Consider the stages of awakening, from quiet to loud, from slow to fast (or a middling pace), from simple to complex. Perhaps the sounds go full circle, returning to where they started.

Step 4: Consider what sound at the end — a gong, a bell, a bird call, etc. — might signal that the waking process has concluded.

Step 5: Having reflected on the topics brought up in the instructions thus far, record a track that might guide someone slowly into consciousness upon waking each morning.

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Deadline: Monday, February 10, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

More on the 684th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Early Bird — The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening — at https://disquiet.com/0684/

Disquiet Junto Project 0684: Early Bird

work sleep die playlist

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Thirsites answers back

Composed and performed by DD, early 2025
Ukuleles, charango, ronroco, bass pulse

Photo by Andrew Small

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Lightness - disquiet0684

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 06 Feb 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, reverb, echo. 

Artwork/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, 12 Mar 2016, Massapequa, NY, USA

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “Decaying A Little More Each Day” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0684: Early Bird. The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening.

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More on the 684th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Early Bird — The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening — at https://disquiet.com/0684/

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Decaying A Little More Each Day (disquiet0684)

In response to this week's @disquiet projetc, using six Alchemy presets on Logic Pro X I tried to capture that brief moment after dreaming upon awakening. More on the 684th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Early Bird — The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening — at https://disquiet.com/0684/

early bird (disquiet0684)

Disquiet Junto Project 0684: Early Bird
The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening.

Step 1: You are going to record a piece of music intended for someone to listen to almost immediately upon waking up. Think about your mornings, and what a more optimal morning might entail.

Step 2: Consider a scenario in which someone wakes up and, rather than look at their work or check the news, they take a period of time to just get centered. Think about how long you might want this to take, say three minutes, or five minutes, or twenty minutes.

Step 3: Consider the stages of awakening, from quiet to loud, from slow to fast (or a middling pace), from simple to complex. Perhaps the sounds go full circle, returning to where they started.

Step 4: Consider what sound at the end — a gong, a bell, a bird call, etc. — might signal that the waking process has concluded.

Step 5: Having reflected on the topics brought up in the instructions thus far, record a track that might guide someone slowly into consciousness upon waking each morning.

More on the 684th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Early Bird — The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening — at https://disquiet.com/0684/

morning song disquiet0684

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0684: Early Bird. The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0684 discussion thread on Lines:

I had a small 48hp modular system setup for a project I did last week, so decided to use the same modules with different parameters for this week’s assignment. Pamela’s Pro Workout was used for master clock, random sample & hold, and quantization. This was then patched into Calsynth Ornament and Crime with Phazerville suite, running the sequential switch applet in both hemispheres. That in turn helped to sequence a Make Noise STO and Calsynth uRings. Desmodus Versio provided in rack reverb. The modules were manually modulated. Some Valhalla Delay and Supermassive were added in Ableton Live.

After a few listens, the overall vibe, and the ending using a dawn chorus sample, seemed a little too new agey to me, but I'm mostly fine with how it turned out. Here’s to restful sleep and positive awakenings to all in the days ahead.

More on the 684th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Early Bird — The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening — at https://disquiet.com/0684/

Dawn Salutation [disquiet0684]

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