Nice, I appreciate the detailed write-up. Nice timbres, very cool!

This track was inspired by the number 23 (as proposed by the Disquiet Junto Project 0529). The generative MIDI sequencer Transition was used (as for all Musical Bots tracks), but also Stochas for the choir.
The number 23 influenced that piece of music in many different ways. Among others the morse code of psalm 23 in English, French and German is also part of this track.

My gratitude goes to zwier for the fieldrecording of the sheep provided here: https://freesound.org/people/zwier/sounds/200329/

Major thanks to Eanna Butler for helping come up with this project:

More on this 529th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Squared Off (The Assignment: Explore the number 23) – at: https://disquiet.com/0529/

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23 Sheep (Disquiet0529)

Daniel Diaz   Unfinished (disquiet0525)
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/unfinished-disquiet0525
Moray Newlands    What next? 33per vs Moray Newlands (Disquiet0526)
https://soundcloud.com/moraynewlands/disquiet0526-33
Isonomia    Atonal Unfinished Trio (disquiet0527)
https://soundcloud.com/isonomia/atonal-unfinished-trio-disquiet0527

THANKS!

Rapid Cycling Bipolar Disorder(disquiet0533)

More on this 536th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Metaphor Play (The Assignment: Take a favorite figure of speech as a creative prompt) — at: https://disquiet.com/0536/

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halF halF [disquiet0536]

This track is intended as meditation music in a stressful situation: it allows the listener to connect with the music in their agitated state and then let it lead them into a state of relaxation as the composition slows down step by step, leaving the stressful elements aside.
The track starts in the chaos of city traffic and transforms into an underwater world intended to provide calm.

A new track building on and extending the first section can be found at https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/urban-traffic-folly

This composition was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0538, which proposed to create a piece of music for exactly the purpose described above.

I want to thank bkowshik for providing the recording of traffic in Bangalore https://freesound.org/people/bkowshik/sounds/439218/ and naturenotesuk who kindly provides the underwater field-recording https://freesound.org/people/naturenotesuk/sounds/625412/ under the Attribution 4.0 licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

More on this 538th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Guided Decompression (The Assignment: Get someone from tense to chill) – at: https://disquiet.com/0538/

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Assisted Deceleration: From Traffic To Underwater (Disquiet0538)

This time I was inspired by ["Filtered Reality" ](https://soundcloud.com/sliversounds/filtered-realitydisquiet0538) from the last week's Junto. To me, it's about clearly communicating a single, simple idea. And I also wanted to learn how to do it. To find an idea that'd excite me and then find a way of expressing it in sound that I'd be happy with.

After reading the assignment, I went to a coffeeshop  with pen and paper to brainstorm what this idea could be. Lots of ideas, but most of them seemed too complex and diluted, others too difficult to execute well at my skill level. 

The next day I found the one that got me excited.

When co-sleeping, human breathing patterns and heartbeats synchronize. I find it endlessly fascinating and beautiful and I wanted to explore this process in my composition.

I showed how two lovers' breathing rhythms synchronize when they sleep together. At first, they breathe out-of-phase but as they both relax deeper and deeper and eventually fall asleep, theirs breathing and heartbeat cycles align. 

The general idea for the composition was to record me and my partner  breathing in sync with each other in a calm, relaxed manner as if we're sleeping. I'd start the composition with one of us breathing, then the other one fades in, breathing out of phase. Gradually, the phases synchronize and the two sounds reach a sort of harmony.

Developing this idea further, I wanted to somehow highlight this process  and present it in a clearer way. I thought that adding a "signifier" sound at the end of each breath cycle would be kinda neat.  This way, the process of phase alignment of breathing cycles would be much more evident. I decided on a bell-like sound with a long sustain, because it reminds me of meditation bells and associated with deep relaxation, silence and inner focus. 

To highlight the transformation and add more interest to the composition, each voice starts from a different micro-tonal scale, which morph into another scale that's shared by the two voices.

At the end I decided to add a recording of heartbeat to convey an atmosphere of intimacy. Oh yes and a shimmer reverb fades in at some point for the higher voice to add more development.

To sum up - here's how the composition illustrates the process of synchronization between two breathing patterns of co-sleepers:
- aligning phases of the two breathing recordings
- using bell-like signifier sounds to make this alignment process clearer
- harmonizing their(initially different) micro-tonal scales into a common one
- slowing down BPM slightly towards the end

For the bell sound, I used Arturia Pigments soft synth, for playing random notes at the end of each cycle I used Live's Melodic Steps device, and I automated the following:
- delay time of the 2nd breathing and bell voice
- morphing of microtonal scales with Live's default Microtuner device

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This is my submission to the 539th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Control Breath (The Assignment: Let your slow breathing guide a piece of music) – at: https://disquiet.com/0539/

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Let's Sync (disquiet0539)

My breath and our cat, Lulu's, purring. The original recordings are subjected to distortions, gatings, and convolution and blackhole reverbs. They are also filtered with frequenies and resonances modulated by envelope followers on the breath/purr. The original breath is allowed into the mix here and there.
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with gated breath (disquiet0539)

Between the clouds and the wind, he thought he might have seen her face...

Posthumously dedicated to Alissa Kolenovic, who died on 5/4/22 after being struck by a delivery truck driver in Morris Park, Bronx, NYC.

Recorded, mixed & mastered 05 May 2022 & 25 Jul 2018 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2022 Jim Lemanowicz

Process notes - 
Audiobus 3 - generative improv recorded on 05 May 2022 on an iPad mini 4 in the backyard
- Using about 3 min of the 11:29 improv, mainly in 10/16
- Fugue machine
- Rozeta cells and LFO
- Axon 2
- Aparillo
- AudioShare to record audio 
- One stereo track as exported from iOS, loaded into Ableton Live 11
Approx 1.5 mins of saxophone recorded with iPhone in my bathroom on 25 Jul 2018, named "sex in the bathroom."  
- loaded as two additional tracks in Live
- one sliced to MIDI in 5/4
- one raw audio track, cut into 3 segments and stretched
- Native Live devices & GSnap64 applied to sax tracks only
- mastered using Ozone Elements twice, I chose the first master

Art - captured 21 Feb 2022 with a Kodak Brownie Bullet in the backyard, where the iPad recording above was later made.

This original version of "FiveFourTenSixteen In Low" was submitted as part of ​Disquiet Junto Project 0540: 5ive 4our.  Take back 5/4 for Jedi time masters Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond.

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This track was originally released under the artist name "Freedom From Polio."

FiveFourTenSixteen In Low (disquiet0540)

Preparing for disintegration [part 1]

This is for the Loop Diggers x Midnight Wax Beat Tape.

When The Shadows Leave--Loop Diggers x Midnight Wax Beat Tape

Solo Piano - Chris Bright

Castor and Pollux 0611 - 6:11:22, 7.36 PM

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