This makes for a good mood, man! Enjoyed it!

Painting: Animal Fates (the trees showed their rings, the animals their veins) [1913] by Franz Marc. Original from the Kunstmuseum Basel Museum.

Overly Confident Thousandaire

Collaboration Janjòrsteen + Trampelfâd
2022-2023

visit 
https://soundcloud.com/user-526356403

Serial 34  [Collaboration Janjòrsteen + Trampelfâd]

Esta pieza es un fragmento del lugar o lugares donde me está llevando últimamente la música. Va empezando a tomar forma duracional, a ser piezas de alrededor de una hora. La serie armónica, el espacio armónico y sus infinitas posibilidades, derivaciones y relaciones, explorada a través de guitarra, arco, ebow, delays, loops y warping, está siendo el lugar donde, a veces, la mente queda en blanco, el oído se abre y el devenir temporal se manifiesta

Sin Título

The Sludgefork

Recorded, mixed & mastered 08-10 Nov 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2023 Jim Lemanowicz

Process notes

First day -

- Not intending this to be for the next Junto - it was Wednesday - I decided to program a samba beat in FL Studio from a book of drum patterns for four percussion instruments and then added a second snare. 
- Nothing especially out of the ordinary, it just felt like practice. I went to sleep wondering if I could take it apart somehow.

Second day -

- Spent probably too much time getting MIDI out of FL and into Ableton Live.
- I used a template that I developed last June for this particular concept, (”band”), I call Smile Puppy I used this concept for Juntos 0546 and 0599. This concept started for me in a very primitive way in FL 3.5 back in 2001-ish, so I always try to include FL somehow, so it seemed natural to use that concept name.
- Juggled the percussion tracks to have the thing build as it went, with some open spots too. Didn’t want to be linear, it felt less musical to me.
- My template included a track for raw audio that I removed and a track with a marimba sound and another one with an Operator pluck sound.
- I used a Max For Live thing called TreeSEQ by Gross9978 to generate the notes for the two melodic tracks, with the pluck aiming for the bass sounds. I then captured these two parts in two MIDI receiver tracks.
- I liked the pluck sound but not for bass. It didn’t have any hint of bass oomph and what can I say, I’m really fussy with bass.
- So I duplicated the bass part and with some messing around, I found something in Kontakt that was more bass-sounding to me but also a little off. That was it, I was going to stick with that.
- I took the original bass part, cut it in half, increased the octave I was in and half timed it as a solo near the end of the track. I also processed it with some of Live’s guitar-oriented effects but also a gate to gently tame it. Still it eventually took over without any intention from me and I liked that happy accident for an ending.

Update - third day 11/10
- after posting, I was not happy with the balance and I did another mix.

Artwork: Penn Station, NYC 17 Dec 2010, by Jim Lemanowicz

------

This original version of "I Am As Dry As A Fish" was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0619: Beat Accrual. The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: [disquiet.com/junto/](https://gate.sc/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdisquiet.com%2Fjunto%2F&token=5155d9-1-1699589421887)

Subscribe to project announcements here: [tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/](https://gate.sc/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftinyletter.com%2Fdisquiet-junto%2F&token=5ad8e7-1-1699589421887)

This track was originally released under the artist name "Smile Puppy."

I Am As Dry As A Fish (disquiet0619)

I seldom work like this: creating a charged “full steam” pattern and placing it at the end of a crescendo, then moving backwards removing stuff till there’s nothing left at the beginning. I did it with drum programs a lot, but also with repetitive stuff (pianos, guitars) à la Reich/Riley. I like to have an idea of my “tutti”, my maximum peak in density and intensity, then going there from zero.
This track, recorded today Friday November 10th 2023, started with a programmed drum beat (using for the first time in decades my good old Alesis D4 module that remained unplugged in my rack, just to fill a space)
To complete I added two tracks of a Matrix 12 synth and cello samples (noisy)
The patter is 16 beats long but never in 4x4 time signature, it does something like 7x8 + 6x8 + 3x8
The synths are in straight 4/4.
The weirdness of the drum patter becomes evident as we progress and more elements appear.

The photo is mine, I can’t recall what that is. Paris 2019, it says in the folder…

for
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0619-beat-accrual/

Bad Beat (disquiet0619)

https://disquiet.com/2023/11/09/disquiet-junto-project-0619-beat-accrual/
Komposition988 SchalgzeugKlavier

Risse (Disquiet0619)

[disquiet0619] Ritm

Disquiet Junto Project 0619: Beat Accrual
The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch.

As is generally the case with any instructions, it’s best to read all the way through before beginning.

Step 1: Create a complicated beat (define “complicated” as you see fit). Keep track of the individual parts.

Step 2: Record a track in which the beat from Step 1 slowly accrues over time. For example, break the original beat into its constituent parts and then add one at a time, repeating the arrival of each addition for four beats (assuming you’re doing the project in 4/4). That’s just one way to accomplish this.

Also: You might adorn the beat with other elements while it’s accumulating, or after, or you might simply leave it on its own.

DRK 13(disquiet619)

sound art for disquiet0622.

a stereo shadow.

More on this 622nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Know the Shadow (The Assignment: How do you depict a shadow in sound?), at: https://disquiet.com/0622/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0622-know-the-shadow/

frozen shadows (disquiet0622)

More on the 636th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Left (1 of 3) — The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0636/

Left (1 Of 3) disquiet0636

Sound artist.
Freedom from being unknown.
Support me at https://www.patreon.com/blisterpop
Linktree for more - https://linktr.ee/blisterpop

I Am As Dry As A Fish (disquiet0619)

Jimmy Lem

Recent comments

Robert Knote

Related tracks