Disquiet Junto Project 0622: Know the Shadow
The Assignment: How do you depict a shadow in sound?

Step 1: Think about what a shadow is.

Step 2: Think about how a shadow might be expressed in sound.

Step 3: Record a piece of music employing the ideas that arose in Step 2.

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, December 4, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, November 30, 2023.

More on this 622nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Know the Shadow (The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new), at: https://disquiet.com/0622/

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Disquiet Junto Project 0622: Know the Shadow

Así Es Mejor

Tracked, Edited, Mixed & Mastered by Caleb Jones

FlipCup-Remember

Sound art for disquiet0616

A nail scraped on antler with a gradual shift in focus from the whole antler to the points.

the point of an antler (disquiet0616)

This track started from a newspaper article (published in November 1973 in my home country). I processed it through a text-to-speech software and use it as a base to improvise melodies and rhythms. I then extracted elements that I liked and arranged them into the final piece.

The goal was to make the voice less audible as the track progresses. To achieve this, I used different set of effects on each sections of the track.

Original article : https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1973/11/03/entre-la-peur-et-l-espoir_2546275_1819218.html

More on this 618th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Burying the Lede (The Assignment: Turn old news into new music), at: https://disquiet.com/0618/

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Between Fear and Hope (disquiet0618)

In respons to this weeks Haiku Challenge, 515.

Last bloom before autumn
Stares back at me with a smile
My younger brother

Haiku by: John Wright  https://soundcloud.com/thgirwnhoj

Picture by: Katerina Kerdi https://unsplash.com/photos/silhouette-photograph-of-forest–YiJvbfNDqk

Autumn Stares at Me

Autumn Stares At Me (NaviarHaiku515)

There's a 100% reverb setting on this - a shadow of the music you can't quite hear. See the (slightly disturbing) accompanying visuals @ https://youtu.be/pdBdZPYer60

More on this 622nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Know the Shadow (The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new), at: https://disquiet.com/0622/

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visuals (YouTube)

halF shadoW [disquiet0622]

The instruction was "Think about how a shadow might be expressed in sound.". Here in my recording I feature the reverb channel from a recently recorded guitar piece. In order to make it sound like a shadow I used an envelope follower that would modulate the sends of the signal feeding into the reverb. This has as an effect that the original sound appears to reflect into the reverb. I also pitched the resulting signal down by an octave so it sounds more dark.

(know the) Shadow

Disquiet Junto Project 0622: Know the Shadow
The Assignment: How do you depict a shadow in sound?

Step 1: Think about what a shadow is.

Step 2: Think about how a shadow might be expressed in sound.

Step 3: Record a piece of music employing the ideas that arose in Step 2.

The track notes for this Junto can be read here: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0622-know-the-shadow/65114/5

[Disquiet_Junto_0622] Three Joo Chiat Rain Sound Shadows

An electronic composition, sounds created in Pure Data.

More on this 622nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Know the Shadow (The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new), at: https://disquiet.com/0622/

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March of Shadows (disquiet0622)

More on this 622nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Know the Shadow (The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new), at: https://disquiet.com/0622/

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Know the Shadows

Disquiet Junto | Know the Shadows - disquiet0622

Depicting shadows in sound.

Recorded, mixed & mastered 14 Feb 1988, 30 Nov / 01 Dec 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

Synths, acoustic guitar, samples & effects

This original version of "Little Iodine Crack" was submitted as part of **Disquiet Junto Project 0622: Know the Shadow.** The Assignment: How do you depict a shadow in sound?

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/
Discussion took place on https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0622-know-the-shadow
Artwork/photo by Jim Lemanowicz, 31 May 2017, Boston, MA, USA

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A newer mix of this piece was included on the 2024 album All Roads Lead To Jimmy Lem - 
https://music.blisterpop.com/album/all-roads-lead-to-jimmy-lem

This track was originally released under the artist name "Lumber Mart."

Music & art © 2017, 2023 Jim Lemanowicz

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Little Iodine Crack (disquiet0622)

his was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0622: Know the Shadow

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0622 discussion thread:

Rather than thinking of shadows as a result of shapes blocking light, I went with an alternative definition of something, usually a person, that follows closely. In this case, similar melodies that follow each other. My goal was to create a piece that's repetitive and minimal.

Using an Arturia Keystep 37 and Novation Peak, I manually played three different tracks into Ableton Live at approximately the same tempo using different settings. I also recorded a track using Jogging House's new Tonal Drifts instrument pack. I stretched a couple sections so they would slowly drift out of phase. It's my interpretation of shadows getting longer as the afternoon sun moves lower down on the horizon. Not sure whether I'm 100% satisfied with how this turned out, but I enjoyed the process.
 
More on this 622nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Know the Shadow (The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new), at: https://disquiet.com/0622/
About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/
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Afternoon Shadows Till Dusk [disquiet0622]

Electronic composition, original sounds created in Pure Data.

Offering (naviarhaiku519)

Mornings Service-naviarhaiku519

Sound art for disquiet0624

Lee Scratch Perry / Annie Besant

More on this 624th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Fresh Pair (The Assignment: Combine two influences, however disparate they may be), at: disquiet.com/0624/ 1

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twig thoughts (disquiet0624)

disquiet0625

My music asks listeners to be like dreamers uncovering hidden patterns in passing clouds. Support me @ patreon.com/blisterpop

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

Little Iodine Crack (disquiet0622)

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