13 Levels; my track for disquiet0696

Disquiet Junto Project 0696: Chain of Layers
The Assignment: Make music change by altering its layers.
Step 1: Record 10 to 15 layers of continuous sound.
Step 2: Create a piece of music in which you only change the relative presence of those individual layers from Step 1 over time. Some light effects and panning are certainly fine, but the majority of the impact should be how the prominence of the individual layers changes.
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More on the 696th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Layers — The Assignment: Make music change by altering its layers — at https://disquiet.com/0696/

disquiet0696_13levels

Mayor of Layerton

I'm preparing a soundtrack to my residency shows at Volcano Theatre in Swansea this week and my response to the current @disquiet project might well be the transition music. Using samples of room ambience to bookend a series of looped pad chords, these fade in and out, overlapping.

More on the 696th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Layers — The Assignment: Make music change by altering its layers — at https://disquiet.com/0696/

Chain of Layers (disquiet0696)

14 electronic layers improvised and handed off. Response to Disquiet Junto: The Assignment: Make music change by altering its layers.

Step 1: Record 10 to 15 layers of continuous sound.

Step 2: Create a piece of music in which you only change the relative presence of those individual layers from Step 1 over time. Some light effects and panning are certainly fine, but the majority of the impact should be how the prominence of the individual layers changes.

More on the 696th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Layers — The Assignment: Make music change by altering its layers — at https://disquiet.com/0696/

Disquiet0696 electro layer cake

My contribution to Disquiet Junto Project 0696.

More on the 696th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Layers — The Assignment: Make music change by altering its layers — at https://disquiet.com/0696/

disquiet0696 Chain of Layers

Text "Always" (c) by Menelaos Fischer 2025, used with permission. Artwork (c) Eugene Binder. Music (c) Susanne Maurer

always [disquiet0696]

I created a Max patch to play sets of sine waves which are partials of a single digit (sub audible) frequency. The partial frequencies are very close together as a result. I recorded a bunch of these and then created a semi-random layering of various clips, each with one, two or three partials, in my DAW to make this piece. There are over 15 tracks, in order to capture a large range of variations. A few of the clips have glides in them, which I thought added interest. A tiny bit of chamber reverb to smooth out the ending.

Harlequin -zoundsabar - disquiet0696

Ten instances of TAL Sampler each with a different sample and pitch, interleaved
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More on the 696th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Layers — The Assignment: Make music change by altering its layers — at https://disquiet.com/0696/

laminar flow (disquiet0696)

[disquiet0696] cake

Based off tracks from Torsten Goerke and Coraline Ada Ehmke

[disquiet0699] Pulse

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 04 Jun 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, effects.

This original version of "Navigation Problem No. 1" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 596: Spring Dream...

spring dream…
not becoming unhinged
is what’s unbearable

by: Konishi Raizan

Konishi Raizan was a famous haiku poet of the Genroku period (1688-1704). He was a disciple of Nishiyama Sōin, and after his death, his works were anthologized in Imamiyagusa, which was published in 1734. He wrote this poem after the death of his only son.

Artwork/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, 17 Jun 2023, Massapequa, NY, USA & 04 Jun 2025

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge.

Navigation Problem No. 1 (naviarhaiku596)

Making music is about being surprised.
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Navigation Problem No. 1 (naviarhaiku596)

Jimmy Lem

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