Disquiet Junto Project 0538: Guided Decompression
The Assignment: Get someone from tense to chill.

Step 1: Your goal with this piece is to guide someone from a place of intense stress to something more sedate. Keep that in mind.

Step 2: A lot of meditation-oriented music takes the end point as the start. Consider that it can be jarring to listen to calm music when you are anything but calm.

Step 3: Compose a piece of music that starts in a state of accelerated tension, allows the listener to align their own tension with that of the music, and then slowly proceeds to calm down, until the music is sustainably peaceful.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0538: Guided Decompression

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2022 March April Juntos

Recorded on a train between Boston and New York, 31 Mar 2022, between 11:15am and 11:30am by Jimmy Lem for Blister Pop Unlimited.  

©2022 Jim Lemanowicz

This original version of "mice three mice mice" was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0535: Jigsaw Disjunction. Break a familiar melody into pieces and play it in a different sequence.

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Process notes -
This was recorded using Xynthesizr by Phonolynth, Eventide Ultratap, and Supergroup Audiosave within Audiobus 3 on an iPad Mini 4.

Xynthesizr allows the use of randomization and custom scales - my scale here consisted of only the first five notes of a major scale - do-re-mi-fa-sol.

This track was originally released under the artist name "Code Abandon."

mice three mice mice (disquiet0535)

Choosing fewer musical elements can be like shedding skin.

Recorded, mixed, released Apr 07 2022. 

Synths, effects, skin. 

©2022 Jim Lemanowicz

This original version of "Shedding Skin" was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0536: Metaphor Play. Take a favorite figure of speech as a  creative prompt.

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Originally released under the artist name of "Slant 7"

Shedding Skin (disquiet0536)

A short sound poem illustrating one sad sorry car horn surrounded by an uncaring and angry world. 

Synths, cars

Recorded, assembled, mixed and mastered 14-16 Apr 2022 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2022 Jim Lemanowicz

This original version of "Apologetically Horny" was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0537: Penitent Honk.  Do sound design for “a missing gesture” of vehicular life.

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This track was originally released under the artist name "Modern Crochet."

Apologetically Horny (disquiet0537)

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Dark & Light (disquiet0538)

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The I Never Tried Session by The Edibles (disquiet0538)

My submission for
Disquiet Junto Project 0538: Guided Decompression
The Assignment: Get someone from tense to chill.
More on this 538th weekly Disquiet Junto project at: https://disquiet.com/0538/
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Filtered Reality(disquiet0538)

I woke up with a simple idea - do the OPPOSITE of what I am supposed to do and then just reverse the whole track. 

Recorded, mixed & mastered 21/22 Apr 2022 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

Synths, birds, lawnmowers & effects.

©2022 Jim Lemanowicz

This original version of "Sleeping With A Grease" was submitted as part of ​Disquiet Junto Project 0538: Guided Decompression.  Get someone from tense to chill.

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This track was originally released under the artist name "Gossamer Horatio."

Sleeping With A Grease (disquiet0538)

Back in the Paleolithic Era, Suss Müsik had a day job in a print shop. It was stressful, physically demanding work; the craft of mechanical reproduction requires meticulous attention to detail and firm adherence to bulk scheduling. It was not uncommon for tensions to erupt during the course of a working day: yelling, crying, illness, threats, even the occasional fistfight.

Still, there was also something comforting about the work’s repetitive nature: an almost soothing glow that takes over the mind and body, not unlike the euphoria experienced during vigorous exercise. One felt a sense of camaraderie, of being an essential component of a successful process. We were merely cogs in a machine, yes, but it was our machine and together we cultivated an ability to convert stress into sedation.

Walter Benjamin (author of the seminal essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction) once wrote: “The relationship between life and purposefulness reveals itself, seemingly obvious yet almost beyond the grasp of the intellect, only if the ultimate purpose toward which all single functions tend is sought not in its own sphere but in a higher one.” This piece attempts to explore this process of manifestation.

A sonic facsimile of mechanical process was “played” using a simple melody. The same melody was then replicated using a “breathy” glass harmonium voice, amplified into a rhythmic synth pattern. The effect is calming by nature, its native rigor gently evolving while not disrupting the pattern. The glitched voiceover is a recording of a factory worker, describing how he had been given a warning after arriving at work three minutes late during a snowstorm.

The piece is entitled Jeckel, named in honor of a former coworker who sadly passed away in 2013. This effort is dedicated to the the laughs, frustrations and wisdom we shared during our time together.

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Jeckel [Disquiet0538]

I recorded loops of clangs, beats and, waves and ran them through fx chains to create a clamour, then stripped back the effects and samples.

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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Transition State (disquiet0538)

My wrist was hurting as a result of poor sleeping position choices - hence the title.  Every sound here originated with either my breath or the wind and no wrists were harmed during the making of this musical number.  

Recorded, mixed & mastered 28 Apr 2022 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2022 Jim Lemanowicz

This original version of "Gimme Some Wrist" was submitted as part of ​Disquiet Junto Project 0539: Control Breath. Let your slow breathing guide a piece of music.

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This track was originally released under the artist name "Melania Beta."

Gimme Some Wrist (disquiet0539)

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