Love the abrupt start and chaotic ensemble.

Love it. Like a complex adaptive system that won't adhere.

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 16 Jan 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Using an AI-generated drum generator I had put together this week, I generated some midi, used some for bass and some for drums. I won't get into too many details but the sustained sound is a bassoon or sample or something. It reminded me a little of Cale's viola on the first VU.

For this I thought of some innocent with headphones on...in some 80s shock suspense horror film out for a walk after an argument with the parents unaware that they were being followed by some evil thing. Kind of lulled away from intense emotion and zoning out to something not too engaging but not without movement. Maybe the result of the Walkman's radio dial getting stuck after the device was thrown.

This might sound contrived but as I was coming up with this I was thinking of David Lynch's Wild At Heart and the loop of Wicked Game in the car crash scene. This was about 45 min before I knew he had died. I am sad beyond belief.

Artwork/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, Massapequa, NY, USA - 11 Sep 2016

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “Mars In The Nondeterministic House” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0681: Drama Course. The Assignment: Record a piece of music to transform a walk or a run into something theatrical.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 681st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Drama Course — The Assignment: Record a piece of music to transform a walk or a run into something theatrical — at https://disquiet.com/0681/

Check the thread here for a screenshot of the AI "drum machine" (it doesn't actually make a sound, just a MIDI export but I do have a Max For Live version, too). It's influenced by "the current position of Mars." https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0681-drama-course/70495/3?u=blisterpop

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Mars In The Nondeterministic House (disquiet0681)

[disquiet0682] spectral bell

Composition pour le Naviar Haïku Music challenge 580.
Sur un haïku de Kawakami Fuhaku:

quiescence!
touching not the blossoms,
temple bell's voice

www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/


Temple quiescence

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 19 Feb 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, reverb, percussion, echo.

This original version of "Lollipop Tingle" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 581, Plunging My Hand 

plunging my hand
into the lake...
billowing clouds

by: Kobayashi Issa

Among the four great masters of Japanese haiku, Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828) was the most prolific: during his lifetime he wrote over 20,000 haiku, hundreds of tanka, and several haibun.

Artwork/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, 19 May 2023, Massapequa, NY, USA

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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

Lollipop Tingle (naviarhaiku581)

I totally LOVE this sign on a stairwell at Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire, UK, so I've enjoyed making it into a track! 😜 It looks to me like the figure is tap dancing down the stairs, so I've tried to capture that a little. Also, the stairs suggest a walking bass, but, as they are clearly falling or tripping, it (obviously) needed to be a little less step-wise! 😁

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/peak-district-derbyshire/kedleston-hall

More on the 688th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Sign Up — The Assignment: Interpret a routine public sign as a musical instruction — at https://disquiet.com/0688/

more halF unusuaL

halF triP [disquiet0688]

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 07 Mar 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA & Union Square, NYC, USA. 

Tenor sax, photo theremin, reverb, echo. 

Drawing/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, 9 Apr 2018, Massapequa, NY, USA

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “The Reason That Nobody Cares About” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0688: Sign Up. The Assignment: Interpret a routine public sign as a musical instruction.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 688th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Sign Up — The Assignment: Interpret a routine public sign as a musical instruction — at https://disquiet.com/0688

The Reason That Nobody Cares About (disquiet0688)

I see this sign everyday on my walk to the bus stop and it immediately came to mind when thinking of street signs. I took the sign to mean sounds that come one after the other, with no overlap, and challenged myself to create a track that is completely monophonic.

To do this I used Renoise and limited my self to only one track, I used samples from various sources, some that I had recorded, others rendered from Vital. Overall I think the limitation lead me to create something very unique and forced me to think outside of the box when writing rhythms and melodies.

single file [disquiet0688]

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 14 Mar 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, effects

This original version of "Never Burn" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 584, Heaven And Earth

heaven and earth:
neither exists apart from
snow fluttering down

by: Kajiwara Hashin

Kajiwara Hashin was born in 1864 and studied under Kyoshi. Although Hashin is not very well-known as a poet, this particular haiku that he wrote is quite popular worldwide: it was first translated by Miyamori Asataro and later by R. H. Blyth.

Drawing/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, 30 Mar 2017, West 46th St, NYC, USA

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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

#soundart #naviarhaiku #naviarhaiku584 #experimentalmusic #heaven #electronicmusic #sounddesign #ableton #burn #earth

Never Burn (naviarhaiku584)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 22 Mar 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA. 

Organ & effects

Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, 21 Mar 2025, Massapequa, NY, USA

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “The Buyer With The Asymmetrical Nose” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0690: Knot Bad. The Assignment: Interpret wood grain as a graphic score.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 690th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Knot Bad — The Assignment: Interpret wood grain as a graphic score — at https://disquiet.com/0690/

The Buyer With The Asymmetrical Nose (disquiet0690)

started in response to Haiku by Marc Sheridan,"  a splash of colour
cherry tree petals drifting
silently falling" NaviarHaiku https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/.    Track features sample instruments using recording of  playing the  'fins' of a computer heatsink and springs from an old couch.

bandcamp single

Life Inside A Drifting Petal (NaviarHaiku 585)

[disquiet0692] flick

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