My fifth album and I'm also playing with circles of fifths for the music theory nerds out there. 

When I was playing with different tunings, and finding different cycles in how I was changing the keys on my lever harp, I started seeing all the different harmonies that can come from it, in a way that keeps going and going, just like life.

Tracklist:

1. Elements

2. Magic

3. Senses

Quintessence

My compilation album! Some edited and remixed tracks from the previous five to make something new!

1. Gold (from Permanently Transient)
   a. Mixed with Vapor (Hydrosphere)

2. Black Sun (from Sun Day)

3. Resolution (from Hope for the New Year)

4. Magic (from Quintessence)

5. Dusk (from Permanently Transient)

6. Rainbow (from Hydrosphere)

7. Solstice (from Sun Day)

8. Aurora (from Permanently Transient)

9. Growth (from Hydrosphere)

10. New Year (from Hope for the New Year)

11. Comets/Stardust (from Permanently Transient)

12. Elements (from Quintessence)

Moods

Composed and performed by DD, early 2025
Ukuleles, charango, ronroco, bass pulse

Photo by Andrew Small

for https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0684-early-bird

Lightness - disquiet0684

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 06 Feb 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, reverb, echo. 

Artwork/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, 12 Mar 2016, Massapequa, NY, USA

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “Decaying A Little More Each Day” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0684: Early Bird. The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening.

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

More on the 684th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Early Bird — The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening — at https://disquiet.com/0684/

Decaying A Little More Each Day (disquiet0684)

In response to this week's @disquiet projetc, using six Alchemy presets on Logic Pro X I tried to capture that brief moment after dreaming upon awakening. More on the 684th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Early Bird — The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening — at https://disquiet.com/0684/

early bird (disquiet0684)

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data and Audacity with numerous adjustments, effects, etc.
More on the 684th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Early Bird — The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening — at https://disquiet.com/0684/

Escape from Hypnos (disquiet0684)

Submission for Disquiet Junto 0684. Synths from Pure Data and Ableton. Field Recordings by me: dawn chorus in Humboldt State park, cottonwood leaves on the Van Duzen river, Cicadas on the Tsitsikamma Trail, South Africa, sounds of the Tilburg Textile Museum artists' workspace.

early birds (disquiet0684)

Recorded as part of the 684th disquiet junto: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0684-early-bird

This entry is for someone who I’m very close with who is a long way from home and waking up in unfamiliar surroundings. I hope this playful little track offers a moment of escapism when waking up & adds a lightness to their day.

>Step 1: You are going to record a piece of music intended for someone to listen to almost immediately upon waking up. Think about your mornings, and what a more optimal morning might entail.

> Step 2: Consider a scenario in which someone wakes up and, rather than look at their work or check the news, they take a period of time to just get centered. Think about how long you might want this to take, say three minutes, or five minutes, or twenty minutes.

+ other steps

Recorded with stock Ableton devices

Early Bird (disquiet0684)

This week, members of the Disquiet Junto were invited to make a piece of music intended for listening to while awakening from sleep. My first thought was, "I'm going to try really hard to not make this creepy." Was I successful?

The title is an anagram of my full name— how cool is that? My composition is, as Bjork might say, not only musical but scientifical. I'm using binaural mixing to create a 6Hz oscillation that slowly transitions from theta waves to alpha waves, providing neural feedback that guides the listener from a  meditative state to a calmly wakeful one. Note that you can only experience this effect using headphones.

This track features many layers of evolving pads, gentle ebow guitar, and integrated field recordings. You might be surprised at which ones are which. The vocals are organic. 

Please tell me it's not creepy.

More on the 684th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Early Bird — The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening — at https://disquiet.com/0684/

A Dream Like an Echo (disquiet0684)

More on the 684th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Early Bird — The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening — at https://disquiet.com/0684/

For this week’s assignment I wanted to capture not only the tranquility of waking up but also the anxiety. The track’s volume builds – reflecting one’s journey back into consciousness – and there’s a presence of dissonance and tension that is perhaps the anxiety of facing another day (carryover stress from the day before). However, within that dissonance you can hear a steady determination break through – this is the individual taking control of their power, their peace – and then the tension dissipates, the person fully awake and also empowered. Their phone alarm goes off at the end, gently. As I was writing this on my akai mpk mini, the sun was rising over New York City and gleaming through the windows of my Jersey City apartment — almost in sync with the rising tension of the keys. I felt like the sun and I were in tune with one another – that I was playing with the sun.

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