Disquiet Junto Project 0683: Space Shot
The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant.

There is just one step to this project. Record a piece of music in which half of the material is recorded in a highly reverberant space (or has spaciousness applied to it through effects) and half of the material is just sound in isolation, devoid of any sense of space or place.

Deadline: Monday, February 3, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0683

Disquiet Junto Project 0683: Space Shot

Tracks recorded for Disquiet Junto assignments and shared on the lines threads (at http://llllllll.co)

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More on the 683rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Space Shot — The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant — at https://disquiet.com/0683/

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Recorded, mixed & mastered on 10 Aug 2018, 02 Sep 2018 & 30 Jan 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA & Union Square, NYC, USA. 

Beer bottle, Korg Monotron Delay, grains, emulated springs. 

Artwork/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, near the corner of 8th Ave & 44th St, NYC, USA - 31 Jan 2018

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “My Boots Are Filled With Spacey Eyes” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0683: Space Shot. The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant.

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My Boots Are Filled With Spacey Eyes (disquiet0683)

Disquiet Junto prompt 0683 instructed us to make a piece of music that is half in space and half not in space.

Radio waves travel at the speed of light, and when the first radio transmission crossed the Atlantic it was said that distance had been abolished. Without distance, there's no space. So half of the song is a story that takes place on a radio, and is about a radio, and was performed in part on a radio, removed from place and space.

There are no synthesizers or synthetic samples in this piece. Instrumentation was a heavily processed guitar played with ebow, a Schechter Damien 7-string guitar, shortwave radio, shoebox cassette recorder, and field recordings. The radio noises and vocal parts are removed from space through a custom convolution reverb I created using a spike of low-frequency AM noise as an impulse response, essentially placing the sounds in the ionosphere.

The story I tell in the song is true.

More on the 683rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Space Shot — The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant — at https://disquiet.com/0683/

Soft, Driven, Slow, and Mad (disquiet0683)

An electronic sequence created in Pure Data with additional gradual panning and reverb.

More on the 683rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Space Shot — The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant — at https://disquiet.com/0683/

Panned and Spaced Out (disquiet0683)

More on the 683rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Space Shot — The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant — at https://disquiet.com/0683/

This is five channels of earthquake synth by David Hilowitz (four pads and one drum) partly into Norns RPLS and several reverbs. Also a field recording. Halfway through the reverb is completely of. It still sounds roomy though, so I consider this a bit of a failure. Maybe it’s the earthquake synth that needs (and creates) space? I guess an earthquake does not fit into a shoebox... 

Disquiet0683 - Earthquake in a Shoebox

looping snippets from a previous recording (not in time hence the wonkiness) + heavily modulated rings (fed particle noise). manually going into fully wet delay+reverb and fully dry.

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More on the 683rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Space Shot — The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant — at https://disquiet.com/0683/

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My first Disquiet Junto submission. Recorded samples of ice in glass, which are then played back in various capacities on a modular synth.

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More on this 418th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Ice-Nine / The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something of it — at:

https://disquiet.com/0418/

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https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

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https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0418-ice-nine/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet 1 for Slack inclusion.

disquiet0418 - crystal lattice

Thanks so much for everybody who took the effort to provide these samples - it's been fun working with them! My approach was to select some of my favourite samples, and prepare by creating a looped version of each. I then transferred them to modules with sample playback capability on my modular system. The looped samples create a slowly moving bed with the non-looped ones triggered at different pitches with a short envelope. 

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More on this 419th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Dischoir / The Assignment: Make music from 100+ vocal samples of held syllables by members of the Disquiet Junto — at:

https://disquiet.com/0419/ 2

This all came about as a result of something Alan Bland mentioned on the Junto Slack. He pointed out that my having misspelled Disquiet as “Disquier” in the December 19, 2019, project title made him think of “Dischoir,” a possible Junto project. Thanks to Alan and to Jason Wehmhoener for helping me think this project through, and to everyone (over 50 contributors) who sent in samples.

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0419-dischoir/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this track is by Joe Lencioni, and is used (image cropped, text added) via Flickr thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/8Bk9Rx 1

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disquiet0419 - araucana

Process was fairly on the nose with a literal interpretation of the assignment - three separate oscillators, each going through its own envelope, manually triggered to create overlapping sequence 1-2-3-2. Manually playing the filter in accordance with general brightness level increasing from 1-2-3 then back down from 3-2 again. Some randomly phasing modulation and soaked in resonating feedback.

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More on this 420th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Luna Tick / The Assignment: Make music that proceeds according to the phases of the moon, in celebration of Lunar New Year — at:

https://disquiet.com/0420/

Thanks to George Kelly, whose suggestion inspired this project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 1:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0420-luna-tick/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet 1 for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this track is by Manu Mejias, and is used (image cropped, text added) via Flickr thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/sURFV7

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disquiet0420 - third quarter

I went for a sample based approach for this - the two sources used are

* BBC Sound Effects (http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk) / Cine Projectors / An 8 mm projector running at 24 f.p.s.
* sfsma / PianOrgaN Film Books of Incidental Music, Vol. 1: Grotesque and Comedy Music (https://www.sfsma.org/ARK/22915/pianorgan-film-books-of-incidental-music-vol-1-grotesque-and-comedy-music/) / Jewish-Irish Comedy Theme (http://www.sfsma.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Grotesque-2.aif)

I then played these through my modular system, manually fading in and out and slowing down, combined with live contact mic noises and ambiance from a background loop (also from BBC Sound Effects, lost the exact reference), all into generous reverb.

Apologies to the Caretaker.

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More on this 421st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Marquee Ghosts / The Assignment: What sounds haunt a discarded movie theater in the middle of the night? — at:

https://disquiet.com/0421/

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https://disquiet.com/junto/

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https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0421-marquee-ghosts/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

disquiet0421 - grotesque projector (with apologies to the caretaker)

Recording the sounds outside the top floor window at 7AM on Friday morning with my DR-05X - minimal processing (EQing only). Mainly birdsong, light distant traffic, and some faraway sounds of the rubbish bins being collected.

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More on this 436th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0436: Planetary Headspace — The Assignment: Share a recording of your local environment to create a communal soundscape — at:

https://disquiet.com/0436/

This project is a collaboration with the artist and experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

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There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

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