New Arcadia

Inertion Point

they thought it would be better if he didn't know about it

Recorded, mixed & mastered 23 Oct 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

I put together three generative parts for this in Reason - using Monotone, Felt Instruments Lekko & Subtractor. I then moved over to Ableton Live and did some processing there - shifted each track slightly off-time by stretching. 

This original version of "Surfactant Is Cool" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 564, Fog clears Away…

Fog clears away:
the waterfall shows up
bit by bit.

by: Natsume Sōseki (Tr. Sōiku Shigematsu)

Undoubtedly one of the most important Japanese novelists in modern history, Natsume Sōseki began his career publishing haiku and renku poems in a number of newspapers and periodicals. Early in his career he met Masaoka Shiki, who encouraged him to become a writer and tutored him in the art of composing haiku.

Between 1900 and 1903 he studied at the UCL in London, but this proved to be quite a dramatic experience for the young Soseki. Despite this, when Soseki returned to Japan, he exploded into prolific writing activity.

Art by Jim Lemanowicz 19 Aug 2011, LIRR, NY, USA

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

Surfactant Is Cool (naviarhaiku564)


This week's Disquiet Junto, titled "Phonosynthesis", asked us to record music to help a forest grow. The prompt was inspired by a study that demonstrated the influence of music on fungal growth, like that of the mycelium that connect the roots of plants and trees.

I thought of a deep green primordial forest, and imagined the fractal entanglement of the thread-like mycelium lighting up like neurons as information, nutrients, water, and even electricity flow from tree to tree and plant to plant through this fungal internet. All communication requires a protocol; the entirety of the internet depends on one called TCP/IP. So what would the protocol for the mycelium communication network be like? And what would it sound like?

More about this week's Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0669


The Mycelium Protocol (disquiet0669)

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