More on the 648th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Shadow Boxing — The Assignment: Employ shadow boxing as a musical metaphor — at https://disquiet.com/0648/

Sting Like A Bee (disquiet0648)

Disquiet Junto Project 0648: Shadow Boxing
The Assignment: Employ shadow boxing as a musical metaphor.

Step 1: Familiarize yourself with the concept of shadow boxing, in which one exercises as if there were an opponent.

Step 2: Record a piece of music that explores the idea of shadow boxing — of acting out an interaction, violent or otherwise, in which the opponent is imaginary.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0648” (no spaces/quotes) in the name of your track.

Upload: Post your track to a public account (SoundCloud preferred but by no means required). It’s best to focus on one track, but if you post more than one, clarify which is the “main” rendition.

Share: Post your track and a description/explanation at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0648-shadow-boxing/

Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you. How many rounds can you go?

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

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License: It’s preferred (but not required) to set your track as downloadable and allowing for attributed remixing (i.e., an attribution Creative Commons license).

Please Include When Posting Your Track:

More on the 648th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Shadow Boxing — The Assignment: Employ shadow boxing as a musical metaphor — at https://disquiet.com/0648/

Always shadow boxing - disquiet648

An electronic composition created in Pure Data using processes which include elements of indeterminacy and improvisation.

More on the 651st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Why Compute? — The Assignment: Respond to a prompt from George E. Lewis — at Disquiet Junto Project 0651: Why Compute? – Disquiet

The cover image for this project uses a photo by Ioan Sameli, thanks to a CC BY-SA 2.0 license; it’s been cropped and text has been added to it.

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Chance and Choice (disquiet0651)

More on the 651st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Why Compute? — The Assignment: Respond to a prompt from George E. Lewis — at https://disquiet.com/0651/

The cover image for this project uses a photo by Ioan Sameli, thanks to a CC BY-SA 2.0 license; it’s been cropped and text has been added to it.

nawak

Druidic random sampling_disquiet0651

I took Franziska Baumann's score and chose to read it left-to-right, top-to-bottom. However, I restricted myself to the first row of seven ideograms, mostly due to time constraints. I took each and transcribed the notes into Ableton and considered each to represent a bar. I then repeated the sequence six times with various instruments. I interpreted the smudges as harmonic distortion.

6 fifths (disquiet0654)

This week's Disquiet Junto introduced me to the work of Raymond Scott, beginning with his 3-volume "Soothing Sounds for Baby" and back and forth in time between The Quintette and Looney Tunes and Manhattan Research. I've got a lot of catching up on history to do.

I wanted to do something that was lovely and curious, a dark fairy tale, a sort of lullaby that evoked the clockwork precision of the songs on the Soothing Sounds records. I learned that Scott was the inventor of the sequencer, so I decided to use a hardware sequencer and analog circuits to create an homage. I tried to reflect the ostinato sequences, the wandering key changes, the intricately overlapping patterns, and the stiff improvisation that I heard in Scott's work.

All of the sounds came from a Roland JU-06A, the boutique reissue of the venerable Juno-60 and Juno-160. I also used that unit's 12-step sequencer to create each iteration of the ostinato pattern (through 7 key changes.)

I swear I tried not to use reverb. I swear I swear.

"Baby's First Harmonic Minor" is best enjoyed curled up under a soft blanket, nightlight aglow, with the hall light on and the bedroom door left open just a little bit. 

Recorded at NOSIGNAL Multimedia Lab in The Shambles. Chicago, USA.

More about this week's Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0655

Disquiet Junto

Baby's First Harmonic Minor (disquiet0655)

Soothing Sounds II — The Assignment: Make music for babies — at disquiet.com/0655/

Mostly Kontakt 6
Made extensive use of Outputs Portal effect

Siren For The Electric Baby - (Disquiet0655)

More on the 655th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Soothing Sounds II — The Assignment: Make music for babies — at https://disquiet.com/0655/

Ocean's Theme (disquiet0655)

Imagine a temple,
where only white azaleas bloom—
a pure white haven.

Sôen Nakagawa was a key figure in the transmission of Zen Buddhism from Japan to the Western world. His teachings emphasized the importance of direct experience and the integration of Zen philosophy into everyday life.

Haiku by Sôen Nakagawa: https://tricycle.org/magazine/endless-vow-zen-path-soen-nakagawa/

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

more halF unusuaL

halF purE [naviarhaiku551]

sound art for disquiet0657.

The sound sculpture in the image is a sort of nail violin. The nails are bowed with a violin bow and make breathy, plaintive sounding notes. I also used the violin bow on two cymbals and a broken saw blade screwed to a block of wood. The saw blade is responsible for the bending tones later on in the track.

Recorded with contact mics and no effects.

More on the 657th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Straight Edged — The Assignment: Held tones, sharp edges — at https://disquiet.com/0657/

the same word in different mouths (disquiet0657)

sound art for disquiet0658.

More on the 658th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Re-Amplify — The Assignment: Re-record and re-compose an organ improvisation by Daniel Glaus — at https://disquiet.com/0658/

Created some loops and played them through a bone conduction speaker. Then used the speaker as a vibration tool to resonate a plastic bottle that had once contained sparkling spring water. It was recorded it using a contact mic over the mouth of the bottle. Moving the speaker about by hand changes how it resonates, less pressure on the speaker will make it vibrate and buzz. Some EQing, but no further effects added.

flood of tears (disquiet0658)

Coraline Ada Ehmke composes, records, and produces original experiential music from NOSIGNAL Multimedia Lab in The Shambles, Chicago. The Hard Times has described her music as "creepy, haunted, but also a little bit uplifting."