My second contribution to Disquiet Junto, responding to the prompt "A Fresh Pair".

The prompt invited me to consider two disparate influences and bring them together somehow. I missed the word "cultural" in front of "influences" and assumed musical influences. I immediately had the seed of an idea: Gary Numan 1978 vs Gary Numan 2018.

Please enjoy "Splintered Android" with headphones, and be kind to your electric friends.

About Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/2023/12/14/disquiet-junto-project-0624-fresh-pair/

Disquiet Junto

Splintered Android (disquiet0624)

2025-08-31

frog congress

Kacper - guitar, Michał - bass guitar, Adam - drums, preparation.

"Lucifer's Tambourine"

Movement 3

If you scratch the surface, nothing is revealed

Live soundtrack of ‘Metropolis’ by Fritz Lang

https://www.instagram.com/p/DNxh2SE2Krm/?igsh=d2llMnB5MTF0bHI3

“Metropolis” live soundtrack

Soft Departure is a piece born from the need to preserve the inner fire in an environment where relational and professional dynamics tend to wear it down. It explores the gesture of quiet withdrawal, not dramatic, not reactive, simply the choice to stop investing where energy no longer flows. Built around a warm, enveloping bass played on my Crave, the track acts as a guiding thread through a soundscape that can be unstable at times. It evokes the act of staying present without being pulled in. A form of inner persistence in a noisy world. This is a work of conscious disengagement, a way of saying: “I’m still here, but I’m no longer playing the game.”  Soft Departure is also a tribute to those who choose to leave without noise, to step away without war, and to keep alive what doesn’t need to shout.

🙏🏻

Soft Departure

https://youtu.be/uzDQ8lTWz0I

TD3, Typhon, and S1. 

Movement 11

Moog Subharmonicon (chords) & DFAM (bells) with my DIY Minimoog clone (bass), all run through an Alesis Quadraverb – and some more FX in post.

Slumber

3/ De la folie jusqu’aux illuminations, les raccourcis abondent.

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barbeel

Last call for the end of time

I create original experimental, postpunk, and experiential music from my studio in Chicago. The Hard Times described my work as "creepy, haunted, but also a little bit uplifting." Prolific.

Splintered Android (disquiet0624)

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