Name: disquiet0692 firewalkwithYOU by dandante in Disquiet Junto Project 0692: Combust a Move
Duration: 3 min 46 s
Description: More on the 692nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Combust a Move — The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track — at https://disquiet.com/0692/

As a statement of texture and unknown rhythms, this is pretty nice!

Disquiet Junto Project 0692: Combust a Move

The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track.

There is just one step for this project: Record a piece of music in which the sound of fire — match, burner, cigarette, etc. — provides the primary source for the rhythmic track.

. . .

Deadline: Monday, April 7, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details at https://disquiet.com/0692/

Disquiet Junto Project 0692: Combust a Move

Learned from a recording by Orange County Indiana fiddler, Ken Smelser. Notes on the album (Davis Unlimited 33022)state that Ken learned the tune from a Tommy Jackson record.

Ladies on a Flatboat

A tune composed by Oscar O. "Red" Wilson, of Bakersville, in western North Carolina. He was a fiddle maker and a performing bluegrass and old-time musician. In 2003 he received the North Carolina Heritage Award.  This version is after listening to recordings of Jason Cade and the band Hog-Eyed Man.  Artwork is an ink drawing of Red Wilson playing with Bruce Green. Art is by Lyndsay Wills Ferguson.

Grassy Creek

Ted Laderas is a scientist, a cellist, and electroacoustic composer. He combines cello performance techniques with sound processing techniques to expand the outer realms of the cello. Marc Wiedenbaum of Disquiet wrote of his work: “As mediated by Laderas’ bank of technology, the lone cello takes on a kind of serene majesty – sustained, rich, formidable.”

The tracks in Astoria came from a year-long project to produce an improvisation a week. They document not only my growth as a cellist, but my exploration of the electroacoustic possibilities of the cello. The year was filled with small triumphs, funerals, depression, and joy, punctuated with trips to Astoria, Oregon to recharge and recuperate.

The cello plays multiple roles in these tracks, from percussion to bass to contralto, layered together to form impossible ensembles through my use of looping, pitchshifting, and reverberation. Astoria is a confluence of lullabies, hymns, and chamber symphonies into a coherent and satisfying whole.

The OO-Ray - Palimpsests

Tune learned from a Buddy Thomas recording.
Peter Honig  -- fiddle
Dave Howard  --  guitar
1991

Short's Addition

More on the 690th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Knot Bad — The Assignment: Interpret wood grain as a graphic score — at https://disquiet.com/0690/

disquiet0690

This is the sound of my gas stove igniting -- spliced, looped, and filtered. The industrial tone of the piece is inspired by a variety of sources: Gilded Age/early 20th century sounds (factories, railroads, typewriters); the factories making the droid army in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and the Clone Wars series; the David Lynch film Eraserhead; Bjork's 2007 single "Earth Intruders," produced by Timbaland. 

More on the 692nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Combust a Move — The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track — at https://disquiet.com/0692/

disquiet0692

Edited, mixed & mastered on 03 Apr 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA. 

Synths, samples, piano, effects. 

This piece uses a few bits of samples from Craig Smith’s Vintage Fire pack, which was taken from nitrate optical recordings from the 1930s & 40s. 

(https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/packs/27308/)

Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, 07 Aug 2016, Massapequa, NY, USA

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “First National” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0692: Combust a Move. The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track.

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

More on the 692nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Combust a Move — The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track — at https://disquiet.com/0692/

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First National Dander (disquiet0692)

This track is made up exclusively of recordings of sounds made with matches - scraping, striking, rattling, etc, with extensive manipulations of pitch, tempo and dynamics, multiple repetitions and various fx.

More on the 692nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Combust a Move — The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track — at https://disquiet.com/0692/

Matchplay (disquiet0692)

Disquiet 0692 called for us to record the sound of fire and use it as a percussion layer in a composition.

I broke out my trusty stereo field recorder and captured the sounds of match strikes, a lighter, a gas stove, a gas furnace, and a wooden-wicked candle. I did minimal sonic processing on the samples, mainly touches of distortion here and there. All of the samples except the candle were loaded into a custom sampler set up and programmed as a drum kit. The drum pattern is supported by a full-length recording of the candle, processed rhythmically with a combination of a highly sensitive noise gate, beat breakers, step FX, delay, and quantization.

The percussion is the center of the piece, but there's also some vintage analog synth goodness in the background. All of the synth parts were played and manipulated on a Moog Minitaur, my current favorite desktop analog synth.

More on the 692nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Combust a Move — The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track — at https://disquiet.com/0692/

Candle Magick (disquiet0692)

This is my submission to this week's Disquiet Junto assignment.

More on the 692nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Combust a Move — The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track — at https://disquiet.com/0692/

Combustion Dub [disquiet0692]

More on the 692nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Combust a Move — The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track — at https://disquiet.com/0692/



disquiet0692 firewalkwithYOU

As the old saying goes, "it's Monday, May 19, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) somewhere!"  I downloaded "naphthous merenge" by dandante (https://soundcloud.com/dandante/naphthous-meringue-disquiet0697?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0697) and added a new part to it. I figured the original part felt like it had a lot of high and mid-range, so I added a bass part. I improvised a bass synth accompaniment, then nudged it forward a few milliseconds so it would feel more coordinated with the solo and less reactive. 
Then, I noticed the violin part had some buffer/stutter effects, so I added that to my accompaniment as well. I listened to the violin track and switched the stutter effect "on" for the bass track when I heard it in the violin track. This felt like a nice call and response, and I think it's a cool effect to hear it echoing panned extreme left and then extreme right.

The end result is roughly 177 bpm, if anybody wants to add to this!

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More on the 698th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Second Third — The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0698/

chopitch (quiet0698)

This is my second submission to this week's Disquiet Junto assignment. The audio panned all the way to the left was recorded by Matthew Mirliani as the first part of a trio. The right channel contains dandante's contribution for the second part of the trio. My contribution can be heard panned to the center.

More on the 699th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Third Third — The Assignment: Record the final third of a trio — at disquiet.com/0699/

Third Third Two [disquiet0699] w/Matthew Mirliani and Dandante

Ok this song is a remake of a song off my third album. Holly liked it and wanted to sing to it. So here we are! 

Prince April

PRTTYBY

Performed by Slee Sinfonietta, April 14, 2015; Brad Lubman, conductor; Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano.  In collaboration with the Buffalo Philharmonic as part of the "Charles Ives:  An American Maverick" Festival.

Lou Harrison - At the Tomb Iof Charles Ives

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

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