Name: hapless colander [disquiet0724] by dandante in Disquiet Junto Project 0724: Work It
Duration: 3 min 54 s
Description: More on the 724th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Work It — The Assignment: The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do — at https://disquiet.com/0724/

Disquiet Junto Project 0724: Work It

The Assignment: The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do.

This week’s project is timely and open-ended. The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do.

Deadline: Monday, November 17, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0724

Disquiet Junto Project 0724: Work It

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

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

I’ve been meaning for ages now to make a track using only one single suite of plugins … and this week’s Disquiet Junto brief has finally inspired me into action! ALL of the sounds you hear in this track are courtesy of wonderful Sinevibes plugins, and it’s been really fun to explore more of what these genius little plugins can bring … with plenty more exploration to be had! @sinevibes

This track uses Torsion as the main synth source, with Diffusion also providing sounds from its wave shape modelling synth engine. As you can hear, I’ve gone slightly mad on the effects front! I’ve made use of Sinevibes’ Emission, Hexonator, Inertia, Luminance, Multitude, Cluster, Drift, Droplet, Octagon, Array, Zap, Albedo, Atom, and Dispersion …!

Enjoy! 😁🤗 It's been enjoyable, and there could easily have been a 20 minute version of this! 😂

More on the 724th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Work It — The Assignment: The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do — at https://disquiet.com/0724/.

more halF unusuaL

halF vibE [disquiet0724]

UN GAUCHO – solo bass

A simple, heartfelt solo bass piece — part of a series of intimate instrumental moments I play live or record at home for fun.
Five-string bass (high C), light effect pedals — just melody, warmth, and a great instrument.

Thanks for listening!
— dd

Photo (C) Elena Nicolai


For this @disquiet junto meeting
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Un Gaucho (disquiet0724)

Recorded, edited, mixed & mastered in 1996, & on 04 Nov 2019 & 14 Nov 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA.

Tape, time & effects

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 02 Oct 2009, microscope, Massapequa, NY, USA

Music & art © 1996, 2009, 2019, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “Audio Hog Rubber” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0724: Work It The Assignment: The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do.

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

More on the 724th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Work It — The Assignment: The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do — at https://disquiet.com/0724/.

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Audio Hog Rubber (disquiet0724)

My track notes regarding the creation of this track can be found here:

Disquiet Junto Project 0724: Work It
The Assignment: The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do.

This week’s project is timely and open-ended. The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do.

[Disquiet Junto 0724] The Search (early draft)

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0724: Work it. The Assignment: The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0724 discussion thread on Lines:

I have a tendency to overwork a track to the point where it drifts away from what I initially envisioned. Many times it works out okay but other times, it doesn’t. So this time I backed off and tried to keep it minimal, which was my original vision.

Created in Ableton Live using Slate + Ash Cycles and a MIDI keyboard

More on the 724th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Work It — The Assignment: The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do — at https://disquiet.com/0724/.

Remembering Stone Patterns [disquiet0724]

More on the 724th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Work It — The Assignment: The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do — at https://disquiet.com/0724/

hapless colander [disquiet0724]

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.

hapless colander [disquiet0724]

dandante

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