“Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating,” John Cage said in his 1937 lecture, “The Future of Music: Credo.” He continued: “The sound of a truck at fifty miles per hour. Static between the stations. Rain. We want to capture and control these sounds, to use them, not as sound effects, but as musical instruments.” In this week’s Disquiet Junto project, we take the proposition literally.

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0479-truck-radio-rain/42403

Wherever Instruments (disquiet 0479)

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FRÉQUENCE FINE

Some sonic thoughts on the link between the Earth and the Universe.

From radio to RADIA : creating for the RADIA network a composed play of electromagnetic signals. 

With field recordings and electromagnetic reception recordings from around the world, here is a sonic drift about us, the earth and the universe, without much intention for narrative structure. I want to talk about the very little time we have left to make earth a better and peaceful world ; how fragile and wounded nature is, although still offering us pure moments of bliss ; waves link us together with everything. In the end, we are one with the world, time has no meaning, nothing comes first. All in all is all in one."

Gaïa drifting in the Sky

Gaïa Drifting in the Sky / Fréquence Fine

Source: https://www.tones.fm/loops/comfort

Comfort

WIP

We regret that you have waited so long. We have waited so long.

Mostly composed of hold music I listened to for an hour on the phone trying to reach Social Security after the death of my mother. I captured a couple minutes' worth on my cell phone off the speakerphone, complete with automated apologies for the wait and encouragements to stay on the line.

Later, I borrowed a friend's Cyclone Analogic BassBot and made some 303 honks towards the end. Respect always to Clyde Stubblefield, the original Funky Drummer whose supreme beat I have obviously copped and chopped and scronched here starting at about 12:24.

Waiting and waiting while listening to royalty-free pseudo-smooth-jazz seems like a good example of something-or-other I don't know what.

Pay-what-you-like RIGHT NOW! Just do it. Free is perfectly OK.

Do it over at the BandCamp: https://alliedmastercomputer.bandcamp.com/album/please-hold-please

Please/Hold/Please

DJ Wanderverein landing on Human King with mini-album "ROCKS"!

8x fully charged escapade techno & freiluft tanze hauz trax straight from Nikolaev Underground Sound Service! ☁️☁️☁️

Download the whole thing for free ⚠️ > > > https://humanking.bandcamp.com/album/rocks 🔌

ROCKS

FREE DOWNLOAD

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Conscience Empty

"Listening is and always has been at the core of The Quiet Club’s (Danny McCarthy & Mick O’Shea) work combined with their policy of not discussing the work before or after its performance this has been the hallmark of their practice. 

Unable to listen to each other perform during the Covid 19 Lockdown the duo resorted to Telepathic Listening. Uninterested in Zoom, Facetime etc. the duo decided to each perform in their own separate studio’s miles apart at a given time on appointed days for twenty minutes. The concept was that then the two recordings would be combined together unedited.

On June 16th 2020 (Bloomsday) the artists inspired by Joyce, performed separately but at the same time and the recordings were then combined together unedited to form Telepathic Lockdown Tape No 7.

There are several other works in the series including one which they both played at 4:33pm as a tribute to John Cage. Telepathic Lockdown Tape No 9."

The Telepathic Lockdown Tapes

TR079 - The Quiet Club - The Telepathic Lockdown Tapes [excerpt]

Live electronics created in Pure Data. 
The tempo is 60 bpm (4000 ms & parts thereof).
In this version the right-hand stereo track has been panned toward the left. If required or preferred, this process can easily be reversed by re-panning it toward the right.

More on this 472nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Jam Time (1 of 3) / The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio that others will complete — at:

https://disquiet.com/0472/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0472-jam-time/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is by Meg Jones, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/mDRT9 1

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Rhythm Sinister (disquiet0472)

The random number generator selected Michel Banabila's With Orphaned Loop (https://soundcloud.com/michel-banabila/with-orphaned-loop-disquiet-0473-placebo-effect-2-of-3?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0473).

I felt the piece sounded great already, but there was still room for percussion. I used something spare that I thought fitted the rhythms of the piece, and then introduced small variations, never more than one sound at a time. I added a granular plugin called Zerone which ramps up and then back down to zero in a slow rhythm. There is also a techno percussion loop slowed down to half-time that plays occasionally.

All of that work was maybe a bit too subtle, so as a last step I added a vocal sample from a public domain short film. Using it just once would have felt perhaps too arbitrary, so I dropped it in a second time.

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More on this 474th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Police Action (3 of 3) / The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians — at:

https://disquiet.com/0474/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0474-police-action/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

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