The vocals fit the mood love that piano and the richly evolving drone!

Expectation

Neon Brown

Desolate street at dawn
Last night’s turmoil
Whispers in the wind

Haiku by Marco Sebastiano Alessi https://www.naviarrecords.com

street at dawn [naviarhaiku493]

This is based on a chord progression/melody I came up a few months ago. Added a few arpeggios and field recordings, and pushed everything through some nice moog-style ladder filters and saturation plugins.*

The footsteps you hear are taken from a field recording of me walking through Finnish snow :)

*Arturia Filter MINI and Klanghelm SDDR

...like glaciers

20230810-02

子猫大捜査線(Securing kittens)

Undercurrent (featuring Amy Bell)

[naviarhaiku512] endless echo

Sinny: shaker, tambourine, cowbell, samboga blocks, rattle, hamper, iKaossilator and SpaceCraft apps, synth and xylophone programming

InspectorJ: rooster sample

More on this 618th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Burying the Lede (The Assignment: Turn old news into new music), at: https://disquiet.com/0618/

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Pumpkin Poaching (disquiet0618)

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

More on this 619th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beat Accrual (The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch), at: https://disquiet.com/0619/

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Euclidean Dub [disquiet0619]

Recorded, mixed & mastered 08-10 Nov 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2023 Jim Lemanowicz

Process notes

First day -

- Not intending this to be for the next Junto - it was Wednesday - I decided to program a samba beat in FL Studio from a book of drum patterns for four percussion instruments and then added a second snare. 
- Nothing especially out of the ordinary, it just felt like practice. I went to sleep wondering if I could take it apart somehow.

Second day -

- Spent probably too much time getting MIDI out of FL and into Ableton Live.
- I used a template that I developed last June for this particular concept, (”band”), I call Smile Puppy I used this concept for Juntos 0546 and 0599. This concept started for me in a very primitive way in FL 3.5 back in 2001-ish, so I always try to include FL somehow, so it seemed natural to use that concept name.
- Juggled the percussion tracks to have the thing build as it went, with some open spots too. Didn’t want to be linear, it felt less musical to me.
- My template included a track for raw audio that I removed and a track with a marimba sound and another one with an Operator pluck sound.
- I used a Max For Live thing called TreeSEQ by Gross9978 to generate the notes for the two melodic tracks, with the pluck aiming for the bass sounds. I then captured these two parts in two MIDI receiver tracks.
- I liked the pluck sound but not for bass. It didn’t have any hint of bass oomph and what can I say, I’m really fussy with bass.
- So I duplicated the bass part and with some messing around, I found something in Kontakt that was more bass-sounding to me but also a little off. That was it, I was going to stick with that.
- I took the original bass part, cut it in half, increased the octave I was in and half timed it as a solo near the end of the track. I also processed it with some of Live’s guitar-oriented effects but also a gate to gently tame it. Still it eventually took over without any intention from me and I liked that happy accident for an ending.

Update - third day 11/10
- after posting, I was not happy with the balance and I did another mix.

Artwork: Penn Station, NYC 17 Dec 2010, by Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of "I Am As Dry As A Fish" was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0619: Beat Accrual. The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch.

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This track was originally released under the artist name "Smile Puppy."

I Am As Dry As A Fish (disquiet0619)

I started playing around with digital music creation in my early twenties, but I have always been haunted by a quote from Theo Parrish who said that he is "not comfortable with convenience replacing artistry", meaning that you need to put effort into learning and mastering the skills in order to bring something good. I studied computer science and have a passion for logics and programming and somehow my lack of any musical background has kept me from publishing any of my works.

Many years later I got inspired by an interview with Thomas Fehlmann where he explained how the focus in his work is not on the result so much but on the process itself. How the process is a "source of expression" and something he just feels he has to do. This resonated with me and I realised that it's ok to be an autodidact in music and it's ok to make music just for the sake of making music. I make music for me and if you, dear listener, like it along the way I'm very happy about that.

I am inspired by nature, natural processes and the interaction we have with them. Organic asymmetric fractal patterns that are rooted in logic but unpredictable as they express. How a particular stormy night can affect the shape and growth of a plant for years to come.

I use Bitwig Studio to create my tracks.

(I don't always respond with "thanks" to each comment but I read and appreciate all. If you have a question or really need a reply send me a message)

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