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Disquiet Junto Project 0455: Inner Invertebrate

Disquiet Challenge 455: A moment in the day of a Jellyfish.
Equipment used:
Qu-Bit Electronix Chord V1, Nebulae v2, Prism.
Random Source DUSG
2HP Mix
Endorphins Milky Way (Ping Pong Echo)
ALM HPO

Recorded in a single take to Ableton 10. Vallhalla Supermassive Reverb added plus EQ and Compression

Scanning An Ocean Of Sound (disquiet0455)

Live in the studio improvisation:
daniel diaz: electric bass guitar
andré charlier: drums

For this challenge:
Disquiet Junto Project 0455: Inner Invertebrate
The Assignment: What does a moment (or a day) in the life of a jellyfish sound like to a jellyfish?

I hate to be lazy and use something I was working on instead of something new sparked by the actual challenge, but sometimes time is our tyrant and I was fascinated by this forgotten masters, some live-in-the-studio improvisations with awesome French drummer André Charlier that I discovered some days ago.
Captured while we were warming up for a recording session years ago. This was on tape but never used nor listened to, and I've been taking some nice bits out of it for further use. These are all ad-lib, abstract and weird soundscapes, no groovy bass 'n drums at all.
This is an abstract, floating groove-less & creepy track.

And I think it fits the challenge perfectly cause, o be honest:

- Invertebrate folks listen to beat-less music, I'm pretty sure. 
- Jelly fish are creepy little  beings.


Photo by Daria Polishchuk


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invertebrate duet improvisation (disquiet0455)

Fast And Bulbous (disquiet 0455)

I don't know why, but I can't help to think that a moment in the live of a jellyfish would sound to the jellyfish like a Buchla under water.

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JellyBuchla [Disquiet0455]

A moment in the life of a jellyfish, as experienced by the jellyfish. In the spirit of a creature with no brain, I tried to not overthink this too much. I improvised on the Wave Evolve Pad preset on the Ableton Wavetable synth, randomized the filter cutoff with an LFO, ran it through the Planetarium preset on the Valhalla Supermassive reverb plug-in, added some pitched-down and reverbed bubbling sourced from freesound.org, and voila.

More on this 455th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Inner Invertebrate (The Assignment: What does a moment (or a day) in the life of a jellyfish sound like to a jellyfish?), at:

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Jellyfish (disquiet0455)

Process: The ocean is immense. Jellyfish are electric and long lived. The tracks had different cycles of repetition, with one (guitar) being unique. The drone is the current. It’s mating season?

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congregations

congregations #[(disquiet0455)]

Inner Invertebrate [disquiet0455]

A small mood-piece, resulting from this weeks Disquiet Junto Challenge, "Inner Invertebrate"

This piece includes some soundscapes, voltages and mangled samples of strings and bells - all put together to create something, that for me, seems "underwatery" and blubbery...

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disquiet0455 - silicon jellyfish

Field recording only! 

In French, a jellyfish is called a "méduse", like Medusa, the Gorgon in Greek mythology.

Free download

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Méduse [Disquiet0455]

A day in the life of a Jellyfish.

More on this 455th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Inner Invertebrate (The Assignment: What does a moment (or a day) in the life of a jellyfish sound like to a jellyfish?), at:

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Jellyfish Propulsion (disquiet0455)

The Assignment: What does a moment (or a day) in the life of a jellyfish sound like to a jellyfish?

Rings>Clouds 1st voice
Surface>Qpas>Mimeophon 2nd voice
Telharmonic>Ripples Swells
Sequence by Marbles (Latched)
Modulation by PNW


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Tides Turn Gently [Disquiet 0455]

from freesound 341854__nervousneal__morning-surf-at-boracay-philippines(1)
455214__matrixxx__stunned-03
351137__ylearkisto__helikopteri-ylilento-a-helicopter-low-overflight-rotor-bell-47g2-oh-mig
382293__lq4est__extended-space-01
More on this 455th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Inner Invertebrate (The Assignment: What does a moment (or a day) in the life of a jellyfish sound like to a jellyfish?), at:

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That's How Jellyfish Roll (disquiet0455)

Jellyfish have three essential life functions. They eat, have sex, then they die. The rest of the time, they simply float about the water trying to avoid being attacked by predators. It’s not a bad way to live.

The jellyfish mating ritual is typically the outcome of chance encounters experienced while drifting about the ocean currents. Think of it like aquatic low-speed dating in today’s pandemic climate, with potential partners randomly hooking up while trying to stay away from each other.

Suss Müsik considered the art of avoidance in developing this short piece. Two synth engines were modulated to allow their waveforms to “drift” unpredictably, with a small dollop of spring-reverse reverb to create a “bounceback” effect. An alternating pattern for fake dulcimer provides the melodic “current” that brings these two mates together. 

Jellyfish die not long after mating, and such is the case with this piece. A few brief piano notes symbolize the fertilization process and portend the coming demise. What once was clear becomes opaque and drops to the ocean floor.

The piece is titled Scyphozoa. The image is a public domain photograph by Lydia Jacobs.

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Scyphozoa [Disquiet0455]

Composed for Disquiet Junto 0455: Inner Invertebrate using Plogue Bidule with various plugins and an Akai MPK mini.

Cirri spread to depths
Undulating, languorous
Sensitively tuned

JellyOne_disquiet0455

The ghostly Rhizostoma luteum is a jellyfish so elusive that decades often pass without a single sighting. The creature was first discovered by naturalists in 1827, but it wasn't until 2013 – nearly 200 years later –  that the species was confirmed to be real. Read more about it here: https://www.earthtouchnews.com/oceans/oceans/it-took-200-years-to-prove-this-jellyfish-is-real-and-now-its-breeding-in-captivity/

I dug out an ancient track that had been a mutation of a piano track in a Soundcloud competition, back in the days of groups when we did stuff like that.

And further mutated it with reverse, reverb, The Mangle and remix.

And this is it. If you thought it was quiet down there in the depths, you can’t hear like a jellyfish…


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The Assignment: What does a moment (or a day) in the life of a jellyfish sound like to a jellyfish?

There is just one step:

Step 1: Compose a piece of sound/music that summons up what a moment, or an instance, or a day in the life of a jellyfish is like to the jellyfish.

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Rhizostoma luteum [disquiet0455]

Heavily processed modular session with Arturia Pigments, Audio Damage Phosphor and Xils 3 LE thrown in. Lots of reverb from Valhalla SuperMassive and Eventide Blackhole. Part of the modular recording was modulated with a rising saw wave, in Ableton, and distorted with AudioThing's Wave Box to create the supposed sound of Jellyfish.
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deep (disquiet0455)

Disquiet Junto Project 0455: Inner Invertebrate. The Assignment: What does a moment (or a day) in the life of a jellyfish sound like to a jellyfish?

I was doing another track, Andromeda Blossoming https://soundcloud.com/winterer/andromeda-blossoming-studio-version, which was originally not meant to be some kind of underwater track and which is made with the App Samplr on iPad with some of my own tracks plus some cc0 field recordings from freesounds. In this track, I more or less imaginated another evolution of 'the andromeda strain', one of my favourite sci fi movies, with its strange "unfolding" effect on the lab screens in the movie.

However, a lot of it's sound seemed to fit to this disquiet, so I removed anything un-jellyfishy and un-underwatery and did some new balancing of the components. This Cassiopea andromeda lives on the bottom of the sea and she looks up to the billowing world above her…

Image of a 'Cassiopea Andromeda' based on PD / CC0 photo by 'Vassil'
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cassiopea_andromeda_K%C3%B6ln_zoo_31122014_1.jpg
Thanks!

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Andromeda Blossoming (underwater remix) [disquiet0455]

A day in the life of a jellyfish, floating wherever the current takes it. I wanted to make something dreamy and relaxing, but also kinda fun! 

I used a bunch of Ableton packs for this - mainly Spectral Textures & Chop & Swing. 

Underwater sounds are courtesy of scratchikken and
CuddleNucks on freesound.org :)

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Medusozoa [Disquiet0455]

My idea was to base this piece around the Portuguese man o' war. On further research, I found out a man o' war not only is not a jellyfish,  it is also not an "it", but a "they"-- a colony of organisms working together.  I suppose I was napping during that part of Marine Biology class.  This piece embraces the idea of a young jellyfish and its sometimes fitful dream of being a mighty Portuguese man o' war.

More on this 455th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Inner Invertebrate (The Assignment: What does a moment (or a day) in the life of a jellyfish sound like to a jellyfish?), at:

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hohtaa {Disquiet0455}

Objective:
Compose a piece of sound/music that summons up what a moment, or an instance, or a day in the life of a jellyfish is like to the jellyfish.

Process: 
Set the scene by building vast openness. Long, slow evolving notes. With long attack times on the volume envelopes. No one is in a hurry here. 

Project bpm set to: 8.000.

Add subtle water sounds to give the feeling of being submerged. 

With the atmosphere set, time to add the jellies. They mainly open and close while drifting along. 

So I added constant side to side panning drift to my top layer synth. And a filter that slowly opens and closes as the note sounds. 

Then added another layer over that with different notes and panning. Sometimes one jelly passes by. Sometimes a few. 

Sometimes they're in unison.

And sometimes they're not.

Disquiet Junto

To Become Water [disquiet0455]

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.