More on this 484th weekly Disquiet Junto project — A Movable Heart (The Assignment: Transplant the sounds of Chris Kallmyer’s wind chimes to a new location) — at: https://disquiet.com/0484/

More on Chris Kallmyer at: chriskallmyer.com.

Major thanks to Alex Hawthorn for support: alexhawthorn.com

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-0484-a-movable-heart/

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 Chris Kallmyer, used with his permission.

Disquiet Junto Project 0484: A Movable Heart

A Movable Heart - disquiet0484

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More on this 484th weekly Disquiet Junto project – A Movable Heart (The Assignment: Transplant the sounds of Chris Kallmyer’s wind chimes to a new location) – at:
https://disquiet.com/0484/

More on Chris Kallmyer at:
chriskallmyer.com.

Major thanks to Alex Hawthorn for support:
alexhawthorn.com

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-0484-a-movable-heart/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet 1 for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is by Chris Kallmyer, used with his permission.

The Bells Of Tent City(disquiet0484)

I used a light effects chain to create a little more space for the chimes to live in, and coupled that with a recording from the open window of my studio.  The effects chain was designed to complement the sounds of my neighborhood.

Brooklyn Morning[disquiet0484]

More on this 484th weekly Disquiet Junto project – A Movable Heart (The Assignment: Transplant the sounds of Chris Kallmyer’s wind chimes to a new location) – at:
https://disquiet.com/0484/

More on Chris Kallmyer at:
chriskallmyer.com

Major thanks to Alex Hawthorn for support:
alexhawthorn.com

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

Subscribe to project announcements here:
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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0484-a-movable-heart/

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 Pieter Kaufman and used with his permission.

Canal & Cassette Chimes (disquiet0484)

Recorded for Disquiet Junto 0484

I played the recording through a delay pedal and a reverb pedal, through my guitar amp, and recorded it from the other side of the room. I took that recording and put it through a granular synthesizer to create two additional layers, and fed those through more reverb.

More on this 484th weekly Disquiet Junto project – A Movable Heart (The Assignment: Transplant the sounds of Chris Kallmyer’s wind chimes to a new location) – at:
https://disquiet.com/0484/

More on Chris Kallmyer at:
chriskallmyer.com 1.

Major thanks to Alex Hawthorn for support:
alexhawthorn.com

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-0484-a-movable-heart/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet 1 for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is by Pieter Kaufman and used with the artist’s permission.

Unmarshalled [disquiet0484]

Using A Movable Heart for this week's disquiet project, I decided to play it through the bluetooth Jam speaker you see before you while I was prepping my lunch in the kitchen.  The whole point of is so that these wind chimes could journey all over the world.  Windchimes are always in the background of our lives so I thought it appropriate play the track and record it while I was making lunch. Remnants of said lunch are in the picture.  The windchime track really freaked out Lorraine, so I'm glad I got this to work in basically one take.

From Disquiet....
Artist Chris Kallmyer’s “Two hearts are better than one” is a pair of wind chimes, one of which is depicted in this week’s cover image, crisscrossing Los Angeles at the height of the pandemic. Installed at homes for week-long listening sessions, the chimes formed a duet across a city and provided intimate experiences with sound for 16 families sheltering at home. (More at chriskallmyer.com 2.)

Disquiet0484 A Movable Heart

My submission for
Disquiet Junto Project 0484: A Movable Heart
The Assignment: Transplant the sounds of Chris Kallmyer’s wind chimes to a new location.
https://disquiet.com/0484/

Moved In Time And Space (disquiet0484)

My contribution to the Disquiet Junto compositional challenge number 0484.

The Assignment: Transplant the sounds of Chris Kallmyer’s wind chimes to a new location.

I played the recording on the balcony at night and re-recorded it to add some natural sounds to it. It wasn't enough for me though. I added a recording of me in the bathroom using my electric tooth brush. Layered all of those recordings, pitched them down a bit and added lots of reverb and quick phasers to give the sound more crisp and spice.

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Kallch

Kallch (disquiet0484)

Disquiet Junto Project 0484: A Movable Heart. The Assignment: Transplant the sounds of Chris Kallmyer’s wind chimes to a new location.

I liked the assignment, because I just did a full album with only wind chimes in different compoundings. I transferred the recording (thanks to Chris!) to a portable speaker and took a stroll of around 5000 steps to a place in Munich, from which I hoped it could give some meditative ambience plus some natural reverb. Both wrong. Arriving at the underpass (Munich, Giesinger Berg), I already noticed that a place sounds different in the imagination than when you are at it (and whenever I crossed this underpass, I thought about recording something there). The bottom line is that there was more generic urban noises then expected and the natural reverb was quite unnatural, compared to VSTs ;-). Anyway, the recording used a Zoom H4n and I think it gives a pretty good impression of Chris' wind chimes in this place. The playback started not at the beginning, I don't know why, therefore the recording either, but it's a full loop.

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More on this 484th weekly Disquiet Junto project — A Movable Heart (The Assignment: Transplant the sounds of Chris Kallmyer’s wind chimes to a new location) — at: https://disquiet.com/0484/

More on Chris Kallmyer at: chriskallmyer.com.

Major thanks to Alex Hawthorn for support: alexhawthorn.com

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-0484-a-movable-heart/

Two Hearts At Giesing Underpass Munich [disquiet0484]

The original track with parallel recording, equally random, of noises made with stones & pebbles.

More on this 484th weekly Disquiet Junto project – A Movable Heart (The Assignment: Transplant the sounds of Chris Kallmyer’s wind chimes to a new location) – at:
https://disquiet.com/0484/

More on Chris Kallmyer at:
chriskallmyer.com 1.

Major thanks to Alex Hawthorn for support:
alexhawthorn.com

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-0484-a-movable-heart/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet 1 for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is by Chris Kallmyer, used with his permission.

Chimes & Stones (disquiet0484)

My response to the following Disquiet Junto (0484) brief of:
Transplant the sounds of Chris Kallmyer’s wind chimes to a new location.

First, some background: Artist Chris Kallmyer’s “Two hearts are better than one” is a pair of wind chimes, one of which is depicted in this week’s cover image, crisscrossing Los Angeles at the height of the pandemic. Installed at homes for week-long listening sessions, the chimes formed a duet across a city and provided intimate experiences with sound for 16 families sheltering at home. (More at chriskallmyer.com 6.)

Step 1: Chris has provided us with a recording of the wind chimes, a little over five minutes long. The audio was cleaned up by Alex Hawthorn to maximize the clarity of the chimes themselves, removing much of the background sound, thus situating the chimes in what might be thought of as a platonic space. Access the wav file at dropbox.com 16.

Step 2: You’ll be continuing the journey of this wind chime. You’ll do this by playing the wav file recording out loud somewhere you choose, and recording the sound of the wind chime in that environment.

Process:
I took a visit to our local seafront in Southsea, and walked out to the front from directly by the Yomper outside the Royal Marines Museum. It was a calm, bright day, the sea lapped rather that battered the shore. There were numerous dog walkers and people unsure of what I was doing. 
I play the wind chimes sample in question from an iPhone through a portable amplifier/speaker via an aux cable. This was positioned as close as possible to the shoreline. I setup the Tascam DR-40 on a small tripod and added some wind protection to the microphones.
I recorded the piece in one take and took it home to process. There was a little wind rumble that was tamed with RX5, and a couple peaks from the volume of the wind chimes that I calmed in CoolEditPro2. Other than that I was happy with the recording. I did another version in a local supermarket carpark, but it wasn't as interesting - maybe I'll upload that one later. 
It would be too easy to choose to process this further, but I wanted the final piece to be true to the moment/place it was played.

A Moveable Heart (Disquiet Junto 0484) disquiet0484

A recording of a pair of wind chimes provided by Chris Kallmyer played through a submersible speaker into the River Kelvin in Glasgow, Scotland. Recorded with a hydrophone, the river processing the chimes.
Thank you to Chris Kallmyer for the chimes and recording, Alex Hawthorn for audio tidying, and Marc Weidenbaum for his continued dedication to all things audio.
Apologies for the corny title. 

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"More on this 484th weekly Disquiet Junto project — A Movable Heart (The Assignment: Transplant the sounds of Chris Kallmyer’s wind chimes to a new location) — at: https://disquiet.com/0484/

More on Chris Kallmyer at: chriskallmyer.com.

Major thanks to Alex Hawthorn for support: alexhawthorn.com

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-0484-a-movable-heart/

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

The River Chimes In (disquiet0484)

Submission for Disquiet Junto 0484 - Moving Heart

- sound of wind chimes sampled to the SP404 and played back  with a bit of compression  - at dawn down by the river - captured through an old Zoom H1 into Norns with Otis playing quietly underneath with modulation on the direction and pan of the loops.
 
Bit of wind and glitch got in there too

moving heart at dawn - disquiet0484

I played 2hearts V3 Heavy.wav back over a Bluetooth® speaker in a three storey stairwell at work on Friday evening; work, you're going to probably be unsuprised to hear, is pretty quiet. It's a stairwell i'm quite enamoured of - when the heating's on it has a real Lynchian hiss to it - but at the moment it's almost comically unevenftul. You can hear my boots creak at one point, i'm sure, probably concerned that somebody from security was going to come by bewildered by the racket in the almost empty building.

I'm a lousy technician so the recording peaks about half-way through.

Thanks to Chris & Marc for this prompt; it was a lovely five minutes to inhabit i think.

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More on this 484th weekly Disquiet Junto project — A Movable Heart (The Assignment: Transplant the sounds of Chris Kallmyer’s wind chimes to a new location) — at: https://disquiet.com/0484/

More on Chris Kallmyer at: chriskallmyer.com.

Major thanks to Alex Hawthorn for support: alexhawthorn.com

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-0484-a-movable-heart/

Image associated with this project is by Pieter Kaufman and used with the artist’s permission.

2hearts V3 Heavy.wav [playback in a stairwell] [disquiet0484]

a moveable heart - disquiet0484

[disquiet0484] Bell

Bells On Chimes[disquiet0484]

**Production Notes**

Life in the city feels can feel monotonous during the pandemic. So my wife and I flee to my parent’s garden over the weekend whenever possible. 

I recorded Chris Kallmyer’s wind chimes with a plenty of ambience full of birds, bees, and cycling planes overhead. I’m still amazed what the little microphone of the Roland R 07 picks up – you can hear my wife talking roughly 20 meters away. 

Fun fact: I also used a wind chime at the exact same location for the  Disquiet Junto Aeolian Metrics assignment ([https://soundcloud.com/analoc/disquiet-junto-107-greifenberg)]

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**Disquiet Junto Project 0484: A Movable Heart**

The Assignment: Transplant the sounds of Chris Kallmyer’s wind chimes to a new location.

First, some background: Artist Chris Kallmyer’s “Two hearts are better than one” is a pair of wind chimes, one of which is depicted in this week’s cover image, crisscrossing Los Angeles at the height of the pandemic. Installed at homes for week-long listening sessions, the chimes formed a duet across a city and provided intimate experiences with sound for 16 families sheltering at home. (More at chriskallmyer.com.)

Step 1: Chris has provided us with a recording of the wind chimes, a little over five minutes long. The audio was cleaned up by Alex Hawthorn to maximize the clarity of the chimes themselves, removing much of the background sound, thus situating the chimes in what might be thought of as a platonic space. Access the wav file at dropbox.com.

Step 2: You’ll be continuing the journey of this wind chime. You’ll do this by playing the wav file recording out loud somewhere you choose, and recording the sound of the wind chime in that environment.

(...)

More on this 484th weekly Disquiet Junto project — A Movable Heart (The Assignment: Transplant the sounds of Chris Kallmyer’s wind chimes to a new location) — at: https://disquiet.com/0484/

More on Chris Kallmyer at: chriskallmyer.com.

Major thanks to Alex Hawthorn for support: alexhawthorn.com

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-0484-a-movable-heart/

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

Cosmea [disquiet0484]

Recorded Chris' wind chimes in the woods.

More on this 484th weekly Disquiet Junto project — A Movable Heart (The Assignment: Transplant the sounds of Chris Kallmyer’s wind chimes to a new location) — at: https://disquiet.com/0484/

More on Chris Kallmyer at: chriskallmyer.com.

Major thanks to Alex Hawthorn for support: alexhawthorn.com

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

A Movable Heart (disquiet0484)

Recording of the final spin of a load of washing whilst playing Chris Kallmyer's wind chimes through a contact speaker and tin resonators.
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More on this 484th weekly Disquiet Junto project – A Movable Heart (The Assignment: Transplant the sounds of Chris Kallmyer’s wind chimes to a new location) – at:
https://disquiet.com/0484/

More on Chris Kallmyer at:
chriskallmyer.com.

Major thanks to Alex Hawthorn for support:
alexhawthorn.com

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-0484-a-movable-heart/

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

wash (disquiet0484)

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.