Disquiet Junto Project 0515: Talking Cure
The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room.

Step 1. Imagine that you are about to consult a therapist. You are sitting in the waiting room of his/her/their office.

Step 2. Picture some comfortable chairs, abstract artworks on the wall, and some large plants in the corners of the room. The perfect music for this moment is playing out of a high quality, vintage-looking speaker. You are ready for your appointment.

Step 3. Create a piece of music that you imagine hearing in this situation. The duration of the piece is up to you. If you are OK with your work potentially being excerpted, please license it with a CC license that permits derivative works (i.e., any CC license that does not include ND, “no derivative works”).

Background: Selected results from this assignment will be included in the soundtrack of an experimental video series The Talking Cure, currently being produced by visual artists The Big Conversation Space. The Talking Cure will be projected in the group exhibition The Real Show at the contemporary art museum CAC Brétigny, France from January through April 2022 and broadcast on YouTube. The video series will also feature the Disquiet Junto through interviews with Marc Weidenbaum and other Disquiet Junto participants and supporters. The Junto participants whose work is included will be credited by name in the videos.

Disquiet Junto Project 0515: Talking Cure

Studio Noah creation on JUNO-Di Mobile Synthesizer

You Lied [disquiet0515]

For "Bardominium", I wanted a sound reminiscent of a Marpac Dohm noise machine, but with vague extras.  

This is the 40 second version.

To achieve this, I combined sections of tracks by my side group Aleodeology.  These tracks are titled "Aleodeological Travel", "Industrial Terminal", and "Significant Mallets".  I also mixed in a bunch of homemade loops created from the Korg IMS-20 iPad app .

More on this 515th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Talking Cure (The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room) — at: https://disquiet.com/0515/

Bardominium (disquiet0515)

For this challenge:
Disquiet Junto Project 0515: Talking Cure
Imagine that you are about to consult a therapist. You are sitting in the waiting room of his/her/their office.
Create a piece of music that you imagine hearing in this situation. 

I was recording ebow guitar today so did this jam, guitar, upright bass, ebow guitar, synths.
it was pure "free association", just played whatever came to my mind on top of the previous tracks.
Friday November 12th 2021

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little home video recording this:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CWOQ47JqJfc/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Let's Bring It Back To The Waiting Room (disquiet0515)

Sittin in the waiting room  listening to the radio. What i hear inside is not what comes from outside My schizo mind cooks another brew. Rehearses its own music.  Thank you, my brain. 

All sounds EMU Morpheus. Sequenced by Flame Six in a Row

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Image credit: Lamont Hall, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Waiting room, 1956. Public domain.

Image by The waiting room rehearsals

Waiting room rehearsals

waiting room rehearsals  disquiet 0515

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Image credit: Lamont Hall, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Waiting room, 1956. Public domain.

flank alight

halF talkinG [disquiet0515]

Talking Cure - disquiet0515

More on this 515th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Talking Cure (The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room) — at: https://disquiet.com/0515/

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Waiting For Dr. Godot (disquiet0515)

"The voice may well be the key to the presence of the present and to an unalloyed interiority, but it conceals in its bosom that inaudible object voice which disrupts both. (...) This object embodies the very impossibility of attaining auto-affection; it introduces a scission, a rupture in the middle of the full presence, and refers it to a void—but a void which is not simply a lack, an empty space; it is a void in which the voice comes to resonate."

(Mladen Dolar, The Voice and Nothing More, MIT Press, 2006)


This is my contribution to Disquiet Junto project #0515: Talking Cure. This week, the prompt consisted in creating a piece of music that you imagine hearing in a therapist's waiting room.

More on this 515th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Talking Cure (The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room) — at: https://disquiet.com/0515/

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Disquiet Junto #0515 - Talking Care

Le sujet-supposé-savoir (disquiet0515)

Track made for the disquiet junto challenge with the theme 'Talking Cure' - music for the psychotherapist’s waiting room...

IDEA
Like some of you I've had my experiences with psychotherapist’s and their waiting rooms. The first thing that came to mind: the biggest mistake is not to play music in the waiting room at all. Being alone with your thoughts, the soft murmur of someone behind the door, and maybe your nerves playing a part... So I wanted to come up with something soft (not aggregate like a jazzy elevator muzak). From fitting your sad, melancholy mindset to uplifting without being stupidly happy (like the ice cream truck jingle).

COMPO
I started with a simple chord progression around Emaj7. This goes round and round, with very little variation, but I feel this fits with being calm. I then played with a generative tool for a while. I took some of those bits and pulled out some melody ideas. Partially playing the melody in A over the Emajor gives it this uplifting feel.
The precussive parts are some melody and bass notes transposed and quantized, so this doesn't get too wild either.
All in all, I'm pretty happy with what came out.

GEAR
DAW: Samplitude X3
VST: Arturia Solina, TyrellN6, Decent Sample's PVCtube kontakt instument, stock plugins
image:stockphoto

Conversation [Disquiet0515]

Electronic composition.

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Image credit: Lamont Hall, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Waiting room, 1956. Public domain.

Waiting (disquiet0515)

A nice loop for a calm state of mind... this is my imagining of a waiting room designed to calm.

I played something nice on my synth and sent the midi to various other synth sounds... That was it, very simple but I like it!

Disquiet Junto Project 0515: Talking Cure
The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room.

Step 1. Imagine that you are about to consult a therapist. You are sitting in the waiting room of his/her/their office.

Step 2. Picture some comfortable chairs, abstract artworks on the wall, and some large plants in the corners of the room. The perfect music for this moment is playing out of a high quality, vintage-looking speaker. You are ready for your appointment.

Step 3. Create a piece of music that you imagine hearing in this situation. The duration of the piece is up to you. If you are OK with your work potentially being excerpted, please license it with a CC license that permits derivative works (i.e., any CC license that does not include ND, “no derivative works”).

Background: Selected results from this assignment will be included in the soundtrack of an experimental video series The Talking Cure, currently being produced by visual artists The Big Conversation Space. The Talking Cure will be projected in the group exhibition The Real Show at the contemporary art museum CAC Brétigny, France from January through April 2022 and broadcast on YouTube. The video series will also feature the Disquiet Junto through interviews with Marc Weidenbaum and other Disquiet Junto participants and supporters. The Junto participants whose work is included will be credited by name in the videos.

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Music ForThe Waiting Room [disquiet0515]

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More on this 515th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Talking Cure (The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room) — at: Disquiet Junto Project 0515: Talking Cure

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Image credit: Lamont Hall, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Waiting room, 1956. Public domain.

look after yourself (disquiet0515)

My attempt at interpreting and capturing some of the timbres and tonalities on JAB's amazing Erg Herbe, using my modular system.

Main voicing from Plaits in Harmonic Oscillator mode, with layers of field recording/room foley. 

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More on this 515th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Talking Cure (The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room) — at: Disquiet Junto Project 0515: Talking Cure

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Image credit: Lamont Hall, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Waiting room, 1956. Public domain.

disquiet0515 - bardo

My submission for
Disquiet Junto Project 0515: Talking Cure
The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room.
https://disquiet.com/0515/

Shairs

Shairs(disquiet0515)

While being aware that the sounds I find soothing might have the opposite effect on someone else, I imagined what I would hear in this context, rather than trying to create the perfect 'waiting room music' for the place.

I tried to picture the beginning of the piece almost as 'mental noise', being slowly lulled as the piano loop gets louder.

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More on this 515th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Talking Cure (The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room) — at: https://disquiet.com/0515/

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

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Image credit: Lamont Hall, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Waiting room, 1956. Public domain.

something to tame - disquiet0515

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Waiting Room (disquiet0515)

In their excellent book Healing At The Speed Of Sound, Don Campbell and Alex Doman mention how hospitals are experimenting with “[hiring] trained professionals [who] know how to harmonize with the sonic environment, mask ambient noise, and otherwise shape the auditory environment.”

Although numerous studies have been done on the benefits of sound design in clinical settings, Suss Müsik decided to seek some expert opinions. 

Suss Müsik consulted with two friends for this project: one a mental health professional, the other living with the after-effects of a traumatic brain injury suffered a few years ago. 

Both agreed that music is preferable to silence when sitting in the waiting area of a therapist’s office. Although neither had any interest in pop or rock music, there wasn’t much support for strictly ambient, shapeless, Enoesque soundscapes either. “I need something that rewards my attention if I choose to actively listen to it,” insisted the friend with a TBI, “I’m also fine if it recedes pleasantly into the background.”  

The therapist friend echoed this sentiment, equating the music in a waiting room to the sonic equivalent of a fishtank. “There’s movement, light, shadow, and depth, but nothing that distracts or causes anxiety. The last thing we want is the environment causing mental or emotional friction. Something that functions well with natural light.”

For this short piece, Suss Müsik sought to create an actively calm, pleasantly busy soundscape.  Something that rewards limited attention, settles into ambience when necessary, and serves as the auditory fishtank we all need from time to time.

The piece is titled Plume and named after Jenny Plume, a Nashville songwriter who created a music therapy program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and in 2013 released a CD of their works.

This work is licensed under Creative Commons BY 4.0, which allows any remix, adaptation or derivative works from the original. If you like it, have at it.

More on this 515th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Talking Cure (The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room) — at: https://disquiet.com/0515/

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Plume [Disquiet0515]

Disquiet Junto Project 0515: Talking Cure. The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room.

Dr. Bellows does not have a waiting room, instead patients walk a roughly long way in dark corridors, accompanied by presumably non-violent music. Afterwards, many usually feel like talking.  Some, however, prefer to stay in the corridors…

The originally intended track title was "keep calm", so I started with Gongs and euclidian rhythms. I felt the Gongs to be too percussive and a lot of work went into softening the percussive character. My wife listened to the music and found it dark (I do not, I really enjoy this). So maybe this is some kind of sinister psychotherapist …

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More on this 515th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Talking Cure (The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room) — at: https://disquiet.com/0515/

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Track image based on PD photo by Charles Deluvio on Unsplash

Your Walk To Dr Bellows [disquiet0515]

Imagine that you are about to consult a therapist. You are sitting in the waiting room of his/her/their office. Picture some comfortable chairs, abstract artworks on the wall, and some large plants in the corners of the room. You are ready for your appointment.

*Gear*

* Ableton Live 11 Standard
* Arturia Keylab 61 mkii
* Moog Werkstaat-01
* Korg SQ-1 Sequencer
* Audacity 3

*Instruments*

* Heinbach - Landfill Totems - Kling: Malfunctions
  * Inspired by Nature - Bouncy Notes
  * Ableton MIDI Effects - Scale
  * Valhalla Space Modulator
  * Valhalla Freq Echo
* Moog Werkstaat-01 (custom patch)
  * Valhalla Super Massive
* Ableton C78 Bullet Kit
  * Arturia Rev INTENSITY
* ChowDSP Chow Tape Model

talking cure [disquiet0515 / novembeat 2021.13]

More on this 515th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Talking Cure (The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room) — at: Disquiet Junto Project 0515: Talking Cure

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

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Image credit: Lamont Hall, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Waiting room, 1956. Public domain.

The Talking Cure (Disquiet0515)

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.