Disquiet Junto Project 0622: Know the Shadow
The Assignment: How do you depict a shadow in sound?

Step 1: Think about what a shadow is.

Step 2: Think about how a shadow might be expressed in sound.

Step 3: Record a piece of music employing the ideas that arose in Step 2.

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, December 4, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, November 30, 2023.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0622: Know the Shadow

There's a 100% reverb setting on this - a shadow of the music you can't quite hear. See the (slightly disturbing) accompanying visuals @ https://youtu.be/pdBdZPYer60

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halF shadoW [disquiet0622]

The instruction was "Think about how a shadow might be expressed in sound.". Here in my recording I feature the reverb channel from a recently recorded guitar piece. In order to make it sound like a shadow I used an envelope follower that would modulate the sends of the signal feeding into the reverb. This has as an effect that the original sound appears to reflect into the reverb. I also pitched the resulting signal down by an octave so it sounds more dark.

(know the) Shadow

Disquiet Junto Project 0622: Know the Shadow
The Assignment: How do you depict a shadow in sound?

Step 1: Think about what a shadow is.

Step 2: Think about how a shadow might be expressed in sound.

Step 3: Record a piece of music employing the ideas that arose in Step 2.

The track notes for this Junto can be read here: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0622-know-the-shadow/65114/5

[Disquiet_Junto_0622] Three Joo Chiat Rain Sound Shadows

An electronic composition, sounds created in Pure Data.

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March of Shadows (disquiet0622)

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Know the Shadows

Disquiet Junto | Know the Shadows - disquiet0622

Depicting shadows in sound.

Recorded, mixed & mastered 14 Feb 1988, 30 Nov / 01 Dec 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

Synths, acoustic guitar, samples & effects

This original version of "Little Iodine Crack" was submitted as part of **Disquiet Junto Project 0622: Know the Shadow.** The Assignment: How do you depict a shadow in sound?

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/
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Artwork/photo by Jim Lemanowicz, 31 May 2017, Boston, MA, USA

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A newer mix of this piece was included on the 2024 album All Roads Lead To Jimmy Lem - 
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This track was originally released under the artist name "Lumber Mart."

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Little Iodine Crack (disquiet0622)

This is my entry for Disquiet Junto 0622. The prompt was a tough one this time: expresse the idea of a shadow in sound or in music.
I pondered that a shadow was the result of the impact of light on the environment, delineating the contours of an object present in its way. I thought that a process with some degree of equivalence could be found in the multiple reflexions of sound on the walls of a room. The "shadow" of the sound played in the room would be the reverberating part, minus the source itself.
Therefore I wrote a short, slow and atmospheric piece I played on my piano, side-chained the piano track to an ample, shimmer-like reverberation that I recorded on a separate track, and then built the final piece by alternating the source (the piano) and its shadow (its reverberating sound), first together, and then letting the source disappear to reveal only its reverberating "shadow".
I hope you like it !

Shadow of a Doubt (disquiet0622)

sound art for disquiet0622.

a stereo shadow.

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frozen shadows (disquiet0622)

"The shadow tonality"  (disquiet0622)

his was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0622: Know the Shadow

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0622 discussion thread:

Rather than thinking of shadows as a result of shapes blocking light, I went with an alternative definition of something, usually a person, that follows closely. In this case, similar melodies that follow each other. My goal was to create a piece that's repetitive and minimal.

Using an Arturia Keystep 37 and Novation Peak, I manually played three different tracks into Ableton Live at approximately the same tempo using different settings. I also recorded a track using Jogging House's new Tonal Drifts instrument pack. I stretched a couple sections so they would slowly drift out of phase. It's my interpretation of shadows getting longer as the afternoon sun moves lower down on the horizon. Not sure whether I'm 100% satisfied with how this turned out, but I enjoyed the process.
 
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Afternoon Shadows Till Dusk [disquiet0622]

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Midday Stocks Drifting (disquiet0622)

Shadow ( disquiet0622)

slow (disquiet0622)

It so happens that I was presenting some old time radio shows to my students as part of a course on media and narrative and among the examples was an excerpt from one of the The Shadow episodes. I sampled a few bits and given that noise from these old recordings, I decided to just go with an over saturated sound on all fronts. The moody synth drone comes from the Poly D and the rest are just manipulated sounds from the episode, with the exception of the screetch near the end. That is courtesy of the Terra. The result is a bit muddy for my liking, but perhaps in keeping with the fidelity of a 1940s recording.

Disquiet0622

I haven't made anything in a long time. Someone shared this Disquiet Junto challenge with me, and shadow seemed like something I could do.

In my head, I imagined "shadow" as something that follows. Not quite stalking or hunting, but close behind, reflecting whatever goes on within.

I aimed to include elements that "followed". One step (shadow step). Another step (shadow step). Far away. Echoes. Repetition (but slightly altered). Quiet mostly, but sometimes monstrous.

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Shadow behind (disquiet0622)

All Your Birthdays At Once (disquiet0622)

This was made for the #Disquiet Junto 0622 with the assignment: How do you depict a shadow in sound? A shadow is where the light is blocked, so to depict that in sound I would use a notch filter, I took one of my older works (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VXThYYBg-o) and fed it into a multimode filter. I recorded the output of the notch filter in the right channel and the output of the corresponding bandpassfilter in the left channel, so that you can hear what is in the shadow, so to speak. To appreciate better what is going on, you might like to listen to the left an right channel seperately.

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Know the shadow (disquiet0622)

Know The Shadow (disquiet0622)

In German there is no distinction between shadow and shade, so thinking about how a shadow sounds, I thought about how shadow/shade feels differently in different times of the year. In summer I seek shadow and enjoy spending time in it, in winter quite the opposite. I tried to express this in my piece with winter taking the first half (it’s winter outside… not too much of a fan as you might deduce from the sounds I chose).

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Disquiet0622 - Shadow/Shade/Schatten

The Assignment: How do you depict a shadow in sound? 
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Shadow (disquiet0622)

Marco Lucchi : piano and synthesizers
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for the current Disquiet Junto challenge
https://disquiet.com/2023/11/30/disquiet-junto-project-0622-know-the-shadow/
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4 dicembre 2023

Afterlife [disquiet # 0622]

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.