Disquiet Junto Project 0678: Commonplace Playlist
The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments.

As has become the tradition at the end of each calendar year, this week’s Junto project is a sound journal: a selective audio history of your past 12 months.

Step 1: You will select a different audio element to represent each of the past 12 months of 2024 — or you might opt for even more elements, choosing a segment for each week, or each day, for example. These audio elements will most likely be of music that you have yourself composed and recorded, but they might also consist of phone messages, field recordings, or other source material. These items should be somehow personal in nature, suitable to the autobiographical intention of the project; they should be of your own making, your own devising, and not drawn from third-party sources.

Step 2: You will then select one segment from each of these (most likely) dozen audio elements. If you’re doing a dozen items, one for each month, then five-second segments are recommended, for a total of one minute. Ultimately, though, the length of the segments and of the overall finished track are up to you.

Step 3: Then you will stitch these segments together, equally weighted, in chronological order to form one single track. There should be no overlap or gap between segments; they should simply proceed from one to the next.

Step 4: In the notes field accompanying the track, identify each of the audio segments.

Deadline: Monday, December 30, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0678

Disquiet Junto Project 0678: Commonplace Playlist

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

More on the 678th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Commonplace Playlist — The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments — at https://disquiet.com/0678/

Audio Journal 2024 [disquiet0678]

0:00 Janvier: dictaphone handpan
0:16 Février: synt D05
0:32 Mars: otis 210424
0:48 Avril: tape 0006
1:04 Mai: tape 0012
1:20 Juin: tape 0033
1:36 Juillet: 07 operator backup 11 
1:52 Août: zadar sea organ 26 août 17h40
2:08 Septembre: dt A10 sofia (C10)
2:24 Octobre: 10 operator backup 11
2:40 Novembre: electro-mechanical ventilation (VMC)
2:56 Décembre: dt Norda

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2024 sound journal disquiet0678

This is my 50th Disquiet Junto contribution of the year!

The final Disquiet Junto prompt of the year invited us to make a short audio journal of the music and sounds that we've made in 2024. Once again I took liberties with some of the specific instructions but I knew that I needed to make it this way.

Features synthetic vocals as well as excerpt from the following songs:

* "Making Ice at Home May Seem Overwhelming" (Coraline Ada Ehmke)
* "Someone (or Something)" (Coraline Ada Ehmke)
* "Black Rainbow" (Sudre's Violin)
* "The Whirlwind" (Sudre's Violin)
* "Darker Layter" (Sudre's Violin)
* "The Mod" (Coraline Ada Ehmke)
* "Theme for A People's History of Tech" (Coraline Ada Ehmke)
* "Byzantine Valentine" (Coraline Ada Ehmke)
* "Perilous Overtones" (Sudre's Violin)
* "Why Can't You Fly?" (Sudre's Violin)
* "The Untimely Death of JF Sebastian" (The Disaster Society)

More about this week's Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0678

Audio Journal 2024 (disquiet0678)

Check out the accompanying visuals at https://youtu.be/UA7ynWm0t74

Here are the links to full videos for each 10 second snippet, January to December 2024:

December 2024: https://youtu.be/f8gy5dZQX3M
November 2024: https://youtu.be/2AUEC9qD69U
October 2024: https://youtu.be/riLSFwyHed4
September 2024: https://youtu.be/72mXDi5sUeU
August 2024: https://youtu.be/Sp4ZHHzsAGc
July 2024: https://youtu.be/GWVLIyx5kMM
June 2024: https://youtu.be/asYHnyxSXZc
May 2024: https://youtu.be/YcUq1eRvUDA
April 2024: https://youtu.be/2WlUiN3crBQ
March 2024: https://youtu.be/2yy4OxpBybE
February 2024: https://youtu.be/8-DOBssq2So
January 2024: https://youtu.be/2SJWl-c4LOQ

More on the 678th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Commonplace Playlist — The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments — at https://disquiet.com/0678/

Year's end,
all corners
of this floating world, swept.

The final poem of the year is by the greatest haiku master of all.

Haiku by Matsuo Bashō (translated by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto): https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/basho

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

visuals (YouTube)

halF annuaL [disquiet0678] [naviarhaiku573]

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Disquiet Junto | Commonplace Playlist - disquiet0678

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My review consists of 12 parts, one for each month:
01 Track from Jamuary, named split in two halves 
02 Field recording from the local carnival.
03 Track Karbid / Schpokau, inspired by a documentary about a factory in the GDR.
04 Disquiet 0643
05 Field recording from a mountain village.
06 Disquiet 0651
07 Field recording form another mountain village.
08 Disquiet 0658
09 Disquiet 0661
10 Field recording from the seaside.
11 Track Something Slow For November
12 Disquiet 0677

Disquiet0678 - Rückblick

Adios 2024 (disquiet0678)

5 seconds from each month in 2024. mostly taken from unedited tascam recordings; april and june are field recordings, all others are mostly jams with my smaller eurorack palette case

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disquiet0678 - 2024 (60sec)

It's always fun to go back and listen to the music I created during the year and select twelve pieces for my year end sound journal. 2024 was a fairly sparse year for me, but I did manage to find twelve recordings. I've taken 5-second snippets of each recording and arranged them in chronological order into a one minute track. My work this year tended toward drone and experimental, with a bit of actual music here and there.

1. Moonrise (modular synth) performance for Colorado Modular Synth Society's January Skies space music concert
2. Jam (Deluge) short jam
3. Leap Chill (Deluge) Rocky Mountain Synth performance at Clancy's Irish Pub in Denver, Colorado
4. Lefty Drone (Solar 42) drone for the Disquiet Junto trio collaboration part 1
5. Solar Pressure (Solar 42) performance for Freq Boutique at Fort Greene Bar in Denver, Colorado
6. Solar Lights (Solar 42) hand waving to play music with the Solar 42 light sensor
7. Droning (Solar 42) space droning
8. Creatures (Solar 42) performance for the Rocky Mountain Synth International Drone Day stream 
9. Ghostly Electric (modular synth and trumpet) trying out a trumpet recording and processing technique
10. Come on Down (Microwave 1 VST) Disquiet Junto "666"
11. Alien Patch (modular synth) Colorado Modular Synth Society petting zoo at the University of Denver
12. Winter Solstice (modular synth) performance at the Rocky Mountain and Moray Firth Synth clubs winter solstice meetup

Thank you to the Disquiet Junto for encouraging me to make this retrospective every year, and for the music prompts throughout the year.

Replay 2024

Replay 2024 - Disquiet0678

Commonplace Playlist [disquiet0678]

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0678-commonplace-playlist/70171

disquiet0678

The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments.

As has become the tradition at the end of each calendar year, this week’s Junto project is a sound journal: a selective audio history of your past 12 months.

Step 1: You will select a different audio element to represent each of the past 12 months of 2024 — or you might opt for even more elements, choosing a segment for each week, or each day, for example. These audio elements will most likely be of music that you have yourself composed and recorded, but they might also consist of phone messages, field recordings, or other source material. These items should be somehow personal in nature, suitable to the autobiographical intention of the project; they should be of your own making, your own devising, and not drawn from third-party sources.

Step 2: You will then select one segment from each of these (most likely) dozen audio elements. If you’re doing a dozen items, one for each month, then five-second segments are recommended, for a total of one minute. Ultimately, though, the length of the segments and of the overall finished track are up to you.

Step 3: Then you will stitch these segments together, equally weighted, in chronological order to form one single track. There should be no overlap or gap between segments; they should simply proceed from one to the next.

Step 4: In the notes field accompanying the track, identify each of the audio segments.

More on the 678th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Commonplace Playlist — The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments — at https://disquiet.com/0678/

2024 [disquiet0678]

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0678: Commonplace Playlist. The assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0678 discussion thread on Lines:

This is my third year of participating in Disquiet Junto. Thank you to this community for information, guidance and inspiration this past year. I ended up completing 33 Disquiet Junto projects, along with 53 music/video works that were posted on YouTube, Instagram and Bandcamp channels. Here’s to a creative 2025! (Image by Michael Skok via Unsplash).

1. January: Magic Forest Friends
2. February: when they looked up – under the alias float_fields 
3. March: Alpha Cubic
4. April: Fibonacci Frolic and Flow – Disquiet Junto 0642
5. May: Quiet Gathering of Shy and Curious Introverts – Disquiet Junto 0644
6. June: Times to Come 
7. July: Waking in a Cool Cave
8. August: Past Illusions
9. September: Subconscious Relics – Disquiet Junto 0665
10. October: where to? – under the alias float_fields
11. November: fronds waving. – album released via Bandcamp and streaming platforms 
12. December: Nesting Lost Fragments

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12 From 24 [disquiet0678]

Audio Journal 2024, "Composing In the Gutter"

Jan: One for Nellie / Perfect Game (Moonlight Version)
Feb: Double Crossed
Mar: What Did I Just Witness
Apr: Michael Anderson / Freddy Anderson / Nancy Anderson
May: Rocky's Tune
Jun: Candles / Tokyo Wasn't Built In a Day / In a Dark Elevator
Jul: Tenner / Very Much Obliged / Switchblade
Aug: Don't Pull Back
Sep: The Cold Winds of Nothingness
Oct: O Canada
Nov: The Stompout (Sig Sounds stem)
Dec: Christmas In the Gutter (Demo)

Composing In the Gutter [disquiet0678]

**Disquiet Junto Project 0678: Commonplace Playlist**  
The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments.

As has become the tradition at the end of each calendar year, this week’s Junto project is a sound journal: a selective audio history of your past 12 months.

Lines link: 

My notes: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0678-commonplace-playlist/70171/19

Much like the previous year's assignment, the excerpts here are drawn from a variety of sources: phone recordings, hand-held recorders, specialised rigs, phone videos, an AudioMoth and a couple of Junto assignments.

A lot happened this year. From a creative standpoint it was one of the most creatively active periods I can remember, covering virtually every artistic outlet I wrap my practice around.

- 1. January - pipe knocking, work office building, Urrbrae.
- 2. February - drying seaweed at low tide, Little Gorge (Fleurieu Peninsula)
- 3. March - Lawrence English rings bell at Adelaide Festival of The Arts opening event, North Terrace, Adelaide. (audio extracted from phone video)
- 4. April - my installation work, Self Noise in-situ recording. *Neoterica* group exhibition, Adelaide Railway Station concourse.
- 5. May - guitar sketch, home.
- 6. June - mid-morning tide, Rapid Bay (Fleurieu Peninsula)
- 7. July - Junto 0655 excerpt.
- 8. August - Caffe on Bungala, Normanville (Fleurieu Peninsula)
- 9. September - Sulphur crested cockatoos on the way home from work, Urrbrae. (audio extracted from phone video)
- 10. October - Fleurieu Folk Festival ambience, Willunga. This is the end of a recording where a work colleague sees me and asks if I'm recording the surrounding ambience, which of course I am.
- 11. November - Junto 0670 excerpt.
- 12. December - AudioMoth recording of ultrasonic vocalisation from grey-headed flying fox passing over home in Parkside at 9:02pm, 20th December. Audio excerpt transposed down 36 semitones.

[Disquiet_Junto_0678] 2024 in summary

12 short snippets from music I created in 2024, one for each month - and that´s what it is about in the disquiet0678
includes several collaborations: 
4) with Tim Jones aka PENDRO
6) with Eric Jovet aka I, Eternal
8) with Deborah Fialkiewicz
10) with Christian Gonzalez aka Grosso Gadgetto
12) with Kosmische Clutharachán

My Year 2024(disquiet0678)

Wilfried Hanrath - My Year 2024(disquiet0678)

This is my sonic diary of the year 2024 - as inspired by this week's Disquiet Junto project (details see below). 
Every month is represented by one of the tracks that I published on SoundCloud in that month. All the tracks have a special importance for me - as a musical experience or for personal reasons.


The following tracks can be heard in this chronological order of appearance:
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/the-less-you-use-the-more-you-give
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/solitary-dance
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/the-train-of-thought
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/time-heals
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/for-the-one-i-love
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/lansallos
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/lantic-bay-concerto
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/random-thoughts-of-musical-bots
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/following-the-path
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/the-devil-comes-home-from-work
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/drive
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/mind-textures


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Sonic Diary 2024 (Disquiet0678)

disquiet0678 - Out with the Old in with thhe New

[disquiet0678] summed

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.