Disquiet Junto Project 0692: Combust a Move

The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track.

There is just one step for this project: Record a piece of music in which the sound of fire — match, burner, cigarette, etc. — provides the primary source for the rhythmic track.

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Deadline: Monday, April 7, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details at https://disquiet.com/0692/

Disquiet Junto Project 0692: Combust a Move

The rhythm track is created from the sounds of a lighter, striking a match and a crackling fire ...

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Disquiet Junto | Combust a Move - disquiet0692

This is the sound of my gas stove igniting -- spliced, looped, and filtered. The industrial tone of the piece is inspired by a variety of sources: Gilded Age/early 20th century sounds (factories, railroads, typewriters); the factories making the droid army in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and the Clone Wars series; the David Lynch film Eraserhead; Bjork's 2007 single "Earth Intruders," produced by Timbaland. 

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Edited, mixed & mastered on 03 Apr 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA. 

Synths, samples, piano, effects. 

This piece uses a few bits of samples from Craig Smith’s Vintage Fire pack, which was taken from nitrate optical recordings from the 1930s & 40s. 

(https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/packs/27308/)

Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, 07 Aug 2016, Massapequa, NY, USA

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “First National” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0692: Combust a Move. The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track.

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

More on the 692nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Combust a Move — The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track — at https://disquiet.com/0692/

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First National Dander (disquiet0692)

My track notes regarding the creation of this track can be found here: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0692-combust-a-move/71387/7

**Disquiet Junto Project 0692: Combust a Move**  
The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track.

There is just one step for this project: Record a piece of music in which the sound of fire — match, burner, cigarette, etc. — provides the primary source for the rhythmic track.

[Disquiet Junto 0692] Wentworth Callback

This track is made up exclusively of recordings of sounds made with matches - scraping, striking, rattling, etc, with extensive manipulations of pitch, tempo and dynamics, multiple repetitions and various fx.

More on the 692nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Combust a Move — The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track — at https://disquiet.com/0692/

Matchplay (disquiet0692)

Disquiet 0692 called for us to record the sound of fire and use it as a percussion layer in a composition.

I broke out my trusty stereo field recorder and captured the sounds of match strikes, a lighter, a gas stove, a gas furnace, and a wooden-wicked candle. I did minimal sonic processing on the samples, mainly touches of distortion here and there. All of the samples except the candle were loaded into a custom sampler set up and programmed as a drum kit. The drum pattern is supported by a full-length recording of the candle, processed rhythmically with a combination of a highly sensitive noise gate, beat breakers, step FX, delay, and quantization.

The percussion is the center of the piece, but there's also some vintage analog synth goodness in the background. All of the synth parts were played and manipulated on a Moog Minitaur, my current favorite desktop analog synth.

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Candle Magick (disquiet0692)

Sudden Combustion : my contribution to  Disquiet Junto Project 0962

Record a piece of music in which the sound of fire — match, burner, cigarette, etc. — provides the primary source for the rhythmic track.

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disquiet0692_suddencombustion

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

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Combustion Dub [disquiet0692]

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hey capt’n I don’t know if I’m allowed
hey capt’n years ago I’m walking

down a road one drunk night, even now I
wonder—sometimes still I

imagine—was I hit by a bus, am I stumbling am I   

dazed, this

dream this confession, hey
little girl is yr daddy home, hey capt’n hey

sir am I making any sense?

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the boy stood on the burning deck, stammering
elocution, wait—
the boy stood in the burning cage, stammering
electrocution, no—the boy stood in the hot-hot room
stammering I did stammering I did stammering I
did stammering I did stammering everything you say I did
I did.

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hey metallica hey britanny hey airless hey fuse
hey phonograph hey hades hey thoughtless hey

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capt’n this room is on fire
capt’n, this body will not stop burning
capt’n oh my captain this burning has become a body
capt’n oh my captain this child is ash
capt’n oh my captain my hands pass right through her
capt’n oh my captain I don’t know what it is I’m looking at

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it’s important to be precise, to say what
I know—

the sun is fire, the center of the earth
is fire, yr mother’s cunt is

fire, an airless flame, still, still, I don’t know why
she pushed me out, this cold-cold furnace, we all

were pushed, a rim of light around our heads, she
gave a kick, sent us crawling

out, toward the flame, toward the pit, the flaming
pit, yr lover’s
cunt, the flame her tongue, the flame

a thorn

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everyday, capt’n, sir, captain, I was
left, a child, after school, I was alone, I found

a match, under the sink I found a can, a spray
can, ly-sol dis-infectant, it made a

torch, I was careful the flame didn’t
enter the can, I knew it

would explode, somehow I knew, I’m
trying to be clear sir—the flame

shot across the room, then it was gone

fire (excerpt) By Nick Flynn (disquiet0692)

only sound source is a recording from my firepace, from a disquiet junto prompt.

i had a fireplace recording from recent months. for this one, some few minutes of fireplace crackle is the only sound source, as in the fire few seconds. sampled and sliced, then some heavy and not-so-heavy manipulation. i tried to let the spirit of the recording come through enough here and there.

fireplace [disquiet0692]

Uploaded as part of the Disquiet Junto 0692

"There is just one step for this project: Record a piece of music in which the sound of fire — match, burner, cigarette, etc. — provides the primary source for the rhythmic track."

The sound I chose for the fire was a field recording I'd made a few years ago in Brittany of a friend preparing a BBQ

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0692-combust-a-move/71387/16?u=mdh

Combust A Move (disquiet0692)

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disquiet0692 firewalkwithYOU

Disquiet Junto Project 0692: Combust a Move
The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track.

While tidying up unfinished tracks I stumbled upon a somehow phasered pad that I liked very much and for which I have long forgotten what I once did it for and how. I did not want to delete it, but I was not able to do something with it either. The unruly sound simply rejected all my attempts to add something. But as much as I liked for itself (even in its original lenght of around 20 minutes) I wanted to do more with it. Then I was tidying up my mails and found the disquiet junto prompt. I downloaded a fireplace and added it to the pad - and I liked it. There was some optimizing, like the fireplace goes thru a gater (adding a slightly straight rhythm) and there is a decrackle plugin set to "output crackle only" (to reduce the noise without loosing the high frequencies), and there is a smoking person in the room.

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Fireplace CC0 by 16FThumaF
https://freesound.org/people/16FThumaF/sounds/499032/
Thank you!

Smoking female CC0 by Roses1401
https://freesound.org/people/Roses1401/sounds/442639/
Thank you!

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Track image by Dall-E

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free floating firespace [disquiet0692]

Disquiet Junto Project 0692: Combust a Move
The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track.

A patch using the 4msQCD and a candle flickering LED.

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Silicon Burning (disquiet0692)

Credits

Ángel L. Martínez: voice, electro-acoustic guitar, guitar-synth, artwork

(c) 2025 Ángel L. Martínez

The Fire's Gonna Rise (disquiet0692)

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sulfurtopia
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feature-reel: https://www.instagram.com/p/DIzNJ_kuvMA/

A place of heat and decay
swallowed voices
rhythms spark from what remains

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cybernetic crackle [disquiet0692]

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.