More on this 117th Disquiet Junto project — “Compose an original piece of music in response to a haiku” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/03/27/disquiet0117-naviarjunto/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

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Haiku by Nite Rote, more from whom at:

http://niterote.com/

Image associated with this Junto project is by William Warby, via a Creative Commons license:

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Disquiet Junto Project 0117: Naviar Junto Haiku

Beat up on my guitar with a wet octave-up delay applied running through my solid-state guitar amp with bad capacitors (hence the noise) as a preamp.

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More on this 117th Disquiet Junto project — “Compose an original piece of music in response to a haiku” — at:

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Snow Days [Naviarhaiku012 - They Encounter] [disquiet0117-naviarjunto]

"They encounter
A cathedral of ice
At the end of the world"

                       Nite Rote

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my first contribution to NaviarHaiku group.

a recording of ice cubes in a glass Paul Stretched
a recording of obsidian windchime pitched down
additional sounds from SonicCouture music box and Gamelan libraries
Ableton Live reverb

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Disquiet Junto Project 0117: Naviar Junto Haiku

This week’s project involves members of the Disquiet Junto participating in another music-making community: the Naviar Haiku Project. Already members of the Junto have joined in the Naviar, and this is an opportunity to add to those ranks. Each week participants in the Naviar Haiku Project compose original pieces of music in response to a shared, provided haiku. The following are the steps for this week.

Step 1: This is the haiku for the 12th Naviar Haiku project entry:

“They encounter
A cathedral of ice
At the end of the world”

Step 2: Compose an original piece of music in response.

Step 3: Upload the file to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud and describe your approach and process in the text field associated with the track.

Step 4: Also consider uploading the file to the Naviar Laboratory group on SoundCloud.

Step 5: Listen to other members’ tracks as they appear in the Disquiet Junto feed on SoundCloud, and comment on them when you have the time.

Additional Background: (1) At the end of every month a selection of tracks will be available on Naviar’s Bandcamp page as a pay-what-you-want album. (2) The haiku by Nite Rote. (3) The Naviar deadline is Wednesday, April 2, but this Junto project is to be completed by March 31. (4) The haiku was inspired by Werner Herzog’s documentary Encounters at the End of the World.

More on this 117th Disquiet Junto project — “Compose an original piece of music in response to a haiku” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/03/27/disquiet0117-naviarjunto/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
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https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

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Haiku by Nite Rote, more from whom at:
http://niterote.com/

Picture by Chris Zielecki 

obsidian [naviarhaiku012 – they encounter / disquiet0117-naviarjunto]

I shouldn't but I had to….I'm writing a paper to conclude my studies at DIEM, Denmark for a degree in Electronic Music Composition - but this assignment sounded to good  when it landed in my inbox this morning...
I set out, as I had a pretty clear idea of what I wanted the track to sound like, and it wouldn't take long (did someone say naive?). I also wanted to try out my new interface for transferring digital audio from my iPad to my DAW - I ended up not using an sounds from the iPad, but anyhow I had fun trying and the excuse for working on this piece sounded good in my ears….What I did do, was using a couple of recordings of ice and snow, and a recording of a piano at a local thrift shop…and myself whispering the haiku. The ice and snow recordings where eq'ed a bit the piano went through Ambient a couple of times and once through a looper/delay in Reaktor. The final result is pretty close to what I thought of, before I started - as always things changed once I started experimenting with the material…but thats okay.




Disquiet Junto Project 0117: Naviar Junto Haiku

This week’s project involves members of the Disquiet Junto participating in another music-making community: the Naviar Haiku Project. Already members of the Junto have joined in the Naviar, and this is an opportunity to add to those ranks. Each week participants in the Naviar Haiku Project compose original pieces of music in response to a shared, provided haiku. The following are the steps for this week.

Step 1: This is the haiku for the 12th Naviar Haiku project entry:

“They encounter

A cathedral of ice

At the end of the world”

Step 2: Compose an original piece of music in response.

Step 3: Upload the file to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud and describe your approach and process in the text field associated with the track.

Step 4: Also consider uploading the file to the Naviar Laboratory group on SoundCloud.

Step 5: Listen to other members’ tracks as they appear in the Disquiet Junto feed on SoundCloud, and comment on them when you have the time.

Additional Background: (1) At the end of every month a selection of tracks will be available on Naviar’s Bandcamp page as a pay-what-you-want album. (2) The haiku by Nite Rote. (3) The Naviar deadline is Wednesday, April 2, but this Junto project is to be completed by March 31. (4) The haiku was inspired by Werner Herzog’s documentary Encounters at the End of the World.

Deadline: Monday, March 31, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Length is for you to determine, but between one and five minutes is recommended.

Information: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0117-naviarjunto″ in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track. Also, per the Naviar rules, please include “Naviarhaiku012 – They encounter” in the title and as tag.

Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting the track, please be sure to include this information:

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“disquiet0117-naviarjunto″ whispering, not to wake the ice “Naviarhaiku012 – They encounter”

For track discussion see:
http://bassling.blogspot.com/2014/03/disquiet-junto-117-naviar-haiku-project.html

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High coo [disquiet0117-naviarjunto] [Naviarhaiku012 – They encounter]

**Production Notes**

"Cathedral of ice?" Well, this had to be a drone. 

The base is an older piece, heavily filtered and treated. Added some Operator Sine bass here and there. The Pianos are from Boscomac (great free Reaktor stuff over there!) and the synth is Ye Good Ol’ Animoog on the iPhone - weeeee! Finally there were some last touches woth my new toy, a shortwave radio. 

Composing, arranging and mixing took 3 hours. Thanks for listening! 


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**Disquiet Junto Project 0117: Naviar Junto Haiku**

This week’s project involves members of the Disquiet Junto participating in another music-making community: the Naviar Haiku Project. Already members of the Junto have joined in the Naviar, and this is an opportunity to add to those ranks. Each week participants in the Naviar Haiku Project compose original pieces of music in response to a shared, provided haiku. The following are the steps for this week.

Step 1: This is the haiku for the 12th Naviar Haiku project entry:

“They encounter
A cathedral of ice
At the end of the world”

Step 2: Compose an original piece of music in response.

(...) 

More on this 117th Disquiet Junto project — “Compose an original piece of music in response to a haiku” — at:
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Creek [disquiet0117-naviarjunto]

some not -quite haiku to describe how I found and
developed the process.


the haiku is
a fascinating creative discipline
a structure for images


a plastic bag
an old piano sound board
apreggiators,processing, sequencing

three scenes
merge into each other
icy is the season


More on this 117th Disquiet Junto project — “Compose an original piece of music in response to a haiku” — at:

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http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

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Haiku by Nite Rote, more from whom at:

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IceCathedralAtTheEndOfTheWorld_ “Naviarhaiku012 – They encounter” _“disquiet0117-naviarjunto″

Disquiet Junto Project 0117 - Naviar Junto Haiku

This was composed by selecting sounds from existing tracks, and a couple of works in progress, and altering them to suit the image created by the haiku. In the process, I discovered new tricks for some of the Audacity plugins I like to work with, particularly in the creation of the “trudging through snow” sound that comes in after the first minute. The final sounds suggest that the entire vision was an illusion.


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This week’s project involves members of the Disquiet Junto participating in another music-making community: the Naviar Haiku Project. Already members of the Junto have joined in the Naviar, and this is an opportunity to add to those ranks. Each week participants in the Naviar H aiku Project compose original pieces of music in response to a shared, provided haiku. The following are the steps for this week.

Step 1: This is the haiku for the 12th Naviar Haiku project entry:
“They encounter
A cathedral of ice
At the end of the world”

Step 2: Compose an original piece of music in response.
Step 3: Upload the file to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud and describe your approach and process in the text field associated with the track.
Step 4: Also consider uploading the file to the Naviar Laboratory group on SoundCloud.
Step 5: Listen to other members’ tracks as they appear in the Disquiet Junto feed on SoundCloud, and comment on them when you have the time.

Additional Background: (1) At the end of every month a selection of tracks will be available on Naviar’s Bandcamp page as a pay-what-you-want album. (2) The haiku by Nite Rote. (3) The Naviar deadline is Wednesday, April 2, but this Junto project is to be completed by March 31. (4) The haiku was inspired by Werner Herzog’s documentary Encounters at the End of the World.


More on this 117th Disquiet Junto project — “Compose an original piece of music in response to a haiku” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/03/27/disquiet0117-naviarjunto/ 

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588


Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/ 

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As if it were real [disquiet0117-naviarjunto][Naviarhaiku012 – They encounter]

Disquiet Junto Project 0117: Naviar Junto Haiku

This week’s project involves members of the Disquiet Junto participating in another music-making community: the Naviar Haiku Project. Already members of the Junto have joined in the Naviar, and this is an opportunity to add to those ranks. Each week participants in the Naviar Haiku Project compose original pieces of music in response to a shared, provided haiku. The following are the steps for this week.

Step 1: This is the haiku for the 12th Naviar Haiku project entry:

“They encounter

A cathedral of ice

At the end of the world”

Step 2: Compose an original piece of music in response.

Step 3: Upload the file to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud and describe your approach and process in the text field associated with the track.

Step 4: Also consider uploading the file to the Naviar Laboratory group on SoundCloud.

Step 5: Listen to other members’ tracks as they appear in the Disquiet Junto feed on SoundCloud, and comment on them when you have the time.


end - “disquiet0117-naviarjunto″

The rather beautiful haiku; "They encounter-A cathedral of ice-At the end of the world" , conjured up images of glacial desolation and chill. I fiddled around with some iPad apps, Crystal, TC-11 and Earhoof to try and get some glacial textures and tones and did a very rough jam into Auria. The resulting mash was then subjected to a bit of distortion and lots of reverb.

More on this 117th Disquiet Junto project — “Compose an original piece of music in response to a haiku” — at:
disquiet.com/2014/03/27/disquiet0117-naviarjunto/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
disquiet.com/?p=16588
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
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Haiku by Nite Rote, more from whom at:
niterote.com/
flic.kr/p/8HqHv9



Terminus (disquiet0117-naviarjunto)(Navierhaiku012-They encounter)

Made this in Ableton Live with four soft synths (a Granulator II seeded with a field recording of birds, and three other of the Ableton built-ins, with some tweaks).  Some effects and mixing added afterwards.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0117: Naviar Junto Haiku
This week’s project involves members of the Disquiet Junto participating in another music-making community: the Naviar Haiku Project. Already members of the Junto have joined in the Naviar, and this is an opportunity to add to those ranks. Each week participants in the Naviar Haiku Project compose original pieces of music in response to a shared, provided haiku. The following are the steps for this week.
Step 1: This is the haiku for the 12th Naviar Haiku project entry:
“They encounter
A cathedral of ice
At the end of the world”
Step 2: Compose an original piece of music in response.
Step 3: Upload the file to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud and describe your approach and process in the text field associated with the track.
Step 4: Also consider uploading the file to the Naviar Laboratory group on SoundCloud.
Step 5: Listen to other members’ tracks as they appear in the Disquiet Junto feed on SoundCloud, and comment on them when you have the time.
Additional Background: (1) At the end of every month a selection of tracks will be available on Naviar’s Bandcamp page as a pay-what-you-want album. (2) The haiku by Nite Rote. (3) The Naviar deadline is Wednesday, April 2, but this Junto project is to be completed by March 31. (4) The haiku was inspired by Werner Herzog’s documentary Encounters at the End of the World.
Deadline: Monday, March 31, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: Length is for you to determine, but between one and five minutes is recommended.

More on this 117th Disquiet Junto project — “Compose an original piece of music in response to a haiku” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/03/27/disquiet0117-naviarjunto/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Join the Naviar Haiku Project at:
https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory
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http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/
Haiku by Nite Rote, more from whom at:
http://niterote.com/
Image associated with this Junto project is by William Warby, via a Creative Commons license:
https://flic.kr/p/8HqHv9
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image:

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Excess Mundi [disquiet0117-naviarjunto] [naviar012 they encounter]

I started by trying to find some source material; off to freesound.org. I liked stormpetrel's https://www.freesound.org/people/stormpetrel/sounds/173095/ (The sound of the Iceberg) but my computer crashed around halfway way through downloading the flac. Good enough.

Did the usual Junto pre-processing - noise reduction in Audacity to bring out some transients, Paulstretch to extract some tonal material. I played with some promising loops in reaper, vocoding the tonal material against some ice noise. That was then fed through lipredemuco, with the reconstruction lattice filter's coefficients rotated to make some synthetic whining windy sounds.

Then for no particular reason - because I really had planned to make the entire piece from the one sound sourced from freesound - I opened up Geist and loaded in some stock drum hits and noodled around with that for a bit. Alchemy and a self-resonant Strobe both use the original iceberg source material, but having already corrupted the original ambient piece, it was hard to resist playing (albeit pretty conservatively) with Oddity. 

As is often the case, it didn't work out as I expected and I feel I'd like to develop it more, but there will not be the time and now is probably a good time to wrap it up. That said, I think I've spent more time trying (pretty unsuccessfully) to name the thing than actually writing it. In the end, the rather unremarkable "burrowing into ice" is I guess reference to Junji Ito's Enigma of the Amigara Fault wherein people are inexorably drawn to a newly revealed geological formation with human shaped holes, find the one that fits, crawl into it, and die.

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More on this 117th Disquiet Junto project — “Compose an original piece of music in response to a haiku” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/03/27/disquiet0117-naviarjunto/
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Haiku by Nite Rote, more from whom at:
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https://flic.kr/p/8HqHv9


burrowing into ice [disquiet0117-naviarjunto][naviar012 they encounter]

Created for the Naviar haiku project soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory  My first composition to include words, and, I believe, the first submission to include the haiku of the week.
“They encounter
A cathedral of ice
At the end of the world”

Also, this weeks Disquiet Junto project.
Thinking about the haiku, I jotted some ideas at half time break of my local football match on Saturday (soccer to our friends from the New World). These became the two 'verses' that precede the haiku, and provided the impetus for the soundscape. Due to time constraints, the source sample for the avalanche that opens the track was obtained from Freesound.org, with thanks to 'Robinhood76' http://www.freesound.org/people/Robinhood76/sounds/199404/ 

Forked Tongues [Naviarhaiku012 - They encounter] [disquiet0117-naviarjunto]


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It's bloody freezing [disquiet0117-naviarjunto] [Naviarhaiku012-They encounter]

For Naviar Haiku 0012 and Disquiet Junto 0117.

Disquiet Junto Project 0117: Naviar Junto Haiku

Process:
- I was thinking about the Cologne Cathedral for this piece, overly massive compared to its surroundings, and both beautiful and ominous, but without the charcoal facade.
- I created one piece, but was not happy with the results. So I took five tracks from it (1 - 4: synth clip run through Ambient_v3.0 and then run through iDensity at different pitches, 5: same synth clip with different Ambient_v3.0 version) and mixed those down. Then ran that through csGrain at a much slower speed with feedback, LPF, etc... A portion of that was then used. Mixdowns were done in Auria.

-----------------
This week’s project involves members of the Disquiet Junto participating in another music-making community: the Naviar Haiku Project. Already members of the Junto have joined in the Naviar, and this is an opportunity to add to those ranks. Each week participants in the Naviar Haiku Project compose original pieces of music in response to a shared, provided haiku. The following are the steps for this week.

Step 1: This is the haiku for the 12th Naviar Haiku project entry:

“They encounter
A cathedral of ice
At the end of the world”

Step 2: Compose an original piece of music in response.

Step 3: Upload the file to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud and describe your approach and process in the text field associated with the track.

Step 4: Also consider uploading the file to the Naviar Laboratory group on SoundCloud.

Step 5: Listen to other members’ tracks as they appear in the Disquiet Junto feed on SoundCloud, and comment on them when you have the time.

Additional Background: (1) At the end of every month a selection of tracks will be available on Naviar’s Bandcamp page as a pay-what-you-want album. (2) The haiku by Nite Rote. (3) The Naviar deadline is Wednesday, April 2, but this Junto project is to be completed by March 31. (4) The haiku was inspired by Werner Herzog’s documentary Encounters at the End of the World.

Deadline: Monday, March 31, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Length is for you to determine, but between one and five minutes is recommended.

Information: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0117-naviarjunto″ in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track. Also, per the Naviar rules, please include “Naviarhaiku012 – They encounter” in the title and as tag.

Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting the track, please be sure to include this information:

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Picture from Naviar Haiku Project by Chris Zielecki  

Cathedral [disquiet0117-naviarjunto] [Naviarhaiku012-They encounter]

“They encounter
A cathedral of ice
At the end of the world”
What would one find in such a cathedral? Perhaps the catafalque of the Sayoshant, encased in ice for one thousand years.  
Using an iPad, Audiobus, with Magellan as a filter, this started with a drone from Droner and improvisation using Noisemusick, in an attempt to paint such a scene in sound. 
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catafalque of the sayoshant [disquiet0117-naviarjunto] [Naviarhaiku012 – They encounter]

I wanted to mirror the proportions of a haiku in my piece, so I chose to make part A 5 x 4 measures, B 7 x 4 measures and C again 5 x 4, which made for a nice length at 100 bpm. I wanted to start building the piece using chords; my main problem there is that I automatically resort to 4-bar chords when I start a project. I decided to force myself to use non-uniform chord lengths. I thought I would reduce the length of the chords as the section progressed.

As a happy coincidence, I realized that 4 + 2 x 3 + 3 x 2 + 4 x 1 = 20! I thought to reuse this framework in reverse, and so to use the same chord progression, backwards, for section C. Section B has mostly 2-bar chords but some are 1/2 bar. The beginning and ending chords are also symmetrical but not the middle ones.

I chose a shimmery pad for sections A & C (ice) and an organ-like pad for section B (cathedral). I wanted a tinkly sound to play against that, and sequenced a loose, meandering melody for section A. A flute-like patch plays almost throughout, usually reinforcing the highest chord tone. I added an arpeggiated patch for section B to increase contrast.

The haiku was too short for my initial plan to record myself reciting it, stretch the sound, and use that as background. I did record myself whispering into the mike (one take), split it into 3 parts, and processed each with different effects: echo & reverb, multitap delay, plain reverb. The snippets are repeated a few times but not too evenly.

A one-measure intro and one-measure outro serve to bracket the piece. Part of me just wants to keep piling on layers and effects in hopes of coming up with something dazzling, but don't haikus teach us that less is more?

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Cathedral At The End Of The World [disquiet0117-naviarjunto/Naviarhaiku012 – They encounter]

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKXohd-T4Tw

Each silence is the beginning and the end of a world. The sound only modulates the infinite circle and
build cathedrals of ice on nothing.

For nxHaiku117-2014-03-30_23_56_45 improvisation:
3 verses = 3 random ranges.

verse  1 alpha:2,2/ff:1,10/1.wait
verse  2 alpha:2,2/ff:1,10/0.1.wait
verse  3 alpha:2,12/ff:1,100/0.1.wait

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disquiet0117-naviarjunto-Naviarhaiku012 – They encounter-nxHaiku117-45

Naviarhaiku 012

"They encounter

A cathedral of ice

At the end of the world"

Haiku poem by Nite Rote

More on this 117th Disquiet Junto project — “Compose an original piece of music in response to a haiku” — at:

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Ice [Naviarhaiku012–They Encounter][Disquiet0117-Naviarjunto]

“They encounter

A cathedral of ice

At the end of the world”

It has been a while since my last participation in the Junto but I thought almost every week that I should have worked on the most recent project.
For the sounds at the beginning of my piece I used -obviously- some recordings of crushing ice I made some time ago and layered them.
The synth-like sound in the second half consists again of sounds I recorded some time ago -the squeaking of a table when dragged over the floor and a chime.
At the end I distorted these sounds heavily by abusing a software-limiter.


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Last Encounter [disquiet0117-naviarjunto/Naviarhaiku012 – They encounter]

They encounter

A cathedral of ice

At the end of the world

I took a walk through the woods by my house recording my snowy footsteps.  Looped and mashed those with yellofier and sector.  Built up the rest of the track with guitar and a handful of apps.  

More on this 117th Disquiet Junto project — “Compose an original piece of music in response to a haiku” — at:

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Hollow earth theory [Disquiet0117-Naviar Junto]

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.