Thank you for your many wonderful blog posts. I have enjoyed Disquiet for several years.

I love the way the foreground sounds, are much softer than the main bell like sounds... ! 

Splendor Solis ("The Splendour of the Sun") is a version of the illuminated alchemical text attributed to Salomon Trismosin. This version dates from around 1582.

The earliest version, written in Central German, is dated 1532–1535 and is part of the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin collection at the State Museums in Berlin. It is illuminated on vellum, with decorative borders like a book of hours, meticulously painted and highlighted with gold. The later copies in London, Kassel, Paris and Nuremberg are equally fine. Twenty versions exist worldwide.

The original of Splendor Solis, which contained seven chapters, appeared in Augsburg. In miniatures the works of Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein and Lucas Cranach were used. The author of the manuscript was considered to be the legendary Salomon Trismosin, allegedly the teacher of Paracelsus, though the name is believed to be a pseudonym. The work consists of a sequence of 22 elaborate images, set in ornamental borders and niches. The symbolic process shows the classical alchemical death and rebirth of the king, and incorporates a series of seven flasks, each associated with one of the then-known planets. Within the flasks a process is shown involving the transformation of bird and animal symbols into the Queen and King, the white and the red tincture. Although the style of the Splendor Solis illuminations suggest an earlier date, they are clearly of the 16th century.

Splendor Solis

The Dying Miss Saeki (Den döende fröken Saeki) is the fourth and last movement in From the Bottom of a Well (Från botten av en brunn) based on Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka on the Shore. The the sounds were designed from, and the music was written from a grounded theory analysis of the book. The piece was performed and recorded on the 16th of December 2021 by Robert Ek, clarinet; Kevin Kirs Verstege, cello; and Rikard Vilhelm Lindell, eurorack at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Photography by Hannes Häfele.

Robert Ek's portfolio: www.remusik.se/
Hannes Häfele's portfolio: luminea.eu/

Video recording from the concert is available here: https://vimeo.com/716690521

Den döende fröken Saeki / The Dying Miss Saeki

A small track I created in December 2022. Just a drone, an arpeggio and lots of filter automation. Best listened with a subwoofer :)

The "walking steps"-sample was taken from the Luftrum Free Field Recordings library.

Morning Walk

Funeral

Création sonore créée et performée lors de la résidence de création à Bohemia Farm Studio 2023. https://www.farmstudio.cz/en/

Black Bird

Voice Sample :
https://soundcloud.com/notlayzi/summer-17-mastv3

SenSen - Herejía

UnusualEncounter III (extract)

Disquiet Junto Project 0617 Haunt Scape

Desagrada (disquiet0617)

I took a few ominous sounding extracts from a previous track, stretched and mixed them, multi-tracked and reversed one and remixed an excerpt of organ music and speech recorded in the astonishing echo chamber of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.

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The Assignment: Halloween is coming up. Do your thing.

There is just one step to this project: Halloween is nearly here, so make some haunted sounds for people to play for trick-or-treaters.

More on this 617th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Haunt Scape (The Assignment: Halloween is coming up. Do your thing), at: https://disquiet.com/0617/

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

Desagrada (disquiet0617)

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Llorina secuencial porosa

Recording of Phil Kline's Unsilent Night made in San Francisco on Saturday evening, December 18, 2010.

It was recorded using a digital recorder left on a window ledge while the boombox-carrying participants passed by.

A bit more information here: http://disquiet.com/2010/12/20/unsilent-night-stationary-mix/

Unsilent Night (San Francisco 2010)

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.

Unsilent Night (San Francisco 2010)

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