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 Untold Gospel 👾
Mary of Methlehem is abducted and has a close encounter with an alien messiah-to-be. The result? The “immaculate” conception of lil baby Jesus… but make it extraterrestrial. Turns out the Christian God was an alien all along. 👽

The Methlehem Abduction

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. 

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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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)

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.

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/

Candle Magick (disquiet0692)

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

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/

Combustion Dub [disquiet0692]

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#4210 92.81% 326 left): Jun. 24, 2025: And seemed the greatness of the rowld in tears  (again, William Butler Yeats from May 22, 2025) 

*** NEW SELECTION ALBUM 30th JUST RELEASESD ***

Today's pure primal piano music here. Happy if this music makes you feel peaceful.. : )

Looking for absolute natural beauty every day for Piano Ten Thousand Leaves. Target number is 4536:
This piece may might have good 1/f fluctuation characteristic although I stopped investigating it each piece.

######## Latest Album: 30th SELECTION ALBUM JUST RELEASED ########

"wind of mysteriousness" - the 30th selection album of piano ten thousand leaves

youtube: FULL VIDEO with 20 full songs in very high quality sounds
https://youtu.be/tkqms1ZjAEg?si=RlWgQZBbe9z523f_

spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/album/7CiAmnJmm5Wnm3CVfmC234?si=tImTyWj5TT6dUBRhMRXVYg

apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/wind-of-mysteriousness/1817351475

amazon music:
https://www.amazon.co.jp/s?k=chair+house+%E4%B8%8D%E6%80%9D%E8%AD%B0%E3%81%AE%E9%A2%A8&i=digital-music&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

all music streaming services:
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and seemed the greatness of the world in tears - #4210 (92R81 pc 326 left) by chair house 250624

infinite mercy

thinking of us
the sound of wind
among the pines

Andrea Cecon is a hearing aids technician, a traveler, and a haijin published all over the world. His first ebook won 3rd place in the Sharp Writ Book Awards contest in 2011 (category: poetry). Residing in Cividale, Italy, with his wife, Russian haijin Valeria Simonova-Cecon. He finds his inspiration in memories, travels, and everyday life…

Haiku by Andrea Cecon

Picture by Ali Kazal

600 among the pines_Navairhaiku600

Study for piano and orchestra 02.09.25

A liturgical descent into dust and memory—“Antiquaries” exhumes the ache of forgotten relics, mapping grief as sacred architecture. Bleak Cathedral conjures a sonic reliquary where every echo is a ritual, every silence a tomb. For those who walk the threshold between beauty and ruin.

Bleak Cathedral - Antiquaries

Husband:

We’re his parents, and his health and overall well being 
Are for eighteen years our most important mission 

To let him eat the foods he likes would certainly be freeing 
But he must learn the basic concepts of nutrition 

He can’t just eat the pizza and the French fries, 
he’s such a picky eater and refuses to eat greens 
Who goes to jail if he this kid of malnutrition dies?   
God as my witness tonight this kid’s eating his beans!  

Husband and Wife:  
God as our witness, our young son tonight will eat his beans!  

Beans are so nutritious and have such a pleasant flavor 
I just know our boy would love them if he just gave them a shot! 

By forcing him to eat his beans we’re doing him a favor! 
It will teach him a lesson that sometimes you choke it down whether you like it or not! 

I’ll sneak up behind him and restrain him 
You take a heap of those lima beans and jam them down his throat 
In the spirit of tough love we both will train him:
What’s good for you is forced on you and often you don’t get to vote!  

Husband and Wife:  
God as our witness tonight this kid’s gonna eat beans!  
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“Wow, honey, dinner looks great tonight! Meat loaf and buttery beans!  
 Here ya go son!  Why don’t you take a big spoonful of these WONDERFUL greens!  

“I don’t like those!” he protested and his mom and I frowned in disgust 
I stood up and walked very slowly behind him and pinned his arms like we’d discussed

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I’ve got his arms now dear!  Jam those lima beans down!  
I’ve got his arms now dear!  Jam those lima beans down!


And she jammed the beans in and they mashed on his teeth 
And they oozed and they sprayed on the table beneath 
It was terribly traumatic and quite stressful 
They gave up after just 5 minutes wholly unsuccessful.  

I’ve got his arms now dear!  Jam those lima beans down!  
I’ve got his arms now dear!  Jam those lima beans down!

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“Fine, my boy, fine then. If you refuse to eat beans, we can’t force you! 
Your mother and I have tried hard and each thing you’ve resisted 
“Your father and I just want the best for our boy, we of course do!
But if you don’t eat your beans we’re afraid you might grow up limp-wristed!”  

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Yes, that really happened and I was the boy 
that it definitely happened to 
My parents they both meant well, please forgive them dear lord 
For they know not what they do 

From that day til my last day, every breakfast, lunch or dinner 
Even snack or any meal in between 

As God as my witness, on my life I hereby swear 
That I will never eat a bean.   

No lima bean, no navy bean, no pinto bean sor peas
No kidney bean no string bean, I’ll consume 
No green beans and no fava beans, no black eyed peas or baked
No black beans, snap peas, lentils or legume!  


From that day til my last day, every breakfast, lunch or dinner 
Even snack or any meal in between 

As God as my witness, on my life I hereby swear 
That I will never eat a bean.   


I Hate Beans.  A Rock Opera.

The Quiet Convulsion, Part 1

Dark And Heavy

Singularity - Subatomic Realm [ FREE DOWNLOAD ]

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.

During the early 1990s I studied Mathematics and Computer Science. The world wide web was still largely text-based and mostly empty. Today things are obviously different, though I still thoroughly enjoy art, design, cinema and music in all its forms. I have traveled all over the world for nearly two decades, visiting just over 140 countries. Japan is my favorite. All of this I attempt to incorporate into my music and art.

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