Disquiet Junto Project 0721: Well Weathered

The Assignment: Play along with a storm

Step 1: On freesound.org, find a recording of a bad storm. Or use one of your own.

Step 2: Listen to the recording from Step 1.

Step 3: Select a section of the recording from Step 1, perhaps 3 to 5 minutes in length.

Step 4: Listen several times in a row to the section selected in Step 3. Get to know its sounds, and the overall shape of the recording.

Step 5: Record a track in which you play along with the storm.

Deadline: Monday, October 27, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0721

Disquiet Junto Project 0721: Well Weathered

The background to this is a 1,000 year-old church near Hereford, which has a wooden statue of George and the Dragon ... You can get a flavour of the place and enjoy the visualisation of this track at https://youtu.be/ogYz27JAOuE

You can also see the church in real life at https://maps.app.goo.gl/f9DGotayt1daEMcg8 ... it's worth a visit! 😎

The coming of autumn
determined
by a red dragonfly

Kaya Shirao was born in 1738 in Fukagawa, Edo, now part of Tokyo.

He ran a school in Edo during Spring and Autumn, but in Summer and Winter, he would move to the countryside to teach thousands of aspiring poets from throughout the Shinano province (now Nagano Prefecture). He's considered one of the first established haikai writers to help spread cultural forms from national to regional urban centers.

Haiku by Kaya Shirao

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

visuals (YouTube)

halF reD [naviarhaiku614]

TRAMPELFÂD
Laboratory for Contemporary Electronic Experimental Music

Rec.name : " Part 2  LASER SYNTHESIZER "
credit : LIGHTwaves 2025
date : 11-10-2025

Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_yn4gVTek

PLEASE VISIT OUR MAIN PAGE :

https://trampelfad.bandcamp.com/album/kesselhaus-factory-2025

KESSELHAUS FACTORY LIVE 10/2025

A slow, laid-back funk groove with jazzy sax, clavinet, deep fender jazz bass, and abstract synth textures.
Smooth, atmospheric, and slightly cinematic — the kind of track that lives between a modal jam and a chill-out or lounge beat.

Performed by DD - clavinet, electric bass, abstract synth, drum program.
With Miguel Yanover - Tenor saxophone

For this @disquiet challenge:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0720-one-from-two/

Golpe de Suerte - disquiet0720

I found two tracks, each named by the default naming protocol of my recorder. So one file was poetically name "240315_001" and the other, even more evocatively, "241212_0001." The first is a sparse piece using just the wing pinger, with almost as much space as sound. The second is equally restrained, but darker and more properly ambient. I can't recall how I created that track or what instruments were used. The two tracks seem to complement one another with each filling in the empty spaces of the other. Minimal effects were added in Logic - mainly just some reverb with motion algorithms. For fun, I asked Chat GPT to use the two numbers to create a title and image for the track and among the suggestions was "Voltage Bloom," which seems rather fitting. 

disquiet720

Disquiet Junto prompt 0720 asked us to take two separate works in progress and realize that they work better together. 

My WIP drawer is pretty full but I couldn't easily find two pieces that wanted to talk to one another. Finally I took several recent piano sketches and dumped all of their MIDI performance data into a single project in Logic. I tend to record left and right hand parts separately to facilitate revoicing, so I had a good collection of chunks to play with. I started stacking, rearranging, muting, soloing, and transposing different combinations of parts until I found a pair that sounded interesting. I ended up doing very minimal editing to stitch them together, and the two parts are not even in the same key, but I think that the tension and dissonance work somehow. 

Finally I wrapped the whole thing in a little pastiche of two friends sitting at a piano having fun gluing the pieces of a song together. 

More on the 720th weekly Disquiet Junto project, One from Two — The Assignment: Combine a pair of your recent tracks — at https://disquiet.com/0720/

Dancers on Pins (disquiet0720)

A combination of two unpublished electronic sequences I have recently been working on, sounds form various sources.

More on the 720th weekly Disquiet Junto project, One from Two — The Assignment: Combine a pair of your recent tracks — at https://disquiet.com/0720/.

Two into One Will Go (disquiet0720)

More on the 720th weekly Disquiet Junto project, One from Two — The Assignment: Combine a pair of your recent tracks — at https://disquiet.com/0720/.

Twinkle (disquiet0720)

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0720: One from Two. The Assignment: Combine a pair of your recent tracks.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0720 discussion thread on Lines:

I have a collection of audio odds and ends stored on my laptop. The files are comprised of field recordings, instrument recordings, unfinished modular synth and Ableton Live noodlings.  I took two of the more recent experimental sketches that were created in Ableton Live and combined them the best I could, adjusting the pitch as needed. I added an additional track that has heavily processed sliced bits from one of the recordings to try to create more depth to the piece. 

More on the 720th weekly Disquiet Junto project, One from Two — The Assignment: Combine a pair of your recent tracks — at https://disquiet.com/0720/.

Fickle Diptych [disquiet0720]

Submission for Disquiet Junto #0720 - a combination of two cassette recordings from September 2023.

Crowded Ether (disquiet0720)

Watch this piece being created: https://youtu.be/Oe3l1F4mfaU
A live performance for the Disquiet Junto #0721, built from the same patch used in the recent Badiou x Beckett sonic torment piece: https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-tormented?si=3390f301411545e0aac521e547afb785&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
This time, Badiou’s voice gives way to a thunderstorm I recorded in 2019 —
the same comb filtering and pitch clusters now sculpting rumble and rain into something more filmic and reflective.
A short meditation on resonance, weather, and thought.

🎧 Performed entirely in GRM Tools Atelier

More on the 721st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Well Weathered — The Assignment: Play along with a storm — at https://disquiet.com/0721/.

halF storM [disquiet0721]

Today, October 23, 2025, a storm rumbled through France, and I recorded an improvisation that captures its raw energy.

This track is a dark, mysterious duet between electric bass and thunder — attitude, rumble, and grit.

Photo by Artur Stanulevich

Gear used: electric bass with Seymour Duncan pedal tremolo, Lexicon reverb, and Valhalla Supermassive echo. Thunder and storm sounds sourced from my vault and online.

For @disquiet junto project https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0721-well-weathered

Stormy Thursday (Electric Bass & Thunder) - disquiet0721

Recorded, edited, mixed & mastered on 23 Oct 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA.

Synths, field recordings, effects

This piece incorporates a recording by Philip Goddard - https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/817001/

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 23 Oct 2025, Midtown, NYC, NY, USA

Music & art © 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

This original version of “Roll A Frozen Teenager Under Your Foot” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0721: Well Weathered. The Assignment: Play along with a storm

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

More on the 721st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Well Weathered — The Assignment: Play along with a storm — at https://disquiet.com/0721

Discussion - https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0721-well-weathered

Roll A Frozen Teenager Under Your Foot (disquiet0721)

Disquiet Junto 0721 invited us to provide musical accompaniment to a storm. 

This one made me think of my grandmother. She and I would sit in her glassed-in porch and drink tea while the storms of the Atlantic coastal summer raged outside, wind throwing sheets of rain against the windows, the sky purple with flashes of white, the thunder making the ground shake. 

She helped me understand the difference between awe and fear.

In recording this, I tried to be respectful of the storm as it happened. I did very little editing. I tried to give the storm plenty of room to move around in, saying what I needed to say in the spaces between the peals of thunder. 

Vintage Korg M3R synth over a field recording of a storm I made here in Chicago last July.

More on the 721st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Well Weathered — The Assignment: Play along with a storm — at https://disquiet.com/0721/.

Tea and Tempest (disquiet0721)

A recording of storm-force winds outside, including a few incidental noises, brewed up with a similarly stormy electronic sequence, sounds from various sources.

More on the 721st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Well Weathered — The Assignment: Play along with a storm — at https://disquiet.com/0721/.



Brewed Storm (disquiet0721)

A storm is a musical composition in itself. Taking inspiration from this week's Disquiet Junto project, I created improvised music to accompany Bruno Auzet's (@user-876924050) excellent field-recording, enhancing the inherent emotions and sounds of the original.

You can find the field recording on Freesound at freesound.org/people/bruno.auzet/sounds/713953/ under a Creative Commons 0 licence. My thanks go to Bruno Auzet for providing this wonderful recording.

The photograph was taken in Cornwall, not in Brittany - around 40 years ago.

More on the 721st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Well Weathered — The Assignment: Play along with a storm — at https://disquiet.com/0721/.

L'Automne en Bretagne  (Disquiet0721)

[disquiet0721] r80

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.

[disquiet0721] r80

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