In response to Disquiet Junto Project 0502: Global Swarming
The Assignment: Create a swarm of imaginary insects.

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Conceptual Process: The title comes from the protagonist of Franz Kafka's Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis) - Gregor Samsa, who awoke one morning to find himself transformed into a "monstrous vermin" "insect" "cockroach"... a variety of English translations for the original "Ungeheueres Ungeziefer" which is difficult to translate (and the translation of which has been heavily discussed, here's a nice overview if you're not already familiar: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/on-translating-kafkas-the-metamorphosis). I have a lot of empathy for Gregor which extends to empathy for insects in general whereby I try to resist the instinct to be disturbed by them - so I initially set off on this trying to make a "swarm" from the Juntonian insect bank that was not disturbing or frightening, and was instead either empathetic or like a cool bug party that I'd like to join. After about 5 minutes of editing, the bug party became a cacophony and then whittled down into something slightly more disturbing, or at least intense in a way that is uncomfortable at several points. I couldn't escape the notion of an encounter with a swarm of insects, however unique and beautifully imaginary they are, being disturbing, unnerving, uncomfortable. So I went with it, trying to make something where the listener (and protagonist in the story of this swarm) might be disturbed a few times as the swarm gets closer and swells around them, but is ultimately left in a state of some relief, and curiosity once the swarm decides to move on. Because doesn't the swarm sound a bit like mechanical insects, potentially like a swarm of man-made insect-drones that could be surveilling millions of dimensions of your physical and mental existence? What do they want? What are they looking for? But at least they didn't investigate for long and decide to keep moving - but what data did they capture, or might they have captured something more, or other, than data...?

Technical Process: Selected the insects listed below. Made 4 different test tracks with several loops of each insect, and various effects on each layer of each insect. Played with the balance so it sounds a bit like they are coming from one side, enveloping you in a few swells, then move along to the other side and off into the distance. Then layered the 4 tests tracks on top of each other. 

This track features several varieties of the following insects from the schwärmeliche Junto-Menagerie, and includes no other sounds:

- Clint B - bromdihydorchlorphenylbenzodiazepine fuzz locust
- ausgesuchtestenohren - swarm behaviour
- bbob drake - organCrickets_forMusikfestivalSchwärme 0494 

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More on this 502nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Global Swarming (The Assignment: Create a swarm of imaginary insects) — at: https://disquiet.com/0502/

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/
https://www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern
https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

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

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0502-global-swarming/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this project is by David Hoffman, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/aePCyj

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Für Gregor_disquiet0502

cicadas
the stillness
begins

haiku by Andrea Cecon https://www.amazon.com/Andrea-Cecon/e/B00955O0CA

picture by Haoxi Wang https://unsplash.com/@haoxi

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

feign blah

halF begiN [naviarhaiku400]

More on this 506th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Wipe Out (The Assignment: Take something whole and erase half of it) – at: https://disquiet.com/0506/

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0506-wipe-out/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this project is by Emma Craig, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

The Calling [Reintegration Loop]

Disquiet Junto | Wipe Out - disquiet0506

I laid DD’s samples end to end and made them into a wav file in Audacity. This was then explored using my demo copy of The Mangle (using a bit more restraint than I usually display). The result was cut up and rearranged over several drones created from the cello sample, with some reverb added and some other fiddling with track lengths and channels. A few glitches were cleaned up and some extra bits from the mangle remixed and sprinkled over the beginning and end sections.

I doubt that the end result is still in C, and probably has strayed into many other keys, hence the title.
 
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The Assignment: Make music with 10 acoustic instrument samples all in a shared key.

Step 1: This week’s project is based on a great “construction kit” of WAV files in the key of C recorded for us by Disquiet Junto member Daniel Díaz. 

Step 2: Listen through the tracks, which include piano, two electric guitars, melodica, bowed upright bass, and other instruments.

Step 3: Record your own track employing the source audio.


More on this 507th weekly Disquiet Junto project — In DD’s Key of C (The Assignment: Make music with 10 acoustic instrument samples all in a shared key) — at: https://disquiet.com/0507/

The Sea of Keys [disquiet0507]

Make music with 10 acoustic instrument samples all in a shared key.

Daniel in C - disquiet0507

More on this 511th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Freeze Tag (The Assignment: Consider freezing (and thawing) as a metaphor for music production) — at: https://disquiet.com/0511/

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0511-freeze-tag/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this project is by Jay Wilson, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/iYmj1

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

daft haggle

halF taggeD [disquiet0511]

The foundation of this track is a looped field recording from the mouth of the  collapsed ice cave situated on the west side of Hrafntinnusker in Fjallabak. The cave was formed around a number of geothermal vents and is in a constant state of freezing and thawing.

More on this 511th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Freeze Tag (The Assignment: Consider freezing (and thawing) as a metaphor for music production) – at: disquiet.com/0511/ 1

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

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…ct-0511-freeze-tag/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

Íshellir -  disquiet0511

Take the sounds of “nature” and “civilization” as recorded by other members of the Disquiet Junto and combine them into one single piece of music/sound.

Bird voice - disquiet0518

20211203 What Can Only Be Heard Without Listening [disquiet0518]

This was composed entirely with samples from two field recordings focused on the distinction between nature and civilization:
 https://soundcloud.com/bellyfullofstars/planetraincoyotecricketchime-disquiet0516-outsidein-coexist-1-of-3
 https://soundcloud.com/mikey_a/melbourne-lane-disquiet0517

Auxy 6.6 project: https://app.auxy.co/projects/RW1vawDyoUN91_N4UpeNpQ==

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More on this 518th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Inside Out (Co/Exist 3 of 3) (The Assignment: Combine sounds of nature and civilization) — at: https://disquiet.com/0518/

This is the third and final stage of a three-part project sequence. You needn’t have participated in either of the two preceding stages to do this one. Thanks to Alan Bland and Mark Lentczner for having proposed the project.

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

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0518-out-and-in-co-exist-3-of-3/

20211203 What Can Only Be Heard Without Listening [disquiet0518]

naviarhaiku414 – grim wartime relics

grim wartime relics
– white lichen circles brighten
their crumbling concrete
Raymond Cobley is an experimental composer and regular participant in or Haiku challenge. Now retired, Raymond aims to explore the possibilities afforded by open-source software, which he uses exclusively for creating and editing both sounds & images. All his works are published ​under a Creative Commons licence, and free for anybody to download or remix.

Lichen circles brighten (naviarhaiku414)

Created for the Disquiet Junto Project 0523: Chill Communication
@disquiet

The Project: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.

These ice samples were recorded by whirling ice cubes in a growler back in 2017. I looped a section and processed that through a Make Noise Strega, recording the piece mostly as one improvised take where I 'played' the filter to create layers of feedback in the delay. There is one overdub where I improvised repitching the same ice loop in Samplr and also processed that through the Strega, creating different tones of delay feedback. There's a bit of judicious volume envelope editing added in post to calm the feedback swells a bit. It all reminded me of a slow motion version of the wild ricochet sounds made by dropping ice down a bored ice core well.

Many congrats and thanks to Marc ( @disquiet ) and Happy 10th Anniversary to the Junto!!

More on this 523rd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Chill Communication (The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it) – at: https://disquiet.com/0523/

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Ice Drops - [disquiet0523 - chillcommunication ]

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halF begiN [naviarhaiku400]

halF unusuaL