BEWARE! BEWARE! 

Be aware
Beware
Of the Siren’s song



the end of her song is death.

guitar
microkorg synth
field recordings
random household objects
as percussion 
voice
gb drum loop

#pajamuary-2024
week 2

Siren song

This is the eighth in a series of Module Music pieces. It uses fm-synthesis. It is based on a spectrum and sub-spectrum between A4 and F#5. The music is generative and uses both  markov chains and random ranges. The source-code can be found at github.com/danielstahl/module-music-8.

Electric veins

Until darkness falls [naviarhaiku #536]

Only the moon remains
floating in the memory upon
Kinokawa River
 
There's so little information about this amazing renga poet that I decided to share another poem written by him. This one is part of a longer sequence, written in 1463:

Only the moon remains
floating in the memory upon
Kinokawa River—
pale glistening waves,
the blank wake of drowned men.
 
About this poem, the author said: "Among the hundreds and thousands who have drowned and perished in this river
due to the disorders in this province were those whom I knew in former days. Often
I would walk along the river, gazing at the moon."

(Heart's Flower - The Life and Poetry of Shinkei)

Shinkei (1406-75) was a renowned renga poet and critic, best known for his two-part work "Sasamegoto" (Murmured Conversations). To find out more about this interesting and largely unknown poet-priest, I recommend reading Heart's Flower - The Life and Poetry of Shinkei by Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen

Haiku by Shinkei: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/3348384

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halF onlY [naviarhaiku538]

Recorded, mixed and mastered on 25 Apr 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. This was also Day 1364 of the 100 Day Project.

Process notes - 

I first thought of scraping my iPhone against a stone. Then, I free-associated “stone” with “pizza stone” and then “LP.” Right after that I thought to capture some LP surface noise, and came right around to using one of Yoko’s albums…so…not the music but the physical object. I looked around my landlady’s backyard and found a slightly mysterious pile of stones and I was off.

I made 2 sets of four short recordings. Mid-way, I decided to get "elemental" with it, too.

- Two recordings were outdoor "air" recordings, including some dogs.
- One other recording was scraping my iPhone against a stack of stones.
- Indoors, I recorded the kitchen sink (water, and yes everything including the kitchen sink) and also lighting matches I keep for my barbecue (fire).
- The second set of recordings was of the inner groove noise from my copy of Yoko's Fly double album. The last recording included switching briefly to the radio (white noise) and then my own struggling to get the two disks back into the jacket.

For this, I used similar methods, (and an Ableton Live template), I’d used for Disquiet Juntos 0530, 0605, 0606, 0609 & 0616, all which reference “minimally viable music” as we did in 0530, my first Junto. This included many Ableton Live effects devices and some Max for Live devices by Amazing Noises.

For what it is is worth, Junto 0530 also was the genesis of this album - [Something That Once Was (Free)](https://music.blisterpop.com/album/something-that-once-was-free). Eventually, this piece and 0605, 0606, 0609 & 0616 will all be worked into the follow-up.

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

Artwork: 31 Mar 2017, April Fool’s holiday in Boston. MA, USA, near Old Atlantic Ave and State St. 

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This original version of “Come Fly With Us” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0643: Stone Out of Focus. The Assignment: Make music inspired by a poem.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: [disquiet.com/junto/](http://disquiet.com/junto/)

Subscribe to project announcements here: [tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto](http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto)

More on the 643rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Stone Out of Focus — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a poem — at https://disquiet.com/0643/

This week’s project is based on a text by Yoko Ono, originally published in her book *Grapefruit,* 60 years ago, back in 1964.

Come Fly With Us (disquiet0643)

CAMP R P

[disquiet0652] Tell

July 8, 2024

Lyrics: Hah ah hah hah hah...

HAH_AH_HAH

WYR GEMI -  WOAH

BEEBOX (slowed)

Queen for life

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