Disquiet Junto Project 0565: Musical Folly
The Assignment: Make a piece of music inspired by this architectural concept.

Step 1: Consider the concept of a folly in architecture. The Oxford English Dictionary has defined a folly as “A costly ornamental building with no practical purpose, especially a tower or mock-Gothic ruin built in a large garden or park.” Look at other definitions.

Step 2: Consider how the idea of a folly might be transposed, so to speak, to music.

Step 3: Make a piece of music inspired by the thoughts that arose in Step 2.

The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2. The prompt: “architectural folly on British estate in disrepair, photograph.”

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More on this 565th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Musical Folly (The Assignment: Make a piece of music inspired by this architectural concept) — at: https://disquiet.com/0565/

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The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2. The prompt: “architectural folly on British estate in disrepair, photograph.”

Disquiet Junto Project 0565: Musical Folly

Major thanks to Saga Söderback for having come up with this project.

More on this 530th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Minimally Viable Music (The Assignment: How much less is just shy of too little? ) — at: https://disquiet.com/0530/

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Minimonte [disquiet0530]

222-09-21

Fiction

Short and sickly sweet, the response to this week's Disquiet Junto (0565).

On sight of the prompt I was immediately drawn to a series of miniatures that I improvised and played around with using the editing on Audacity for when I did a residency during 2021's lockdown at Round Chapel in Hackney, London, UK (https://www.mixcloud.com/leonclowes/the-avant-garden-drop-in-centre-round-chapel-st-augustines-tower/).

With the 8th miniature, it has always reminded me of a being seasick on a fairground round that's slowing down. As a double folly I thought I'd try and 'tidy up' the background hiss, but using my DIY production skills have also introduced that distinctive noise of compression, like a radio played in the background. So in keeping with the prompt, I've kept that in.

More on this 565th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Musical Folly (The Assignment: Make a piece of music inspired by this architectural concept) — at: https://disquiet.com/0565/

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-0565-musical-folly/

The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2. The prompt: “architectural folly on British estate in disrepair, photograph.”

Leon Miniature 8 (disquiet 0565)

More on this 565th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Musical Folly (The Assignment: Make a piece of music inspired by this architectural concept) – at: https://disquiet.com/0565/

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Richard Preston's House (disquiet0565)

My Yamaha upright piano, taken with 3 microphones in a great sounding room.
Overdubbed vibes and synths.
Friday October 28th, during the morning, Paris France.

the cover photo is mine (a ceiling in an old apartment in Buenos Aires).


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Totalmente Ornamental (disquiet0565)

Enhanced recording of improvised percussion.

More on this 565th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Musical Folly (The Assignment: Make a piece of music inspired by this architectural concept) – at: https://disquiet.com/0565/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0565-musical-folly/

The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2. The prompt: “architectural folly on British estate in disrepair, photograph.”

Bagatelle Bash (disquiet0565)

More on this 565th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Musical Folly (The Assignment: Make a piece of music inspired by this architectural concept) – at: https://disquiet.com/0565/

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The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2. The prompt: “architectural folly on British estate in disrepair, photograph.”

The EuclRhymic Chromaticon | Utter Folly

The Euclidean Chromaticon | Utter Folly - disquiet0565

More on this 565th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Musical Folly (The Assignment: Make a piece of music inspired by this architectural concept) — at: https://disquiet.com/0565/

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

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3 Black Bjorks (disquiet0565)

for the disquiet junto //

an arrangement of an arrangement of pachelbel's canon in d major, inspired by the architectural concept of a folly

Folly in D Major

[disquiet0565] Folly in D Major

From the album Five Broke Downe Homesick for the Open Road Medley Blues. Out on my Bandcamp label this November 3rd, 2022.  https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/album/five-broke-downe-homesick-for-the-open-road-medley-blues

Raindops In Your Teacup

2022-11-29

NLS - 2022 - 11 - 29  In The Darkness

TRIIB (and SONUUS ARKESTRA) - Visibility Is Not A Proof Of Existence

2023-02-11

@zerocrossingpoint

"Rebound" is the new EP from Zero Crossing Points coming out on katharsis on November 17th, a work that feels both intimate and expansive, drifting between reflection and release. Drawing elements from several genres, the EP ranges from quiet and discrete soundscapes, to vivid blasts of raw emotions. Fragments of voice appear throughout, human yet often transformed, woven together with sweeping synths, bowed strings, digital manipulations, and textures that feel at once fragile and grounded. The result is a sound world that blurs the line between the synthetic and the organic, the remembered and the reimagined. Japanese video game music dances together with musique concrete elements, echoes of sacred music meet screaming metal drones. There is a sense of searching that runs through Rebound - it is music that lingers in the in-between, where distortion becomes tender and introspection turns into motion.

Zero Crossing Point - Remembrance

Fegefeuer

Ride Like Lightning Crash Like Thunder

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.

3 Black Bjorks (disquiet0565)

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