Disquiet Junto Project 0724: Work It

The Assignment: The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do.

This week’s project is timely and open-ended. The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do.

Deadline: Monday, November 17, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0724

Disquiet Junto Project 0724: Work It

Composition inspired by haiku written by Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Endless echo
Footsteps on an empty house
Once full of life

Once Full Of Life

Once Full Of Life - (naviarhaiku512)

This week's podcast features music made by Naviar's community inspired by
Jerome Berglund’s poem “ore train / bright colors / passing quickly”

Tracklist:

Leon Clowes – passing
zenbytes - passing colors
Night Note - Ore Train Bring Colors
Debroc - Bright ore
Stan Magendanz - ore train
Halcyon Hum - Passing

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku527-ore-train/ 

Credits:

music intro: “This ruined house” by Tuonela
voice intro: Ian Joyce
cover image: Chuttersnap
voice reciting the poem: Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Naviar Broadcast is a radio programme curated by Naviar, broadcasted on Resonance Extra every Wednesday at 7pm UK time. Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem.
To have your music featured on the show, you'll have to participate in the Haiku music challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
support the show: https://www.naviarrecords.com/support-us/

Naviar Broadcast #307 – ore train – Wednesday 21st February 2024

This track is available on Bandcamp as pay-what-you-want: https://future-boy.bandcamp.com/track/entreaty-to-a-tree

There is a Giant Sequoia in Seattle's Volunteer Park named Franklin who I have spent many hours talking with and leaning on for support. This is a song that imagines asking Franklin for wisdom and receiving their response. The tune and structure is inspired by / adapted from the African-American spiritual Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord), which is a song about witnessing suffering. Since I have spent so much time witnessing Franklin and having my suffering witnessed by them, it felt appropriate to use Were You There as a model.

Entreaty To A Tree

So the Disquiet Junto assignment this week was simply to make a piece of music in 29/16 time. This is a super weird time signature. I remembered fooling about with Dilla-type beats using quintuplets (where you count 5s between every beat) and I figured exploring groups of 5 16ths might be worth it. It's a strange feeling to try and take a very mathsy approach, like fitting beats tightly on a fixed grid of 29 steps, and try to replicate some kind of "real" shuffle.

In the second half of the track I use this sample pack from Freesound. A Korean instrument that sounds like a koto. https://freesound.org/people/spt3125/packs/1534/

More on the 664th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mother Beat — The Assignment: Record a piece of music in 29/16 time — at https://disquiet.com/0664/

Jet Jaguar - Kāo [disquiet0664] (free download)

A live improvisation using a Dingwall NG3 6 string bass into a pair of Chase Bliss pedals; a Mood and a Blooper, and an Empress Zoia pedal using a patch I designed myself.

2812

A play with the modular, started out as a big evolving patch that then crystalized into this more repetitive jam thing. 

12Jan2025Jam

This is part of Disquiet Junto Project #0722: Spook Street. See more at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0722-spook-street/73313/5.

Escapism 10

You Might Say I Haven't A Care in the World

Spar Run

I’ve been meaning for ages now to make a track using only one single suite of plugins … and this week’s Disquiet Junto brief has finally inspired me into action! ALL of the sounds you hear in this track are courtesy of wonderful Sinevibes plugins, and it’s been really fun to explore more of what these genius little plugins can bring … with plenty more exploration to be had! @sinevibes

This track uses Torsion as the main synth source, with Diffusion also providing sounds from its wave shape modelling synth engine. As you can hear, I’ve gone slightly mad on the effects front! I’ve made use of Sinevibes’ Emission, Hexonator, Inertia, Luminance, Multitude, Cluster, Drift, Droplet, Octagon, Array, Zap, Albedo, Atom, and Dispersion …!

Enjoy! 😁🤗 It's been enjoyable, and there could easily have been a 20 minute version of this! 😂

More on the 724th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Work It — The Assignment: The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do — at https://disquiet.com/0724/.

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halF vibE [disquiet0724]

UN GAUCHO – solo bass

A simple, heartfelt solo bass piece — part of a series of intimate instrumental moments I play live or record at home for fun.
Five-string bass (high C), light effect pedals — just melody, warmth, and a great instrument.

Thanks for listening!
— dd

Photo (C) Elena Nicolai


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Un Gaucho (disquiet0724)

This week's disquiet was to "Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do."  I have a tendency to use my Tides module as an audio oscillator all the time, instead of using it for other modulations that are not at audio rate. So, today I switched it to envelope mode, and used it to generate an evolving melody. I did use sequencers, but not for melodies - ONLY to sequence changing the settings on Tides, to change the range of the output before it goes to the quantizer, and to sequence the settings on Rings / Clouds / Lubadh. It seems Tides it pretty good as a melodic phrase generator, so I should have done this sooner!

I'm setting this to downloadable and creative commons - so if anyone wants to use it to make something feel free - but please let me know so I can hear what you do with it! 

More on the 724th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Work It — The Assignment: The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do — at https://disquiet.com/0724/.

Tidal Bells (Disquiet0724)

Recorded, edited, mixed & mastered in 1996, & on 04 Nov 2019 & 14 Nov 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA.

Tape, time & effects

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 02 Oct 2009, microscope, Massapequa, NY, USA

Music & art © 1996, 2009, 2019, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “Audio Hog Rubber” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0724: Work It The Assignment: The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do.

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

More on the 724th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Work It — The Assignment: The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do — at https://disquiet.com/0724/.

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Audio Hog Rubber (disquiet0724)

My track notes regarding the creation of this track can be found here:

Disquiet Junto Project 0724: Work It
The Assignment: The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do.

This week’s project is timely and open-ended. The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do.

[Disquiet Junto 0724] The Search (early draft)

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0724: Work it. The Assignment: The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0724 discussion thread on Lines:

I have a tendency to overwork a track to the point where it drifts away from what I initially envisioned. Many times it works out okay but other times, it doesn’t. So this time I backed off and tried to keep it minimal, which was my original vision.

Created in Ableton Live using Slate + Ash Cycles and a MIDI keyboard

More on the 724th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Work It — The Assignment: The year’s almost over. Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do — at https://disquiet.com/0724/.

Remembering Stone Patterns [disquiet0724]

This is part of Disquiet Junto Project #0727: Polar Strategies. See more at https://llllllll.co/t/73513/5.

Polar Strategies

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.

This will be my place for Naviar Haiku and Disquiet Junto entries.
-Experiments may appear on YouTube from time to time: 
https://www.youtube.com/user/ikjoyce
-Albums will be released on Bandcamp: 
https://ikjoyce.bandcamp.com/

New album "The Endless Solitude Of A Skylark's Song" now available:
https://ikjoyce.bandcamp.com/album/the-endless-solitude-of-a-skylarks-song

Album 'Selene' now available on Cassette / Download from Naviar Records: 
https://naviarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/selene 

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I make electronic ambient and drone music using modular synthesis to explore themes of nature, space, isolation, man/machine interaction, and the borders of the sleep/wake cycle.

Tidal Bells (Disquiet0724)

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