Disquiet Junto Project 0066: Communing with Nofi 

This track is a posthumous collaboration with Jeffrey Melton, aka Nofi, who passed away on March 30, 2013. It was recorded live in April 2013 atop a June 2012 Melton live recording.

We were instructed to take an excerpt from one of Jeffrey's live recordings, listen to it a few times and then play live along to it and record the result.

While listening to it, I decided to record six instances directly into the Samplr app. I prepared each recording in different ways, allowing for further live tweaking later. I then recorded myself play along to the excerpt chosen.

Jeffrey may be gone, but his music will live on... and he is now forever nofi (in his own words: "a state of being-without-boundaries (i.e. boundless, stateless)."

RIP 


More on this 66th Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/04/04/disquiet0066-nonofi/

More of Melton/Nofi’s music at:

http://www.nofi.org/

Read Melton’s obituary here:

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/fortwayne/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=163988588

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

So long [disquiet0066-nonofi]

Life is but a Learning Process, a work in progress... 

All tracks have added info. Contact me if you like what you hear and/or if you'd like to d/l anything. Production tips are always welcome, I don't really know what I'm doin' ! :-) 

Besides my individual endeavours, I'm currently involved in three projects:

http://soundcloud.com/k-p-t - audiovisual improvisation with Greg K and http://soundcloud.com/user3301471 
http://soundcloud.com/pppt - instrumental trio with http://soundcloud.com/carlos_ruizt and http://soundcloud.com/pepeprieto
http://soundcloud.com/the-kraut-funders - improvisation based on minimum motifs taken from classic composers, with Alberto Santos and Francesca Sorrentino 

My work consists of building blocks to be used interchangeably...Parts and pieces (or the whole piece) I present here will appear again during my work with any of the projects I may be involved with, further processed or unprocessed, in a different order, with a different character, nuancing a different aspect of the piece...or just as they are here with any additions provided by other musicians...find out more about this by taking a look at set "Playing 'Improv'" and reading the rules to the game...

Doctoral Fellow in Music Education at NYU; adjunct professor of music technology and music education at Montclair State University

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album Selected Ambient Works Volume II 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.

Thank you for listening.

My personal Bandcamp is your first port of call if you want to download anything.

http://mark-ward.bandcamp.com/



https://energostatic.bandcamp.com/album/universal

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/meditations-3

https://hellostrange.bandcamp.com

Enjoy your visit.

So long [disquiet0066-nonofi]

jai_