After "Total Disinformation Awareness was completed, I had some leftover ideas that will eventually be completed and released on an EP.

Untitled R010R demo

Nothingness

A state where nothing is present, or where nothing exists that is important or gives meaning to life. (Cambridge Dictionary)

Stati di interdizione, stasi, sbilanciamento,, fluttuazione, indeterminazione.

Nothingness(disquiet0602)

Messier 54

What a lovely prompt... and a tough one! 

I’m bad at minimalism. Most of my tracks somewhat baroque (fancy excuse for „too dense“). For this assignment I tried to reduce wherever I could. Once again, working with silence is a thing I still need to learn. Spent two hours balancing between silence and notes with the help of of transient designers and gates. Brought the sounds-silent ratio down to maybe 60:40. 

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Disquiet Junto Project 0605: Fifty Fifty 
The Assignment: Compose a piece of music with as much silence as notes.

There’s just one step to this project:

Compose a piece of music with as much silence as notes.

(Thanks to Jason Richardson for having proposed it.)

Eight Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0605” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your tracks.

Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0605” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation of a project playlist.

Step 3: Upload your tracks. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your tracks.

Step 4: Post your track in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0605-fifty-fifty/

Step 5: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: If posting on social media, please consider using the hashtag #DisquietJunto so fellow participants are more likely to locate your communication.

Step 7: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Step 8: Also join in the discussion on the Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

Note: Please post one track for this weekly Junto project. If you choose to post more than one, and do so on SoundCloud, please let me know which you’d like added to the playlist. Thanks.

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More on this 605th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Fifty Fifty (Compose a piece of music with as much silence as notes), at: https://disquiet.com/0605/

Thanks to Jason Richardson for having proposed this week’s project.

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0605-fifty-fifty/

Horror Vacui [disquiet0605]

Band: "Mirror Whispers"
Album: "Under the Canopy of Candor"
Song 3: "Fibers of Verity"

(Verse 1)
In whispers of illusion, our essence becomes spectral mist,
Mirror, mirror, unfold the cryptic riddle, do our shadows truly exist?
Hidden beneath cosmo(/s)-made veils, reality persistently twists,
In the abyss of self, doesn’t even the universe within persist?

(Chorus)
Desiring for echoes lost in vacant hollows crafts our timeless guise,
Yet the face unhindered ‘neath the puzzling orb of night, in silent truth lies,
Remember, the raven's song carries secret oaths under infinite skies,
Oh darling, your essence lies in silence, bound in astral ties.

(Verse 2)
Feasting on illusions, reality dissolving in hands,
Drenched in stardust dreams, yet our soothsayer terrains stand,
Breathing forgotten stories, of tempest-tossed sands,
Yearning destination, miss the symphony woven by Fate's hands.

(Chorus)
Thirst eternal, mirage forebears our destined figment, 
Yet the exposed soul ‘neath Titan’s watch, in whispers of starlight is spent,
Always, the hymn of freedom finds its cryptic descent,
Oh beloved, within the vast oblique labyrinth, under cosmos lent.

(Bridge)
Arising from celestial dust, ignited by cosmic flame,
Heart beats the rhythm of forgotten spaces, in life's clandestine game,
Facade fragments delineating constellations, shedding shame,
In unveiled authenticity, we are stars reborn, in truth's gentle please-name.

(Verse 3)
Mirror, mirror, reflect our quantum echoes cast far and wide,
Singing a song of tangled dimensions, in time’s mercurial tide.
Adrift in a sea of fractal unknowns, where does the true path reside?
From the void emerges clarity, in the canopy of candor we confide.

(Outro)
On the screen of ether, naked truths dance to tunes unheard,
Siren calls get lost in the cosmos, yet to truth we’re drawn — a flock of birds.
Armed with celestial compass, no longer lost in a sea of meaningless words,
In the embrace of the ultimate enigma, darling, we transcend in cosmic worlds.



END OF SCREENPLAY
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Operator tank

Finding The Stillness

Sound source: https://freesound.org/people/hello_flowers/sounds/30966/

Also includes my own recording of a metal thermos on wet marble.

Metal Study #27

Composition inspired by haiku by Raymond Cobley.

Dark clouds menacing
– I doubt we shall reach shelter
Before the deluge

Dark Clouds Menacing

Dark Clouds Menacing - (naviarhaiku518)

Passing Through

Past The Road

Echoes of the Void is a personal project born from the urge to explore a different dimension of sound.
It sits somewhere between ambient, dub techno and cinematic textures — where music stops being linear and turns into atmosphere.

Each piece unfolds like a scene: minimal layers repeating and dissolving, resonances stretching into silence, tension that feels as present as the notes themselves. Between the analog and the digital, the brutalist and the ethereal, a universe emerges that shifts constantly — sometimes evoking the earth, sometimes the depths of the ocean, sometimes the vastness of space.

Echoes of the Void doesn’t try to provide answers. It offers a place to inhabit — an invitation to lose yourself in the echo, and discover within it a different way of listening.

02_Submerged_Machinery

James is a multi-instrumentalist creator of music as well as a contemporary artist. He plays stringed instruments (guitars, cello, ukulele, bass, etc.) and uses a midi controller for any instruments he doesn't have access to; such as a timpani or a glockenspiel.

James creates music that is inspired by the pure love and joy of making music. The style of music he creates varies from piece to piece. He will go from songs that are accompanied by guitar or ukulele to full arrangements of a traditional North American band to orchestral scores that you could easily hear backing a film or video. 

By browsing his music you're likely to come across traditional pieces of music sounding as old as time and other pieces sounding as new as yesterday's jingle. 

Instruments inspire him to make new sounds come together to form music and combining old and new sounds is something he very much enjoys exploring.

While music and sounds are a big part of James' personality so is making art, graphics, and videos. James has worked professionally as a technical illustrator/graphics specialist since 1991. So James almost always creates art specifically for each piece of music he puts out into the world. The art may or may not be directly related to the piece of music in context but it will definitely give you another perspective on how the music has inspired him or makes him feel.

To learn more about James and/or see his art seek him out on Instagram.com and YouTube.com; he’s easy to find if you spell his name correctly.  A pseudonym also being used by James is Mildred Stain.

If you are interested in collaborating in any way, contact him!

Dark Clouds Menacing - (naviarhaiku518)

jamesbrynildsen