Disquiet Junto Project 0716: Dense Fog Advisory

The Assignment: That’s your band’s name; now record something.

There is just one step this week. You’re now recording music under the name Dense Fog Advisory. Record a new track, appropriate to your name.

Deadline: Monday, September 22, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0716

Disquiet Junto Project 0716: Dense Fog Advisory

You can see the visuals that bring this audio to life on the halF unusuaL YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/hPTeoPOjSnA ... Enjoy! ☺️

I stole the soundtrack to the video, posted here in its audio-only version, from the new band Dense Fog Advisory ... Hope they don't mind. I'm more than happy to pass over 100% of the money I make from it 😁

More on the 716th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Dense Fog Advisory — The Assignment: That’s your band’s name; now record something — at https://disquiet.com/0716/

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halF advisorY [disquiet0716]

I’ve been exploring the drone possibilities of the ronroco. Although it’s a high-pitched instrument with picked strings that produce short, percussive transients, it can be layered and softly strummed to create a surprisingly sustained sound.

In this piece, I combine those textures with my own bowed upright bass and generous layers of long reverbs,trying to create an all acoustic, atmospheric soundscape.

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Dense Fog Night Drone - disquiet0716

After reading the prompt, I began planning this composition in my head by thinking of a structure that includes an airy original loop to start with other elements incorporated later on to capture the idea of an "encounter". Bearing that in mind, I opened up Logic and messed around with some synths and various VSTs to create an atmosphere that I feel suited the prompt inspired by the haiku. In this process the overall composition maintained a similar structure of increasing complexity but many sounds were tweaked in an attempt to have them complimenting one another.

[disquiet0117-naviarjunto] [Naviarhaiku012 – They encounter]- Ice

An electronic composition with dense and muted sounds created using Pure Data with additional reverb, delay, etc.

More on the 716th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Dense Fog Advisory — The Assignment: That’s your band’s name; now record something — at https://disquiet.com/0716/.





Fog Muffles (disquiet0716)

For me, fog conjures up periods of quiet, interrupted by mysterious creaks, drones and transient melodies that appear and the drift away. I used the Instruo Pocket Scion (using my skin and not plants) to trigger midi instruments in Logic. At the forefront is the piano, which I imagined myself plunking away on as the fog obscured the keyboard and my hands. Hence it comes across as hesitant and unsure. 

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The Assignment: „Dense Fog Advisory“ is your band’s name; now record something.

For me, that band name requires heavy guitar and some heavy metal roaring lead voice. As that is not exactly what i am usually into, here is an intro for the track demanded in the assignment.

More on the 716th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Dense Fog Advisory — The Assignment: That’s your band’s name — at https://disquiet.com/0716/

Dense Fog Advisory [disquiet0716]

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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.

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