More on this 106th Disquiet Junto project (“Treat the weather as a graphically notated score”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/01/09/disquiet0106-sonarvortex/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto Project 0106: Sonar Vortex

Loading in the tunes is B10N (AKA the musical alias of Balakrishnan VK), who’s one of the few track-slingers dabbling in juke and footwork in the Singaporean scene. His love for the chopped-up, fast-paced genre stems from his natural inclination towards bass music, and he’s expressed this over the years through Juke It!, a party series that he co-founded.

For the 15-Min Flash Mix, B10N goes way beyond 4/4 here, playing with irregular rapid percussions and ramped up BPMs. He’s pieced together a mix of bumpy beatwork with slippery grooves, made up of machine gun hats, crispy snares and pulsating kicks that rock the subs. He even adds plenty of surprising accoutrements that add colour, like insertions of acid riffs and Tamil song samples.

Read more here: https://www.lifeinarpeggio.com/blog/15-min-flash-mix-episode-12-b10n-chicago-footwork-juke-local-djs-singapore

15-Min Flash Mix E12: B10N

We’re now slipping into episode 13 of Life In Arpeggio’s 15-Min Flash Mix. Let us now take a chill pill from the hectic world around us, and follow the escapist musings of veteran selector and producer, Jean Reiki.

Her episode of the 15-Min Flash Mix hopes to guide you into a cosy haven. Here, she begins with nebulous lullabies and ambient swirls, triggering a hypnotic ebb and flow that locks you in her rhythm. The meditative wave eventually opens up as it takes form and exhibits more electronic elements, exploring loungy deep house and wobbly dubstep. Listening to this is like waking up from a dream, transitioning from lumbering slumber to the invigorating jolts of life. 

Read more here:

15-Min Flash Mix E13: Jean Reiki

After reading this weeks Junto, I knew right away what I wanted to do...I recently got hold of "punch hole music boxes" (thanks Masaya for sharing a link that turned me to these wunderinstruments) Music boxes that play the music from holes you punch into a card...(Hope it makes sense) I traced the image, I got from the weather site, onto a card - inverted and retrograded it to get 4 variation all together ...recorded the music box twice - once in the intended direction and once reversed. Went out into my garden and recorded the sound of the weather around 1PM - it' pretty windy as you can hear. Kept it simple eq'ed and mastered a little to finish it - ohh btw theres some delay/reverb on the musicbox....

Disquiet Junto Project 0106: Sonar Vortex

This week’s project is about graphic notation. We’ll find the music inherent in weather patterns. The procedure is as follows:

Step 1: Go to the website WeatherSpark.com. Enter the city/town where you live.

Step 2: Find the weather for January 10, 2014. (Depending on when you do the project, this will either be a prediction or a matter of historical record.)

Step 3: This weather website has many viewing options, but the default is to just see the temperature, and you should only see the temperature for this project. The image should roughly resemble the one associated with this post (if not visible, see image at disquiet.com). The chart depicts the weather altering over the course of the day, and has it shown in various bands, with the actual/predicted temperature as a black line, and historical highs, lows, averages, and other data depicted in more subtle shades. For additional information about reading the weather chart, visit this URL: http://goo.gl/3fRGwW. Make a screenshot of the day’s weather chart of your area, and trim it to just show that one day. Be sure to associate that image with your track, so the listener can view it.

Step 4: Produce an original track in which the weather chart is read from left to right as a musical score. Perhaps you’ll assign a different instrument or tone to each band or line. Perhaps you’ll align pitches with temperatures. Perhaps you’ll set the pace based on the time of day.

Deadline: Monday, January 13, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your finished work should be between 2 and 4 minutes in length.

Information: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0106-sonarvortex” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting the track, be sure to include this information:

More on this 106th Disquiet Junto project (“Treat the weather as a graphically notated score”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/01/09/disquiet0106-sonarvortex/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

“disquiet0106-sonarvortex” Musicbox and Stormy Weather

I recorded this track on Jan,10, after taking elements from my garden (some birds, some wind, some grass). I used one processed guitar and tried to play live to follow the graphical draw of my city weather map. It was firstly recorded on my old cassette rec, then on to my reel to reel ... and quickly mastered ... in digital ...


Disquiet Junto Project 0106: Sonar Vortex
This week’s project is about graphic notation. We’ll find the music inherent in weather patterns. The procedure is as follows:
Step 1: Go to the website WeatherSpark.com. Enter the city/town where you live.
Step 2: Find the weather for January 10, 2014. (Depending on when you do the project, this will either be a prediction or a matter of historical record.)
Step 3: This weather website has many viewing options, but the default is to just see the temperature, and you should only see the temperature for this project. The image should roughly resemble the one associated with this post (if not visible, see image at disquiet.com). The chart depicts the weather altering over the course of the day, and has it shown in various bands, with the actual/predicted temperature as a black line, and historical highs, lows, averages, and other data depicted in more subtle shades. For additional information about reading the weather chart, visit this URL: http://goo.gl/3fRGwW. Make a screenshot of the day’s weather chart of your area, and trim it to just show that one day. Be sure to associate that image with your track, so the listener can view it.
Step 4: Produce an original track in which the weather chart is read from left to right as a musical score. Perhaps you’ll assign a different instrument or tone to each band or line. Perhaps you’ll align pitches with temperatures. Perhaps you’ll set the pace based on the time of day.
Deadline: Monday, January 13, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: Your finished work should be between 2 and 4 minutes in length.
Information: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto.
Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0106-sonarvortex” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.
Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).
Linking: When posting the track, be sure to include this information:
More on this 106th Disquiet Junto project (“Treat the weather as a graphically notated score”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/01/09/disquiet0106-sonarvortex/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/


LINEAR BELLS - Jan10 - disquiet0106-sonarvortex

**Production Notes**

The weather was nice today in Munich, Germany. Much too warm for a winters day. Sunny. It made me want to go outside. When the Disquiet Challenge came in, I got my data from Weatherspark.com and tried to make sense of the "score". (You find a clipping at http://www.artinvaders.com/transfer/disquiet106.png)

- As a day is pretty much a manifestation of time, I made some simple beats, which represent the ticking of a clock in quarters of an hour. 

- I defined most of the temperature lines as pitch. Played the notes was played with Reaktors Gaugear (a very pretty beast this is).  

- Added some bass (there was a line starting in the middle of the piece). 

- I also had three sunny hours in the middle of the piece and three clouds later, which were made woth different bell like sounds from Operator. 

Production time: about 3 hours. Honestly, it’s more a sketch than a song. And it‘s too dense. And a bit too short. As always. 


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**Disquiet Junto Project 0106: Sonar Vortex**

This week’s project is about graphic notation. We’ll find the music inherent in weather patterns. The procedure is as follows:

Step 1: Go to the website WeatherSpark.com. Enter the city/town where you live.

Step 2: Find the weather for January 10, 2014. (Depending on when you do the project, this will either be a prediction or a matter of historical record.)

Step 3: This weather website has many viewing options, but the default is to just see the temperature, and you should only see the temperature for this project. The image should roughly resemble the one associated with this post (if not visible, see image at disquiet.com). The chart depicts the weather altering over the course of the day, and has it shown in various bands, with the actual/predicted temperature as a black line, and historical highs, lows, averages, and other data depicted in more subtle shades. For additional information about reading the weather chart, visit this URL: http://goo.gl/3fRGwW. Make a screenshot of the day’s weather chart of your area, and trim it to just show that one day. Be sure to associate that image with your track, so the listener can view it.

Step 4: Produce an original track in which the weather chart is read from left to right as a musical score. Perhaps you’ll assign a different instrument or tone to each band or line. Perhaps you’ll align pitches with temperatures. Perhaps you’ll set the pace based on the time of day.

(...)

More on this 106th Disquiet Junto project (“Treat the weather as a graphically notated score”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/01/09/disquiet0106-sonarvortex/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

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Pretty Day [disquiet0106-sonarvortex]

My first Disquiet Junto submission for 2014 (and my first one in far too long). This project has us take a visualization of the weather in one's local area, and use it as a graphical score.

My process:
- Use the Awesome Screenshot extension in Google Chrome to clip the image from the WeatherSpark site.
- Open the image in GIMP. Transform it by inverting the colors and posterizing.
- Imported the image to Virtual ANS, a program that can convert image into sound. Tweaked the ANS parameters until I was satisfied with the result, and exported it as a WAV file.
- Imported the sound into Audacity. Added a little silence to the end, applied some EQ to boost the bass, applied a simulated plate reverb, adjusted the amplitude, and exported as an MP3.

Additional notes:
- I decided to prepare the image before submitting it to Virtual ANS because it would allow the graphical elements to emerge more starkly.
- There is an artifact at the end the track resulting from the ANS process; I decided to keep it as it seems to work as a coda.
- The weather data came from the Silver Ranch Airpark in Jaffrey, NH, US, which is one of the weather stations closest to Peterborough, NH (where I live).
- The Flickr set shows the original captured image and the altered image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/seidel/sets/72157639652552553/
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More on this 106th Disquiet Junto project (“Treat the weather as a graphically notated score”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/01/09/disquiet0106-sonarvortex/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

0110 [disquiet0106-sonarvortex]

It was a really busy weekend, so I didn't have time to work on this project till Sunday night. It's summer all-year round in Singapore. I'll just sum up my experiences of heat and humidity at various places on Jan 10 in the form of a sound collage.  

I attended a church wedding of a lovely couple in the morning.  Both bride/groom are DJs and music label owners. Never thought I would meet and chat up with their special guest - the legendary chicago house vocalist and DJ, Robert Owens at the church. 

Coincidentally, one of the topics that we talked about is the extreme cold weather in the US. He is currently based in London and mentioned how he had forgotten to bring more light clothing for the warm and humid weather in Singapore. 

8 am (24°C) 
- A chilly morning. Woke up and get ready.
- Soundscape sounds from Absynth.

10 am (27°C) 
- Mingled around and ended up seating with Robert Owens at the church. (http://instagram.com/p/jFnSOfpWsX/)
- Clapping sound from sample pack.

12 am (30°C) 
- It started to get really hot. The wedding ceremony was over and everyone proceeded to lunch at the nearby Peranakan restaurant. Again, we were seated together and bonded over food! 
- Church bell sound from Absynth. Crowd sound from sample pack.

2 pm ( 30°C) 
- Went home and took a nap
- Yawn sound taken from http://www.freesound.org/people/lauriesafari/sounds/169904/

11pm (26°C) 
- Walked to Kyo Club and caught Robert Owens in action. (http://instagram.com/p/jFp1ZeJWvc/)
- He was singing live and Djing, so I manage to record a snippet of his classic tune "I'll be Your Friend" on my iPhone. 

Add, automate and filter the amount of reverb and delay along the way.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0106: Sonar Vortex
More on this 106th Disquiet Junto project (“Treat the weather as a graphically notated score”) at disquiet.com/2014/01/09/disquiet0106-sonarvortex/

More on the Disquiet Junto at disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/


Befriending Robert Owens [ disquiet0106-Sonarvortex ]

Here's our first episode by our host Tone. MoustacheMusic Radio is Moustache's weekly radio show (formerly  known as Unibrow Radio), recorded in the Urgent.fm studios & aired live every sunday between 19h00 and 20h00 on 105.3 FM (local).

Playlist:
1) Tone - Unibrow Radio X Moustache Music Radio transition intro
2) Jon Hopkins - Journey
3) Felix Laband - Bag of Bones
4) Seawaves - Valentine (Nadia Struiwigh remix)
5) Amyn - Side of Golden You
6) Enkidu - Into The Deep
7) Stavroz - Talabout
8) Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Microon III
9) Wolf Muller - Glade runner (Tolouse Low Trax Remix)
10) Apparat - Holdon (Modeselektor remix)
11) Armen Miran & Hraach - Aldebaran
12) Sunchase - Sett
13) Sean Pineiro - Green Copy
14) DMX Krew - Winter Months
15) Sinoptik Music - Lights in delay
16) Abstraxion - Spazieren

Cheers
MoustacheMusic crew

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@djtone
@MoustacheMusic-blog
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MoustacheMusic Radio #001 - Tone (Kick off)

Cesare vs Disorder - Ararapira Jazz out Feb 12 on vinyl (feat. Spacetravel Remix). Digital Feb 26.

Bandcamp: goo.gl/1qCeg1
Decks: goo.gl/7hoFuk
Deejay: goo.gl/afk7ti
Juno: goo.gl/C5QEAQ
Technique: goo.gl/JN1BqT

Cesare vs Disorder, one half of Azimute and Serialism label head, returns to Vakant. The remix by Perlon artist Spacetravel will only appear on the vinyl.

Cesare vs Disorder - Desorientado feat. Sabino

More on this 323rd weekly Disquiet Junto project (Music for Meditation: Record a piece of music suited to meditation) at:
https://disquiet.com/0323/

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

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0323-music-for-meditation/

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this project is by Chris Corrigan and is used thanks to a Creative Commons license:
https://flic.kr/p/4XtNyA
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Music For Meditation [disquiet0323]

Music for meditation: 
spectrally delayed partials and freezes of a tibetan bowl sound.
this is a seamless loop, so set it to repeat and go on forever...
gear: 
custom made software for spectral treatments
reaper for mixing

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More on this 323rd weekly Disquiet Junto project (Music for Meditation: Record a piece of music suited to meditation) at:

https://disquiet.com/0323/2

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/1

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0323-music-for-meditation/

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this project is by Chris Corrigan and is used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/4XtNyA

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Spectral Meditation [disquiet0323]

DJ/Producer Kane Ian has been immersed in the world of house music since 1993. With over two decades in DJ-ing and over one hundred productions on his label Dustpan Recordings, he shows no signs of stopping.

Born in Singapore, Ian got the bug for electronic music in his early school years. He formed the now defunct Radiance Crew with William (aka Mr Pirated) and Ming Knackle, where they would throw weekly house music parties at various spots. Since the early 2000s, he has been invited to DJ at events and festivals all over the world. 

This includes cities such as New York, London, Chicago, Kuala Lumpur, Maldives, Boston, Milwaukee, San Jose, Los Angeles, Hawaii, Miami (Winter Music Conference) and Black Rock City (Burning Man). His music and DJ sets have been described as house music with influences from early techno to disco to hip-hop and jazz, funk and soul. Clubs he’s played at include the legendary Zouk Singapore, one of the world’s Top 10 Clubs as voted by international dance music magazines – DJ Mag and IDJ Magazine. Today, Ian performs at weekly shows, in front of thousands of club goers a year.

www.dustpanrecordings.com
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@kane-ian
@MoustacheMusic-blog
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Dustpan Recordings

MoustacheMusic Radio #049 - Kane Ian

Live@100banch ナナナナ祭

Drift into space, with Deep Phase as commander in chief. The deep side of techno, in a one-take vinyl mix.
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@Deep-Phase
@MoustacheMusic-blog
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Tracklist:

PRG/M - Radiant Fields
Conforce - Harnessed Life in Programmed Form
Ancestral Revolt - Atrukuatu
Birds Ov Paradise - Tutor
Artefakt - Far and Wide
Deepbass & Ness - Outer Limits
Agents of Time - Xylo
Donato Dozzy - 12H.5(remix)
Joachim Spieth - Chalcedony
Echologist - Dispatch
Wata Igarashi - Fourteen
Jordan Peak - Crocodile Tears

Picture: nasa.gov

MoustacheMusic Radio

MMR #122 - Deep Phase in Space 10

Deep Phase

MoustacheMusic Radio #122 - Deep Phase in Space 10

Jean Reiki is an established bass trooper in the Singapore scene, always working hard to reinvent herself as a music producer and as a DJ.  This contribution seems to be her 3rd appearance for MoustacheMusic Radio.  A few years ago she was a special guest sharing stage with us at  Vlasmarkt, Gentse Feesten.

1nce again she delivers a well balanced mix, a carefully compiled tracklist, consistently building up, keeping it interesting till the last second.  Note the bass heavy second track  'Worm Hole' from her own hands.  We expected a new track from her brand new self-released EP which you can check through her Bandcamp profile :  https://jeanreiki.bandcamp.com/

Here it is, a muscled hour that goes straight to your underbelly. Pump up the volume. Playing this through crappy speakers does not make any sense.

Thanks again Jean. It is always an ear treatment.
Until we meet again.

Tracklist :  coming up shortly


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MMR #127 - Jean Reiki (Beyond Control)

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MoustacheMusic Radio #127 - Jean Reiki (Beyond Control)

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.

DJ . PRODUCER . SOUND CURATOR 
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FORTHCOMING RELEASE
+ THE KI EP

CURRENT RELEASE
+ The Drone Travels, Indigoism
+ Binaural X Pack, Indigoism
+ Whimsy EP 
+ MindPort EP

REMIXES
+ Vandetta - Fly 
+ Masia One - Singapura 
+ Krickz - Vortex Feat. ft. Enero & Jaz Patel 

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Residency : Moon Lounge, DatDatDat, Under The Bridge

Befriending Robert Owens [ disquiet0106-Sonarvortex ]

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