In the half-light between dreaming and waking, our world reveals its true nature: a perpetual threshold where nothing fully is, yet everything is becoming. Airport terminals at 3 AM hold their breath in fluorescent stillness, neither departure nor arrival, while empty parking garages echo with the ghostly memories of footsteps that might have been. We live in the spaces between definitive moments—the pause before the conductor's baton falls, the instant between clicking "send" and delivery, the sunset hour when day hasn't quite surrendered to night. These liminal spaces are reality's waiting rooms, where time feels both stretched and compressed, where identity becomes fluid as mercury, and where the familiar world dissolves into something stranger and more sublime. Here, in these threshold spaces, we are all travelers passing through doors that lead to doors that lead to doors, never quite arriving, never fully departed, suspended in the infinite moment between what was and what will be.

The piano used on this piece was a supposed haunted object, rescued from a cruise ship that had been left to float away.

The Liminal

Stay put | Resta fermo is an excerpt from my book 'Beginnings & Other Tragedies', which is included in the theatre work "Surviving You, Always' 2025 performed at LAC Lugano and SUDPOL Luzern by Swiss Collettivo Treppenwitz.

Field recording taken by IB in the Rhine w/jrz hydrophone in Basel in 2023 during the research phase.

'If I live with you
N latitudes and longitudes
simultaneous instants
before and after
my vertebral consumption
in between
we will rest.
Wherever you are
whenever you happen to be
stay put.

Se vivo con te
N latitudini e longitudini
istanti simultanei
prima e dopo il consumarsi
delle mie vertebre
in questo intervallo di mezzo
riposeremo.
Ovunque tu sia
in qualunque attimo ti trovi
resta fermo.'

Stay Put | Resta Fermo (part of Surviving You, Always performance)

Created in the field on January 14th using bespoke VLF radio receivers, Tecsun multiband radio & Hack4M keyed with Cubic SDR software which adds a special range of articulation in bandwidth. Sources are radio waves, so there's instability, unpredictability into the mix, keeps the improvisation on the go. The ensemble en suite.

the many & true approaches

Espressioni vivaci sul lato

More on the 683rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Space Shot — The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant — at https://disquiet.com/0683/

Glitch Wash (disquiet0683)

Original Music from:
https://soundcloud.com/wilhelm-matthies/kokeka-2-4-11-time-stretched
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https://soundcloud.com/wilhelm-matthies/crumbling-walls-opening
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https://soundcloud.com/wilhelm-matthies/crumbling-walls-inch-by-inch

Photo by Ivons

Wilhelm Matthies & Senglar  - Crumbles Part I

Instrumental composed and performed by DD February 2025 using @gforce-software 's Oberheim OB-X, OB-E and DMX exclusively.

for this haiku by Fuhaku
quiescence!
touching not the blossoms,
temple bell's voice

Temple - naviarhauku580

Part of the Naviar Haiku Music Challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

SONG 73 - Naviarhaiku580

single from "HALF BLANKED MEMORIES" 
OUT 13 08 25
made with love by Charlotte Salvatori

REMINESCENCE

My take on this was to use glitches or extraneous sounds that crop up in field recordings. These are usually edited out but here I extracted some from a couple of recordings and joined them to form a continuous sequence. After extending this sequence and adding a touch of reverb and delay I combined it with an evolving electronic drone.

More on the 715th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Err Apparent — The Assignment: Make a mistake on purpose. Build something from it — at https://disquiet.com/0715/.

Field Glitches (disquiet0715)

Be Part Of Your Own Machine

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the many & true approaches

Jeff Gburek