Like being in an ice cave that's about to blow!  :)

I love the drone on this. These clanks give it an archaeological feel. I feel like I'm at a dig in the arctic.

Naviar Haiku - 012

user18081971 – 22 String Slush

Beat up on my guitar with a wet octave-up delay applied running through my solid-state guitar amp with bad capacitors (hence the noise) as a preamp.

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More on this 117th Disquiet Junto project — “Compose an original piece of music in response to a haiku” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/03/27/disquiet0117-naviarjunto/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Join the Naviar Haiku Project at:

https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

More on Naviar at:

http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/

Haiku by Nite Rote, more from whom at:

http://niterote.com/

Image associated with this Junto project is by William Warby, via a Creative Commons license:

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Snow Days [Naviarhaiku012 - They Encounter] [disquiet0117-naviarjunto]

"They encounter
A cathedral of ice
At the end of the world"

                       Nite Rote

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my first contribution to NaviarHaiku group.

a recording of ice cubes in a glass Paul Stretched
a recording of obsidian windchime pitched down
additional sounds from SonicCouture music box and Gamelan libraries
Ableton Live reverb

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Disquiet Junto Project 0117: Naviar Junto Haiku

This week’s project involves members of the Disquiet Junto participating in another music-making community: the Naviar Haiku Project. Already members of the Junto have joined in the Naviar, and this is an opportunity to add to those ranks. Each week participants in the Naviar Haiku Project compose original pieces of music in response to a shared, provided haiku. The following are the steps for this week.

Step 1: This is the haiku for the 12th Naviar Haiku project entry:

“They encounter
A cathedral of ice
At the end of the world”

Step 2: Compose an original piece of music in response.

Step 3: Upload the file to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud and describe your approach and process in the text field associated with the track.

Step 4: Also consider uploading the file to the Naviar Laboratory group on SoundCloud.

Step 5: Listen to other members’ tracks as they appear in the Disquiet Junto feed on SoundCloud, and comment on them when you have the time.

Additional Background: (1) At the end of every month a selection of tracks will be available on Naviar’s Bandcamp page as a pay-what-you-want album. (2) The haiku by Nite Rote. (3) The Naviar deadline is Wednesday, April 2, but this Junto project is to be completed by March 31. (4) The haiku was inspired by Werner Herzog’s documentary Encounters at the End of the World.

More on this 117th Disquiet Junto project — “Compose an original piece of music in response to a haiku” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/03/27/disquiet0117-naviarjunto/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Join the Naviar Haiku Project at:
https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

More on Naviar at:
http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/

Haiku by Nite Rote, more from whom at:
http://niterote.com/

Picture by Chris Zielecki 

obsidian [naviarhaiku012 – they encounter / disquiet0117-naviarjunto]

I shouldn't but I had to….I'm writing a paper to conclude my studies at DIEM, Denmark for a degree in Electronic Music Composition - but this assignment sounded to good  when it landed in my inbox this morning...
I set out, as I had a pretty clear idea of what I wanted the track to sound like, and it wouldn't take long (did someone say naive?). I also wanted to try out my new interface for transferring digital audio from my iPad to my DAW - I ended up not using an sounds from the iPad, but anyhow I had fun trying and the excuse for working on this piece sounded good in my ears….What I did do, was using a couple of recordings of ice and snow, and a recording of a piano at a local thrift shop…and myself whispering the haiku. The ice and snow recordings where eq'ed a bit the piano went through Ambient a couple of times and once through a looper/delay in Reaktor. The final result is pretty close to what I thought of, before I started - as always things changed once I started experimenting with the material…but thats okay.




Disquiet Junto Project 0117: Naviar Junto Haiku

This week’s project involves members of the Disquiet Junto participating in another music-making community: the Naviar Haiku Project. Already members of the Junto have joined in the Naviar, and this is an opportunity to add to those ranks. Each week participants in the Naviar Haiku Project compose original pieces of music in response to a shared, provided haiku. The following are the steps for this week.

Step 1: This is the haiku for the 12th Naviar Haiku project entry:

“They encounter

A cathedral of ice

At the end of the world”

Step 2: Compose an original piece of music in response.

Step 3: Upload the file to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud and describe your approach and process in the text field associated with the track.

Step 4: Also consider uploading the file to the Naviar Laboratory group on SoundCloud.

Step 5: Listen to other members’ tracks as they appear in the Disquiet Junto feed on SoundCloud, and comment on them when you have the time.

Additional Background: (1) At the end of every month a selection of tracks will be available on Naviar’s Bandcamp page as a pay-what-you-want album. (2) The haiku by Nite Rote. (3) The Naviar deadline is Wednesday, April 2, but this Junto project is to be completed by March 31. (4) The haiku was inspired by Werner Herzog’s documentary Encounters at the End of the World.

Deadline: Monday, March 31, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Length is for you to determine, but between one and five minutes is recommended.

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 “disquiet0117-naviarjunto″ in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track. Also, per the Naviar rules, please include “Naviarhaiku012 – They encounter” in the title and as tag.

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, please be sure to include this information:

More on this 117th Disquiet Junto project — “Compose an original piece of music in response to a haiku” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/03/27/disquiet0117-naviarjunto/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Join the Naviar Haiku Project at:

https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

More on Naviar at:

http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/

Haiku by Nite Rote, more from whom at:

http://niterote.com/

Image associated with this Junto project is by William Warby, via a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/8HqHv9

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“disquiet0117-naviarjunto″ whispering, not to wake the ice “Naviarhaiku012 – They encounter”

For track discussion see:
http://bassling.blogspot.com/2014/03/disquiet-junto-117-naviar-haiku-project.html

More on this 117th Disquiet Junto project — “Compose an original piece of music in response to a haiku” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/03/27/disquiet0117-naviarjunto/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Join the Naviar Haiku Project at:
https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

More on Naviar at:
http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/

Haiku by Nite Rote, more from whom at:
http://niterote.com/

High coo [disquiet0117-naviarjunto] [Naviarhaiku012 – They encounter]

**Production Notes**

"Cathedral of ice?" Well, this had to be a drone. 

The base is an older piece, heavily filtered and treated. Added some Operator Sine bass here and there. The Pianos are from Boscomac (great free Reaktor stuff over there!) and the synth is Ye Good Ol’ Animoog on the iPhone - weeeee! Finally there were some last touches woth my new toy, a shortwave radio. 

Composing, arranging and mixing took 3 hours. Thanks for listening! 


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**Disquiet Junto Project 0117: Naviar Junto Haiku**

This week’s project involves members of the Disquiet Junto participating in another music-making community: the Naviar Haiku Project. Already members of the Junto have joined in the Naviar, and this is an opportunity to add to those ranks. Each week participants in the Naviar Haiku Project compose original pieces of music in response to a shared, provided haiku. The following are the steps for this week.

Step 1: This is the haiku for the 12th Naviar Haiku project entry:

“They encounter
A cathedral of ice
At the end of the world”

Step 2: Compose an original piece of music in response.

(...) 

More on this 117th Disquiet Junto project — “Compose an original piece of music in response to a haiku” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/03/27/disquiet0117-naviarjunto/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Join the Naviar Haiku Project at:
https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

More on Naviar at:
http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/

Haiku by Nite Rote, more from whom at:
http://niterote.com/

Image associated with this Junto project is by William Warby, via a Creative Commons license:
https://flic.kr/p/8HqHv9

Creek [disquiet0117-naviarjunto]

This week’s project involves members of the Disquiet Junto participating in another music-making community: the Naviar Haiku Project. Already members of the Junto have joined in the Naviar, and this is an opportunity to add to those ranks. Each week participants in the Naviar Haiku Project compose original pieces of music in response to a shared, provided haiku. 
This is the haiku for the 12th Naviar Haiku project entry:

“They encounter
A cathedral of ice
At the end of the world”

This track started with an accidental discovery after I connected a phaser to a distortion pedal with a faulty cable - without anything being input it started feeding back with a low howl - I stretched this and used it as the basis for most of this track adding some drones and a few clanks and bumps.

Bowen Injin disquiet0117-naviarjunto Naviarhaiku012–Theyencounter

The die cast a very spartan structure.

Half the layers are field recordings from nearby Shoreline Park: steam valve, pump, and birds.
Half are synthesized instruments: bass, strings, and bass drum.

I chose to only use randomness for the aspects dictated by the assignment. The other elements I picked as I liked... but as this *isn't* _Variations I_, I'm okay with that!  
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image credit: "American Avocet - Shoreline Park, Mountain View, California." by Pavazamalli - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJyk_1g_ghI


Shoreline Park (disquiet0235 - Dice Music)

This little piece extends the basic instructions (see below) out to most aspects of the composition in the following fashion:

Length: roll of one die (i.e., between 1-6 minutes)
Section Count: roll of two dice
Layers-per-section Count: roll of one die
Notes-per-layer: roll of one die
--- what I added ---
Fundamental pitch-per-section: (roll of die) * 24.49 (pitch of G-2)
Multiplier for that pitch (per-layer): roll of one die (so 1x, 2x, 3x, etc)
Pan per-layer: roll of one die (dividing pan into 6 possible positions)
Note envelope per-layer:  roll of one die chose one of 6 envelopes
Each note volume: ((roll of one die) - 1) * -3 decibels (0 to -15 dB)
Each note frequency: section pitch * ((roll of one die) + 1)
Each note start: Yes, this too, and note length.

Perhaps I went overboard.  But all of this was done in a single RTcmix script which thankfully includes tools for random choosing between a set of N possibilities.

More on this 235th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Create a piece of music based on a structure determined by the roll of a single die” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0235/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

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Subscribe to project announcements here:

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Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place on a Slack (send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for inclusion) and at this URL:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

Image associated with this project by Chris Gladis, used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/f24Vc/


Pair 'o' Dice Found

Pair o' Dice Found [disquiet-0235]


https://troyallenschafer.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-no-5

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the object depicted in the photo above is the manifestation of the release's physical form as opposed to the digital version here

released July 1, 2016 

original sound and image by Troy Schafer 
Bret Hartl performed auxiliary synth on segments of track 1

Untitled No. 5 - track 1

taken from the 130701 compilation album, 'Eleven Into Fifteen', which is released on 15th July, 2016.

http://130701.com/release/eleven-fifteen-130701-compilation/

Set Fire To Flames - Barn Levitate

Appropriately for our first podcast edition of Magazine Stories, we travelled to Dundee (before the lockdown) to speak to one of the leading figures driving publishers' pivot to audio. DC Thomson's Chris Phin is a passionate advocate for the medium, as a means to get closer to your audience and to engage with younger demographics. 
He tells us how he's gone from geeky beginnings to a groundbreaking senior role within Scotland's biggest publisher, via editing roles at tech titles, freelance writing and consulting, and publishing the award-winning Scottish Wedding Directory. 
Along the way, he is generous with his advice for navigating a magazine media career - as well as his tips for would-be podcasters. They can be "quick, easy and deliverable", he insists.
We also caught up with Chris again last week to find out how the coronavirus crisis has affected his team, and our listening habits.


DC Thomson's Head of Podcasting: Chris Phin

G.D.T.S Live Session

G.D.T.S. Live Session (Nightmurscapes frumthi Caravan)

Currently the acclaimed Executive Director of Think, John Innes has been publishing magazines since primary school. His incredibly varied career runs the gamut from Sunday School publications to launching the controversial and risqué Bizarre magazine.
Along the way he learned from some of the greats of publishing - including John Brown, the founder of John Brown Media - and has discovered that film magazines aren't as glamorous as they seem.
John now leads Think's Glasgow team producing magazines and other content for the likes of Historic Scotland, and the National Trust for Scotland.&nbsp;In this episode of Magazine Stories, he talks us through the lessons he's learned along the way.&nbsp;


Think's Executive Director: John Innes

For this edition of Magazine Stories, we were very lucky to get some time with PPA’s Chief Executive, Barry McIlheney, in the last week of his ten-year stint in that role. He explains how the PPA has been supporting the magazine industry over the last decade, and particularly in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
Barry has a truly enviable career. He edited Smash Hits; launched Empire, heat and the French edition of FHM; and he held a series of senior management posts at EMAP. In a reflection of Barry’s many-storied life, our interview features the Oscars red carpet, editing advice from Warren Beatty, and the time a design decision enraged David Bowie.
As he points out, Barry has come a long way from his origins in North Belfast.


PPA's outgoing Chief Executive: Barry McIlheney

Naviar is a music community and label. Through regular publications, open projects and events, we explore the connection between experimental music and traditional Japanese poetry.

To join the Haiku challenge, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Violin scrapings with ambient rumblings. Viola drones with harsh noise. Harsh noise with ambient rumblings. Drones with viola scrapings. Violin scrapings. Drones. Viola rumblings.  You can also find me at Mhenwhar Huws...

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