I like this.  I'd love to see it symphonically arranged with other instruments darting around.  It's weird and exciting- one of my favorites from this project.

It almost sounds like a violin that has been distorted

More on this 385th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Audubonus Instrumentum / The Assignment: Imagine a fake instrument, and make music with it — at:

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John James Audubon image associated with this project adapted (cropped, colors changed, text added, cut’n’paste) from a public domain Audubon illustration, courtesy of Wikipedia.

Disquiet Junto Project 0385: Audubonus Instrumentum

Disquiet Junto Project 0541: 10BPM Techno
The Assignment: Make some snail-paced beats.
Option 1: Record some 10BPM techno.

For this weeks project I chose option 1. 
I used Logic Pro (it goes all the way down to 5BPM), two instances of SonicVibes Microtonic, time stretched samples and various synth plugins. Trying to make something this slow was interesting, the space between things is more apparent and made the sound selection more important, the space needed "space". Its only 16 bars long but runs for just over 7 minutes.... It's quite the dirge, with a few moments that reminded me of a certain soundtrack.....

APOB - 10BPM (A Clockwork Lozenge) [disquiet0541]

My submission for
Disquiet Junto Project 0541: 10BPM Techno
The Assignment: Make some snail-paced beats.
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Sorry Its 12(disquiet0541)

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10BPMTECHNO - disquiet0541

A common trope among social media posts are videos with enticing clickbait titles, such as: “Homeless Person Sits Down At Piano, Then THIS Happened.” The reveal is that the figure at the public piano is actually a professional musician. These scenes typically take place at a shopping mall, where an impromptu audience is delighted by the player’s unexpected dexterity.

Franco Bifo Berardi reminds us that “The goal of the [analyst] is to give him/her the possibility to see other landscapes, and to change the focus, to open some new ways of imagination.” One might imagine the reaction at Carnegie Hall if a virtuoso flubbed a performance so badly that it bordered on an Andy Kaufman skit.

This is why Suss Müsik cannot fathom a dance club scenario in which techno music plays at 10BPM. It’s not impossible, however, for such an event to occur in a setting such as a shopping mall. And rather than a DJ playing electronic techno music, it might be a very strange string quartet attempting to fit their odd time signatures within that 10BPM timestamp. 

This is the approach Suss Müsik took with this week’s project. A series of four cyclical phrases were played on fake violin, fake cello, fake harp and fake dulcimer. A single strike of a mallet keeps time in 10BPM; meanwhile, the instruments are bowed and plucked in 1/64 and 1/128 to give a sense of movement. The constant repetition is perhaps a nod to techno’s reliance on looped beats. 

All of this happens in front of a bewildered audience of mall shoppers (courtesy of public domain audio), who would just as soon be left alone in the food court without this distraction. Then again, as Violet Trefusis once wrote, perhaps it’s true that “love thrives on indifference” and some appreciation would be detected. Maybe we’ll try it one day.

The piece is titled Trefusis. The image may or may not be a shopping center somewhere in the US. 

More on this 541st weekly Disquiet Junto project — 10BPM Techno (The Assignment: Make some snail-paced beats) — at: https://disquiet.com/0541/

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Trefusis [Disquiet0541]

Made on Christmas Day, 2020 as a demo for Portage Garage Sounds. Slowed to 10bpm on May 13, 2022 for Disquiet Junto.

PGS Trial 122520 "Ten BPM Techno" (disquiet0541)

10bpmtechno_ disquiet0541

I wrote this prior to the ‘slow fire’ tour of ’95. performed it nightly. I began recording a fully arranged version for ‘dead bees..’ but it was lost in a computer crash. yuka found this demo on cassette. it’s certainly of its time. as far as i can tell, i’d just completed the writing and recorded this(very)rough take for reference.

i do nothing (live demo) - david sylvian ©samadhisound

for piano, string orchestra, singing bowl, and bass drum.

One Page

In The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, the late Milan Kundera describes how “the space [of memory] is an obstacle to progress.” Kundera also advises us that “the memory of revulsion is stronger than the memory of tenderness,” perhaps implying that the things we forget can be as beneficial to our mental state as what we choose to remember.

Sigmund Freud believed that we repress childhood memories in order to avoid facing the sexual impulses buried within our minds. The actual science isn’t quite that salacious. The boring truth is that children of a certain age simply haven’t developed the cognitive or linguistic skills necessary for recalling people, places, or events.

Ah, but something happens to children between the age of 18 to 24 months. That’s when toddlers are able to recognize themselves in the mirror, thus realizing that they exist as a “me” in a world populated by other “me’s.” From that point forward, the child is the protagonist of an autobiography yet to be written.

This wondrous, perhaps intimidating realization was the theme behind Suss Müsik’s Junto contribution: a sad but simple piano sequence played sparingly on the nature of realization. The chords represent wide-eyed glances into the vaguely familiar; the spaces question what it all might mean.

The piece is titled Kundera in honor of the author, who recently passed away in July 2023.

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.
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Kundera [Disquiet0605]

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0605: Fifty Fifty

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0605 discussion thread:

This is ended up more like 60/40 sound to silence ratio or more. Had fun anyway trying to balance those two elements. This was created in Ableton Live using Slate+Ash Choreographs. Used Soundtoys Filterfreak2, Strymon BigSky and Minimal Audio Cluster Delay for effects.

Image is by Sumner Mahaffey on Unsplash.

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/ 1
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Sporadic Formations [disquiet0605]

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WOBBLING LOCK PICK: The Convict Shoves Into the Empty Home (Disquiet0385)

The sciù is a double reed aerophone, consisting of a cylindrical tube inside which are placed thin membranes that produce resonant delays. The sciù was built by Amos Soma, the name derives from a Sicilian dessert, a ricotta cheese. As such sweet induces the player and those who listen to States of ecstasy.      
release date :17_ 05_2019   
More on this 385th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Audubonus Instrumentum / The Assignment: Imagine a fake instrument, and make music with it — at:

https://disquiet.com/0385/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Thanks to Paul Harrington for the Latin assistance.

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

John James Audubon image associated with this project adapted (cropped, colors changed, text added, cut’n’paste) from a public domain Audubon illustration, courtesy of Wikipedia.

Etude Du Sciù (disquiet0385)

Found floating amongst the stars, initially though to be an alien satellite, a yalpian blackstone organ was found in 1972 by Major Tom & Eva. 

After several years of experiments, Professor Spleet Von Gingle finally succeeded in taping a few minutes of it's song, after which (she claims) it broke completely. 

Rumour has it, though, that pieces and parts as well as some of the oscillating blackstones has been seen on stage or in the studios of some of the biggest bands throughout the '70'ies and '80'ies.

More on this 385th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Audubonus Instrumentum / The Assignment: Imagine a fake instrument, and make music with it — at:

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disquiet0385 - etude for yalpian fields

For this weeks contribution I utilized a 358 pattern on the Roland DJ 808. I then recorded a tambourine with Zen magnets attached to it, a bowl of water with magnets in it while using a squeezee pig blowing into the bowl, filling up with water, snout up with water. In addition I added some tongue clicks, lip bubbles. Building an instrument rack in Abelton with Wavetable and Operator to include an in the box instrument combination.
Ta=Tamborine
Mag=Magnet
WA=wavetable
O=Operator

More on this 385th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Audubonus Instrumentum / The Assignment: Imagine a fake instrument, and make music with it — at:

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More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Thanks to Paul Harrington for the Latin assistance.

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

CyMag WAudubonus OInstrumentum Disquiet0385

TaMag WAudubonus OInstrumentum Disquiet0385 Download ME

This is the only known recording of Mrs Ethel Cartwright performing on what the unknown recordist dubbed the “Ethelphone” in their notes. Said notes describe the Ethelphone as being “an unholy collection of fragments of household cleaning implements played by Mrs Cartwright with far more enthusiasm than skill through an ancient reel to reel tape recorder powered by a car battery” 

Cartwright and her husband Sidney lived almost all of their lives on an isolated farm that only had the most basic amenities. Mrs Cartwright however had a passion for music that apparently remained a source of friction between the couple for a lot of their married lives. She had a collection of very poor quality tapes recorded with a microphone from a battery powered radio. When visited by the recordist who made this tape she expressed an enthusiasm for a show presented by “Mister John Peel”. Her husband seemed irritated by this and had to be persuaded to go and do some work on the farm by the recordist so that his muttering and grumbling didn’t spoil the recording. 

A couple of years after this recording life on the farm came to a tragic end. Mrs Cartwright turned up at a neighbouring farm disheveled and distressed. She said only “call police. Tell ‘em to go to the farm”. She accepted a cup of tea from her Neighbour but wouldn’t say anything more. Something she continued through the subsequent trial and her imprisonment. Life in prison didn’t suit Mrs Cartwright and she passed away in her sleep a few short months into sentence.

Disquiet Junto Project 0385: Audubonus Instrumentum

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"The Ethelphone" disquiet0385

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.






Update: All my music is now Creative Commons licensed. This means if you want to use it in a video or an app then go for it. All I ask is that you credit me and link back here to my soundcloud (http://soundcloud.com/junklight). It would also be cool if you could let me know you've used it. 


I love listening to music. I love making music 

I love technology, but only as a means to an end when it comes to music making. 

I'm after music that has life not music that is perfectly constructed 

Here is my music 

"The Ethelphone" disquiet0385

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