like leaves unfurling in sunlight, beautiful

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I am revisiting a track from my project Illusion Of Safety, recorded in 2010 and finally just released on the new album Organ Choir Drone. It has been a struggle for me to keep this project purely experimental and challenging in line with my original intent. I want to make many kinds of music that I love and am interested in the form(s)of music and want to explore making them, so its apparent that i need to pursue that in other projects. I am grateful for the challenge and assignments of the Disquiet Junto in helping that along. I keep going cinematic in many musical attempts, probably thanks to 2001 A Space Odyssey's influence on my 9 year old mind, and maybe my moms love of Burt Bacharach have played a part in my nebulous musical desires that tend to go cinematic/dramatic/orchestral. Today I took the track Waste of Civilization and edited it to a shorter version, added melodic elements: multiple piano, woodwinds, + a max4live DX-7 emulation and built it up using no grid or quantization. Another goal has been to get to the point of making more music with real instruments in real time. No Grid, I have a ways to go before that is successful, so please forgive the imperfections. Plus it still sounds like IOS:(

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The album is the first of 4 planned releases for the 40th anniversary of the project and is released by No Part Of It, available as cassette, CD-r, & digital of course:
https://illusionofsafety.bandcamp.com/album/organ-choir-drone

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The Assignment: Rerecord a piece of music.
Step 1: The goal of this project is to simply perform and record again something you’ve performed and recorded previously. Think about something you’d like to revisit.
Step 2: Now rerecord the piece of music you decided upon in Step 1.
More on this 579th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Memory Serves (The Assignment: Rerecord a piece of music), at: Disquiet Junto Project 0579: Memory Serves – Disquiet
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Disquiet Civilization -disquiet0579

I decided to re-perfom / re-record my contribution to week [250](https://soundcloud.com/theatlasroom/drone-for-disquiet0250). Most contributions have made heavy use of samples, but this was one of the few based on midi.

I deleted all the existing instruments, piped the midi out to my Eurorack and recorded the results. The original project had a few audio FX chains, so i re-used them with the new tracks and made some more adjustments.

Erica Synths Midi CV -> ALA Pachinko -> Calsynth Rangoon + MI Plaits -> ALA Cumulus -> ALM Tangle
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Redrone for ____ [disquiet0579]

I looked up images of leaf development and used those as inspiration to improvise on the piano. I shaped the recorded midi track to make into a piece.

More on this 580th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Evo Evol Evolve (The Assignment: Record a piece of music that develops like an organism evolves), at: Disquiet Junto Project 0580: Evo Evol Evolve – Disquiet

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Leaflet improv/mptu (disquiet0580)

Disquiet Junto Project 0580: Evo Evol Evolve
The Assignment: Record a piece of music that develops like an organism evolves.

Out of curiosity, I had just bought a sequencer called ZOA, so I decided to go with the "Game of Life" approach of this sequencer (chances are I'm not alone in this). In case you're not familiar with the concept: Conway's Game of Life is a cellular model of evolution in which the life of each cell depends on the life of neighboring cells. In ZOA, each cell is a note and four sequencers play these notes according to additional rules. ZOA adds features like MIDI, and I liked that a lot. 

What I didn't like was the randomness of the melodies, but hey, isn't life random in the first place? (Big debate… let's say: Sometimes it feels random...) I had pushed the development by changing the probability of the notes by hand. If the game of life had come to a halt with some dead pattern, I would have used that, but I didn't want to force it.

I played with many instruments and patterns, but in the end I reduced it to two tracks of eighth notes. For the beginning and the end I chose a cheap fade-in, fade-out, because life came quietly and very slowly out of nowhere, and I think that according to current scientific knowledge, one day it will end like that and just fade out.

Self verdict: The track is soulless and meaningless, like the evolution of life, which need not mean that listeners could not hear either soul or meaning in it if they felt like it.

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ZOA (Mac/iOS)
https://www.audiosymmetric.com/zoa.html
I'm in no way affiliated with it and there are many alternative MIDI tools doing "life" patterns. ZOA is not without its limits, but I found it a very interesting addition to my pattern park.

LIFE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life

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More on this 580th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Evo Evol Evolve (The Assignment: Record a piece of music that develops like an organism evolves), at: https://disquiet.com/0580/

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What Comes Up Must Come Down [disquiet0580]

naviarhaiku481 – travel home
travel home
even the air
has changed

Wai Mei Wong is a former early childhood educator living in Toronto, Canada. Her picture book Hello, Dark was shortlisted for the 2022 IODE Jean Throop Book Award, and chosen for the 2022 CCBC Spring Best Book for Kids & Teens Selection. She enjoys poetry, nature walks and funny movies.

She started writing Haiku in October 2022, after she became curious about this deceivingly simplistic form of poetry. Her inspiration comes mostly from her experience or the stories from people close to her.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 29th March 2023

haiku by Wai Mei Wong https://twitter.com/wmwongcreator

picture by Kate Bezzubets https://unsplash.com/@k8_bzz

travel home

naviarhaiku481 - travel home

naviarhaiku488 – in dream world
in dream world
was I laughing at a turtle?
winter seclusion

Bischen(naviarhaiku488)

Thanks, @death_hags, for featuring this track in your recent Mixcloud set: https://www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/big-grey-sun-20-09th-september-2023/

My contribution for this week's prompt -- details about the process:
Picked bits of of a heavy gain, utterly over-to-top overdriven guitar improv as it lunges into feedback. Inspired by/reminded me of a Ben Frost gig at Village Underground, London. 
Looped bits of said feedback section and fed them through a step filter plug-in in Cubase, causing it to murph frequency and resonance gradually as it moves through different settings, in a pulsating manner, extracting all sounds of ticklish harmonics that I find very pleasing.

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///Filter Progression///disquiet0595

recorded drones and noise using a VST synth, along with a recording of some mouth noises into inner ocean 4track to make lil loops. altered speed playback direction and EQ of those loops, and then faded them in and out for the final mix. The master bus had some compression and reverb, and i used soundhack bubbler for a granular delay effect on the master bus.

Minimal Blend, Coffee Sips disquiet0599

Passage (instrumental)

Happy autumn lullaby

The title of this album my attempt at translating the Farsi phrase قارچ‌های غربت to English. It comes from the poem "The Sound of Water's Footsteps" by Iranian poet Sohrab Sepehri. 

A more literal translation of the phrase would be Mushrooms of "Ghurba", an originally Arabic word that has several meanings, including senses of estrangement, alienation, loneliness, being away for home, and longing.

I composed many of these pieces during and after Israel's 12 day war on Iran in the summer of 2025. Being  an Iranian living abroad for 15 years, I had never felt Ghurba the way I felt it this summer, as I realized more and more that Iranian lives matter to exactly no one.
Ghurba and all its meanings overshadow most of the pieces in this album. 

The music heard on this post is the final track, which is an improv piece with the same title as the album.

In the album art, I tried to depict a mycelial network creeping up the piano and my body, and expanding into the ground, maybe a thread or two reaching the other side of the world where home is.

As Sepehri's poem says "Who cares if sometimes the mushrooms of ghurba start to grow?" 

You are right Sohrab, nobody does...

Leaflet improv/mptu (disquiet0580)

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