This is the fifth episode of the Disquietude podcast of ambient electronic music.

The goal of the Disquietude podcast is to collect adventurous work in the field of ambient electronic music. What follows is all music that captured my imagination, and I hope that it appeals to your imagination as well.

All five tracks of music are featured with the permission of the individual artists or record labels. Below is the structure of the episode with time codes for the tracks, the spoken annotation of the tracks, an interviews with one of the musicians (Lesley Flanigan), and a brief essay about reading waveforms.

02:15 Lesley Flanigan's "Headphone Space"
http://lesleyflanigan.com

08:09 Dave Seidel's "For LMY and MZ"
https://mysterybear.net

15:51 KMRU's "Figures Emerge"
https://kmru.info
	
23:34 Celia Hollander's "5:59 PM"
http://celiahollander.com

26:55 John Hooper's "Underwater Stream"
https://johnhooper.net

29:20 Annotation Begins

32:39 Lesley Flanigan Interview

39:53 "Reading Waveforms"

42:00 Credits

42:59 Closing Music

43:26 End

Thanks for listening.

Produced and hosted by Marc Weidenbaum. Disquietude theme music by Jimmy Kipple, with vocal by Paula Daunt. Logo by Boon Design.

Disquietude Ambient Podcast 0005

Bagley Wood Winter Corvid Roost

Recorded on the morning of Norways National Day the 17th of May in a park west in Bergen.

Spring is in full effect, and the dawn chorus sounds wonderful! 


Recorder: Sony PCM A10
Mic: LOM micro Usi as "tree ears"

17th Of May Dawn Chorus

Soundscape using a biscuit tin and contact mic to record the interface between the pond and outside world. The 'static' noise is the sound of  pond snail munching away.

Tin Pond Interface

On a day with little wind, picking up the sound of a wind turbine catching a breeze before stopping again.

Slow Starting Turbine

Underneath the dark skies above, and through our human eyes, we observe the light of galaxies and stars, ancient light falling softly on our retinas. In the darkness, animals rustle through fallen leaves, waves crash around the coastlines of vast land masses, and tectonic plates grind and shift the lithosphere. Insects make their homes in narrow crevices, and great aquatic creatures meander through deep blue seas. In the darkness of the forest, one owl calls to another as star light reflects from the Moon onto the heaving trees below. In the great expansive darkness, Jupiter’s gravity catches occasional Earthly bound comets and the Moon pulls the oceans creating tides. 

To be in the presence of this life, from the depths of the oceans to the upper atmospheric winds, is the consequence of a 13.8 billion year concatenation of events.

Through the darkness we can begin to see the cosmic significance of life on Earth.

Of Immeasurable Consequence

Do you rant "on the job"? I do, as will many others I'm sure. This soundtrack is the first of many I suspect, which highlight bird conservation issues in our managed farmlands of the UK. This rant discusses land and species management practices and the need to enforce them.

RANTING ON THE JOB1 - THE LAND AND SPECIES MANAGEMENT CONUNDRUM

Metacognition

A small swell pressing water and air between the ground ice and a bigger floe. Free water still, though the weather become colder. Recorded on a beautiful day with no wind and still open sea by Loukkeennokka shore in 

http://www.rupuranta.net/weblog/filet/210128/

(Sennheiser KE4 ab50cm, MixPre 32>24, no processing, 24/48 flac)

Snoring Sea Ice - 28/1/2021 - Loukkeennokka Shore

John Hooper is a photographer and artist who started his career shooting for lifestyle magazines at the start of the millennium. John has  shot many intriguing artists, musicians and actors over the last 18 years  and his experience as a photographer and director of photography have led him to collaborate on projects and numerous commissions. From 2010’s commission for Its Nice That with Art and Grafts Michael Moloney exploring 24hrs above lake Windermere in the Lake District, to the Blue Dot commission this year exploring the passage of light from the sun. The highly polished commercial work John is involved with has led him to throw off the shackles of post production and create work in camera where the limits are collaborators on the final work. In 2014 John started Landsounds as a portal for his sound experiments from there he has been using sound for collaborative work with Louise Beer. In January of 2021 John completed a short course in Field Recording : Soundscape Composition to further aid his understanding of this subject.

Of Immeasurable Consequence

Landsounds

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