The track sounds like it really comes from the body. Immersive!

This one is absolutely soothing and brought me someplace else.

Disquiet Junto Project 0654: Just Notation
The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score by Franziska Baumann.

This project is the second of three that are being done over the course of as many months in collaboration with the 2024 Musikfestival Bern, which will be held in Switzerland from September 4 through 8 (details at musikfestivalbern.ch). We are working at the invitation of Tobias Reber, an early Junto participant, who manages the festival’s educational activities. This year is the sixth in a row that the Junto has collaborated with Musikfestival Bern.

Step 1: Spend time observing this graphic score by Franziska Baumann, the Swiss composer and musician who is part of this year’s Musikfestival Bern. It is titled True Glimpses 1. There is a larger version available for download 12. More on Baumann at franziskabaumann.ch 7.

Step 2: Consider how the image in Step 1 can be interpreted as a graphic score. (If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of graphic notation, read up and join the conversion at the llllllll.co 3 link below.)

Step 3: Record a piece of music that interprets the graphic score from Step 1.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0654” (no spaces/quotes) in the name of your track.

Upload: Post your track to a public account (SoundCloud preferred but by no means required). It’s best to focus on one track, but if you post more than one, clarify which is the “main” rendition.

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Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

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Length: The length is up to you.

Deadline: Monday, July 15, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

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Stretching ahead -
the straight road,
loneliness.

A wandering poet and ascetic Zen priest, Santōka was a disciple of Ogiwara Seisensui, one of the first poets to discard the traditional use of the 5-7-5 structure in haiku.

Santōka’s poetry emphasizes the necessity of sabi (solitude) in order to achieve spiritual enlightenment and serenity.
 

Haiku by Santoka Taneda

Picture by Devin Justesen

Lonely road ((naviarhaiku552)

sound art for disquiet0658.

More on the 658th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Re-Amplify — The Assignment: Re-record and re-compose an organ improvisation by Daniel Glaus — at https://disquiet.com/0658/

Created some loops and played them through a bone conduction speaker. Then used the speaker as a vibration tool to resonate a plastic bottle that had once contained sparkling spring water. It was recorded it using a contact mic over the mouth of the bottle. Moving the speaker about by hand changes how it resonates, less pressure on the speaker will make it vibrate and buzz. Some EQing, but no further effects added.

flood of tears (disquiet0658)

Disquiet Junto Project 0658: Re-Amplify
The Assignment: Re-record and re-compose an organ improvisation by Daniel Glaus.

First I did a recording of a portable speaker output, recorded by a Zoom H1 in a Microwave. It somehow had a crazy humming in it. I recorded two sessions with the Zoom, recoding from the MacBook Speakers. And I tried to record with the Zoom the Output of earpods and changed the sound by holding the earpods closer or further away. All the time the windows were open, which explains the noise. The idea was to have organ-ic elements in it that are as improvised as the recut of the recordings.

Thanks to Daniel Glaus.

More on the 658th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Re-Amplify — The Assignment: Re-record and re-compose an organ improvisation by Daniel Glaus — at https://disquiet.com/0658/

Organic Impro [disquiet0658]

Music made from a graphic score.

More on the 659th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reading the Body — The Assignment: Interpret the markings on the back of a cello as a graphic score — at https://disquiet.com/0659/

Image: detail from a painting by Don MacKeen

reading [disquiet0659]

This track was inspired by this week's Disquiet Junto project. I recorded our washing machine in the spin cycle, added two effect tracks with different modulations, created a version with PaulXStretch and mixed the resulting track from these four sources.

For me this track is the soundtrack of a movie with an apocalyptic vision of a megalopolis.

More on the 661st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Consumer Drone Product — The Assignment: Record a piece of drone music using sounds from your home — at https://disquiet.com/0661/

The Washing Machine Orchestra (Disquiet0661)

Be careful! ... The SoundCloud algorithm has deemed this not 'music' so won't be recommending to potentially interested listeners 😁 I wonder why I take that as a compliment?! 😉

More on the 662nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Spin Cycle — The Assignment: Record a piece of music that pits one bicyclist against another — at https://disquiet.com/0662/

more halF unusuaL

halF spiN [disquiet0662]

Yellow Lines (the Nails Of Truth On A Glass Surface)

misty spring rains...
umbrellas high and low
aboard the ferry

Regarded as the father of contemporary haiku, Masaoka Shiki was a poet and literary critic during the Meiji period Japan.

He advocated realistic observation by “sketching” (shasei) poems and going out into nature with notebooks, thus abandoning the traditional subjects of haiku of the time. His advice for an aspiring poet was, “Use both imaginary pictures and real ones, but prefer the real ones.”

Haiku by Masaoka Shiki

Picture by Makoto Tsuka

Misty Rain (Naviarhaiku559)

While hiking in the Bavarian mountains, gazing at the Sun cresting over a mountain peak, I felt akin to a Dharma wheel, embodying a sense of liberation that I infused into this piece of music. Some historians link ancient chakra symbols to solar symbolism. In the Vedas, the deity Surya is connected to the solar disc, described as a chariot with a single wheel (cakra). Mitra, an aspect of Surya, is referred to as "the eye of the world," implying that the sun is an eye that both illuminates and observes the world. This wheel is also a principal symbol of Vishnu, suggesting an association with light and wisdom.

reading [disquiet0659]

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