This is my second submission to this week's Disquiet Junto assignment. The audio panned all the way to the left was recorded by Matthew Mirliani as the first part of a trio. The right channel contains dandante's contribution for the second part of the trio. My contribution can be heard panned to the center.

More on the 699th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Third Third — The Assignment: Record the final third of a trio — at disquiet.com/0699/

Third Third Two [disquiet0699] w/Matthew Mirliani and Dandante

TrillScape

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0705: Book Start. The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 07045 discussion thread on Lines:

“The girl and the elderly man descended the steep stairs to the channel's narrow beach and walked along by the water's edge. Several small fishing boats were moving out to sea, passing a freighter entering the bay, booms raised, a…” 

So starts the first story in a collection of fascinating and contemplative short stories in “The Infinite Passion of Expectation” by Gina Berriault. I randomly picked the book, which had been sitting on our bookshelf for years, having read it decades ago. The stories, which take place in or around San Francisco, remind me of a unique, and sometimes surreal time in my life when I lived and worked there. 

This was created in Ableton Live and was inspired by the opening lines of the story, the book itself, and my reflection of a time many years ago. Thank you, I really enjoyed this prompt, and the creative journey it sent me on. 

More on the 705th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Book Start — The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0705/. This week’s project was proposed by Neil Stringfellow.

The Infinite Passion of Expectation [disquiet0705]

This week's Disquiet Junto prompt asked us to use the first line of a favorite book as the inspiration for a piece of music. I selected David Byrne's "How Music Works", with the opening sentence "I had an extremely slow-dawning insight about creation."

I'm traveling this week, so away from my outboard gear, but I did bring along a mini keyboard and headphones so that I could still participate this week! Features several layers of software synths (mainly Alchemy) and a field recording made from the 3rd floor balcony of the flat we're renting while we're here.

I tried to keep this sparse (for me at least), following the idea of the "slow-dawning insight", while still capturing the chaos of the creative act. It's probably still unsettling, but I just can't help that.

More on the 705th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Book Start — The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0705/. This week’s project was proposed by Neil Stringfellow.


A Slow Dawning Insight About Creation (disquiet0705)

2025-07-19

just a moment of melancholy

Korg monotron with loop pedal and tape delay (in that order). Added some strings and brass afterwards.

Part of the Naviar Records Haiku Music Challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku603-insect-tremolo/

insect tremolo-naviarhaiku603

2Aug25

https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/790476553480011776/naviarhaiku604-in-spring-sunlight

:D

In spring sunlight [naviarhaiku604]

Synths  are live recording, guitar added. All hardware instruments. No AI but pure RHI

Lift your spirit

Redwoods

naviarhaiku606 – slightly faint
August 13, 2025
'slightly faint
yet clear
the milky way'

by: Toshio Kiyosaki

Toshio Kiyosaki (1922-1999) was a Japanese haiku poet and scholar of Japanese literature. He published a biography of Kyoshi Takahama in 1966 and co-authored Kyoshi Monogatari, another study on the renowned haiku poet, in 1979.

The Milky Way (amanogawa, or "Heavenly River" in Japanese) is a kigo for Autumn, mainly because that's when the galaxy is most visible in Japan.

Haiku by Toshio Kiyosaki

Picture by Yong Chuan Tan

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SONG 116 - NaviarHaiku606 - Slightly Faint

from the album Pribegie
Pribegie (Romanian for "Wandering") is a 27' night-time journey attempting  to bridge the gap between different eras, places and genres.

Loalue - oblique beats and free electrons 
Călin Torsan - clarinet
Shanyio-  dulcimer,  xylophone, bowed dulcimer fx
https://shanyio.bandcamp.com/album/pribegie

Pribegie

towards silence

This account is mostly for sketches and experiments. For completed recordings and albums visit my bandcamp page: https://hippieswearingmuzzles.bandcamp.com/
For older sketches and experiments go here: https://soundcloud.com/hippieswearingmuzzles

Third Third Two [disquiet0699] w/Matthew Mirliani and Dandante

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