Lead guitars: Marco Pisu @marco-pisu-511634437
Rhythm guitars: myself
Synth percussions (modular analogue): @houseofthejanas

Photo by Milada Vigerova on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/@milada_vigerova?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText

Percussivo 187

Arguably reaching its peak before it became overground, the period of the posthumously named Digital Magickal Realism movement (1988-1993)was mercifully brief. Seeking to fill the ritualistic and shamanistic gaps where the first incarnation of Psychic TV left off, after moving on allegedly invent acid house.

Pioneered by idle white boy late teenagers from the midlands in England, with Tascam Porta Ones and Elka synths, the cassette spools were left to run on record capturing wandering improvisations, while the protganists were busy reading the early Neil Gaiman DC comic books, hence this relatively obscure genre's name. 

Typical to the production would be sparseness of sound, leaving the mistakes in, and percussion making itchy sounds that were panned to the left and the right, not quite right sounding, like something in the corner of your eye.

Seminal musicians of the genre would be Lenny Claves and Damian Deviant, the latter's 'Plain Pandora' acknowledged as the most influential of the genre's output. With Lenny and Damian having to get jobs, respectively, in a record shop and a music examiner's office, the Digital Magickal Realism oeuvre pretty much died out, leaving scant impression behind.

Digital Magickal Realism (disquiet 0563)

Musstesein

Statum

a raw mix of RF(radio frequency)sweeps/dialog generated by a 1958 National radio, accompanied by a bass synth.

Radio Fiendly

The piece might match the form of Beethoven's Sixth "Pastoral" Symphony using mostly sculpted noise.  

Recorded, mixed & mastered 06 Jul 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2023 Jim Lemanowicz

This original version of "49 Nudes & 6 Dogs In Church Arouse Cops" was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0601: Hard Six The Assignment: Let a roll of the dice determine the relative prominence of various parts of a track.

Process notes - 

6-sided die rolls were 5, 2, 5, 2, 5, 1. These numbers helped determine the amounts of echo, warp flux, delay, echo offset, EQ freq, limiter ceiling & reverb for each track with 5/6 being highest and 1/6 being lowest. These numbers also determined frequency of occurrence in the track as a whole. These actions were all performed after the audio had been edited and brought into Ableton Live.

I used the following for the original recordings - three takes, one of backyard ambience, one adding xylophone and one primarily using my voice.

iPad 9th Gen
1 mic
xylophone
house alarm
backyard sounds - birds, wind
voice
dice 

AUM settings - 
Midi channel 1
mLFO 

Mic to audio channel 2
Audio Thing Crusher
Audio Thing Mantis
Audio Thing Wires

Mic to audio channel 3
DyStorT by Anthony Di Furia
Bleass Delay
Moloch Vox One Pitch Shifter by Anthony Di Furia

Bus of both mic channels
Audio Thing Bubbles

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Artwork/photo by Jim Lemanowicz, 22 Jul 2018, Tackapausha Pond Park, Seaford, NY, USA

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This track was originally released under the artist name "Don't Touch Loretta."

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JAMUARY 24 - Day 8

I improvised on the track of Daniel Diaz https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/live-bass-soundscape-disquiet0636.
release date:14/03/2024

Semantic Field- Daniel Diaz - Euclidean~~~ (disquiet0637)

Cracklings

The cormorant in the forest;
The cherry blossoms
Along the evening path.

haiku by Tan Taigi

picture by Redd F

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