Buttoned-Up

Recorded in Delaware, Ohio: November-December, 2014
Mixed and mastered in Kraków, Poland: January, 2015

"In the Swamps of Saint Christopher" on Lethatechnique: http://bit.ly/1DkGjVg

Fitful Suns is:
@jc-rowdy: guitars, bass, vox
@lethatechnique: drums

Fitful Suns - In The Swamps Of Saint Christopher

Tear out of school and take the solid orange Chuo line to Kichijōji. Shin, Emi, Chris, Shungo, Andrew, Brett, they nickname you “New Kid” and say you look like the bassist from Green Day. Skate down to the studio, just a few minutes from the station exit. Before heading up to hang out and take a turn behind the kit for 20 minutes, stop by a record store to browse the newest Fat Wreck Chords and Caustic Resin CDs in between Japanese grindcore 7”s. Was this the record store called Warszawa? Or was Warszawa in Shimokitazawa? Wherever it was, of one thing your memory is sure: you all pronounce the name “Wor-ti-zow-wa.” Then on to the teenage pop-punk jam with Dan and Adam moshing in the corner. The studio practice rooms all have huge racked drums with tons of cymbals and toms, you are just learning to play and don't even know how to keep the kick in time. When you tell Shungo maybe you’ll just not use the kick at all, he says calmly, “you should try to learn, cause it’d sound better.” Amps crunch and squeal, covers of Propagandhi, NOFX, and Lagwagon for a couple hours. The drumming continues round your head well after you sit down to a quick pork tonkatsu and then go skating in Shinjuku.

One recording of recent drums + resonators + delay = extension of drum memory to recent Ohio past.

One drum rack constructed out of snippets from recording above + random MIDI pattern generator = memory of learning to play the basic teenage punk beat.

One additional drum kit + random MIDI pattern generator = half-memories of all those years learning to play drums.

Another additional drum kit + random MIDI pattern generator + resonator = half-memories of Tokyo.

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More on this 185th Disquiet Junto project (“Summon up a memory, and then summarize it in sound”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/07/16/disquiet0185-memorymusic/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

This project was proposed by Robert Thomas, more from whom at:

http://dizzybanjo.com/

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Kichijōji Warszawa (Drum Half-Memories)(disquiet0185-memorymusic)

From a mixtape made in 1998, North Canton, Ohio.

Fitful Suns – “Got It (Sebadoh Cover)” – git/bass/vox by @jc-rowdy, drums by @lethatechnique

Motel Blonde – “Another State” – git/bass/vox by Russ Fink (bass written by @jc-rowdy), drums by @lethatechnique

Fitful Suns – Got It (1998 Hot Car Mixtape with Motel Blonde)

Viandante (PKRZDZ)

Achtendertig

Used all Ableton presets: tingklik, alto sax, tambourines (first track made in Ableton 10). Had the soundtrack to and scenes from "Powaqqatsi" on the mind. Enjoyed the challenge of creating something upbeat that was supposed to signify something like "happiness."
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More on this 321st weekly Disquiet Junto project (Let’s Active: Make a short piece of music that decreases the mind’s tendency to wander, based on research by Dr. Liila Taruffi, PhD, and her colleagues) at:

https://disquiet.com/0321/

More on Taruffi, music, and mind-wandering at:

http://liilataruffi.com/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0321-lets-active/

Interieur met Kamerplant (disquiet0321 Let's Active)

Sequences done on the Moog Mother-32. Delays added on Ableton along with Legowelt's Smackos Tape Station.

3.4.18

The 0-Coast and Mother-32 run off a sequence on the SQ-1. The Korg is seemingly rude as a repeater (however randomized), the Make Noise as an introvert, the Moog as an extrovert. The Moog keeps up a debate purposefully with the Make Noise patch: speaking over, chopping up, syncopating without a plan, cultivating a cloud of noise, enunciating with some delay, interrupting in and out of some unseen etiquette. Rude mechanicals, friendly machines. 

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More on this 339th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Rude Mechanicals: The Assignment: Record a piece of music in this imaginary genre) at:

https://disquiet.com/0339/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0339-rude-mechanicals/

The Interruptor (disquiet0339 Rude Mechanicals)

Las Wolski is @alexrainer + @lethatechnique.

Las Wolski - How To Win (When You're Sitting Back)

Make Noise 0-Coast, Moog Mother-32, Ableton, and field recordings made 2015–18.

Selling Stone Fruits

MIDI file from 8notes.com > Katsuhiro Chiba's August synth plugin > Bastl MicroGranny granular sampler > Way Huge Supa-Puss delay pedal > Digitech Polaris reverb pedal > Ableton echo

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More on this 363rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Gymnopédie Rats: Make over Erik Satie’s “Gymnopédie No. 1” in your chosen genre — at:

https://disquiet.com/0363/

Many thanks to Peggy Nelson and Alex Hawthorn for having proposed this project, at the tail end of last week’s project.

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https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0363-gymnopedie-rats/

A Couple Things (disquiet0363 Gymnopédie Rats)

• Source: Korg SQ1 > Make Noise 0-Coast > Way Huge Supa-Puss > Digitech Polara
• Glitch 1: GlitchMachines Hysteresis > Ableton Beat Repeat
• Glitch 2: Ableton Granulator II

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More on this 374th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Glitch Glitch / The Assignment: what happens when you glitch something that’s been glitched? — at:

https://disquiet.com/0374/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

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https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0374-glitch-glitch/

Reciprocator (disquiet0374 Glitch Glitch)

Opened Resolve

Flying to Ohio

She Gets Hiccups Often

“One can only arrive at the experience of the transcendental – if it is reached at all – when one is oneself in a position of un-knowing, that is, of humility; namely, while remaining in the world of technê he or she begins to venerate a certain kind of experience, acquires it, makes it one’s own, realizes it, sustains it, repeats it – without burdening its sense, its essence with its own great questions.” - László Krasznahorkai, “The Acropolis in Sunglasses”

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