Name: LINEAR BELLS - Jan10 - disquiet0106-sonarvortex by linearbells in Disquiet Junto Project 0106: Sonar Vortex
Duration: 4 min

More on this 106th Disquiet Junto project (“Treat the weather as a graphically notated score”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/01/09/disquiet0106-sonarvortex/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

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Disquiet Junto Project 0106: Sonar Vortex

After reading this weeks Junto, I knew right away what I wanted to do...I recently got hold of "punch hole music boxes" (thanks Masaya for sharing a link that turned me to these wunderinstruments) Music boxes that play the music from holes you punch into a card...(Hope it makes sense) I traced the image, I got from the weather site, onto a card - inverted and retrograded it to get 4 variation all together ...recorded the music box twice - once in the intended direction and once reversed. Went out into my garden and recorded the sound of the weather around 1PM - it' pretty windy as you can hear. Kept it simple eq'ed and mastered a little to finish it - ohh btw theres some delay/reverb on the musicbox....

Disquiet Junto Project 0106: Sonar Vortex

This week’s project is about graphic notation. We’ll find the music inherent in weather patterns. The procedure is as follows:

Step 1: Go to the website WeatherSpark.com. Enter the city/town where you live.

Step 2: Find the weather for January 10, 2014. (Depending on when you do the project, this will either be a prediction or a matter of historical record.)

Step 3: This weather website has many viewing options, but the default is to just see the temperature, and you should only see the temperature for this project. The image should roughly resemble the one associated with this post (if not visible, see image at disquiet.com). The chart depicts the weather altering over the course of the day, and has it shown in various bands, with the actual/predicted temperature as a black line, and historical highs, lows, averages, and other data depicted in more subtle shades. For additional information about reading the weather chart, visit this URL: http://goo.gl/3fRGwW. Make a screenshot of the day’s weather chart of your area, and trim it to just show that one day. Be sure to associate that image with your track, so the listener can view it.

Step 4: Produce an original track in which the weather chart is read from left to right as a musical score. Perhaps you’ll assign a different instrument or tone to each band or line. Perhaps you’ll align pitches with temperatures. Perhaps you’ll set the pace based on the time of day.

Deadline: Monday, January 13, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your finished work should be between 2 and 4 minutes in length.

Information: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0106-sonarvortex” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting the track, be sure to include this information:

More on this 106th Disquiet Junto project (“Treat the weather as a graphically notated score”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/01/09/disquiet0106-sonarvortex/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

“disquiet0106-sonarvortex” Musicbox and Stormy Weather

I recorded this track on Jan,10, after taking elements from my garden (some birds, some wind, some grass). I used one processed guitar and tried to play live to follow the graphical draw of my city weather map. It was firstly recorded on my old cassette rec, then on to my reel to reel ... and quickly mastered ... in digital ...


Disquiet Junto Project 0106: Sonar Vortex
This week’s project is about graphic notation. We’ll find the music inherent in weather patterns. The procedure is as follows:
Step 1: Go to the website WeatherSpark.com. Enter the city/town where you live.
Step 2: Find the weather for January 10, 2014. (Depending on when you do the project, this will either be a prediction or a matter of historical record.)
Step 3: This weather website has many viewing options, but the default is to just see the temperature, and you should only see the temperature for this project. The image should roughly resemble the one associated with this post (if not visible, see image at disquiet.com). The chart depicts the weather altering over the course of the day, and has it shown in various bands, with the actual/predicted temperature as a black line, and historical highs, lows, averages, and other data depicted in more subtle shades. For additional information about reading the weather chart, visit this URL: http://goo.gl/3fRGwW. Make a screenshot of the day’s weather chart of your area, and trim it to just show that one day. Be sure to associate that image with your track, so the listener can view it.
Step 4: Produce an original track in which the weather chart is read from left to right as a musical score. Perhaps you’ll assign a different instrument or tone to each band or line. Perhaps you’ll align pitches with temperatures. Perhaps you’ll set the pace based on the time of day.
Deadline: Monday, January 13, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: Your finished work should be between 2 and 4 minutes in length.
Information: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto.
Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0106-sonarvortex” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.
Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).
Linking: When posting the track, be sure to include this information:
More on this 106th Disquiet Junto project (“Treat the weather as a graphically notated score”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/01/09/disquiet0106-sonarvortex/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/


LINEAR BELLS - Jan10 - disquiet0106-sonarvortex

**Production Notes**

The weather was nice today in Munich, Germany. Much too warm for a winters day. Sunny. It made me want to go outside. When the Disquiet Challenge came in, I got my data from Weatherspark.com and tried to make sense of the "score". (You find a clipping at http://www.artinvaders.com/transfer/disquiet106.png)

- As a day is pretty much a manifestation of time, I made some simple beats, which represent the ticking of a clock in quarters of an hour. 

- I defined most of the temperature lines as pitch. Played the notes was played with Reaktors Gaugear (a very pretty beast this is).  

- Added some bass (there was a line starting in the middle of the piece). 

- I also had three sunny hours in the middle of the piece and three clouds later, which were made woth different bell like sounds from Operator. 

Production time: about 3 hours. Honestly, it’s more a sketch than a song. And it‘s too dense. And a bit too short. As always. 


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**Disquiet Junto Project 0106: Sonar Vortex**

This week’s project is about graphic notation. We’ll find the music inherent in weather patterns. The procedure is as follows:

Step 1: Go to the website WeatherSpark.com. Enter the city/town where you live.

Step 2: Find the weather for January 10, 2014. (Depending on when you do the project, this will either be a prediction or a matter of historical record.)

Step 3: This weather website has many viewing options, but the default is to just see the temperature, and you should only see the temperature for this project. The image should roughly resemble the one associated with this post (if not visible, see image at disquiet.com). The chart depicts the weather altering over the course of the day, and has it shown in various bands, with the actual/predicted temperature as a black line, and historical highs, lows, averages, and other data depicted in more subtle shades. For additional information about reading the weather chart, visit this URL: http://goo.gl/3fRGwW. Make a screenshot of the day’s weather chart of your area, and trim it to just show that one day. Be sure to associate that image with your track, so the listener can view it.

Step 4: Produce an original track in which the weather chart is read from left to right as a musical score. Perhaps you’ll assign a different instrument or tone to each band or line. Perhaps you’ll align pitches with temperatures. Perhaps you’ll set the pace based on the time of day.

(...)

More on this 106th Disquiet Junto project (“Treat the weather as a graphically notated score”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/01/09/disquiet0106-sonarvortex/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

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Pretty Day [disquiet0106-sonarvortex]

My first Disquiet Junto submission for 2014 (and my first one in far too long). This project has us take a visualization of the weather in one's local area, and use it as a graphical score.

My process:
- Use the Awesome Screenshot extension in Google Chrome to clip the image from the WeatherSpark site.
- Open the image in GIMP. Transform it by inverting the colors and posterizing.
- Imported the image to Virtual ANS, a program that can convert image into sound. Tweaked the ANS parameters until I was satisfied with the result, and exported it as a WAV file.
- Imported the sound into Audacity. Added a little silence to the end, applied some EQ to boost the bass, applied a simulated plate reverb, adjusted the amplitude, and exported as an MP3.

Additional notes:
- I decided to prepare the image before submitting it to Virtual ANS because it would allow the graphical elements to emerge more starkly.
- There is an artifact at the end the track resulting from the ANS process; I decided to keep it as it seems to work as a coda.
- The weather data came from the Silver Ranch Airpark in Jaffrey, NH, US, which is one of the weather stations closest to Peterborough, NH (where I live).
- The Flickr set shows the original captured image and the altered image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/seidel/sets/72157639652552553/
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More on this 106th Disquiet Junto project (“Treat the weather as a graphically notated score”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/01/09/disquiet0106-sonarvortex/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

0110 [disquiet0106-sonarvortex]

New sketch.
Piano, guitar, field recordings.

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LINEAR BELLS  'Field of fury'

This is a collaboration for Saffronkeira's new album; 'Synecdoche'. 

Synecdoche Cd | 2x12'' | Digital
· Listen: www.denovali.com/saffronkeira
· Order: www.denovali.com/store
· Direct Download: www.denovali.com/mp3store
Featuring guest performances of Witxes, Subheim, Sebastian Plano, Field Rotation, Mia Zabelka, Siavash Amini & Idlefon.

Saffronkeira - 'Ouevre' (featuring Sebastian Plano)

Pre Orders : https://softrecords.bandcamp.com/album/luminar 
Get ready , the new album from EUS (José Acuña / COSTA RICA) is probably the masterpiece of 2016 , we will have rarely been so far in this 12 tracks drone symphony treasure ... 

SOFT-RECORDINGS presents ST11
Title : Luminar
Release Date: February 2016
Artwork by Justin Cherry
Layout & design by EUS
Mastered by Byron Christodoulou
Cello by Oliver Barrett
Violin by Nik Koniwzski
Vocals by Ana Mariela
Distribution : BANDCAMP softrecords.bandcamp.com 
Format : 6 panel Digipack CD + Digital. 
LINKS : soft-recordings.com

EUS - Luminar I (Single Edit) - Excerpt from ST11

Excerpt of forthcoming release from Paris based artist JULIA WHITE 'in the cities of dust'.

SOFT-RECORDINGS presents ST12
Title : in the cities of dust
Release Date: February 2016
Artwork by Julia White
Layout & design by David Teboul
Mastered by David Teboul
Distribution : BANDCAMP softrecords.bandcamp.com
Format :  Digipack CD + Digital.
LINKS : soft-recordings.com

JULIA WHITE - Red Beach Harbour (excerpt from ST12)

"where the days are all night"

produced by el-p
additional guitar by matt sweeney
additional keys by nick hook
mixed by joey raia
mastered by joe laporta

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Thanks to the late Manuel Alvarez Bravo for creating the cover art photo “Fireworks for the Infant Jesus”, 1990 (Castillo en el barrio del Niño), by Manuel Álvarez Bravo (c) Copyright 1990 Archivo Manuel Álvarez Bravo, S.C.


fuck that bright shit
the spot or the flashlights 
we in la ducking both 
in the shadows with lead pipes 
the days are all night

see if i pay edison
no medicine
these blues ain’t more better when
my fever rise in the jungle 
as quick as the price spikes
the days are all night

my future snapped like a rubber band
off my fold on a hand to hand
he drew from his waist
i put two in his roof
and i can still hear his screams 
all night 

now they ride their portfolios 
like rodeos
rise every time my cherry glows
on the end of my cig as 
the smoke blows through the bars
and the co’s laugh fades
as he strolls away 
says i gotta pay 
off that roll away 
or its fuck your visitation days
and i pop off so in solitaire 
i dream of offing these fred astaires 
and the skin off my fingers tear 
we digging for windows here 
where the days are all night 

this city’s a trap my partner
under the lights of they choppers
bodies tools for they coffers
not worth the cost of our coffins
i stare at a future so toxic
no trust in the dust of a promise
won’t mark the name on a ballot
so they can be free to devour our options 
and just like you I’m a target
ill defined by the guap in my pocket
but the stage make figures 
as quick as it off em 
what marley  and pac get? 
i put these caps in capitals 
leave minds blazed in they capitols 
i step with a fury so actual fact 
that my offense could be capital 

we digging for windows here


digging for windows (single)

digging for windows

/// Finally back, after a small break with this new track ///
Thanks for listening ...

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LINEAR BELLS - The Pool

Today we are happy to share with you an exclusive premiere of a track by Oleksiy Sakevych, also known for his project, Endless Melancholy, featuring Matt Finney. Available as a free downloadable single.

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TRACK PREMIERE : Endless Melancholy - We Found Love

Excerpt of forthcoming release from VARGKVINT 'Brus' (ST14).
SOFT-RECORDINGS presents ST14 
Title : Dimma
Release Date: June 10th, 2017 
Written, Recorded and Processed : VARGKVINT © 2017.  
CD Artworks & photos : VARGKVINT & David Teboul 
Distribution : BANDCAMP softrecords.bandcamp.com 
Format : Digipack CD + Digital.

VARGKVINT - Dimma (Excerpt from ST14)

Second excerpt of forthcoming release from VARGKVINT 'Brus' (ST14).
SOFT-RECORDINGS presents ST14 
Title : Varg
Release Date: June 10th, 2017 
Written, Recorded and Processed : VARGKVINT & LINEAR BELLS © 2017. 
CD Artworks & photos : VARGKVINT & David Teboul 
Distribution : BANDCAMP softrecords.bandcamp.com 
Format : Digipack CD + Digital.

VARGKVINT - Varg (with Linear Bells) Excerpt from ST14

“Linear Bells” is David Teboul, composer and sound artist.
His music is a mix between sound manipulations, field recordings, mainly created with acoustic and analogic instruments.
 



My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

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