Disquiet Junto Project 0716: Dense Fog Advisory

The Assignment: That’s your band’s name; now record something.

There is just one step this week. You’re now recording music under the name Dense Fog Advisory. Record a new track, appropriate to your name.

Deadline: Monday, September 22, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0716

Disquiet Junto Project 0716: Dense Fog Advisory

Test Balloon #1

At the top of the hill, in that old field, was a piano. It was weathered and quickly decaying but still making sounds.

the piano at the top of the hill (radio edit)

jeff gburek: melodica; karolina ossowska: violin

Ossowska_Gburek Senza Titolo

Come tutte le più belle cose, come le rose

A little bit of psychedelic prog fart art

Roses

Lee Frank: voice, words and musical direction.
Aidene: sung voice and violin.
Remi: organ.
A spoken song composed whilst travelling along the coastline of Papua New Guinea from Port Moresby to Sepik River via Rabual. How 19th century London and bordellos appeared as a source for this song in that setting  I'll never know. Kudos to Aidene  (https://soundcloud.com/aidenearia) and Remi for magnificent understanding and patience. Their musical skills are exemplary. 

Take Me To the Whores of London

"Aphrodite"
Valhjim

O golden-crowned, of seafoam born,
Goddess of hearts, where vows are sworn,
Your gentle breath ignites the flame,
Unseen, yet felt, in love’s sweet name.

By shorelines soft, where waves caress,
Or roses bloom in fragrant dress,
You weave the threads of mortal ties,
A dance of longing 'neath your skies.

In every touch, your magic lives,
In every glance, your blessing gives,
O fairest one, to you I plea,
Grant me tender love eternally.

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Valhjim: Synthesizers, Samplers, Guitar.

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Hope you like this piece, folks.
Thanks for listening
and for your kind and candid commentaries.

Valhjim
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(C) 204 Valhjim (all rights reserved).

Aphrodite

More on the 674th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Cerberus Sample — The Assignment: Make a song not just with but from just one sample — at https://disquiet.com/0674/ 

Cerberus Sample

Disquiet Junto | Cerberus Sample - disquiet0674

From the Bandcamp EP/8”vinyl single “FEARLESS”
Bandcamp: https://martinhoogeboom.bandcamp.com/album/fearless
With:
Jukka-Pekka Kervinen: electronics/trumpet
Martin Hoogeboom: objects/electronics/artwork
Senglar: sonic structures
Mastered by Rupert Clervaux
A Martin Hoogeboom Project (DS1414/2024)

FEARLESS

Huomenna me bailaamme! Etkoilua ja yleistä psykefiilistelyä varten kehitimme uuden sarjan, Fiktiopsy, jossa seikkaillaan psykedeelisissä tunnelmissa Fiktion deejiiden sekä vierailijoiden kanssa! Ensimmäisen osan on tehnyt meidän oma Marumiini, joka aiemmasta poiketen tarjoilee darkkia soundia.

Omien sanojensa mukaan Marumiini lähti tutkimusmatkalle psytrancen nopeampien alagenrejen syövereihin ja eksyi darkpsyn mustaakin mustempien bassolinjojen ja psykedeelisten sointukiemuroiden synkkään syleilyyn. Matkasta syntyi kokonaisuus hypnoottisen melodisen ja välillä jopa pelottavan intensiivisen menon välillä seikkailevia rytmejä, jotka hypnotisoivat kuulijansa tummaan transsiin - Marumiinin tyyliin 😼

Fiktiopsy #1 👽 Marumiini discovers darkpsy

You can see the visuals that bring this audio to life on the halF unusuaL YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/hPTeoPOjSnA ... Enjoy! ☺️

I stole the soundtrack to the video, posted here in its audio-only version, from the new band Dense Fog Advisory ... Hope they don't mind. I'm more than happy to pass over 100% of the money I make from it 😁

More on the 716th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Dense Fog Advisory — The Assignment: That’s your band’s name; now record something — at https://disquiet.com/0716/

visuals (YouTube)

halF advisorY [disquiet0716]

I’ve been exploring the drone possibilities of the ronroco. Although it’s a high-pitched instrument with picked strings that produce short, percussive transients, it can be layered and softly strummed to create a surprisingly sustained sound.

In this piece, I combine those textures with my own bowed upright bass and generous layers of long reverbs,trying to create an all acoustic, atmospheric soundscape.

photo by 67street. art

Created and shared for
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Dense Fog Night Drone - disquiet0716

An electronic composition with dense and muted sounds created using Pure Data with additional reverb, delay, etc.

More on the 716th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Dense Fog Advisory — The Assignment: That’s your band’s name; now record something — at https://disquiet.com/0716/.





Fog Muffles (disquiet0716)

For me, fog conjures up periods of quiet, interrupted by mysterious creaks, drones and transient melodies that appear and the drift away. I used the Instruo Pocket Scion (using my skin and not plants) to trigger midi instruments in Logic. At the forefront is the piano, which I imagined myself plunking away on as the fog obscured the keyboard and my hands. Hence it comes across as hesitant and unsure. 

disquiet0716

The Assignment: „Dense Fog Advisory“ is your band’s name; now record something.

For me, that band name requires heavy guitar and some heavy metal roaring lead voice. As that is not exactly what i am usually into, here is an intro for the track demanded in the assignment.

More on the 716th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Dense Fog Advisory — The Assignment: That’s your band’s name — at https://disquiet.com/0716/

Dense Fog Advisory [disquiet0716]

Disquiet Junto Project 0716: Dense Fog Advisory
The Assignment: That’s your band’s name; now record something.

There is just one step this week. You’re now recording music under the name Dense Fog Advisory. Record a new track, appropriate to your name.

Seashore and ocean landscapes, Weather and Forecast (USA), Reaktor Ensembles.

d.f.a. 0716--disquiet0716

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.

d.f.a. 0716--disquiet0716

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