With “I Hope This Will Resonate With You” I am engaging in a collaborative act in order to create momentary relationships and produce a keepsake for the listener, a short composition based on chances and errors as well as reflection and confidentiality, by shifting the focus from the use of the Tarot cards as a mean to analyse or disclose personal situations to their employment as a tool for musical composition, loosely drawing inspiration from John Cage’s methodology of using the book of I Ching as a guideline for his works.

During the past years I have been deepening my interest in the arts of the Tarot cards as a tool for spiritual development and self growth, focussing on the significance of the universal symbology of the Major Arcana as archetypes of the human experience.

I have asked fellow sound artists and friends to contribute with a one minute sound, for a total of 22 sounds. No instructions nor guidelines were provided and the contributors were free to send me any sound they had recorded and felt like sharing.
Each sound collected has been then associated to a card of the Major Arcana.
During the performance I am asking the participant to sit with me and have a brief conversation about the nature of the work. I am shuffling the deck of 22 cards and asking the participant to pick 4 cards. The resulting spread is forming the accidental score I am using to create a short composition unique to each participant.
These sound collages are then forming a continuously evolving longer composition to be looped throughout the duration of the exhibition.
 
Contributors: Ruby Devoe, Rami Abi Rafi, Håkan Jonsson, Martina Raponi, Mark Ho Kane, Samantha Tiussi, Stefano Loiacono, DISORGANISM, Christian Schiefner, Anna Arzillo, Verónica Mota, Kimi Recor, Julian Miller, Fletina, Paolo Calabrese, Quatrefoil, Francis Theberge & Hendekagon, Aleksander Stojanov, Julieta Ortiz de Latierro, Nixie Maefly, Simon Hill, INYAN, Lutz Gallmeister

Photo: Pablo Hassmann

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anamorphose

Paolo Calabrese - no.16

for a course i'm taking in "Interdisciplinary Audio Production" at ACUD - we were asked by Brendan Dougherty to "Create a piece of music that changes the way we understand the space of the Acud club!" - for this piece i manipulated recordings of the OUD and Field Recordings while imagining ACUD bein a "time machine" -

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metronum

5 borders

glitch

Recorded, mixed and mastered on 25 Apr 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. This was also Day 1364 of the 100 Day Project.

Process notes - 

I first thought of scraping my iPhone against a stone. Then, I free-associated “stone” with “pizza stone” and then “LP.” Right after that I thought to capture some LP surface noise, and came right around to using one of Yoko’s albums…so…not the music but the physical object. I looked around my landlady’s backyard and found a slightly mysterious pile of stones and I was off.

I made 2 sets of four short recordings. Mid-way, I decided to get "elemental" with it, too.

- Two recordings were outdoor "air" recordings, including some dogs.
- One other recording was scraping my iPhone against a stack of stones.
- Indoors, I recorded the kitchen sink (water, and yes everything including the kitchen sink) and also lighting matches I keep for my barbecue (fire).
- The second set of recordings was of the inner groove noise from my copy of Yoko's Fly double album. The last recording included switching briefly to the radio (white noise) and then my own struggling to get the two disks back into the jacket.

For this, I used similar methods, (and an Ableton Live template), I’d used for Disquiet Juntos 0530, 0605, 0606, 0609 & 0616, all which reference “minimally viable music” as we did in 0530, my first Junto. This included many Ableton Live effects devices and some Max for Live devices by Amazing Noises.

For what it is is worth, Junto 0530 also was the genesis of this album - [Something That Once Was (Free)](https://music.blisterpop.com/album/something-that-once-was-free). Eventually, this piece and 0605, 0606, 0609 & 0616 will all be worked into the follow-up.

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

Artwork: 31 Mar 2017, April Fool’s holiday in Boston. MA, USA, near Old Atlantic Ave and State St. 

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This original version of “Come Fly With Us” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0643: Stone Out of Focus. The Assignment: Make music inspired by a poem.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: [disquiet.com/junto/](http://disquiet.com/junto/)

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More on the 643rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Stone Out of Focus — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a poem — at https://disquiet.com/0643/

This week’s project is based on a text by Yoko Ono, originally published in her book *Grapefruit,* 60 years ago, back in 1964.

Come Fly With Us (disquiet0643)

05 16

Ridgewood Radio // wfmu.org

24 May 17 at The Sump, NYC

Noiseberg 19

Experimental sound recordist. Electroacoustic enthusiast. Abstract compositions, field recording, synths and tape loops.

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