Recorded via ZOOM H4N during rehearsal 4 September 2021. Didn't know this was going to be the only recording of this week's rehearsals so the quick and dirty microphone placement only catches one piano and almost no bass.

Leo Svirsky piano 
Reinier van Houdt piano
Germaine Sijstermans bass clarinet
James Hewitt baroque violin
Marielle Groven violin 
Mark Morse steel guitar
Jeroen Kimman steel guitar
Aaron Lumley double bass
Seamus Cater concertina

River Without Banks: River Without Banks (rehearsal recording)

Recorded via ZOOM H4N during rehearsal 4 September 2021. Didn't know this was going to be the only recording of this week's rehearsals so the quick and dirty microphone placement only catches one piano and almost no bass.

Leo Svirsky piano 
Reinier van Houdt piano
Germaine Sijstermans bass clarinet
James Hewitt baroque violin
Marielle Groven violin 
Mark Morse lapsteel guitar
Jeroen Kimman pedalsteel guitar
Aaron Lumley double bass
Seamus Cater concertina

River Without Banks: The Night Barque (rehearsal recording)

Solo lapsteel in a tuning based on a memory of an Ustad Mohammad Omar solo rabab recording.

Amplified Bow.

Solo lapsteel in a tuning based on a memory of an Ustad Mohammad Omar solo rabab recording. No amp.

Unamplified Bow.

I'm an insomniac, and this track is modeled after things I normally listen to to try and sleep. The stylistic requirements are that it 1) has to include some white noise, a la rain or a vacuum cleaner or fan, 2) has to have some kind of general drone that changes pitch and 3)has to somehow have a lot of quiet detail so I don't get bored. 

This collage is essentially three tracks. One is a recording of my back porch at 3am, I recorded this for an art installation in Mexico City this year. The other two things are guitar/feedback solos, one using a pedal called an OWL, that's the large sound with moving chords. The other is using feedback through a BugBrand AudioWeevil. This track is slowed down 100% so as to keep the notes in the "soothing" range.

Night/Owl [disquiet0350]

This week’s project is a sound journal, an audio history of the past year. You will select a different audio element to represent each of the past 12 months of 2012. You will then select one five-second segment from each of these audio elements. Then you will stitch these dozen five-second segments together in chronological order to form one single one-minute track. There should be no overlap or gap between segments; they should simply proceed from one to the next.

These audio elements will most likely be of music that you have yourself composed and recorded, but they might also consist of phone messages, field recordings, or other source material. These items should be somehow personal in nature, suitable to the autobiographical intention of the project; they should preferably of your own making, and not drawn from third-party sources.

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Photo for this track is of my notes for learning Travolta's part of the Saturday Night Fever duet for "We're All For The Underground". 

I'll be adding more complete credits here when I get a chance this weekend, but for now:

Jan: live recording of theater piece "We're All For The Underground", with Hillary Blake Firestone and Anat Spiegel, probably recorded in Rotterdam. This five-second excerpt is a Swan Lake/Joanna Newsom mashup leading into a version of Bjork's "All is Full of Love" for synth and tiny amp feedback. 

Feb: me solo at home, a feedback study using a BugBrand Audioweevil.

Mar: me solo at home, another feedback study using the Audioweevil and a Roland SP-404 sampler.

Apr: me solo multi-tracked at home, guitar with a homemade superball mallet.

May: Sleep Gunner live with the Rosa Ensemble in Utrecht on an unforgettably hot day, no A/C, no breeze, just sweat. this excerpt is a transition between a Rosa piece called "Tallahassee" (I think) and the Louvin Brothers' "Lorene". Sleep gunner is Mark Morse-gtr, Jeroen Kimman-gtr. Rosa Ensemble is Daniel Cross - percussion, electronics; Wilbert Bulsink - piano; Peter Jessen - double bass; Ainhoa Miranda Gimenez - clarinet; Jeroen Kimman - electric guitar.

June: Light Metal Trio live improv gig at OT301, Amsterdam, my first time playing tabletop guitar in this group. Dirk Bruinsma-baritone sax, Santiago Botero-bass, Mark Morse-gtr.

July: Super Hardon Collider in Studio Jottem in Wormerweer, a very rainy day in the middle of nowhere. This was our second time playing together, everything improvised. We accidentally spent all of our money on the beer vending machine in the studio and then had to borrow money for, ahem, more beer from Andy Moor who was miraculously in the neighborhood for an equally miraculous King Ayisoba show. John Dikeman-tenor sax, Jasper Stadhouders-gtr, Mark Morse-gtr, Rune Lohse-drums.

August: me solo at home on another unbelievably hot day in Amsterdam experimenting with dobro and Audiomulch with the windows open. 

Sept: a September mix from the forthcoming Sleep Gunner LP, recorded in my living room in July (and still being mixed). Jeroen Kimman-gtr, Mark Morse-gtr.

Oct: from a DJ gig at OT301, supporting Knalpot and Jozef Dumoulin Trio, this is my remix of Traxman vs Anthony Braxton.

Nov: Excerpt from live improv gig @ Zaal100, Amsterdam. Mark Morse-guitar, Mikael Szafirowski-gtr, Ig Henneman-viola, Anne La Berge - flutes, Alan Gunga Purves-percussion

Dec: this is Jeroen's rough pedal steel track that I should be using at this very moment (instead of doing this audiojournal!) as a reference to develop a guitar accompaniment before Sunday, when we record it live on camera (UPDATE: here's the result: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SKJERI8PZ10)

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More on this 51st Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2012/12/20/disquiet0051-audiojournal/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

12 x 5 = 2012 [disquiet051-audiojournal].

As part of the cycle of making music for Sleep Gunner, Mark often recorded half-assed demos of arrangement parts that never made it into final workings of tunes. This is one of those demos, the chords for a reharmonization of Southern Moon, treated as if played by one of Rhys Chatham's 100 guitar orchestras. Final production arrangement audible here: https://sleepgunner.bandcamp.com/track/southern-moon.

Sleep Gunner: Southern Moon (demo)

Another Southern Moon arrangement demo from 2018, cut together from pieces of solo recordings and rehearsal brainstorming. Sequence: Mark whistling/playing into his phone in Groningen; Jeroen trying a huayno version of the melody, can't remember where; us seeing what happens when we each play our ideas simultaneously, but not trying to synchronize, instead going for a Shaggs kind of awkwardness; Jeroen making a shitload of noise over the chords. Final version audible here: https://sleepgunner.bandcamp.com/track/southern-moon.

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