Darkness, My Evil Friend

Afterglow

prowl

noxpox - prowl

A few days ago, we had some strong rainfall and I recorded its sound at the open bedroom window. I then created some chords and drones in with the Microfreak, drenched it all in some nice Valhalla reverbs, and here it is: A somber journey through the rain to end all rains.

A rain to end all rains

Work on kick-starting a goal that you have had for a song. For this one, it was to introduce some percussion.

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lending library [disquiet0597]

It"s so noisy for all our sea dwellers, the Orcas are telling us to turn it down please.
A highly intelligent social animal that can live 100 years and remember when the sea had no sonar ,drilling or engine noise ,its must so hard to hear your mates and hunt for your food .Quiet please.

We Bite Boats Beause You Make It So Loud Down Here

release date : 20/07/2023  
foto by Katiuscia Valerio
More on this 603rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Animated Suspension (The Assignment: Record a piece of music that suggests something floating in air), at: https://disquiet.com/0603/

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Animated Suspension-  Formants(disquiet0603)

Tiden - Filmstadt Underground

I've made collage audio forever, so this sort of project is easy for me.  The hard part is finding audio scraps that I haven't used, or used much.

In 2011, when I was living in Iowa City, I went downtown and made a bunch of field recordings.  A lot of that material ended up on my album Hide Yourself In Plain Sight.

One thing that didn't make the cut was me capturing a writer starting to read, and starting over, at Prairie Lights Bookstore.  He was reading something he wrote about Norbert Wiener and juxtaposing it with some Gwen Stefani reference, which to me is an excellent example of modern academic and literary nonsense, or I guess a "signal to noise".  

As that short clip in the track finished, I included two quick samples, panned left and right.  Left is a girl asking a bus driver a question, and Right is some drunk guy saying "Viggo Mortenstein" instead of Viggo Mortensen.

Also in there are some other loops, largely recorded from apps on the first generation iPad I had at the time.

More about me and my music at:  https://www.markrushton.com

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Norbert Wiener Signal Versus Noise (disquiet0621)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 07 Jun 2019, 27 Oct 2021 & 09-10 Feb 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

Process notes

09 Feb 2024
I have a 5-track Live template for my Bubble Memory project name, so I loaded a windy backyard recording of a kalimba & a glass from Oct 2021 into that. I split the backyard recording into the two tracks I have set aside for field recordings. Each has tons of processing loaded in already. The template includes kick and snare parts so I started by creating a minimal beat that might hopefully hold this thing together and added some lesser probability to those notes. 

I also have a Simpler track in the template so I loaded some of the backyard recording into that one too. I found the entire thing too constantly noisy and wrote some ideas to my notes about gating & adjusting some of the effects before shutting down for the night.

10 Feb 2024
Loading this back up, I first worked on adding some gates to a few of the tracks to thin out the noise bits. I added an iAbyssal recording I made in 2019 to the final track in the template. Added sparingly both an Arpeggiator to the Simpler track & a Note Repeat to the drum track. Then I worked a bit on other automations, including panning. This felt like it was done and I rendered both a mastered and unmastered mix for later use and for this Junto. It still felt like wind to me.

Instruments & stuff - Ableton Live 12 & native devices, K-Devices Shaper 2 & Secta, iZotope Ozone 9, kalimba, wind, iAbyssal, iPhone, iPad, tabletop, bottle

Artwork: From the LIRR, NY, USA, 27 Jan 2011, by Jim Lemanowicz

©2019, 2021, 2024 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “Brown Paper Lips” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0632: Shear Wind. The Assignment: Make the most of the disturbance within a field recording.

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This track was originally released under the artist name "Bubble Memory."

Brown Paper Lips (disquiet0632)

The first thunder
Is likely to shake
The tiered doll stand.
by: Kawahigashi Hekigoto
Is the poem for the HaikuChallnge531
Like Santoka and Seisensui, Kawahigashi Hekigoto (1873-1937) was an important advocate of the free verse haiku.
Besides being a writer and critic of haiku, Hekigoto was a literary scholar, noh dancer, art critic, calligrapher, social commentator, and mountain climber.
Picture by Yusuf Evli

The First

The First (NaviarHaiku531)

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Norbert Wiener Signal Versus Noise (disquiet0621)

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