ON|RUST as it appears here on soundcloud is the first stage of a small project that is actually called O|N|RUST consists of this track, plus a Bandcamp version (January 2024 - supplemented with two short pieces for percussion and electronics) and a 2024 small scale vinyl release. I've built a number of rhythmic sound machines especially for this piece which mainly consists of the hum and interference of electrical equipment supplemented with an electric guitar drone. Mastered by Rupert Clervaux.

ON|RUST

Back after what seems like a rather long hiatus.

Take your time to take in this rumbling affair that I've been chiselling away at for quite a bit.

Hope it turns out a rewarding listening experience for you all!

7.927 [mint]

Disquiet Junto Project 0673: Switch Back
The Assignment: Make the quiet part loud, and vice-versa.

Just one step this week: Record a piece of music in which you make loud that which is usually quiet and quiet that which is usually loud.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0673” (no spaces/quotes) in the name of your track.

Upload: Post your track to a public account (SoundCloud preferred but by no means required). It’s best to focus on one track, but if you post more than one, clarify which is the “main” rendition.

Share: Post your track and a description/explanation at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0673-switch-back/

Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you.

Deadline: Monday, November 25, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

About: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Newsletter: https://juntoletter.disquiet.com/



The quiet part - disquiet0673

ça annonce quelque chose dans ce monde

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 28/29 Apr 2023 & 11 Jan 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Yesterday, thinking of this week's Haiku and Junto, I had an idea to go back to 2 days in 2023 to start a new album (second start today) & use the two tracks for this week as a starter. This would be similar to my work elsewhere where I have a long stretch of material to chop up into different tracks.

The original material is a bit of mystery to me - Ceclia, FL Studio, PaulXStretch, Reason, Thor, Fracture. I had something that was not close to being anything I wanted tonight. I changed direction and started two new MIDI tracks to run a metallic Collision and a Massive X bass. Then I went back to the first two tracks and applied Fragments and it gelled for me. 

Artwork/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, Massapequa, NY, USA - 19 Nov 2017

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

This original version of “Gleaming Greasy” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0680: Reverse Resolution. The Assignment: Finish something (musical) you started last year.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 680th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reverse Resolution — The Assignment: Finish something (musical) you started last year — at https://disquiet.com/0680/

Gleaming Greasy (disquiet0680)

Thoncheloum

2025-03-18

underwater

metabolizing sun

Ambient Dreamscapes for you to enjoy. Relax, unwind, meditate and chillout

DARK AMBIENT - HELICON

Enner Madness
1: Introducing
2: Shall I?
3: After-Glow
4: Relief
5: Meditation
6: Return

Dates:
28-Sep-2025 (inception), 01-Oct-2025 (finalised), 02-Oct-2025 (released)

Artists:
Music composed, performed, produced by Norman Freund
Artwork by Norman Freund

BandCamp Purchase:
watch this space -- upload in progress

Description:
No, I am not going mad! More like an energetic use and interpretation of the Soma Enner instrument.

An orchestration of multiple granular synthesis banks through my custom programmed granular synthesiser, Granie (Release 04, 28-Sep-2025).

For full write-up, see my BandCamp or FaceBook Page.

Enner Madness records audio from external synthesisers or electronic instruments, feeds this into the Soma COSMOS memory station to loop over parts of the performance, giving me a small window to record this into small snippets of audio 30 seconds each, the grains into the Granie. The grains are modulated in time and space, left right audio channel modulations, position modulations, position offsets between grains and small changes in playback frequency amongst the cloud of grains. All of this can be varied by adjusting the rotary encoders of the Push2, not through low frequency oscillators, but through human controls of the rotary encoder knobs and then record those movements as automations to replay. All this is done live. I wanted to keep the performance organic.

The Granie also comes with a dual delay+gain+feedback section, one for the left audio channel and another for the right audio channel. Just as with the granular control, delay times and feedback were controlled dynamically on the Push2 live during the performance.

The Soma COSMOS was put into the Rhythmic Firmware mode, using the #09 Fractal mode and the #6 1/5 dominant mode. So the looping in the COSMOS was not your ordinary looper, rather it embraced improvisation and an ever changing play back.

The album consists of six tracks:

Track 1, Introducing: opens with the Soma Enner as the front end instrument. An energetic use of both the Enner and the granular synthesis of it.

Track 2, Shall I?: develops the ideas presented on track 1, but a bit like, shall I press this button and hear what happens? Again the Enner as the front end, blending this in with granular synthesis grains recorded from the Enner performance.

Track 3, After-Glow: takes the grain banks from track 2 and plays them alone, further exploring what can be done with them.

Track 4, Relief: Puts my electric violin at the front end, an NS Design Wav4. This was feed into the LR Baggs Para Acoustic DI (pre-amp), then feed into the Soma Pipe, then into the Soma COSMS and finally into the Granie. A slow moving, calm violin section was performed and simultaneously some short grains recorded. The grains were then mixed in, providing texture and mystery.

Track 5, Meditation: My (human) voice was sung into the Soma Pipe, through to the Soma Cosmos in fractal mode having fun adjusting live the Blur and Drift settings, with the Granie at the end of the signal chain. As with the other tracks, 30 second grains were recorded, played back whilst adjusting grain parameters, some of which were recorded as automations, leaving my hands free to adjust other grains and so forth. Soma Pipe modes here were alternating between the Harcho (best described as a thick stew soup) and the Filterra (band-pass filter with resonance control).

Track 6, Return: Track 6 returns to a similar style of track 1, playing the Soma Enner to the Soma COSMOS and back to the Granie. The Enner parts used a combination of a drum brush played through the face-plate piezo pickup, finger drum tapping and the touch plate oscillators. Then recording 30 second grains into Granie and experimenting live, with the granular synthesis parameters and feed back controls.


EnnerMadness 06: Return

Memories of Tethys

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