For this week’s project, we create soundscapes for an ancient Middle Eastern city. 

And in the process, we’re going to raise awareness about an imprisoned open-source developer with strong ties to the Creative Commons community. Bassel Khartabil, before his arrest on March 15, 2012, in Damascus, was working on several projects, among them a 3D rendering of the ancient city of Palmyra. Much as Bassel was trying to revive an ancient world, you are, in essence, keeping one of his projects alive while he is incapable of doing so.

More on this 108th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a soundscape for the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra.”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/01/23/disquiet0108-freebassel/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

More on the campaign to free Bassel at

http://freebassel.org/

For their collaboration on this project, special thanks to: Niki Korth, Barry Threw, and Jon Phillips.

Disquiet Junto Project 0108: Free Bassel

Other Worldly Ambient Compilation

I think the important thing right now is to keep on walking.  
One day may we all walk on water.
With Love & A Prayer For Peace,
Chris

May we RISE - a Playlist for EASTER

Thinking about ancient cities and human rights led me to use my voice for this Junto.

Wasn't sure at first how to approach this, I really wanted to play bass but that didn't seem right. I didn't want to create a sense 'orientalism' either and hopefully this doesn't sound like a bad interpretation of the Muslim call to prayer because that wasn't my intention either.

My idea to sing was based on the idea that the human voice is timeless but also, given the subject matter, it was about giving a voice to those who are silenced. 

I closed all the windows and doors and tried not to feel embarrassed while singing into a few different microphones, then manipulated the results until I got something close to the desired effect.

Image taken from the Disquiet link below.

More on this 108th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a soundscape for the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/01/23/disquiet0108-freebassel/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

More on the campaign to free Bassel at
http://freebassel.org/

Human rites [disquiet0108-freebassel]

This track was created using a sample of an Oud: http://www.freesound.org/people/Fantom57/sounds/160461/

The ambient pads are me harmonising with myself, then reversing and reassembling the recording until it turned to dissonance. The beat was created by hitting a piano stool with a wooden rod.

More on this 108th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a soundscape for the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra.”) at: http://disquiet.com/2014/01/23/disquiet0108-freebassel/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

More on the campaign to free Bassel at: http://freebassel.org/

For their collaboration on this project, special thanks to: Niki Korth, Barry Threw, and Jon Phillips.

unearthing [disquiet0108-freebassel]

Mmmm great one this week for many reasons - foremost that we can give support to Bassel Khartabil through our music...
After watching the video of Bassel explaining his work, I Googled ancient Syrian music, and found out that the oldest music notation in history was discovered on clay tablets in Ugarit, Syria dating back to 3400 B.C.
Heard a couple of interpretations - one caught my ear. It was played on a lyre...so I found a lyre sample on Freesound ran it through Ambient_v03 added some spectral processing and a few words by Bassel from the video, and decided to keep it that simple...
 
Disquiet Junto Project 0108: Free Bassel
For this week’s project, we’re going to create soundscapes for an ancient Middle Eastern city. And in the process, we’re going to raise awareness about an imprisoned open-source developer with strong ties to the Creative Commons community. Bassel Khartabil, before his arrest on March 15, 2012, in Damascus, was working on several projects, among them a 3D rendering of the ancient city of Palmyra. Much as Bassel was trying to revive an ancient world, you are, in essence, keeping one of his projects alive while he is incapable of doing so.

The project instructions are as follows:
Step 1: View this video for background on Bassel’s digital Palmyra project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G7fyWS-ysA
Step 2: If you aren’t viewing this instruction on the Disquiet.com project page, go to the following URL to view three still images from Bassel’s 3D work:
http://disquiet.com/2014/01/23/disquiet0108-freebassel/
Step 3: Create a soundscape of between one and three minutes that might be employed in an immersive, completed digital visualization of ancient Palmyra.
Deadline: Monday, January 27, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: Your finished work should be between 1 and 3 minutes in length.
Information: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0108-freebassel” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting the track, be sure to include this information:

More on this 108th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a soundscape for the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra.”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/01/23/disquiet0108-freebassel/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
More on the campaign to free Bassel at
http://freebassel.org/
For their collaboration on this project, special thanks to: Niki Korth, Barry Threw, and Jon Phillips.


LyriCCal “disquiet0108-freebassel”

This is my first submission to the Junto since moving to Vermont. I am really excited to be apart of this one. I feel like its important to raise awareness about what's going on in Syria in general and with Bassel in particular. Its great to have this open source community to rally behind people like him. 

For this project, I utilized some recordings I did in my new apartment. I was up very late one night and became fascinated by the sound of the refrigerator. I duplicated that track, and lowered the pitch significantly to add the deep rumble you hear in the beginning (headphones are recommended, its inaudible through computer speakers).  The original track I did little to; theres a bit of reverb added.

I then used the audio output from creating the databent image associated with this track, paul stretched it, added phaser, lowered the pitched heavily, and gave it numerous compressor treatments.

I mixed it all together, trimmed it down to 3 minutes, and threw in some fade ins/outs

More at:
http://subversiveintentions.wordpress.com

More on this 108th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a soundscape for the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra.”) at:


http://disquiet.com/2014/01/23/disquiet0108-freebassel/


More on the Disquiet Junto at:


http://disquiet.com/?p=16588


Join the Disquiet Junto at:


http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/


More on the campaign to free Bassel at


http://freebassel.org/


For their collaboration on this project, special thanks to: Niki Korth, Barry Threw, and Jon Phillips.

New Palmyra (disquiet0108-freebassel)

(Sharbaugh)
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: synthesizers, percussion, and 'found sounds'
Composed and Recorded January 25 to 27, 2014.
sm3 [LANDR].

Humanizing this piece was of the utmost importance. Throughout its composition, I could not keep Bassel Safadi [ باسل صفادي ] out of my head: his plight, his privation, his predicament. I viewed the video as requested, but it ‘went in one eye and out the other’; Mr. Bassel was my prime concern.

Having never composed Syrian or Syrian-type music, I familiarized myself with Syrian music scales as approximated to Western scales. Multifid are the Syrian scales I discovered, so I settled upon one that felt aesthetically comfortable: C – Eb – E – F – Ab – (C).

Further unsure of my handle on these Syrian scales, I secured (paid for and downloaded) an improvisation based on the most ancient tablets containing Syrian music transcriptions—pianist Malek Jandali’s “Echoes from Ugarit.” Without listening to Jandali’s part, I imported the introduction to this piece into my DAW, pitch-shifted it down a whole-tone (from D to C), expanded it to conform to 123 BPM, and improvised to it myself using the musical scale outlined in the paragraph above. I recorded my improvisation. It took about sixteen takes.

I then removed (muted) Jandali’s recording and added ‘contrapuntal’ tracks—bass, bell, and strings. The driving rhythm was provided by a sample of a bottle dropped onto a concrete sidewalk and almost broken—a sonic representation of what it might be like to be in Mr. Bassel’s place. The field recording of Syrian grasshoppers was added to highlight what I could imagine would be the despondency and loneliness of Mr. Bassel’s predicament.

More on this 108th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a soundscape for the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra.”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/01/23/disquiet0108-freebassel/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

More on the campaign to free Bassel at:

http://freebassel.org/

For their collaboration on this project, special thanks to: Niki Korth, Barry Threw, and Jon Phillips.

Ballade of Bassel

Buy on iTunes ...

"Ballade of Bassel" [disquiet0108-freebassel]

Realesed by Alexander Hallberg 2nd Februar 2014

Made in MadTracker (EWQL Plugins)
Mixed in Magic Music Maker MX

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HallbergAKABooBack



Hallberg - Nattvandreren (The Night Wanderer)

Released 8th February 2014 by Alexander Hallberg & Øystein Jørgensen

Øystein made this magical drone inspired by a track called "Perfect Fantasy" (http://soundcloud.com/booback/hallberg-perfect-fantasy-128)

I added some instruments to his piece and this is the result. I hope you'll enjoy our creation.

Production, mastering, cello & drone: Øystein Jørgensen (http://soundcloud.com/oystein-jorgensen)
Voices and strings: Alexander Hallberg

Jørgensen & Hallberg - Supreme Being

Released 14th February 2014 by Alexander Hallberg

Chill bright ambient

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HallbergAKABooBack

Hallberg - Undersea City

Gravitate

Back to the more traditional Solar Cloud sound

If I Should Never See Your Face Again

When time is spent, eternity begins. 
Thank you all for listening and all your great support. :)

cover art: https://soundcloud.com/d-j-karouh

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Eternity

GO WRONG  ft. Sanna Hartfield   Lillithe & Paploviante
Backing track  ORION / Open Collab : Paploviante
https://soundcloud.com/paploviante-and-friends
Vocal : Sanna Hartfield / Go wrong / Follow
https://freevocals.com
Guitars  : Brent Mason
E-piano : Jeff Lorber
Production  mix and arrangement : Lillithe

GO WRONG      ( Lillithe & Paploviante)

‘Walk On Water”

From the Album "Time Reveals All Wounds" 
https://wildchristopher.bandcamp.com/releases

When you walk among the broken hearts
Move along quickly as you depart
Before it all falls to pieces

When you see the world destroy a dream
It tears apart the seams
Afraid of how far it reaches

The past continues
Spins ‘round and ‘round repeating
Down the path of loneliness
Say a prayer for what you’re seeing

I wish we all could walk on water
Walk on water
I wish we all could walk on water
Walk on water

Forgotten sons and daughters
The left behind
Sink or swim to save our souls

I wish we all could walk on water
Walk on water

Collect up the common things
Drag them along
Don’t think much anymore 
On what’s right or wrong

Just try to get on 
With another day of living

Among the blessed kings and queens
Are the ones best left unseen
A simple minor inconvenience

Pass ‘em right on by
But pass along our sympathies

Chorus

I wish we all could walk on water
I wish we all could
Wish we all could

Also on:
Amazon: a.co/b7V2JUq
iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/album/time-re…-ep/id1209819067
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/4FUgvrZ8jw8ELcYrmJhrT7

Cover Art created using flic.kr/p/84ATp4

Music by Brian Wilson 
Lyrics and Vocals by Wild Christopher

Time Reveals All Wounds

Walk on Water

Walk On Water (feat Brian WIlson)

“Believing Sunday”

Music by Hans (https://soundcloud.com/clouders_for)
Lyrics and vocals by Chris Barnett (https://soundcloud.com/wild-christopher-lyrics)

She said her name was Sunday
I believe it, the day of the Lord
And she took my hand and she led me 
To a place of sunshine and warmth

She pulled me along so easily
Like the path was already worn
She patched up this weathered heart of mine
And led me out of the storm

Now I’m so thankful
I’m living for Sunday

Singing forever of the joys of faith, forgiveness
Believing in my Sunday and the time of the evermore

Pulling me in, pull me along as well (forgiveness)
I sing the joys of Sunday and the way my heart melts

How you pulled me out of darkness
Loved me to a new self
The day I believed Sunday
Is the day I rose as I fell

She said her name was Sunday
She said her name was Sunday
The day of the Lord

Sunday

Photo by https://flic.kr/p/fYt7mm
Written by Chris Barnett for Questionable Enterprises LLC. © 2016

Believing Sunday (with Hans) - Free Download

POP | SPACEROCK | VAPORTRAP | TRIP-HOP
AMBIENT | EXPERIMENTAL

the PERSON, the SOUND : Since 1985, Philadelphia-born Michael has composed and released hundreds of audio recordings, and published dozens of [erotic] poems.

His 'sonic-sojourn' began suddenly when he was just a teen -- feet splashing rhythmically through puddles leftover by a seaside rainstorm. Having just parted ways with the then-love-of-his-life, Michael composed his first ballad [and first song] ever -- "Tina." He rushed to his beach-side home to record his visceral 'awakening' on a tiny micro-cassette recorder, and vowed -- from that day on -- to create art for the rest of his life.

He began zealously amassing used music equipment, and had built a modest home recording studio by age seventeen, all the while crafting simple pop, ambient, and experimental works that HE had wanted to listen to -- that HE had wanted to hear, affectionately emulating the works of his then-idols, Duran Duran and Brian Eno.

Now, decades later, he has relocated to a small village outside Atlanta, Georgia, and continues to voraciously attend to his dream as a young, heartbroken boy -- to create and release music that he, himself, wants to hear.

Although no longer sequestered to pop and ambient musics, Michael's signature sound has merged the two, having integrated the R&B, hiphop, and psychedelia he has grown to love as a older gent -- having absorbed the edgy rhythms and dreamy soul of the southern United States (Atlanta and Miami).

Michael still puts forth ample amounts af ambient musics, but his recent 'sound' hovers elsewhere -- somewhere amidst the genres of vaportrap, spacerock, and trip-hop.

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the INFLUENCES : Duran Duran, The Weeknd, Blondie, Depeche Mode, Billy Idol + Steve Stevens, Stone Temple Pilots, Dead Can Dance, Siouxsie & The Banshees, This Mortal Coil, Air, Naked Eyes, Tears for Fears, Alice in Chains, John Barry, Leslie Bricusse, The Chameleons [UK], Brian Eno, The Cocteau Twins, ABBA, The Bee Gees, Claude Debussy, Frederick Chopin, Guillaume de Machaut, Early Music, Renaissance music, Baroque music, and Joe Meek.

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