Something I've been meaning to do is explore the (electric) upright bass, which has hardly been used over the years it's been in the house. A disquiet YouTube video is also well overdue and I have also been meaning to experiment with a bottleneck on bass ... So, this is a triple whammy of stuff I've been wanting to get around to ...

Check out the accompanying video @ https://youtu.be/dJRC3Uw-EhQ

More on this 613th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Test Drive (The Assignment: The Assignment: Do something you’ve been meaning to do), at: https://disquiet.com/0613/

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halF tesT [disquiet0613]

This piece transforms text from Black Panther, Vol. 9, No. 3, November 4, 1972 “A Matter Of Life Or Death, vote “no” on proposition 17, 4th paragraph,” into music.

Recorded, mixed & mastered 02-03 Nov 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

Samples, electric bass, cymbal, nylon string guitar & effects

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This original version of "Begrabe Das Lied" was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0618: Burying the Lede. The Assignment: Turn old news into new music.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/
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Artwork generated via Adobe Express Generative AI by Jim Lemanowicz, 03  Nov 2023

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This track was originally released under the artist name "Two-Finger Modal Box."

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Begrabe Das Lied (disquiet0618)

More on this 618th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Burying the Lede (The Assignment: Turn old news into new music), at: https://disquiet.com/0618/

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English translation of reading:

"The hot-tempered criminal genius Egon Olsen is the leader of the gang, and it is usually he who is behind very imaginative plans, where the remedies can be a Tuborg, 100 balloons, an old cheese, zero-summits and a pipe cleaner. The films are largely built according to the same formula: Egon gets out of prison, after which he presents his new plan, which will make the gang millionaires. The gang's opponents are the police, the top of society, financial criminals and Bøffen. Egon is often in prison and shares a cell with a lawyer or other high-ranking citizen who "knows good news" and can provide Egon with the information the gang leader needs in his brilliant plans, where everything is timed and orchestrated.

Most movies end with Egon being caught by the police and put behind bars. Sometimes because the police can't get to the real mastermind and take what they can find. As detective assistant Jensen puts it: "The only thing the police can do when the really big criminals come by is to offer them protection" (quote from the last exploits of the Olsen Gang). When the police come, Benny and Kjeld always manage to escape, usually through the back door, which the police in the Olsen Gang never thought of covering."*

*https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olsen-banden

Artwork uses a photograph from Wikipedia: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Olsen_Banden.jpg

Olsen Gang Chakras (disquiet0618)

This track started from a newspaper article (published in November 1973 in my home country). I processed it through a text-to-speech software and use it as a base to improvise melodies and rhythms. I then extracted elements that I liked and arranged them into the final piece.

The goal was to make the voice less audible as the track progresses. To achieve this, I used different set of effects on each sections of the track.

Original article : https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1973/11/03/entre-la-peur-et-l-espoir_2546275_1819218.html

More on this 618th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Burying the Lede (The Assignment: Turn old news into new music), at: https://disquiet.com/0618/

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Between Fear and Hope (disquiet0618)

Disquiet Junto Project 0618: Burying the Lede
The Assignment: Turn old news into new music.

I googled for local newspapers from 1973 and found a review of a Pink Floyd concert (Dark Side Of The Moon, which is one of only a small number of CDs I still own) in Munich on Oct 15th 1973 in the daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. I used some middle part of the review, which describes the sound and talks about how Pink Floyd integrates noise in music. I used ttsmp3.com to read it in bad german. I added the speech to a ambience layer that has something of a concert atmo and of something nois-ish, both not well integrated.

The 1973 newspaper I found was this:
https://www.pulse-and-spirit.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/PF-1973-Munich.jpg - the article was written by journalist Michael Frank, who must then have been around 26 (and still wrote for the same newspaper some years ago). Today we might no longer imagine, what kind of ultra hot shit this album must have been at that time. 

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Track image by Stability AI.

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More on this 618th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Burying the Lede (The Assignment: Turn old news into new music), at: https://disquiet.com/0618/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0618-burying-the-lede/

Die Fahrt Der Galaktischen Riesen [disquiet0618]

This track was created for the Disquiet Junto project 0618 (details see below): A 50 year old local newspaper-article was to be read, accompanied by music.
I found an article from 28th October 1973 from the "Seckenheimer Bote" (Seckenheim is 5 km away from where I live). It is available here
https://druckschriften-digital.marchivum.de/zd/periodical/zoom/510335.
The article announced a concert of Zarah Leander in Seckenheim, as part of the farewell tour of the then 66 year old Swedish singer and actress.
Zarah Leander is still known for her song "Ich weiss, es wird einmal ein Wunder geschehen" (https://soundcloud.com/zarah-leander-official/ich-weiss-es-wird-212274359) from 1942. This influenced the choice of music for this track.


More on this 618th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Burying the Lede (The Assignment: Turn old news into new music), at: Disquiet Junto Project 0618: Burying the Lede – Disquiet

About the Disquiet Junto: Disquiet Junto F.A.Q. – Disquiet 1

Subscribe to project announcements: Disquiet Junto by Marc Weidenbaum (Disquiet.com) 2

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Zarah (Disquiet0618)

Sinny: shaker, tambourine, cowbell, samboga blocks, rattle, hamper, iKaossilator and SpaceCraft apps, synth and xylophone programming

InspectorJ: rooster sample

More on this 618th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Burying the Lede (The Assignment: Turn old news into new music), at: https://disquiet.com/0618/

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Pumpkin Poaching (disquiet0618)

I've been exploring scanned synthesis - and this is a glitchy little number using that approach to interpret the latest haiku from Naviar Records ... Enjoy!

gale in the mountains –
watch how the fallen blossoms
carpet the water

Haiku by: Den Sutejo [Translated by Makoto Ueda] https://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2007/03/den-sutejo.html

More information: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

more halF unusuaL

halF carpeteD [naviarhaiku514]

Like the task,played the transition on SOMA's Terra
recorded in TP-7, mixed and mastered in Ableton

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FromLightToDarkFleesenseeShadow(disquiet0622)

More on this 626th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Audio Journal 2023 — The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments — at: https://disquiet.com/0626/

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Audio Journal 2023

Disquiet Junto | Audio Journal 2023 - disquiet0626

Step 1: There is a cool recent short fiction collection of horror stories, all with sound as their subject. The book is titled Lost Signals, and it contains 24 pieces of fiction, one of them, “The Night Wire” by H.F. Arnold, dating as far back as 1926.

Step 2: We’re going to take a short segment of one of the stories and try to represent it in sound. The story is “Transmission” by T.E. Grau. It’s about a mysterious radio station. You can either use the following segment, or read the book and find a different section of roughly similar length:

“Max was pondering the important issue of how petrogylphs differed from hieroglyphs when the radio halted its roll at the very far end of the electronic dial. After a brief silence, the weak signal transmitted indistinct sounds, like whispers, intermingled with an odd chanting that faded in and out like a spectral dirge. Intrigued by this strange combination, and hoping for a broadcast of a lonely Indian powwow, Max turned up the volume, but the higher it went, the softer the voice and chant became, going silent. There was no apparent signal, but the radio scan was still stopped, locked in on something”

Step 3: Render the text in Step 2 (or that you choose yourself from the book Lost Signals). However, do not read the text. Just let the text inform the sounds.

More on this 259th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Signals Lost: Summon up a horror story in sound” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0259/2

The text that inspired this is from the book Lost Signals, from by Perpetual Publishing out of San Antonio, Texas. More details on the book at:

perpetualpublishing.com/product/lost-signals/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/1

There Was A Little Toolshed {Disquiet0259-LostSignals}

Music is not only a hobby, but a place of refuge.  
There are mostly ios creations but I'll play some guitar and what not here and there.  Sound is a giant sand box.  On going battle with hoarding got me an odd collection of instruments which I should learn how to record better.  I would be interested in more collaborations so inbox me if interested.  Good thing it wasn't the Apocalypse theres too much cool music I still have to hear :)  


Check out these folks while your listening:
http://soundcloud.com/apapdop
http://soundcloud.com/doucetephemere
http://soundcloud.com/vanmorrison
http://soundcloud.com/michaelw-2



There Was A Little Toolshed {Disquiet0259-LostSignals}

Mike J Dayton