Message #1

I had a nice recording of an FM radio falling out of tune recorded outside on a Autumn morning with the rain failing off a tent. Its quite evocative so I took this and added some background music. I sent this recording into various channels and effects and with some nice synth sounds it felt like the classic era Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works sound. So added some low key beats chugging away in a very 90s ambient house sort of way! 

The haiku and the sounds match in my mind.. the synths are the summer and the rainbows fading and the beats are the years progress and the hiss and static and rain are the damp days of Autumn.

A day of rainbows
As Summer gives way to the
Damp days of Autumn

John Hinks, aka FlownBlue, is a prolific and talented composer, and a regular participant in the Haiku challenge. Aside from his solo project, John is also involved in three improvising duos: ‘Windfall Light‘ (with Jim Tetlow), ‘Abstract Blue‘ (with Kevin Buckland) and ‘Light Fragments‘ (with Steve Escott).

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 13th October 2021

haiku by John Hinks https://soundcloud.com/flownblue

picture by Dewang Gupta https://unsplash.com/@dewang

Summer Gives Way to Damp Days [naviarhaiku405]

naviarhaiku405:
A day of rainbows
As Summer gives way to the
Damp days of Autumn

haiku: John Hinks https://soundcloud.com/flownblue
image: Dewang Gupta https://unsplash.com/@dewang

Damp Days [NaviarHaiku405]

Suss Müsik of late has been studying the art of technoscientific semiotics. Don’t be too impressed. Most of the concepts befuddle and confuse Suss Müsik’s tiny brain.

According to a paper written by Zachary Horton, humans make sense of our environment by reducing everything to a transcribable surface. The sky, the land, the ocean — these vast entities represent forms of media that must be collapsed, in order to achieve comprehension of our place within the greater Anthropocene.

Freezing and thawing play a large part in our understanding of climate change. According to IPCC lead author and climate scientist Richard A. Betts, CO2 levels in the Earth’s atmosphere are currently 50% higher than pre-industrial levels. Barring massive carbon removal over the coming decades, the melting of sea ice and rise in reflective temperatures will result in a global increase of four degrees Celsius (and possibly 10 to 15 degrees at the poles).

Grim stuff, indeed. Professor Betts takes great care, however, to emphasize that different models present nuances of uncertainty. The core message is that everything is getting warmer; how quickly that is happening—and what actions we need take for the short-term and extended future—are the variables to be reconciled.

For this piece, Suss Müsik “thawed” two synth washes that had been “frozen” in time since 2006. These were broken into rhythmic shards using grain synthesis, metaphorically representing the splitting of sea ice into melting and floating fragments. The vocal is a refactored recording of Professor Betts’ 2009 speech for the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, hosted by Oxford University Centre for the Environment.

The use of Professor Betts’ speech is covered under a Creative Commons license and is “free for reuse, remixing and redistribution in education worldwide.” The use of this material is intended to promote broader interest in learning more about the scientific evidence supporting our planet’s climatological transformation.

Learn more:

https://literarygeographies.net/index.php/LitGeogs/article/view/138

https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/4-degrees-and-beyond-international-climate-conference

More on this 511th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Freeze Tag (The Assignment: Consider freezing (and thawing) as a metaphor for music production) — at: https://disquiet.com/0511/

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4° [Disquiet 0511]

For junto challenge 0519, the Assignment: Remix yourself from another point of view.

For this one I decided to remix (it ended up almost as a rework actually) a 5 years old junto submission (https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/vortex-me-please-disquiet0248) my 5th submission for this beloved rendezvous, a track I recorded on September 30, 2016.

Back then I was much more into glitch&noise, trying to incorporate field recording and plain noise into musical compositions. I downloaded a bunch of NASA free wav that I used a lot, some are included in the original track.

Now, I’m more into blending sort of classical compositional stuff (melodies, chords, real instruments, etc) into experimental tracks like this one.

So I decided that, instead of just remixing that noisy track I wanted to take the whole musical part more in focus, I removed the spoken voices from the NASA tracks, remixed and expanded the basic synths and drum beat (it is more than a minute longer now), then I added a solo cello and some orchestral sampled chords and stabs, plus an old school “Rick Wright” style synth melody.

I don’t know if this 2021 version is better but it suits my actual tastes better.

I used a photo by 愚木混株 on the artwork.
DD, Friday 10th December 2021

More on this 519th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Looking Glass Remix (The Assignment: Remix yourself from another point of view) – at: https://disquiet.com/0519/

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

Into The Vortex (disquiet0519)

v1.11 - 12/15/2021
composition: Jan Hammer
guitar: Audric Jankauskas!
produced by: Jeff Volkman

Don't You Know - featuring Audric Jankauskas - guitar

a rework by Mean Flow of a track by Marco Lucchi featuring Henrik Meierkord 

dicembre 2021

Mean Flow, Marco Lucchi & Henrik Meierkord - Morning Star

Don't Put The Fox In Charge
Music Written & Performed by Esslemont
Track taken from the album 'Never Really, Never Never' 2022
Streaming Pre-Save : gate.fm/XV8XKkXoZ
Esslemont Sounds 2021

Don't Put The Fox In Charge

Contradiction

Ambient Bite 556

Ogura 21-22

mikey_a is an ambient and soundscape artist living in Melbourne, Australia.
Though now producing mainly in the box with a mix of VST and field recordings he still likes to occasionally crank out some of the physical treasures he's owned since the '80s: a Korg MonoPoly, a Roland TR-606, TB-303, S-10 and D-110 along with a TEAC 3440 reel-to-reel.
He is a frequent contributor to the Naviar Records' Haiku Challenge and Disquiet Junto projects.