sound art for disquiet0651.

manual cassette tape collage recorded through the lid of a pedal bin with a contact mic.


More on the 651st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Why Compute? — The Assignment: Respond to a prompt from George E. Lewis — at Disquiet Junto Project 0651: Why Compute? – Disquiet

redundant technology will save us (disquiet0651)

for the disquiet junto //

algorithmic bleeps'n'bloops

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More on the 651st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Why Compute? — The Assignment: Respond to a prompt from George E. Lewis — at https://disquiet.com/0651/

Cascade 3N7G5

[disquiet0651] Cascade 3N7G5

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0651: Why Compute?, which is based on a prompt by musician and Columbia University professor George E. Lewis. Lewis asks, “Why do we want our computers to improvise?”.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0651 discussion thread on Lines:
My response to George E. Lewis's question "Why do we want our computers to improvise?" is - they can help create, influence, untangle and/or open up fresh neural pathways within our brains in discovering new approaches for our music compositions.

More than half the music I create usually involves some form of non-human generative or semi-generative improvisation to collaborate with. In the past, the collaborators have been various computer programs or hardware systems like the Monome Norns. Lately, it's been the modular synthesizer, though I did use my MacBook Pro here.

Three tracks were produced in Ableton Live with the help of a generative sequencer called TATAT by K-Devices. I improvised accompanying tracks using a K-Board MIDI keyboard. The synth plugins used were Slate + Ash Choreographs and Cycles, Fors Tela, and Sonic Beds 1.0 by Jogging House. Reverb effects were by Phonolyth Cascade.

More on the 651st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Why Compute? — The Assignment: Respond to a prompt from George E. Lewis — at Disquiet Junto Project 0651: Why Compute? – Disquiet
The cover image for this project uses a photo by Ioan Sameli, thanks to a CC BY-SA 2.0 license; it’s been cropped and text has been added to it.
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Conical and Concentric References [disquiet0651]

This track is part of Disquiet Junto Project 0651: Why Compute? See more at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0651-why-compute/67663/28.

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Storefront Churches

Disquiet Junto Project 0651: Why Compute?
The Assignment: Respond to a prompt from George E. Lewis.

Lewis asks, “Why do we want our computers to improvise?”
I, for myself, to be surprised by the improvisations.
But not too much.
That's why half of this track is made up of repeating patterns and the other half of patterns that change through computing slightly (!) with every interation.

More on the 651st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Why Compute? — The Assignment: Respond to a prompt from George E. Lewis — at https://disquiet.com/0651/

Discussions https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0651-why-compute/

Subsidiary Surprise [disquiet0651]

In response to the recent Disquiet Junto challenge:

This week’s prompt was proposed by George E. Lewis, musician, music theorist, music professor at Columbia University, and artistic director of the International Contemporary Ensemble. Lewis is the composer-in-residence at this year’s Musikfestival Bern.

Lewis asks, “Why do we want our computers to improvise?”

This week’s project: record a piece of music that responds in some way to Lewis’ question.

An answer could be, that it helps with creativity. 
For this track Randolon sequencer (by Charles E. Platel) plays Glockenspiel and Arctic Swells (Spitfire audio LABS). I added a track created with Havoxicon ( by Johan van Kreij).



Conversation about feelings with a nice robot (disquiet0651).

The 651st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Why Compute?
The Assignment: Respond to a prompt from George E. Lewis
Disquiet Junto Project 0651 – https://disquiet.com/0651/

The cover image for this project uses a photo by Ioan Sameli, thanks to a CC BY-SA 2.0 license; it’s been cropped and text has been added to it.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intel_8742_153056995.jpg

即興 - Improvisation #1 [Disquiet0651]

Experimentation with Bitwig's FX Grid, processing a Harmony Bloom generated sequence with various randomisers, such as dice, sample and hold, and logical arithmetic based on several channels of source. The result was then further modified with Infiltrator 2, and Sampleson's Haptic Perc, and Xils-Lab La Palme.

indeterminant (disquiet0651)

Collection of recorded fragments from 2025

Experimental  18.10.25

Station To Station

This song Afterlight was inspired by The Lord of the Rings. You know that moment when Gandalf charges in and there’s a child singing in the background with those soaring vocals? That feeling gave me chills and I wanted to capture something similar. It also has a bit of the same sadness as the melody from Naruto, when he’s sitting on the swing alone.

I started with that vibe in mind, something emotional and lonely, but I wanted it to build up into something epic instead of staying sad all the way through. This is what came out of it.

As always, my music is free to use and free to download. All I ask is a simple shoutout whenever you use it. Thank you.

Afterlight

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.