NAVIARHAIKU545:

white petals
on the stormy sea -
floating memories

haiku: El Wud https://linktr.ee/el_wud
image: Hans Isaacson https://unsplash.com/photos/a-person-standing-on-a-surfboard-in-the-ocean--7-wFOX8ZiE
for the Naviar Records Haiku Music Challenge www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Stormy Sea - Floating [NaviarHaiku545]

Disquiet Junto Project 0696: Chain of Layers

The Assignment: Make music change by altering its layers.

Step 1: Record 10 to 15 layers of continuous sound.

Step 2: Create a piece of music in which you only change the relative presence of those individual layers from Step 1 over time. Some light effects and panning are certainly fine, but the majority of the impact should be how the prominence of the individual layers changes.

More on the 696th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Layers — The Assignment: Make music change by altering its layers — at https://disquiet.com/0696/

Chain of Layers (disquiet0696)

Part 1 of 3 of the annual Disquiet Junto Trios project

A low B note drones throughout, with a slow evolution of added notes of the B Major 6 chord. No beat or melody, and certainly nothing of interest for AI bots. Created on Solar 42.

More on the 697th weekly Disquiet Junto project, First Third — The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0697/

B Drone - disquiet0697

This track was inspired by the Men Ruz lighthouse on the Côte de Granit Rose near Ploumanac'h. It is an asynchronous duo based on the excellent track https://soundcloud.com/fake-genius/disquiet0697-seq, created by @fake-genius and made available for this Disquiet Junto project.

The photography of the Men Ruz lighthouse was kindly supplied by @the_robocat (more photos to be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_robocat).

More on the 698th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Second Third — The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0698/

Le Phare de Men Ruz (Disquiet0698)

My first junto project- disquiet0698. Adding the 2nd part of a trio (right channel), to Alan Blip's- B-Drone starter (left channel) .  
You are hearing some shortwave recording of military weather reports, and what is (allegedly) a Russian diplomatic service transmission (time-stretched), bad violin playing and the sound of wind in the trees of my garden. Kinda concerned I've packed too much in here, but hope there's space for someone to add something more in part 3. It's been fun- thanks Alan Blip & Junto crew for the provocation :)

More on the 698th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Second Third — The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio — at disquiet.com/0698/

disquiet0698_

Worked on this duo by e_nu_ri (@user-807707609) : https://soundcloud.com/user-807707609/bowed-and-jangled-farther-disquiet0698  based on this original track by 
@red_robin
https://soundcloud.com/red_robin/disquiet-junto-0697-mr-bowed-jangles

The all-synth background is great. I thought the contrast between those synth tracks and a warm, acoustic tone could be interesting, so I improvised a lead part on tenor ukulele. I also added an infra bass drone playing the tonic, and used a little software I’m beta testing that generates sound from a text prompt using some kind of AI (can’t say more here, but it’s fun for drones!).
It's like a dark, abstract recitativo, hope you like it.

For this collaboration project:
llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…t-0699-third-third/

Mr Bowed Jangles returns (w/ he_nu_ri and Tristan Louth-Robins) - disquiet0699

23May25
My naviarhaiku594 track
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/784155891514605568/naviarhaiku594-caged-bird
:D

caged bird [naviarhaiku594]

Suss Müsik has been traveling a lot lately. Thus is the nature of having to work for a living, a privileged state that appears to be accelerating toward some form of extinction. That’s probably a gripe for another Junto project.

On a recent trip to a U.S. city not to be named, Suss Müsik captured this strangely bucolic view outside the hotel window. Look closely, and you’ll see evidence of gentrification in the urban landscape: a new corporate housing unit dominates the left side of the image, obscured by a rich envelope of foliage. There appears to be some sort of mosque in the background, perhaps representing one of the orthodox faiths, next to what might be a church steeple. A rustic brick dwelling sits confidently where it was built some 300 years ago. Just beyond that is a budget hotel and what is likely a corporate office building, both filled to half-capacity.

The intention of Suss Müsik’s sonic interpretation was to demonstrate this weirdly haunting mashup: a blend of classical ‘old world’ architecture residing in an environment of aggressively digital commercialization. It is a scene where progress is measured in glass panels, beige is the new brown, innovation is temporal, and humans interaction relies on the conductivity of elemental particles. If you can imagine the setting of a Milan Kundera story retold through a series of YouTube Shorts, that’s sort of the vibe this image presents. 

This piece for cello, violin, piano, and electronics was recorded quickly to TASCAM 8-track. It is dedicated to Marc Weidenbaum and all participants of the Disquiet Junto community. Here’s to 700 chapters and counting.

More on the 700th weekly Disquiet Junto project, View Frame — The Assignment: Share a peek out your window and some sounds inspired by the view — at https://disquiet.com/0700/

Urban Entropy [Disquiet0700]

I filled my gap with Alain Badiou ... for a change ... Excerpts from the brilliant European Graduate School video of Badiou lecturing in English on the Subject of Change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBxf_hncrN8

More on the 701st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Gap Ear — The Assignment: Break apart a piece of music and fill the resulting spaces — at https://disquiet.com/0701/

more halF unusuaL

halF voiD [disquiet0701]

Welcome to a little deep (haiku) space TidalCycles livecoding play! 😁😜

pulling light
from the other world . . .
the Milky Way

Yatsuka Ishihara (1919–1998) was a Japanese poet and co-founder of the journal Aki 秋 with Akira Matsuzawa. He also served as an advisor to the Modern Haiku Association (Gendai Haiku Kyōkai) and the Association of Haiku Poets (Haijin Kyōkai).

Haiku by Yatsuka Ishihara: https://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/MillikinHaiku/writerprofiles/JonesOnIshihara.html
 
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

halF milkY [naviarhaiku601]

Recorded, edited, mixed & mastered on 11 Nov 2020 & 31 Jul 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA.

Synths, effects

Process notes - 

In Nov 2020, I started a video series that was mostly small electronic instruments and guitar pedals filmed from above. When I first started the series, I recorded a few test takes and I decided to use one of these as the basis for an entire album I plan to release this year and currently is in progress. This one was (probably) a Korg Volca FM, an old Electro-Harmonix Microsynth & a TC Electronic Nova.

Besides this recording, I also will use different synths to layer onto the original recording. For this piece, I am using some wavetable-layered-samples (as kicks, more or less), the Cherry Audio Chroma and the Arturia Mini. Each one of these I generally increased the resolution/speed of short midi phrases I wrote. This broke down some of the effects I had and did a few nutty things but I really liked how it fit right into the piece.

There was a sweet accident of feedback in the DAW that I captured and layered on near the end, too.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 18 Nov 2018, LIRR, NY, USA

Music & art © 2018, 2020, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “Electronic Reality Appliance  (disquiet0709)” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0709: Overclocked. The Assignment: Speed up a machine (or process) until it falters.

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

More on the 709th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Overclocked — The Assignment: Speed up a machine (or process) until it falters — at Disquiet Junto Project 0709: Overclocked – Disquiet.

Electronic Reality Appliance  (disquiet0709)

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.