i like how this came out, and plan to integrate it into my slowly expanding project at https://museumofhistoricalmaterials.bandcamp.com

a frantic 5/4 reworking of a 4/4 track i've been working on this week. mellotron via m-tron pro iv. blackhole immersive, ds tantra 2 and imagiro autochroma pad things out in the return channels. at 30s, an ableton percussion rack (EFX Small Cymbals) starts playing out a morse code message: "kaufmann, you scumbag".

More on the 694th weekly Disquiet Junto project, 5/4ify — The Assignment: Add a 5/4 beat to a pre-existing piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0694/

[disquiet0694] kaufmann in 5/4

the forest to hear-naviarhaiku592

naviarhaiku593 - Jôhatsu

spring dream…
not becoming unhinged
is what’s unbearable
by: Konishi Raizan
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku596-spring-dream/
Komposition1072 Elektronik3a

spring dream… (naviarhaiku596)

Here's my musical resonance to this week's haiku from @naviar-records.

orchids by night – within their fragrance looms their blossoms’ white!

by: Yosa Buson

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku597-orchids-by-night/

Orchids by night (naviarhaiku597)

Disquiet Junto Project 0703: That’s How You Got Killed Before

This one’s been sitting on my hard drive for 16 months. It came from a session with my friend and collaborator Bobby Rangell — we had recorded some flutes for a job, then took advantage of being in the studio to jam a bit: bass and flute, sometimes with a drum machine click.
It was a super productive day. I later revisited and shared many of those flute-based tracks… but this one?
Like the others, it was just two tracks: mono flute and stereo bass, with a 2-bar drum machine loop. But I made a patching mistake that day — the bass came out super thin and low, and mixed weirdly with Bobby’s long reverb. So I just… deleted my bass track. Why? No idea.
Months later, I went back to it — and found only Bobby’s flute and a 3-note Roland 707 kick pattern. No idea what I originally played. Worse: Bobby’s blowing was super abstract. I couldn’t even figure out the key. Still can’t.
Then I got Marc’s email this morning and thought, why not try something different?
Instead of trying to remember what we did, I improvised on top of Bobby and the 707 kick playing electric bass, just following my own ideas and added some drum loops that weren’t there when we played, then I played a Fender Rhodes and some synth textures following my new bass, trying to structure what was probably and abstract free impro.
instead of trying to figure out what key were we playing in (I recall in all our impros we just kept one steady key) I introduced chord changes, played around with modulations, and laid down harmonies that don’t necessarily match what Bobby was playing. So now you hear his flute moving freely over harmonies that were never there in the original — sometimes clashing, sometimes strangely aligning. I liked the tension it created.
I spent a full day in the studio doing this. Honestly, I don’t think it’s done, but I’m leaving it here for now.
Side note: if anyone asks “what’s the point of the Junto challenges?” — this is it.
Sure, I could have called Bobby back and spent the same 8 hours creating something much more polished and coherent from scratch. But we never would have ended up with something like this. And without this challenge, I never would’ve bothered digging into a broken, abandoned track like this.


Performed by Daniel DIaz (June 2025) and Bobby Rangell (March 2024)
Photo by DD, Carilo, Argentina. 2025

That’s How You Got Killed Before (disquiet0703)

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a somewhat melancholic dialogue between two different personalities :-)

2025-06-21

differences

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”  ― Isaac Asimov

Track list and start times:
00:00  Doris Dennison – Earth Interval: II. Air Tide
03:10  Francesco Bosa – Preludio notturno al silenzio, Parte 2
06:15  Mark Harris ‎– I Am a Long Way from Home
11:00  Ivons & Senglar – Strings Attached
13:35  Ed Mundio – By the Light Of The Milky-Way (NaviarHaiku 601)
17:38  Megalophobe – Solenoid
25:18  Pink Lemonade – Radioactive
33:29  Anne-James Chaton, Andy Moor & Yannis Kyriakides – Ecrire Un Phrase
38:19  Plague Clock – Jacob's Ladder
40:34  Rumblin Cynth Rampo – Hiatus rescinded
49:35  Strange Relish & 27 other SC artists – 28 (2011)
57:11  TimHeld - Hospital Waiting Room Revisited
59:35  Francesco Bosa – Preludio notturno al silenzio, Parte 1
1:03:24  Dead Lincoln – glow tone
1:07:14  Stan Magendanz – Power without the suit_02
1:12:25  tourmaline hum – Vacant Possession
1:18:30  Voidborn Horde – Milky Way Calling (naviarhaiku601)
1:24:18  wellenhafen – Stories
1:29:00  Snoqualmie Falls ‎– Dream Sequence (excerpt)
1:41:20  Walter Marchetti ‎– De Musicorum Infelicitate (Variazione V)
1:47:00  Tuonela – The unknowing of all things
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Image: Lexica.art



Eclectic current – The unknowing of all things

UdieNnx - VOID (SUPER SLOWED)

Mind 6375 (Live)

Wu Ji 無極 | 𝖵𝖺𝗋𝗂𝗈𝗎𝗌 𝖠𝗋𝗍𝗂𝗌𝗍𝗌 𝖢𝗈𝗆𝗉𝗂𝗅𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇 𝖵𝗈𝗅. 𝟣

本次新企劃邀請了五位臺灣新興創作者與我共同創作合輯。

「Wu Ji | 無極」象徵未知的聲音潛能與萬物起源，同時也是創造的「零點」。透過這次合輯，我們期望集結各位藝術家的聲音，激盪出新的火花，讓創作者在自己的音景世界中自由表述，為新世代鋪設一條探索潛在可能性的道路。
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Lica - An uneasy gaze：
模擬神經緊繃狀態
當下腦神經判斷聽覺接收的聲音動態，會是在頭皮前額葉上方與耳道極左右回蕩的狀態。
低頻的節奏速度以30的速度跳動著，詮釋當凝視思考一物時所聽到心臟 跳動聲。

Simulating a state of neural tension, the brain's auditory perception at that moment resonates betweer tex above the scalp and the extremes of the ear canals. 
The low-frequently  rhythm pulses at a tempo of 80, interpreting the heartbeat one hears while fixating on an object in deep thought.

Lica - An uneasy gaze

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