A gathering swarm of united insects. A collaboration with multiple members of the Disquiet Junto project.

Kinim Arov (disquiet0502)

Electronic composition incorporating:
https://soundcloud.com/otolythe/broodx-10521
https://soundcloud.com/breannajohnston/insect-menagerie-disquiet0494
Other sounds are my own.

More on this 502nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Global Swarming (The Assignment: Create a swarm of imaginary insects) — at: https://disquiet.com/0502/ 1

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/

https://www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern

https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0502-global-swarming/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this project is by David Hoffman, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/aePCyj

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Passing Swarm (disquiet0502)

A phenomenon that seems to have escaped the attention of many researchers is how insects in the area of Cambridge, UK, deal with heat waves - maybe because of the relative rarity of heat waves in that part of the UK until recently. Whan dealing with rising temperatures, local insects tend to swarm together and organise their vocalisations into regular patterns that follow a progression not unlike that of cellular automata. Surprisingly, different kinds and geni of insects tend to join in and lock into the pattern together, suggesting a kind of inter-species communication that has also escaped our scrutiny

In fact, in an unpublished article, Martin Gardner has ventured the hypothesis that the late John H. Conway might have been influenced by the sounds of insects while working on his particular version of cellular automata - what we nowadays know as Conway's Game of Life...


...Of course, I'm making things up again. "Insect Automata Swarm" is my contribution to this week's Disquiet Junto project #0503: "Global Swarming". For this project, I used no less than 39 of the available insect sounds, and structured the "swarm" by using four out-of-phase cellular automata objects in Pure Data. The result is a slightly cacofonous, part-machinic and part-organic, but always organised rumble and noise.

Sound sampled here proceed from two previous Disquiet Junto projects: 

Disquiet Junto #0494: "Insect Menagerie": 

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0494

and Disquiet Junto #0498: "Sonic Entomologist"

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0498

Samples include work by @analoc, @ausgesuchtestenohren, Bbob Drake, Bee Kind, Bick Brannigan III, Breanna Johnston, Caustic Gates, @creaturesonce, Fake Genius, Gary Barwin, Gerard Paresys, Karmic Resonance, K. Joule, Krakenkraft, Lewlaufer, @Losanch, Michael Ash, @Net, @morgulbee, Parallel Tool, Paul Beaudoin, Piney Boy, Radio Hummingbird, Richard Fichera, Scott Boone, @seramind, @wasabicube, @zedkah, @Zounzabar, et al.

More on this 502nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Global Swarming (The Assignment: Create a swarm of imaginary insects) — at: https://disquiet.com/0502/

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/
https://www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern
https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0502-global-swarming/

Disquiet Junto #0502: Global Swarming

Insect Automata Swarm (disquiet0502)

For Disquiet Junto Project 0502: Global Swarming I remixed https://soundcloud.com/seramind/insect-2-disquiet0494?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0494 with https://soundcloud.com/user-130801280/clicker-fly-disquiet0494?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0494 in order to create a swarm of imaginary insects.

More on this 502nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Global Swarming (The Assignment: Create a swarm of imaginary insects) — at: https://disquiet.com/0502/

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/
https://www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern
https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0502-global-swarming/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this project is by David Hoffman, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/aePCyj

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Swarm Hybridization [disquiet0502]

Step 1: You’ll be creating the sound of a swarm of insects. First, select the insect sounds from sets that resulted from two previous Disquiet Junto projects.

Step 2: Create the sound of a swarm of insects approaching, gathering mass, and then passing you by, utilizing some of the sounds you selected in Step 1.

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0502-global-swarming/47573

Threatening Multiples (disquiet0502)

More on this 502nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Global Swarming (The Assignment: Create a swarm of imaginary insects) — at: https://disquiet.com/0502/

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/
https://www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern
https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0502-global-swarming/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

Doom Swarm (disquiet0502)

This track represents a swarm of different insects approaching, surrounding the listener and departing. It is part of the Disquiet Junto Project 0502 (on this project see below) and incorporates the following insects already created for the Musikfestival Bern by other artists:
https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-insect-disquiet0494
https://soundcloud.com/winterer/the-planck-fly-disquiet0494
https://soundcloud.com/name-constant/ambulantes-electricus-disquiet0494
https://soundcloud.com/pineyb/insect-inside
https://soundcloud.com/caustic_gates/disquiet0498-williasonix-warpbugzaria
https://soundcloud.com/escupemetralla/helicoidal-cryptotolythe

More on this 502nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Global Swarming (The Assignment: Create a swarm of imaginary insects) — at: https://disquiet.com/0502/ 1

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/

https://www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern

https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0502-global-swarming/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

The Visitation of the Swarm (disquiet0502)

a project in collaboration with the 2021 Musikfestival Bern -  “schwärme”

the sound of a swarm of insects approaching, gathering mass, and then passing you

Swarm [disquiet0502]

Disquiet Junto Project 0503: Sing Song
The Assignment: Record a song using only your voice transformed beyond recognition.
https://disquiet.com/0503/

Nancys Haiku (disquiet0503)

Multiple modulated voice recordings of the first lines of 'The Iliad', recited or chanted with additional sounds of a thumb piano.

More on this 503rd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Sing Song (The Assignment: Record a song using only your voice transformed beyond recognition) – at: https://disquiet.com/0503/

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0503-sing-song/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this project is by John, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/2hMq7fw

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Homer Mix (disquiet0503)

Created for disquiet0457 System Alert. More on this project/prompt here: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0457-system-alert/36824

As the offspring of two computer programmers, I've often thought of operating systems as a metaphor for a person's psyche. I interpreted this prompt via the name of the OS and by imagining system sounds for an OS that cultivates the peace, serenity, and contemplation I find in haikus and really all thoughtfully composed poetry/writing that invites introspection and acceptance of the multiplicity of meaning, which led me to thoughts of space travel and the idea of an OS that helps humanity to work together toward the collective effort of space travel for purposes of exploration and discovery in the absence of conquest, competition, and ego. All using samples from freesound.org (listed below), with some effects. The soundscape thus includes a mixture of gentle sounds, space ship sounds, and sounds reminiscent of related technologies with some linguistic/conceptual connection (e.g., a camera click for a mouse event).

And a haiku for this track:

windows are restored
events minimize the keys
notification

Samples used (all via freesound.org):

inspectorj // ui-confirmation-alert-b3 // CC BY
jagadamba // ceramic-bell-02 // CC BY
tomlija // taking-the-elevator // CC BY
cunningar0807 // harp-glissando-up //CC 0
inspectorj // ui-confirmation-alert-d1 // CC BY
loofa // gong3 // CC BY NC
korground // error-sound // CC BY
taira-komori // angel-chorus4 // CC BY
acclivity // glug1 // CC BY NC
acollier123 // flute-g-low-short // CC BY
nil333 // button-click-sound-or-ping-pong-ball-sound // CC 0
tim-kahn // transport // CC BY
snapper4298 // camera-click-nikon // CC BY
phonosupf // harp-metal // CC 0
mickthemicguy // space-door-slide-close // CC 0
original-sound // whoosh-simple-low // CC BY
fordps3 // sci-fi-door // CC BY
altemark // triangle // CC BY
benboncan // jet-whoosh // CC BY
chriddof // zoom-up-1-quicker-delay // CC 0

Image used for this track: 
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center // Stargazing From the International Space Station // CC BY NC

Haiku Operations for Outer Space and Inner Space disquiet0457

Artist, aspiring folklorist, and student of the Disquiet Junto, from the other side of the meta-narrative.

Haiku Operations for Outer Space and Inner Space disquiet0457

nikikana

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