The Dying Miss Saeki (Den döende fröken Saeki) is the fourth and last movement in From the Bottom of a Well (Från botten av en brunn) based on Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka on the Shore. The the sounds were designed from, and the music was written from a grounded theory analysis of the book. The piece was performed and recorded on the 16th of December 2021 by Robert Ek, clarinet; Kevin Kirs Verstege, cello; and Rikard Vilhelm Lindell, eurorack at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Photography by Hannes Häfele.

Robert Ek's portfolio: www.remusik.se/
Hannes Häfele's portfolio: luminea.eu/

Video recording from the concert is available here: https://vimeo.com/716690521

Den döende fröken Saeki / The Dying Miss Saeki

Bewildered

work in progress

 Untitled #9 *provisory © 2023 by Nadir is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Untitled #9 *provisory

(encym | Hanrath | Kitzmann | Sharbaugh)
Andreas Kitzmann [ https://soundcloud.com/andreas-kitzmann-27370936 ]: [electric?] guitar loop improvisation
encym [ https://soundcloud.com/encym ]: acoustic and electric guitars improvisations
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: editing, mixing, and 'found sounds'
W:I:L-o´the-wisp [ https://soundcloud.com/flyingtonefish ]: 'theremin' and synthesizer 'solo' improvisation
Composed and Recorded ca. April 19 to 21, 2023.
sm13-02 [eM 03] [24WAV].

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"I was completely enthralled by Andreas', Roland's, and Wilfried's musical 'answer' to the last Junto assignment (0593 -- a trio recorded at 'asynchronous' times and places). I lovingly dissected their sonic opus, and concocted My own answer to this week's Junto challenge -- 0594, the 'Threemix.'

I first diced the intro of Andreas' initial, guitar loop, kept only its first two 'notes,' expanded and looped them to 64.35 BPM -- and repeated them throughout the piece.

encym's guitar meanderings were sliced into brief phrases. I ended up with thirty of them, yet used only two of them to offset Andreas' forceful drones. Also featured are two improv sections of His at very low volumes, in order to suggest an subtle 'undulation' in the piece.

encym's tonality was originally pitched one semitone higher ('Western-scale'); thus, I lowered (pitch-shifted) it a single semitone. The result is consonance.

(One of My fave 'happy accidents' occured while isolating a brief, percussive 'dink' during encym's guitar part [a fingering error?]; that dink -- when saturated, and run through a slap-back and ping-pong delay series -- provided a 'drum' beat that backed the piece.)

As the work nears its cadence, enter Wilfried, with His wond'rous 'theremin' riff, of which I isolated one recorded flourish, and repeated it four times. The motif He played introduces itself at a low volume level, fed through two delays and a reverb, which deepened in intensities as the motifs progressed. 

What makes this piece special for Me is the highly complex -- and joyfully painstaking -- effects automations I crafted throughout it. It took hours of mathematical computations, and programming, in order to make the piece -- itself seemingly 'simple' and 'droney' -- to 'sound' so complex."

~ Michael

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"Disquiet Junto Project 0594: 'Threemix'

The Assignment: Remix an asynchronously produced trio.

Step 1: You’re going to make a remix of a track from the most recent Disquiet Junto project, which was a collection of trios constructed over the course of three weeks. Listen through the playlist, and check out any additional tracks in the discussion forum:

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0593

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0593-the-charm/

Step 2: You might elect to use some of the constituent parts of the series, so do seek out the solo and duet that led to your chosen trio and feel free to employ those, too. Check out the respective llllllll.co threads:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0591-the-loneliest-number/

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0592-better-than-one/ "

~ Marc Weidenbaum

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"The complete work from which this remix borrowed constituent parts can be found here:

https://soundcloud.com/flyingtonefish/wilfried-hanrath-with-andreas-kitzmann-encym-encounters-in-the-disquiet0593

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The subsequent duet penned by Andreas Kitzmann and encym can be found here, at disquiet0592:

https://soundcloud.com/encym/tete-a-tete-disquiet0592

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Andreas Kitzmann's lone, discrete track, which was destined for the initial Disquiet Junto assignment, "disquiet0591," can be found here:

https://soundcloud.com/andreas-kitzmann-27370936/disquiet0591 "

~ Michael

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Trinkets + Tatters (feat. encym  Wilfried Hanrath &amp; Andreas Kitzmann)

"Trinkets + Tatters" - Michael Ash Sharbaugh (ft. Andreas Kitzmann, encym, and W:I:L-o´the-wisp)

30-06-2023 
3 sample    Marcus Fischer   
More on this 600th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reaching Out (The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer), at: https://disquiet.com/0600/ 1

Please credit Marcus Fischer when posting your track.

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0600-reaching-out/

This project’s cover image is a detail of a photo by Marcus Fischer.

3sample (disquiet0600)

(Original sound material provided by Marcus Fischer)

Disquiet Junto Project 0600: Reaching Out
The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer.

Step 1: The musician Marcus Fischer, long a friend of and participant in the Disquiet Junto, has graciously put together a set of shared samples that will be the source audio for this project. Part of the beauty of a shared sample project is that there will be an underlying quality — a tonality, a texture, a commonality — to all the disparate works that are produced from the foundational material. Listening to the variations as they surface will be its own special source of pleasure. You can access the files here:

https://www.dropbox.com/t/TGexgpq93GPLGFxE 30

Step 2: You can rework the audio from Step 1 in any way that you see fit. You can use all of it, or just one tiny piece, or whatever subset you find strikes your ear. The one stipulation is your finished piece should begin and end with an unadulterated segment of one of the provided tracks for at least two seconds. Please credit Marcus Fischer when posting your track.

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I've had this idea for a long time: turning slowly evolving drones and textures into percussion and pusles and compose around that.

When I listened to the source material, I knew what I wanted to do.

**The process**
I placed all sounds on separate DAW tracks and listened to them. 
I used sends to create 3 different "submixes" that I liked. I recorded these 3 sounds and worked with them, disregarding the other material. 

Then, I processed these 3 voices with Eurorack envelopes and VCAs, coming up with a trigger sequence, envelope timing, levels and EQ that I liked. I spent around an hour on it.

I grouped together all 3 voices and added some space with tape delay and a bit of reverb. Then, I added a fourth sound layer of the metallic stereo percussion, which already had a great reverberation to it, so I put it outside of the group to add a second layer of depth to the overall space of the piece.

I recorded 10 minutes of the resulting material to the DAW (mono).

Then I closed my eyes and recorded volume automation with a MIDI fader controller for the four tracks to introduce the sounds and fade them away, giving the composition its final shape.

Reaching Out [disquiet0600]

Live iPad jam around 3 samples by Marcus Fischer. The main theme is from manipulating one of the samples in Sector. Outside of these three sources there's one track of softpop, and multiple tracks of effects.

My creative goal with this one was to slow down.

Disquiet Junto Project 0600: Reaching Out The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer.

Step 1: The musician Marcus Fischer, long a friend of and participant in the Disquiet Junto, has graciously put together a set of shared samples that will be the source audio for this project. Part of the beauty of a shared sample project is that there will be an underlying quality — a tonality, a texture, a commonality — to all the disparate works that are produced from the foundational material. Listening to the variations as they surface will be its own special source of pleasure. You can access the files here:
https://www.dropbox.com/t/TGexgpq93GPLGFxE 32

Step 2: You can rework the audio from Step 1 in any way that you see fit. You can use all of it, or just one tiny piece, or whatever subset you find strikes your ear. The one stipulation is your finished piece should begin and end with an unadulterated segment of one of the provided tracks for at least two seconds. Please credit Marcus Fischer when posting your track.

More on this 600th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reaching Out (The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer), at: https://disquiet.com/0600/ 2

Please credit Marcus Fischer when posting your track.

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0600-reaching-out/

Photo by Bernd Dittrich on Unsplash.

Vapor Shores (w. Marcus Fischer) [disquiet0600]

Many thanks to @marcus_fischer who provided the samples used as the exclusive building blocks for this track.

More on this 600th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reaching Out (The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer), at: https://disquiet.com/0600/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0600-reaching-out/

600 views of noise, silence and inspiration (disquiet0600)

Disquiet Junto Project 0600: Reaching Out
The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer.

Step 1: The musician Marcus Fischer, long a friend of and participant in the Disquiet Junto, has graciously put together a set of shared samples that will be the source audio for this project. Part of the beauty of a shared sample project is that there will be an underlying quality — a tonality, a texture, a commonality — to all the disparate works that are produced from the foundational material. Listening to the variations as they surface will be its own special source of pleasure. You can access the files here:

https://www.dropbox.com/t/TGexgpq93GPLGFxE 34

Step 2: You can rework the audio from Step 1 in any way that you see fit. You can use all of it, or just one tiny piece, or whatever subset you find strikes your ear. The one stipulation is your finished piece should begin and end with an unadulterated segment of one of the provided tracks for at least two seconds. Please credit Marcus Fischer when posting your track.

Eight Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0600” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your tracks.

Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0600” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation of a project playlist.

Step 3: Upload your tracks. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your tracks.

Step 4: Post your track in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0600-reaching-out/

Step 5: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: If posting on social media, please consider using the hashtag #DisquietJunto so fellow participants are more likely to locate your communication.

Step 7: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Step 8: Also join in the discussion on the Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

Note: Please post one track for this weekly Junto project. If you choose to post more than one, and do so on SoundCloud, please let me know which you’d like added to the playlist. Thanks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you.

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, July 3, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, June 29, 2023.

Upload: When participating in this project, be sure to include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

Download: It is always best to set your track as downloadable and allowing for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution, allowing for derivatives).

For context, when posting the track online, please be sure to include this following information:

More on this 600th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reaching Out (The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer), at: https://disquiet.com/0600/ 2

Please credit Marcus Fischer when posting your track.

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0600-reaching-out/

DC feat. the samples of Marcus Fischer  - disquiet0600

A 3rd version of this track that i really like:) Synthesizers: Neutron, Model D, Planet Earth, Mophatt, Er-1, DRM1, Subharmonicon, Cycles, JV-2080 (strings). Recorded mid september. Mp3 only this time.

Playtime 3

A beatless remix from 2004 that never saw the light of day. The K1500 Project was a pretty hard out rock band with growly vox, a million miles from my world. :D It was fun to do something with it.

Original track: http://www.last.fm/music/The+K1500+Project/_/Church+of+Elvisey

Original track

The K1500 Project - Church of Elvisey (Jet Jaguar Remix) (Free download)

Releasing tunes under this name since 1996.

8 albums & 12 EPs as Jet Jaguar, as well as releases with Takamu, Tonkyn Pearson (fka Montano), Malty Media, Datsun Stereo, Patio and The Dub Connection.

I also try and pull together stuff from New Zealand you might like if you say you like ambient music. https://ambientnz.com

You can find a lot of free music that's not on here via my Bandcamp or website.

The K1500 Project - Church of Elvisey (Jet Jaguar Remix) (Free download)

Jet Jaguar (NZ)

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