"Novembeat is an informal challenge to record one piece of music every day in November. It can be big or small, a mere notion or an entire symphony. Flex the creative muscle and try to learn something new." https://novembeat.com/

Novembeat 2021

Disquiet Junto Project 0515: Talking Cure
The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room.

Step 1. Imagine that you are about to consult a therapist. You are sitting in the waiting room of his/her/their office.

Step 2. Picture some comfortable chairs, abstract artworks on the wall, and some large plants in the corners of the room. The perfect music for this moment is playing out of a high quality, vintage-looking speaker. You are ready for your appointment.

Step 3. Create a piece of music that you imagine hearing in this situation. The duration of the piece is up to you. If you are OK with your work potentially being excerpted, please license it with a CC license that permits derivative works (i.e., any CC license that does not include ND, “no derivative works”).

Background: Selected results from this assignment will be included in the soundtrack of an experimental video series The Talking Cure, currently being produced by visual artists The Big Conversation Space. The Talking Cure will be projected in the group exhibition The Real Show at the contemporary art museum CAC Brétigny, France from January through April 2022 and broadcast on YouTube. The video series will also feature the Disquiet Junto through interviews with Marc Weidenbaum and other Disquiet Junto participants and supporters. The Junto participants whose work is included will be credited by name in the videos.

Disquiet Junto Project 0515: Talking Cure

The first of 30 days of recording music for Novembeat; the prompt was "health". This represents a 2020 photo I took from my yard of the California skies during the incredibly devastating forest fires, and the feeling of not being able to stop but wanting to but not knowing how.

health [novembeat 2021.01]

The second of 30 days of recording music for Novembeat; the prompt was "ennui", a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement. My poor Luna, who is snoozing behind me on the futon as I compose this, would prefer to be on a multi-mile hike, even though it's 40 degrees, foggy and dark.

ennui [novembeat 2021.02]

The third of 30 days of recording music for Novembeat; the prompt was "love", an intense feeling of deep affection. I don't usually involve my family as the subject of my compositions, but are my first and best audience and are so incredibly patient with me. I love them so.

love [novembeat 2021.03]

The fourth of 30 days of recording music for Novembeat; the prompt was "lost", unable to find one's way; not knowing one's whereabouts. I've been having writer's block for the past couple days and ended up throwing away about two hours worth work in total. Not very efficient. So, in an effort to keep myself from getting lost, I decided that I would just own anything I put down and run with it. I've played in progressive rock bands before, so this is familiar territory.

lost [novembeat 2021.04]

The fifth of 30 days of recording music for Novembeat; the prompt was "return", an act of coming or going back to a place or activity. The first synthesizer I really interacted with in a serious way was an Ensoniq EPS 2.40. I still have access to it, although I would need to replace the aging 3.5" floppy drive with a USB drive and that's a really scary operation. I've been enjoying Arturia's SQ 80 V which is an emulation from the same era. I also learned about progressive rock around the same time. It made an impression.

return [novembeat 2021.05]

Studio Noah creation on JUNO-Di Mobile Synthesizer

You Lied [disquiet0515]

For "Bardominium", I wanted a sound reminiscent of a Marpac Dohm noise machine, but with vague extras.  

This is the 40 second version.

To achieve this, I combined sections of tracks by my side group Aleodeology.  These tracks are titled "Aleodeological Travel", "Industrial Terminal", and "Significant Mallets".  I also mixed in a bunch of homemade loops created from the Korg IMS-20 iPad app .

More on this 515th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Talking Cure (The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room) — at: https://disquiet.com/0515/

Bardominium (disquiet0515)

For this challenge:
Disquiet Junto Project 0515: Talking Cure
Imagine that you are about to consult a therapist. You are sitting in the waiting room of his/her/their office.
Create a piece of music that you imagine hearing in this situation. 

I was recording ebow guitar today so did this jam, guitar, upright bass, ebow guitar, synths.
it was pure "free association", just played whatever came to my mind on top of the previous tracks.
Friday November 12th 2021

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little home video recording this:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CWOQ47JqJfc/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Let's Bring It Back To The Waiting Room (disquiet0515)

Sittin in the waiting room  listening to the radio. What i hear inside is not what comes from outside My schizo mind cooks another brew. Rehearses its own music.  Thank you, my brain. 

All sounds EMU Morpheus. Sequenced by Flame Six in a Row

More on this 515th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Talking Cure (The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room) — at: https://disquiet.com/0515/

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-0515-talking-cure/

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

Image credit: Lamont Hall, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Waiting room, 1956. Public domain.

Image by The waiting room rehearsals

Waiting room rehearsals

waiting room rehearsals  disquiet 0515

"The voice may well be the key to the presence of the present and to an unalloyed interiority, but it conceals in its bosom that inaudible object voice which disrupts both. (...) This object embodies the very impossibility of attaining auto-affection; it introduces a scission, a rupture in the middle of the full presence, and refers it to a void—but a void which is not simply a lack, an empty space; it is a void in which the voice comes to resonate."

(Mladen Dolar, The Voice and Nothing More, MIT Press, 2006)


This is my contribution to Disquiet Junto project #0515: Talking Cure. This week, the prompt consisted in creating a piece of music that you imagine hearing in a therapist's waiting room.

More on this 515th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Talking Cure (The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room) — at: https://disquiet.com/0515/

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-0515-talking-cure/

Disquiet Junto #0515 - Talking Care

Le sujet-supposé-savoir (disquiet0515)

Imagine that you are about to consult a therapist. You are sitting in the waiting room of his/her/their office. Picture some comfortable chairs, abstract artworks on the wall, and some large plants in the corners of the room. You are ready for your appointment.

*Gear*

* Ableton Live 11 Standard
* Arturia Keylab 61 mkii
* Moog Werkstaat-01
* Korg SQ-1 Sequencer
* Audacity 3

*Instruments*

* Heinbach - Landfill Totems - Kling: Malfunctions
  * Inspired by Nature - Bouncy Notes
  * Ableton MIDI Effects - Scale
  * Valhalla Space Modulator
  * Valhalla Freq Echo
* Moog Werkstaat-01 (custom patch)
  * Valhalla Super Massive
* Ableton C78 Bullet Kit
  * Arturia Rev INTENSITY
* ChowDSP Chow Tape Model

talking cure [disquiet0515 / novembeat 2021.13]

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