Name: ether (disquiet0669) by Ohm Research in Disquiet Junto Project 0669: Phonosynthesis
Duration: 5 min 22 s
Description: More on the 669th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phonosynthesis — The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate — at disquiet.com/0669/

Disquiet Junto Project 0669: Phonosynthesis

The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate.

A scientific research paper this month documented evidence that sound can help fungus grow. The conclusion: “Demonstrating a tangible impact on fungal activity, our findings suggest that carefully tuned acoustic parameters might be able to enhance ecological processes.”

Record music to help a forest grow. Imagine an array of solar-powered speakers is spread through a forest-in-need. Or come up with another deployment scenario of your own imagining. What sort of music would you play for the forest to encourage its regeneration?

The research paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0295.

Coverage in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/science/fungus-sounds-growth.html

The paper is the work of four people from the College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, in Australia.

Thanks to Michael Rhode for having shared with me the research coverage.

Deadline: Monday, October 28, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0669

Disquiet Junto Project 0669: Phonosynthesis

Long distance session (virtual) with Ulrich Langenbach https://on.soundcloud.com/MrvDJ Februar 2024

5 Stücke zur Zeit / Coop Langenbach & Ginsberg

Surfers like us - Guitar soundcloud.com/user-411502040/tracks
Well - synths
This time our duo invites you all again into space. We suggest you chase the comet, which sparkles with colors and escapes from us to the unknown territories of the galaxy. We hope you will enjoy this atmosphere. See you aboard our spaceship 🌔
26/3 2024

Hale-Bopp Comet over Indian Cove
JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK

Chasing a Comet - w/Surfers Like Us

Zerfallen

https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/passages
Number 5 of five pieces combining a solo-piano improvisation by VSS with a live-recording of Snow*Omen: https://soundcloud.com/snow_omen/improvisation-nr-4 (excerpts).
In this short final piece it's only VSS: e-piano, effect pedals, unynchronized loops, tube amps. Mixing and production: VSS. Image: VSS.

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Passage Five

More on the 669th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phonosynthesis — The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate — at https://disquiet.com/0669/

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halF fungaL [disquiet0669]

I’ve always had plants in my studio, and someone once told me that even if sunlight is limited, the constant presence of music playing every day helps keep the plants healthy.

I don’t know about that, , but they look great and seem to grow steadily.

“Record music to help a forest grow.”

I believe that simply having musicians play acoustic instruments in the forest would only bring good to it.

Here I just played “woody”, natural percussion instruments, bamboo drums, wood sticks and blocks, conch shells, cuica, marimba, bombo legüero, talking drum and some other toys. I recorded 3 versions, this is the “fast” one.

Rain Forrest (Fast) - disquiet0669

Phonosynthesis

Disquiet Junto | Phonosynthesis - disquiet0669

According to my research of various websites, the consensus seems to be that calmer types of music are more conducive to plant growth. This track was created using Pure Data & various plugins, etc.
More on the 669th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phonosynthesis — The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate — at https://disquiet.com/0669/

Dendrosymphonic (disquiet0669)

Regeneration(disquiet0669)

Like water

More on the 669th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phonosynthesis — The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate — at disquiet.com/0669/

ether (disquiet0669)

Vulning

ça devait être autrement

Is it return of the Almighty Alien Altos already?

Those Aliens from Nice Biscuit

DZRTD

dd1_4

Dark ambient soundscapes for your pleasure.

DARK AMBIENT - THE CHAMBER

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

Ohm Research: 
Craig & Todd Wharton 
Craig Carlton [https://soundcloud.com/user-453495586]
Bandcamp: https://ohmresearch.bandcamp.com/
Annasenz [https://soundcloud.com/annasenz]
Processing Room [https://soundcloud.com/processingroom]
Exploring the sonic landscape since 1979.

ether (disquiet0669)

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