More on the 718th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Planet Jam It — The Assignment: Record the sound of an advanced alien civilization — at https://disquiet.com/0718/

telepathy disquiet0718

This week's Disquiet Junto prompt challenged us to a duel with a metronome: record a piece of music that weaves in and out of a steady beat. 

I assembled a trio comprising the Moog Minitaur (lead and bass), Roland Juno (pads), and Waldorf Streichfett (strings). I improvised a meandering chord sequence and spent a lot of time mixing multiple layers of analog pads to bring it to life. Against the steady backdrop of a simple percussion pattern, I recorded the lead performance on the Minitaur. Since this synth doesn't sync to the MIDI clock on the computer, riding the LFO controls manually let me improvise the swirling/cycling/beating patterns that dance within, against, and without the beat. 

About the vocals: When I was listening to the mix earlier today, I heard a momentary audio artifact that sounded like a muffled voice. This inspired me to add a vague vocal part for way back in the mix, so recorded myself reading an excerpt from "A Vision of the Night" by Ambrose Bierce.

More on the 719th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Riding on the Metronome — The Assignment: Play with and against a steady beat — at https://disquiet.com/0719/.

Legend of the Moon People (disquiet0719)

After two sold-out installments of the Good Vibrations series, Sean McCabe’s label returns with its 3rd vinyl release, and it's another essential collection of for the soulful house heads. For our exclusive, we’re spotlighting the label honcho's remix of “Baby Don’t Make Me Wait” by London’s house community staple David Bailey and MissFly on vocals.

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David Bailey & MissFly "Baby Don't Make Me Wait" (Sean McCabe Vocal Remix)

Atelier Mini-Series YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSKk9TL2TheyuTwqA-aZJTxQD81vCgUks

“This space between French and English is, for me, a perpetual torment…”

Philosopher Alain Badiou reflects on Beckett — and on the strange torment of thinking and speaking across languages.

In this halF unusuaL piece, his voice becomes a sonic poem: shattered, dissolved, and reassembled through GRM Tools Atelier.

A tribute to Musique Concrète, to the friction of thought and sound, and to an uncertain space between sameness and otherness.

— created in GRM Tools Atelier

More experiments in sound, language, and philosophy coming soon.

Watch the whole lecture - Alain Badiou. Theater, Poetry and Philosophy. 2003 - at https://youtu.be/p6SmRlSqFrM?si=V8XQwU_yX5vcxJ2Y

visuals (YouTube)

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Recorded, mixed & mastered on 22 Oct 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, field recordings, effects.

This original version of "An All-Encompassing Cold Perfume” was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 616: Whenever We Meet.

whenever we meet
it’s raining
green walnuts

by: Tanaka Hiroaki

Tanaka Hiroaki (1959–2004) was a Japanese poet from Osaka. A student of Hatano Sōha, he published many of his works in the journal Ao 青 (“Blue”), of which he became editor in 1979. In 2000, he founded his own journal, Yū ゆう.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 19 Oct 2025, Marjorie Post Park, Massapequa, NY, USA

Music & art © 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

An All-Encompassing Cold Perfume (naviarhaiku616)

Watch this piece being created: https://youtu.be/Oe3l1F4mfaU
A live performance for the Disquiet Junto #0721, built from the same patch used in the recent Badiou x Beckett sonic torment piece: https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-tormented?si=3390f301411545e0aac521e547afb785&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
This time, Badiou’s voice gives way to a thunderstorm I recorded in 2019 —
the same comb filtering and pitch clusters now sculpting rumble and rain into something more filmic and reflective.
A short meditation on resonance, weather, and thought.

🎧 Performed entirely in GRM Tools Atelier

More on the 721st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Well Weathered — The Assignment: Play along with a storm — at https://disquiet.com/0721/.

halF storM [disquiet0721]

Today, October 23, 2025, a storm rumbled through France, and I recorded an improvisation that captures its raw energy.

This track is a dark, mysterious duet between electric bass and thunder — attitude, rumble, and grit.

Photo by Artur Stanulevich

Gear used: electric bass with Seymour Duncan pedal tremolo, Lexicon reverb, and Valhalla Supermassive echo. Thunder and storm sounds sourced from my vault and online.

For @disquiet junto project https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0721-well-weathered

Stormy Thursday (Electric Bass & Thunder) - disquiet0721

Disquiet Junto 0721 invited us to provide musical accompaniment to a storm. 

This one made me think of my grandmother. She and I would sit in her glassed-in porch and drink tea while the storms of the Atlantic coastal summer raged outside, wind throwing sheets of rain against the windows, the sky purple with flashes of white, the thunder making the ground shake. 

She helped me understand the difference between awe and fear.

In recording this, I tried to be respectful of the storm as it happened. I did very little editing. I tried to give the storm plenty of room to move around in, saying what I needed to say in the spaces between the peals of thunder. 

Vintage Korg M3R synth over a field recording of a storm I made here in Chicago last July.

More on the 721st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Well Weathered — The Assignment: Play along with a storm — at https://disquiet.com/0721/.

Tea and Tempest (disquiet0721)

Tuned the polygogo module as an Ableton Live Instrument

Mo fun with the polygogo

More on the 722nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Spook Street — The Assignment: The Assignment: Make music for a haunted spy film — at https://disquiet.com/0722/.

rnv offspring - disquiet0722

quick palette sketch with marbles/rings/beads (unedited tascam recording)