Disquiet Junto Project 0721: Well Weathered

The Assignment: Play along with a storm

Step 1: On freesound.org, find a recording of a bad storm. Or use one of your own.

Step 2: Listen to the recording from Step 1.

Step 3: Select a section of the recording from Step 1, perhaps 3 to 5 minutes in length.

Step 4: Listen several times in a row to the section selected in Step 3. Get to know its sounds, and the overall shape of the recording.

Step 5: Record a track in which you play along with the storm.

Deadline: Monday, October 27, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0721

Disquiet Junto Project 0721: Well Weathered

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/.

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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

Recorded, edited, mixed & mastered on 23 Oct 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA.

Synths, field recordings, effects

This piece incorporates a recording by Philip Goddard - https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/817001/

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 23 Oct 2025, Midtown, NYC, NY, USA

Music & art © 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

This original version of “Roll A Frozen Teenager Under Your Foot” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0721: Well Weathered. The Assignment: Play along with a storm

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

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

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

Roll A Frozen Teenager Under Your Foot (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)

A recording of storm-force winds outside, including a few incidental noises, brewed up with a similarly stormy electronic sequence, sounds from various sources.

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



Brewed Storm (disquiet0721)

My take on the Disquiet Junto 0721 project. The theme is "well-weathered" and the assignment was to play along to a storm. The field recording of the storm I used is from a recording by Pulswelle of a storm near Hamburg, available on Freesound.org: https://freesound.org/people/pulswelle/sounds/320916/ 

The drone is generated by the duo of Make Noise semi-modular synths: Strega and 0-Coast. The bass was played straight into my interface, and just improvised. The guitar went through a boss DD-3 digital delay set to a very short slappy setting, which went into a DigiTech DL-8 delay-looper on the tape setting, and finally into a Strymon Iridium for amp modelling. I improvised largely aiming for texture, trying to make the harmonics sound like drops of rain, and not minding happy accidents of clicks and pops and a few clear notes throughout. 

Free to download, remix with attribution please (and link me!)

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

Storm Meditation (Disquiet0721)

I LOVE creaky floorboards. ❤️ Always have. They’re the little confessions the world doesn’t know it’s making. How could it?

This particular set — oh, these sonic beauties — were discovered in a small museum in Lille, France. A place so very quiet you could almost hear the air move somehow. The curator said the building used to be a tailor’s shop. But the neighbours reckoned it had been an intelligence post during the war; the kind of place where secrets secreted themselves into the grain of the wood.

So I waited until closing time. Set up my recorder. And walked. Slowly.

Every step had its own personality — one a whisper, one a sigh, one a shriek like a door … perhaps remembering something it shouldn’t. Somewhere between the third and fourth creak, though, the air changed and tilted weirdly. You know that cold, coiled feeling — when you’re not sure if you’ve just been noticed by someone? But I was alone ... I WAS alone.

I kept recording.

Later, when I played the sounds back, there it was: a super faint shuffle beneath and between the creaks. A pause. Then two extra footsteps … that weren’t mine. Perfect rhythm. Perfect distance. Like a partner in a dance waiting years for the next cue, which had now arrived, years later.

So I built the track around that. A haunted duet between spy and spectre, each trying to decode the other’s silence.

Enjoy … if you dare. 🎃😈

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/.

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halF spooK [disquiet0722]

This is part of Disquiet Junto Project #0722: Spook Street. See more at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0722-spook-street/73313/5.

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I'm a musician and writer living and working in Naarm (so-called Melbourne) in Australia. Uploading occasional tracks and works in progress here.

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.

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