This track was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0528 (details see below) and presents musical flora: An unobstrusive path symbolized by a simple melody line meanders through two different sections of a botanical garden. My thoughts drifted to the beautiful landscapes of the https://sichtungsgarten-hermannshof.de/. A Hohner Organetta was the perfect instruments to trace the path.

The evocative field-recording of trees and birds were provided by @blaukreuz on freesounds:
https://freesound.org/people/blaukreuz/sounds/240587/
https://freesound.org/people/blaukreuz/sounds/240588/

More on this 528th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Landscape Architecture (The Assignment: Forge an unobtrusive path through musical flora) – at: https://disquiet.com/0528/ 1

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0528-landscape-architecture/

Musical Flora (Disquiet0528)

The Assignment: Listen for a mirage of your music within white noise.

Aotearoa Noiseland - disquiet0531

[disquiet0532] Dread

i wanted to write something using vcvrack that felt like a surge of feelings washing over; feelings that appear out of nowhere, just like waves at a shore, drenching the shore with no color, yet allowing for momentary imprints; and leaving just as they appeared. 

will the waves ever stop?

a feeling washed over

This track is a tribute to my favourite song as a small child: "Der Mond ist aufgegangen". The melody was composed by Johann Abraham Petter Schulz (1790), and the poem serving as lyrics was created by Matthias Claudius (1779),

Following the Disquiet Junto Project 0535 the bars of the melody were brought into a new order and thus rearranged into a new melody, but with the intention to retain that deeply melancholic and peaceful ambiance I love so much in this song.

The picture is kindly provided by Klaus Stebani on Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/de/photos/mond-vollmond-mondlicht-moon-4545713/)

More on this 535th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Jigsaw Disjunction (The Assignment: Break a familiar melody into pieces and play it in a different sequence) – at: https://disquiet.com/0535/ 1

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0535-jigsaw-disjunction/

Der Mond (Disquiet0535)

[disquiet0535] Goose

This track is about the air we breathe, the breath which signifies life.

It was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0539:
More on this 539th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Control Breath (The Assignment: Let your slow breathing guide a piece of music) – at: https://disquiet.com/0539/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 1: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0539-control-breath/

Air - Breath - Life (Disquiet0539)

This lengthy single track, just under an hours and 45 minutes in duration, was compiled by Tobias Reber from the work of 54 participants in a summer 2022 collaboration between Musikfestival Bern and the Disquiet Junto music community. Contributors were invited to make drones based on a shared single chord from a John Cage composition. More details at disquiet.com/0554. 

Below is a full list in alphabetical order of the musicians included in this compilation. A few others were produced, as well, in the course of the music community project, which ran from August 11 through August 15, 2022. More on the festival, scheduled from September 7 through 11, 2022, at musikfestivalbern.ch. 

33per, A Thousand Plateaus, Aethyr, Alchemical Cage Chord, analoc, ausgesuchtestenohren, baconpaul, Benn DeMole, celaeno, Chridmeister, Clint Burgess, craniform, Dan Simpson, Death Hags, encym, Fake Genius, feXon, Gerard Paresys, h b, he_nu_ri, hugh g twatt, -infDB, Kei, Krakencraft, krseward, Lazenbee Industries, Lee Evans, Leon Clowes, Marc Eisenschink, Marci Lucchi, Martin AB Cee, melondruie, nobuka, noimspartacus, Noodle Twister, Ossimuratore, Ostacoli Sonori, Paul Beaudoin, pineyb, Punks Dig Disco, RabMusicLab, ray_cobley, robbie, samarobryn, SinnySounds, Sonic Search, Stefan Strasser, Synthi, Tuonela, undermulden, wagneric, wasabicube, x i i i x x i, zeroperimeter.

We don’t do a lot of this sort of thing (by which I mean a post-project compilation), in large part because I never want Junto participants to feel like they need to complete a piece before posting it, and in part because external overarching editorial consideration — as is necessary for a compilation like this — is also something I don’t want someone thinking about as they produce tracks for the Junto. But that said, the projects with Musikfestival Bern are unique ones, and part of the announced plan from the start was some tracks may be selected for playing during part of the festival. This excellent compilation is one expression of that plan. Many thanks to Tobias for having executed this compilation.

Cage Chord Compilation (54 Musicians/Tracks)

naviarhaiku452 – night walk

night walk
sudden shower-
the smell of rain

Paul Engel is a poet living in Chicagoland. His poems have recently appeared in: Hummingbird, Hedgerow, Failed Haiku, ubu, Poetry Pea and tsuri-dōrō. His mini-chapbook Talking to Bugs was recently published by The Origami Project in 2022.  You can find more of his poems posted on twitter @LaughingMonki.

a feeling washed over

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