Ice in room temperature water creaks and spurts, also bumps resonantly around in a glass bowl. Recorded in stereo with 2 JRF contact mics duct taped to a medium glass bowl. Subsequently stretched and pitched to create this soundscape.

Frozen Activity - disquiet0523

Second part of a three part collaboration project. I added guitar and base to intreccio from Isonomia.
https://soundcloud.com/isonomia/intrecciodisquiet0525

More on this 526th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Magic Number (2 of 3) (The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio) – at: https://disquiet.com/0526/

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Intreccio (disquiet0526) with Isonomia

naviarhaiku426 – the long night

the long night
made longer –
a dog barking

A wandering poet and ascetic Zen priest, Santōka was a disciple of Ogiwara Seisensui, one of the first poets to discard the traditional use of the 5-7-5 structure in haiku.

Santōka’s poetry emphasizes the necessity of sabi (solitude) in order to achieve spiritual enlightenment and serenity.

Night made longer ( naviarhaiku426 )

This weeks assignment was to remix a trio from an earlier disquiet project.

I very much enjoyed the Campos track https://soundcloud.com/campos-1/on-their-way-with-krakenkraft-and-morgulbee-disquiet0527, So I attacked it with delays and fx and added a more repetitive beat, creating a more washed out remix of the original. Heavy usage of Permut8 with lfo's for the noise barrages.


More on this 533rd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Numbers Magik (The Assignment: Remix a trio — potentially using its subsets and variants) – at: https://disquiet.com/0533/

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On Their Way (tumbledown Mix) [feat Campos, Krakenkraft And Morgulbee] [disquiet0533]

In Sylvia Plath’s “Stillborn,” metaphor operates almost as a counterfactual. The poem is a satirical critique of her creative process, conveyed in a self-mocking tone to imply an uncomfortable concept: if these poems/children had a better creator/mother, they would be alive today. Plath delivers a harrowing, ironic message loaded with self-deprecating gallows humor:

These poems do not live: it's a sad diagnosis.
They grew their toes and fingers well enough,
Their little foreheads bulged with concentration.
If they missed out on walking about like people
It wasn't for any lack of mother-love.

O I cannot explain what happened to them!
They are proper in shape and number and every part.
They sit so nicely in the pickling fluid!
They smile and smile and smile at me.
And still the lungs won't fill and the heart won't start.

They are not pigs, they are not even fish,
Though they have a piggy and a fishy air --
It would be better if they were alive, and that's what they were.
But they are dead, and their mother near dead with distraction,
And they stupidly stare and do not speak of her.

For this creative brief, Suss Müsik envisioned something beautiful and pristine contained in dusty glass jars of formaldehyde. A simple melody for fake woodwinds was slowly distressed using glitch technologies to accompany a VCVRack patch playing a Lydian chord progression. (The Schillinger System was used to define harmonic variations, for composition geeks out there, nearly undetectable under all the fuzz).

Although the final output doesn’t necessarily evoke images of rotten, grimy bodies left to decay, there remains a sense of something having “missed out on walking about” like a fully realized piece. To paraphrase Plath, Suss Müsik cannot explain what happened to it.

The piece is titled Plath and was recorded quickly to 8-track in three takes.

**Postscript:** admittedly, Suss Müsik's contribution this week skews more towards the concept of "metaphor." than working with a commonly known figure of speech. Apologies. The only example that came to mind was "raining cats and dogs," recalling a piece titled "Dog Puppet Born Out of a Sock" that Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser did in the 1980's using a rudimentary sampler. (It shows up on the *Friends & Enemies* compilation, if you're interested).

More on this 536th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Metaphor Play (The Assignment: Take a favorite figure of speech as a creative prompt) — at: https://disquiet.com/0536/

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Plath [Disquiet0536]

Sinny: pot with wooden spoon, knives, thunder tube, rainstick, electronic drums (DTX 500 & Wavedrum), microwave
Aesqe: Cooking sample
T-man95: background storm sample

More on this 536th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Metaphor Play (The Assignment: Take a favorite figure of speech as a creative prompt) — at: https://disquiet.com/0536/

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Cooking Up A Storm (disquiet0536)

[disquiet0545] Variation

Silence 

The city shines apocalyptic tonight 
An avalanche of grief in a sea of blue lights 
Turning the other cheek, falling into their graves 
Rising like Lazarus to do it again 

A crowd of youths are getting ready to “meet”
There’s an air of violence running down every side street 
Put down your guns 
Thrown down your arms 
No one’s brave enough to sound the alarm 

The deafening silence 
This silence is deep
Been silent for so long we’ve forgotten to speak 
Words like silent raindrops fall 
The silence is deep but the anger is shallow 

The toothless vampire’s getting ready to bite 
Fuck me man you know what’s wrong and what’s right 
For every Abel there’s another Cain 
Every vow of silence is another bloodstain

Silence

The Old Rugged Cross,===, Gene Jumper, (cover ) Gene Doing All Vocal's.

The Old Rugged Cross,===, Gene Jumper, (cover) Gene Doing All Vocal's

9Nov22

My naviarhaiku462 submission;
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2022/11/09/naviarhaiku462-icarus/
:D

Icarus [naviarhaiku462]

* "Bass Drones"
** Matthew Thomas Davis
** https://soundcloud.com/matthew-thomas-davis/bass-drones
** https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0429-solitary-ensembles/30277/113

* "disquiet0430" (Drums)
** vgmrmojo
** https://soundcloud.com/vgmrmojo/disquiet0430
** https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0430-solitary-ensembles-x-2/30579/100

* Test Tones » sine log sweep up down.wav
** Timbre
** https://freesound.org/people/Timbre/sounds/157553/

* 5 note version Czech lady
** Conet Project
** https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Conet_Project/The_Conet_Project/5_note_version_czech_lady

* come back alive whisper.mp3
** LadyImperatrix
** https://freesound.org/people/LadyImperatrix/sounds/503270/

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More on this 41st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0431: Solitary Ensembles x 3 — The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians — at:

https://disquiet.com/0431/

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

Image associated with this track is by Abby, used thanks to a Creative Commons license and Flickr. The image has been cropped, colors shifted, and text added.

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Solitary Ensembles x 3 - disquiet0431

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