Combinations of poetry, reggae, and dub.  All music by me.  Poems by other people.

Rasta Poets

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halF halF [disquiet0536]

Choosing fewer musical elements can be like shedding skin.

Recorded, mixed, released Apr 07 2022. 

Synths, effects, skin. 

©2022 Jim Lemanowicz

This original version of "Shedding Skin" was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0536: Metaphor Play. Take a favorite figure of speech as a  creative prompt.

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Originally released under the artist name of "Slant 7"

Shedding Skin (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)

My entry to Disquiet Junto project — Penitent Honk. Notes on my entry are at: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0537-penitent-honk/54463/6?u=alanholding

This project was proposed by Rob Walker.

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disquiet0537 Car Sorry

Enhanced electronic sequence, sounds created in Pure Data.

This project was proposed by Rob Walker.

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Sorry (disquiet0537)

A short sound poem illustrating one sad sorry car horn surrounded by an uncaring and angry world. 

Synths, cars

Recorded, assembled, mixed and mastered 14-16 Apr 2022 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2022 Jim Lemanowicz

This original version of "Apologetically Horny" was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0537: Penitent Honk.  Do sound design for “a missing gesture” of vehicular life.

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This track was originally released under the artist name "Modern Crochet."

Apologetically Horny (disquiet0537)

Disquiet Junto Project 0537: Penitent Honk
The Assignment: Do sound design for “a missing gesture” of vehicular life.

I bought this little pink plastic horn (current picture) at a flea market a few years ago, thinking it might one day be of musical value. And I should be right. For three days now I have tried to create an apologetic sound with the horn, and out of 10387546 samples I have chosen this one as the most convincing. It is slowed down to 0.25%, and for purely scientific reasons and consideration of future noisologist, I have added the original sound at the end. The reverb and the background noise is the ambient noise of my home office/studio, and I think the Mac decided to start it's backup on this very recording. Anyway, I find the sound of the horn sufficiently remorseful and repentant.

Photography: Krakenkraft

This project was proposed by Rob Walker. https://robwalker.substack.com/p/point-of-view-3?s=r

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Penitent Honk [disquiet0537]

This recording follows the inspiration of the Disquiet Junto Project 0537 (see below): How could a apologetic car horn sound like ?
The track presents a quiet side street, its atmosphere augmented by different musical elements. Some cars apologize for driving by and disrupting the calm by sounding their apologetic melody, and in the end this horn melody leads a life of its own.

I thank blaukreuz for providing the wonderful field-recording
https://freesound.org/people/blaukreuz/sounds/521000/
which inspired much of this track.

This project was proposed by Rob Walker.

More on this 537th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Penitent Honk (The Assignment: Do sound design for “a missing gesture” of vehicular life) – at: https://disquiet.com/0537/

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Apologetic Conveyance (Disquiet0537)

More on this 538th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Guided Decompression (The Assignment: Get someone from tense to chill) – at: https://disquiet.com/0538/

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Dark & Light (disquiet0538)

My submission for
Disquiet Junto Project 0538: Guided Decompression
The Assignment: Get someone from tense to chill.
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Filtered Reality(disquiet0538)

This piece is made up of the following components:

* Gertrude Stein reading her poem "If I Told Him" (recording from [Penn Sound](writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Stein.php))
* A recording of black holes colliding from the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) Scientific Collaborative

If I Told Him

Major thanks to Malka Older, the novelist, for having generously contributed her own reading of her short story "The Divided" as the subject and source audio for the 400th consecutive weekly Disquiet Junto project.

More on this 400th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sub Divided / The Assignment: Create a score to a Malka Older story using the author’s own voice as source audio — at:

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Malka Older – The Divided – Part 9/9 disquiet0400

I'm using the Croaker reggae riddim.  Instead of traditional drums, I'm using rauschen to create a beat.  There are bits of Ezra Pound reading "Hugh Sewlyn Mauberly (Contacts and Life)".

More on this 401st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Noise Pacing / Use background noise as a beat, as a rhythm — at:

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Noise Pacing - disquiet0401

"I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman.  Recited by John Richetti at the Kelly Writers House Wexler Studio, October 25, 2016.  

Musical backing by Paul Reiners.

See [PennSound](https://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Richetti-Song-of-Myself.php) for the original recording.

More on this 402nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Music for Tasks / The Assignment: Record music intended as the backdrop/soundtrack to a chore — at:

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I Hear America Singing - disquiet0402

This is a dub version of "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman. Recited by John Richetti at the Kelly Writers House Wexler Studio, October 25, 2016.

Musical backing by Paul Reiners.

See [PennSound](writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Rich…ng-of-Myself.php) for the original recording.

More on this 402nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Music for Tasks / The Assignment: Record music intended as the backdrop/soundtrack to a chore — at:

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I Hear America Singing (Version) - disquiet0402

"The Tropics of New York" was written and recited by Claude McKay.

Dub remix by Paul Reiners.

The Tropics in New York

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