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Disquiet Junto Project 0428: Urban Moss

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Greenland Ice (disquiet0511)

More on this 511th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Freeze Tag (The Assignment: Consider freezing (and thawing) as a metaphor for music production) — at: https://disquiet.com/0511/

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daft haggle

halF taggeD [disquiet0511]

WIP VERSION - a song about waves and interlacing patterns in the universe ft. Wess kingsleyevergreen

Interharmonic 0-8 1-16-22 938a.wav

Everything

Story:  https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/06/05/the-cello-and-the-nightingales-beatrice-harrison

STORY

Beatrice Harrison and the nightingales (1920s)

This is the overture of a three-part piece on breakups and the reactions of all parties involved, called ‘Tryptich’. 
An interesting progression to my ears.

Lamentation copy.mp3

distant hills …
beyond the gate
winter stillness

haiku by Clive Bennett https://mobile.twitter.com/birdsinhaiku

picture by Ricardo Gomez Angel https://unsplash.com/@rgaleriacom

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

tindal shaft

halF distanT [naviarhaiku478]

improvised and multitracked on some synths and a drum set using an ultra harmonizer for reverb

all the patience i've wasted // goes a long way // when i'm reintegrated // i'll be okay // sing it from the heart // sing it from the heart

Synth Dittie 4-11-23 1135p.wav

This trio for one alto and two C flutes was inspired by a lecture titled "Georgia O'Keeffe's Radical Abstraction" in which one of O'Keeffe's works — Abstraction White Rose — was described as existing on a spectrum between realism and abstraction...or perhaps it is paradoxically both at the same time?

“Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.” — Georgia O'Keeffe

Lecture available here: https://www.okeeffemuseum.org/georgia-okeeffes-radical-abstraction/

Sheet music available upon request.
All are welcome to use this piece as a basis for improvisation.

Abstraction Cactus Flower © 2023 by Alyce Santoro is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Abstraction Cactus Flower (disquiet0591)

Just some swell chords

60 BPM

Emin, Eb, Emin, C#
Caug, Bb #4, Caug, Fmin
Gsus, F #4

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Disquiet0591 SwellChords

This piece is a combination of field recordings and experimentation with semi-automated arpeggios and chords. Different instruments (hand drum, music box, and Cello) are playing the same set of notes but layered (like urban moss)on top of each other. They are treated with tape loop effects and noise, with a Solina added on top for ambiance.

In the background, some treated Fado singing from a concert at a small bar in Luxembourg and some street noise.

All this may be also a response to the ongoing chaos in the world… Lets all hope, it will be over soon - and we can go back to enjoying the coming spring.

Best wishes to everyone!


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disquiet0428 - midivale

This piece contains the following English & Scottish Ballads:

1. Riddles Wisely Expounded
2. The Elfin Knight
3. Willie's Lady
4. The Fair Flower of Northumberland
5. The Twa Sisters
6. Lord Randal
7. The Cruel Mother
8. The Three Ravens

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Urban Moss - disquiet0428

Upright piano, synthesizers.
Recorded @ Paris and Buenos Aires over the years...
Created for:
**Disquiet Junto Project 0428: Urban Moss**
*Step 1: Consider how many concert posters have spent time on an old telephone pole before being torn down or succumbing to the elements. Think about the wear on the wood, the rust on the vestigial staples, as time has passed.
*Step 2: Record a short piece of music that pays tribute to the accumulated echoes of past concerts promoted here over the years.*
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After both my parents died a couple of years ago I had to let go many things, most notably the family house and the bedroom where I lived my first 22 years. It was a thrill to go back to that room to say farewell, the walls were covered with posters, stickers, etc. There were a lot of concert posters glued to the wall that my parents just kept there, along with many concert ticket that I glued over. I wish I could have keep that wall! Filled with memories, there was even a Miles Davis street poster (huge) for a concert in the early 90s that never happened (Miles got ill, cancelled and died)

Then I had to let go my old piano, a century old German beast, with crackles, noises , real ivory and ebony keys and “that sound”...

I recorded a lot on it when I was living there but even in the recent years , when visiting my parents, (although I have a modern piano in my studio) I liked to bring a stereo microphone and do some recording that, when listened 10 thousand kilometres away, instantly bring me back to that piano, that room, and the past.

In this track I worked on a solo piano track I found on an old DAT, recorded at my parents’ house 15 years ago, added some hi pitched notes for the same session/DAT, then I created a pulsating synth arpeggiator and a deep bass, with a lot of subliminal blemishes like noises and interference in the background.

Cheers

DD

memories embedded in wood (disquiet0428)

Recorded for the Disquiet Junto Project 0428: Urban Moss
The Assignment: What echoes of past concerts are retained within this pole?

Process: Noddling around on the guitar trying to channel the guitarists  concerts past. Editing, then reverb, delay, and some granular effects.

The Rolling Stones Are Gathering Moss (disquiet0428)

I thought of a palimpsest of concert memories, and the rhythmic idea that struck me was the "Ladies and gentlemen..." of the emcee. Starting with that, I voiced it with a melancholy synthesizer, Alchemy in Logic, and built elements from there, including some guitar I played in.

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Until Further Notice - disquiet0428

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.

Until Further Notice - disquiet0428

Peter Eisenhauer

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