Been meaning to get around to posting something to a Disquiet Junto, and since this Junto is about finally getting around to something this seemed like a good time to jump in.

Musically the idea is to do music for meditators, similar to the sound bath genre. Sound Bath music usually uses sounds associated with Buddhism, like gongs and bells from Tibet. I find those instruments a little corny, appropriated, exoticist. My background is americana and folk. That's what I can play in an authentic way. So the main instruments here are from bluegrass - an old Gibson mandolin and a National steel guitar. In addition to those I'm playing a synthesizer, an Arturia Microfreak, using a bell sound that recalls traditional sound bath influences. All of these sounds are passing through a Microcosm pedal, which adds some classic ambient flavors like delay, glitching, and heavy reverb. The song that this is all based on is a fiddle tune called "The Black Water Fall."

MP3 and sheet music etc are on my blog at https://playingintongues.com/2023/09/28/on-the-third-day-she-left/

The Black Water Fell (disquiet0613)

First layer: train field recording by Todd (@Toaster) Elliott (https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/train-source-1/)

2nd layer: six tracks of autogen drumming in Logic

3rd: bottleneck + Estralita resonator guitar + Hologram Microcosm

4th: lonesome whistling

Disquiet:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0635-round-the-bend/66322

Blog / downloads:
https://playingintongues.com/2024/03/02/junto-0635-round-the-bend/

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thereisonly Disquiet0635 round-the-bend

A Koala Sampler jam using Tibetan bowls and subtle beats at 120 BPM. I was aiming for conflicting emotions - blissed out trance and moving your body.

Tibetan Bell by the_very_Real_Horst -- https://freesound.org/s/413626/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Got a Message From Lynne

Got a Message From Lynne (disquiet0682)

Dark times call for dark music. This is not an easy listening experience, nor is it meant to be. But in its five minute runtime, "Astomatous" creates a searing narrative about the fragility of hope against modern chaos, all while avoiding the usual tropes of both noise music and ambient.

ASTOMATOUS

I steer a old mandolin into uncharted territory, using analog feedback from a Fairfield Meet Maude to transform traditional folk sounds into hallucinatory landscapes. This is where my acoustic roots and experimental electronic interests converge—I push the delay into self-oscillation, creating drones that transcend the recognizable sound of a mandolin. What emerges is both the earthy beauty of the instrument's wooden resonance and the barely contained ecstatic weirdness of the feedback.

Dead Man's Hands | Folk Noir: Hallucinatory Mandolin Journey Through Analog Feedback

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http://playingintongues.com/2020/03/15/missing/

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