Pyrolator - Niemandsland [album preview]

More on this 567th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Three Meters (The Assignment: Make music in 5/8, 6/8, and 7/8 time signatures) — at: https://disquiet.com/0567/

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The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2, where “three rulers, colorful photograph” was the prompt.

flamed three

halF metereD [disquiet0567]

sinewaves + LFOs played on an akai MPC 1000

230108 (dodecalogue 007)

BCL052223

‘Plateau’ is a auditory time-lapse history of Scotland’s Cairngorm high plateau. It is composed of four sections corresponding to the fluctuations of cold (Stadial) and warmer (Interstadial) climatic conditions: 

(1) The Last Glacial Maximum / (Late) Dimlington Stadial (27,000 to 16,000 BP)
(2) The Late-Glacial Interstadial (c.14,670 to 12,900 BP)
(3) The Loch Lomond Stadial (12,900 to 11,700 BP) 
(4) The early Holocene (11,700 to c.9,000 BP)

‘Plateau’ is part of ‘Looking Up’, a research project focusing on the post-glacial landscape, archaeology and heritage of the Scottish Uplands, led by Sam Kelley (University College of Dublin, School of Earth Sciences), Graeme Warren (University College Dublin, School of Archaeology) and Alice Doughty (University of Maine, School of Earth and Climate Sciences). 

The technique used to determine the timing of deglaciation on the high plateau involved project scientists collecting samples of rock containing quartz grains — a common mineral that is resistant to weathering. The rock samples were crushed, pulverised, sieved and sorted, before being subject to magnetic and mineral separation in order to isolate the quartz grains which contain ‘cosmogenic nuclides’ from the other minerals that make up the rock. In turn, these nuclides provided a direct means of timing their prehistoric exposure to cosmic radiation as the overlying cover of ice finally melted. In total, these samples give us a picture in space and time of the former glaciers in the Cairngorms in the face of warming post-glacial climate.

This process of sample collection and analysis directly informed the composition of ‘Plateau’. Stones from the locality were collected and their surface interactions recorded at high frequency sample rates. The resulting waveforms were then subjected to granular analysis, so that ‘single-cycle waveforms’ displaying tonal characteristics could be isolated and extracted. These grains of sound became the foundation of the musical composition.

https://www.ucd.ie/archaeology/research/lookingup/

‘Looking Up: the future of early prehistoric heritage in Europe’s mountains’ is funded by the Irish Research Council’s COALESCE programme 2021–2023 (IRC COALESCE/2021/78) and is coordinated by University College Dublin’s School of Archaeology and School of Earth Sciences, with partners in University of Maine, Purdue University (both USA) and Aberdeenshire County Council.

https://www.richardskelton.net/land-music/plateau

Plateau

Ever felt like there's too much change these days? Don't worry, you're not (necessarily) becoming more conservative. In this episode, Nadia, Jem and Keir think about the ebb and flow of political currents, social movements and our inner lives. 

What's the difference between being still and being stuck? When does a campaign turn into a movement? Why do we talk about feminism coming in waves? How can you tell you're approaching a tipping point? The gang turn such abstract questions into concrete history, with examples from punk to Corbyn, Daoism to degrowth.

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Books: David Easton – A Systems Analysis of Political Life / The Free Association – Moments of Excess / Aristide Zolberg – Moments of Madness / Gilles Deleuze - Difference and Repetition / Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari - Anti-Oedipus; A Thousand Plateaus / Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine

Music: Curtis Mayfield - Move on Up / Hiroshi Yoshimura - Urban Snow / Gang of Four - At Home He’s A Tourist / Moor Mother - Meditation Rag / Björk - It's Oh So Quiet / Tony Scott - Za Zen / The Raincoats - The Dance of Hopping Mad

ACFM Trip 38: Movement and Stillness

Hydrophonic sample of snow with some added instrumentation. Half speed Macumbista Benjolin, Soma Dvina and other friends.

Samplad snö

Palestinian-American legal scholar Noura Erakat joins PTO to discuss South Africa's case at the International Court of Justice and the utility of international law in struggles for global justice. With its roots in providing justification for European settler colonialism in the Americas, can International law ever serve the cause of liberatory movements? Is there a danger that in winning legal victories in forums such as the United Nations and the International Court of Justice, that radical causes - such as the Palestine liberation movement -  can come to prioritise endorsement by prestigious multilateral bodies at the expense of other, and potentially more effective strategies? And how strong are the respective cases of South Africa and Israel in their dispute at the ICJ - and what is the legal, political, and moral significance of the case that South Africa has brought? Those are just some of the questions that Noura Erakat addresses in today's episode.

Israel in the dock w/ Noura Erakat

Amerza @ Passos Manuel - 9/2/2024

Recorded in Helsinki during midsummer 2020.

Acrylic painting by Sloppy

Commixioned #8: Kätkö by DJ Lifegoals

From the upcoming Fiasko! by Kaboom Karavan

June 2024

Kaboom Karavan - How to put valium in a madmans drink

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