More on this 455th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Inner Invertebrate (The Assignment: What does a moment (or a day) in the life of a jellyfish sound like to a jellyfish?), at:

https://disquiet.com/0455/

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Image associated with this project drawn from Flickr.com (by James Broad) and used thanks to a Creative Commons license allowing for non-commercial adaptation (cropped, text added):

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Disquiet Junto Project 0455: Inner Invertebrate

Rüfüs Du Sol - Solomun - Pink Floyd - Depeche Mode - Moby • AMNESIA (Vasho Mix)

interlude: broken piano with orchestral waves

More on this 520th weekly Disquiet Junto project — On the Clock (The Assignment: Get that thing done before the end of the year) — at: https://disquiet.com/0520/

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chalk floc

halF clocK [disquiet0520]

I've create a "live eurorack case", that hasn't seen much action lately. So - I decided to see if I could take it for a spin, create something and then "dress it up" in the daw. This is the result.

Pianos, drums, some strings and samples added - a lot of processing etc. (Waaaaay too much processing...)

While I know I need to exercise this case more - with this prompt, I finally got started ;)

More on this 520th weekly Disquiet Junto project – On the Clock (The Assignment: Get that thing done before the end of the year) – at: https://disquiet.com/0520/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

disquiet0520 - them on ice

This is a short re-tracing of the "disquiet junto's" of 2021. 

Last year, I tried sequencing really small snippets of renderings of former "juntos". This year, to try something different, I found one for each month of 2021, dived into the "daw" sourcecode, and tried to pick up some of what I still thought as interesting parts and just sequence them. It might not "stand alone" as a coherent piece - but, if nothing else, it gives me a quick nostalgic sum-up of some of the nice evenings I've had with the "disquiet junto"...

More on this 522nd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Just Backdated (The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments) – at: https://disquiet.com/0522/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

disquiet0522 - back thru 21

Every year, the "Disquiet Junto"  poses the same project, ever since the very first Junto project, back in January 2012: "Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it"

Here, I've recorded 3 icecubes tumbling down in a drinking glass - and then spent a couple of hours mangling, stretching, reverbing, reversing, delaying, eq'ing, deleting, restarting, re-recording, giving-up'ing, and then still posting...

...it's a great, but difficult, challenge to make something. This is, as is probably the easiest, an "ethereal" version of my experiments. 


More on this 523rd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Chill Communication (The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it) – at: https://disquiet.com/0523/ 

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

disquiet0523 - chilllllllls

Inspired by this weeks Disquiet Junto prompt, I constructed this piece of music as a vehicle for a very, very simple hidden message - using a combination of the “German Method”, morse, cutting up with ciphers and, finally, the 70’ies “Reverse Backtrack” message.

(See more about these Steganographic methods in the excellent talk about hidden messages in music by Scott Fradkin in this talk https://youtu.be/gLXqZVHrFa4 )

The message itself is thus encoded in the notes being played, in the beat as morse-code (BD = short, SD=long) as well as in actual my own voice, obscured and reversed. Notes are cut up using Sound Toys Tremolator - and (most of) the instruments are using presets (sorry!), where the name contains letters from the message. On the reversed voices, a Sound Toys Crystallizer preset called “BackTrack Delay” is used to complete the confusion.

And the message? Well, inspired by Schumann encoding his own name as SCHA -  “Es” (E-flat), C, H (B-natural) and A - leaving out characters for which there are no notes),  my message is both an encoding of my own last name as well as a concept that is creeping up on me with worrying haste… “a g e”.

More on this 546th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Code Notes (The Assignment: Make music that includes a secret message) — at: https://disquiet.com/0546/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

disquiet0546 - age

This piece is a response to the 550’th prompt from Disquiet Junto  - this time a collaboration between Tobias Reber from Musikfestival Bern.

I’ve taken four images, displaying the randomness in nature - boards from a deck, a flower, the sky and 3 pigeons on a roof, and enhanced, extracted and encoded random figures from it. (See the accompanying image). 

The resulting sequences of numbers are used either as rhythmical or pitch “notes” - and everything is scaled around A Super-Locrian scale.  Four tracks are thus constructed (theme, bass, pads and bd) around these encodings.

I’ve added small fx and extra “pulsing rhythms” for interest.

More on this 550th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Abrupt Probability (The Assignment: Make music based on a chance graphic score) – at: https://disquiet.com/0550/

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/

https://www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern

https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

disquiet0550 - n8ure

HOUSE MIXTAPE #1 (Ibiza inspired house tracks)

¡HARTY! HOUSE Mixtape #1

all these years

when its dark enough

Disquiet Challenge 455: A moment in the day of a Jellyfish.
Equipment used:
Qu-Bit Electronix Chord V1, Nebulae v2, Prism.
Random Source DUSG
2HP Mix
Endorphins Milky Way (Ping Pong Echo)
ALM HPO

Recorded in a single take to Ableton 10. Vallhalla Supermassive Reverb added plus EQ and Compression

Scanning An Ocean Of Sound (disquiet0455)

Live in the studio improvisation:
daniel diaz: electric bass guitar
andré charlier: drums

For this challenge:
Disquiet Junto Project 0455: Inner Invertebrate
The Assignment: What does a moment (or a day) in the life of a jellyfish sound like to a jellyfish?

I hate to be lazy and use something I was working on instead of something new sparked by the actual challenge, but sometimes time is our tyrant and I was fascinated by this forgotten masters, some live-in-the-studio improvisations with awesome French drummer André Charlier that I discovered some days ago.
Captured while we were warming up for a recording session years ago. This was on tape but never used nor listened to, and I've been taking some nice bits out of it for further use. These are all ad-lib, abstract and weird soundscapes, no groovy bass 'n drums at all.
This is an abstract, floating groove-less & creepy track.

And I think it fits the challenge perfectly cause, o be honest:

- Invertebrate folks listen to beat-less music, I'm pretty sure. 
- Jelly fish are creepy little  beings.


Photo by Daria Polishchuk


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invertebrate duet improvisation (disquiet0455)

Fast And Bulbous (disquiet 0455)

I don't know why, but I can't help to think that a moment in the live of a jellyfish would sound to the jellyfish like a Buchla under water.

More on this 455th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Inner Invertebrate (The Assignment: What does a moment (or a day) in the life of a jellyfish sound like to a jellyfish?), at:

https://disquiet.com/0455/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0455-inner-invertebrate/

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

Image associated with this project drawn from Flickr.com (by James Broad) and used thanks to a Creative Commons license allowing for non-commercial adaptation (cropped, text added):

https://flic.kr/p/78CSpF

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

JellyBuchla [Disquiet0455]

Inner Invertebrate [disquiet0455]

A small mood-piece, resulting from this weeks Disquiet Junto Challenge, "Inner Invertebrate"

This piece includes some soundscapes, voltages and mangled samples of strings and bells - all put together to create something, that for me, seems "underwatery" and blubbery...

More on this 455th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Inner Invertebrate (The Assignment: What does a moment (or a day) in the life of a jellyfish sound like to a jellyfish?), at:

https://disquiet.com/0455/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

disquiet0455 - silicon jellyfish

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.

disquiet0455 - silicon jellyfish

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