sound art for disquiet0618.

storm report from 1987.

water and air.

storm ingredients (disquiet0618)

sound art for disquiet0619

A solar day is defined as the time it takes for the Sun to return to the same position in the sky as observed from a fixed point on Earth. This rotation is the basis for the division of time into 24 hours, 60 minutes and 60 seconds.

heartbeat of the sun (disquiet0619)

sound art for disquiet0620

More on this 620th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beat Accrual Accrual (The Assignment: Turn someone’s slow-build beat into a finished track), at: https://disquiet.com/0620/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0620-beat-accrual-accrual/

sympathy factory w/ Lily Makes Sound (disquiet0620)

sound art for disquiet0622.

a stereo shadow.

More on this 622nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Know the Shadow (The Assignment: How do you depict a shadow in sound?), at: https://disquiet.com/0622/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0622-know-the-shadow/

frozen shadows (disquiet0622)

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Lee Scratch Perry / Annie Besant

More on this 624th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Fresh Pair (The Assignment: Combine two influences, however disparate they may be), at: disquiet.com/0624/ 1

About the Disquiet Junto: disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…ct-0624-fresh-pair/

twig thoughts (disquiet0624)

sound art for disquiet0628.

"The operation of Separation in which the black, earthbound Soul Bird splits into two white birds that retrieve the saved remains of Calcination and Dissolution."

Found objects:
Cassette audio book of Jonathan Livingstone Seagull read by the author Richard Bach. (I found this cassette over a decade ago)
Metal grill from an electric fire.
Two metal feet for baths in the shape of eagles claws. (Found on the Thursday morning of the Disquiet Junto)
Seagull feather.

I strummed the grill with the feather and clanged the metal feet.
I made a random word collage with the cassette and panned one lot of voices hard left and another hard right to create two birds from one.
The word collage was made by fast forwarding and pressing play on a tape deck. Lots and lots of layers. Some recorded with contact mics attached to the speakers, some jammed underneath and some attached to the metal grill which was jammed under the speaker.

One of the phrases that appeared in the collage was “if you wish to learn” which is where the track title comes from.

No effects, just the objects and some EQing.

More on this 628th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Alchemical Brothers — The Assignment: Explore an aspect of the ancient occult science using music — at: https://disquiet.com/0628/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0628-alchemical-brothers/

if you wish to learn (disquiet0628)

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I made a sculpture specifically for this project by collecting things on a walk and assembling them, then recording, on only one day.

I used the leftover objects to rub, scrape and clang. Everything you hear is litter.

More on this 630th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Creative Sufficiency — The Assignment: Count your tools in advance of employing them — at: https://disquiet.com/0630/

This project was proposed by Alex (aka XHG) from Switzerland, who also drew the cover image.

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 1: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0630-creative-sufficiency/

live one day of your life as a flower (disquiet0630)

sound art for disquiet0631

The calamus is the pointy end of a feather that lies beneath the skin of the bird.

broken instruments and hand-held sound sculptures were played with the pointy ends of different feathers.
recorded with contact mics, no effects, just EQing.


More on this 631st weekly Disquiet Junto project, In a Silent Waveform — The Assignment: Take one held tone and make it dance slowly — at: https://disquiet.com/0631/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0631-in-a-silent-waveform/

calamus (disquiet0631)

sound art for disquiet0632.

sparrows in a hedge.

More on this 632nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Shear Wind — The Assignment: Make the most of the disturbance within a field recording — at: https://disquiet.com/0632/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://juntoletter.disquiet.com/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0632-shear-wind/

sparrow's breath (disquiet0632)

sound art for disquiet0634

The base layer is O Pastor Animarum by Hildegard von Bingen.

I recorded it with contact mics on a precariously balanced sound sculpture.
I liked the effect so much that I added a few more layers, but with short blasts of me skipping through tracks by different composers. Tracks included Mozart’s Requiem, Arvo Part’s Tabula Rasa and the Phillip Glass track The Grid from Koyaanisqatsi; which, along with the grid like elements of the sound sculpture, inspired part of the track title. Hildegard’s religious visions are also an inspiration.

Grid hallucinations are simple geometric shapes that are identified as occuring at the inital stages of trance or other altered states.

The image I used for the track is a watercolour I made while listening back to it and thinking about the sound travelling through the sculpture.

No effects just some EQing.

More on the 634th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Bust a Move — The Assignment: Record a piece of music on top of a muffled recording of a piece of classical music — at https://disquiet.com/0634/

grid hallucination (disquiet 0634)

sound art for disquiet0635

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/

shining tunnel (disquiet0635)

sound art for disquiet0636

More on the 636th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Left (1 of 3) — The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0636/

marsh bones (disquiet0636)

sound art for disquiet0637

More on the 637th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right (2 of 3) — The Assignment: Record the second third of an eventual trio — at https://disquiet.com/0637/

idiophones (disquiet0637) w/ xhg

sound art for disquiet0638.

This is the third phase of a three-phase sequence over the course of as many weeks during which, consecutively and asynchronously, musicians build trios together.

Image credits: 
top image - https://soundcloud.com/33per
middle image - https://soundcloud.com/mtnviewmark-bits 

For more about this weeks junto challenge:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0638-center-3-of-3/

firebells and pipes and a bicycle wheel (disquiet0638) w/ 33per & mzero

sound art for disquiet0638

This is the third phase of a three-phase sequence over the course of as many weeks during which, consecutively and asynchronously, musicians build trios together.

Image credits:
sky: https://soundcloud.com/user-807707609/left-and-right-mirage-disquiet0637

For more about this weeks junto challenge:
llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…0638-center-3-of-3/

metal mirage (disquiet0638) w/ blaaroed & he_nu_ri

sound art for disquiet0636

This is the third phase of a three-phase sequence over the course of as many weeks during which, consecutively and asynchronously, musicians build trios together.

For more about this weeks junto challenge:
llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…0638-center-3-of-3/

third epoch (disquiet0638) w/ Tristan Louth-Robins & ECHINACEA PURPUREA

sound art for disquiet0639

More on the 639th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Path Ways (4 of 3) — The Assignment: Rework musical trios using the constituent parts — one of two ways — at https://disquiet.com/0639/

semantic soundscape [raincat remix] DeDe_euclidian_undermulden (disquiet0639remix)

sound art for disquiet0643.

wobbled, rolled, scraped on the floor. no effects.

More on the 643rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Stone Out of Focus — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a poem — at https://disquiet.com/0643/

This week’s project is based on a text by Yoko Ono, originally published in her book Grapefruit60 years ago, back in 1964.

contact mic on a hagstone (disquiet0643)

sound art for disquiet0646.

More on the 646th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Empty Orchestra — The Assignment: Interpret the literal translation of “karaoke” — at Disquiet Junto Project 0646: Empty Orchestra – Disquiet

from a hollow body (disquiet0646)

sound art for disquiet0647.


I started with a drone loop made with a broken casio keyboard. I then played the loop through a bluetooth bone conduction speaker. I’ve been experimenting with a cheap speaker and using it to vibrate other objects and record the vibrations with a contact mic. For this track I first used it on one of my litter sculptures that has a metal tin attatched. Each face of the tin sides gives a slightly different sound when the bone conduction speaker is moved around. I made two tracks like that and panned them hard left and right. The result is a subtle pulsing effect.

Then I made another two recordings of the speaker on top of a buckled crash cymbal. I left the speaker alone and let it slowly move across the cymbal by its own vibrations. Both are straight down the middle with no stereo effects, one is EQ’d to cut out a lot of the top end.


More on the 647th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Day Drone — The Assignment: Make some daylight drones for Drone Day — at https://disquiet.com/0647/

(morning ritual) kiss the fingers of the sun [disquiet0647]

sound art for disquiet0648.

Using a small bone conduction speaker I played the Inkspot’s song "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me) three times through a tin box, a cymbal and a radiator. Each version starts slightly later creating an echo effect and the tracks are panned hard left, hard right and straight down the middle creating a following movement. While recording each track I moved the speaker around and varied the amount of contact it had with the object.

More on the 648th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Shadow Boxing — The Assignment: Employ shadow boxing as a musical metaphor — at https://disquiet.com/0648/

echo of a shadow (disquiet0648)

sound art for disquiet0651.

manual cassette tape collage recorded through the lid of a pedal bin with a contact mic.


More on the 651st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Why Compute? — The Assignment: Respond to a prompt from George E. Lewis — at Disquiet Junto Project 0651: Why Compute? – Disquiet

redundant technology will save us (disquiet0651)

sound art for disquiet0652

Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood.

More on the 652nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, By the Tale — The Assignment: Set a favorite story to music — at https://disquiet.com/0652/

(ancient sorceries) transformations [disquiet0652]

sound art for disquiet0654.

More on the 654th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Just Notation — The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score by Franziska Baumann — at https://disquiet.com/0654/ 2

woken by cats (disquiet0654)

sound art for disquiet0655.

More on the 655th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Soothing Sounds II — The Assignment: Make music for babies — at https://disquiet.com/0655/

welcome to the world (disquiet0655)

More on the 656th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Soothing Sounds II RMX — The Assignment: Make music for babies’ parents — at https://disquiet.com/0656/

A lullaby reimagined as a drunken sea shanty.

The original song by Ángel L. Martínez ( https://soundcloud.com/user-928003931-57021144/al-mar-mi-piratitaalm )was played through various metal buckets and recorded with contact mics. The recordings were arranged out of sync to create a messy choir of voices. Then I recorded some bursts of prepared guitar played with a violin bow, just to add to the woozy drunk-at-sea feeling.

motín / mutiny (disquiet0656) Ángel L. Martínez remixed by Raincat

sound art for disquiet0657.

The sound sculpture in the image is a sort of nail violin. The nails are bowed with a violin bow and make breathy, plaintive sounding notes. I also used the violin bow on two cymbals and a broken saw blade screwed to a block of wood. The saw blade is responsible for the bending tones later on in the track.

Recorded with contact mics and no effects.

More on the 657th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Straight Edged — The Assignment: Held tones, sharp edges — at https://disquiet.com/0657/

the same word in different mouths (disquiet0657)

sound art for disquiet0658.

More on the 658th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Re-Amplify — The Assignment: Re-record and re-compose an organ improvisation by Daniel Glaus — at https://disquiet.com/0658/

Created some loops and played them through a bone conduction speaker. Then used the speaker as a vibration tool to resonate a plastic bottle that had once contained sparkling spring water. It was recorded it using a contact mic over the mouth of the bottle. Moving the speaker about by hand changes how it resonates, less pressure on the speaker will make it vibrate and buzz. Some EQing, but no further effects added.

flood of tears (disquiet0658)

sound art for disquiet0666.

Took some found objects I had been using like gongs and bashed them up with a hammer to get more of a wonky sound out of them (pedal bin lid, paint tin, bbq lid). Then played them with animal bones and a stick that landed on my head when I was out for a walk. Added a bit of nail violin. No effects, just EQing.

Part of making art/music is embracing the daemonic aspect of yourself as something useful, and creating a space where mischief is a positive.

More on the 666th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beauty and the Beast — The Assignment: We’ve hit a devilish numerical milestone. Do your thing. — at https://disquiet.com/0666/

a prayer for mischief (disquiet0666)

sound art for disquiet0667.

I took two seperate recordings I made of cathedral bells and played them with a bone conduction speaker through various resonant metal objects (radiator, tins, bin lid). I made a recording of each object (contact mics) with the seperate tracks and panned them hard left and right. The tins were bashed up and irregular and that’s where the buzzing tones come from. No effects, just EQing.

More on the 667th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Neighbor of the Beast — The Assignment: What’s it sound like when the devil lives across the street? — at https://disquiet.com/0667/

when the devil sleeps he dreams of heaven [disquiet0667]

Artist and non-musician making visionary sound art with found objects.

I collect litter and make small scale sonic sculptures and rudimentary instruments. When I play them I’m thinking of natural rhythms like the wind in the trees or animal movements.

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