I love the familiar sound of wood in this setting.

Disquiet Junto Project 0669: Phonosynthesis

The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate.

A scientific research paper this month documented evidence that sound can help fungus grow. The conclusion: “Demonstrating a tangible impact on fungal activity, our findings suggest that carefully tuned acoustic parameters might be able to enhance ecological processes.”

Record music to help a forest grow. Imagine an array of solar-powered speakers is spread through a forest-in-need. Or come up with another deployment scenario of your own imagining. What sort of music would you play for the forest to encourage its regeneration?

The research paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0295.

Coverage in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/science/fungus-sounds-growth.html

The paper is the work of four people from the College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, in Australia.

Thanks to Michael Rhode for having shared with me the research coverage.

Deadline: Monday, October 28, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0669

Disquiet Junto Project 0669: Phonosynthesis

MONT-SAINT-MICHEL

From the album Exo
Buy: https://scapeone.bandcamp.com/album/exo
Stream: https://share.amuse.io/SxhBXDiR8JS9

Eridani

This is my submission to this week's Disquiet Junto assignment.

More on the 668th weekly Disquiet Junto project, All Right Then, Keep Your Secrets — The Assignment: Bury a secret sound until it is no longer identifiable — at https://disquiet.com/0668/

This project was proposed by Mahlen Morris.

20241017 [disquiet0668]

made for the haiku challenge n. 563 https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku563-autumn-wind/

autumn wind (naviarhaiku563)

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more halF unusuaL

halF fungaL [disquiet0669]

I’ve always had plants in my studio, and someone once told me that even if sunlight is limited, the constant presence of music playing every day helps keep the plants healthy.

I don’t know about that, , but they look great and seem to grow steadily.

“Record music to help a forest grow.”

I believe that simply having musicians play acoustic instruments in the forest would only bring good to it.

Here I just played “woody”, natural percussion instruments, bamboo drums, wood sticks and blocks, conch shells, cuica, marimba, bombo legüero, talking drum and some other toys. I recorded 3 versions, this is the “fast” one.

Rain Forrest (Fast) - disquiet0669

Phonosynthesis

Disquiet Junto | Phonosynthesis - disquiet0669

According to my research of various websites, the consensus seems to be that calmer types of music are more conducive to plant growth. This track was created using Pure Data & various plugins, etc.
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Dendrosymphonic (disquiet0669)

Regeneration(disquiet0669)

This is my submission to this week's Disquiet Junto assignment.

More on the 669th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phonosynthesis — The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate — at https://disquiet.com/0669/

20241026 [disquiet0669]

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0669: Phonosynthesis
The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0669 discussion thread on Lines:

Hope the music that we've all created will help forests to grow and flourish. The trees and their friends here in our yard seemed appreciative when I played this for them. 

Created with Ableton Live using Slate+Ash Choreographs, Spectres, and Max4Live devices along with loops, samples and field recordings. Valhalla Delay and Arturia Fragments were used for effects. Photo is from a native Monterey Pine forest next to where I live here in California.  

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Daydream Forest [disquiet0669]

Video here https://youtu.be/0akHuIXUIgk?si=ggg7av6axK7fU7xX
Disquiet Junto Project 0669: Phonosynthesis
The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate.

A scientific research paper this month documented evidence that sound can help fungus grow. The conclusion: “Demonstrating a tangible impact on fungal activity, our findings suggest that carefully tuned acoustic parameters might be able to enhance ecological processes.”

Record music to help a forest grow. Imagine an array of solar-powered speakers is spread through a forest-in-need. Or come up with another deployment scenario of your own imagining. What sort of music would you play for the forest to encourage its regeneration?

The research paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0295.

Coverage in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/science/fungus-sounds-growth.html

The paper is the work of four people from the College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, in Australia.

Thanks to Michael Rhode for having shared with me the research coverage.

Phonosynthesis  - disquiet0669

sound art for disquiet0669.

More on the 669th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phonosynthesis — The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate — at https://disquiet.com/0669/

the tree that thirsts for rain (disquiet0669)

Disquiet Junto Project 0674: Cerberus Sample
The Assignment: Make a song not just with but from just one sample.

Step 1: You’re going to make a song with just one short sample as its entire sonic source material. Select your sample wisely.

Step 2: Make a song in which the sample you selected in Step 1 serves as the raw resource for all the different parts of the song. Use nothing but that solitary sample. Here is one example of a song with four parts: melody, backing chordal material, bass, and beat. Three parts may be best, but make as complex and busy a piece of music as you desire, certainly.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0674” (no spaces/quotes) in the name of your track.

Upload: Post your track to a public account (SoundCloud preferred but by no means required). It’s best to focus on one track, but if you post more than one, clarify which is the “main” rendition.

Share: Post your track and a description/explanation at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0674-cerberus-sample/

Lunero y yo - disquiet0674

This track is my interpretation of: 

Curve of time -
a thought takes flight,
scent of a rose.

Naviar Haiku challenge 577, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

All done with Voltage Modular (Virtual modular environment) from Cherry audio making heavy use of the modules from Dome Music Technologies.  There were too many elements to record this in one go, I neither have enough physical controls of hands. so split it into sections; each recorded as a live, one take performance, following on from and adding to each other.  

I think I hit all the elements for this one.
Curve of Time: A bit of obvious vintage synth, cheesy but who doesn't enjoy a bit of quality Gouda? 
One thought takes flight from the rest.
And I can scent a rose.
But beyond the obvious dairy products placing the element is up to you.

Curve Of Time - (naviarhaiku - 577)

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

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.

the tree that thirsts for rain (disquiet0669)

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