the radio task is great
i went to the green with radio and guitar
made my own environment nice with playing guitar
then came the red radio

the red in the green(disquiet0552)

Disquiet Junto Project 0552: The Radio in My Life
The Assignment: Record music in response to a John Cage and Morton Feldman conversation.

This was fun. I thought about intrusions. Mostly it's the loud street in front of my window and kids running in the flat above mine and people shouting at Siri, Alexa and OKgoogle in the backyard.

I checked my field recordings and there it was: the f… church bells. A bad ambient track, repeated relentlessly every sunday, never changing, a transcendent single-track playlist … 

I threw the field recoding of the bells into deCoda, and it calculated Aminor and 84bpm. I started a track from scratch with these parameters and improvised some beats and pads. The idea was to have a peaceful ambient track … that could be disturbed by acoustic intrusion of the church bells. 

The track seemed finished when I read the algorithm again and listened to the Cage-Feldman-Talk. I liked the pure oddity of the first minutes, so I added some parts of the beginning, accepting that this will draw focus to the conversation, so I didn't care that you don't understand much. 

Next sunday at seven, they will play my track …

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Track image credit: Ancient church in Lunigiana (Tuscany, Italy) by Daniele Levis Pelusi on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/rJo9jh9iORU

Talk samples credit: John Cage + Morton Feldman's Coffee-Sippin' ASMR Chat in a Room Full of Cigarette Smoke on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chEvxoypyUo

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More on this 552nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — The Radio in My Life (The Assignment: Record music in response to a John Cage and Morton Feldman conversation) — at: https://disquiet.com/0552/

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

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Intrusive Bells [disquiet0552]

When I first read this week’s call I wanted to elaborate on my aesthetic assumptions as Ossimuratore that verbal communication is corrupted music.

I was a bit struggling until I listened to @ostacoli-sonori’s INTRUSIONS. This made me realize something odd about my musical education: as many italian kids grown up in the seventies and eighties I didn’t study english until middle school, so I used to listen to a lot of foreign pop and rock music without understanding a word of the lyrics.

In this track I use an exerpt from a cult italian movie called Amici Miei where Conte Mascetti gives what has been since then popularized in Italy as supercazzola (i.e. gimmerick italian used to persuade someone).

The idea is that gimmerick language, by dropping its semantic transport function, can retain musical significance.

Made with NI Maschine+

More on this 552nd weekly Disquiet Junto project – The Radio in My Life (The Assignment: Record music in response to a John Cage and Morton Feldman conversation) – at: https://disquiet.com/0552/

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/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 2: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0552-the-radio-in-my-life/

Tarapia Tapioco (disquiet0552)

Birds singing along to their radios is not what we expect from nature, but it is much better then the sound of traffic.

In this track nearly all birds in the wood have their own radio. And whenever they sing or hammer, they turn the volume of their radio higher... By a strange coincidence all radios play tracks by RabMusicLab.

The beautiful field-recording of all the birds in the forest https://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/514309/ was supplied by @klankbeeld (https://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/) under the https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. This gem inspired the whole track.

The following tracks are played by the birds' radios in order of appearance:
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/kwach
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/evening-contemplation
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/urban-traffic-folly
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/paper-time
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/musical-flora
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/machinery
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/bluebell-symphony
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/bedtime-for-musical-bots
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/minimally-viable-spring

This track was motivated by the Disquiet Junto Project 0552: Create a track were radio is unobstrusively intermingling with the surrounding sounds.

More on this 552nd weekly Disquiet Junto project – The Radio in My Life (The Assignment: Record music in response to a John Cage and Morton Feldman conversation) – at: https://disquiet.com/0552/

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/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 2: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0552-the-radio-in-my-life/

Birds with Radios - the lesser Evil (Disquiet0552)

Great, a one step task, on vacation
spend a few days at the baltic sea
i played my guitar through Steinberg UR 22mkII
recorded in aum
added some granular effects
there were actually only two tempi
one slower, one faster

inner circle/outer circle(disquiet0553)

In this week's assignment, we were asked to abruptly change the tempo of a song. I hadn't read the instructions carefully enough and so the tempo changes throughout this one.

More on this 553rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Break That Cycle (The Assignment: Record in a steady tempo but break it on occasion) — at: https://disquiet.com/0553/

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tempo [disquiet0553]

[disquiet0554] Rumble

Part of the disquiet0554 prompt to create a drone inspired by “Organ²/ASLSP” by John Cage. 

This piece switches chords once and uses filter and distortion adjustments to create different sounds and timbres throughout.

Cage Chord [after Organ²/ASLSP] [disquiet0554]

Recorded Kalimba with MacBook Pro in Live 11
added some field recordings & sounddesign

hiwiki(disquiet0560)

Erik Satie owned between seven and twelve velvet corduroy suits hanging in his wardrobe, each the size of a large bathrobe. With all apologies to Mel Tormé, Satie was the original “velvet fog.”

Satie was the personification of eccentricity. He reportedly ate only white foods, slept in a circular bed with one eye open, collected hundreds of umbrellas, and walked the streets carrying a hammer for protection. One cannot confirm whether these were genuine behavioral quirks, or simply the manifestation of a brilliant mind with a wicked sense of humor. 

For this piece, Suss Müsik took inspiration from two Satie compositions: the minimal piano repetition of his most recognizable works (cue Trois Gymnopédies and its sibling Gnossiennes) and Musique d’Ameublement as performed by string quartet. The piece is an ode to two rocking chairs on the front porch of Suss Müsik headquarters, accompanied by heavily treated percussion sampled by hitting the metal chairs with a stick.

The full title is Musique Pour Deux Chaises Berçantes Accompagnée De La Colère Des Écureuils Déplacés. Feel free to have that phrase translated via your online tool of choice.

More on this 566th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Outdoor Furniture Music (The Assignment: Imagine the ur-ambient Erik Satie musique d’ameublement concept en plein air) — at: https://disquiet.com/0566/

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inner circle/outer circle(disquiet0553)

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