2.Horror

This week's Disquiet Junto introduced me to the work of Raymond Scott, beginning with his 3-volume "Soothing Sounds for Baby" and back and forth in time between The Quintette and Looney Tunes and Manhattan Research. I've got a lot of catching up on history to do.

I wanted to do something that was lovely and curious, a dark fairy tale, a sort of lullaby that evoked the clockwork precision of the songs on the Soothing Sounds records. I learned that Scott was the inventor of the sequencer, so I decided to use a hardware sequencer and analog circuits to create an homage. I tried to reflect the ostinato sequences, the wandering key changes, the intricately overlapping patterns, and the stiff improvisation that I heard in Scott's work.

All of the sounds came from a Roland JU-06A, the boutique reissue of the venerable Juno-60 and Juno-160. I also used that unit's 12-step sequencer to create each iteration of the ostinato pattern (through 7 key changes.)

I swear I tried not to use reverb. I swear I swear.

"Baby's First Harmonic Minor" is best enjoyed curled up under a soft blanket, nightlight aglow, with the hall light on and the bedroom door left open just a little bit. 

Recorded at NOSIGNAL Multimedia Lab in The Shambles. Chicago, USA.

More about this week's Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0655

Disquiet Junto

Baby's First Harmonic Minor (disquiet0655)

BROKEN MIDI composed electronic music 
#GS2024 #korggadget

Simple Translation

Any direction
[Act.1] Nix
[Act.2] Enthrall
[Act.3] Wuthering
[Act.4] Swag

ご試聴ありがとうございます。
この組曲は第1章から第4章まで、その日の気分で24通りの曲順で楽しめるようになっています。

Thank you for listening.
This suite can be enjoyed in 24 different song orders, from Act 1 to Act 4, depending on your mood that day.

#KORGGadget 
#GS2024

Any direction [Act.1] Nix

created in LMMS, Synthfont, Audacity, and SynFactory Modular synthesis, this piece is in 27/32 time, with quartertones, eighth tones and distorted with bit crushing, pulse width modulation and FM. 2024

Polymicrotonal Etude 22d: Distortion

Recorded, mixed & mastered 31 Mar 2018, 12 Jul 2008, 10 Oct 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

Process notes -
I started in Reason, using a xylophone sound and two arpeggiated synths. I did two different versions. I brought the entirety of the second longer version plus some of the first into Ableton Live 12.1. Here, I added some alto sax from 2018 and a bit of a manipulated guitar recording from 2008.

Tools used - 
Reason, NN-XT, Europa, Ableton Live, Granulator III, alto sax, Cort Zenox, native Live & Reason effects, iZotope Nectar & Ozone. 

Artwork/Photography -
Manhattan, NYC, NY 21 Oct 2020

---

This original version of “Mister, Have You Seen My Dog?” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0667: Neighbor of the Beast. The Assignment: What’s it sound like when the devil lives across the street?

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

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/

Mister, Have You Seen My Dog?  (disquiet0667)

An electronic composition, sounds created in Pure Data.

Forest Asleep (naviarhaiku565)

5 seconds from each month in 2024. mostly taken from unedited tascam recordings; april and june are field recordings, all others are mostly jams with my smaller eurorack palette case

--

More on the 678th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Commonplace Playlist — The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments — at https://disquiet.com/0678/

disquiet0678 - 2024 (60sec)

Coming into a new environment isn't always easy. You have the plan to evolve, to move forward, but that's not always easy. This album is about that and, ultimately, about being at peace with yourself.

The blackest forrest

Support here!

The Blackest Forrest

The Beginning

in my heart

Abstract Sound Structures, Musique Concrète & Live Electronics.
Experimental abstract animation videos.
It is my aim to create and/or edit my tracks & videos using free or open-source software only.
Influences include: J.S. Bach, John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Giacinto Scelsi, Mauricio Kagel, Conlon Nancarrow, Christian Wolff, Harry Partch, Luc Ferrari, Morton Feldman, Cornelius Cardew, Bernard Parmegiani, Ana-Maria Avram, David Tudor, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Renaissance Polyphony.
All my work is published under a Creative Commons licence & can be freely downloaded (as wav) or remixed.

Forest Asleep (naviarhaiku565)

ray_cobley