on New Year's Day
everywhere, a corrupt world's
blossoms.

by: Kobayashi Issa  /    Picture by Yosuke Ota
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link to source code: 
https://github.com/tonpatt/compositions/tree/master/naviarhaiku574

dewy yarn aeons - naviarhaiku574

Back after a lengthy absence from the Disquiet Junto.

The prompt aligned perfectly with my ongoing research into bell-like tones through ring modulation and frequency shifting, inspired by Oren Ambarchi's work, in particular "Grapes From The Estate" (Touch). 
Electric guitar, mostly harmonics, through ring mod plus some atrocious, violent guitar bits and bobs from my archive. 

Hope you enjoy!

More on the 682nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Unring a Bell — The Assignment: What if you could? — at https://disquiet.com/0682/

Unring [disquiet0682]

SONG 68 - DisquietJunto0683 - Space Shot

Resonant/reverberant space is something I've thought about a lot since high school, but I never have dragged mics and equipment into a concrete stairwell or washroom before today.

I work at Alfred University in New York and our division of Expanded Media in the School of Art & Design has a four story stairwell which feeds the back of house to two of our galleries and the sonic/video arts studios. I set out four Tascam DR-100 field recorders and captured the sound of my wallet being dropped from the highest point to the lowest. In the accompanying artwork you can see two pictures of this stairwell (one from the bottom looking up [the bottom left picture], and one from the top looking down [the top right picture]). My calves always tighten up a bit at the top.

For the less reverberant space, I chose an old storage closet we're in the midst of transforming into a vocal/studio booth. It has rubberized floors, and a much lower drop-ceiling. I placed the quartet of recorders in the corners of the room, and then dropped my wallet from a much shorter height to the floor. You can see two images from this room set up in the other half of the cover art.

All of this for less than five seconds of audio total. In the first two seconds you'll hear the initial hit of the wallet, followed by a second quieter hit after it bounced in the concrete stairwell. At four seconds you hear the other room with a much more muted single drop (which to my ears sounds a bit like a champagne cork popping, but I've had champagne maybe twice in my life so I probably don't really know what that sounds like.)

More on the 683rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Space Shot — The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant — at https://disquiet.com/0683/

Space Shot disquiet0683

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 10 Aug 2018, 02 Sep 2018 & 30 Jan 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA & Union Square, NYC, USA. 

Beer bottle, Korg Monotron Delay, grains, emulated springs. 

Artwork/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, near the corner of 8th Ave & 44th St, NYC, USA - 31 Jan 2018

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “My Boots Are Filled With Spacey Eyes” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0683: Space Shot. The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant.

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

More on the 683rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Space Shot — The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant — at https://disquiet.com/0683/

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My Boots Are Filled With Spacey Eyes (disquiet0683)

Disquiet Junto Project 0683: Space Shot
The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant.

Disquiet Junto Project 0683: Space Shot
The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant.

This weeks prompt immediately gave me the idea of combining an inherently natural reverb sound with a guaranteed unnatural, reverb-free sound. 

The natural reverberated sound comes from two layers of a field recording of a church in Vienna, recorded in October, which provides ambient noises. The naturally guaranteed reverb-free sound consists of several layers of yesterday's WebSDR recordings, which provided rhythmic and melodic components.

The reverb-free sounds here start with a lot of synthetic reverb and end as they are in reality. The church was stripped of reverb from the beginning with two layers of RX10 de-reverb, which is gradually reduced until the natural reverb of the church dominates. Mono/stereo and panning followed these ideas. So at the end of the track there is a naturally reverberant church and the WebSDR noise, which comes naturally without reverb.

I particularly liked this contrast because reverb indicates spaces; a church is more than a space, as a sacred space it has its own spatiality, so to speak, in Karl Popper's World 3, which contains ideas as much as art. The WebSDR signals seem spaceless, and yet they fill the expanding sphere of their propagation – and the signals itself may transport meaning and ideas from a World-3-Level.

Yes, perhaps a little bit over the top, but that's what I liked. 

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More on the 683rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Space Shot — The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant — at https://disquiet.com/0683/


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ReSpaced [disquiet0683]

An electronic sequence created in Pure Data with additional gradual panning and reverb.

More on the 683rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Space Shot — The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant — at https://disquiet.com/0683/

Panned and Spaced Out (disquiet0683)

2025-04-30

people

“When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.”  ― Lin Yutang

Track list and start times:
00:00  Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari – Neptune Desert Sounds
03:04  Loo(p)cy – Still Here Tonight
06:43  John Hyatt and Tom Hyatt – I had a Dream where I was a Raven
10:09  La Main Traumatique – Inverse Circulaire
16:19  Keijo – Anywhere Here
21:17  Philippe Petit – Humanum Est
24:58  Steve Roach & Vidna Obmana – The Current Below
34:02  Pacha Wakay Munan & Orieta Chrem – Agua, Cuarzo y Viento
39:04  Zoe Keating – Legions (Aftermath)
45:18  Syrinx – Turning
53:35  Adi Newton – Intercepted Quantum Entanglement Transmission
1:00:19  Jochen Arbeit – Skates (pt2)
1:09:43  Noise Research vs Fonik – Electricity Never Underestimate It
1:15:12  Michael Giles Mad Band with Keith Tippett – Why Not
1:20:22  Paul Leonard-Morgan – Ma-Ma's Requiem (from ‘Dredd')
1:23:40  RicHard – Déjà vu
1:28:27  Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari – Nabta Calling
1:30:16  Susan Matthews with Clutter – Ships Will Leave
1:38:55  Patricia Gurband – Unbreak
1:42:32  Richard Bégin – Juin 1831
1:48:24  Paul Leonard-Morgan – The Sacred and the Profane
1:52:37  Roger Roger – Rhapsody In Green II Luxuriance (excerpt)
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Eclectic current – Calculations in collapsing space

2025-05-08

solar eclipse

🌖Midnight Waltz A Vampire Encounter (Piano Solo)


🎹A sensitive piano waltz capturing the first encounter between two immortal souls under the moonlight.

The Dance of vampires.mp3

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.

Panned and Spaced Out (disquiet0683)

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