Disquiet Junto Project 0673: Switch Back
The Assignment: Make the quiet part loud, and vice-versa.

Just one step this week: Record a piece of music in which you make loud that which is usually quiet and quiet that which is usually loud.

Deadline: Monday, November 25, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0673

Disquiet Junto Project 0673: Switch Back

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all.
(Emily Dickinson)

with

Back after what seems like a rather long hiatus.

Take your time to take in this rumbling affair that I've been chiselling away at for quite a bit.

Hope it turns out a rewarding listening experience for you all!

7.927 [mint]

Bandcamp: 
/@ https://andrewleefarquhar.bandcamp.com 

Artist / Composer: Andrew Lee Farquhar
Label: Andleefar Classical

© ℗ 2024 All rights reserved

You Left Me Standing Here

Do Stuff (Feel Good)

An original recording of a recycling collection, itself recycled in line with the project and combined with an electronic background drone created in Pure Data, a touch of reverb added.

More on the 673rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Switch Back — The Assignment: Make the quiet part loud, and vice-versa — at https://disquiet.com/0673/

Recyclate (disquiet0673)

Disquiet Junto 0673 asked us to record a song in which what is normally loud becomes quiet, and what is quiet becomes loud.

I started by improvising a fairly straightforward if dark verse-chorus progression on piano. I added simple bass, some programmed drums, and a lead guitar part. That simple arrangement became the canvas. 

To meet the criteria of the prompt, I threw lots of reverb on all 4 tracks— like a ridiculous amount of reverb. I always use sends to aux busses for reverb design for different instruments, so now it just was a matter of cranking up the sends and capturing just the wet (effected) signal and none of the dry (original) signal from the aux track. Some creative audio routing made that possible.

The result, to me, sounds like a song that is inside-out. What is loud is quiet, what is quiet is loud. Enjoy!

More about this week's Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0673

Song of the Inside-Out (disquiet0673)

The Assignment: Make the quiet part loud, and vice-versa.

Just one step this week: Record a piece of music in which you make loud that which is usually quiet and quiet that which is usually loud.

More on the 673rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Switch Back — The Assignment: Make the quiet part loud, and vice-versa — at https://disquiet.com/0673/

gone fishing [disquiet0673]

Two simple drones, pitched the same, one evolving out of the other. The first is made from my own recording of a thunderclap during a Sydney rainstorm, the second from a recording of the ambience of my house when we are out and the animals are asleep..

Minimal and mercifully short. Headphones recommended.
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The Assignment: Make the quiet part loud, and vice-versa.

Just one step this week: Record a piece of music in which you make loud that which is usually quiet and quiet that which is usually loud.

More at https://disquiet.com/0673/

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

Thunderhouse [disquiet0673]

More on the 673rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Switch Back — The Assignment: Make the quiet part loud, and vice-versa — at https://disquiet.com/0673/

It's Cold (disquiet0673)

RELEASE OF FULL ALBUM on Dec 01
https://wanjaolten.bandcamp.com/album/pathfinder

pathfinder is an improvisational musical encounter
bandoneón + piano

Please listen to the full album on bandcamp, starting Dec 1
https://wanjaolten.bandcamp.com/album/pathfinder

IV A

pathfinder | IV A

dream world 1.

Unseen Colours (naviarhaiku570)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 28/29 Apr 2023 & 11 Jan 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Yesterday, thinking of this week's Haiku and Junto, I had an idea to go back to 2 days in 2023 to start a new album (second start today) & use the two tracks for this week as a starter. This would be similar to my work elsewhere where I have a long stretch of material to chop up into different tracks.

The original material is a bit of mystery to me - Ceclia, FL Studio, PaulXStretch, Reason, Thor, Fracture. I had something that was not close to being anything I wanted tonight. I changed direction and started two new MIDI tracks to run a metallic Collision and a Massive X bass. Then I went back to the first two tracks and applied Fragments and it gelled for me. 

Artwork/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, Massapequa, NY, USA - 19 Nov 2017

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

This original version of “Gleaming Greasy” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0680: Reverse Resolution. The Assignment: Finish something (musical) you started last year.

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

More on the 680th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reverse Resolution — The Assignment: Finish something (musical) you started last year — at https://disquiet.com/0680/

Gleaming Greasy (disquiet0680)

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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.

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.

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