Condensation is a form of change, but this is only half of the story. Condensation is what happens when vapor transforms to a liquid state; evaporation is what happens when liquid changes back to vaporous form. It’s a constant, cyclical form of reclaiming what was lost.

Michael John Harris, author of the book The End of Absence, has an interesting perspective on loss vs. gain: “My child will never know the value of learning to read a map without GPS. This is the problem with losing lack: it’s nearly impossible to recall its value once it’s gone.“ 

Some cognitive scientists argue that digital media has rendered our brains into mush. Others believe that, like how the clouds above manage moisture content, it’s simply a matter of displacing one form of cognitive processing with another.

For this Junto project, Suss Müsik explored the cyclical nature of something being there and then not there. The original photo was scanned and rendered to high-contrast, which revealed two distinct patterns: the first a reasonably formed outline comprising a circle (we’ll call that v.1), the other a series of amorphous blobs (v.2). 

v.1 became the basis for a cyclical riff played on fake bass and a DIY synth device. v.2 was played by tracing a finger across a DIY piezo mic resonator (constructed from old hard drive enclosures) and passing the signal through a Meng Qi Wingie 2. Some sloppy piano was overdubbed; interruptions were designed per interpretation of the “score.”

The piece is titled after Hieronimo Squarciafico, the 15th-century Venetian editor who warned that the invention of the printing press would inhibit humankind’s ability to remember things. 

More on this 557th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Condensation Is a Form of Change (The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score that depicts four phases) — at: https://disquiet.com/0557/

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Squarciafico [Disquiet0557]

I primi 4 simboli sono stati usati come immaginari canali di disturbo (rumore e fascia ambientale). L'ultimo simbolo come base per la parte strumentale/percussiva che entra nella seconda e parte finale del pezzo. Le note, distribuite e combinate in modo random, sono quelle usate da Eno in Music for Airports. Alla fine molto Japan, come spesso mi succede.

The first 4 symbols were used as imaginary disturbance channels (noise and environmental band). The last symbol as the basis for the instrumental/percussive part that enters the second and final part of the piece. The notes, distributed and combined in a random way, are those used by Eno in Music for Airports. In the end a lot of Japan, as often happens to me.

577 Bamboos [disquiet0557]

naviarhaiku452 – night walk

night walk
sudden shower-
the smell of rain

Paul Engel is a poet living in Chicagoland. His poems have recently appeared in: Hummingbird, Hedgerow, Failed Haiku, ubu, Poetry Pea and tsuri-dōrō. His mini-chapbook Talking to Bugs was recently published by The Origami Project in 2022.  You can find more of his poems posted on twitter @LaughingMonki.

The smell of rain (naviarhaiku452)

For this Disquiet Junto prompt, I chose a fully automated chore, the washing machine. I find the sound of the washing machine comforting. The phases of its cycle are an endless mystery to me, so I recorded a series of different sounds from the pattern on a Sony dictaphone. Then I layered these parts of each cycle on Audacity and built a piece around different pitches and rhythms, and adding reverb. There's a bubble wrap solo at 7 minutes in just for the hell of it.

More on this 558th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Chore Progressions (The Assignment: Use a routine activity as the map of a composition) — at: https://disquiet.com/0558/

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Endless Cycles of Washing Clothes (disquiet0558)

A sequence of extracts from a recording made while preparing supper, variously amplified, filtered, etc.

More on this 558th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Chore Progressions (The Assignment: Use a routine activity as the map of a composition) – at: https://disquiet.com/0558/

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Supper (disquiet0558)

Made with Polyend Tracker.

More on this 558th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Chore Progressions (The Assignment: Use a routine activity as the map of a composition) – at: https://disquiet.com/0558/

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Daily Home Ride (disquiet0558)

A song describing a "chore progression" - in my case, hoovering.

More on this 558th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Chore Progressions (The Assignment: Use a routine activity as the map of a composition) — at: https://disquiet.com/0558/

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work song [disquiet0558]

for the disquiet junto //

an unpleasant but necessary task, transformed

Form and Burden

[disquiet0558] Form and Burden

Falling leaves
deep in the forest
I see a buddha

A wandering poet and ascetic Zen priest, Santōka was a disciple of Ogiwara Seisensui, one of the first poets to discard the traditional use of the 5-7-5 structure in haiku.

Santōka’s poetry emphasizes the necessity of sabi (solitude) in order to achieve spiritual enlightenment and serenity.

Deep in the forest I see (naviarhaiku453)

Unused old demo, re worked and mixed September 14th 2022.
Composed and performed by DD (bass, drum programs, synths, samples)

For this haiku:

The thief left it behind:
the moon
at my window.


 https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

haiku by Ryōkan Taigu
picture by Nantu Das

Rajasthan  Moon Thief  (naviarhaiku454)

[disquiet0559] Hello - Bye

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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