I was going to sit this one out. Then I wondered what the image would sound like imported as raw data into Audacity.  Great blasts of white noise static, no surprise there. About to delete it, I put it through multiple layers of full reverb on a whim and was pleasantly surprised to hear it transform into a huge, bell-like drone which seemed to crawl around inside itself.

I tried importing the image using different parameters and got a much longer blast of noise, which was similarly treated and became the canvas on which four differently treated versions of the first, shorter one have been arranged in the manner of the image (using the ‘completeness’ of each circle to decide how much to treat each track). These were treated with BlueCat, Convoluter, Phaser and Harmonic Adder, along with being double-tracked out of phase in differing pitches and degrees of reverb.

Sorry it’s so long, I needed a big canvas.

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The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score that depicts four phases.

A combined play on a Brian Eno phrase and a John Cage visual motif is pretty much foundational Disquiet Junto territory. This week, interpret this image as a graphic score: https://www.dropbox.com/s/frxh96qwx5a2qgm/junto-0557-weidenbaum.png?dl=0 

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/ 


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

Four drones on a ground [disquiet0557]

Like A Virgin 0.66 (cover)～迷走中～

I just cannot get enough of organ stops. Ever! This is this weeks' response to this week's Naviar Haiku Challenge. It was starting to faintly drizzle when I went out and took this picture earlier in St James' Park. A lot of my phone photos seem to be of Buckingham Palace at the moment.

adjusting to rain
the slow purpling
of clouds

Wendy is a relative newcomer to haiku, having stumbled across the form 18 months ago. Since then, she has written many haiku and tanka poems. You may read her poems on Twitter @WendyGent_. Wendy lives in South Gloucestershire, UK.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 19th October 2022

haiku by Wendy Gent https://twitter.com/WendyGent_

adjusting to rain (naviarhaiku458)

Disquiet Junto Project 0563: Digital Magical Realism
The Assignment: What does this imaginary genre sound like?

Step 1: Think about what a genre means, where it begins, where it ends, what makes a genre a genre.

Step 2: Familiarize yourself with the concept of magical realism, most often associated with the fiction of such authors as Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Jorge Luis Borges, Alice Hoffman, and Haruki Murakami, among others.

Step 3: Imagine what “digital magical realism” would sound like, were it the name of a genre.

Step 4: Record a piece of music that sounds like what you think “digital magical realism” sounds like.

Track notes:

Along with the writers mentioned under the broad umbrella of magical realism, I would also count two of my favourite writers (Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco) as falling - if not squarely into - frequently against the margins of the genre.

Immediately works by Calvino came to mind. After all, I named my home studio after one of the cities from Invisible Cities(Maurilia), so parts of my creative world takes a fair chunk of inspiration from his wonderful mind.

Aside from Invisible Cities, I was reminded of my favourite book of his, the meta-novel, If On A Winter's Night.. (1979) where the reader and the story itself progressively becomes a slippery boundary, before both worlds collapse into each other. With this is mind and this week's prompt I thought about sound collages, musique concrete and field recordings, with material sourced from digital technologies.

I pulled up a personal archive of field recordings made with several different technologies, ranging from lo-fi to hi-fi sources (old phones, digital cameras, minidisc players, handheld digital recorders, nice mic rig.) 

I selected recordings which evoked aspects of If On A Winter's Night.., mostly restricted to ambiences and sounds which possess double-meanings or are general indistinct as to their source. There's also literal references to some of the objects/events/phenomena that feature throughout the book, such as: the sound of trains, streetscapes, the ocean, wind, etc. In some instances the sounds have been manipulated a rendered in more tonal/sonorous forms along with discrete synth textures.

I wanted to create a dense collage of these sounds, much like a hectic dream, where time is compressed and where one skips, zooms and pulls in and out of several environments, seemingly in quick succession. Some transitions appear to blend together, whilst others are more abrupt.

I took the title of this piece from one of the chapters of this book, the beautiful and very poetically named "Without fear of wind or vertigo".

[Disquiet_Junto_0563] Without fear of wind or vertigo

Solo Piano - Chris Bright

scarlet 1108 - 11:8:22, 6.17 PM

Retro cool 80's and 90's fun old school hip hop sounds of LL Cool J Phenomenon vibes and a shout out lyric to English Beats Mirror in the bathroom.  Stay till the ending and enjoy this catchy tune.  Composed, engineering and mixed by Gemini and Lyrics and vocals Cara25.  It's a fun one!

PHE - NOM

Tessellations, for orchestra (1976)

Rerelease of the 2016 legendary album and collaboration project by Cybernetika & Xenofish, Cryomatter.

Full mix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qlio0WBGF0
Artists: @cryomatter @xenofish @cybernetika
Download this track: https://hypeddit.com/vm1ulj
Support: https://synapticgrid.bandcamp.com/album/cryomatter-cryomatter

Cryomatter - Azure Particles [Free Download]

K1LL YOURSELF TIEDGEN V1

Mindfulness is a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations.



Dreamstate

live recording

Marco Lucchi - electronics
with
Geoff Warren - flute and sax
Dario Lucchi - french horn
Roberto Corsini - elec guitar
Mario Nobile - cello
Lucio Bosi - percussion

september 26th 2004
Modena - The House - La casa delle arti

with the poet Marco Marangoni

music by Marco Lucchi


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Tristan Louth-Robins is a South Australian artist working principally in the medium of sound art and field recording. Ideas of sound and its signification are key elements in Louth-Robins' practice, traversing the space between the visual and aural his work is realised through the mediums of recordings, installation, visual art and performance. He is interested in sound and its associative implications - including its relationship to objects, technology, urban space, memory and the natural world. 


Since 2005, Louth-Robins has presented work in Australia and internationally as a solo artist, whilst also collaborating with artists, writers, researchers, musicians and performers. 

Working across a vast array of activities encompassing composition, sound design, installation art, field recording and workshops, his work has been featured in events such as the Adelaide Festival of Arts (2006), The National Regional Arts Festival (2012), Mildura-Wentworth Arts Festival (2013), Fairfax Festival (2013) and Adelaide Fringe Festival (2014); and selected works exhibited at galleries including The Australian Experimental Art Foundation (2009), SASA Gallery (2012, 2015), Light Square Gallery (2012) and FELT Space (2015). His audio works have been broadcast on radio including Radio National, Classic FM, The BBC (UK), Acoustic Frontiers (USA) and RBB (Germany).