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

Reverse Resolution [disquiet0680]

Original work by Richard D. James. This is part of Disquiet Junto Project #0684: Early Bird. See more at https://llllllll.co/t/70788/3.

Start + On (Aphex Twin cover)

Submission for Disquiet Junto 0684. Synths from Pure Data and Ableton. Field Recordings by me: dawn chorus in Humboldt State park, cottonwood leaves on the Van Duzen river, Cicadas on the Tsitsikamma Trail, South Africa, sounds of the Tilburg Textile Museum artists' workspace.

early birds (disquiet0684)

Inspired by the haiku:

Mount Asama
amidst its fumes and ash
fresh young leaves!

by: Yosa Buson

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku579-mount-asama/

from the ashes (naviarhaiku579)

quiescence!
touching not the blossoms,
temple bell's voice

by: Fuhaku
Kawakami Fuhaku was a tea master and the founder of the Edosenke, a school of tea ceremony. He was also an accomplished haiku poet.

Touching Not  - 時鐘 [naviarhaiku580]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
580
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku580-quiescence/

2025-02-14

Temple Bell's Voice (Naviarhaiku 580  )

This is part of Disquiet Junto Project #0685: Pick-Me-Up. See more at https://llllllll.co/t/70854/10.

Lateral/Liminal

The “catch your breath” project got me thinking. All living things on this planet breathe, at least in one form or another, with some of us breathing in what others breathe out and vice versa. In that regard breathing is a kind of planetary feedback loop, constantly inhaling and exhaling. So, that inspired the first step in setting up my sonic palette: patching my “Barp 2500” to establish a slow oscillation. The output was fed into a tape looper effect on the Zoia which was then sent into the Cosmos, which were routed via a patch pay so that they fed back into each other. The combined audio was sent to my mixer, where additional feedback was added via the aux sends. After importing this into Logic, motion effects were used to create various forms of spatial movement. The final touch involved manually adding fade in and outs which became further and further apart and, eventually falling into silence when the breathing finally stops.

disquiet0687

drum and bass beats, melodies, and textural samples from several different companies (ethereal 2080, shaman stems, glitched tones, touch loops, undrgrnd sounds), two tracks of live guitar, one synth melody (arturia pigments) and one channel of morse code ("plunging my hand into the lake... billowing clouds") played on a group of randomly triggered small cymbals at 170bpm. the track closes with a sample of toluca lake.

[naviarhaiku581] into the lake

The “Quiet Zone” sign is one that I regularly see and adhere to during my commute into work, which is displayed on the upper decks of the “Go Train” that heads into Toronto. While most of the passengers comply with the request to keep their sonic level at a minimum, there are always those who seem blissfully ignorant. This was the case on my latest trip into town, where a young woman sat behind me and promptly started to engage in a cheerful and lively phone conversation for the entirety of the trip. I resisted the urge to scold her and instead got out my phone and hit record. The resultant recording was far too noisy to use in its original form, so I subjected it to various forms of granular synthesis in an attempt to mimic my own audio experience during my commute. This usually consists of an ambient soundscape sent to my headphones, which never seems to completely obscure the rumble of the train, the sound of the announcements, the rhythmic click clack of the tracks and the noises made by passengers ignoring the “quiet zone” message - all of which are rendered in a stylized form in this track. Everything you hear is derived from the four minute recording made during my trip.

Lateral/Liminal

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