Really like these subtle oscillations amongst the grit.

More on this 410th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Op Audio / The Assignment: What does the sonic equivalent of Op Art sound like? — at:

https://disquiet.com/0410/

Thanks to Nate Trier for having suggested a “Shepard tone Junto,” which led to this week’s project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0410-op-audio/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this project is from the Wikipedia entry on the logarithmic spiral:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_spiral

Disquiet Junto Project 0410: Op Audio

An old, abandoned studio jam, tweaked today (feb 2nd 2022) mixed and  shared for the first time for this haiku challenge.
Performed by Daniel Diaz (bass, drums, guitar, organ) with Pajaro Canzani (acoustic guitar)

Poem:

the edge of the world
– the road vanishes into
a curtain of mist

By Raymond Cobley is an experimental composer and regular participant in our Haiku challenge.

Photo by Joseph Hersh
@naviar-records

At the edge of the world, a cowboy vanishes into the mist of the road (naviarhaiku422)

More on this 527th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Magic Number (3 of 3) (The Assignment: Complete an asynchronous trio begun by two other musicians) — at: https://disquiet.com/0527/

A Trio with Fake Genius and Isonomnia, thanks for the inspiration!
https://soundcloud.com/isonomia/birds-sing-in-the-trees-disquiet0526
https://soundcloud.com/fake-genius/disquiet0525-dm-stereo

I started by listening to last weeks tunes whilst driving to the local store, I started singing along with Birds Sing In The Trees, by the time I got behind a microphone later that night, the exact words had disappeared, yet the bones of the melody could be recalled, I did 5 layers of vocals, 1st take for each, during the recording I was thinking of an image seen that day of men hunting grouse with big guns and how birds are not safe in this human world. A little bit of editing and some mixing mainly with various console channel emulations with a bit of extra saturation, then finding the best balance with the bed track.

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

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I Will Sing For You In Fear - Fake Genius/Isonomia/Benn DeMole [disquiet0527]

This track is the result of an asynchronous colloboration in the Disquiet Junto with @daniel-diaz  and Noodle Twister @user-130801280: I added electric guitars and a synth pad to the great piece of music
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/more-reflections-disquiet0526-with-noodle-twister?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0526
to counterbalance the smooth vibe and just give it a twist.

More on this 527th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Magic Number (3 of 3) (The Assignment: Complete an asynchronous trio begun by two other musicians) – at: https://disquiet.com/0527/

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

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0527-magic-number-3-of-3/

Empty Reflections [with Daniel Diaz and Noodle Twister] (Disquiet0527)

Minimally Viable Music

The sound in this track is from a sine wave oscillator, sent through a self-oscillating low pass filter and then into a reverb. As the track progresses, the filter and oscillator are modulated by several LFOs, a CV joystick, and a CV sequencer. The minimalistic sine wave tones and rhythms at the beginning evolve toward the edge of chaos before settling back into minimalism.

Performed on a modular synth using Dixie II+, Ripples (og), Ochd, Batumi, Planar 2, SPO, Quadratt, Pamela's New Workout, Mimetic Digitalis, and Desmodus Versio.

More on this 530th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Minimally Viable Music (The Assignment: How much less is just shy of too little? ) — at: https://disquiet.com/0530/

Signs of Sines

Signs Of Sines - Disquiet0530

a little noise from iVCS3
a little quanta from audiodamage
merged into aum
reverb from Eventide Blackhole

That's it

peace

not our world part I & II(disquiet0531)

naviarhaiku426 – the long night

the long night
made longer –
a dog barking

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.

Night made longer ( naviarhaiku426 )

This track was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0533: I created a remix of the @Sternklang track https://soundcloud.com/sternklang/disquiet0527-dead-center-with-dan-simpson-j-benjamin-niemi also incorporating the other two parts of that trio, https://soundcloud.com/user-931021867/january-21-look-again-disquiet0525 by J. Benjamin Niemi and
https://soundcloud.com/dan-simpson-497607106/disquiet0526-jan-21-look-again-2 by Dan Simpson.

Thank you @Sternklang, Dan Simpson and J. Benjamin Niemi for being part of the Junto and providing these great tracks!

I felt "Sternenklang" (the sound of stars) would be a great, poetic title for the resulting music. It reflects the mood to which the creative flow has lead me, and is at the same time a reverence to the creator of the original track.

More on this 533rd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Numbers Magik (The Assignment: Remix a trio — potentially using its subsets and variants) – at: https://disquiet.com/0533/

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

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Sternenklang (Disquiet0533)

Hang
Synthesizers
Bowed upright basses

Composed and performed by Dnaiel Diaz
Published by Sonoton GmbH

For this haiku

high tide
flapping in vertical waves
a lone fish

by Marilyn Ward
photo by DD

A Lone Fish (naviarhaiku430)

going in circles
a promising journey
without end

haiku by Charles Lawler https://twitter.com/Charliepoetry

picture by Thomas Millot https://unsplash.com/@tmillot

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

aphorism fling

halF promisinG [naviarhaiku431]

Short  Zombie _ Z-nationを全部観ました

A vague memory from a trip years ago to the Ontario Science Centre inspired this auditory illusion. With quotes from The Origin of Species (Darwin) and from Report N° 3211000RAE00-A: Hair Volume Measurement(Bolero) - Evaluation of 4 Products.

More on this 410th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Op Audio / The Assignment: What does the sonic equivalent of Op Art sound like? — at: https://disquiet.com/0410/

Thanks to Nate Trier for having suggested a “Shepard tone Junto,” which led to this week’s project.

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

Stress (disquiet0410)

Sugar Pill (disquiet0410)

One arpeggio in “Trompe-l’œil” (minor? major?) performed on guitars (electric? acoustic?)
Guitars (3 instruments, 8 tracks) performed by DD Friday November 8th.
Photo by DD (Oslo, Norway, 2018)

For Disquiet Junto Project 0410: Op Audio
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0410-op-audio/

Op Art Arpeggios (Disquiet0410)

This track is a response to a challenge from the Disquiet Junto: "What does the sonic equivalent of Op Art sound like?" 

In this piece, I first composed a small symphonic riff - and then cut everything up in pieces, like seeing a picture through a grid or a comb, to see if the idea of the original would "peek through" - or maybe even change character. I think it changed quite a bit; some parts gained importance, other disappeared and some got almost too intrusive. But I actually like it better like this... :)

More on this 410th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Op Audio / The Assignment: What does the sonic equivalent of Op Art sound like? — at:

https://disquiet.com/0410/

Thanks to Nate Trier for having suggested a “Shepard tone Junto,” which led to this week’s project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

disquiet0410 - broken syncphony

Using an image Jelie sent me from a mountain retreat I loaded it into Photosounder.
I then inverted it to get a more traditional OP black and white image. I then used the black and white tools to draw trees using the tools. 

I then took the inverted image’s sound, duplicated and reversed it. I then took the “drawn” inverted images sound, duplicated and reversed it. Using these 4 sounds I grouped them in Live to a looper and EQ.

I then dialed in some drums on the Roland DJ 808 drum sequencer for the 606, 707,808, 909 drum banks. I then used the MIDI fighter routed to a drum kit with a looper to capture a phrase that I then folded into the group Loop chain. 
More on this 410th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Op Audio / The Assignment: What does the sonic equivalent of Op Art sound like? — at:

https://disquiet.com/0410/

Thanks to Nate Trier for having suggested a “Shepard tone Junto,” which led to this week’s project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0410-op-audio/

SnowTree OP disquiet0410

SnowTree OP disquiet0410 (cut down tree)

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.

Ryan Scott Mattingly's work sets washes of noise alongside sounds from daily life creating melodic songscapes with traditional acoustic instruments (guitar, banjo, mandolin, double bass),  electronics (synthesizer, pedal steel) and homemade instruments, weaving those juxtapositions into grandiose, otherworldly textures.

Sugar Pill (disquiet0410)

Ryan Scott Mattingly

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