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]

Vintage Alternative/Pop Punk written in 2003 by teenage hillbilly-Punks, at tender but angst-ridden 13 yoa. 
Props to Radcliffe for teaching me this, as it became the first song I ever learned on Guitar, that I went on to play with people. 

In a way, this, so Radcliffe, started it all. 

Foxies:
This be your caravan--your Musical Den. So like, don't sweat the Follow; but you'll be glad you do.

The Our Song (Feat Lit Tickers)

When I was thinking about this week's Disquiet Junto prompt, I had the oompah-pah lullaby bass pattern in my head and the idea of repeating it to fade. Improvising using five soft sounds on Garageband, I keep the wavering bum notes in the middle (that bit where you're just drifting off and be a bit startled), with the idea of returning to the plain I-V chords (E major to B major) to rock you to sleep.

More on this 562nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sheep Music (The Assignment: Record something to help someone fall asleep) — at: https://disquiet.com/0562/

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-0562-sheep-music/

The project’s image was produced using DALL·E 2. “Three sheep floating over a suburban house at night, realistic photograph” was the prompt.

Scheep Shleep (disquiet0562)

I rarely listen to music in bed, because the struggle between my body wanting to shut off and my brain listening to interesting bits keeps me awake. So I wanted to dumb things down a it and use a long volume fade to drift away. 

I used a new generative base track for a session with Lucid Grain, thinned it out gradually, let it run in a very long delay (Augustus Loop) and then... zzzzzzzz.

Placideque Quiescas [disquiet563]

More on this 562nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sheep Music (The Assignment: Record something to help someone fall asleep) — at: https://disquiet.com/0562/

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-0562-sheep-music/

When The Sleep Kicks In (disquiet0562)

A short (for me!) piece of layered improvisation using Novation BassStation, Summit, Nord Piano, and Viscount Legend and lots of echoes and reverbs to create a drifting bed to drift off to.  I fall asleep at the drop of a hat, so this is definitely long enough for me, but your mileage may vary ;-)

More on this 562nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sheep Music (The Assignment: Record something to help someone fall asleep) — at: https://disquiet.com/0562/

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0562-sheep-music/

The project’s image was produced using DALL·E 2. “Three sheep floating over a suburban house at night, realistic photograph” was the prompt.

A Little Night Music (Disquet0562)

Trigon-6 audio demos. All sounds recorded directly from the Trigon-6, with only occasional light limiting and no additional processing. Special thanks to the entire sound design and audio demo team, including Peter Dyer, Drew Neumann, Julian Pollack, Matia Simovich and James Terris.

Multitrack demos by Peter Dyer and Drew Neumann:

Peter Dyer
- Boss Hog + Divulgent
- Fortune Favor
- Keep Away
- Mushy Peas
- Stomp

Drew Neumann
- BaliDreams
- NoFrets
- TaikoPlusPerc

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