I started and abandoned this track consistently during 2024, never finished it, never been sure about it but there's something I do like. The modulations are fun and clever, I think,  smooth and yet surprising and effective. I recorded several guitar takes over the year (each time I had a guitar recording session I gave this a fresh tray). I wanted this to be a "guitar" showcase, but eventually made it a full keyboards+bass+guitar+drums track.
The final guitar is an edit from 3 takes I did on a 6 month period, the one with volume pedal is nice.
So the title and the melodic motif (nicked from "Summer of '42") have been on my "to do" list for a couple of years, the actual performance comes  from 2024.
I took that photo in Costa Rica on February 2020.



Drowned Crossing The Rubicon (disquiet0680)

Text (C) Menelaos Fischer 2024. Used with permission. Music (c) Susanne Maurer 2025. 

CORE/VERZERRUNG [disquiet0680]

Composition pour le Naviar Haïku Music challenge 575.
Sur un haïku de Kagami Shikō:
Even though afar
a feeling of coolness comes
from those mountain pines

www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Coolness feeling

This is my submission for this week's Disquiet Junto assignment.

More on the 682nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Unring a Bell — The Assignment: What if you could? — at https://disquiet.com/0682/

250123 [disquiet0682]

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 24 Jan 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Bell samples, synth, grains. 

Artwork/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, Massapequa, NY, USA - 05 Sep 2017

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “Pig Open Again” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0682:  Unring a Bell. The Assignment: What if you could?

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

More on the 682nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Unring a Bell — The Assignment: What if you could? — at https://disquiet.com/0682/

Pig Open Again (disquiet0682)

Attempt to Unlearn a Short Sequence of Tones - disquiet0682

sound art for disquiet0682.

More on the 682nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Unring a Bell — The Assignment: What if you could? — at https://disquiet.com/0682/

I live in Glasgow where every child is taught this verse in school:

here is the tree that never grew
here is the bird that never flew
here is the fish that never swam
here is the bell that never rang

It refers to the Glasgow Coat of Arms which has a tree, a bird, a fish and a bell on it. The symbols represent tales and miracles from the life of St. Mungo (Patron Saint of Glasgow).

It seemed like a good fit for the title of this Junto project.

For the track I used a large metal light shade (that I found in the streets of Glasgow) and a rock. I rubbed the rock around the inside of the light shade, taking special care as to the speed, volume and resonance of the sound. Different areas of the shade produced different sounds; scraping, hissing or resonant tones. I recorded two tracks like this with contact mics and panned them hard left and right. Then playing the edge of the shade with a violin bow, I recorded some pulsing feedbacky sounds. I didn’t use effects or even any EQing, I just kept re-recording things until I got them exactly right, instead of fixing them on the computer.

here is the bell that never rang (disquiet0682)

A Koala Sampler jam using Tibetan bowls and subtle beats at 120 BPM. I was aiming for conflicting emotions - blissed out trance and moving your body.

Tibetan Bell by the_very_Real_Horst -- https://freesound.org/s/413626/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Got a Message From Lynne

Got a Message From Lynne (disquiet0682)

My piece is made with reversed bell sounds. Every time I tried to unring the bell it just rang normally, so I thought the only way to unring a bell is to reverse its sounds. 

While trying to unring a bell, I thought of the Lady Macbeth quote "What's done cannot be undone". As she is haunted by past events, I placed many echoes on my track to well, echo her emotions, as I'm sure it's something everyone can relate to. 

More on the 682nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Unring a Bell — The Assignment: What if you could? — at disquiet.com/0682/

what's done cannot be undone [disquiet0682]

The rhythm track is created from the sounds of a lighter, striking a match and a crackling fire ...

More on the 692nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Combust a Move — The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track — at https://disquiet.com/0692/

more halF unusuaL

halF alighT [disquiet0692]

This track was part of Disquiet Junto Project 0698. This builds on a  track created by halF unusuaL, check it out: https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-third-disquiet0697-80-bpm?si=e9b3379024304f1ea79caa08f6889cb4&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

More on the 698th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Second Third — The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0698/