Name: Self-Compassion for Beginners by The Sharpham Trust
Duration: 20 min 22 s
Description: An invitation to soften your breath and boost your self-kindness, from Sharpham Trust leader Patti Summerville, who regularly teaches on our Mindfulness for Beginners retreat in Sharpham House

A beautiful meditation practice, and I like the pace and sound of Patti's voice. Thank you for bringing calm and peace to my day.

Grayling Motion

Three different moments within a quiet windless night. This is not an exceptional recording but I like the atmosphere anyway.
A howl, a fox and a blackbird can be heard as well as a frog and probably some rodents close to the tripod.
The microphones and the recorder have been left the whole night.
The photo has been shot in the morning when I came back to pick the stuff up.

Recorded with a Nagra Ares BB+, Neumann KM184, ORTF near my house, in la Creuse, France.

220725 A Quiet Night in the Woods

Disquiet Junto Project 0552: The Radio in My Life
The Assignment: Record music in response to a John Cage and Morton Feldman conversation.

This was fun. I thought about intrusions. Mostly it's the loud street in front of my window and kids running in the flat above mine and people shouting at Siri, Alexa and OKgoogle in the backyard.

I checked my field recordings and there it was: the f… church bells. A bad ambient track, repeated relentlessly every sunday, never changing, a transcendent single-track playlist … 

I threw the field recoding of the bells into deCoda, and it calculated Aminor and 84bpm. I started a track from scratch with these parameters and improvised some beats and pads. The idea was to have a peaceful ambient track … that could be disturbed by acoustic intrusion of the church bells. 

The track seemed finished when I read the algorithm again and listened to the Cage-Feldman-Talk. I liked the pure oddity of the first minutes, so I added some parts of the beginning, accepting that this will draw focus to the conversation, so I didn't care that you don't understand much. 

Next sunday at seven, they will play my track …

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Track image credit: Ancient church in Lunigiana (Tuscany, Italy) by Daniele Levis Pelusi on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/rJo9jh9iORU

Talk samples credit: John Cage + Morton Feldman's Coffee-Sippin' ASMR Chat in a Room Full of Cigarette Smoke on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chEvxoypyUo

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More on this 552nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — The Radio in My Life (The Assignment: Record music in response to a John Cage and Morton Feldman conversation) — at: https://disquiet.com/0552/

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/
https://www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern
https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

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-0552-the-radio-in-my-life/

Kraken Bandcamp Junto

Intrusive Bells [disquiet0552]

More on this 572nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Rhythm Kit (The Assignment: Make a beat that someone else will add to) — at: https://disquiet.com/0572/

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-0572-rhythm-kit/

KL faith

halF kiT [disquiet0572] - 70 BPM

Sharpham Trust meditation and retreat leader Ethan Pollock guides (and sings!) this wonderful, 35-minute relaxation practice. This was one of the weekly online meditation sessions that we offer here: www.sharphamtrust.org/online

Total relaxation with Ethan Pollock

Digital recording, October 2011 and January 2012.

Rob- vocals, words, music
qsc- guitar, bass, triggerfinger, words, music

(Thoughts from the)kitchen sink

what to wear tonight
while you’re wearing me out
who’s going to fill your diary tomorrow
switch me on
switch me off
I’m not the phone to pick up
I’m not the floor to walk upon

who needs a book these days
as he hit his next bottle
how do you move me in your last movie
switch it on
switch it off
you’re not my answerphone
you’re not the words I long to hear

“what part do I play in your novel” you might say
it’s all up in the air
and I’m not going anywhere
apart from
the kitchen sink

where are you taking this ride
in a borrowed car
how do you wind me through this movie
switch me on
switch me off
I’m not your terror vision
switch me on
switch me off
I’m but a broken mirror

(thoughts from) the kitchensink

I added to @encym's excellent, guitar-based, track, Frugality (https://soundcloud.com/encym/the-loneliest-number-disquiet0591?si=c7a742bc48e04018b5249a736278acdb&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing). I used this as an exercise in MIDI processing in Ableton. I used a MIDI pitch tracker on a filtered version of the original track (to reduce the range of notes), then passed the MIDI to two tracks with Arturia's Augmented Strings (both with a bass pizzicato patch, with slight variations). The MIDI was processed with MIDI echo and note length changes and arpeggiated in both cases. In one case the scale was forced into a Hungarian Minor.

snake eyes (disquiet0592)—with encym

Fuzz：22世紀 SILICON BABY
https://store.shopping.yahoo.co.jp/nijuuniseiki/22lab01-01.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PVLyS1YKJY

フルートにFuzzを使用して、トランペットのような音にしました！
フルートの音をマイクを通して、エフェクターへ出力して作っています。
DAW側のフィルタープラグインでフラッター・ビブラート効果をつけています。
ボコーダーの歌詞は「do you feel the same,Same as to you it's too…」です。深い意味はありません。

使用機材
Drums : CT-310(Casio)
Synth&Keyboard : CT-310(Casio) PC-100(Yamaha)
Vocoder : FANTOM-6(Roland)
Flute : Muramatsu Flute 
Piccolo : Yamaha Piccolo
Fuzz： SILICON BABY

Future Antique 22 (Fuzz+Flute=Fun!!)

This meditation offers you the chance to cultivate the mindfulness of breathing, in a practice that's less than 15 minutes long. Lynne Holmes of The Sharpham Trust helps you to bring awareness to the breath - the anchor of all things, so that you cultivate an ability to notice distraction and return at will to the breath.

03 - 10 Minute Sitting Meditation Mindfulness of Breath: Lynne Holmes (10 minutes)

Sharpham Trust mindfulness teacher and woodland retreat leader Ollie Frame leads this 15-minute meditation supporting self-compassion and kindness

Mindfulness Recordings

Kindfulness of the Breath from Ollie Frame at The Sharpham Trust

An invitation to soften your breath and boost your self-kindness, from Sharpham Trust leader Patti Summerville, who regularly teaches on our Mindfulness for Beginners retreat in Sharpham House

Self-Compassion for Beginners

We are a charity on a 550-acre estate on the River Dart in South Devon, UK, connecting people with nature, fostering mindfulness & well-being through our programme of retreats, mindfulness courses & nature connection.

Self-Compassion for Beginners

The Sharpham Trust

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