Disquiet

Life is short. The life of a human being is short. This may not seem apparent because of scale. Human beings measure their lifetimes in years—in age. For a human being, the scale of a year feels substantial enough to make a lifetime appear significant. But at any point, you may question the proportional length of a hundred years against the scale of the universe. It's probably less than a second.

How do I know this? Because a second or less is the flash of a thought. Thoughts may feel as if they persist longer than a second, but only because they are re-projected in sequence until that thought is dropped and makes room for another.

Why is the scale of a thought's duration—a flash of thought—the right scale? When you consider the proportion of the timeless universe, everything that you are, that you take yourself to be, that you identify with, is contained within a single thought. For a thought to exist in you, it must come to you.

The "I" thinks. The "I" which is the thinker, thinks. So if you want, you can say the DNA of a thought is the DNA of the thinker.

The time of a flash of thought to a human's lifetime is as the time of a human lifetime to the timeless universe—to creation itself.

Dreamer

Twelve gentle, melodic and ethereal electronic pieces. 


Awake the Lotus

Toad Garden

Techno Blues

Pip is a duo playing improvised and composed pieces of music, consisting of Torstein Lavik Larsen on trumpet and Fredrik Rasten on guitar. 
Long lasting, blending sounds with a basis in chord structures and harmony is an ever returning element in their music. 
Pip's music also emphasizes small variations in tonal colour, often applying just intonation, extended playing techniques and repeating musical patterns.
Sometimes they include electronic sounds, without leaving behind the core sound of guitar and trumpet as a point of departure.

The duo has existed since 2006, and since then explored many different musical approaches. 
A recuring theme of their exploration has been expansions of the duo instrumentarium, including 
electronics, multiple guitars and different electronic and acoustic keyboard instruments.

Pip released their first official release on the Portuguese label Creative Sources in 2016,
and they have toured in countries as Germany, Czech Republic, England and the Scandinavian countries.

The duo has also worked with artists from other disciplines. They collaborated with choreographer and contemporary dancer Marie Bergby Handeland on the piece Lyden av besluttsomhet, jeg tåler den ikke, which were premiered at the CODA festival in Oslo in 2013, and they have also worked together and performed with the Copenhagen-based live visuals duo of Freya Sif Hestnes and My Lambertsen, called Manuals.

Torstein and Fredrik also play together in the band Oker, with drummer Jan Martin Gismervik and bass player Adrian Fiskum Myhr, and in the quartet Volumes with Magda Mayas on prepared piano and Isak Hedtjärn on clarinet.

Release date: 27. September 2019

Pip: Possible Worlds (excerpt)

Performed by Ben Clark and Antonin Granier on 13.6.19 at LOOSE, LINE, LAYER in St. Mary-at-Hill, London.

The piece invites a child-like curiosity towards the instrument, and simply investigates its sonic possibilities. The materials arose from working collaboratively with percussionists Ben Clark and Antonin Granier. The first movement explores flexibility, the second looping elements, the third resonance.

Piece for three tuned cowbells (2019)

vertikal

Beautiful, spare and sensitive home recordings by cellist Hannah Marshall, who has treated us to so many special moments as a player at OTO over the years.

"Recordings made in a friends spare room on a half and full size cellos with re-tuned strings, not far from an open window on a quiet row of back gardens.

In some of the gaps you will hear the chair creak, the rain fall, the children at near by child-minders house. The slap and fall of strings, on fingers on wood.

In memory of Beth Hardisty. Rest In Peace."
- Hannah Marshall

TR070 - Hannah Marshall - 'Clearing 1'

Noksidam::::::
https://soundcloud.com/user-302613679

Noksidam - Are You Here? (Senglar R U There? Rmx)

More on this 468th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mirror Rorrim (The Assignment: Create a new persona for yourself, and record a duet together), at:

https://disquiet.com/0468/

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Image associated with this project is by Timothy Takemoto, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/36f8r

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HR farm roil

halF rorriM [disquiet0468]

O.V.   https://soundcloud.com/noirmoderne/geometry-of-fear

Noir Moderne - Geometry Of Fear (Senglar No-Fear Rmx)

SOFA is a Norwegian record label for experimental music run by musicians Martin Taxt, Ingar Zach and Kim Myhr.