Profound complexities to be found, thanks for your amazing work on this, and your thoughts about the process, @sonic-search

Suzaku y el mar was born as an ephemeral experiment carried out in the space of 2 hours, video, sound and editing. It reflects the closing of a ritual, a fire offering to the sea, the consummation of the parts that gave way to proclaiming a tattoo on her skin, a gift for her… @ María Emilia Perez
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Suzaku y el mar nace como experimento efímero realizado en el lapso de 2 horas, video, sonido y edición. Refleja el cierre de un ritual, una ofrenda de fuego al mar, consumación de las partes que dieron camino a pregonar en la piel un tatuaje, una regalo para ella…@María Emilia Perez
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El nombre de ‘Vermillion’ quedó como un sello o símbolo de protección a raíz de las circunstancias de encontrar un significado a lo que estaba emprendiendo en aquel momento. Años atrás antes del 2016, pasaba por momentos muy difíciles de mi adolescencia y sus transiciones entre mantener una vida social activa y también poder sentirme cómoda en mi refugio, mi habitación. Donde sentía que podía ser yo, crear y producir ideas en torno a lo visual y sonoro. Encontrar una sensación de protección y seguridad contigo misma y con el exterior me llevó a buscar en internet “algo”relacionado a la cultura asiática y sus simbologías, cosmovisiones y sin pensarlo llegué a un enlace que hablaba de las constelaciones chinas y sus cuatro monstruos divinos de la mitología japonesa / china. Al leer, caí en un artículo que hablaba de la bestia divina llamada en en varias partes de Asia como (Zhu Que, Suzaku, Ju-jak, Chu-Tước). También hablaba de sus características: Suzaku forma parte de uno de los cuatro símbolos de las constelaciones chinas. Los chinos lo llaman ave bermellón. Además de representar al sur, también simboliza a la estación del verano. Su apariencia es la de un Fénix Bermellón, que a su vez representa el elemento fuego. Y había un relato en el que interpretaba a Suzaku como una bestia que protegía a lxs habitantes de aquellos lugares donde la veneraban y creían en ese ser. Dentro de la cosmovisión asiática, se le ve al ave bermellón como una criatura que resurge entre las cenizas para salvar al universo del mal. Descubrirle me llevó a sentir que había encontrado el calor entre las llamadas protectoras del ave, coincidía con la fuerza que necesitaba para seguir mi camino, mi pacto como artista y como creadora de universos visuales y también sonoros. He ahí la iniciativa junto con Damián Alférez de realizar un ritual para plasmar en mi cuerpo, mente y alma el sello / sigilo de una de las criaturas más hermosas de la vida y quien me acompaña día a día en mis procesos creativos. Gracias por tan hermoso handpoke. Mar del Plata, 12 de Julio de 2021.

https://vimeo.com/687738025

Suzaku y el mar

having played with encym´s track Frugality from the disquiet0591 last week, I really love Marc Eisenschink’s Enner performance over encym’s wonderful guitartrack, so I grabbed my fretless bass …for the Frugality Trio.
1st part: https://soundcloud.com/encym/the-loneliest-number-disquiet0591
2nd part: https://soundcloud.com/randomshuffle/frugality-enner-nothingdisquiet0592
More on this 593rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Charm (The Assignment: Complete an asynchronous trio begun by two other musicians), at: disquiet.com/0593/
About the Disquiet Junto: disquiet.com/junto/

Frugality Trio (disquiet0593)

Wilfried Hanrath with encym & Marc Eisenschink - Frugality Trio (disquiet0593)

Disquiet Junto Project 0593: The Charm
The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio.

Please note: While this is the third part of a three-part project sequence, you can participate in one, two, or all three of the parts, which have occurred over the course of three consecutive weeks.

Step 1: This week’s Disquiet Junto project is the third in a sequence that encourages and rewards asynchronous collaboration. This week you will be adding music to a pre-existing track, which you will source from the previous week’s Junto project (disquiet.com/0592 7). Note that you are finishing a trio: you’re creating the third part of what two previous musicians began. Please keep this in mind.

Step 2: The plan is for you to record an original piece of music, on any instrumentation of your choice, as a complement to a pre-existing track. First, however, you must select the piece of music to which you will be adding your own music. There are tracks by numerous musicians to choose from. The majority are in this playlist:

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It was an interesting balancing act, to add something fresh while still leave enough space for the original material to breathe.

This is my 2nd iteration.
Initially, I wanted to just record a drum part but wasn’t satisfied with the end result.
I wanted something more subtle.

So for the 2nd iteration, I came up with a process that allowed me to explore a few of my current interests at the same time. Probably that’s why I was willing to give this piece so much attention. Hm…

Below is a somewhat detailed description of the process and context.
It’s long & detailed, because I wanted to capture a few thoughts while they’re still fresh.

Context:

earlier this week, I studied interviews with Nils Frahm about his current improvised live concerts (How I Play Live: Nils Frahm | DJMag.com). My take-away for me was that playing all parts by hand (e.g. not relying on quantized sequencers) is a part of his organic sound that I like so much.
That motivated me to play keyboard a lot more - mostly piano & electric piano sounds with a touch of tape delay effect - and discover that this is currently my favorite thing to do, musically.

yesterday, I repaired the broken switch of the audio input preamp on my Buchla Easel, and my mind was naturally wondering about how to employ it in the next projects…

earlier today, I read an interview with Biosphere (In the studio with Biosphere | Headphone Commute) - another artist whose sound I like a lot.
I liked the idea of processing samples of acoustic instruments (he mentions sampling classical music) through synths/filters/etc.

yesterday, I found the perfect reverb effect pairing for the Easel - a modulated space reverb pedal.

All of the above coming together to form the idea for a process.

(continued on https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0593-the-charm/62312/57)

Frugal3ty feat Marc Eisenschink and encym [disquiet0593]

When taking the time today to listen to all the contributions to the disquiet0593 and downloading here and there, I noticed one thing: 
many people, including myself, seem to tend to upload their tracks to the disquiet junto projects by their working titles, so when you have downloaded quite a few  like myself today, it is impossible to trace the tracks back to their creators. Which is quite a pity. 
So I cannot say which tracks I cut out pieces to loop them, alas, even  if I would want to credit the respective musicians. 
The track from the disquiet0593 I chose to re-imagine for this week´s project, is RabMusicLab´s La tête éblouissante: https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/la-tete-eblouissante
RabMusicLab created his track from the disquiet0592 by encym who added to Andreas Kitzmann´s solo-track from the disquiet0591

Toutes eblouissantes

Wilfried Hanrath - Toutes éblouissantes (disquiet0594)

Recorded the undulating movement of washing rice in a bowl. Processed it with various resonating filters, flutter and saturation.

More on this 595th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Filter Progression (The Assignment: Make music by processing a static sound), at: https://disquiet.com/0595/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0595-filter-progression/

Ricewash (disquiet0595)

I've been meaning to engage with NI Playbox for a while now ... coupled with needing to start work on some of the video projects planned for the halF unusuaL YouTube channel, including this recording of a bee harvesting pollen from the first poppy to flower in the back garden ... https://youtu.be/I983Kk6enPI

More on this 597th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Goal Line (The Assignment: Get started on a plan by getting over getting started), at: https://disquiet.com/0597/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0597-goal-line/

visuals (YouTube)

halF goaL [disquiet0597]

Created on iPad with AUM and several AUv3 synths and effects.
Mixed in Cubase 12, mastered with Ozone 10.

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 493:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/06/14/naviarhaiku493-desolate-street-at-dawn/

Photo by zenbytes (2021, Baudinard-sur-Verdon, Provence, France)

desolate street - Naviarhaiku 493

white noise

lithographics

SNOWFALL

work in progress

art illustration made by: g.r.a.f.f.i.o
artist based in Bologna (Italy)
(many thanks to him for the permission)
visit his page on: https://instagram.com/g.r.a.f.f.i.o?igshid=rkhpkf5jqzt1

 Red pill © 2020 by Nadìr is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Red Pill

Intuitive, improvised electronic music. Soul search in sound.

Sonic Search is a way to explore my interests in art, abstract sound, improvisation and collaborative music practices. A way to connect to the Source. A personal sanctuary and retreat.

A former self-taught bass player, I've had a many-year break from music-making during a time of personal crisis. 

Gradually re-building my music practice, I'm grateful to all my friends who've been helping me along this journey.

Frugal3ty feat Marc Eisenschink and encym [disquiet0593]

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