I enjoyed the pacing here and what you did with that bell sound

the shits are on parade
proud of the shit world that they made
they want you to love it too
if you don't, they'll step on you
we'll wait, make our weapons
wait'll you smell the shit you stepped in

ground glass and cyanide crystals
loaded in a smoothbore shotgun pistol
if you want some, i'll give you a taste
it's just a graze, but you're blue in the face
a flail of knotted strips
of leather that are poison-dipped
blue ring-stonefish-mamba venom
scrapings from my crusty denim
couple ounces centipede juice
and a cup of crushed-up brown recluse
it kills by touch alone
rots you to the bone

mercury rounds in .45
roller blades and bowie knives
knuckle dusters, iron gloves
.44 russian fired with love
squeaky little farts
blowing neurotoxic darts
just a little prick and you're done
a needle of death in a '50s raygun
for the next motherfucker in line
a metal lunchbox claymore mine
clack-clack-clack, pow-pow-pow
where's your god now?

you fucked up good and there's nowhere to hide
the mayan death god is on our side
knocking off your crown
a hail of crystal skulls rain down
in the land of the dead
wake up missing half your head
your funeral pants are filled with fudge
when you step up to the scales to be judged
ammit sits by, drooling
as anubis makes his ruling
the feather is lighter than your heart
demons will tear you apart
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Johnson Family Arsenal(OOTO & Slimecop)

This time I was inspired by ["Filtered Reality" ](https://soundcloud.com/sliversounds/filtered-realitydisquiet0538) from the last week's Junto. To me, it's about clearly communicating a single, simple idea. And I also wanted to learn how to do it. To find an idea that'd excite me and then find a way of expressing it in sound that I'd be happy with.

After reading the assignment, I went to a coffeeshop  with pen and paper to brainstorm what this idea could be. Lots of ideas, but most of them seemed too complex and diluted, others too difficult to execute well at my skill level. 

The next day I found the one that got me excited.

When co-sleeping, human breathing patterns and heartbeats synchronize. I find it endlessly fascinating and beautiful and I wanted to explore this process in my composition.

I showed how two lovers' breathing rhythms synchronize when they sleep together. At first, they breathe out-of-phase but as they both relax deeper and deeper and eventually fall asleep, theirs breathing and heartbeat cycles align. 

The general idea for the composition was to record me and my partner  breathing in sync with each other in a calm, relaxed manner as if we're sleeping. I'd start the composition with one of us breathing, then the other one fades in, breathing out of phase. Gradually, the phases synchronize and the two sounds reach a sort of harmony.

Developing this idea further, I wanted to somehow highlight this process  and present it in a clearer way. I thought that adding a "signifier" sound at the end of each breath cycle would be kinda neat.  This way, the process of phase alignment of breathing cycles would be much more evident. I decided on a bell-like sound with a long sustain, because it reminds me of meditation bells and associated with deep relaxation, silence and inner focus. 

To highlight the transformation and add more interest to the composition, each voice starts from a different micro-tonal scale, which morph into another scale that's shared by the two voices.

At the end I decided to add a recording of heartbeat to convey an atmosphere of intimacy. Oh yes and a shimmer reverb fades in at some point for the higher voice to add more development.

To sum up - here's how the composition illustrates the process of synchronization between two breathing patterns of co-sleepers:
- aligning phases of the two breathing recordings
- using bell-like signifier sounds to make this alignment process clearer
- harmonizing their(initially different) micro-tonal scales into a common one
- slowing down BPM slightly towards the end

For the bell sound, I used Arturia Pigments soft synth, for playing random notes at the end of each cycle I used Live's Melodic Steps device, and I automated the following:
- delay time of the 2nd breathing and bell voice
- morphing of microtonal scales with Live's default Microtuner device

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This is my submission to the 539th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Control Breath (The Assignment: Let your slow breathing guide a piece of music) – at: https://disquiet.com/0539/

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

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Let's Sync (disquiet0539)

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“You said a moment ago that everybody you look at seems to be a rabbit,” says the doctor to his patient in a cartoon by James Thurber. “Now just what do you mean by that, Mrs. Sprague?” Meanwhile, Mrs. Sprague recoils in horror at the vision of her therapist’s enlarged, leporine head. 

There is a rabbit who lives in the underbrush just behind Suss Müsik headquarters. We’ve named her/him Clover. Clover has grown to be fairly large and tends to regard humans with more curiosity than fear. Still, Clover can still easily escape from predators when compelled. Perhaps Mrs. Sprague could take a leaf from Clover’s book.

The rabbit is viewed in Chinese tradition as a calm, gentle yet crafty animal, whose energy emphasizes balance and intelligence. The phrase jiǎo tù sān kū (狡兔三窟) loosely translates as “a cunning rabbit has three burrows and more than one means of escape." With the arrival of the Lunar New Year, this is the approach Suss Müsik took with this week’s Junto.

The piece begins with a gentle piano arpeggio, broken into three fragments that randomly shift cadences like a tone poem. A fake fretless bass moves things along until a DIY synth glitches things up. Brief stabs of percussion interrupt the calm, gentle atmosphere, yet the overall feeling is one of balance and crafty intelligence (or whatever the Suss Müsik equivalent would be).

The piece is titled Jiǎo Tù Sān Kū. The image is based on an etching owned by The Welcome Collection, the use of which is covered under Public Domain Mark (PDM) terms and conditions: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0

More on this 578th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Rabbit Spirit Ally (The Assignment: Make music for Lunar New Year), at: https://disquiet.com/0578/

Associated public-domain cover image by Johann Daniel Meyer (1748).

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

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Jiǎo Tù Sān Kū [Disquiet0578]

Joe Bonanno

Disquiet Junto Project 0590: Concrète Roots
The Assignment: Make music combining field recordings and feedback

This project is the first of three that are being done in collaboration with the 2023 Musikfestival Bern (musikfestivalbern.ch 2), which will be held in Switzerland from September 6 through 10. The topic this year is « √ » — as the organization explains: “the radical, or square root symbol and the power of its symbolism are central to the festival and these will be translated into music in multifarious ways.” All three projects will engage with the work of Éliane Radigue, who is the Composer-in-Residence for the 2023 festival.

We are working at the invitation of Tobias Reber, an early Junto participant, who is in charge of the educational activities of the festival. This is the fifth year in a row that the Junto has collaborated with Musikfestival Bern.

Select recordings resulting from these three Disquiet Junto projects may be played and displayed throughout the festival.

Step 1: Consider two different techniques: field recordings and feedback.

Step 2: Combine field recordings and feedback in the development of an original track.

Eight Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0590” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your tracks.

Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0590” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation of a project playlist.

Step 3: Upload your tracks. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your tracks.

Step 4: Post your track in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0590-concrete-roots/

Step 5: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: If posting on social media, please consider using the hashtag #DisquietJunto so fellow participants are more likely to locate your communication.

Step 7: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Step 8: Also join in the discussion on the Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

Note: Please post one track for this weekly Junto project. If you choose to post more than one, and do so on SoundCloud, please let me know which you’d like added to the playlist. Thanks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you.

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, April 24, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, April 20, 2023.

Upload: When participating in this project, be sure to include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

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For context, when posting the track online, please be sure to include this following information:

More on this 590th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Concrète Roots (The Assignment: Make music combining field recordings and feedback), at: https://disquiet.com/0590/ 2

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

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Back to nature (Part One) - disquiet0590

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0616: Definition Jam

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0616 discussion thread:

Chose to work with the words "calm" and "placid".

Created in Ableton Live using Fors Chiral and Slate+Ash Choreographs with Strymon Big Sky and Aqusmatiq Dedalus Delay for effects. Not sure whether I'm 100% satisfied with the result since I had a more quiet and subtle ambient vibe in mind when I started. Maybe I’ll re-visit this sometime in the future.
 
More on this 616th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Definition Jam (The Assignment: Explore, in music, the nuanced differences between two closely related words), at: https://disquiet.com/0616/
About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1
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Strangely Calm and Placid Days [disquiet0616]

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0621: The Leftovers

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0621 discussion thread:

Great prompt to revisit some random projects. Searched through this year's Ableton Live folder and found a few unfinished and half-baked files. Decided to use one from last March when I was fooling around with the Puremagnetik Microtron sample pack. I recently acquired Slate+Ash Spectres, so used a couple presets from it to get familiar with the software. Also added a couple tracks using Choreographs. Not sure what flavor I was going for but I'm ok with the result. 
 
More on this 621st weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Leftovers (The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new), at: https://disquiet.com/0621/
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-0621-the-leftovers/

Traversing The Counter-Flow [disquiet0621]

Becuna

just a sound track idea inspired by the film saw.

dr. lawrence gordon’s last Leg

འཁྲིད་མཁན། སེར་བྱེས་དགེ་བཤེས་ངག་དབང་སངས་རྒྱས། 
ཁྲིད་མཚམས། གནས་དྲུག་པ། 
ཁྲིད་གཞུང་གི་མཚན་ཆ་ཚང་། དམ་པའི་ཆོས་མངོན་པའི་མཛོད་ཀྱི་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ་ཐར་ལམ་གསལ་བྱེད་ཅེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། །མཛད་པ་པོ།  རྒྱལ་བ་དགེ་འདུན་གྲུབ།༼༡༣༩༡-༡༤༧༤༽ བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་དཔལ་གྱི་ཆོས་འཁོར་གླིང་བཏབ་ཅིང་། ལོ་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་ཀྱི་བར་བསྟན་པའི་བདག་པོར་མཛད་དེ་འཆད་མཉན་ནམ་ཡང་ཆག་པ་མེད་པར་གནང་། ༧རྒྱལ་བ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་དང་པོ།

མཛོད་ཊཱིཀ་ཐར་ལམ་གསལ་བྱེད་གནས་དྲུག་པ། ༼༡༠༽

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.

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