PH vs. F
stePHan bartsch - drums
steFan strasser - piano, [d]ronin, electronics

Lockdown Blues

Track from album "vibrational challenge" with Italian-French artist 
Available on Bandcamp:

https://stefanstrasser.bandcamp.com/album/vibrational-challenge

Antonella Eye Porcelluzzi - voice on yoga and veda theory texts, mixed with own lyrics 
linktr.ee/AntonellaEyePorcelluzzi 
antonellaeyeaynilporcelluzzi.bandcamp.com 
aeplab.bandcamp.com 

Stefan Strasser – guitar 

Recorded by the artists, mixed and mastered by Stefan Strasser

challenge 1

Track #1 from new album available on Bandcamp:

https://stefanstrasser.bandcamp.com/album/improcity

IMPROCITY reinvent themselves in every moment of their playing. A sometimes playful, sometimes driving drum kit, a guitar that meanders through soundscapes you wouldn't expect from an electric guitar, a trumpet that sounds as if it's coming from spherical planes, a bass that holds all this together - these are the ingredients for IMPROCITY's sound.
credits
released August 1, 2022 

Wilfried Hanrath – bass, fx 
Ralf Schloßherr - drums, percussion 
Stefan Strasser - guitar, fx 
Udo Zöls - trumpet, fx, guitar (tracks 3+6) 

Recorded 5/21 in Cologne, 11/21 in Duisburg 
Mixed and mastered by Stefan Strasser

Improcity

IMPROCITY - Ley Lines

Disquiet Junto Project 0554: Cage Chord
The Assignment: Riff on a chord by John Cage.

This project is the third of three that are being done in collaboration with the 2022 Musikfestival Bern, which will be held in Switzerland from September 7 through 11. The topic this year is “unvermittelt,” which is a little tricky to translate. Literally it’s “unmediated,” but it can also mean “sudden,” “abrupt,” or “immediate.”

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 fourth year in a row that the Junto has collaborated with Musikfestival Bern.

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

Step 1: Consider this chord:

E5
A#4
E4
D#4
Db3
C3

If MIDI is of use to you, here is a link to the chord in a MIDI file:

https://disquiet.com/0554-midi

Step 2: You might read up a bit about the source of the chord, the piece “Organ²/ASLSP” by John Cage. Cage desired the piece to be played “As Slow As Possible.” Currently it is being performed in Halberstadt, Germany, on a special organ that will play it for a total of 639 years. It’s been going for 21 years so far, and is at this moment playing the above chord. Read up here:

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-02-04/john-cage-organ-slow-as-possible-halberstadt-germany

Step 3: Produce a loopable drone (duration between one and three minutes) of your own based on that chord.

Note: Submitted drones will be sequenced into one large drone piece to be played at the Cage Room, a pop-up workshop and exhibition space of the festival at Progr, Bern, Switzerland.

Corded Caged Chord [disquiet0554]

Krim Sparkling Wine

The music of Three Jazz Trio is freely improvised in a non-idiomatic manner, drawing influences from jazz, minimalism, and ambient music. 

On this album - in contrast to a lot of today’s music - a great deal of time is taken so that the pieces evolve slowly. 

The sometimes quite harsh - but mostly subtle – live electronics add some quirky spices to the playing. 

As Joe Zawinul said, “We always solo, we never solo,” roles are not fixed and change frequently. Structure evolves dynamically and can certainly be found in spite of the free improvisation.
credits
releases March 7, 2023 

Rainer Weber - bass clarinet 
Stephan Bartsch - drums / percussion 
Stefan Strasser - keys / live electronics / [d]ronin on track 3 

Recorded in Cologne / August 2022 
Mixed and mastered - Stefan Strasser 
Photo and cover design - Stefan Strasser

https://stefanstrasser.bandcamp.com/album/poetry-album

Poetry Album

Nonlinear Pulse Varieties

live at endless elektrosounds at 35blumen

improvisation no1

improvisation no.1

Three Of A Perfect Pair

title track from new album available on bandcamp: https://stefanstrasser.bandcamp.com/album/n-dutgang

"nødutgang" unveils an atmospheric odyssey through ambient electronics and percussion, a collaborative creation by stephan bartsch, stefan schmidt and stefan strasser. recorded live, the album captures the fluidity of bartsch's percussion, the ethereal electronic landscapes shaped by schmidt, and the later overdubbed electronic textures of stefan strasser. the seamless blend of unconventional percussion and synthetic elements invites the listener into a transcendental sonic realm. this collaborative effort, marred only by the unintentional omission of stefan strasser's live session contributions, stands as a testament to their ability to navigate unexpected turns and create a truly immersive musical experience.

stefan schmidt - [d]ronin, lyra8, efx (musicforoverexposedcelluloid.bandcamp.com)
stephan bartsch - percussion
stefan strasser - osmose synth, distant piano and electronics
credits
releases February 2, 2024

recorded, mixed and mastered in cologne by stefan strasser, cover photo and design by stefan strasser

nødutgang

improvisation no3

improvisation no.3

improvisation no2

improvisation no.2

Fresh new set from reheasal, all played live without overdubs or editing.

Dont Disturb Me

One Piece Left

No Piece Left

Wires

stePHan  bartsch: drums
steFan strasser: dan bau, keys, electronics

Improvisation on random B-A-C-H (German notation for Bb-A-C-B) sequence.

BACH 2.0

More on this 271st weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Prison Sky: Mark the 5th anniversary of open-source software engineer Bassel Khartabil’s detention” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0271/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

llllllll.co/t/prison-sky-disquiet-junto-project-0271/6877

disquiet0271- Prison Sky

Music for disquiet project #0295 Disregard Echoes.

Step 1: Consider the following haiku:

Poisoned Waterhole:
Violent disregard echoes.
Keenly felt today.

Step 2: Write a piece of music inspired by that haiku, which was written by Peita Vincent.

Done exclusively on Lyra 4 synth which has some implication on the (not misspelled) title...

Lyracal Echoes (disquiet0295)

https://disquiet.com/

Disquiet Junto Project 0367: Trio Initiate
The Assignment: Record the first third of an eventual trio.

Step 1: This week’s Junto will be the first in a sequence that explores and encourages collaboration. You will be recording something with the understanding that it will remain unfinished for the time being.

Step 2: The plan is for you to record a short and original piece of music, on any instrumentation of your choice. Conceive it as something that leaves room for something else — other instruments, other people — to join in.

Step 3: Record a short piece of music, roughly two to three minutes in length, as described in Step 2. When done, if possible, pan the audio so that your piece is solely in the left side of the audio.

Left Lane (disquiet0367)

Disquiet Junto Project 0368: Engage Duo
The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio, adding to a pre-existing track.

Step 1: This week’s Disquiet Junto project is the second in a sequence that explores and encourages 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/0367). Note that you aren’t creating a duet — you’re creating the second third of what will eventually be a trio. Keep this in mind.

Step 2: The plan is for you to record a short and original piece of music, on any instrumentation of your choice, as a complement to the pre-existing track. First, however, you must select the piece of music to which you will be adding your own music. There are more than 40 tracks to choose from, almost all of them in this playlist:

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0367

And at least one more is available as part of a video in this discussion thread from last week:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0367-trio-initiate/

To select a track, you can listen through all that and choose one, or you can use a random number generator. (Note: it’s perfectly fine if more than one person uses the same original track as the basis for their piece.)

Step 3: Record a short piece of music, roughly the length of the piece of music you selected in Step 2. Your track should complement the piece from Step 2, and leave room for an eventual third piece of music. When composing and recording your part, do not alter the original piece of music at all, except to pan the original fully to the left. In your finished audio track, your part should be panned fully to the right. To be clear: the track you upload won’t be your piece of music alone; it will be a combination of the track from Step 2 and yours.

Step 4: Also be sure, when done, to make the finished track downloadable, because it will be used by someone else in a subsequent Junto project.

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The basis on my track was https://soundcloud.com/kyletm/improv-disquiet0367.

Space Left On Device (disquiet0368)

This track based on NorthWoods’ 
https://soundcloud.com/north_woods/disquiet0368-duo-engage
based on Vonna Wolf’s
https://soundcloud.com/vonna-wolf/vonnaz-wolf-heart-uno-disquiet-junto367-download-me

Disquiet Junto Project 0369: Final Solo
The Assignment: Record the final third of a trio, adding to a pre-existing track, based itself on a prior pre-existing track.

Step 1: This week’s Disquiet Junto project is the third in a sequence that explores and encourages 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/0368). Note that you are finishing a trio: you’re creating the third part of what two previous musicians created. Keep this in mind.

Step 2: The plan is for you to record a short and 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 more than 50 tracks in all to choose from, most as part of this SoundCloud playlist:

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0368

And then at least one non-SoundCloud track is in last week’s discussion:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0368-engage-duo/

To select a track, you can listen through all that and choose one, or you can use a random number generator. (Note: it’s perfectly fine if more than one person uses the same original track as the basis for their piece.)

Step 3: Record a short piece of music, roughly the length of the piece of music you selected in Step 2. The source track should have one musical line running in the left channel and another in the right. You should pan your addition, the final third of this trio, in the center. When composing and recording your part, do not alter the original pieces of music at all. To be clear: the track you upload won’t be your piece of music alone; it will be a combination of the track from Step 2 and yours.

Step 4: Also be sure, when done, to make the finished track downloadable, because it may be used by someone else in a subsequent Junto project.

Background: One concept behind this project is “triadic awareness,” which comes from an idea I learned about when I was reading a book by Frans de Waal, the primate scientist. The concept correlates nicely with such ideas as “ambient awareness” and “parallel productivity” that have long been underlying concepts in the Disquiet Junto projects. Writing with Molly Embree, de Waal has defined “triadic awareness” as “the ability to understand relationships of others independently of one’s own involvement.”

1+1=3 featuring Vonna Wolf and NorthWoods disquiet0369

Nachtrausch disquiet0401

Disquiet Junto Project 0409: Spooky 3.0
The Assignment: Raise haunting music to the next level.

Step 1: Consider what makes music spooky.

Step 2: Make some music that considerably outdoes what you thought of in Step 1.

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0409-spooky-3-0/

November - Disquiet0409

Disquiet Junto Project 0429: Solitary Ensembles
The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio that others will complete.

Step 1: This week’s Junto project is the first in a sequence intended to invite, encourage, and reward collaboration. You will be recording something with the understanding that it will remain unfinished for the time being.

Step 2: The plan is for you to record a short and original piece of music, on any instrumentation of your choice. Conceive it as something that leaves room for something else — other instruments, other people — to join in.

Step 3: Record a short piece of music, roughly two to three minutes in length, as described in Step 2. When done, if possible, pan the audio so that your piece is solely in the left side of the stereo spectrum.

Step 4: Also, and this is important, be sure, when done, to make your track downloadable, because it will be used by someone else in the next Disquiet Junto project.

Cum On Feel The Noize - disquiet0429

Disquiet Junto Project 0435: Woodshed Report
The Assignment: Share something you’ve been working on (and respond to what others post).

Step 1: The past six weeks of Disquiet Junto projects have encouraged and rewarded collaboration. This week’s is more insular. There’s no formal constraint. Just share a recent piece of music, or create a new piece for this week.

Step 2: After uploading your track, please take a few minutes to listen to and respond to tracks by other participants.

If you’re interest in background on the concept of the “woodshed,” here’s video of a talk I gave a little over a year ago on how it relates to the Disquiet Junto:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzHrOpBwhMU

Seven More Important Steps When Your Sample Kit Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0435” (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 “disquiet0435” (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 tracks in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0435-woodshed-report/

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

Droning By Numbers - disquiet0435

Disquiet Junto Project 0450: Texture Analysis
The Assignment: Create a piece of music from sounds related to working with rocks.

Welcome to the 450th consecutive weekly Disquiet Junto project. Thanks to everyone who has participated, supported, and pitched in along the way.

This project is the third of three that are being done over the course of as many months in collaboration with the 2020 Musikfestival Bern, which will be held in Switzerland from September 2 through 6 under the motto “Tektonik” (“Tectonics”). For this reason, a German translation is provided below. 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 second year in a row that the Junto has collaborated with Musikfestival Bern. Select recordings resulting from these three Disquiet Junto projects will be played on a listening booth at the Steinatelier on September 5, as well as being aired on Radio RaBe (rabe.ch), an independent local radio station partnering with the festival.

Step 1: Download the field recordings made at Carlo Bernasconi AG, a company that has been working in stone for over a century. The sounds range from machines to manual tools to spatial ambience.

Step 2: Listen for aspects of the recordings that attract your ears. Focus on textures in particular.

Step 3: Create a piece of music combining elements from as few or as many as you chose in Step 2.

Seven More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0450” (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 “disquiet0450” (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 tracks in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0450-texture-analysis/

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

Step 6: If posting on social media, please consider using the hashtag #disquietjunto and #musikfestivalbern 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.

Additional Details:

Deadline: This project’s deadline is Monday, August 17, 2020, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, August 13, 2020.

Length: The length is up to you.

Title/Tag: When posting your tracks, please include “disquiet0450” in the title of the tracks, and where applicable (on SoundCloud, for example) as a tag.

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.

Download: It is always best to set your track as downloadable and allowing for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution, allowing for derivatives).

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

More on this 450th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Texture Analysis — The Assignment: Create a piece of music from sounds related to working with rocks) at:

https://disquiet.com/0450/

This is the third of three projects in collaboration with Musikfestival Bern 2020 which will take place in Bern, Switzerland, from September 2 to 6. More on the festival at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/

https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern/

The Rocks - disquiet0450

Disquiet Junto Project 0472: Jam Time (1 of 3)
The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio that others will complete.

Step 1: This week’s Junto project is the first in a sequence intended to invite, encourage, and reward collaboration. You will be recording something with the understanding that it will remain unfinished for the time being. Your part will be done, but more will happen. Read on.

Step 2: The plan is for you to record a short and original piece of music, on any instrumentation of your choice. Conceive it as something that leaves room for something else — other instruments, other people — to join in.

Step 3: Record a short piece of music, roughly two to three minutes in length, as described in Step 2. When done, if possible, pan the audio so that your piece is solely in the left side of the stereo spectrum.

Step 4: Also, and this is important, be sure, when done, to make your track downloadable, because it will be used by someone else in the next Disquiet Junto project.

https://disquiet.com/0472/

Polylingual Chaos (disquiet0472)

Since my house burned down
I now own a better view
of the rising moon

Contribution for Naviarhaiku:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2021/02/03/naviarhaiku370-since-my-house-burned-down/

Burning Down The House (naviarhaiku370)

Heavenly creatures
descending it seems –
the sea of spring

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Heavenly Creatures (naviarhaiku371)

Disquiet Junto Project 0478: Collage of Collages
The Assignment: Make a collage that will become part of a larger collage.

Step 1: Create a “musical collage,” however you might define it, likely using the equivalent of cut and paste. When doing so, consider the sense in which your collage might itself become part of a subsequent collage.

Step 2: If you’d like your piece excerpted for a broadcast on the Austrian community radio show Kopfkino (translated: “cinema in the head,” and also available as a podcast) by Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka, make sure your track is set for download when you post it.

Background: Margarethe has offered to produce an online segment in collaboration with the Disquiet Junto. The theme of the Kopfkino episode will be “collage.” The episode will itself be a collage of tracks produced in this week’s Junto project.

More on Kopfkino at: https://cba.fro.at/series/kopfkino

Headless Cinema (disquiet0478)

improviser - composer - sound artist

member of Psychedelic Jazz Trio Cologne, KlangDrangOrchester and IMPROCITY.

besides these groups works he does solo projects, collaborations and takes part in international online improv sessions. his main instruments are piano, guitar and electronics.

stefan.strasser

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