54c Shri Lalita Sahasranama, Anjali Kadri

Music by
P è n i n ș o l a r
Sonopoetry by
https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa
Image by
Imitation Haic
Design by
P è n i n ș o l a r

Stillness Studio

A lockdown measures finitude, shade tolerance. Like deciduous trees we bend, leaves upon the river. Tedium & anguish cement the ground building solidarity. Andrà tutto bene, they stick it on walls while streets familiarise with stillness. Stay put, for anomalies are schizoid, internally disjointed.
The risk, the perception of it, Gaussian figures, contain, delay, collective responsibility. An equaliser, they say, we’re all enrolled, sorted in descending order.

Science. What does it mean guided by science? Is intensive care a fact? The utmost care. Fatality is the wrong yardstick. What a solace to share the same vision, herd immunity. Herd immunity.

Ultimately, where is love? Love in the time of the outbreak.
A pandemic, 4 weeks behind.

released March 22, 2020
℗all rights reserved

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P è n i n ș o l a r Ilaria Boffa - Rather Than Miasmata

Participation in the "Disquiet Junto" project led by Marc Weidenbaum:
Seamless Bridge. The Assignment: Create a 20-second piece of music to connect two preexisting 20-second pieces of music.
https://disquiet.com/0448/

A bridge between Sevenism - 777minus1 - 06 Fake choir hidden
https://20x20project.bandcamp.com/track/fake-choir-hidden
and haLF unusuaL - semI autO biO graphicaL - 04 Semi 4
https://20x20project.bandcamp.com/track/semi-4

The material of the bridge comes entirely from the 2 original sources.
Editing with Audacity.

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Participation au projet "Disquiet Junto" de Marc Weidenbaum.
Créez une musique de 20 secondes reliant deux musiques préexistantes de 20 secondes.
https://disquiet.com/0448/

Le matériau provient entièrement des 2 sources originales:
 - Sevenism - 777minus1 - 06 Fake choir hidden
https://20x20project.bandcamp.com/track/fake-choir-hidden
 - haLF unusuaL - semI autO biO graphicaL - 04 Semi 4
https://20x20project.bandcamp.com/track/semi-4

Montage avec Audacity.

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Major thanks to 20×20’s Neil Stringfellow for proposing this project. More on 20×20 at:
https://20x20project.bandcamp.com/

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

Subscribe to project announcements here:
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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0448-seamless-bridge/

ABridge - Disquiet0448

“For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.” 
An Improvised piece with a new DIY instrument inspired by reading about Hugh Davies and featuring silence and piano.

More on this 451st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Ursula’s Silences (The Assignment: Make music inspired by a line from A Wizard of Earthsea ), at:

https://disquiet.com/0451/

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-0451-ursulas-silences/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

3 Whiskered (disquiet0451)

Live in the studio improvisation:
daniel diaz: electric bass guitar
andré charlier: drums

For this challenge:
Disquiet Junto Project 0455: Inner Invertebrate
The Assignment: What does a moment (or a day) in the life of a jellyfish sound like to a jellyfish?

I hate to be lazy and use something I was working on instead of something new sparked by the actual challenge, but sometimes time is our tyrant and I was fascinated by this forgotten masters, some live-in-the-studio improvisations with awesome French drummer André Charlier that I discovered some days ago.
Captured while we were warming up for a recording session years ago. This was on tape but never used nor listened to, and I've been taking some nice bits out of it for further use. These are all ad-lib, abstract and weird soundscapes, no groovy bass 'n drums at all.
This is an abstract, floating groove-less & creepy track.

And I think it fits the challenge perfectly cause, o be honest:

- Invertebrate folks listen to beat-less music, I'm pretty sure. 
- Jelly fish are creepy little  beings.


Photo by Daria Polishchuk


@disquiet
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invertebrate duet improvisation (disquiet0455)

Peace with and without a cause - Part 1

Rely on Silence - Part 2

Rely on Silence - Part 7

Rely on Silence - Part 9

What a strange, odd, mixed-up year it has been.  The yellow spanner of Covid-19 really wrecked a lot of plans. I was all booked to travel to Estonia to record, but it had to be cancelled.   Very noticeable was the sunlight, perhaps it was because there was few jet trails, but when the day was cloudless the sunlight could be absolutely dazzling, it had the strange effect of making it feel like we were living in paradise.     Because of the restrictions I am so glad the woods is only within a moderate cycle distance from my home.  I am very fortunate that I have two fairly good places to record relatively close by.  I even found a wild sand dune area not even five kilometers away,  I hope to record more there in the future.   Disc 1 track 2 is from a much longer recording, it is probably one of the best recordings made during the 2020 season, I had made a few recordings, near the stream, then a bit less close, then a bit further away and another even further away, as I wanted a sound where the stream was a suggestion rather than really dominating the sound picture.  The Blue Tits nested in a cavity block in the wall of my home, there is an vent on the inside of the block, so I only needed to place the microphone up to that to get a fantastic close perspective recording.  
I include two recordings of the Blue tits as they sounded so different when I recorded them a week later.  Sometimes I would get great results by leaving the old Marantz recorder hidden in a bushy place while I go not too far away to record with the new recorder, I love how I had no idea of what it has captured for me, only later when the track loaded on the computer did I get to see if it captured anything worthwhile.  This was the case with Blackbird - alarm calls (Track 3 on disc 2).  I think the peaks came in at about minus six db.  This year was my first time to use Contact microphones and a Hydrophone.    
At the beginning of April my dad Desmond died, he was 89, a great age.  Apart from Covid, we could see he wasn’t going to live much longer, he had been deteriorating noticeably for months up to that.  Why then are the covers for the two discs so strange ?  
A birdsong production should have birds on it !   My dad was big into sun power and indeed wind power even long before it became popular.  Over by my workshop he had placed a few sun power panels on the wall, these were wired into a small room to a panel on the wall with six switches.  I thought it a good way to remember him by including a picture of part of his panel for disc one front cover.  I was going to include the six switches in the picture, but my heart of hearts said no, it didn’t look good, too much scruffy brown, but I include it in the zipped folder (If you are buying it on Bandcamp)so you can see what I am talking about.  I had almost chosen it, as it occurred to me one morning that the six switches are like the levels of lockdown (I hate that term, but I have to use it here) thankfully we didn’t have a level six, maybe that is like in a movie I saw where the authorities came and boarded up a house with the people still inside.  In the end I used the part of the photo with the meter.   
The butterflies . . . Dessie we call him, was always interested in butterflies, that is where I got my interest in nature, as a child he used to bring us for walks up along the canal to see the wild flowers and butterflies.  The picture comes from one drawer of his small collection of Irish butterflies he put together maybe around the late 1940’s or 1950’s ??  Very few of them are even in one piece now, this drawer just looked the part, it was all mixed up and spoiled like the year had been, the summer we never really had, at least not the way we wanted or had planned it.

A Strange Year - Disc One - (Album Sample)

Meditative Joy - Part 2

Stephan Wormland, MA in clinical psychology and trained in Gestalt therapy. He has studied and practiced meditation in multiple Buddhist traditions for over 30 years and spent altogether 5 years in meditation retreats. Stephan was a monk in the Tibetan tradition for 11 years and teaches meditation in Buddhist centers in Europe.

Meditative Joy - Part 2

Natural Meditation podcast