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Disquiet Junto Project 0707: Chain of Practice
The Assignment: Make music from how you make music.

This project is the third of three that are being done by the Disquiet Junto in collaboration with the 2025 Musikfestival Bern, which will be held in Switzerland from September 3 through 7. The festival topic this year is « Kette » — which translates, as the organization explains, to “Chain”: “Chains connect but they also bind. They create relationships but also restrictions. As a gift they look nice, feared when used in vice, and yet they can span bridges across fire and ice.” All three Junto projects this year engage with the work of Svetlana Maraš, who is the Composer-in-Residence for the 2025 festival.

We are working again at the invitation of Tobias Reber, an early Junto participant, who is in charge of the educational activities of the festival. This is the seventh year in a row that the Junto has collaborated with Musikfestival Bern. Tobias helped prepare this week’s compositional concept.

Step 1: Think about your artistic practice.

Step 2: Write down one sentence that in some manner describes your artistic practice.

Step 3: Record yourself, or someone else, reading the sentence that resulted from Step 2.

Step 4: Use the recording made in Step 3 as the sole source material for a new musical/sonic composition.

Deadline: Monday, July 21, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0707

Disquiet Junto Project 0707: Chain of Practice

K Ludd - Antimatter

One more from the archives.
I recorded some vocals . I took those vocals and pitched then up and down and ran them through different filters. It was just an experiment to see what would happen. This is what happened. Hope you enjoy.

Vox Humana

John-John- Drums and Vocals
Jordan-Clarinet and vocals 
Dusty-Recorder and vocals
Jayden-Acoustic Guitar and vocals 
Hunter-vocals 
Şunrise- Acoustic Guitar, Vocals and production

Jesus (Feat. Hunter, John-John, Jordan, Dusty, Jayden,Şunrise

New release...

You say SunRain 'ShizumanuTaiyo' in japanese.

vocoder,bass,keys,drums and guitar.→GolemMilk
voice,clap,scream.→DarkSummer
manipulation,mixing→GolemMilk

Oh my gosh! It's so cool.
Surrender yourself to the swell of the big groove!

genreTag:R&B,POP

SunRain ft.DarkSummer

Jordan- Clarinet and Vocals
Cassie- Vocals
Sophie- Vocals 
Jayden- Vocals 
Dusty- Vocals
Sky- Vocals
Hose- Vocals
Made by- TheSun

I didn’t do nothin’- (Feat. Sophie, Jayden, Jordan, Cassie, Sky, Ħose the cat, Dusty and TheSun

The "one sentence that in some manner describes your artistic practice", step two of this week's Disquiet Junto brief, is as follows:

I make music to explore sound and the boundary of what is considered ‘music’ … and I use chance so that, in turn, sound can explore me through the process, as well as, at best, anyone else who listens. 

Perhaps ironically, the SoundCloud algorithm doesn't consider this track 'music' enough to recommend to potentially interested listeners ... so it might actually be worth a listen! 😁😜

Great to be contributing to Musikfestival Bern again with this exploration!

More on the 707th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Practice — The Assignment: Make music from how you make music — at https://disquiet.com/0707/.

more halF unusuaL

halF practicE [disquiet0707]

More on the 707th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Practice — The Assignment: Make music from how you make music — at https://disquiet.com/0707/

I Make Loops Under the Influence (disquiet0707)

The creative process is an addiction but not an obsession.
This short sentence is repeated numerous times with one layer slowed down and the whole subjected to a chain of changing effects.

More on the 707th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Practice — The Assignment: Make music from how you make music — at https://disquiet.com/0707/

An Addiction (disquiet0707)

Disquiet Junto Project 0707: Chain of Practice
The Assignment: Make music from how you make music.

More on the 707th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Practice — The Assignment: Make music from how you make music — at https://disquiet.com/0707/

Morphing my Memories [disquiet0707]

The prompt was to choose a sentence which described your musical practice, record yourself saying the sentence and use it as your only sound source.

I recently acquired a SOMA Cosmos drifting memory station, which acts as a type of looper. The left and right channels contain discreet loops which fall out of sync, drift and blur together. The unit also includes a granular mode and something SOMA calls a giant reverb. 

When I read the prompt, I immediately remembered an online convo I had with someone last year where they humorously described their own practice. While funny, it also fairly described one that I use quite often.

So for this piece, I recorded it in the three following parts, each into the Cosmos and on to the DAW: 

F'd Around
Until I Heard
Something I Liked

(FAUIHSIL) 🙂

Once there, I added some reverb, eq and compression. I hope you like the result.

FAUIHSIL_disquiet0707

My sound practice investigates the spiritual dimensions of listening through sustained tones, silence, and subtle transformation, inviting inward attention and expanded awareness.

sound practice (disquiet0707)

Sound artist. Experimental, Electro-Acoustic, Field Recording, Musique Concrète and Noise. 

Learn more here: https://stevenraysound.com

FAUIHSIL_disquiet0707

steven.ray