modular + stereo field + pulsar-23
Mixed / semi-mastered by Steven
Available on Bandcamp as the 'b-side' of the DistortionToy single.

DistortionToy

the action potential

from digital compilation “Earsheltering: 20 years of noise" (2024) out from Earsheltering netlabel.
21 audio tracks inspired by themes from the educational radio programme  Radiovision.
Here the whole release: https://earsheltering.bandcamp.com/album/earsheltering-20-years-of-noise-rv-666

De l'ombre à la lumière

from "10th Annual Report - Anniversary Edition" (2024) out from Unexplained sounds group.
35 audio tracks to celebrate the label's first 10 years of activity. 
Here the whole release: https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/album/10th-annual-report-anniversary-edition?fbclid=IwY2xjawG-2LFleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHXOLR3fZpWoq2gnSVC78gt9ba3wvwzUuvpGOVAeRv7sbot2cI2zi3i78OQ_aem_ZpR_9lGrvw_ZcoMkxZ0XIQ


Trance (too many pictures)

Lupo Helps Me disquiet0707

This was my contribution for 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.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0707 discussion thread on Lines:

Recorded myself speaking the following sentence using a Tascam DR-100mkIII: “I try to create music by mindfully listening to what’s happening around me, as well as to what the subconscious parts of my mind are trying to say”. 

I took the recording and heavily processed it, mainly using Morphagene on the modular and the Fieldtone Weaver effects pedal. Assembled the tracks, as well as the original recording, into Ableton Live. From there – I sliced, sampled, mangled, and added effects till I ended with something I was mostly satisfied with. The repetitive guitar-like sequence was created using a sliced sample transformed in Ableton’s Simpler instrument with some spectral effects. 

Hopefully, this piece reflects that idea stated in the opening sentence. This was challenging and fun. Thank you, I’m glad I was able to participate in these Musikfestival Bern projects again this year.

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/

Never Landing [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/

Disquiet0707 - Lasdilago

Entry for disquiet0707. 24-24. 24 hours a day.

disquiet0707: 24 Hours

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/. 

Destination Improvisation [disquiet0707]

Recorded, edited, mixed & mastered on 11 Nov 2020 & 31 Jul 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA.

Synths, effects

Process notes - 

In Nov 2020, I started a video series that was mostly small electronic instruments and guitar pedals filmed from above. When I first started the series, I recorded a few test takes and I decided to use one of these as the basis for an entire album I plan to release this year and currently is in progress. This one was (probably) a Korg Volca FM, an old Electro-Harmonix Microsynth & a TC Electronic Nova.

Besides this recording, I also will use different synths to layer onto the original recording. For this piece, I am using some wavetable-layered-samples (as kicks, more or less), the Cherry Audio Chroma and the Arturia Mini. Each one of these I generally increased the resolution/speed of short midi phrases I wrote. This broke down some of the effects I had and did a few nutty things but I really liked how it fit right into the piece.

There was a sweet accident of feedback in the DAW that I captured and layered on near the end, too.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 18 Nov 2018, LIRR, NY, USA

Music & art © 2018, 2020, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “Electronic Reality Appliance  (disquiet0709)” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0709: Overclocked. The Assignment: Speed up a machine (or process) until it falters.

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

More on the 709th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Overclocked — The Assignment: Speed up a machine (or process) until it falters — at Disquiet Junto Project 0709: Overclocked – Disquiet.

Electronic Reality Appliance  (disquiet0709)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 22 Aug 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, crickets, effects.

This original version of "You Fall Off Your Bike And Skin Your Elbow” was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 607: Winter Waterfall.

Winter waterfall
a rock untouched
by sunrise or sunset

by: Setsuko Nozawa

Setsuko Nozawa (1920–1995) was a poet from Yokohama. Inspired by the works of Bashō and Rinka Ōno, she started writing haiku in the 1930s, joined the magazine Shakunage in 1939, and later moved to Hama in 1946. Later in life, she dedicated herself fully to poetry and ikebana, and in 1971 she founded the haiku magazine Ran, later directed by Kōzaburō Wada.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 19 Aug 2017, Massapequa, NY, USA

Music & art © 2017, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

You Fall Off Your Bike And Skin Your Elbow (naviarhaiku607)

Cabaret Voltaire 
Annea Lockwood 
Dick mills Popol Vuh 
Psyche 
Unreleased 
Unreleased 
Coil Aclds Todd Dockstader 
O.S.T. Leyland Kirby 
Giancinto Scelsi 
Roland Kayn 
Legendary Pink Dots 
Alan Lamb Andreas Beck
 Michael O’Shea 
Leyland Kirby The Irresistible Force 
Rosa Mundi Ash Ra Temple 
Kraftwerk Roedelius 
Phenomyna David Sylvian 
Unreleased Coil Unreleased 
Unreleased

Aclds:2018 - 11 - 04

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

Learn more here: https://stevenraysound.com

the action potential

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