What is this place? What are those robots talking about? Did this actually happen to me?

The water and machinery sounds (subsonic, waves, rain) are field recordings* of my countertop dishwasher made with a pair of contact microphones and heavily processed with Landforms. Landforms also provides the klaxon of despair. The robots are two different instances of CYCLES, one chewing on Lyra samples and the other on Ether samples. Reality is an audio recording of the same dishwasher.

*Is it really a field recording if you do it in your kitchen?

Abandoned On A Drilling Rig Near DX0597 (disquiet0501)

naviarhaiku483 – The scent of a rose
The scent of a rose
In the forgotten greenhouse,
A fluttering ghost.

Merle Bardenoir is a French musician, artist and poet carrying an ambient project called Glamourie. Imbued with symbolism, his universe blends avant-garde and folklore, nature and fantasy. Ranging from traditional drawings to fantastic short stories, his multidisciplinary creations display an elegant and mysterious sensitivity.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 12th April 2023

haiku by Merle Bardenoir https://glamouriemusic.wordpress.com

picture by Nathan Wright https://unsplash.com/@cozmicphotos

scent of a rose

naviarhaiku483 - scent of a rose

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

I was in Paris and brought my recorder along. Our hotel was right outside of Gare de l’Est. The little four note tune that’s at the start of the French Railroad service announcements was in the room about every two minutes, and so became somewhat emblematic of the trip. Also, there was this fluorescent tube light in the hotel bathroom that had a… je ne said quoi. Perhaps it’s the sound of arriving in a work place — a garage, storage space or studio — in the very early morning, still dark, at an hour when no one who has any choice in the matter is not in bed, everything quiet, all alone, and then this tingling, almost glitchy tone as the lights come on. You don’t see/hear them as much as you used to. 
So those recordings, together with a recording of a departing train, became the basis of this track.

The field recordings are accompanied by a feedback part, which was inspired by things I read in the llllllll cybernetic music thread: https://llllllll.co/t/cybernetic-music-roland-kayn-feedback-systems-ai/40635. 
I suppose it is a take on work by Jaap Vink. The audio signal goes into a delay, is then sent through some effects (in Vink’s setup, a ring modulator and a filter, if I recall correctly), then a reverb, and then sent back to the input, with some form of attenuation that is controlled by an envelope follower. The result is an audio signal loop that keeps its feedback in check automatically.
In my case everything was made on an iPad, which is surprisingly good and versatile for creative audio routing. Instead of a ring modulator, I used an app that has a bunch of resonators that you can actually ‘play’ using a keyboard: playing a note on the keyboard will activate the resonator tuned to that note. Playing the resonators subtly shifts/nudges the feedbacking audio into different parts of the frequency spectrum (in a way that is roughly analogous to what the ring modulator and filter do in Vink’s setup).

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

Disquiet Junto

Concrète Roots- disquiet0590

This is my entry for https://disquiet.com/2023/04/20/disquiet-junto-project-0590-concrete-roots/

I took a brief portion of a field recording I made several years ago of high tide in Provincetown Harbor (Provincetown, MA), and subjected it to a process inspired by Alvin Lucier's "I Am Sitting in a Room". I iteratively processed the sound through a convolution reverb using an impulse response (IR) from an empty concrete nuclear reactor hall, Each successive generation re-applies the reverb so that eventually we hear only the resonant frequencies in the space from which the IR was derived. This was a manual process, as I wanted to preserve the ever-increasing reverb tails, and also to control the reverb level to avoid digital distortion (which can be cool, but not what I was after).

When I assembled the segments into a single track, I decided to reverse the order so that the most highly-processed segment comes first, and the original recording is only heard at the end of the piece.

Made in Reaper using the Waves IRLive Stereo plugin. The IR is from the OpenAIR Project: https://www.openair.hosted.york.ac.uk/?page_id=626

I Am Tiding In A Concrete Room [disquiet0590]

This was my contribution for part 1 – Disquiet Junto Project 0591: The Loneliest Number

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0591 discussion thread:

64 step synth sequence created using Devicemeister StepicVST and ThePhonoLoop Tapes.01 plugins in Ableton Live. The sequence repeats with subtle random variations to note duration and velocity till the end. 

Created in D major pentatonic, 96 BPM. Have fun chopping, slicing,  distorting, layering, etc.

More on this 591st weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Loneliest Number (The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0591/
About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/
Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/
Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 1: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0591-the-loneliest-number/

Maybe Going Somewhere [disquiet0591]

I chose "Frugality" after a long listen. big thanks to encym for inspiring guitar track!!!

https://soundcloud.com/encym/the-loneliest-number-disquiet0591?si=83fa6974ce6d4b768ab7f3e457589658&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

then played as freely as I could on my Soma's Enner

Frugality & Enner & nothing feat. encym(disquiet0592)

Part 2 of 3
Part 1 - Oh Well [ https://soundcloud.com/oh-well-360226041/untitled-disquiet0591 ]

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

More on this 592nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Better Than One (The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0592/

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

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0592-better-than-one/

Better Than One

Better Than One [xiiixxi &  OhWell] - disquiet0592

Vocal Sample - Patricia Edwards - I Do - Today Is The Day [
www.looperman.com/acapellas/detail…m-house-acapella ]

Left channel contains "The Euclidean Chromaticon | The Loneliest Number" by X I I I X X I: https://soundcloud.com/xiiixxi/disquiet-junto-the-loneliest-number-disquiet0591?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0591
Right channel contains multiple processing of left channel audio
About the Disquiet Junto: disquiet.com/junto/

The Zeigarnik Effect (phase 2)(feat. X I I I X X I)[disquiet0592]

Disquiet Junto Project 0592: Better Than One
The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio.

I chose https://soundcloud.com/micheleisoni/7-7-7-disquiet-junto-0591 by Michele Isoni https://soundcloud.com/micheleisoni because I liked it very much. Since the strings gave us a very lively sound, I wanted to put a static sound alongside it. In a first try I added some gongs, in a second some ambience noise, and I ended with a combination of both at the risk of overstuffing it now. To stay in the sign of the number 7, there are 3x 7 Gong events, and the ambience starts 7 times (and only while the string stops). I avoided the left-right-step, because I love the stereo image of the strings. I hope I managed to keep the mysterious mood of the first track and still leave room for a third track - I'm very curious.


Cover: DALL·E "painting of seven miniature hallucinations, dali style"


More on this 592nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Better Than One (The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0592/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0592-better-than-one/

7 Hallucinations [disquiet0592] (Krakenkraft / Michele Isoni)

Instrumental, melancholic, Yamaha Tenor Saxophone, Mahalo Ukulele, electronic, sad, moody, dark, gloomy, blue, mournful, sorrowful, woeful, despairing

Nanomechanical process seeks sounds of the unnatural.

Abandoned On A Drilling Rig Near DX0597 (disquiet0501)

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