Name: Awenda Berceuse by Summa
Duration: 16 min 52 s
Description: Submission for Music for Sleep, a worldwide collaboration between artists and field recordists to create a unique collection of compositions specially designed for rest, sleep, and tranquility.

This trio for one alto and two C flutes was inspired by a lecture titled "Georgia O'Keeffe's Radical Abstraction" in which one of O'Keeffe's works — Abstraction White Rose — was described as existing on a spectrum between realism and abstraction...or perhaps it is paradoxically both at the same time?

“Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.” — Georgia O'Keeffe

Lecture available here: https://www.okeeffemuseum.org/georgia-okeeffes-radical-abstraction/

Sheet music available upon request.
All are welcome to use this piece as a basis for improvisation.

Abstraction Cactus Flower © 2023 by Alyce Santoro is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Abstraction Cactus Flower (disquiet0591)

c29sc3RpY2UK[disquiet0599]

[disquiet0603] Wind

My first submission to Disquiet Junto. 

Stems: https://static.stefanbohacek.dev/music/disquiet-junto/0609/stems.zip

More on this 609th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 1 (The Assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it), at: https://disquiet.com/0609/

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

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0609-speed-limit-pt-1/

On The Way (disquiet0609)

Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed.

Disquiet0610 - Combineinto30

The following tracks were processed by Sinnysounds:
"...to the Beach Asunder" - Michael-Ash-Sharbaugh
"Second Nature" - Summa
"Substitutions at 60 BPM" - Martinsea


More on this 610th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 2 (The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed), at: https://disquiet.com/0610/

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

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0610-speed-limit-pt-2/

Leftovers (disquiet0610)

An upright bass improvisation with echoes and delays...


For Disquiet Junto Project 0611: Music That Listens to Itself

Contrebasse Soliloque (disquiet0611)

Submission for Music for Sleep, a worldwide collaboration between artists and field recordists to create a unique collection of compositions specially designed for rest, sleep, and tranquility.

Awenda Berceuse

Disquiet Junto Project 0617: Haunt Scape

More on this 617th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Haunt Scape (The Assignment: Halloween is coming up. Do your thing), at: https://disquiet.com/0617/

Voice sample: The Bat (1959)
Image source: oldbookillustrations.com

Ghosts (disquiet0617)

How do you interpret the literal translation of karaoke - empty orchestra? 

Well I had a go; started with opening the BBC orchestra Plug in - spitfire audio - violins.  Made something very simple and looped it.
I had this playing through my main stereo which my decks are plugged into.. I let this playing on a loop and went down the hall in my house and used my digital tascam recorder to record from the far end of the house. I left this recording. 
I went back to the decks and selected an old classical record - Ketelbey Orchestral Concert - Bells Across the Meadow. I played this slowed down as low as my turntable can go, with no bass and treble to full... slowly faded this in. Near the end I pulled the 'earth' cable out the back of the mixer so it goes a bit crackly and caused one of the speakers to cut out. Perfect! 

That was more or less it. I opened this recording back up in Ableton and edited for a bit longer, reversing bits and adding extra effects. 
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Disquiet Junto Project 0646: Empty Orchestra
The Assignment: Interpret the literal translation of “karaoke.”

Step 1: You may or may not be familiar with the literal meaning of the word “karaoke.” The first two syllables are the Japanese word for “empty.” The final two syllables are an abbreviation of the Japanese word for “orchestra.” Consider how the term “empty orchestra” connects with the idea of karaoke.

Step 2: Think about the term “empty orchestra” on its own, apart from its association with karaoke. Come up with a new meaning for it. What kind of genre or musical form would “empty orchestra” be on its own?

Step 3: Record a piece of music exemplifying the ideas that arose to you during Step 2.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0646” (no spaces/quotes) in the name of your track.

Upload: Post your track to a public account (SoundCloud preferred but by no means required). It’s best to focus on one track, but if you post more than one, clarify which is the “main” rendition.

Share: Post your track and a description/explanation at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0646-empty-orchestra/

Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

Disquietly an Empty Orchestra From Down the Hall [disquiet0646]

The Assignment: Interpret the literal translation of “karaoke.”

Step 1: You may or may not be familiar with the literal meaning of the word “karaoke.” The first two syllables are the Japanese word for “empty.” The final two syllables are an abbreviation of the Japanese word for “orchestra.” Consider how the term “empty orchestra” connects with the idea of karaoke.

Step 2: Think about the term “empty orchestra” on its own, apart from its association with karaoke. Come up with a new meaning for it. What kind of genre or musical form would “empty orchestra” be on its own?

What a concept for Karaoke: Empty Orchestra? What does that even mean when there's a playback track sounding? There's no singer ok, but the band should be there right?
Anyway; I continue my research on orchestral samples from my different libraries and imagined an empty concert hall where some sort of sonic ectoplasm remains and is captured by my field recorder.
So this is 9 tracks or  sampled orchestras treated with ridiculous amounts of three different reverbs.
There's also a real cello popping in and out .

recorded thursday 16th May 2024 by DD at home.



https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0646-empty-orchestra/

Awenda Berceuse

Summa

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