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Disquiet Junto Project 0612: Drum Vector The Assignment: Walk the listener through variations on the same percussive instrument.

More zither.
When recording with a contact microphone, the different parts of the zither — the wooden body, the metal pegs, the strings; all of them hit, scraped, scratched, bowed and plucked in different ways — can produce a wide variety of quite striking, percussive sounds. From small and pretty, to huge and menacing. Contact mics are great at making relatively small objects sound big, which combines well with the fact that the zither strings act as resonators, so sounds get a very long tail: like a tuned reverb.

As the prompt suggested, I made a couple of improvised recordings, trying to get a bunch of different sounds out of the setup. Most of them are loops consisting of several layers. One recording used a sampler where different zither sounds were loaded into memory and then played using a step sequencer. I used some relatively straightforward software effect chains for audio processing: combinations of compression, saturation, delay, reverb. I used them mostly in a static way. That is to say: my playing was focussed on the physical instrument and the various techniques of playing it, rather than on audio mangling.

For the final piece, I edited and arranged the different recordings. I liked the notion of ‘moving through space over the course of time, and encountering the sounds’ as suggested in the prompt, so making everything sound as if it could have been played in a single space was the main objective;  playing with timing, loudness, filtering, spatial effects, stereo width and stereo positioning. Interesting challenge!

More on this 612th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Drum Vector (The Assignment: Walk the listener through variations on the same percussive instrument), at: https://disquiet.com/0612/

Hit me with your rhythm whisk (disquiet0612)

soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/cold-city-soundtrack
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Snow*Omen/Velvet Something Superdark collaboration.
Music: Snow*Omen @snow_omen (Recording of an improvised live performance. Electric guitar: VSS, voice: Y.A.). Field recording, percussion, mixing and production: VSS. All sounds Snow*Omen and VSS. Image: Möckernbrücke Subway Station, Berlin, at night (videostill: VSS).

Cold City: Vanishing

This is the 3rd of 3 album preview pieces for the album "above a darkness of earth." Our wish, with this piece and with the whole album, is to offer a calm, meditative piece to help towards a deepening connection with the earth and each other. 
Hear/download from BandCamp here...https://darkpebble-bluewave.bandcamp.com/album/above-a-darkness-of-earth
Thanks from the team, Henry Koek, Paulo Chagas, and myself, Wilhelm

Here is the poem that I wrote which inspired this music:
Hum, just above, a darkness of earth

River runs nearby,
gurgles and murmurs, 

sounds out 
under submerged tree trunks, 
pale and immersed in the flow.
Blackness of deep night 
has 
already settled here.

Still,
fine, serrated leaves whisper with the wind,
gently hover over darkness.

Stems from last year
still 
rise up,
Still,
connected to dark earth.

Purple blossoms, in rows of hearts
Still,
hum quietly 
to each other,
just 
above a darkness of earth.

Hum, just above a darkness of earth

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
580
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku580-quiescence/

2025-02-14

Temple Bell's Voice (Naviarhaiku 580  )

27Feb25

My naviarhaiku582 track
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku582-here-and-there/
:D

upon scorched fields [naviarhaiku582]

More on the 688th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Sign Up — The Assignment: Interpret a routine public sign as a musical instruction — at https://disquiet.com/0688/

For this assignment I chose the sign „Wohnstrasse“, which is a residential street where pedestrians and playing children are allowed to use all of the street. Top speed is 20 km/h. I imagined driving car in this setting, which I always find rather challenging because 20 km/h is really slow in todays overpowered cars.

I did all this imagining while playing acoustic guitar and glockenspiel into two Norns, both running RPLS. For some reason, this setting turned into an unintended feedback loop which does not entirely match the peaceful mood of a „Wohnstrasse“ (but maybe the mood of a driver in a hurry?).

Disquiet0688 - Wohnstrasse

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 583:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku583-out-of-the-blue/
Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!
Photo by zenbytes (Colorado, USA, 2024)

early morning light - Naviarhaiku583

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data and Audacity.

Fog Dissolves (naviarhaiku586)

Through the tear_05

Paulo Chagas lives in Portugal and I in the USA.
We agreed to make this album by sharing music files over the internet.

While we worked on this album, 
making music for a peaceful world was on our mind.

All over the world, 
tensions, conflicts, suppressions and violence
of one group over another have arisen.

As musical artists, we believe that our artistic process 
demonstrates what we wish for the world,
paraphrasing Ghandi’s 
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world”:

Create agreements and honor them

Listen carefully, respond with care

Openly point out problems, openly work to fix them

Create music that acknowledges conflict but also overcomes it

Support the spirit of engaged creativity

Support joyful life


Wilhelm Matthies and Paulo Chagas, April 2025

Honoring agreements

Fanzine + Cassette for sale: https://shop.lamour.se/shop/cassette/drawings-by-david-lingvall/

Track from the compilation Drawings by D.L. (STAL-C55Z32-50). A fanzine with abstract drawings by visual artist David Lingvall comes with a cassette featuring musical interpretations of the drawings by different artists.

Strömkarlen on the track ”Tiger”: 
I wanted my contribution to be a live take with no post production. I interpreted the picture as a depiction of controlled chaos. Something encapsuled wants to break out. I tried to illustrate that using modular synthesizers and a broken filter.

Hit me with your rhythm whisk (disquiet0612)

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