Disquiet Junto Project 0683: Space Shot
The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant.

There is just one step to this project. Record a piece of music in which half of the material is recorded in a highly reverberant space (or has spaciousness applied to it through effects) and half of the material is just sound in isolation, devoid of any sense of space or place.

Deadline: Monday, February 3, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0683

Disquiet Junto Project 0683: Space Shot

More on the 683rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Space Shot — The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant — at https://disquiet.com/0683/

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halF reverberanT [disquiet0683]

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 10 Aug 2018, 02 Sep 2018 & 30 Jan 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA & Union Square, NYC, USA. 

Beer bottle, Korg Monotron Delay, grains, emulated springs. 

Artwork/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, near the corner of 8th Ave & 44th St, NYC, USA - 31 Jan 2018

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “My Boots Are Filled With Spacey Eyes” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0683: Space Shot. The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant.

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More on the 683rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Space Shot — The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant — at https://disquiet.com/0683/

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My Boots Are Filled With Spacey Eyes (disquiet0683)

Disquiet Junto prompt 0683 instructed us to make a piece of music that is half in space and half not in space.

Radio waves travel at the speed of light, and when the first radio transmission crossed the Atlantic it was said that distance had been abolished. Without distance, there's no space. So half of the song is a story that takes place on a radio, and is about a radio, and was performed in part on a radio, removed from place and space.

There are no synthesizers or synthetic samples in this piece. Instrumentation was a heavily processed guitar played with ebow, a Schechter Damien 7-string guitar, shortwave radio, shoebox cassette recorder, and field recordings. The radio noises and vocal parts are removed from space through a custom convolution reverb I created using a spike of low-frequency AM noise as an impulse response, essentially placing the sounds in the ionosphere.

The story I tell in the song is true.

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Soft, Driven, Slow, and Mad (disquiet0683)

An electronic sequence created in Pure Data with additional gradual panning and reverb.

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Panned and Spaced Out (disquiet0683)

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This is five channels of earthquake synth by David Hilowitz (four pads and one drum) partly into Norns RPLS and several reverbs. Also a field recording. Halfway through the reverb is completely of. It still sounds roomy though, so I consider this a bit of a failure. Maybe it’s the earthquake synth that needs (and creates) space? I guess an earthquake does not fit into a shoebox... 

Disquiet0683 - Earthquake in a Shoebox

Music composed and played by Horsthel Mood remixed for Disquiet Junto Project 0683: Space Shot. The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant.

Music by Horsthel Mood https://www.youtube.com/@horsthelmood3893 
Please check it out! Cover image: RMIF ELSITA Soviet Ussr Analog Drum Machine found in the storage by Joerch. Description/explanation at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0683-space-shot/ Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

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Paradise of Memory (disquiet0683)

A grande indiferença das estrelas

Once Upon a Mellow Sea (Naviar Haiku 617)

You Cannot Call It Jazz

finally he found the delete key right in front of his smarthome, but everything was already gone

In honour of our 3rd page being almost full, we thought it'd be nice to post "Where the Circuits Meet the Spell" and subsequent remixes as a nice closing piece for this 3rd page.
Our fourth page is starting up here: @archmageband4

Made for our open collab "Where the Circuits Meet the Spell" combining the fun and cool jam contributions of both John Musichead and noxpox - but arranged by us to form one complete  song.

Thank you so much for this awesome cyberpunk-mood spin on our track, John, and for weaving that amazing arcane synth soundscape, noxpox - it's been so much fun to compose with you two!

The Open Collab "Where the Circuits Meet the Spell" Playlist:
https://soundcloud.com/archmageband3/sets/where-the-circuits-meet-the-spell-open-collab-playlist

Feel free to put your own spin on anything in the playlist, as long as you credit and link back to us. No commercial use, please. If you need stems, reach out to us. BPM: 90

Original demo: https://soundcloud.com/archmageband3/meet-the-spell-open-collab

Synths by Masha Solo and Rob Ulysses: @masha-solo and @rob-ulysses 
Additional synths by John Musichead @john-musichead and noxpox @noxpox21 
Art for this version is by Masha using Canva.

Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoy!

Where The Circuits Meet The Spell Open Collab

Where the Circuits Meet The Spell ft. John Musichead & noxpox - Instrumental

Bezkwit 1 (2024).

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Why are you here?

Feeling The Love

Drum sample from https://www.discogs.com/master/696229.
Downpitched acoustic guitar.
Synthesizer.

"Dig Deep East"

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

Paradise of Memory (disquiet0683)

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