I love the way this ends with the glassy throbbing, it's like the mayhem is still moving around the room

More on this 334th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Disquiet Junto Project 0334: Mass Branca / Record a massive multi-layered tribute to the legendary guitarist-composer) at:

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Major thanks to James Britt for contributing this Junto project prompt.

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The image associated with this project is from Wikipedia and used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

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Disquiet Junto Project 0334: Mass Branca

Part 4 of Glasswork - A series of improvisations for water, four hands, eight glasses and one table. Recorded with Zoom H2N in 4 channel stereo, cut and amplified, no effects, no further processing.
https://soundcloud.com/snow_omen/sets/glasswork

Glasswork Nr. 4

Part 5 of Glasswork - A series of improvisations for water, four hands, eight glasses and one table. Recorded with Zoom H2N in 4 channel stereo, cut and amplified, no effects, no further processing.
https://soundcloud.com/snow_omen/sets/glasswork

Glasswork Nr. 5

sudden dazzling glare
- the low sun briefly pierces
a veil of dark cloud

https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley is an experimental composer and regular participant in our Haiku challenge. Now retired, Raymond aims to explore the possibilities afforded by open-source software, which he uses exclusively for creating and editing both sounds & images. All his works are published ​under a Creative Commons licence, and free for anybody to download or remix.
 
haiku by Raymond Cobley

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

more halF unusuaL

halF dazzlinG [naviarhaiku542]

An electronic composition, sounds created in Pure Data.

Pierced Veil (naviarhaiku542)

26May24
My haiku542 track;
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/751171702013181952/naviarhaiku542-sudden-dazzling-glare

the low sun briefly pierces a veil of dark cloud [naviarhaiku542]

Behind the Stratosphere Naviarhaiku 542

sudden dazzling glare
- the low sun briefly pierces
a veil of dark cloud

Raymond Cobley is an experimental composer and regular participant in our Haiku challenge. Now retired, Raymond aims to explore the possibilities afforded by open-source software, which he uses exclusively for creating and editing both sounds & images. All his works are published ​under a Creative Commons licence, and free for anybody to download or remix.

haiku by Raymond Cobley

a veil [naviarhaiku542]

Locking Shift

a mirror in the stream

Guess I shouldn't have deleted this one from my account… here it is again… I dedicate it to all people who, like me, love Ligeti, Stockhausen, Schönberg, Webern, Boulez, Bartók, Berg and so on, love equally Miles and Trane and Sanders and Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock and Joel Ross and love equally Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Prince, Co Shu Nie, Bjork, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Sting …and love Bach and Mozart and Josquin and Chopin… and besides love the music of the Gbaya, and Gamelan, and Japanese traditional music… why should we feel confined to ANY genre?

Chaplin

Fluctuating(disquiet0334)

Tones For Glenn Branca disquiet0334

11 stratocaster electric guitars
3 electric basses
additional e-bow electric guitar improvisation

Recorded by DD in Paris, France , Friday 25th May 2018 as part of the Disquiet Junto Project 0334: Mass Branca

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
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Glenn Branca Preservation Act (disquiet0334)

I kind of cheated a little on this one, as we had to use a single sound source and my sound source is actually a composite of two samples, one from a kalimba and one from my desk lamp. I had used this "instrument" extensively on an older track* before, and I thought it was rich enough to carry a piece by itself. I made about twenty clips, most of which use only one tone in quite a repetitive rhythm, and offset the starting points for various clips to create some interesting polyrhythms. Then I added reverb and delay where I felt like it, hit record and started clips one by one. I made very few changes to the arrangement afterwards, and only the most basic mastering touches. This is the result. Tell me what you think.

*https://soundcloud.com/supplebe/leon


More on this 334th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Disquiet Junto Project 0334: Mass Branca / Record a massive multi-layered tribute to the legendary guitarist-composer) at:

https://disquiet.com/0334/

Major thanks to James Britt for contributing this Junto project prompt.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0334-mass-branca/

disquiet0334 - Mass Branca

i recorded i think 90-odd toots on my harmonica , paulstretched coz that works well with harmonica and i wanted a nice drone (missed drone day yesterday) a bit of denoising but i thought the rumble and hiss worked quite well
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https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0334-mass-branca/
Disquiet Junto Project 0334: Mass Branca
Record a massive multi-layered tribute to the legendary guitarist-composer.

Major thanks to James Britt for contributing this Junto project prompt.

Step 1: This project is a tribute to the late avant-garde composer and guitarist Glenn Branca, who died earlier this month. Among Branca’s many musical systems was to have a vast number of musicians, say 100 guitarists for example, perform together. We’re going to explore that mass of sound to produce a mass in Branca’s memory. It will be a Mass Mass.

Step 2: Pick a single sound source, an instrument perhaps, but really anything that makes a specific sound. One thing to aim for is a sound source that is rich in overtones.

Step 3: Use multiple layers (with “multiple” being defined as you see fit — 100 layers would be awesome, but so too would 10, 30, 50, etc.) of this sound source to record a piece of music.

Background: While knowledge of Glenn Branca’s work isn’t necessary to participate, it is recommended to read up and listen a bit.

fledge disquiet0334

First rule of Disquiet Club: Step outside the guidelines.

So I used ZynAddSubFX and NanoStudio to create a rough, layered 1 minute track with a synth-y layer and an acid guitar layer, rather than a strictly ‘single sound’ source.

This was then multiplied, stretched, tempo-shifted, reversed, treated with Crazy Ivan, reverb, cut up and multi-tracked until it sort of made sense. Sort of. I do love that last chord…

"My opinion is this: Everything is right and everything is wrong; everything is yes and everything is no; everything is continuous and everything is not – all at once." – Glenn Branca

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Record a massive multi-layered tribute to the legendary guitarist-composer.

Major thanks to James Britt for contributing this Junto project prompt.

Step 1: This project is a tribute to the late avant-garde composer and guitarist Glenn Branca, who died earlier this month. Among Branca’s many musical systems was to have a vast number of musicians, say 100 guitarists for example, perform together. We’re going to explore that mass of sound to produce a mass in Branca’s memory. It will be a Mass Mass.

Step 2: Pick a single sound source, an instrument perhaps, but really anything that makes a specific sound. One thing to aim for is a sound source that is rich in overtones.

Step 3: Use multiple layers (with “multiple” being defined as you see fit — 100 layers would be awesome, but so too would 10, 30, 50, etc.) of this sound source to record a piece of music.

More on this 334th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Disquiet Junto Project 0334: Mass Branca / Record a massive multi-layered tribute to the legendary guitarist-composer) at:

https://disquiet.com/0334/ 

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Everything is right and everything is wrong [disquiet0334] - for Glenn Branca

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.

You must hear this: https://vimeo.com/52766051

*****

Ed Brunsden was kind and patient enough to interview me for  his blog Desert... Mountain... Dust...  - you can read it at https://desertmountaindust.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/tuonela-primitive-progressive.html

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ~ Jean Cocteau

All music is beautiful. ~ Billy Strayhorn
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I've become addicted to drone. Again. I was the kid with his head on the piano, listening to the overtones die away, or pressing his ear to the steel hull of the ferry, enthralled by the sounds it created. I was the kid who formed wordless songs to accompany the sound of train wheels on a long journey, or hummed along with the fan on a hot day.

In the 60s I used to play my 45s on 16, or backwards, or by hand using razor blades as stylii.

I made cut-up tapes on a cheap cassette recorder in the 70s and experimented with reel-to-reel in the 80s. 

Thank you Subotnick, Lygeti, Coltrane, Jimi, Mimaroglu, Eno, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle...

I am not a musician. I am a scavenger of sounds. I use the most basic software to process those sounds, stretching and filtering until something emerges that makes a joyful noise. Or not...

Everything is right and everything is wrong [disquiet0334] - for Glenn Branca

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