disquiet

Granular textures and drones. Percussions. Rework of a set of shared samples by Marcus Fischer. Fuori compilation,

Disquiet0600 - MF Tron

a reworked version now appears on:

https://howthenightcame.bandcamp.com/album/hostile-architects

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first time layering two sampled drum beats

More on this 613th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Test Drive (The Assignment: The Assignment: Do something you’ve been meaning to do), at: https://disquiet.com/0613/

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-0613-test-drive/

[disquiet0613] test drive

Study for strings

New Album on Bandcamp. This is the closing track of Album
https://burythejar.bandcamp.com/album/the-naturalness-of-being-eternal

Something To Die For

Naviar Haiku 523

My eyes lift to see
A sky that is entirely
magnolia blooms

This is a haiku taken from Kusamakura (or The Three-Cornered World), a novel by Natsume Soseki.

A book that transcends the plot development of "standard" Western literature, this is a book about the nature of art and beauty, filled with lyrical beauty and internal monologues on what it means to be an artist.

To give you an idea, here's how the book starts:

“If you work by reason, you grow rough-edged; if you choose to dip your oar into sentiment’s stream, it will sweep you away. Demanding your own way only serves to constrain you. However you look at it, the human world is not an easy place to live. And when its difficulties intensify, you find yourself longing to leave that world and dwell in some easier one—and then, when you understand at last that difficulties will dog you wherever you may live, this is when poetry and art are born.”

One of the most influential modern Japanese writers, Natsume Soseki’s literary career started in 1903, with a series of haiku and renga published on various literary magazines.

Between 1900 and 1903 he studied at the UCL in London, but this proved to be quite a dramatic experience for the young Soseki. Despite this, when Soseki returned to Japan, he exploded into prolific writing activity.

Haiku by Natsume Soseki

Picture by Henry & Co

Momentary

Momentary (NaviarHaiku523)

Bhoga

Only the moon remains
floating in the memory upon
Kinokawa River
 
There's so little information about this amazing renga poet that I decided to share another poem written by him. This one is part of a longer sequence, written in 1463:

Only the moon remains
floating in the memory upon
Kinokawa River—
pale glistening waves,
the blank wake of drowned men.
 
About this poem, the author said: "Among the hundreds and thousands who have drowned and perished in this river
due to the disorders in this province were those whom I knew in former days. Often
I would walk along the river, gazing at the moon."

(Heart's Flower - The Life and Poetry of Shinkei)

Shinkei (1406-75) was a renowned renga poet and critic, best known for his two-part work "Sasamegoto" (Murmured Conversations). To find out more about this interesting and largely unknown poet-priest, I recommend reading Heart's Flower - The Life and Poetry of Shinkei by Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen

Haiku by Shinkei: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/3348384

more halF unusuaL

halF onlY [naviarhaiku538]

YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1ugV2ta4n8

floating in the memory upon-naviarhaiku538

Part of the Naviar Records Haiku Challenge:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku540-face-of-the-winter-pond/

face of the winter pond-naviarhaiku540

The Buchla Easel has been my favourite companion ever since I acquired it five or so years ago. Together with the KOMA BD-101 analogue delay they make a perfect team for travel and minimal live performances. The recent addition of the Buchla AUX card introduces beautiful noise, and allows for further modulations. Recorded with plenty of random voltages and live manual knob tweaking.

objective thankfulness [disquiet0413]

The phases of the moon, as are the phases of life. The seasons of the year, so also the seasons of life. The only constant is perpetual change.

Although slightly melancholic perhaps, this piece has a positive, upwards moving continuum, towards its subtle and peaceful finale.

First the Moog One was recorded in one take, through two Roland Space Echos, one each for left and right channel. Then, with quite an amount of knob tweaking, the shimmer and playfulness of the Waldorf Quantum was added, also in one take, through the tape echoes.

phases [disquiet0420]

Only a few days ago, I performed a live improvised soundtrack to the silent movie Metropolis, so this project was unusually timely. Once my gear was hooked up in the studio again, I improvised this soundtrack in a similar way, imagining walking through an an abandoned, haunted old movie theatre, in the darkest depths of the night...

Recorded live in the studio.
Moog One starts off with a bass drone.
Waldorf Quantum comes in, adding dissonant and spooky sounds.
After a while a piano is heard, delivering random eerie notes.
Towards the end, the chase is on, or is it just imagination?
Two Roland Space Echoes create added spookiness.

More on this 421st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Marquee Ghosts / The Assignment: What sounds haunt a discarded movie theater in the middle of the night? — at:

https://disquiet.com/0421/

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-0421-marquee-ghosts/

marquee ghosts [disquiet421]

Video: https://youtu.be/ykKpn47M9CY

I think might have taken a bit of a personal approach to this project.

To create "short bursts of music" I used the Buchla Easel for one part of the composition, and the Waldorf Quantum for the other.

I created a fairly complex, random, self running patch on the Buchla Easel, which spits out short bursts of random notes and noise. This was routed through the KOMA BBD Delay, with its delay time controlled by the MakeNoise Wogglebug.

On the Quantum I choose a patch with two particle oscillators set to granular, and then I manipulated them in numerous ways during the recording. This is basically live slicing and live manipulation of a sample.

I would recommend you to follow the track through to its end, as there are quite a lot of interesting textures developing.

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More on this 422nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Chapter Cascade / The Assignment: Make a piece of music made up of tiny alternating parts — at:

https://disquiet.com/0422/ 2

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0422-chapter-cascade/

particles [Disquiet0422]

Selected Ambient Twerks 01

An improvisation on my Korg piano running through two Roland Space echoes - asking our world leaders to please press the emergency STOP button - and for all of you who just loves a bit of piano improvisations!

Watch video of performance here:
https://youtu.be/IagoRgE27Eo

Listen on Bandcamp:
https://unden.bandcamp.com

Watch on Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/undensounds

Main Players:
Korg Stage Vintage SV-1
Roland Space Echo -RE-201
Roland Space Echo  RE-150

Recorded with a Zoom Q2n.

For Our Leaders [disquiet447]

This piece is made of a 15 second recording of an applause, and a 10 second recording of me clapping along. The applause recording is looped on one track with my claps being looped on a second. My claps are turned into silenced claps, the energy of my claps manipulating the recorded applause.
The applause track is fed through the filters of my modular synth and my Roland Model-101, and the output of my silenced claps are turned into Control Voltage (CV) which is manipulating the filters in different ways. Only delay and reverb have been applied.

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More on this 74th Disquiet Junto project, in which applause is turned into music, at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/05/30/disquiet0074-applauserousing/

Source audio of applause by unfa via:

http://www.freesound.org/people/unfa/sounds/162764/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Silenced Clap [disquiet0074-applauserousing]

Mats Unden is a Swedish sound artist based in Darwin, Australia. Creates minimal electronica, ambient, and makes noise, with a passion for analogue, modular and vintage synthesizers.

Silenced Clap [disquiet0074-applauserousing]

unden

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