SenSen - PSong

For the full-length version: https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20220702-still-night-in-a-pine-forest-winter-full-version

2022.07.02 Still Night In A Pine Forest. Winter. (Abridged Version)

22—hour—long sound journey made for Radio Art Zone was premiered on RADIOKUNST — KUNSTRADIO on August 7th, 2022((( http://www.kunstradio.at/2022B/07_08_22.html ))) as a super compressed 28—min—long radio adaptation!
Find out more about the original work here >>> https://radioart.zone/sunday-19-june

Thanks to Knut Aufferman, Sarah Washington, Elisabeth Zimmermann

Radio Astral — The Atomic Compression

I rarely listen to music in bed, because the struggle between my body wanting to shut off and my brain listening to interesting bits keeps me awake. So I wanted to dumb things down a it and use a long volume fade to drift away. 

I used a new generative base track for a session with Lucid Grain, thinned it out gradually, let it run in a very long delay (Augustus Loop) and then... zzzzzzzz.

Placideque Quiescas [disquiet563]

this track is inspirited by a haiku:

without a voice
the heron would disappear –
morning snow

Fukuda Chiyo-ni )

the sound of fallen snow and the sound of the heron were taken from
freesound.org made by John Grzinich and dobroide.
piano and bass played by myself.
also used a cajon loop.

The Heron / naviarhaiku459

From the new album - 'Sound Postcards from the Centre of the Periphery' by Manja Ristić and Mark Vernon.

We made this 13-track journey around the sounds and sonic histories of the island of Korčula. In addition to our own field recordings, we were given access to the audio archives of the local radio station, including recordings of folk customs, traditional songs, dances and music...

This album unites two specific sensibilities that for many years have been embedded in the domain of sound and radio arts. Although they arose from very different environments, their work explores similar issues around preserving personal sonic histories. By stirring up nostalgia and collective memory, both artists often refer to the importance of individual experiences in the poetic "body" of micro-communities. 

The artistic practice of both creators has been deeply immersed in the sonic strata of space and the imaginary narratives that emerge from it. A dedication to the culture of memory, the sounding of lost voices and an unorthodox approach to re-composing the soundscape, conveniently unites these two experimenters in a collaboration that arises from research into one particularly inspiring locality – the island of Korčula. 

In addition to their own field recordings the artists were given access to the audio archives of the local radio station, including sounds of local folk customs, traditional songs, festivities and music. The strong anthropological emphasis in this collection of works is intended to encourage a deeper consideration of the coexistence of people and the environment in a historically dense climate. The appropriation of the hidden narratives of a small town on the fringes of the European Union opens up new fields of reflection on identity that looks back at the "center of the periphery", pointing to the importance of "small" spaces in the creation of European heritage. 

‘Sound postcards from the center of the periphery’ will be stored permanently in the audio archives of Radio Korčula. Who knows, maybe someone will dig them out in 50 years and say: "...there you go! This will make your head ring!" 

Special thanks to Radio Korčula, Gordana Šuperak and Ivan Sardelic Šore. To Pere from the Marasa printing house and to all the fellow citizens of Korčula who found themselves on this album intentionally or accidentally.

Manja Ristić and Mark Vernon - Voli more drš’ se kraja / Love the Sea but Stay on the Shore

More on this 568th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Slumber Mill (The Assignment: Make music inspired by a key chord from sleep research) – at: https://disquiet.com/0568/ 1

Thanks to Glitcher for proposing this project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0568-slumber-mill/

C69 [disquiet0568]

Spinning Day

This week's prompt was to create the sound of a nightmare that resolved to a soothing C6/9 chord.

I pretty much worked backwards, recording longtones on my melodica and then pitch-shifting them down to C2, E2, A2, and D3 (whether the sound of a melodica is soothing or not is up to your personal taste). Then I shmudged them up using various FX plug-ins that had wet/dry knobs.

I mapped the wet/dry mix to one macro knob in Ableton so the percentage of noise-causing would decrease at the same rate for each plugin.

It was a fun tour through my lesser-used plug-ins. Shout out to Puremagnetik, whose plug-ins showed up a lot in the various fx chains.

The image was created using DALL-E 2 with the prompt "lucid dreaming, slumber mill"

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More on this 568th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Slumber Mill (The Assignment: Make music inspired by a key chord from sleep research) — at: https://disquiet.com/0568/

Thanks to Glitcher for proposing this project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0568-slumber-mill/

Declarative Dreaming (disquiet0568)

This week's haiku challenge:

from the mist
a boat for cutting reeds in the morning
has begun to emerge

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 30th November 2022

Haiku by Mizuhara Shūōshi https://haikutopics.blogspot.com/2006/05/mizuhara-hana-no-ame.html

Picture by Ricardo Gomez Angel https://unsplash.com/@rgaleriacom

Waiting in the mist (naviarhaiku464)

forever in the bathtub / a warped image through a distorted lens / every path you take leads nowhere / the unshakeable feeling, the dimming star / an unjust hatred/ as if that would make it right

another footnote in the handbook for exercises in futility

in the flesh a cancer of the mind

Electronic music, field recordings and weird electroacoustic sounds.

Waiting in the mist (naviarhaiku464)

undermulden