Disquiet Junto Project 0721: Well Weathered

The Assignment: Play along with a storm

Step 1: On freesound.org, find a recording of a bad storm. Or use one of your own.

Step 2: Listen to the recording from Step 1.

Step 3: Select a section of the recording from Step 1, perhaps 3 to 5 minutes in length.

Step 4: Listen several times in a row to the section selected in Step 3. Get to know its sounds, and the overall shape of the recording.

Step 5: Record a track in which you play along with the storm.

Deadline: Monday, October 27, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0721

Disquiet Junto Project 0721: Well Weathered

9 Zebralette, OTT, You Wa Shock, Bitwig convolution, Bitwig Limiter, TDR Nova. DAW: Bitwig OSC #191 Zebralette

The curious zebra

55ish instances of zebralette using Reaper 6.83

OTT, ReaLimit, LoudMax, TSOM's B&S, Supermassive Valhalla, Raum, A1TriggerGate, ReEQ, TDR Kotelnikov, Replika, Reaverb, A1StereoControl

LUFS-I = 11.1

The last 7 minutes are very slow ambient which isn't popular in OSC and of course it's long. Feel free to skip if that's a problem for you, although just to be clear, I love it. 

Thank you Jas (white noise), TSOM (cymbals), Exponent (exophase!) for sound design help.

OSC191 Forgotten Dream (Zebralette 6th)

Entry for One Synth Challenge 191 - U-he Zebralette 2

Made in Reaper using 39 instances of Zebralette 2 for 15 voice-split single layer instruments.
No 3rd party noises of any kind were involved. 
Light clean-up duties were performed at track level by TDR Nova.
A touch of snipping done by GClip and Flux Bittersweet on the drum.
Some delay was provided by HY-Delay 4 
Reverberation courtesy of U-he Protoverb and Valhalla Supermassive, 
with a little help from their friends:  HOFA System Pan, TDR Nova, A1 Stereo Control and JS Mixer.
Somewhat reluctantly living on the master bus are TDR Kotelnikov, A1 Stereo Control, Limiter No6, and Flux Bittersweet.

Looking At You

Progetto per un call for works per flauto e fixed media, abbandonato per difficoltà e dubbi riguardo la partitura del flauto. 
2 contrabassi, tape delay, e flauto (canale destro, tongue ram).


Project for a call for works for flute and fixed media, abandoned due to difficulties and doubts about the flute score. 
2 double basses, tape delay, and flute (right channel, tongue ram).

FIRST-Tongue Ram [disquiet0697]

Disquiet Junto Project 0698: Second Third
The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio.

I chose a track randomly from the lines thread last week and ended up with @xhg 's field recording (https://soundcloud.com/xhg/disquiet0697-sunday-morning-gardening).  All the sounds I used for the beat came from xhg's recording and I tried to take cues from it as well.  For example, I tried to match the steps in the middle section for the pace, 109BPM.  I used a resonator set to G# because the bell heard in the last third of the recording is roughly a G#.

Look what I Found in the Garden (Disquiet0698) (feat. xhg)

A slow, laid-back funk groove with jazzy sax, clavinet, deep fender jazz bass, and abstract synth textures.
Smooth, atmospheric, and slightly cinematic — the kind of track that lives between a modal jam and a chill-out or lounge beat.

Performed by DD - clavinet, electric bass, abstract synth, drum program.
With Miguel Yanover - Tenor saxophone

For this @disquiet challenge:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0720-one-from-two/

Golpe de Suerte - disquiet0720

Watch this piece being created: https://youtu.be/Oe3l1F4mfaU
A live performance for the Disquiet Junto #0721, built from the same patch used in the recent Badiou x Beckett sonic torment piece: https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-tormented?si=3390f301411545e0aac521e547afb785&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
This time, Badiou’s voice gives way to a thunderstorm I recorded in 2019 —
the same comb filtering and pitch clusters now sculpting rumble and rain into something more filmic and reflective.
A short meditation on resonance, weather, and thought.

🎧 Performed entirely in GRM Tools Atelier

More on the 721st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Well Weathered — The Assignment: Play along with a storm — at https://disquiet.com/0721/.

visuals (YouTube)

halF storM [disquiet0721]

Today, October 23, 2025, a storm rumbled through France, and I recorded an improvisation that captures its raw energy.

This track is a dark, mysterious duet between electric bass and thunder — attitude, rumble, and grit.

Photo by Artur Stanulevich

Gear used: electric bass with Seymour Duncan pedal tremolo, Lexicon reverb, and Valhalla Supermassive echo. Thunder and storm sounds sourced from my vault and online.

For @disquiet junto project https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0721-well-weathered

Stormy Thursday (Electric Bass & Thunder) - disquiet0721

Recorded, edited, mixed & mastered on 23 Oct 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA.

Synths, field recordings, effects

This piece incorporates a recording by Philip Goddard - https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/817001/

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 23 Oct 2025, Midtown, NYC, NY, USA

Music & art © 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

This original version of “Roll A Frozen Teenager Under Your Foot” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0721: Well Weathered. The Assignment: Play along with a storm

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

More on the 721st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Well Weathered — The Assignment: Play along with a storm — at https://disquiet.com/0721

Discussion - https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0721-well-weathered

Roll A Frozen Teenager Under Your Foot (disquiet0721)

Disquiet Junto 0721 invited us to provide musical accompaniment to a storm. 

This one made me think of my grandmother. She and I would sit in her glassed-in porch and drink tea while the storms of the Atlantic coastal summer raged outside, wind throwing sheets of rain against the windows, the sky purple with flashes of white, the thunder making the ground shake. 

She helped me understand the difference between awe and fear.

In recording this, I tried to be respectful of the storm as it happened. I did very little editing. I tried to give the storm plenty of room to move around in, saying what I needed to say in the spaces between the peals of thunder. 

Vintage Korg M3R synth over a field recording of a storm I made here in Chicago last July.

More on the 721st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Well Weathered — The Assignment: Play along with a storm — at https://disquiet.com/0721/.

Tea and Tempest (disquiet0721)

A recording of storm-force winds outside, including a few incidental noises, brewed up with a similarly stormy electronic sequence, sounds from various sources.

More on the 721st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Well Weathered — The Assignment: Play along with a storm — at https://disquiet.com/0721/.



Brewed Storm (disquiet0721)

Track created for Disquiet(0721) challenge.  Modular, hand percussion, acoustic guitar improvisation with storm field recording.

storm60210.wav by roblutz -- https://freesound.org/s/98286/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

More on the 721st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Well Weathered — The Assignment: Play along with a storm — at https://disquiet.com/0721/


I greet the storm and notes rain down-Disquiet(0721)

Moons of S (Buchla)

:: Live experimental eurorack composition limited to a few modules ::

George Crumb

:: getting close to Buchla territory here with Plaits at least to my ears :: Live take to 2 track, little heavy on the verb ::

Plaits Short Random

Experimental Monday

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.

I greet the storm and notes rain down-Disquiet(0721)

FrankH

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