This week's Disquiet project asked us to thin k about times when talking doesn't help. I thought about the way corporations are now talking about "mental health" and "mindfulness" and I think that they might be better thinking about how they could pay us better and reduce our working hours. So this is in tribute to corporate "mindfulness".

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three step breathing [disquiet0532]

capsule for red fish (disquiet0534)

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More on this 534th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Transition Capsule (The Assignment: Record music to help people efficiently reorient between two zones) — at: https://disquiet.com/0534/

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Coffee And Pop Tart Break (disquiet0534)

Transition Capsule - from one meeting to another must (at least in my case)involve coffee.  So in this piece, I tried to find a combination of darkness and lightness that brings the components of a Cortado together.  Piano, some synths along with trumpet and bass clarinet, the latter 2 representing espresso and milk in equal measure.

Cortado(disquiet0534)

Recorded & mixed Mar 24 & 27 2022 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

Synths, trains, effects. 

Includes manipulated freesound railway samples by robinhood76 (freesound.org/people/Robinhood76/packs/3729)

©2022 Jim Lemanowicz

This original version of "Train Dosage" was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0534: Transition Capsule.  Record music to help people efficiently reorient between two zones.

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This track was originally released under the artist name "Contraction America."

The Stuff You Gave Me Yesterday Didnt Work At All

Train Dosage (disquiet0534)

More on this 534th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Transition Capsule (The Assignment: Record music to help people efficiently reorient between two zones) — at: https://disquiet.com/0534/

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A Temporary Reprieve (disquiet0534)

This is an invitation to make the transition between two online meetings a practice of mindfulness - let your thoughts drift away in the stratosphere...

This track is intended as means of calming down - as suggested by the Disquiet Project 0534 especially in situations between two virtual meetings. The listeners shall get into the vibe, then follow the music to concentrate on their inner selves, and let all thoughts drift away like clouds. Mindfulness is a wonderful way to stay sane in this accelerating world.

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Stratospheric Transition (Disquiet0534)

Recorded on a train between Boston and New York, 31 Mar 2022, between 11:15am and 11:30am by Jimmy Lem for Blister Pop Unlimited.  

©2022 Jim Lemanowicz

This original version of "mice three mice mice" was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0535: Jigsaw Disjunction. Break a familiar melody into pieces and play it in a different sequence.

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Process notes -
This was recorded using Xynthesizr by Phonolynth, Eventide Ultratap, and Supergroup Audiosave within Audiobus 3 on an iPad Mini 4.

Xynthesizr allows the use of randomization and custom scales - my scale here consisted of only the first five notes of a major scale - do-re-mi-fa-sol.

This track was originally released under the artist name "Code Abandon."

mice three mice mice (disquiet0535)

New album "Lungs" out now!

This album emerges from the rediscovery of an accordion following the loss of a close relative an instrument that had been a constant companion throughout their life, weaving itself into the fabric of childhood memory. At its core lies the recognition that both human and
accordion share the same essential act: breathing.

The accordion becomes a meditation on mortality and memory, its bellows expanding and contracting like "lungs", its air valve releasing pure breath without melody—the raw pneumatic essence of life itself. Every sound originates from this single instrument, largely unprocessed, preserving the intimate relationship between human touch and mechanical response.

It’s an investigation of how an instrument can hold the memory of hands that no longer play it. The mechanical whispers, the subtle articulations of metal and leather and wood become a language of remembrance, breathed rather than spoken.

capsule for red fish (disquiet0534)

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