I felt like the music worked very well tto evoke the mood of the poem. The dark sustaining tones, the crinkles the metallic clanking echoing in a big space.

I can feel craggy heights, the rough wind... this is impressive

Lines post can be found here: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0680-reverse-resolution/70376/21

**Disquiet Junto Project 0680: Reverse Resolution**  
The Assignment: Finish something (musical) you started last year.

This project has just one step: finish something you started last year, likely a piece of music you left unfinished.

#### Background
It's been a long time since I played anything on keyboard. For the last six months, my electric piano has been sitting up vertically against the studio wall, covered with a sheet and pretty much neglected. During my staycation (almost at an end now) I'd come into the studio, and just before I decloaked the keyboard, I'd get distracted or discouraged somehow.

I thought about the keyboard in relation to this week's assignment and recalled that I had a chord progression that I'd been meaning to do something with. So that's where this started.
#### Studio approach

The chord progression itself is very simple and revolves around a Bb Major 7th in second inversion (F-A-Bb-D) which occasionally resolves to a Dm7 and/or G7. This forms the scaffolding for the track, with degrees of improvisation after resolving to the Dm7.

I found a bass melody which could lead into these chords and played these on an electric (Rhodes-like) piano patch, with the chords played on the piano patch. Beneath this was a spare 3/4 click, which once the piano parts were in place, I used an ML-generated drum pattern with tweaked parameters.

An electric guitar largely compliments the piano chords and steadily opens up a bit, whilst a myriad of synth patches are introduced to provide a bit of atmosphere. Lastly, I included a field recording as a backdrop. This was a recording from new year's day in a national park on the Fleurieu Peninsula.

I guess I could sum up the mood of this track as 'wistfully pensive', much like my general outlook for this year.

[Disquiet Junto 0680] Time Removed, Facing Backwards

picked up an ableton live session from last year, with a recording from my modular system - notes at the time mention using a matrix mixer for effects sends with feedback, one send to delay and another to beads, with a chord voice going in - revisiting this recording, i ended up layering two slower copies pitched down -1 and -2 octaves and working in some field recordings.

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More on the 680th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reverse Resolution — The Assignment: Finish something (musical) you started last year — at https://disquiet.com/0680/

disquiet0680 - bilinear form

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 16 Jan 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Using an AI-generated drum generator I had put together this week, I generated some midi, used some for bass and some for drums. I won't get into too many details but the sustained sound is a bassoon or sample or something. It reminded me a little of Cale's viola on the first VU.

For this I thought of some innocent with headphones on...in some 80s shock suspense horror film out for a walk after an argument with the parents unaware that they were being followed by some evil thing. Kind of lulled away from intense emotion and zoning out to something not too engaging but not without movement. Maybe the result of the Walkman's radio dial getting stuck after the device was thrown.

This might sound contrived but as I was coming up with this I was thinking of David Lynch's Wild At Heart and the loop of Wicked Game in the car crash scene. This was about 45 min before I knew he had died. I am sad beyond belief.

Artwork/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, Massapequa, NY, USA - 11 Sep 2016

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “Mars In The Nondeterministic House” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0681: Drama Course. The Assignment: Record a piece of music to transform a walk or a run into something theatrical.

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

More on the 681st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Drama Course — The Assignment: Record a piece of music to transform a walk or a run into something theatrical — at https://disquiet.com/0681/

Check the thread here for a screenshot of the AI "drum machine" (it doesn't actually make a sound, just a MIDI export but I do have a Max For Live version, too). It's influenced by "the current position of Mars." https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0681-drama-course/70495/3?u=blisterpop

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Mars In The Nondeterministic House (disquiet0681)

More on the 681st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Drama Course — The Assignment: Record a piece of music to transform a walk or a run into something theatrical — at https://disquiet.com/0681/

I am in the fortunate situation that I can walk to work. So I recorded this short walk of about 8 minutes. Most of it is along a small river, a bit away from traffic. About half way, I cross the river over a small waterfall and later recross it over a wooden bridge. The walk ends with a beep of the badge reader.

There is some natural drama on this walk with birds and sounds of the river. What would make it more dramatical would be a lot more people (instead of the two dog walkers I say hello to). So I took this as an excuse to go crazy with speech synthesis, which I probably use far too often. I have a very soft spot for Plaits “Alpha Tango Foxtrot”. So there you have it: added drama. Lovely walks to everyone!

Disquiet0681 - La-la-la / Foxtrot

Composition pour le Naviar Haïku Music challenge 579.
Sur un haïku de Yosa Buson:
Mount Asama
amidst its fumes and ash
fresh young leaves! 

www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/


Mount Asama

Part of the Naviar Haiku Music Challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

SONG 74 - Naviarhaiku581

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
584
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku584-heaven-and-earth/

2025-03-13

heaven and earth ( Naviarhaiku 584 )

My contribution to the Naviar Records Haiku Challenge 584.

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