In this little sketch entitled "HZ So Bad", I used Massive in Ableton to generate a note, which I tuned to 2600hz and then truncated and looped to sound like a rhythmic bell which the piece starts with.  I then added various tracks - simple guitars and soft bassoon to fill it out.

Hz So Bad(disquiet0542)

This is the first part of a 3-part collaboration for the Disquiet Junto. All the sounds used in this basic rhythm track (85bpm) are from a recent session where the numerous noises a bass guitar makes were recorded using a contact mic on the body of the bass rather than through the normal pickups.

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85bpM

halF numbereD [disquiet0591] 85bpM

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Feedback Filterbank (disquiet0595)

This track is meant to make the listener feel floating - like being in love. Of course there are also moments of uncertainty and confusion...
Being on cloud number nine translates to être sur un petit nuage - this explains the title.

More on this 603rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Animated Suspension (The Assignment: Record a piece of music that suggests something floating in air), at: https://disquiet.com/0603/

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un petit nuage (Disquiet0603)

Disquiet Junto Project 0603: Animated Suspension
The Assignment: Record a piece of music that suggests something floating in air.

Step 1: Consider various music techniques you might employ to suggest (or imitate, or insinuate) that something is floating in air.

Step 2: Select one of the techniques you considered in Step 1 and experiment with it a bit.

Step 3: Record a piece of music built around the technique you focused on in Step 2.

Eight Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0603” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your tracks.

Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0603” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation of a project playlist.

Step 3: Upload your tracks. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your tracks.

Step 4: Post your track in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co:

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Step 5: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: If posting on social media, please consider using the hashtag #DisquietJunto so fellow participants are more likely to locate your communication.

Step 7: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Step 8: Also join in the discussion on the Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

Note: Please post one track for this weekly Junto project. If you choose to post more than one, and do so on SoundCloud, please let me know which you’d like added to the playlist. Thanks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you. How long can something stay aloft?

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, July 24, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, June 20, 2023.

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Off the ground - disquiet0603

Crescent moon at the Ruidosa Springs (disquiet0603)

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Hippodrome3 (disquiet0618)

Disquiet Junto Project 0620: Beat Accrual Accrual
The Assignment: Turn someone’s slow-build beat into a finished track.

Step 1: In the previous project, people built beats that accrue slowly over time. Familiarize yourself with the instructions at disquiet.com/0619 5.

Step 2: Several of the musicians who participated last week have allowed their tracks to be reused for this project. The majority are in this playlist. If you’d like your track from the previous project included this week, just get in touch and let me know.


For this test I used 2 pieces from the previous compilation:
1) GoingModular - Disquieting Polyrhythm
2) fakeg3nius - [disquiet0619] Rhythm
 I was particularly fascinated by the loop, which with very few notes and chords manages to create this suspended sensation of strong melancholy and, at the same time, of hope. On the other hand, the response, dry and peremptory, of the phrasing and timbre of the drums. I added, at the beginning and end of the piece, some "disturbance" lines, always rhythmic.

Going Fake(disquiet620)

Recorded a lot of SOMA Terra Tracks the last days. Took one from 15.11.2023 and recorded guitar(through Microcosm Pedal)


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Approaches(disquiet0621)

Conceived, recorded, mixed, mastered 23 Nov 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, NY.

Photo taken 11 Sep 2017, Massapequa, NY

©2023 Jim Lemanowicz

Process notes -
This track started out as a loop that I made in FL Studio on 05 Feb 2005 called "orchomainb." I have folders and folders of these old FL loops on my drive and backup, maybe 100-200, starting around 2000/01.

I imported a piece of this loop, which was something like bass, drums and some strings into Ableton Live as a wav file and had Live create a melody MIDI clip from it.

A rough idea of the tools I used
- 8 native Live MIDI effects
- Arturia Piano V3
- several of Live's and Arturia's delays and compressors
- Puremagnetik's Partikl delay
- Mastered with Ozone 9 on a fairly gentle setting.

This original version of "Pinch Appeal" was submitted as part of ​Disquiet Junto Project 0621: The Leftovers. The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new.

“Recent” is relative here - I have recordings back to the 80s. The early 2000’s was the first time I amassed more of my own audio (and photos, btw) than I could use, so I reached back to that time. I wanted to honor that time in my life today.

It would also be fair to note that I have about 4-8 albums/releases under this name that remain unreleased.

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This track was originally released under the artist name "Our Quiet Fog."

Hz So Bad(disquiet0542)

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