Disquiet Junto Project 0715: Err Apparent

The Assignment: Make a mistake on purpose. Build something from it.

Step 1: Play something wrong and record it. The sequence could be a fumble at a keyboard, or a series of bum notes on a guitar, or a erroneous beat.

Step 2: Emphasize the flaws from Step 1 through repetition and variation, and in the process record a piece of music.

Deadline: Monday, September 15, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0715

Disquiet Junto Project 0715: Err Apparent

Recorded, edited, mixed & mastered on 11 Sep 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA.

Synth, samples, effects

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 21 Oct 2020, Manhattan, NYC, USA

Music & art © 2020, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “How Monotonous, Herr Pencil” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0715: Err Apparent. The Assignment: Make a mistake on purpose. Build something from it.

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

More on the 715th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Err Apparent — The Assignment: Make a mistake on purpose. Build something from it — at https://disquiet.com/0715/

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How Monotonous, Herr Pencil (disquiet0715)

Disquiet Junto's 715th prompt was simple: record yourself making a mistake on purpose, and emphasize the error through repetition. 

Long-time readers will know that I favor narrative in my pieces, so I created a little vignette: we listen in on a frustrated pianist in a parlor, as she tries to improvise on a piano with a bad E4. (The piece was improvised, but it was refined over a couple of takes.) 

Features synthetic piano, organic vocal, and ambient field recording.

More on the 715th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Err Apparent — The Assignment: Make a mistake on purpose. Build something from it — at https://disquiet.com/0715/.

Improv in A minor (on a piano with a sticky key) (disquiet0715)

My take on this was to use glitches or extraneous sounds that crop up in field recordings. These are usually edited out but here I extracted some from a couple of recordings and joined them to form a continuous sequence. After extending this sequence and adding a touch of reverb and delay I combined it with an evolving electronic drone.

More on the 715th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Err Apparent — The Assignment: Make a mistake on purpose. Build something from it — at https://disquiet.com/0715/.

Field Glitches (disquiet0715)

If there is one thing that I excel at, its a lack of technique. So this is a perfect Disquiet Junto assignment for me. I just received the wonderful Chromaplane from Koma Elektronik, and after watching videos of Passepartout Duo's performances, I tried my hand at playing sequences on the Chromaplane where the errors quickly started to replicate themselves. There are missed beats, missed notes and variations on a theme that don't quite work. But I soldiered on to the end. On top of that mix, I added some ambient meanderings, again with the Chromaplane which were sent through the "Cinema Everything" patch on the Zoia. Both tracks were sent directly to my recorder without any further editing, thereby keeping the errors intact!

disquiet0715

More on the 715th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Err Apparent — The Assignment: Make a mistake on purpose. Build something from it — at https://disquiet.com/0715/

Out of Tune with Maths(disquiet0715)

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0715: Err Apparent. The Assignment: Make a mistake on purpose. Build something from it.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0715 discussion thread on Lines:

This is a loose interpretation of the prompt since I used a recent recording that already had flaws rather than making a mistake on purpose. Last week, we took our dog Hanako to the beach. She loves to run around going after the bull kelp that washes up on the shore and tear them apart. Sometimes, she’ll collect them onto a big pile. I figured it would be cool to do some field recordings during our doggie beach day. As I was setting up, I realized that I had taken the spent batteries out of the Zoom F3 recorder and never replaced them. I did have a back up recorder, a Sony A10, but didn’t bring the windjammer for it. The weather was breezy but recorded several minutes of ocean sounds anyway. When I listened to the recordings that night, the audio was mostly wind noise. I thought I could salvage some of the beach ambience for this project.
 
I used a high pass filter in Ableton Live along, with additional effects, to cleanup and manipulate the recording so at least some of the ocean sounds came through. From there, added additional tracks using built-in instruments and Slate+Ash Ruins. This turned out to have a much more chill vibe than I originally imagined. 

More on the 715th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Err Apparent — The Assignment: Make a mistake on purpose. Build something from it — at https://disquiet.com/0715/

Beach and Kelp Drifts [disquiet0715]

Check out Pedro's music, he's awesome: https://soundcloud.com/speedphrenia
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pedro duarte: original track "chase the stalker"
FaceOnFigure: drums

'chase the stalker' by pedro duarte - FoF drummified version

2025-10-13

NLS-2025-10-13

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

A remix of The Algorithm of Impudence. No words this time. Glitch, distortion, collapse. It’s the sound of a system rotting from the inside. I didn’t make this to fix anything. I made it because I’m tired. Tired of pretending it’s fine. Tired of the noise. My mind’s worn out, and now my body’s sick too. This track is what leaks out when you stop holding it together.

The Decomposition of The Impudence

lirbefyl

This turned out a bit more Hallowe'en than I was expecting, but given the date, maybe that's OK 😁💀🎃

an autumn nightfall
the skeleton of a huge fish
drawn back by the sea.

Saitō Sanki (1900 – 1962) was a dentist who discovered his passion for haiku poetry in his mid-thirties, when his colleagues at the hospital in Soto Kanda convinced him to write a haiku for a collection. Later, he became one of the most important exponents of wartime haiku: he was imprisoned in 1940 during the government’s World War II persecution of controversial artists, and was officially forbidden to write until the end of the war.

haiku by Saitō Sanki: https://www.littermagazine.com/2023/07/review-sanki-saito-selected-haiku.html

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

more halF unusuaL

halF skeletoN [naviarhaiku617]



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moodexhibit.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-anomaly

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i've been watching a lot of twin peaks lately and wanted to record something inspired by its jazzy incidental cues. all on my eurorack system, some layering/tweaking in post. 

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More on the 722nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Spook Street — The Assignment: The Assignment: Make music for a haunted spy film — at https://disquiet.com/0722/.



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quince

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moodexhibit.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-anomaly

On "Welcome Anomaly" Mood Exhibit returns to electronic sounds with a fierce enthusiasm.
This new album contains some of the boldest and most adventurous electronic music from the mind of ME. - exploring IDM, electro, melodic electronica, and granular experimental, all with an emphasis on detail and evolution.

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Somewhere on the California Central Coast

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.

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