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Disquiet Junto Project 0669: Phonosynthesis

The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate.

A scientific research paper this month documented evidence that sound can help fungus grow. The conclusion: “Demonstrating a tangible impact on fungal activity, our findings suggest that carefully tuned acoustic parameters might be able to enhance ecological processes.”

Record music to help a forest grow. Imagine an array of solar-powered speakers is spread through a forest-in-need. Or come up with another deployment scenario of your own imagining. What sort of music would you play for the forest to encourage its regeneration?

The research paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0295.

Coverage in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/science/fungus-sounds-growth.html

The paper is the work of four people from the College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, in Australia.

Thanks to Michael Rhode for having shared with me the research coverage.

Deadline: Monday, October 28, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0669

Disquiet Junto Project 0669: Phonosynthesis

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I’ve always had plants in my studio, and someone once told me that even if sunlight is limited, the constant presence of music playing every day helps keep the plants healthy.

I don’t know about that, , but they look great and seem to grow steadily.

“Record music to help a forest grow.”

I believe that simply having musicians play acoustic instruments in the forest would only bring good to it.

Here I just played “woody”, natural percussion instruments, bamboo drums, wood sticks and blocks, conch shells, cuica, marimba, bombo legüero, talking drum and some other toys. I recorded 3 versions, this is the “fast” one.

Rain Forrest (Fast) - disquiet0669

Phonosynthesis

Disquiet Junto | Phonosynthesis - disquiet0669

According to my research of various websites, the consensus seems to be that calmer types of music are more conducive to plant growth. This track was created using Pure Data & various plugins, etc.
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Dendrosymphonic (disquiet0669)

Regeneration(disquiet0669)

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0669: Phonosynthesis
The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0669 discussion thread on Lines:

Hope the music that we've all created will help forests to grow and flourish. The trees and their friends here in our yard seemed appreciative when I played this for them. 

Created with Ableton Live using Slate+Ash Choreographs, Spectres, and Max4Live devices along with loops, samples and field recordings. Valhalla Delay and Arturia Fragments were used for effects. Photo is from a native Monterey Pine forest next to where I live here in California.  

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Daydream Forest [disquiet0669]

Gallery Six - Hyoukai 
Taken from the upcoming album Vibrancy
CD/DIGITAL 
Releases March 17, 2017

PRE ORDER: https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/vibrancy

Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, limited to 40 copies. 
Handmade artwork, each hand numbered.
Brown kraft wallets with envelopes. 
Wallets 250g paper, outside cover envelope 120g paper.
Photo's.

Also available: Vibrancy CD + Gasansui CD
Package contains Gallery's Six new album "Vibrancy" and the 2015 "Gasansui" album
Last copies of first pressings of "Gasansui"
Only 20 packages available
Download codes for "Gasansui" will be send to you after the purchase
Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's
Handmade artwork, each hand numbered.
Brown kraft wallets with envelopes + Different colored wallets with envelopes.
Wallets 250g paper, outside cover envelope 120g paper.
Photo's. 

例えば 
僕はペンを握る 
彼女はコーヒーを注ぐ 
俯瞰すれば 
それらは蠢動 
すべては漲る 
そしてわずかに振動している 

Track list:

1. Frost formation
2. Hyoukai 
3. Integral 
4. Soft hail 
5. Cast anchor
6. Efflorescence 
7. Harumeku 
8. Accretion 
9. Rise with the sun 

All tracks by Hidekazu Imashige 
Mastered by Early Reflections

Gallery Six - Hyoukai (Taken from "Vibrancy", release date 17.03.2017)

Warmth's new album ambient 'Home' is the first vinyl release on Archives. Comes in a Double Vinyl with pictures by Alexander Kopatz. Also on Double CD with each one of the original pieces revisited by talented artists, including: Hotel Neon, SineRider, Leandro Fresco, Purl, SVLBRD, Chris Weeks, Tone Color and Robert Farrugia.

Written and produced by Agustín Mena.
Remixes by Hotel Neon, SineRider, Leandro Fresco, Purl, SVLBRD, Chris Weeks, Tone Color and Robert Farrugia.
Mastering by Rob Small.
Photography by Alexander Kopatz.
www.go70north.com
ARCHIVESCD21 | 2017

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Warmth - Anchorage (Leandro Fresco Remix)

'Purity' is the first full release on Archives by talented russian artist Alex Bober. 

Mastering by Ian Hawgood 
Photography by Alexander Kopatz 
www.go70north.com 
Archives51 // ArchivesCD32 
Archives / 2018

purity

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Alex Bober - Caress

Adriaan de Roover, who is also known as Oaktree (check out a few of his excellent mixes for Headphone Commute), announces a new EP, titled Voor anderen, with which he joins a Belgian imprint, Dauw. The label has been on the forefront of delicate ambient music, working with graphic artist Femke Strijbol "to create a unique hand-made piece of art that flatters both the ear and the eye." With this new release, they welcome Maarten De Naeyer as a new in-house graphic designer to continue the visual identity while opening up the door to new artists. I continue to be happy with their choice of album covers, which "engage interactions between different art disciplines." The work of Adriaan nicely slots among the label's catalogue, with its soft blurry hues of minimalism, micro-drone and environmental sound. On the EP, elegantly combined organic textures blend with their electronic parallels, sweeping the wide-ranging frequency spectrum across glitters and bass. The selection features commissioned pieces between 2015-2018 "merging feelings of distance and proximity into melancholic sonic entities."

Voor anderen

TRACK PREMIERE : Adriaan de Roover - Voor Damiaan

Somewhere on the California Central Coast

Daydream Forest [disquiet0669]

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