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Disquiet Junto Project 0695: Clean After Each Use

The Assignment: Put a piece of music through the dryer.

Step 1: Think about lint for a moment — all the stuff that’s cast off from your clothes when you send them through the dryer.

Step 2: Now consider what might be cast off from your music if you could send your music through the dryer for a cycle or two.

Step 3: Select a piece of your own music, and send it through the metaphorical dryer. What results?

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0695” (no spaces/quotes) in the name of your track.

Upload: Post your track to a public account (SoundCloud preferred but by no means required). It’s best to focus on one track, but if you post more than one, clarify which is the “main” rendition.

Share: Post your track and a description/explanation at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0695-clean-after-each-use/

Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you. Keep it light?

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

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More on the 695th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0695: Clean After Each Use — The Assignment: Put a piece of music through the dryer — at https://disquiet.com/0695/

Disquiet Junto Project 0695: Clean After Each Use

perila & ulla 'silence mix' (3XL #03 for rádio quântica)

@0 EP1

Mt Baker

More on the 648th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Shadow Boxing — The Assignment: Employ shadow boxing as a musical metaphor — at https://disquiet.com/0648/

For quite some time traditional Taekwondo was my main hobby and I practiced it daily whenever possible - until my back told me to stop. In traditional Taekwondo, shadow boxing is an important element as you learn sequences of attacks and defenses against imaginary opponents. These sequences are called Hyeong. 

So for my piece, I thought about how one performs a Hyeong. Usually one is a bit excited, also maybe already really tired because of a long practice. So one tries to perform the movements in a steady, not too fast manner as precise as possible and put on a bit of show. Almost always, mistakes happen, which have to be covered up or integrated into the sequence. So the whole thing is a lot like performing a piece of music.

For the track I used Magpie on Norns. Magpie takes bits of midi you play into it and plays it back on all devices (here Novation Circuit and NTS-1). Everything (except the beat) was played live in one take with lots of mistakes - just like when you perform a Hyeong.

Disquiet0648 - Hyeong

More on the 653rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Break a Rule — The Assignment: Stop doing something you always do — at https://disquiet.com/0653/

A Peace At Dawn (disquiet0653)

OP1 Field, Chase Bliss MOOD MKII

More on the 655th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Soothing Sounds II — The Assignment: Make music for babies — at https://disquiet.com/0655/

Being & Becoming (disquiet0655)

More on the 669th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phonosynthesis — The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate — at disquiet.com/0669/

ether (disquiet0669)

Polygonia (House Set) | Blitz, Munich 2025

I totally LOVE this sign on a stairwell at Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire, UK, so I've enjoyed making it into a track! 😜 It looks to me like the figure is tap dancing down the stairs, so I've tried to capture that a little. Also, the stairs suggest a walking bass, but, as they are clearly falling or tripping, it (obviously) needed to be a little less step-wise! 😁

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/peak-district-derbyshire/kedleston-hall

More on the 688th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Sign Up — The Assignment: Interpret a routine public sign as a musical instruction — at https://disquiet.com/0688/

more halF unusuaL

halF triP [disquiet0688]

Disquiet Junto Project 0695: Clean After Each Use
The Assignment: Put a piece of music through the dryer.

I used "Waking Up in a Strange Room" from "Strange Rooms" https://krakenkraft.bandcamp.com/album/strange-rooms

The original from 2020 was heavy on delay and reverb. I removed all delay and reverb and even added two reverb-removing filters. So I "dryed" the sound. – I additionally made it shorter, because the dryer shrunked it. I changed all but the sequencer lines to strange sounds that are non-melodic, because the dryer changed the colour and totally ruined my clothing. – I like the result very much, because it's somehow an even wilder ride than the original.

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More on the 695th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0695: Clean After Each Use — The Assignment: Put a piece of music through the dryer — at https://disquiet.com/0695/

Discussion:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0695-clean-after-each-use/71665

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Some CC0 glitch sounds from:
youtu.be/P8Agc7G9098

Full Album

wake up in a strange room [disquiet0695]

More on the 695th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0695: Clean After Each Use — The Assignment: Put a piece of music through the dryer — at https://disquiet.com/0695/

disquiet0695

This one got my head spinning, in a good way. It so happens that this week’s challenge coincided with the arrival of the Ferrous from Landscape FM, which is basically a spinning magnetic disc that can be used to create resonances with iron based materials, such as steel strings. So I took the literal route on that one. Dryers spin. So does the Ferrous. The second step was to imagine what would be cast off and what would be left behind should I send my music through a metaphorical dryer. I decided to focus both on what would be left behind and what would be cast off. First, the heaviest instrument in our household would be left behind, which happens to be a concert grand piano that my partner inherited from her father who used to play jazz standards on it - something that no one else in our household can do, sadly. Also left behind, would be anything that I could fit in my pocket and clutch onto, which happens to be the ferrous. And cast aside — all the other instruments, cables and fluff that clutters most electronic studios. Remaining are only two elements - the grand piano and the Ferrous in my pocket, which together are the sources for what you hear. The sounds were captured with a field record (which I could also cling to), which include fumbling and traffic noises. There is one effect “Fragments”— the only one that I could hang onto. And that’s it. There is something to be said for lint.

Edited, mixed & mastered on 24 Apr 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA. 

Synth, loops & effects

Incorporates audio from two of my other pieces - 
https://soundcloud.com/blisterpop/i-am-outside-with-my-flag-naviarhaiku587
https://soundcloud.com/blisterpop/downstream-procrastination-naviarhaiku590

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 28 Jun 2009, Massapequa, NY, USA on the edge of the woods. 

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “Self-Cleaning Mausoleum” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0695: Clean After Each Use. The Assignment: Put a piece of music through the dryer.

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

More on the 695th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 
0695: Clean After Each Use — The Assignment: Put a piece of music 
through the dryer — at https://disquiet.com/0695/

Self-Cleaning Mausoleum  (disquiet0695)

quick track for the disquiet junto 0695. all source material is the noise/click/crackle only residue from Izotope RX on a field recording of some birds in the early morning

lint [disquiet0695]

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0695: Clean After Each Use. 
The Assignment: Put a piece of music through the dryer.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0695 discussion thread on Lines:

This is a somewhat loose interpretation of the assignment. I utilized an unfinished track created last year using the Max for Live Tombola.sequencer. Its shape and action resemble a spinning laundry dryer. I then took the audio and “dried” it adjusting parameters in the Smugi filter bank plugin by Felt Instruments as the track progressed. In addition, I added a field recording of our spinning clothes dryer that I recorded a few months ago. A supporting track was added using Slate+Ash Spectres. Effects used were Valhalla Vintage Verb, Phonolyth Cascade, Audio Damage Other Desert Cities, and built-in Ableton Live devices.

More on the 695th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0695: Clean After Each Use — The Assignment: Put a piece of music through the dryer — at https://disquiet.com/0695/

Some Fragile Waypoints [disquiet0695]

The first time I heard Emily Sprague’s music was on lines. Somebody posted a video of hers, 'Three Sisters + Harmonic Oscillator', that had captured their attention as a high watermark...and it’s easy to understand how. The straightforward and earnest exploration of a beautiful module, through a looped melody you could listen to for hours, seemed the work of a seasoned pro. Somebody else commented, revealing that the synthesist was Emily Sprague from the band Florist. While they brought up that Emily had just started working with modular synths in the last year, digging deeper revealed that the video was actually made in her second week.

Beyond the quality of her music, which has only swelled over the last year, what’s fascinating about Emily’s work is how public her process has been. While most whittle away for months, releasing new work only after long incubation, Emily seems to revel in sharing each step of her growth in realtime — a direct response to the trajectory of her own self-education.

If you’re new to modular synthesis, this is the episode for you. If you’re deeply settled, this is the episode for you. Emily has retained a beginner’s mind while leveraging her rich decade-long background as a musician, producer and engineer to create music that is playful and emotional, while remaining technically impressive.

As you’ll notice, there are more music breaks in this episode than previous ones — due to my own fandom and Emily’s generosity, you’re the first to hear the demos that will make up her much-anticipated modular album.

Beyond her talents, Emily is an insightful and passionate addition to the lines community and personally, I hope that her reflections help anyone who feels that their voice is un or under-represented in this field to join the conversation at llllllll.co

Emily Sprague: SOUND + PROCESS #8

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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