(((best listened to with headphones)))
A sound haiku for this week's Disquiet Junto based around binaural field recordings taken in Suquamish and Bainbridge Island, Washington - Cascadia.
The "Sound Haiku" and the instructions for making them were shared as part of the Sound Environments (Sound II) class that I am currently Teaching at Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Kinetic Imaging.

More on this 482nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Exactly That Gap (The Assignment: Make a musical haiku following instructions from Marcus Fischer) — at:

https://disquiet.com/0482/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0482-exactly-that-gap/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

210327 Puget Sound Haiku - disquiet0482

9’56''

Introductory note

‘in my maze’ is an independent sound composition based on a walk-in 3D installation that I developed in Second Life in 2024. It was inspired by my many years of work with the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse. To me, Second Life is not a game, but rather an artistic medium — a walk-in chat room complete with spatial stereo sound and 3D video. As a composer, builder and performer, I utilise its immersive capabilities in ways that transcend the concepts of commercial metaverses.

Avatars traverse my semi-transparent sound labyrinth, activating location-based sound objects and generating sound sequences that emerge from the situation. Their paths are an expression of their individual freedom to create sound in digital space. As with simultaneous chats, streams and background processes, time becomes fragmented and runs in parallel. Sonic coherence emerges through movement and interaction. 

Transformed swallow calls (natural sound), glockenspiel notes (human musical instrument) and modulated sine tones (digital world) intertwine to form a new tonal topology. Above a fundamental tone of 200 Hz, I construct pure minor thirds (6:5) that do not form octaves, producing audible beats. This is accompanied by my whispered text, 'Ancestralities' – a multilingual, poetic, fragmentary exploration of origin, inherited patterns, and emotional ambivalence towards one's own ancestry. 

By encoding interactive spatial structures as multi-layered sound forms, my maze subverts conventional listening experiences and deliberately sets transgressive impulses in motion. Rather than presenting 'internet music' as an aesthetic of permanent streaming, the composition offers an acoustic cartography of a metaverse in which the perception of time, identity and space can be experienced in sensual, fragmented and ambivalent ways. 

I 'play' my original Second Life installation as though it were an interactive instrument. Its spatial arrangement forms the tonal basis of an original fixed media composition. The labyrinth structure is translated into a rhizomatic network architecture comprising branching paths and an open form with no linear dramaturgy. Like the labyrinth itself, the text fragments reflect inner and genealogical turmoil.

A performance video by the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse documents the audiovisual context of my 3D installation in Second Life (https://youtu.be/4CRTNbabxw4?si=m6OJsFsW7oPFxEeA&t=1255, from 20:08). All the sounds you hear were played in real time by the avatars in Second Life during the performance. This is not a recording or post-production soundtrack.

in my maze (2025)

everyone leaves eventually.

plasticity

Thanks to Rasping Boy (@novpko) for allowing me to rework his track :)

Tephomab did it again.

Rasping Boy - Uncultivated (Tephomab's UnRedux)

This is my re-hash of Boson Spin's sublime tracks "Stay, friend, wait a bit" (parts 1 & 2).

For more on Boson Spin's stunning work, go to:
https://soundcloud.com/boson_spin

"Stay, friend, wait a bit" by Boson Spin (Wodwo Rethink)

A new rework by Pete Swinton (SRIGALA) on my track Alternate Reality!
Original track: https://soundcloud.com/aktina/aktina-alternate-reality
Srigala on soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/peteswinton
Photo-cover by Asterios (AKTINA)

AKTINA - Alternate Reality (SRIGALA remake)

Music by TOAC https://soundcloud.com/oxfordambient and https://soundcloud.com/peteswinton
Field recording and sonopoetry by https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa
pic by IB, Venice 2020, bracing detail

Sustain poem is part of 'About Sounds About Us' 2019 book of poems.

'Sustain

There is a way to generate 
a multitude of undefined spaces
Sound designs density and sparseness.
It’s in endurance, the iteration of pitches 
processed.
Separate what is spurious and ancillary. 
Disclose the pieces.
Deconstruction over construction.

While I walk
I scan the clumps of dirt.
I wonder about the gram of mud.
Sustain each second
of us.'

Prehension (Pete Swinton   TheOxfordAmbientCollective   Ilaria Boffa)

6 MONARCH

Picture reference: http://www.increscita.com/il-divenire-e-larmonia/

Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers. We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not. No man ever steps in the same river twice. Everything changes and nothing remains still and you cannot step twice into the same stream.
Heraclitus

Claudio Ferrari: electronic devices - percussions - shamanic singing - vocal intrusion.
Alessandro Bona: flute - bass flute - futujara - sopranino recorder - ethnic flutes - electronic devices percussions - bottle - bunch of keys - vocal intrusion.

Werden (part two)

This is my submission for this week's Disquiet assignment.

The two people playing together here are different instances of myself -- the experimental electronics guy of recent years, and the "traditional" guitarist of yesteryear. They had this jam when they met.

Enjoy the duo, and here's some more insight about this project:


More on this 468th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mirror Rorrim (The Assignment: Create a new persona for yourself, and record a duet together), at:

https://disquiet.com/0468/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0468-mirror-rorrim/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Dual(disquiet0468)

Cover picture reference:
https://www.sovrapposizioni.com/blog/sul-materialismo-trascendentale-intervista-ad-adrian-johnston-parte-i.

Profile picture reference:
https://www.facebook.com/IMaestriDelSocialismo/posts/783527791849174/.

Werden (part two)

Dia.Mat