Name: Speak to the trees_disquiet0669 by Debroc in Disquiet Junto Project 0669: Phonosynthesis
Duration: 1 min 54 s
Description: More on the 669th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phonosynthesis — The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate — at https://disquiet.com/0669/

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

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

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

Dendrosymphonic (disquiet0669)

Regeneration(disquiet0669)

Speak to the trees_disquiet0669

Revealing the dark torch (naviarhaiku609)

So It Was

all changed changed utterly a terrible beauty is born - #4285 (94R47 251) by chair house 250907
(again, William Butler Yeats from May 22, 2025) 

*** NEW CATCHPHRASE FOR PIANO TEN THOUSAND LEAVES ***

" Gentleness, carried on 4,536 leaves of sound "

*** "PIANO TEN THOUSAND LEAVE" COMPLETE WORK ALBUM SERIES START ***

Now begins a new challenge:
to compile all 4,536 pieces into 91 albums
and deliver them to the future.
Just as "Ten Thousand Leaves ( Manyoushu ) " carried
the hearts of lovers across a thousand years,
we hope these piano pieces will reach
people a thousand years from now.

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VOLUME1-3
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*** youtube full video
https://youtu.be/ue7KsUBdLME?si=5UbdJelOAPjqboiJ
*** spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/album/6BAV5XloL6HDGboFeiE3VF?si=e4E-3zI0RqCt8aQNrnMHrQ
*** Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/the-complete-works-of-piano-ten-thousand-leaves-vol-1-3/1834912123
*** all music streaming services:
https://linkco.re/8RNRdEa3?lang=en


all changed changed utterly a terrible beauty is born - #4285 (94R47 251) by chair house 250907

As will as the haiku:

revealing in the dark
the sadness of things
a fisherman's torch

this also takes cues from the accompanying image, which together make up Naviar Haiku challenge 609, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

A bit of a change for this one, I didn't use anything modular and didn't do everything in a single take.   However with the waves field recording, chord sequence, (technically dyads), played using a custom patch for Dreamsynth from Cherry Audio:  https://cherryaudio.com/products/dreamsynth and the footsteps at the beginning in place. 

I then recoded volume automation for those elements allowing me to live mix them with my performance using the Creature From The ID stand alone synth by Giorgio Sancristoforo: https://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net/softwares which was passed through delay and reverb effects, in place as I recorded so I could judge their effect. 

With those main elements done I added the extra footsteps and buoy bell. After listening to the Creature sounds and deciding that in places they more resembled short wave radio interference than whale song I added the Morse Code.

Sounds used.

Waves - My own recording but available from freesound: Waves_on_a_Shingle_Beach by Mr_Lamppost -- https://freesound.org/s/800900/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Footsteps: walking slow on stones by launemax -- https://freesound.org/s/249921/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Buoy bell:  S29-19 Bell buoy.wav by craigsmith -- https://freesound.org/s/675693/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Morse Code - generated online using Morse Code Translator: https://morsecode.world/international/translator.html

The Sadness Of Things - (naviarhaiku - 609)

yet I number him in the song - #4288 (94R53 percent 248 left) by chair house 250910
(again, William Butler Yeats from May 22, 2025) 

*** NEW CATCHPHRASE FOR PIANO TEN THOUSAND LEAVES ***

" Gentleness, carried on 4,536 leaves of sound "

*** "PIANO TEN THOUSAND LEAVE" COMPLETE WORK ALBUM SERIES START ***

Now begins a new challenge:
to compile all 4,536 pieces into 91 albums
and deliver them to the future.
Just as "Ten Thousand Leaves ( Manyoushu ) " carried
the hearts of lovers across a thousand years,
we hope these piano pieces will reach
people a thousand years from now.

===================
VOLUME1-3
===================
*** youtube full video
https://youtu.be/ue7KsUBdLME?si=5UbdJelOAPjqboiJ
*** spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/album/6BAV5XloL6HDGboFeiE3VF?si=e4E-3zI0RqCt8aQNrnMHrQ
*** Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/the-complete-works-of-piano-ten-thousand-leaves-vol-1-3/1834912123
*** all music streaming services:
https://linkco.re/8RNRdEa3?lang=en

===================
VOLUME1-2 
===================
*** youtube: full video of 50 pieces 2 hours
https://youtu.be/fBmIMLpM10g?si=MQmAdF95M7GCm4Ve
*** spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/album/1KDM283kVS8x7fO9q79w2v?si=iIJ4sZidSqWW8ah59Y_a1g
*** Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/the-complete-works-of-piano-ten-thousand-leaves-vol-1-2/1832629621
*** all music streaming services:
https://linkco.re/VeA0UreQ?lang=en

===================
VOLUME1-1
===================
*** youtube: full video of 50 pieces 2 hours
https://youtu.be/YERNF74cvKw?si=6FiU67TOdybggkQk
*** spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/album/12vCnNiO4EfBz6eVPGhvOr?si=P3cL7RZSTV-87jeswyI8BA
*** Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/the-complete-works-of-piano-ten-thousand-leaves-vol-1-1/1831717286
*** all music streaming services:
https://linkco.re/Y9VNVN23

yet I number him in the song - #4288 (94R53 percent 248 left) by chair house 250910

Studio Composing in the  21st Century

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 610:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku610-dropped-glass/

Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!

Photo by zenbytes (Bretagne, France, 2018)

dropped glass - Naviarhaiku610

Little song for Yatsuka Ishihara haiku:

"Faring over the lake
drawing the light
an autumn butterfly"

Faring over the light (naviarhaiku612)

Full synth pastiche built around real NASA mission recordings.
Recorded and finished in one day (Thu, Oct 2).
Retro-futuristic, spacey, and playful — first contact imagined through electronics.

Cover photo: Venice, CA, ~20 years ago.


for this challenge:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0718-planet-jam-it/

alien says: (disquiet0718)

Youze Are

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.

Speak to the trees_disquiet0669

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