The Disquiet Junto is a group in which musicians respond to weekly, fast-turnaround projects to compose, record, and share new music — and provide feedback to and receive feedback from fellow participants. The idea is to use the constraints inherent in these assignments as a springboard for creativity. The first Junto project began on the first Thursday of January 2012, and the series has continued weekly since then. It was founded by and is moderated by Marc Weidenbaum.  Find out more at https://disquiet.com/2013/04/25/disquiet-junto-faq/

My Disquiet Junto

I recorded throwing ice cubes into the best crystal glass I own. a long stem glass which is the last of a set of six. It makes a beautiful ringing sound no matter how you hit it. All the sounds are made from the ice and the glass, including the ringing, and my voice.

I used a 32 bit float field recorder that I bought recently to test turning up very small sounds, like the glass ringing. Works well. The sounds are treated with Ableton to vary them (played back on a midi keyboard, then mixed and moved around), and for my voice I used, also for the very first time, a Korg Kaoss Pad 3 that I just acquired.

See photo of the glass.

Disquiet0627 ICE NINE

Took an old piece - is is music? Well, I came to “music” from a reverse angle. I was a spoken word radio producer in the 80’s, then got attracted to audio art, moved to Europe, tried installations, and found myself in the experimental music world. So this piece is from about ten years ago, and has been rejigged by me. I did it simply, using Ableton but not enhancing with synth.  Next time.

Disquiet0629DaysAreShort

A poetry collaboration with Jeff Gburek, me in France, him in Poland. 

You're Alive (For Jeff Gburrrrrrrrek)

Response to Junto 0650 - a chance to try out Granulator III in Ableton 12, and my Korg Monolog, which of course has sirens - and to sing crazy

Disquiet0650SheppardsSirens

Singing fridge and fan - and couldn't resist singing along.

More on the 661st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Consumer Drone Product — The Assignment: Record a piece of drone music using sounds from your home — at https://disquiet.com/0661/

Fridge vs Fan (Disquiet0661)

Competing against myself, with electronics. What else is new?
More on the 662nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Spin Cycle — The Assignment: Record a piece of music that pits one bicyclist against another — at https://disquiet.com/0662/

Disquiet0662YaWinSomeYaLoseSome

Autobiography Of A Tree

[What I Found on Pluto](https://on.soundcloud.com/2vcNNmGgdCa2ujddA)
I made this track by selecting my favorite little recordings from many years - all recorded by me - many of them are my voice, some are animals, tiny snippets harvested from past field recordings, many accidental - then I did a survey of effects in Ableton that I wanted to explore and treated everything, learning about various parameters until I got the atmosphere I wanted - a great practice opportunity. The photo is one I took of a balloon flight, altering the colors.

What I Found on Pluto (disquiet0671)

Dead of summer

An excerpt from a radio essay about living in Flanders, a collaboration with Helen Engelhardt and part of a trilogy.

Excerpt unquiet graves

French summer

a radio piece featuring sound discovered in the WNYC archives and the recorded voice of Jan Kerouac. 

Jan On Jack

A composition performed by me, using actuality sounds, voice, efx. Like most of these tracks, these are sound poems but also designed as short live sets to be performed with other players or solo.

Give Us This Day

Jeff Gburek, him in Poland, me in France, met on the internet and this is another of our hand-off pieces. It is part of a series we loosely call LIVES OF THE POETS. This one is about the prickly problem of ambition, strange ones.

STRANGE AMBITIONS

Lives of the Poets, collaboration with Jeff Gburek. This edition features poetry elements from Poland.

Lives Of The Poets Two

Story improvisation with Raphaelle Duquesnoy on stand up bass with effects. Excerpt from That Tuesday sound art podcast.

Man On The Corner From That Tuesday

audio poem performed at Offbeat in Lille March 8, 2018

FACES

all sounds performed and recorded in my courtyard as spring starts to dig in 90 sec.

COURTYARD SONG

One of the collection of piecdes I made for an installation at La Brasserie in Fonquenvillers (62)
http://www.artbrasserie.com/

Germain's Photo

all sounds recorded in the kitchen - featuring the singing fridge and the tap I should change. Imperfections in mixing due to learning Ableton with Lite version!

KITCHEN SONG

Poem written and performed by Olivier Beneteau de Laprairie with musicians Vincent Mullie, Arthur Paté, François Jakubowsky, Marjorie Van Halteren, semi-improvisation. The Offbeat Sessions, La Rumeur, Lille.

"HOMME MILLE ET UNE COULEURS" LIVE

Sound artist and poet - American, living in the North of France. Member of Muzzix Collective.

Marjorie Van Halteren

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