Disquiet Junto Project 0661: Consumer Drone Product
The Assignment: Record a piece of drone music using sounds from your home.

There is just one step this week: Record a piece of drone music constructed entirely from sounds that are byproducts of consumer electronics products (e.g., alarm, refrigerator, clock, HVAC, etc.) in your home.

Deadline: Monday, September 2, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

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/

Disquiet Junto Project 0661: Consumer Drone Product

fave listenings of this month

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settembre 2024

“musica assoluta” (settembre 2024)

Disquiet participations

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

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

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/

Tapeloop Fans And Fridges (disquiet0661)

A drone sequence derived from original recordings of a washing machine and a kettle.

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/

Domestic Duo (disquiet0661)

Recorded & mixed on 07 Nov 2009 & 30 Aug 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Process notes -
I started with a Nov 2009 “home field recording” I made using a small 1960s transistor radio to detect/probe electromagnetic fields around my apartment, which itself was inspired by Nicolas Collins’ book *Handmade Electronic Music.* 

I recorded this using a Sony Cybershot DSC-W50. I recorded things like computer hard drives, a Blackberry phone, a TV, an electric toothbrush, a microwave, a refrigerator and light fixtures using this technique. Not sure what made it onto this piece. 

I selected small pieces of this 9.5 minute recording and dragged them into a total of 11 tracks in Ableton Live. Some tracks use MIDI instruments and others play the tracks in real time or altered with Live’s warping modes.

Tools used -
Ableton Live, IRCAM IM-Mover, Slate + Ash Cycles, Ableton Granulator III & other native Live devices

The full audio/video for this “radio probe” source can be heard/seen on my YouTube here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK4vmRqBd68. 

I put together a small body of raw material inspired by the book back in 2009, some of it is still on YouTube. The YouTube videos use Magix Music Maker for video editing, IIRC. 

Artwork/Photography - Long Island, NY, USA, North Fork - 19 Oct 2008 - using the same Sony camera mentioned above.

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This original version of “Bags Of Mostly Verdant Electrons” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0661: Consumer Drone Product. The Assignment: Record a piece of drone music using sounds from your home.

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

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/

Bags Of Mostly Verdant Electrons  (disquiet0661)

They say that home is where the heart is. Sometimes, late at night, the sound of it beating can keep you awake.

Disquiet Junto 0661 invited us to devise a drone made from the sounds of consumer electronics and appliances around our homes. "It's Just an Old House Settling" is composed entirely from the dulcet tones of an air purifier, a DVD player, a dehumidifier, a ringing cell phone, a clothes dryer, a computer booting up, and an air fryer.

More about Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0661

It's Just An Old House Settling (disquiet0661)

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0661: Consumer Drone Project

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0661 discussion thread on Lines:

Recorded the following consumer electronics sounds using a Tascam DR-100MK3 digital recorder:
1. Static and noise in between AM radio station bands from a 1990s GE Superadio III.
2. The initial pre-wash stage of a Bosch dishwasher.
3. An oscillating tower fan recorded from behind.
Copied the three sounds on three tracks in Ableton Live, then added delay and reverb using Valhalla Delay and Phonolyth Cascade. Also used low cut and high cut filters with FabFilter Pro-Q3 at the beginning and end of each track. Rather than manipulating the sounds too much, I decided to keep them mostly as they were recorded. 

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/

Three Liminal Contrasts [disquiet0661]

Then She Reaches For The Gun was a one off project, bringing together more than 50 artists from across the globe, releasing an album in late 2022 nomatesensemble.bandcamp.com/album/the-…ely-future But it was so much fun we are back for more.

Que feras tu quand tu m’auras perdue?
(What will you do when you have lost me?) features the following Artists :

Angostura Elwar -  2 x Behringer CRAVE analog synths/Yamaha P200 electronic piano 
Antonella Eye Porcelluzzi - Text/Voice
Ambient Annie - Electric Guitar/Electronica/Voice
Axel Weiß - Electric Guitar
Dane Renshaw  - Drums
Oberlin - Eurorack
Paul Miller - Keyboards
Phil Bywater - Saxophones/Voice
Scratch Kelly - Beats
Texmex Shaman - Electric Guitar
Vartch - Tone Drone/Voice
Mat Ward - Bass Guitar/Arrangement

Then She Reaches For The Gun - Que Feras Tu Quand Tu M’auras Perdue?

“Cumulonimbus”

Art work: PublicDomainPictures via Pixabay
 
雲の腹雨を孕んで底昏くあらゆるものが壊れ始めた

The belly of the black clouds is pregnant with rain.
Everything began to break down.

Cumulonimbus

TOMBEAU DE DEBUSSY (2010) II.Ripples (first Version) for Piano Nicolas Kingman

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)

pict free wallpaper
really just a test - how to set up the instrument and play anything - just like that

2024-09-02

NLS - 2024 - 09 - 02 Nothing Serious - Just Play

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

[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)

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

Fridge vs Fan (Disquiet0661)

Marjorie Van Halteren