“Take the sound of the stone aging.”
Yoko Ono

Stones are the witnesses of: There are still deep connections to the archaic stories of our ancestors. We see the same skies, taste the same winds and tell the same stories about who we were and who we will become.

Stepping into the stones’s and sediments perspective: being exposed to the elements for ages and excavated, listening to the meandering tales of mankind.

More on the 643rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Stone Out of Focus — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a poem — at https://disquiet.com/0643/

This week’s project is based on a text by Yoko Ono, originally published in her book Grapefruit60 years ago, back in 1964.

tales from the archaic (disquiet0643)

ticket to the subconscious

Disquiet Junto  Project 0644: Event Horizon 
The Assignment: Record music for a party of your choosing.

My subconscious celebrates a party, I am not invited to. 

Composition: patterns, textures and small melodic captures assemble around a dancing theme.
Gear: Fiel recordings, Bruel&Kjaer lock-in-filter and noise generator, Roland D-50 (theme), SLATE + ASH cycles, Lea Bertucci Acoustic Shadows

Enjoy!

More on the 644th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Event Horizon — The Assignment: Record music for a party of your choosing — at https://disquiet.com/0644/

ticket to the subconscious (disquiet0644)

Interpretation of the spectral events of a long fading out gong

More on the 645th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Trap — The Assignment: Record something, slow it down, and then record over it — at https://disquiet.com/0645/

speed of sound (disquiet0645)

memories of concert walls

Long after the orchestra went from stage, the audience left the concert hall, the room has been cleaned: the walls still hold their musical resonances. Together with electricity, pipes, screws, wood and stone we listen to this phenomenon.

Disquiet Junto Project 0646: Empty Orchestra
The Assignment: Interpret the literal translation of “karaoke.”

The first two syllables are the Japanese word for “empty.” The final two syllables are an abbreviation of the Japanese word for “orchestra.” 

More on the 646th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Empty Orchestra — The Assignment: Interpret the literal translation of “karaoke” — at Disquiet Junto Project 0646: Empty Orchestra – Disquiet

memories of concert halls

memories of concert walls (disquiet0646)

There is poetry in self-contained mechanics, pressurized systems and circuits being part of a bigger circle.

Using field recordings of a waste-to-energy plant in the nearby forest. It supplies my city with heat.

Disquiet Junto Project 0647: Day Drone 
The Assignment: Make some daylight drones for Drone Day.

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More on the 647th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Day Drone — The Assignment: Make some daylight drones for Drone Day — at https://disquiet.com/0647/

machine day dream

machine day dream (disquiet0647)

Knock, knock, knock – making up personal pictures is a steady inner dialogue. Wether wrong or right pictures come up – the studied movements reminds me of a well trained shadowboxer.

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

punching pictures (disquiet 0648)

a motorola duet

Feature-Reel here: www.instagram.com/reel/C9GOZJ_ABse/

There is a certain beauty in additive synthesis. I can compute it with my early-8-Bit-Synthesizer, powered by an 68000 Motorola.

Working from zero frequency, there is an early starting point, when the algorithm takes over the numbers, the frequencies and delivers a sonic representation of their calculations. 

To us, there seems to be life in this. Especially, when imagining, that this only sound, could be calculated one time.

So, I did the same as the Fairlight and took the first approach of my improvised playing. I reduced the takes to only 1 – no retakes, no overdubs, no midi.

A kind of a duet concerning both singular attempts and open outcomes.

Due to computing times of about 5 seconds in between the – nearly not hearable – changes of sound, I had to place 2 little cuts.

Why compute? Maybe because it opens an untold gate to a special resonance and understanding a little about ourselves.

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More on the 651st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Why Compute? — The Assignment: Respond to a prompt from George E. Lewis — at Disquiet Junto Project 0651: Why Compute? – Disquiet

a motorola impromptu (disquiet0651)

The Assignment: Stop doing something you always do.

The track is based upon a percussive approach with a KORG wavedrum and has been added by an electric bass... and voice! 

Enjoy.

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

nisko (disquiet0653)

domino faith

The Assignment: Held tones, sharp edges.

New feature-reel: https://www.instagram.com/p/C-TaX47tnLk/


I had once a philicorda gm754 and gave it away too early.

Made entirely with audiothings philicorda-plugin.

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More on the 657th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Straight Edged — The Assignment: Held tones, sharp edges — at disquiet.com/0657/

domino faith (disquiet0657)

το ποτάμι

A re-amplification of the piece Kokytos for organ by Daniel Glaus.

Feature-reel: https://www.instagram.com/p/C-gEY75OoeY/

“Kokytos” is part of a series of organ improvisations that were recorded with a wide range of microphones placed both inside and around the instrument. This assignment will build on Glaus’ work and take it a step further.  

The Assignement:  
Re-amplify the recording, or elements of it, by playing “Kokytos” back over a loudspeaker. Use the pool of sounds resulting from the step before and compose a piece of your own, perhaps adding further sonic treatment.  

I stayed with the original piece, no further compositions.  

But I emphasized and re-amplfied the Kokytos, taking into account these five semantic axis:
- the pipe as long resonant space (speaker to a cardboard-pipe)
- the wind (speaker near to a ventilator)
- the air (speaker in distance to microphone)
- the transcendent (dry signal through a eg&g 5208 Lock-in-Filter, no reference-signal)
- the ear (speaker through the drum of my drum kit)

Enjoy and thank you for this opportunity.  

+++ More on the 658th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Re-Amplify — The Assignment: Re-record and re-compose an organ improvisation by Daniel Glaus — at https://disquiet.com/0658/

το ποτάμι (disquiet658)

black wave

find your stars
find your oceans

Incorporating the fabulous KORG MS-20 Samplepack AUGMENTED by @glitchkase. Find here: https://glitchkase.bandcamp.com/album/augmented-sample-pack

Using:
- Spitfire Audio Ólafur Arnalds Chamber Evolutions
- Spitfire Audio Albion Uist
- Slate + Ash Cycles
- Slate + Ash Choreographs

black wave

brave ashes

feature-reel on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_V4zdXu8j-/

heaven and earth 
still not rent asunder –
morning mist

Genkaibō | japanese poet and monk from the Edo period.


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Contribution for naviarrecords:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku556-heaven-and-earth/

Enjoy!

brave ashes (naviarhaiku556)

aeolian (dsiquiet0661)

Made of the sound of a small ventilator and wipers.

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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/

aeolian (disquiet0661)

taming ghosts

cascade sounds
 along a mountain path – 
the blistering heat

Haiku by Kubota Shunko

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Contribution for naviarrecords:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku558-cascade-sounds/

Enjoy!

taming ghosts

taming ghosts (naviarhaiku558)

caché (disquiet0663)

Feature-reel here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAB6YcrNYpE/

hear the hum of the drive
the quiet spin of bits
everything i‘ve ever known
caché
caché
caché

feel the spin of the drum
the riot king of lips
everything i‘ve ever seen
caché
caché
caché
caché

This week's assignment: 
- Step 1: take the sound of an HDD drive.
- Consider how that drive sound, even when quiet.
-  Step 3: Per Sloan’s proposal, “record music to harmonize with, or play against, the whirr.”

Gladly used this soundfile:
https://freesound.org/people/EverydaySounds/sounds/378913/?attribution=1
Failing Hard Drive by EverydaySounds -- https://freesound.org/s/378913/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Enjoy!

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More on the 663rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Drive Way — The Assignment: Record a piece of music that complements the hum and whir of a hard drive — at https://disquiet.com/0663/

caché

caché (disquiet0663)

static gaps

A fleeting impression of the search for deeper patterns – within and beyond.

Enjoy

static gaps

ACTC1

The piece is inspired by mRNA: copying and writing the same tiny information again and again in conducted variations. The ACTC1 is in charge building up the heart and cardiovascular muscle texture.

Enjoy!

ACTC1

My contribution for a piano challenge by the crow hill company. It should only be used one free plug by them – "attic grand piano".

https://thecrowhillcompany.com/composing-challenge/?utm_campaign=Linktree+Composing+Challenges

Enjoy

with a gaze

winter reverie

subcut elegy II

feature-reel: https://www.instagram.com/p/DDTRUqqtniu/

after having prepared intensively for a special live-event hosted by naviar records on Nov 24 2024, I recorded a final version of "subcut elegy" in full length. 

subcut elegy presents itself as a musical exploration of what lies beneath the surface—beneath the skin, beyond overt emotions and behaviors. By incorporating field recordings and sonic discoveries, and intertwining these with musical patterns, it creates a deeply personal narrative. Especially the last 4 minutes.

Really interested in your opinions.
Please enjoy!

subcut elegy II

silent pull
naviarhaiku578

one by one
praising and withdrawing inside -
winter moon

– Senjo –

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Contribution for naviarrecords:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku578-one-by-one/

Enjoy!


silent pull

Visual narration here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DF2N62CMIrR/

I used to be a rose.
A beauty for some.
holding me close,
but one by one, 
the leaves fell upon,
Now still, I have my thorns.
Still, I am a rose.

leaving thorns

phantom ember
naviarhaiku579

– Visual narration here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DF7ubABgFeX/ –

Mount Asama 
amidst its fumes and ash 
fresh young leaves!

– Yosa Buson –

The event Bosun refers to is the eruption of Mount Asama in 1783, which instantly killed over 1,000 people. The toxic ash traveled 100 miles to Edo, making farmland useless and causing many more people to starve.
One of the four great haiku masters, Yosa Buson studied both Japanese and Chinese poetry. He was also an accomplished painter, and most of his poems were accompanied by paintings, resulting in a more diverse and individual set of works than the one by his main historical influence, Basho.

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Contribution for naviarrecords:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku579-mount-asama/

Enjoy!

phantom ember

skyborn

feature-reel on IG: https://www.instagram.com/p/DGWa6GIuepS/

thank you, dad
to all we miss

inspired by our way to the Arctic of Norway

skyborn

violet ex machina | feature-reel here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DGy6GSnAQ3a/

here and there 
upon scorched field
s wild violets
 
– Arii Shokyu-Ni – 

Arii Shokyu-Ni was a haiku poetess during the Edo period who began a wandering life after running away from her husband at 29 with the haiku poet Kohaku. Just like Matsuo Basho, "the Nun Shokyu" traveled to the Deep North of Japan.

Contribution for naviarrecords’ Haiku 582.

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku582-here-and-there/

violet ex machina

Feature-reel here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DHUYcO2tL66/

Lingering in a monastery of his own, heavy with history—perhaps light with what’s to come. Molt traces a crucial transformation.

Enjoy!


molt

unbound
(naviarhaiku587)

Feature-reel here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIGwWAouYFa/

Where wind lifts pages and rooftops echo.
 A piece for the powers of play— and the wide horizon within.

Based upon this haiku:

paperweights
on the store’s comicbooks –
spring breeze

– Takai Kito –

Takai Kito is a disciple of Yosa Buson. Despite becoming a professional haikai master in 1771, Kito remained one of Buson's most trusted disciples until the death of the great master and was the de facto coordinator of Buson's haikai group.

Contribution for @naviarrecords’ Haiku 587.

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku587-paperweights/

unbound

sulfurtopia
(disquiet692)

feature-reel: https://www.instagram.com/p/DIzNJ_kuvMA/

A place of heat and decay
swallowed voices
rhythms spark from what remains

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More on the 692nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Combust a Move — The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track — at https://disquiet.com/0692/

sulfurtopia

undersung


a voice, half-remembered
shifts between signal and space —
singing walls

Live-improvisation with the 2020-semi-modular-beat-machine

undersung

eons

feature-reel here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DI9sQ7MsGjF/

golden arc shivers —
new lights weave through ancient soil,
dust gives rise to skies

musical collaboration with the highly appreciated @petrus-major

eons is a sonic and visual journey into creation’s hidden pulse —
settling between the deep time of the earth and the boundless idea of eons.
I am deeply thankful for this collaboration.

Wanja Olten

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