Name: Are You Happy? by Wesley Bennett
Duration: 6 min 35 s
Description: Recorded 1 time at home here in Bournemouth.

Superb song. Great sounding kit. Fantasic vocal and harmony. Excellent guitar work and bass line. And the fiddle is fab. It sounds truely wonderful. Real instruments played by people all feeling and delivering the same vibe. Dig your work matey.

Homily from the Solemnity of All Saints.

Live so that this day will one day be your feast day.

Mass Readings from November 1, 2022:
Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14
Psalms 24:1-6
1 John 3:1-3
Matthew 5:1-12

11/01/22 All Saints

Mudo

Boots On The Ground

It don’t repeat but it rhymes
And we sure live in interesting times
Gotta know when you’re beat
Or you’ll never get back on your feet

And you can’t understand
You’re just talking to the hand
And we don’t figure 
In any future they planned

Get your shit together
Hell for leather
Gotta stop pissing around
Cos you’ve been struck dumb
But the time has come
For putting Boots On The Ground

And you fall for it all
Over and over again
It’s big bucks and it sucks
Like a total eclipse of the brain

So you give them a pass
Like you’re smoking the wrong kind of grass
And wind up 
With bite marks all over your ass

Get your shit together
Hell for leather
Gotta stop pissing around
Cos you’ve been struck dumb
But the time has come
For putting Boots On The Ground

Boots On The Ground

Cosmic Ambient
"Among the colonnades of a celestial cathedral"

https://youtu.be/85NA01Q_FEk

Music - By Stu King
Korg Monologue Synth
NLDR
Virtual Instruments
Mix in Cubase

Field Recording- by klankbeeld
https://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld

Supernal

Cygnus Loop

Recorded 1 time at home here in Bournemouth.

Are You Happy?

Original Score inspired by the Charlene Elsby novel Hexis

Get In The River

An experiment in genres cross-over(Ambient, Dub, Shoegaze, Post-Rock, Trip-hop?) reaching outside the realm of my usual creative practices.

Back to my roots - playing electric bass - and exploring baritone guitar, somewhere between floating ambient guitar-scapes soaked in reverb and uplifting dub. Both of which I associate with skies/flying/up.

A shoegaze dub? Ambient dub post-rock? anyway, it’s 4:30am, i need to catch some sleep.


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The Assignment: Record a piece of music that suggests something floating in air.

Step 1: Consider various music techniques you might employ to suggest (or imitate, or insinuate) that something is floating in air.

Step 2: Select one of the techniques you considered in Step 1 and experiment with it a bit.

Step 3: Record a piece of music built around the technique you focused on in Step 2.

Floating - Shoegaze Dub [disquiet0603] [Draft]

Disquiet Junto Project 0611: Music That Listens to Itself
The Assignment: Record a piece of music that repurposes itself as it proceeds.

Background: On September 29, 2023, there is going to be an event at a place called the Berkeley Alembic, in Berkeley, California, where I’ll play recordings of music that share a specific theme, and I’ll discuss the sounds with the people who come to listen. The event is titled Music That Listens to Itself, part of the Expanded Listening series developed by Erik Davis (Techgnosis, Burning Shore). That is the theme. Part of the goal of this project is to develop tracks for potential inclusion in the event, and to pursue ideas related to the event’s theme.

Step 1: The underlying idea is to produce music that, so to speak, listens to itself. This would be music that employs techniques to revisit itself — repurposes itself — as it proceeds. From reverb to echo to tape loops to granular synthesis to accessing a buffer, various techniques serve such a compositional and performance purpose. Consider a means to achieve this result.

Step 2: Record a piece of music that employs the technique you focused on as a result of Step 1. Please note: for the Berkeley Alembic event, I’ll be sharing music that is particularly quiet, particularly appropriate to a meditative state of mind. You don’t need to record quiet music for this project, but quiet music is what I’ll be playing at the event.

Additional details: disquiet.com 1. Tickets: eventbrite.com 3. About the venue: berkeleyalembic.org 1.

Eight Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0611” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your tracks.

Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0611” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation of a project playlist.

Step 3: Upload your tracks. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your tracks.

Step 4: Post your track in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0611-music-that-listens-to-itself/

Step 5: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: If posting on social media, please consider using the hashtag #DisquietJunto so fellow participants are more likely to locate your communication.

Step 7: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Step 8: Also join in the discussion on the Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

Note: Please post one track for this weekly Junto project. If you choose to post more than one, and do so on SoundCloud, please let me know which you’d like added to the playlist. Thanks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you. About 10 minutes maximum is best, and probably no shorter than three minutes.

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, September 18, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, September 14, 2023.

Upload: When participating in this project, be sure to include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

Download: It is always best to set your track as downloadable and allowing for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution, allowing for derivatives).

For context, when posting the track online, please be sure to include this following information:

Are You Happy?

Wesley Bennett

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