Nice - I absolutely hear both of these - great combo

Disquiet Junto Project 0624: Fresh Pair
The Assignment: Combine two influences, however disparate they may be.

Yesterday, the 13th of December, marked the 27th anniversary of Disquiet.com, and I figured it makes sense for this week’s Disquiet Junto to pay tribute to two cultural figures who have informed it.

Step 1: Think of two cultural figures who have made unique and strong impressions on you.

Step 2: Rather than think of what they have in common, think about the individual impact they have had on you.

Step 3: Record a piece of music that expresses the two, distinct forms of impact you arrived at in Step 2.


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


More on this 624th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Fresh Pair (The Assignment: Combine two influences, however disparate they may be), at: https://disquiet.com/0624/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0624-fresh-pair/

The photo of the painting, by Joseph Siffrein Duplessis, of Benjamin Franklin is in the public domain. The photo of Fernando Pessoa in the public domain.

Disquiet Junto Project 0624: Fresh Pair

More on this 624th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Fresh Pair (The Assignment: Combine two influences, however disparate they may be), at: https://disquiet.com/0624/

For my response to the disquiet brief, the two musical influences behind this track are David Sylvian - here referred to through elements of the amazing 'Ghosts' by his band, Japan, in the 1980s - and Brian Eno - through the use of extended, ambient, structures and the use of chance. 

The 'ghost' here is Alain Badiou - a more philosophical influence - talking about desire in his lectures on change, which can be found @ https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_QaFDCZn9rDGSOG_wWK0GZTNKzHgohgC&si=JHUCCic-FxDudNwK

You can also hear 'Ghosts' by Japan @ https://youtu.be/7zzLU1ato2w?si=rvVWv3uV8l3s53O0

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0624-fresh-pair/

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More on this 624th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Fresh Pair (The Assignment: Combine two influences, however disparate they may be), at: https://disquiet.com/0624/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0624-fresh-pair/

The photo of the painting, by Joseph Siffrein Duplessis, of Benjamin Franklin is in the public domain. The photo of Fernando Pessoa in the public domain.

Fresh Pair

Disquiet Junto | Fresh Pair - disquiet0624

The two figures in question are John Cage & Harold Pinter, to whom the two words of the title refer. The track is a live electronic sequence created in Pure Data, a little reverb added.

More on this 624th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Fresh Pair (The Assignment: Combine two influences, however disparate they may be), at: https://disquiet.com/0624/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0624-fresh-pair/

The photo of the painting, by Joseph Siffrein Duplessis, of Benjamin Franklin is in the public domain. The photo of Fernando Pessoa in the public domain.

Indeterminate Menace (disquiet0624)

Marco Lucchi : piano
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for the current Disquiet Junto challenge
https://disquiet.com/2023/12/14/disquiet-junto-project-0624-fresh-pair/
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15 dicembre 2023

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Disquiet Junto Project 0624: Fresh Pair
The Assignment: Combine two influences, however disparate they may be.

This piece of music is a fusion of two opposing philosophical influences: Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche. The Kant motif is structured and simple, reflecting his emphasis on rationality and moral imperatives. It has a friendly tone consistent with Kant's belief in ethics. His motif also has a preachy element that is meant to remind us of Kant's belief in universal laws and also that his writings are frankly quite boring. In contrast, the Nietzsche motif is darker and wilder, reflecting his challenging and often provocative and mostly interesting ideas. The more chaotic (and randomnized) nature of his motif reflects Nietzsche's commitment to individual will and his rejection of social norms (or even his own ideas). However, they also had some things in common, such as a great interest in the emerging natural sciences or the fact that they struggled with the idea of a God. Ultimately, the Kantian theme prevails and has the last word, as Nietzsche is frowned upon for influencing the difficult to understand and often misunderstood "Ubermensch" idea, whereas today we (some of us) actually try harder to act according to Kant's theory of reason, even if a glance at the news teaches us that we as humankind simply don't succeed in doing so.

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This was fun, even to make the cover image with Dall-E 3, which in no way was able to make both philosophers really recognizable. The prompt: "A 19th-century style painting, more abstract than realistic, featuring a recognizable Immanuel Kant on the left and an older, recognizable Friedrich Nietzsche with a beard on the right, engaged in a passionate debate. Kant, shown in his middle years, is in 18th-century attire, exuding a calm and refined aura. Nietzsche, depicted in his later years with an iconic beard, is dressed in typical 19th-century clothing, with an intense and expressive demeanor. The setting is a music studio library, filled with books and modular synthesizers, blending a deep intellectual atmosphere with the spirit of modular synthesis."

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More on this 624th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Fresh Pair (The Assignment: Combine two influences, however disparate they may be), at: https://disquiet.com/0624/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0624-fresh-pair/

Kant - Vs - Nietzsche [disquiet0624]

After overthinking this ten times longer than it took to make the track I decided on Peanut Butter Wolf and Keith Fullerton Whitman. I have a lot of love for Wolf because he published so much diverse, fun, positive music over the years that shaped my taste. Keith I followed since Attention: Cats and then later the Mimaroglu store which opened my ears to a lot of electronic experiments and more.

So combining the two I tried to make a fun, positive track with some electronic sauce to it without going full “DJ ZapruderFilm”. The vocals are from a live version of Gary Wilson’s A Very Small Town. The whole thing is pretty tame so not a lot of Keith in it.

More on this 624th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Fresh Pair (The Assignment: Combine two influences, however disparate they may be), at: https://disquiet.com/0624/ 1

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0624-fresh-pair/

Disquiet0624 - Christopher/Keith

A response to Disquiet Junto prompt 0700, and based on a true story. From the window in my pantry I can see into my neighbor's back yard, where they have their hen house. Sometimes things happen. 

Unedited field recording, vintage Korg M3R. and reverb.

When I went outside this morning with my field recorder, one of the hens got agitated and started complaining loudly and repeatedly. She continued for almost exactly three and a half minutes, then stopped just as suddenly as she had started. The song is 3:43 minutes long.

Poses the age-old question, "Can Coraline make a serious song around a chicken sample?" What do you think?

More on the 700th weekly Disquiet Junto project, View Frame — The Assignment: Share the view and some sounds inspired by the view — at https://disquiet.com/0700/

The Discovery of a Fox (disquiet0700)

For this week's @disquiet Junto Project I'm not quite sure why the Logic Pro Wurlitzer pattern came out so doleful in response to the view from my bedroom window. I'm happy in my home, though I am moving fairly soon, so maybe that's why. I was pretty pleased with the first and third contributions I made to the recent trio projects, so with this I combined a simple tonal part with part of the recorder improvisation by @kate-gallaher in the woods. In the background are the birds and an airplane, similar to the urban sounds I have hear at dawn (though far fewer birds).

Happy 700th @disquiet ! Thank you for making these happen Marc Weidenbaum.

More on the 700th weekly Disquiet Junto project, View Frame — The Assignment: Share the view and some sounds inspired by the view — at https://disquiet.com/0700/

View Frame (disquiet0700)

The photo was taken yesterday morning when it happened to be raining. The track is an electronic sequence created using Pure Data with a touch of delay and reverb.

More on the 700th weekly Disquiet Junto project, View Frame — The Assignment: Share a peek out your window and some sounds inspired by the view — at https://disquiet.com/0700/

Rainy Day Outlook (disquiet0700)

More on the 700th weekly Disquiet Junto project, View Frame — The Assignment: Share the view and some sounds inspired by the view — at https://disquiet.com/0700/

(brief tinkle on the super gemini with two layers, a sort of pad and a sparrow-inspired chirrup, recorded on my phone in the room as well as into the mixer, then blended and grotted up with some speshul air windows gribble grabbles)

oot thair windah [disquiet0700]

The world outside is under construction.

Who ordered the mission? Who‘s going to pay the in the end?
What will the world look like, will it turn out nice?
From inside its hard to figure it out. 

Disquiet Junto Project 0700: View Frame
The Assignment: Share a peek out your window and some sounds inspired by the view.
Step 1: Take a photo out your window, with a little bit of the frame in view. Show people a glimpse of your world.
Step 2: Record a short, simple piece of music inspired (or otherwise informed) by what you see.

Framing the view [disquiet0700]

Today any information is processed in chains of automated steps, mostly for providing handy services. Do we know more now? Do we understand each other now more than ever?

The Assignment:
Select a piece of software, preferably one you use regularly, and misuse it in the service of recording a piece of music.

Chains in this contribution:
1. Copy the assignment to Pages
2. Have it automatically translated in different languages
3. Have it read automatically, recording the reading
4. Have the resulting sound file chopped up and put some fx…

More on the 702nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Applications — The Assignment: Make music by misusing a piece of music software — at https://disquiet.com/0702/

Chains[disquiet0702]

More on the 702nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Applications — The Assignment: Make music by misusing a piece of music software — at https://disquiet.com/0702/

disquiet0702

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0702: Chain of Applications. The Assignment: Make music by misusing a piece of music software. This project is the second of three that are being done by the Disquiet Junto in collaboration with the 2025 Musikfestival Bern, which will be held in Switzerland from September 3 through 7.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0702 discussion thread on Lines:

I rarely use the metronome in Ableton Live, even when recording on top of a rhythm. Maybe it’s the lack of experience with it but I find the sound too distracting. For this project, decided to not use the metronome as a rhythm aid but as a sound source to be sampled and manipulated into an experimental composition.

First, recorded the sound with a Panasonic microcassette recorder. I then recorded it back into Ableton Live. The output connection on the recorder was picking up some static and noise but used the recording anyway, From there I used Audio Damage Circa to loop and mangle the audio. Used Imagiro Autochrome, SoundGhost Jumble and ValhallaRoom for effects. The result reminds me of a chorus of frogs, insects and other creatures in some wetland at night.

More on the 702nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Applications — The Assignment: Make music by misusing a piece of music software — at https://disquiet.com/0702/

Metronomia Chorus [disquiet0702]

Letzter Zug durch Herold [disquiet0702]

This weeks Disquiet Junto asks us to abuse software to make music. I was going to pass on  this one quite honestly - there has been lots of interesting work in this field - using data files as audio etc etc. but then, and I’m not quite sure why, a project in an electronics magazine from when I was a child came to mind. In the project they created (an incredibly lofi)  video by using electro-mechanical scanning of a light resistor. Seeing video as an analog signal then prompted this. 

I’ve got a Max/Jitter patch collecting video. The video is split into 4 pieces - each piece is treated as a wavetable and the volume of it is modulated by taking the video segment using the average of each column from left to right scanned at quite a low frequency. A few parameters here and there let me turn it into music rather than noise and there is a reverb and a bit of delay in there for good measure. And then I recorded an improvisation on the whole setup. 

I’m still not quite sure it counts - surely using Max/MSP to make music is its entire reason for existing! But perhaps it’s ok since ALL the audio signal is generated by a video camera……

[disquiet0702] moving to light

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.

Disquiet0624 - Christopher/Keith

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