This is really peaceful und beautiful. A great track!

The prompt for Disquiet Junto 0632, "Shear Wind", instructed us to take that awful wind-blowing-across-the-microphone sound and make it useful.

I live in a notoriously wind-swept city and the weather was cooperative, so I recorded several minutes of wind shear in my back yard with a stereo field recorder. I brought the recording into my DAW on three tracks, one reversed, and executed some glitch maneuvers to make them rhythmic. On top of everything is a Cmaj7 drone using a few layers of custom sampler instruments.

REMEMBER: Headphones are antennae, like an insect's, that pick up the thoughts of the composer.

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Recorded at NOSIGNAL Multimedia Labs, The Shambles

Disquiet Junto

A Picnic on a Cliff (disquiet0632)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 07 Jun 2019, 27 Oct 2021 & 09-10 Feb 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

Process notes

09 Feb 2024
I have a 5-track Live template for my Bubble Memory project name, so I loaded a windy backyard recording of a kalimba & a glass from Oct 2021 into that. I split the backyard recording into the two tracks I have set aside for field recordings. Each has tons of processing loaded in already. The template includes kick and snare parts so I started by creating a minimal beat that might hopefully hold this thing together and added some lesser probability to those notes. 

I also have a Simpler track in the template so I loaded some of the backyard recording into that one too. I found the entire thing too constantly noisy and wrote some ideas to my notes about gating & adjusting some of the effects before shutting down for the night.

10 Feb 2024
Loading this back up, I first worked on adding some gates to a few of the tracks to thin out the noise bits. I added an iAbyssal recording I made in 2019 to the final track in the template. Added sparingly both an Arpeggiator to the Simpler track & a Note Repeat to the drum track. Then I worked a bit on other automations, including panning. This felt like it was done and I rendered both a mastered and unmastered mix for later use and for this Junto. It still felt like wind to me.

Instruments & stuff - Ableton Live 12 & native devices, K-Devices Shaper 2 & Secta, iZotope Ozone 9, kalimba, wind, iAbyssal, iPhone, iPad, tabletop, bottle

Artwork: From the LIRR, NY, USA, 27 Jan 2011, by Jim Lemanowicz

©2019, 2021, 2024 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “Brown Paper Lips” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0632: Shear Wind. The Assignment: Make the most of the disturbance within a field recording.

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This track was originally released under the artist name "Bubble Memory."

Brown Paper Lips (disquiet0632)

I took a walk through the pedestrian area of Munich, namely Sendlinger Strasse. It was windy, and as the app used my noise-cancelling headset as its microphone, there are plenty of noises and dropouts in the recording... something you'd normally delete immediately. 

I wanted to make something tonal from this noisefest. 

The file underwent a treatment with Reaktors Molekular and Valhalla reverb. The accompanying chords and melodies come from S&A Landforms and Spectres, Spitfire BBC Orchestra, and the ever lovely Reaktor Snowflake ensemble. Nothing’s on grid, I tried to arrange the parts as they seemed to fit. It still feels a bit lopsided sound- and arrangement-wise, but that’s the Disquiet Junto: You only have a finite number of days to work on it (and that’s a good thing).

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Disquiet Junto Project 0632: Shear Wind
The Assignment: Make the most of the disturbance within a field recording.

Step 1: Consider how when making a field recording, there can be disturbances in it, such as a passing car or plane, or a noise you didn’t notice until you listened back, or a malfunction in the recording equipment. A common such problem is wind shear.

Step 2: Make a recording that has wind shear in it, perhaps by standing in the wind, or recording from a moving vehicle, or through some other technique. Or locate a pre-existing field recording with wind shear, perhaps on freesound.org 1.

Step 3: Make a piece of music employing the recording you made in Step 2, and make the wind shear a focus of the piece. That is, pay attention to, rather than avoid, this sound that you would likely in other circumstances identify as a shortcoming.

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Noise Canceling [disquiet0632]

Disquiet Junto Project 0632: Shear Wind
The Assignment: Make the most of the disturbance within a field recording.

Step 1: Consider how when making a field recording, there can be disturbances in it, such as a passing car or plane, or a noise you didn’t notice until you listened back, or a malfunction in the recording equipment. A common such problem is wind shear.

Step 2: Make a recording that has wind shear in it, perhaps by standing in the wind, or recording from a moving vehicle, or through some other technique. Or locate a pre-existing field recording with wind shear, perhaps on freesound.org 1.

Step 3: Make a piece of music employing the recording you made in Step 2, and make the wind shear a focus of the piece. That is, pay attention to, rather than avoid, this sound that you would likely in other circumstances identify as a shortcoming.

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Track notes:

I spent a couple of days in my hometown/homearea of Normanville on the western coastline of the Fleurieu Peninsula. It's Summer here at the moment, and the weather down south has been particular lovely and warm. I took a long late afternoon walk along the beach, heading south with the heritage protected dunes on one side and a very still ocean on the other. 

Aside from the serene, still conditions there was a nagging, turbulent breeze throughout the afternoon and evening.

I made a few recordings along the way, including one at the foot of the dunes (feat. cicadas) and another on a shallow bed of dried seaweed at the tide break. Though I documented moments of transparency in the recordings, the wind (even with a jammer on the handheld recorder) was prominent throughout.

Since coming home and listening back to the recordings, I thought it would be interesting not only to feature the sound of wind shear, but use its dynamic peaks to control aspects of the composition.

I recorded a sample from the tide recording to my Morphagene module and routed the CV output directly to the clock. The dry/wet mix was set to roughly 60/40, so 60% of the mix would be the dune recording played back in real time, whilst 40% is the tide sample playing back on the Morphagene. Whenever a wind shear event arose (either form the tide or dunes) this would manipulate the time stretching, 'Morph' and 'Slide' parameters of the Morphagene. 

I'm letting the Morphagene play itself for the first half of this track, then subtly manipulating some of the controls to transition parts of the sample and close out the track with just the dune recording.

[Disquiet_Junto_0632] Tidal Jamming

For this project I used a recording of a walk in the lovely Swiss mountain village of Ernen. You can hear lots of cow bells, children and a stroller. I cut several parts out of the recording that have wind shear, I then pitched them down and looped them, gradually focusing more on the windy parts. Also I added a Glockenspiel arpeggio. Drawing is based on a mural in Ernen.

More on this 632nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Shear Wind — The Assignment: Make the most of the disturbance within a field recording — at: https://disquiet.com/0632/

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Disquiet0632 - Ernen

To create this track I exclusively used two samples that I processed in various ways with 'csound' and 'blue'.

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blue.kunstmusik.com/
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lagena vitto - disquiet0632

This track is built around the sound of the wind shear produced by cracking open the door of my wood-burning heater. 

More on this 632nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Shear Wind — The Assignment: Make the most of the disturbance within a field recording — at: https://disquiet.com/0632/

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WindShearFeverDream_disquiet0632

[disquiet0632] Swsh


Archivio Futuro
is a small collection of live recordings born spontaneously in my studio — fragments of personal moments, sonic explorations, and freedom.
This is where I want to start sharing my music and my vision of the present: made of space, expanded time, and deep sounds.

A sonic vision that doesn’t seek perfection, but authenticity.
A free experience, with no rules or compromises — much like the Italian artists of the '70s and '80s, who created sound libraries that told inner stories through pure experimentation.

Thank you to Nic Ford for inspiring me and for revealing a world I didn’t fully know — the presence of so many incredible Italian artists who, through their creativity, wrote important chapters in both Italian and global electronic music: from Ruscigan , Gianni Safred , Maurizio Bianchi to Alessandro Alessandroni
They blended sonic research, freedom, and vision — an artistic legacy I feel deeply connected to.

A dive into the deepest frequencies.
An archive of my future — and a tribute to the past.

Produced Miixed and Mastered By Marco Yanes at
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released July 7, 2025

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Yanes - Archivio Futuro - 01 Foresta Dentro

Taken from the forthcoming album "Noemata".
Release date: 01.08.2025

Disquiet0632 - Ernen

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