This week's Disquiet Junto project is about interpreting a graphic notation score by musician and composer Franziska Baumann.

More on the 654th weekly Disquiet Junto project at https://disquiet.com/0654/

The cover image for this project is a detail of a graphic score, titled True Glimpses 1, by Franziska Baumann, used with her permission and the support of Musikfestival Bern. More on Baumann at franziskabaumann.ch.

Disquiet Junto Project 0654: Just Notation

See the accompanying visuals @ https://youtu.be/2yy4OxpBybE

Flowing along
changing its colors
a soap bubble.

Haiku by Takashi Matsumoto: https://memim.com/takashi-matsumoto-poet.html

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

visuals (YouTube)

halF bubbleD [naviarhaiku533]

I heard a lot of duets last week, a lot of good ones. In the end I went with the German Romantic and played SOMA Terra.
thanks @analo & @torsten goerke for your inspiring duet:https://soundcloud.com/analoc/right-beside-you-disquiet0637?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0637&si=6ecc2889c9a2400dbeccda5796ff8c38&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Morning on top(disquiet0638) feat. analoc & Torsten Goerke

The third part of the disquiet junto challenge. 
I added a horn section to the beautiful track by Torsten Goerke (@torstengoerke) and Anatol Locker (@analoc), "Right Beside You [disquiet0637]":https://soundcloud.com/analoc/right-beside-you-disquiet0637?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0637

3 of 3 (Disquiet0638)

Disquiet Junto Project 0638: Center (3 of 3)

This is the third phase of a three-phase sequence over the course of as many weeks during which, consecutively and asynchronously, musicians build trios together.

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0638-center-3-of-3/66559

I chose the track "idiophones" (disquiet0637) w/ xhg by Raincat
https://soundcloud.com/raincat-306596410/idiophones-disquiet0637-w-xhg

Left: Disquiet0636 - Left Bells by xhg
https://soundcloud.com/xhg/disquiet0636-left-bells

3 instruments: 1 double bass and 2 prepared pianos.
One beat every 6 seconds, plus a 4 second delay for the first piano (mallets) and a 7 second delay for the second piano.

Thethirdman[disquiet0638] w/ Raincat & xhg

A long-distance (both spatial and temporal) collaboration with @xhg and @randomshuffle – based on https://soundcloud.com/xhg/disquiet0637-guitar-talk-with-marc-eisenschink. I added a drone and a field recording to their guitar dialogue.
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More on the 638th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Center (3 of 3) — The Assignment: Complete a trio begun by two other musicians — at https://disquiet.com/0638/

Conversation (disquiet0638) — with xhg and Marc Eisenschink

Thank you @AlvaroDeCampos and @blisterpop. Wonderful track you gave me to work one.
As was the case last week, the instructions for this week’s project are fairly detailed, so please read them at disquiet.com/0638 15 (rather than me stuffing them into a post here).

This is the third phase of a three-phase sequence over the course of as many weeks during which, consecutively and asynchronously, musicians build trios together.

You can participate in any or all three of the three projects. If you participated in last week’s project, please note these two things:

    be sure to set your track as downloadable
    to avoid bot issues on Soundcloud, make sure its license is set to allow creative reuse

Also important: In normal circumstances, Junto projects have a one-track-per-participant limit. However, as with the preceding project that led up to this one, you can contribute more than one track this week. The details on that are in Step 5 of the project instructions 9.

This post popped up at disquiet.com/0638 9 (thanks, powers of automation) shortly after 12:10am Pacific Time on Thursday, March 21. (I was asleep at the time.) The email containing those instructions went out around the same time, also automatically, via juntoletter.disquiet.com. (We recently switched over from TinyLetter, because TinyLetter was shut down by its owner, Mailchimp, at the end of last month.) Come morning, after I woke up, I posted the instructions here, and at my Mastodon account, plus Bluesky, Threads, and Instagram, etc. And if you’re on a platform, like Mastodon or Instagram, that uses hashtags, please use the #DisquietJunto tag. Much appreciated.

Six variations in a knot (with @AlvaroDeCampos and @blisterpop) - disquiet0638

Sound Fantasy on:

Flowing along
changing its colors
a soap bubble.

by: Takashi Matsumoto

Naviarrecords Haiku Challenge 533

Soap

Soap_Naviarhaiku533

Submission for Naviar Haiku challenge 533:

Flowing along
changing its colors
a soap bubble.

A fairly paired back generative virtual modular patch assembled using VCV Rack, more or less played itself although I did map physical controls so I could guide the overall shape.

Details of the Naviar Haiku challenges here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Flowing Along - (NaviarHaiku - 533)

Assembled on 28 Mar 2024 and mixed, mastered on 29 Mar 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

Music distributed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 DEED

Process notes - 

I didn't really think too much about this. Every time I worked, I worked quickly with a good flow going.

Starting with this track…
Disquiet0638 - Fakeg3nius+Glitcher Ftrg Samplair - EGsquared by SAMPLAIR
https://soundcloud.com/user-248104983/disquiet0638-fakeg3niusglitcher-ftrg-samplair-egsquared

…and following the pathway back to…
Fake Genius’s [disuquiet0637] EGEG - ModMix
https://soundcloud.com/fake-genius/disuquiet0637-egeg-modmix

…and then finally this…
Bassline Collab (disquiet0636) by Noodle Twister
https://soundcloud.com/noodletwister/bassline-collab-disquiet0636

- I used FL Studio’s ability to extract stems from the two collaboration tracks
- Imported all of this into a Live Session to have 11 tracks to work with.
- Bounced and split each stereo file to mono files
- Applied various effects - mainly Live’s native ones - and then let it sit for a few hours
- Came back to it very late at night into the morning to stretch, chop, arrange and apply another generation of effects - this time mainly M4L devices, with a few odd VSTs - until it sounded "complete" to me. I didn't need to add anything more to this.

Artwork: Edit and additions to disquiet’s original using Adobe Photoshop 2024 and Q’MIC-Qt.

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This original version of “Sleepless Motor  Pathways” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0639: Path Ways (4 of 3). The Assignment: Rework musical trios using the constituent parts — one of two ways.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: [disquiet.com/junto/](http://disquiet.com/junto/)

Subscribe to project announcements here: [tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto](http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto)

More on the 639th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Path Ways (4 of 3) — The Assignment: Rework musical trios using the constituent parts — one of two ways — at https://disquiet.com/0639/

Sleepless Motor Pathways (disquiet0639remix) by Fakeg3nius, Glitcher, SAMPLAIR & Jimmy Lem

Recent My Weekly Video Magazine of piano ten thousand leaves
https://youtu.be/DJogipF-scQ?si=4dGsgctvUcUorEZ1


#3837 (699 left): Jun. 16, 2024: When thy mind shall be a mansion for all lovely forms  (from William Wordsworth from Mar. 16, 2024) 
Today's pure primal piano music here. Happy if this music makes you feel peaceful.. : )
Looking for absolute natural beauty every day for Piano Ten Thousand Leaves. Target number is 4536 and 3837(84.59%) (Only 699 pieces remain) achieved today. Find my project.. : )
This piece may might have good 1/f fluctuation characteristic although I stopped investigating it each piece.

My new message: "Does it make sense to preserve it for 1000 years?

Today's cover ART is created by #Midjourney (Art Generating #AI), according to my wish. Happy if you like it.

spotify playlist 18 hours 449 songs, makes you fully relaxed.
 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0RCxA8SaySzoFzpQmTCLfo?si=92c44191513340ff

Recent My Weekly Video Magazine of piano ten thousand leaves
https://youtu.be/yCCufZCMnDQ?si=pLt98vOleJcioH-m

Weekly Piano Ten Thousand Leaves Magazine ; super beautiful video .. 
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I'm now making Archive site of Piano Ten Thousand Leaves project by utilizing #wordpress. Basically nice direction I've already gotten.. : )
Currently 1100 pieces already achieved. 
But this week I need to do something else, so I'm going to stop this task for a bit.


######## NEW 26th SELECTION ALBUM JUST RELEASED ########
"Into the Forest" - the 26th selection album of piano ten thousand leaves

youtube: FULL VIDEO with 20 full songs in very high quality sounds
https://youtu.be/C-7ML6MatDs?si=idZWqcfzpG_4ZI6O

spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/album/2zzv5XkXoAHxDCU7xTm1nX

appleMusic:
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/into-the-forest/1745857531

amazonMusic:
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all music streaming services:
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When Thy Mind Shall Be A Mansion For All Lovely Forms - #3837 (84R59 699) By Chair House 240616

More on the 654th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Just Notation — The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score by Franziska Baumann — at https://disquiet.com/0654/

The image of the graphic score was inverted and sonified in the Metasynth image synth, the result of which was fed into a RAVE model trained on recent halF unusuaL tracks using Cocoon within Morpho from the wonderful people at Neutone ... This is the result and you can enjoy the accompanying visuals at https://youtu.be/GWVLIyx5kMM 

The cover image for this project uses detail from a graphic score, titled True Glimpses 1, by Franziska Baumann, used with her permission and the support of Musikfestival Bern. More on Baumann at http://www.franziskabaumann.ch/en/

halF noteD [disquiet0654]

An intuitive response to the graphic score derived from visual glimpses, as the title suggests. It comprises a series of atonal or microtonal sound clusters structured horizontally and vertically. The track was created in Pure Data with some additional reverb, etc.

More on the 654th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Just Notation — The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score by Franziska Baumann — at https://disquiet.com/0654/

The cover image for this project is a detail of a graphic score, titled True Glimpses 1, by Franziska Baumann, used with her permission and the support of Musikfestival Bern. More on Baumann at franziskabaumann.ch 2.

Just Glimpses (disquiet0654)

‘ordo ab chao’
Track created for the Disquiet Junto Project. http://www.disquiet.com
0654 =  Just Notation. Interpret a graphic score by Franziska Baumann.

Luna is a little atonal piece of improvised music for the piano, reflecting the stochastic character of this notation made up of lines, strokes, dusts, stains and transparencies.

Tools :
UAD Ravel Grand Piano.
NE Ruina, Waves Abbey Road Chambers, UAD Lexicon 224, and a few little 'prepared' fx :)
Recorded live, mixed and mastered with Logic Pro X.

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More on this 654th Disquiet Junto project ("Just Notation. Interpret a graphic score by Franziska Baumann") at:
https://disquiet.com/0654

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

Project discussion takes place on https://llllllll.co/

Associated image : Petrus Major.

Luna [disquiet 0654]

Content note: there are two mentions of self-harm in this track.

The invitation for this week's Disquiet Junto (#0654, "Just Notation") was to interpret a piece of graphic notation sheet music, a composition titled "True Glimpses" by Swiss experimental musician Franziska Baumann. 

The sheet music is organized into 5 rows of 7 staves. I interpreted the rows as vertically stacked layers and the columns as divisions of time. You can see the notation here: https://disquiet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/TrueGlimpes-1-Franziska-Baumann-scaled.jpg

My interpretative performance consists of 5 layers of instrumentation (percussion, bass, synth pad, keys, and ebow guitar) exploring a sonic space divided into 7 tableaus. All tracks were recorded as improvised single takes without edits while following along with the score.

Self-reflection works best in stereo, so please enjoy "True Glimpses (Self-Portrait) with an empathetic pair of headphones. Recorded at NOSIGNAL Multimedia Lab in The Shambles. Chicago, USA.

More about this week's Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0654

Disquiet Junto

True Glimpses (Self-Portrait) (disquiet0654)

walk by your hand

The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score by Franziska Baumann.

See the feature-reel here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C9iXpNfMHa9/

There were many options with this particular graphical notation. Since I had an academic background, I initially planned to make 7 x 5 tiny piano movements. 

But – this time together with my girlfriend – we focused on the artistic quality of the notation. The inner images of a little story of a trip from New Jersey to Manhattan emerged. 

With and beyond all the noise of life, there is a deep trust.

By musically connecting many of her field recordings through a trip from New Jersey to NYC, we orchestrated many different impressions together while maintaining contact with the former academic, now cacophonous expression of notation.

Taking the staves into account, accelerations and rhythmically inappropriate situations underlined our approach.

Enjoy!

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More on the 654th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Just Notation — The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score by Franziska Baumann — at https://disquiet.com/0654/

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The cover image for this track contains a detail of a graphic score, titled True Glimpses 1, by Franziska Baumann, used with her permission and the support of Musikfestival Bern. More on Baumann at franziskabaumann.ch

walk by your hand (disquiet0654)

More on the 654th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Just Notation — The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score by Franziska Baumann — at https://disquiet.com/0654/

The purpose of a musical score to me is a live performance of a piece of music which might or might not be recorded. Thinking about the graphic score vs. traditional sheet music I came to the conclusion that it must contain additional information specific to a certain instrument like timbre or knob movements or the like. So I tried to perform the piece with different instruments, Flute, Clarinet and Synths.

In the end I decided the piece was a trio for Korg NTS-1. The three voices can be identified by different colors and note sizes in the score. The notes are all Ds but on different octaves. Lines and textures give hints about knob movements and density.

Disquiet0654 - 8_PO

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.

Disquiet0654 - 8_PO

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