This week's haiku challenge:

Two seahorses
dancing in seagrass
slivers of sunlight

Haiku by: Corine Timmer www.bicadeideias.com (first published on FemkuMag Issue 34, November 2022)

Corine is an author, haiku poet, publisher, visual artist, designer, and animal lover who’s been participating in our Haiku challenges for the last three years. You can find more about her poetry and music on her Soundcloud and Facebook profiles.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 29th November 2023

Dancing Seahorses (naviarhaiku516)

There's a 100% reverb setting on this - a shadow of the music you can't quite hear. See the (slightly disturbing) accompanying visuals @ https://youtu.be/pdBdZPYer60

More on this 622nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Know the Shadow (The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new), at: https://disquiet.com/0622/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0622-know-the-shadow/

visuals (YouTube)

halF shadoW [disquiet0622]

The instruction was "Think about how a shadow might be expressed in sound.". Here in my recording I feature the reverb channel from a recently recorded guitar piece. In order to make it sound like a shadow I used an envelope follower that would modulate the sends of the signal feeding into the reverb. This has as an effect that the original sound appears to reflect into the reverb. I also pitched the resulting signal down by an octave so it sounds more dark.

(know the) Shadow

Disquiet Junto Project 0622: Know the Shadow
The Assignment: How do you depict a shadow in sound?

Step 1: Think about what a shadow is.

Step 2: Think about how a shadow might be expressed in sound.

Step 3: Record a piece of music employing the ideas that arose in Step 2.

The track notes for this Junto can be read here: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0622-know-the-shadow/65114/5

[Disquiet_Junto_0622] Three Joo Chiat Rain Sound Shadows

An electronic composition, sounds created in Pure Data.

More on this 622nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Know the Shadow (The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new), at: https://disquiet.com/0622/

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

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0622-know-the-shadow/

March of Shadows (disquiet0622)

More on this 622nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Know the Shadow (The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new), at: https://disquiet.com/0622/

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Know the Shadows

Disquiet Junto | Know the Shadows - disquiet0622

For this, I extended my ideas around Disquiet Juntos 0605, 0606, 0609 & 0530, centered around  “minimally viable music.” I worked various techniques to shadow my foundation audio - including duplicating and delaying - as well as decaying, stretching and minimizing strategies using gates, crushers & audio warping.

Recorded, mixed & mastered 14 Feb 1988, 30 Nov / 01 Dec 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2023 Jim Lemanowicz

Process notes - 

For the foundation audio here, I used a recording I made of a cheap acoustic guitar to cassette tape on 14 Feb 1988 and transferred to another tape on 30 Aug 1995. I transferred to digital in Nov 2019.

Tools used - Ableton Live 11 Suite, Ableton Live native devices and a handful of Max for Live devices, along with iZotope Ozone 9 and K-Devices Shaper.

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This original version of "Little Iodine Crack" was submitted as part of **Disquiet Junto Project 0622: Know the Shadow.** The Assignment: How do you depict a shadow in sound?

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This track was originally released under the artist name "Lumber Mart."

Little Iodine Crack (disquiet0622)

his was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0622: Know the Shadow

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0622 discussion thread:

Rather than thinking of shadows as a result of shapes blocking light, I went with an alternative definition of something, usually a person, that follows closely. In this case, similar melodies that follow each other. My goal was to create a piece that's repetitive and minimal.

Using an Arturia Keystep 37 and Novation Peak, I manually played three different tracks into Ableton Live at approximately the same tempo using different settings. I also recorded a track using Jogging House's new Tonal Drifts instrument pack. I stretched a couple sections so they would slowly drift out of phase. It's my interpretation of shadows getting longer as the afternoon sun moves lower down on the horizon. Not sure whether I'm 100% satisfied with how this turned out, but I enjoyed the process.
 
More on this 622nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Know the Shadow (The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new), at: https://disquiet.com/0622/
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-0622-know-the-shadow/

Afternoon Shadows Till Dusk [disquiet0622]

This week's assignment, to imagine what a particular room (from a photo) looks like.

More on this 625th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Noise Ceiling (The Assignment: What does this room sound like?), at: https://disquiet.com/0625/

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sealed in [disquiet0625]

L'orage est une pause dans le temps, un moment où la nature nous rappelle son omniprésence et notre place en son sein. C'est un temps où, bercé par la polyrythmie pluvieuse, il est temps à nouveau de prendre conscience de qui est et d'occuper notre place réelle sur la vague de l'existence.

Ce morceau est un jeu de synthé qui prend son envol sur la base d'enregistrements de sons de pluie depuis ma demeure…

Liquid Soul Into Cumulus

when testing a set of instruments for a score i sometimes do this practice: improvise a take on each one of them, without hearing any of the others... unmute all tracks, and save that as a little example as an artist does a palettte 🎨 here's testing particular variations of a #mellotron sampleset -- and new possible pseudotape pathway for the softening of sounds on a beautiful upcoming indie game soundtrack 

an Exploration of Melotron Samples [silent takes separate kismet ] [DDSM] ( 2025 . 07 . 14 )

All here, in reality, are works in progress and are therefore apt to change at any time. All those except XIII Sisters and RAW which, as many of you may have done, I literally gave away in return for their placement in a library. Something I won't be doing again any time soon. If you have a use for something you hear here please just ask.

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ChatGTP said of AI Music...
'Creative AI tools can be seen as sophisticated plagiarism software, as they do not produce genuinely original content but rather emulate and modify existing works by artists subtly enough to circumvent copyright laws'

Sometimes it takes a dispassionate, independent view to actually see the truth of it ...

 .ooO -------------------------------------- Ooo.

There are links to XiiixxiQ below. Your mileage may vary as to whether it decides to work on your system or not. It only runs on a Mac because I really don't have time to do all the necessary work to make it compatible with anything other than my 2015 MacBook Pro :-(. It is still being developed (for my own use) and improved, and I may yet get round to doing another release if I can find the time to tidy it all up.

Disquiet Junto | Know the Shadows - disquiet0622

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