Edited, mixed & mastered on 01 May 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA. 

Layered guitar synth

This piece evolved through three distinct passes with the last having three of its own:

1 - Almost every day, I record something. On April 13, I recorded about 20 minutes of guitar synth with a voice sound using a cheap SX guitar as the controller. I recorded with DAW effects but for this piece, I used the raw recording without effects. The synth has some built-in though.

2 - On May 1, I spread this recording across 15 tracks, stretching some to fit the same duration and adding leftover bits throughout. I panned them across the sound field. Though I created a wall of sound and did a rough mix, I felt this arrangement wasn't working for me.

3 - Inspired by fabric patterns and metal chains, I drew a subtractive volume automation on one track, moving down and diagonally, bouncing off the side and back until reaching the 15th track. I then drew another pattern at the beginning of the last track, moving up diagonally. As the piece took shape, I added a third pattern in untouched spots where it felt right. These patterns began precise but became organic—like a handmade garment rather than a machine-made one. The final run evoked an old painting shirt, and that's when I knew it was complete.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, Aug 2019, Massapequa, NY, USA - at the time, an in-progress painting I called “Injury Or Suffocation.” 

©2019, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “Stepmother In Chains” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0696: Chain of Layers. The Assignment: Make music change by altering its layers.

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

More on the 696th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Layers — The Assignment: Make music change by altering its layers — at https://disquiet.com/0696

Stepmother In Chains (disquiet0696)

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 591:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku591-steady-spring-rains/

Performed live for a "Learning Sound and Synthesis" session. Except fade in/out no changes made to the initial recording.

Using Make Noise Strega, 0-COAST and 0-CTRL, AUM and various synths and effects on iPad, and Erae 2 as Midi and CV controller.

Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!

Photo by zenbytes (Portugal, 2013)


dream and reality - Naviarhaiku591

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
592
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku592-slanting-sunlight-rays/

2025-05-07

slanting sunlight rays Naviarhaiku 592 )

Solo ronroco, 2 microphones, a great sounding room, some convolution reverb added.

This is  a simple idea I've been practising today, recorded Thursday 8th may 2025 at noon, first and only take.


For this collaborative project:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0697-first-third/

Ronroco Lulaby (disquiet0697)

title track from upcoming Album, "Don't Leave The Compound"
Blair is at-https://soundcloud.com/blair-purdy-music-bpm

Biosphere ft Blair Purdy

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Existence EP by Nihil & Doci
Artists: Nihil & Doci
Tracks:
01. Nihil - Existence
02. Doci - Stuck Here
03. Nihil - Existence (Doci's Resistance Remix)
04. Doci - Stuck Here (Nihil Remix)

Label: OSMIUM
Genre: #Electronic
Style: #Techno
Catalogue number: OSMEP001
Date release: 30.05.2025
Format: Digital
Mastering: @farkas_erdoben
Artwork: @Frieder_S

Support the Artist(s):
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Nihil - Existence

Disquiet Junto Project 0698: Second Third
The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio.

For the second track, I worked with a solo that no one else had used. I liked https://soundcloud.com/meccaniche-del-suono/first-tongue-ram-disquiet0697?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0697 by Meccaniche del Suono, because it somehow talked to me and seemed wonderfully inaccessible. Something I would fail at.

I added more layers of strings and flutes, some electronics and some ambience. I did all this by what felt right, hence the title, which may of course be a mistake. Thanks to Meccaniche del Suono / Marco Marongiu for his track!

No total left-right-panning HERE, because I can't stand it. If you want to have one, download it THERE: https://soundcloud.com/winterer/panned-do-the-right-thing

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Image by Krakenkraft

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More on the 698th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Second Third — The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0698/

Discussion: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0698-second-third/71900

Do The Right Thing (Meccaniche del Suono + Krakenkraft) [disquiet0698]

For this third of three, I chose the inspired track by Campos and Samplair from last week ... https://soundcloud.com/tannes-marrei/soothing-nightmare-carnival-disquiet0698-with-samplair

Check out my collaborators' brilliant work at https://soundcloud.com/tannes-marrei and https://soundcloud.com/user-248104983 ...

Enjoy! 🤗

More on the 699th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Third Third — The Assignment: Record the third third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0699/

more halF unusuaL

halF nightmarE [disquiet0699] with Campos & Samplair

Under the twilight sky
light shimmering on the pond -
swallows in autumn

Dakotsu Iida trained under Takahama Kyoshi, and was chief editor of the poetry journal Unmo until his death. His son Ryuta Iida, a famous haiku poet himself, took over as the editor of Unmo after his father’s death.

Haiku by Ida Dakotsu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakotsu_Iida

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

halF swallowS [naviarhaiku595]

Hola

ON MY MIND

Traveller in sound and space.  Enjoying and creating ambient, drone and experimental music.

dream and reality - Naviarhaiku591

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