The Lantern Fouling the Brittle Air, Listening to the Dog and the Echo

UnBoxed June 2024
Original vocal performances by the wonderfully enchanting @ira-lovessweet aka @diamondlajolie
Cover image : Ira Lovessweet

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Hamburg Honey (featuring Ira Lovessweet)

Aoki Satoru - Pylon (Juli - 25th Album)
Prepared bass/Electronic: Aoki Satoru
Tokyo, Japan - July 5, 2024 [ TOD 293 ]

This is "Pylon", a song from the new album "Juli". Please listen to it.

https://tototod.bandcamp.com/album/juli

[jp] ニューアルバム『Juli』からの一曲『Pylon』です。どうぞよろしく。

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Pylon

From the album https://peteswinton.bandcamp.com/album/project-x

03. Project X (iii)

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 559:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku559-misty-spring-rains/

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

Photo by zenbytes (Vosges Mountains, France, 2014)

misty spring rains - Naviarhaiku 559

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This week's Disquiet Junto was in memory of the founder of the Mille Plateaux record label, Achim Szepanski. We were invited to listen to the compilation _Clicks and Cuts_ and compose a piece that paid homage.

I listened to the album a couple of times over and took notes on what I heard: complex rhythm is centered; glitchy, non-traditional percussion and other samples; dry mix; musical elements downplayed; no obvious structure; repetitious, hypnotic; lots of thoughtful, small touches.

I stepped away for a few hours and listened to familiar music to clear my head. When I was ready I hit the studio equipped with only my notes. I set out to make a piece that met the criteria I had observed more than something that sounded like the examples we had been given.

Since the rhythm is so central, I hand-programmed a few 5/4 drum patterns and shopped for an appropriately glitchy drum kit. I layered on some additional percussive and other samples for flavor.

The drone synth was performed on my Moffenzeef Modular Stargazer. There's no clock sync on this unit, so I had to set the LFO rate by hand and pray that I didn't accidentally bump that knob while performing. I doubled the Stargazer and panned the two tracks hard left and right. I quantized one and not the other, meaning that the LFOs drift in and out of phase. I also blended in a +7 pitch shift to fill out the sound some.

"Mise-en-scêne" is best experienced with headphones. Recorded at NO SIGNAL Multimedia Lab in The Shambles, Chicago.

Mise-en-scène (disquiet0665)

More on the 665th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Clicks + Cuts Music Factory — The Assignment: Record a track in honor of the late Achim Szepanski — at https://disquiet.com/0665/

The image associated with this project was created by Lubomir Panak in 2011. Originally posted on https://flic.kr/p/9DSGMx, it is used thanks to a CC BY-NC 2.0 license. This is a detail of the original image, and it has been tilted at an angle, with the project information superimposed.

Clicks + Cuts [Disquiet0665]

using various modules for clicks and cuts - chord is sampled into one channel of beads, white noise sampled into another channel, with very short envelopes + independent gates vcaing the l/r outputs. bursts of triggers pinging and envelope. all triggers semi random from turing machine. kick from tea kick for a change, instead of a sample on my disting.

field recording from my archive layered in ableton live afterwards.

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More on the 665th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Clicks + Cuts Music Factory — The Assignment: Record a track in honor of the late Achim Szepanski — at Disquiet Junto Project 0665: Clicks + Cuts Music Factory – Disquiet 1

The image associated with this project was created by Lubomir Panak in 2011. Originally posted on Flickr 1, it is used thanks to a CC BY-NC 2.0 license. This is a detail of the original image, and it has been tilted at an angle, with the project information superimposed.

disquiet0665 - minimum snap trajectory

Vulning

Defiance Idref

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