My contribution to Junto Project 0683 - https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0683-space-shot/70693

The first half of the track I wanted to capture the spaciousness and mystery of a cavernous space station – brutalist in design, surrounded by mist. The second half I wanted to take a deep dive into the inner workings of the station, where we hear the isolated clicks of machines and robots discussing the work being done.

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More on the 683rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Space Shot — The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant — at https://disquiet.com/0683/

Million Miles (disquiet0683)

based around a synth pad from the PS1 game "fluid". i added some lightly hand-edited dub drum loops, and later programmed a second kit to play call and response with the dub drums. a bass pulse was added to keep things moving. the "2001 space" patch from newfangled audio's generate synth was layered in, as was an improvised lead piano line. textural samples from mode audio and another PS1 game, "silent hill", help thicken the atmosphere. some quiet volume-faded guitar emerges before the closing vinyl slowdown effect (unfiltered audio's needlepoint vst).

[naviarhaiku583] out of the blue

Disquiet Junto Project 0689: Supporting Players The Assignment: Elevate the presence of your non-instrument equipment.

In my improvisation setup, using acoustic instruments with electronic effects chains, I prefer using a contact microphone. This prevents unwanted audio feedback (sound from the speakers feeding back into the microphone. But it can lead to issues with accidentally bumping against the table that the instrument is on, or touching the cable of the contact mic (which is extremely sensitive to handling noise). One of the effects chains I use a lot, uses transient detection to trigger recording to a buffer in a granular synth, and doing pitch analysis to allow tuned audio effects (like a tuned resonator in a feedback path). Accidentally brushing the mic cable can then lead to some unexpected results… which I often find rather pleasing, actually.
So for this piece, I wanted to give the granulated mic cable brushes and table bumps centre stage, playing a bit of duduk as a background layer.

More on the 689th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Supporting Players — The Assignment: Elevate the presence of your non-instrument equipment — at https://disquiet.com/0689/

Accidental support (disquiet0689)

The lyrics come from two haikus by Kajiwara Hashin and Genkaibō.  See:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku584-heaven-and-earth/
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku556-heaven-and-earth/

Pictures by Simon Berger and Markus Spiske. 


morning mist [ naviarhaiku584 ]

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 584:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku584-heaven-and-earth/
Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!
Photo by zenbytes (Germany, 2018)

snow fluttering down - Naviarhaiku584

This haiku poem is part of the Naviar haiku music challenge, where artists are invited to make music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem. https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku584-heaven-and-earth/

SONG 78 - Navairhaiku584

This week's task is rather serendipitous in that I am actually engaged in some minor wood working this weekend. I recently built a small Buchla 100 system (and its case), consisting of what is shown in the image and the as yet unhoused (and not shown) 114 touch control module, which is what the piece of unstained pine sitting on top of the Buchla is destined for. I selected pine because my woodworking skills are still rather rudimentary so working with higher priced and more difficult lumber makes me nervous. Plus, there is something comforting about pine's ubiquity and approachability. Making a mistake with pine seems excusable. Doing so with walnut or oak less so. That said, I got to thinking about the pine that I picked up at my local lumber shop in terms of the conditions under which it is grown and the vast quantities of trees that are stripped from the land so that people like me can make boxes for their vintage synthesizers. Sonically, I imagined this as a somewhat discordant drone, with peaks and valleys and occasional moments of harmony. The trees grow, mainly in a state or quietude, before they are cut down and processed to the sound of chain saws and saw blades. And then everything goes quiet again as the next crop is planted.  Graphically, I notated this imagined scenario as a series of constant lines, punctuated here and there with peaks, valleys, bright and dark spots, representing in part the knots and impurities in the pine but also the experience of the piece of wood in its transition from tree to commodity. Everything you hear was created on my humble System 100, which was first fed through the Empress Zoia pedal using the "soft focus" effect created by Christopher H.M. Jacques and then further transformed in Logic using "fragments," and "motion" from Arturia, with hints of the unprocessed Buchla emerging here and there. And there was panning. Lots of panning, so headphones are the preferred listening approach.

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Strange Maneuvers

Music written for the documentary Work of the Word by Grace Productions.  The documentary follows the wayward life of a man in search for a bigger meaning and to get back his children.  What he discovers along the way changes his and his families life in huge ways!  

WOW M1 Prologue

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 602:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku602-scent-of-plum/

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

Photo by zenbytes (Germany, 2011)


scent of - Naviarhaiku602

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

snow fluttering down - Naviarhaiku584

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