#22

Taking a cue from the text I wrote a guitar riff with sort of a call and response feel to it. Then I sang the text over it, and added some other instruments.

3 Likes
#23

Not having Disquieted for some time, and not being completely on board with the intention of the project after admittedly skimming various pages, I got all enthusiastic when I saw Bernie Krause’s name and realised the sonic lineage of the assembled creators.

I delved into my old “field recordings” folder (okay, me playing with a Tascam) and chose three, then cut them up and reprocessed them (according to whim and instinct) in Audacity using basic effects and plugins.

I still have no idea if this really fits the brief or not but it was fun.

5 Likes
#24

Polymetrics: individually and in concert. Inspired by the Collective Field, there’s motifs in five different meters in this piece that can be listened to individually but also work as an ensemble. F# minor, radio edit duration.

Instrumentally the piece centers around a Subharmonicon with the solo by a pair Mother-32s. Bass provided by the Circuit Mono Station, a synthetic grand piano by Pianoteq in the background. Drums: Polyplex.

4 Likes
#25

It is so tempting when thinking about “the environment” to place humans on the outside looking in. We have scientific instruments for measuring every facet of an ecosystem, and in our hubris we imagine that by these means we will understand it to its innermost depths. But those instruments (and the bodies that operate them, and the minds that interpret the results) only reveal the smallest slice.

Meanwhile on a Sunday evening, as we sit on the front porch watching the sun go down, we think that we are hearing the world. But are we? No, our ears only pick up a fraction of the vibration, and our minds ignore most of that small fraction as irrelevant…

I recorded my local soundscape using the same old tape recorder I’ve employed for a few other recent projects (I’m in a lo-fi mood lately) and I’ll just cheat and tell you that somewhere in there is the sound of wind rustling leaves, various species of bird, and various species of automobile from the highway down in the valley below.

Obviously you’ll have to take my word for it… My question is: what did I miss while I was listening there in person?

3 Likes
#26

Been reading too much news on my favorite channel, World Beat Today:

Moog Sub37, Korg Minilogue, Ripplemaker, Behringer Model 10, Modal Skulpt. Made the bass lne for RIpplemaker which sequenced the Skult and Model D. Just tried to capture some despair in a cathartic way.

6 Likes
#27

Instant happiness! Thanks for sharing.

2 Likes
#28

@DeDe always provides great Junto contributions, no matter what the theme.

2 Likes
#29

Thanks a lot, you are very generous, I guess my goal is to just pass when the theme sparks the shitty side of me :grinning:

2 Likes
#30

Instant happiness here, reading your comment, THANKS!

2 Likes
#31
Bill Parod · Earful Birds disquiet0446

I love to listen to the interactions of birds in my neighborhood near Chicago - Robins, Cardinals, Red-winged Blackbirds, Woodpeckers, Gulls (Lake Michigan), others. I often go for walks and record them. I first started recording birds years ago on a trip to Sumatra in the forest. I was occasionally lucky enough to encounter Siamangs (gibbons). As a composer and improviser I’ve often wanted to achieve that natural sounding sense of the forest ensemble - and wondered, what this is. In my music, I’ve come to explore interactions of birds as well as musical material by using a behavior-based approach. I do this by orchestrating articulations according to behavioral models in the Unity game development engine. This piece takes a listener path through behavior-based interactions of 10 different locationally separate but coexistent groups: Robins, Cardinals, Red-winged Blackbirds, Woodpeckers, Sumatran birds, insects, and Siamangs, as well as Illinois Gulls, Surf, and crickets. All the animals are created with real recorded vocalizations. Their interactions / orchestration however are/is done with stochastic state profiles, behavioral definitions, and behavioral transitions resulting from spatial and vocal interactions. I’m still working on this approach, but am so motivated by the joy of listening that I thought I’d post for this week’s Disquiet Junto in honor of R. Murray Schafer and World Listening Day.

5 Likes