Episodes
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all we ever have [disquiet0750]
This week’s project marks the 750th consecutive week of the Disquiet Junto music community. The instruction is simple: Record something epic. This track marks my 71st contribution to the Junto. There's an unwritten(?) rule in the group to focus on wordless expression, unless specifically called…
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Westy Reflector - Sarsaparilla Float [Disquiet0743]
layers of beat and melody over a field recording of crosswalk signals and traffic on Thorndike Street alongside the South Commons. Lowell, MA. 25 July 2021, 12:21a. Created for the Disquiet Junto. This week's assignment, via Marc Weidenbaum: "Do something you’ve been meaning to do. There is just...
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The Space In Rain [20180717a]
Rainstorm / 20170717 Bridgehampton, NY Close friends' house, Cottage bedroom improv on a 44-key upright Grieg piano, un-tuned, sticky keys iPhone w/ a Shure MV88 lightning condenser sitting on a windowsill
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The Last Time Up Ahead [20180608.1]
this one's for the ones who stop to think this one's for the ones who always knew this one's for the ones who see the absurdity this was a place we lived in peace a place we lived in silence a place we lived together in light the last time is cloud nine and you won't know you're dead but the...
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Canyon Songbird Dream #7
20180607.1 i believe in my dream I believe in my dream in my song, i believe you'll see all the lives we are to lead searching for answers is a waste of precious time destiny doesn't ring the bell, doesn't tell you you've arrived songbird on an electric line only knows he's incomplete caught up…
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Paper Streets
20180601.1 You came a long long way just to find nothing on the other end of a promise from the other side of the sun the road was mapped but never real still the dream of a long gone man now foxtails push up through cracked cement and long abandoned plans Paper streets always burn. Paper streets...
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Eaton Canyon Waterfall Walk (20180516.1)
walking away from the waterfall at the head of Eaton Canyon on a sunny, quiet, wednesday
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Canyon Bees, Birds, and a Chicken (20180509.1)
"A bee, a bird, and a chicken are hanging out in the Hollywood hills..." sounds like the start of a joke, but it's just a field recording. Bees pollinate a perpetual-blooming Echium Candicans ("pride of Madeira") flowering shrub in our Laurel Canyon Garden, while a mockingbird, a scrub jay, a few...
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Midnight Coyotes (20180402.1)
coyotes roam the Hollywood hills on a cool April midnight
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Every Light Leads (20180426.1)
all you've got is a feeling and what i've got won't show b/c our visions of love only intersected long ago gonna go where every light leads if it only takes me round the block i don't care at least i'm searching at least i'm driving where you're still aching to get somewhere first time i knew…
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Quiet Nowhere [20180426.1]
the smarter you are today the more you live in shadow never giving up all you know 'cos it's quiet nowhere la la la la la la la la la it's quiet nowhere to long for someday soon is to long for days gone by they're both parallel paper streets through a quiet nowhere the sound of things falling is...
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Love Your Self Any Way [20180426.1]
we were young you were younger never were to be in love i should've known better every price has a one you wanted the world to burn vanish into a point of no return 'cos hardest to learn you never could say love your self any way afraid of truth living in shadows is no way to move through life in...
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Wonderland
Mattie was the kinda girl who saw the end of the world every time she opened her eyes Roger was the kinda guy never turned down a ride figured "the end of days is just down the line." the price you pay counting on judgment day for love is to waste the light away wide awake wishing on the dark (in...
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Clouds Over LA
version: 20180412.7 time will not release a missing puzzle piece faded memories don't know what you mean you can't watch a sunrise through someone else's eyes if they never see you in dreams clouds over LA dance alone between skies distant freeways shimmer traffic as rivers red and white ribbons...
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It [20180412.1a]
I wanna blow the doors off of everything just because I can I got no direction I don't care much for a plan I'm gonna do it just because I can I wanna call the world out for what it is just because it can't I got a few ideas that I know that it can't stand I wanna do it just because it can't I...
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Canyon Morning [20180314]
a laurel canyon dawn: guitar + sunrise + birds + distant traffic slow and loose channeling of Tony Rice's interpretation of Shenandoah
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What's Left Of You Is Here [live, 20180313]
I knew everything of you in how you said your name. On our way to points B unknown from whatever points A. I will never need to know how the shadows fell across your face In that place you used to be Before you escaped To California. for untold revelations, on a self-sent invitation. What's left...
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Jupiter & Tennessee [20180313.4]
She said, "Pull off at Exit Two Eighteen. Let me out, I'll find another ride. I just don't know where the time has gone, and I'm tired of these freeway signs. "Your stories make me laugh, but your songs make me cry. I don't think I can live that way. I need someone not so low, and maybe not so...
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Riding the D with Casey and Bob [20180310]
RIP Bob Jacks
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Counting [20180310.3]
What if we could ride all the waves What if the world was safe for everything we are What if we could exchange Every turn we'll ever take For one true North Star Counting on lightning Counting on dreaming Counting on sleeping sometime soon Counting on one plan Counting on another hand (and I'm...
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Into Endless Blue
version: 20180308.8a 1/2 way up the hill is a long way down to extend your horizon to wave away clouds Into the great unknown Into endless blue 1/2 way up the hill was the best we could do where calm clear sky is the everyday no wonder the sun yearns to steal away into the great unknown into...
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This Canyon Drive
version: 20180307.3a video: https://youtu.be/9M2kgtzeT6M well I'm climbing up this Canyon drive high enough to see across time to the days where you and I had nothing to leave behind up here, on this Canyon drive a thousand feet up in the sky on a one-lane two-way graded switchback ride we opened...
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Need To Be (20180307.3b)
LYRICS Picture a house with no mirrors, where you never need to see your self as a reflection, you just need to be. There's no such thing as slowing down speed is only how far you feel you are in time There's no such thing is getting old age is only how long you think you are in time There's no...
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sun child [disquiet0294-offlinestatus]
Apologize for nothing, Bassel. All sounds either Bassel or guitar. Underlying bed is reversed "Amazing Grace" mixed with three tracks of Bassel's phrase ~13x stretched: One track is him harmonized and pitched down to F#; One is him disambiguated as noise; One is him just straight up sloooowed...
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'57 Echoes [Disquiet0283-RoomsWithinRooms]
Spending this week in Venice, FL, at The Herron House (http://www.modernsarasota.com/single-post/2016/09/27/Victor-Lundy). Built by architect Victor A. Lundy, FAIA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_A._Lundy), in 1957 for the Herron family, the house was restored to its original grandeur by…
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sterling fades [disquiet0260-tonefade]
PROCESS Thank you so much, Marc (@disquiet) for thinking of Sterling in this project. As I told Marc in an email exchange where he told me of the dedication in this week's prompt, my thinking about how the sound waves we produce may somehow go on forever began with the Junto's week dedicated to…
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universal coherence [disquiet0248]
PROJECT Devise a short piece of music in celebration of the Galactic Tick. http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/news/a22492/galactic-tick-day-september-29/ http://galactictick.com/ PROCESS Perfect excuse to play with the brilliant iPad app 'SpaceVibe' to generate all the arpeggio…
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wake up time [disquiet0247]
PROCESS My 66th(!) junto contribution was written and recorded on Monday evening 26 Sep 2016 while watching the 1st 2016 US Presidential debate (on mute, CSPAN only) with the project photograph (http://goo.gl/djQ31Y) in my field of vision on an iPad and a few glasses of Russian River Valley Pinot...
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the other side of the end
a riff on simulation theory, alan watts and the meaning of existence. :^D LYRICS all the dreams have been blamed all the sources have been named there’s no hiding in the shadows anymore all the ‘steins have been ‘stained all the acid has been rained there’s no overriding the code [ch] we’re on…
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europa sunrise [disquiet0236] (escaping earth remix)
extended remix of my contribution to the july 2016 disquiet junto's collection of tracks saying "hi" in morse code to the juno jupiter probe... ORIGINAL PROJECT The task to create a friendly "Hi" to the Juno probe based on the Morse Code for "Hi" (…. ..) became the perfect excuse to duet with my...
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europa sunrise [disquiet0236]
The task to create a friendly "Hi" to the Juno probe based on the Morse Code for "Hi" (…. ..) became the perfect excuse to duet with my Teenage Engineering PO-16. I've owned it for a while and though I am fascinated by it and screw around with it at times, it hadn't yet found its way into the...
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Love In This Land (2016a)
Written early July 2016 on the way home from a final visit to my wife's family farm in Orrtanna, Pennsylvania, outside Gettysburg. RIP, Aunt Suzanne… This track also grieves not for an America that was - but for an America that could have been. LYRICS A few hours west of the City line About 200...
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Last Call Home
Out of time This is my last call home It’s a dream to fall back to safe spaces where you never change. Where soft delusions tell you you never have to feel any pain. Don’t lose yourself in distant seclusion. Keepers of the truth never walk alone. Out of time, I’m done with confusion. This is my...
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broken heart > wasted soul
All those years with you on the edge of a knife, so many dark days set the sun on lost nights. I hope the great beyond buries the reasons why, and you spend your life emanating light. Better a broken heart than a wasted soul. Better to walk away than to cede control. Better to be ripped apart…
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angel let down
Don't waste time on love with no return Two sides always makes a third In the end the sole unknown is the worth of words Don't waste time on love with no return I wanted that you found release I wanted you lived in peace Instead the world turned its back On everything you believe I wanted that…
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lonesome faraway sounds
Dedicated to the ongoing effort to free Bassel Khartabil and to the memory of Berta Cáceres. LYRICS distant cries of cracked-down souls trapped underground church bells at dawn ringing for ones silenced by crowds [ch.] high lonesome faraway sounds filtered through the air echoing off clouds lost...
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Nothing / Anything
"Nothing means anything." - Kurt Vonnegut LYRICS There’s no right and wrong or light and dark There are only in-betweens When this world gives you no end And you know nothing but your means Nothing means anything I crossed state lines and changed my name Twenty years down that way Still lost in...
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Parallel Memories [disquiet0207-remixingmarilli]
The records you make don't freeze so much as liquify time. As with Michel, 1983 was a pivotal musical year for me, too, so this week's challenge fired a wonderful cascade of memories. Playing with the tonal and harmonics filters in Paulstretch, I stretched each of the three 32-year old samples to...
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Since I Heard The Sun
It’s been so long since I heard the sun call my name. It’s been so long since I had the power to light my way. Dreams left me high and lovely, (but) in darkness with life undone. It’s been so long since I heard the sun. It’s been so long since I became a forgotten one. It’s been so long since I...
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The Young Unicorns [disquiet0196-wholelottawhole]
PROCESS Elementary school for me was in the early 1980s. So, drawing a straight line between the challenge and my experience, I fired up my old-friend Casio CZ-1000, programmed a quasi new wave dance groove with Acid loops and did a sight read of the notes in the photo. The CZ was set to a square...
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chasing flight
ambient.drone.guitar CHAIN Pigtronix Infinity Looper --> Small Sound / Big Sound Sparkle Motion --> SS/BS Mini F*ck --> Electro-Faustus EF107 Regurgitator (send/receive: tc electronic flashback --> Earthquaker Grand Orbiter) --> electro-harmonix SuperEgo (send/receive: EQD Arpanoid --> Diamond...
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sedimentronic figures [disquiet0190-missedconnections]
PROCESS 20 bars of https://soundcloud.com/rupertlally "Sediment Layers" https://soundcloud.com/rupertlally/sediment-layers-disquiet0189-tonelayer?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet0189-tonelayer 8 bars of https://soundcloud.com/ahornberg "Digital Frippertronics"...
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c swells [disquiet0189-tonelayer]
PROCESS Single notes in the key of C, staggered and stacked to move through different chords. "Attack" was eliminated using a combination of my trusted E-bow fed through an EHX POG2 with its attack setting jacked all the way up for max swell. Tape Delay, Phaser, Reverb added for space travel (or...
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Elena's Stars
Elena lived on Avenue X, next to a trestle all her life. She dreamed of distant places and of jumping random trains a thousand times. She craved a sky that let her know she was home. An endless sky that left the stars alone to shine. Beyond her life, that sky showed her some way home. Counting…
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fly this town
alan watts reflected in a disco ball LYRICS there’s a rip in the galaxy sounds like wind through a door it’s headed for us full speed ahead we’ve got nothing to lose anymore so no more running from the past running from the dark searching through the void chasing love let’s fly this town tonight...
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night flight: le rêve de fabien [disquiet0181-instrumentaldream]
My latest guitar is named Fabien, after the pilot in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's "Night Flight." It has quickly become my fav instrument. I read him the passage below from the book last night and woke up to this track in my DAW. Seems Fabien dreamed me reading to him in French. A Dick Dale-esque...
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