Grzegorz Bojanek, also known as Eta Carinae, is an xclnt electro-acoustic musician from Poland. For a Junto remix project, he sampled guitar from my track Call Pop (both original versions below), and created a wonderfully dreamy track called One Hot Day, which appears on his latest release Constraints, a collection of tracks originally composed for the Disquiet.com…
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soma
“Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology.”
– Brave New World (Aldous Huxley, 1932)
…i blow my mind
almost every night
with my early girl
and a couple transient linesit’s not that i
have too much time
it’s just that i
make time to fryi am slipping in and out of time
watching as my neighbors fly
out their windows way up high
every time i close my eyesbut this mass hallucination
is just a restless indication
that we can’t deal with
how really real all of this
really isyou can take a holiday
from reality
whenever you likei go offline
anytime i have time
with my early girl
and a couple other close friends of mineyou say you want to feel real
why do you want to feel real?
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naotko: riding waves (remix)
stunning Naotko (Naoyuki Sasanami) remix of my tribute to jeffrey melton (http://www.nofi.org). my original track is below naotko’s notes.
added keyboards and some dubs @thereflectors
The Hinrinson (Disquiet0076-dreamsound)
More on this 76th Disquiet Junto project:
http://disquiet.com/2013/06/13/disquiet0076-dreamsound/
More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto
STORY:
I’m in Detroit. Or what I think is Detroit. Wandering around in the rain. I’m in town to play a show and I can’t sleep. Neon lights abandoned Main Street. Restaurants and artist studios nestled between broken glass windows and crumbling bricks.…
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faucet fripp festival [disquiet0075-vinesuite]
PROCESS:
Sounds + Visuals:
1. vine.co/v/bLELKHq7xmL
Kitchen faucet, full throttle cold water, moved across drain.
2. vine.co/v/bLJPD9wbOWO
Robert Fripp “Easter Sunday” SoundPage (from Guitar Player Magazine, Jan 1986), alternated with Karl Johnson cut-paper silhouette of my wife, Cat, with me drone-humming.
3: vine.co/v/bLjLW52PtAw
Sunset view over perched dog, Sterling, out my front apt window, Brooklyn LGBT Pride Parade/Festival one-half block away on 5th Avenue.…
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chime. rinse. repeat. [disquiet0072-domesticscore]
PROCESS:
Recorded my doorbell and washing machine. Since the washing machine is smack in the middle of our apartment’s hallway, there is no escaping its swishing and whirring while it runs. It’s not necessarily an “intrusion,” because I feel luckier than lucky to have a washer and dryer in my apartment, but it is loud and there can be no vocal tracking in my home studio when there’s a load of wash to do.…
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Arc Of Visibility (Sense The Wind trailer score) [disquiet0071-windmusic]
PROCESS:
Arc of Visibility: The portion of the horizon over which a lighted aid to navigation is visible from seaward.
Sense The Wind is an inspired project about people who find independence, affirmation and freedom by taking risks and abandoning notions of limitation. As such, my goal this week became to create a flat-out positive one-minute piece of music that moved in and out of the action of the film’s trailer.…
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one city
she walks into union square
sends the pigeons flying
didn’t think i’d find her there
didn’t think of trying
she sits on a bench above the subway
as the trains rumble by
i see her shake
inside the hiss of a subway’s brakes
it means everything and nothing just the same
a city
to strangers
one city
two strangers
one city
too strange
dreams between drags on a cigarette
while i watch
under the lights of an august city
that will never stop
red street, the light of a taxi’s brakes
it means everything and nothing just the same
a city
to strangers
one city
two strangers
one city
too strange
riding waves [disquiet0066-nonofi]
PROCESS:
@nofi was one of my first followers on SoundCloud from the Junto (I started with #0004). Over the last year, I admired and absorbed a lot of his work and we shared laughs a few times on Twitter. I feel lucky to have had even the most cursory electronic interaction with him.…
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02:50 night sky dead letter office [disquiet0065-pianoverlay]
PROCESS:
Start point: 02:50
Duration: 02:40
Added drums and guitar as the two new elements.
All the talk of space in the original track inspired me to break out the ebow for the 1st time in a while.
To get more interstellar, I applied plate reverb, reverse delay and phaser to guitars at different points.…
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The space shuttle flying over San Francisco. (true life is a waking dream) [disquiet0061-textinstagrambient]
PROCESS:
twitter.com/textinstagram tweet: “The space shuttle over San Francisco.”
Instagram filter: Walden.
As space travel is humanity’s waking dream, it was all the more fitting that the die rolled an instagram filter borne of a dream traveler…
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
– Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, 1849
photo: iPhone screenshot of ISS Commander Chris Hadfield, 14 Jan 2013 (w/ Walden filter)
:^D
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RIG:
Jolie (Gibson ES335-Dot), Vox AC-15, Ibanez Screamer, Line6 Pod-XT, Yamaha TNR-i iPhone app, MOTU 828mk2, Paulstretch (Windows standalone), Sony Acid 7.0 (w/ VST effects)
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PROJECT:
Step 1: Roll a die six times (or six dice once), add up the combined results, and then subtract five from it.…
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audiobiography: westy reflector [disquiet0060-audiobio]
background track: “(i believe) this sounds like me” – recorded 02.24.2013
hey, world. this is westy reflector,
(i believe)
coming at you from brooklyn, new york, planet earth.
(this sounds like me)
my real name is dave.
i write songs.
(i believe this sounds like me)
i try to keep my songs simple.…
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lucky you [disquiet0059-vwls]
PROCESS:
Rolled three Yahtzee dice at once on my window sill, under the watch of a scorpion frozen in glass (pictured).
6, 4 and 5 = “Y.O.U.”
Sang tones. Y = F# (I). O = B (V). U = D# (IX).
Pitch shifted each a few times and added them back to create harmonies.…
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little filters / wrong impressions [disquiet0057-phonemetransmit]
PROCESS:
Samples stretched, pitch preserved, with noise, harmonic and/or binaural processing. These went into the DAW and were combined with the original recording snippets in various ways. Further effects included delay, resonance, vibrato, distortion, EQ and amplitude modulation.
12 words. 12 tracks. Three 48-second parts.
Anger | Vulnerability | Elation
Title taken from “Words” by Missing Persons:
“What little filters through is giving you the wrong impression
It’s a sorry state I say to myself…”
Rig: Samples (see link below), Paulstretch for Windows (stand-alone software), Ibanez DMD2000 Digital Delay, Line6 POD-XT, MOTU 828mk-ii, Sony Acid DAW
PROJECT:
The 57th disquiet.com…
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still echoes
| 26 january 2013
crystal never hurts |
the 12th step
The music was co-written in 2001 with Bill Kollar, a brilliant New York-area engineer and producer, who coaxed out the glorious rhythm guitar verse progression and overall tempo.
…I hear noises outside my door.
They’re the kinds of noises you can’t always ignore.
Drunken lovers stumblin’ to their floor.
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like these chords
this one’s for lovers forced to live apart b/c of distance and/or time. not sad, tho. it’s in that moment when one knows the other’s coming home.
we’re stronger than this day – that’s all I know all along
and your distant night flight voice – is just the prettiest songyou left this life for the myth – you’ve been gone a while
fall into a trance with me – travel the starswe’re like chords that ache to play
and open doors on sunny days
we’re like these chordswe’re the keepers of the truth – we never tired of the world
and now you’re coming back to me – with everything that you’ve learnedgot the sun on your back – heading east racing clouds
fall into a trance with me – under night flight starswe’re like chords that ache to play
and open doors on sunny days
they’re all I got, when you’re far away
we’re like these chordswe’re like chords when you’re far away
and open doors on sunny days
they’re all I got and they ache to play
but we’re like these chords
we’re like these chords
i must have love
This track materialized one night after a friend of mine off-handed challenged, “Westy, I bet you can’t write something unabashedly happy.”
:^D
…(downtune guitar 1/2 step, play in open C form. B=C, F#=G, E=F)
B Bsus4 B Bsus4
Walk down the street, it’s easy to see
B Bsus4 F# E
All those lonely people looking at me
B E
With envy in their eyes.
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#lightwalkers
Late one late December day in the late ’00s, on a new-mooned new-years evenight in the Mexican-not-Mayan Riviera, a small vacation coven gathered under soft starlight, poolside on a bluff overlooking an inking Pacific Ocean. As the group’s just-like-grandma’s cake started to kick in, Orion turned away from Earth for a few moments and a twinge of lawlessness neuroscaped through them one by one, in a cascade.…
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