Jimmy Lem - Blister Pop Unlimited

https://ift.tt/1aJxsvS

Recorded, mixed and mastered on 12 May 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. This was also Day 1381 of the 100 Day Project.

Process notes –

After recording and assembling a track based on Oblique Strategies for a future Magpie Pirates community collab compilation, I started in VCV Rack with a number of Stochastic Telegraph devices – Embellish, Ruminate, Memory, Drifter – and a pair of Bifaco Even VCOs, Atelier Palette, the wonderful Seriously Slow LFO by Frozen Wasteland, the SurgeXT delay and Bifaco’s Spring Reverb and then Biset’s Tree as a sequencer, along with VCAs, AD EGs, a clock, attenuverters, a limiter, scope, I/O and Nysthi’s Master Recorder2.

I made three passes –

– A 2:11 first pass, intended as raw material for the slow track
– A 0:02 mistake
– A final 3:49 pass, intended to not be slowed down.

I decided pretty quickly that I would use the mistake as a loop and that I would pitch things down 2-4 octaves. Too much high end for me.

I transferred these to three tracks in Live 12, repeating the 2 second one as the loop for dead center and panning the others left and right. I pitched down, drew fades in, ran it through Ozone 9 and that was it, really.

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

Artwork: Generated in Adobe Express on 12 May 2024

—

This original version of “East On The Homemaker” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0645: Speed Trap. The Assignment: Record something, slow it down, and then record over it.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://ift.tt/y4jTerJ

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://ift.tt/m1O72ki

More on the 645th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Trap — The Assignment: Record something, slow it down, and then record over it — at https://disquiet.com/0645/ 

Be sure to also check the VCV Rack online library (https://library.vcvrack.com/) for the Stochastic Telegraph brand by Mahlen Morris and many many other great developers.
https://ift.tt/1aJxsvS

https://ift.tt/5UjEiPf

Recorded, mixed & mastered 02 May 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

Process notes

Ableton Live, Ableton Operator & other native Live devices & methods.

Photography: Wantagh Pond, Wantagh, NY from the LIRR, 1 May 2015, by Jim Lemanowicz

This original version of “Blue Sunshine Boils” was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 539

The cormorant in the forest;
The cherry blossoms
Along the evening path.

by: Tan Taigi

Tan Taigi was a haiku poet of the Edo period. He was a wanderer for most of his life and admired by Yosa Buson for his ability to transcend his eclectic and unconventional lifestyle with sublime poetry.
https://ift.tt/5UjEiPf

https://ift.tt/TBXw59Y

Recorded, mixed and mastered on 25 Apr 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. This was also Day 1364 of the 100 Day Project.

Process notes –

I first thought of scraping my iPhone against a stone. Then, I free-associated “stone” with “pizza stone” and then “LP.” Right after that I thought to capture some LP surface noise, and came right around to using one of Yoko’s albums…so…not the music but the physical object. I looked around my landlady’s backyard and found a slightly mysterious pile of stones and I was off.

I made 2 sets of four short recordings. Mid-way, I decided to get “elemental” with it, too.

– Two recordings were outdoor “air” recordings, including some dogs.
– One other recording was scraping my iPhone against a stack of stones.
– Indoors, I recorded the kitchen sink (water, and yes everything including the kitchen sink) and also lighting matches I keep for my barbecue (fire).
– The second set of recordings was of the inner groove noise from my copy of Yoko’s Fly double album. The last recording included switching briefly to the radio (white noise) and then my own struggling to get the two disks back into the jacket.

For this, I used similar methods, (and an Ableton Live template), I’d used for Disquiet Juntos 0530, 0605, 0606, 0609 & 0616, all which reference “minimally viable music” as we did in 0530, my first Junto. This included many Ableton Live effects devices and some by Max for Live devices by Amazing Noises.

For what it is is worth, Junto 0530 also was the genesis of this album – [Something That Once Was (Free)](https://ift.tt/WnDB2g8). Eventually, this piece and 0605, 0606, 0609 & 0616 will all be worked into the follow-up.

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

Artwork: 31 Mar 2017, April Fool’s holiday in Boston. MA, USA, near Old Atlantic Ave and State St.

—

This original version of “Come Fly With Us” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0643: Stone Out of Focus. The Assignment: Make music inspired by a poem.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: [disquiet.com/junto/](https://ift.tt/WZOA3XU)

Subscribe to project announcements here: [tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto](https://ift.tt/rygb7Af)

More on the 643rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Stone Out of Focus — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a poem — at https://ift.tt/HTUnvF3

This week’s project is based on a text by Yoko Ono, originally published in her book *Grapefruit,* 60 years ago, back in 1964.
https://ift.tt/TBXw59Y