Twenty-Four Hour Water-Bug (disquiet0703)

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Recorded, edited, mixed & mastered on 14/16/19 Jun 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA.

Synths, drum machine, effects

My definitions of “difficult” are always changing. Case-by-case. Here I will explore the act of moving forward even though I am SURE that I am stuck, showing up and finishing against my best judgement. Since when has good judgement had anything to do with music?

I usually put myself in a situation based on accident or randomness and then listen to what it wants and build from there. From this I gather basic elements to group together pieces that have their own internal meaning to become albums. The concepts grow into their own unique world as I record more within that world. By “basic elements” I mean anything from vague notes in Obsidian or Notion to DAW templates to a set of common audio source material – all with enough wiggle room to be interesting as I progress through recording, listening to the WIP and then finishing albums.

Sometimes though, my thoughts get in the way and I get stuck. My way of handling getting stuck is to document what I am doing as best as I can and then just start something else entirely. As I have gotten older I have become less precious with my work. I listen back to things that I thought were terrible and find interesting things about them. I happily find myself going back to things and completing them eventually, time willing. I guess I consider that “getting stuck” is just part of “listening to what a situation wants.” The situation wants me to be stuck?

For this piece, I decided to move forward with the piece and not stay stuck.

I ended up doing two mixes. One shorter one for us here and another for the album. My album versions are always different than anything I may have put on Soundcloud earlier — (typically the seed/genesis of an album that grows later) but it is rare that I finish both on the same day. So I am sort of multitasking, too. Something I think we humans are all pretty bad at.

What’s in this one – same basic elements as last week – a PO-12 Pocket Operator, a Volca FM gen 1, some Arturia CS-80 and SQ-80.

Photography/Art – Jim Lemanowicz, 26 Jun 2015, St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, Mulberry St, NYC, USA & 12 Jun 2025.

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This original version of “Twenty-Four Hour Water-Bug” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0703: That’s How You Got Killed Before. The Assignment: Revisit something that you just couldn’t get to work last time.

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