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Recorded, mixed & mastered on 22 Dec 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

Back when Johnson was the President of the USA, I had some building toys – an erector set and Lincoln Logs. My father being in the sheet metal trade was also probably an influence. Anyway, I probably just wanted a hammer, so with a bit of the industrial in mind I created this marching, pounding thing.

Tools used & process notes –
In VCV Rack 2 Pro I used Surge XT’s Modern VCO & dBiz DaOsc, many native VCV and Surge XT modules, Bifaco Srping Reverb, Squinktronix Harmony & Apreggiator, a few of Hetrick’s Phasor and Choas modules, Daniel Davies Sequel_8 sequencer, Sm@rTAZZ Studio’s D-Octer & Alef’s Bits Probably Not. Of course, Frozen Wasteland’s Seriously Slow LFO & JW’s Simple Clock is in there, too.

In Ableton Live 12 Suite, I imported my second take, editing from over 6 minutes to 3 and creating a second track with things I cut out. I stretched this and then ran it through a Joyo Uzi pedal. I stretched the result again. In Live, I also used kHz Dual Delay, Arturia’s Delay Brigade (hello, Memory Man!), native Live devices and some Max For Live devices – K-Devices Alter Echo, Osprey’s ADT1 & Graham F’s Aerosolizer.

Lots of compression and distortion here to go with that “boy who really wants to play with a hammer” feeling! It also came out with a sort of “Cold War Era” feel to me.

Artwork/Photography – Jim Lemanowicz, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY, USA – 10 Oct 2008

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This original version of “The Erection Set” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0677: Jeux d’enfants. The Assignment: Make music inspired by a children’s toy or game.

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Recorded, mixed & mastered 18 Dec 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

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For this I used Live, Live native devices, Dillon Bastan’s Rhythmorphic and Arturia’s Mini V & Prophet-5 V.

This original version of “Polar Decomposition In Rhode Island” was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 572, cool breeze.

cool breeze–
cloud shadows
on the green paddies

by: Morikawa Kyoroku

Morikawa Kyoroku (1656-1715) studied with the great Basho for ten months, who was the one who chose his nickname Kyoroku because he excelled in all six (roku) art forms: calligraphy, painting, spear, sword, horse riding and haiku.

Art photography by Jim Lemanowicz, 30 Apr 2017, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY, USA with an Agfa camera using Ilford HP5.

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Recorded, mixed & mastered 11 Dec 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

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For this I used 3 instances of VCV Rack running Voxglitch ArpSeq within Ableton Live. In Live, I was running FL Studio with Sytrus loaded, Live’s Wavetable and Arturia’s Arp 2600. From about 23 minutes, I used this small section towards the end and did a bit of editing.

This original version of “So Glad To See You Again” was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 571, Stillness.

stillness:
the sound of petals
sifting down together.
by: Miura Chora

Miura Chora (1729-1780) was a Japanese poet from Toba (present-day Mie Prefecture). Early in his career, he came into contact with the Teimon School, and bonded with the great Yosa Buson. An admirer of Matsuo Bashō, he strived for a return to the simple tones and spirit of the latter’s poetics, criticizing the vulgarization of haiku of his era and advocating the so-called “return” to a Bashō’s style.

Art photography by Jim Lemanowicz, 30 Nov 2018, Whitney Museum Of American Art, NYC, USA

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Recorded, mixed & mastered on 05 Dec 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

Process notes -I started by working in VCV Rack, capturing a 7 minute stereo recording. I pulled this into Ableton Live and layered the track six times, each track being treated differently. I mixed/mastered on the same night.

Tools used
VCV Rack – VCV-native modules, Vult Bleak, Surge XT Modern VCO, Frozen Wasteland Seriously Slow LFO, BogAudio VCF & LFO, JW-Modules Clock, Aaron Static’s Chord CV, Daniel Davies’ Sequel_8, Sckitam Waveguide Delay, Squinky Labs Stairway filter.

Ableton Live – native Live devices and Cycling 74’s multiharmonizer

Artwork/Photography – Jim Lemanowicz, 05 Dec 2015, Marjorie Post Park, Massapequa, NY, USA

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This original version of “Performing A Choke” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0675: Arc of the Drone. The Assignment: Record a drone that goes from simple to complex to simple.

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Recorded, mixed & mastered 27 Nov 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

This piece is a section of a longer generative improvisation. Using a patch I created earlier in the evening on Arturia Prophet V3 in the VS mode, I started in Bitwig with a few sequenced notes, Nitwig’s own random elements, CodeFN42 RandArp & iZotope’s Neoverb. I chose a small section to replicate across four tracks in Ableton Live and committed some variation with Live’s native devices and some other iZotope plugins.

This original version of “Ion Exchange & Found” was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 569, Resplendent.

Resplendent
the kite soaring up above
the shanty town

by: Kobayashi Issa

Among the four great masters of Japanese haiku, Kobayashi Issa was the most prolific: during his lifetime he wrote over 20,000 haiku, hundreds of tanka, and several haibun.

Art/photography by Jim Lemanowicz, 07 Nov 2009, Massapequa, NY, USA
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