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Recorded, mixed & mastered 08-09 Nov 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

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Process notes

First day –

– Not intending this to be for the next Junto – it was Wednesday – I decided to program a samba beat in FL Studio from a book of drum patterns for four percussion instruments and then added a second snare. Nothing especially out of the ordinary, it just felt like practice. I went to sleep wondering if I could take it apart somehow.

Second day –

– Spent probably too much time getting MIDI out of FL and into Ableton Live.
– I used a template that I developed last June for this particular concept, (”band”), I call Smile Puppy I used this concept for Juntos 0546 and 0599. This concept started for me in a very primitive way in FL 3.5 back in 2001-ish, so I always try to include FL somehow, so it seemed natural to use that concept name.
– Juggled the percussion tracks to have the thing build as it went, with some open spots too. Didn’t want to be linear, it felt less musical to me.
– My template included a track for raw audio that I removed and a track with a marimba sound and another one with an Operator pluck sound.
– I used a Max For Live thing called TreeSEQ by Gross9978 to generate the notes for the two melodic tracks, with the pluck aiming for the bass sounds. I then captured these two parts in two MIDI receiver tracks.
– I liked the pluck sound but not for bass. It didn’t have any hint of bass oomph and what can I say, I’m really fussy with bass.
– So I duplicated the bass part and with some messing around, I found something in Kontakt that was more bass-sounding to me but also a little off. That was it, I was going to slick with that.
– I took the original bass part, cut it in half, increased the octave I was in and half timed it as a solo near the end of the track. I also processed it with some of Live’s guitar-oriented effects but also a gate to gently tame it. Still it eventually took over without any intention from me and I liked that happy accident for an ending.

Artwork: Penn Station, NYC 17 Dec 2010, by Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “I Am As Dry As A Fish” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0619: Beat Accrual. The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch.

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Recorded, mixed & mastered 02-03 Nov 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

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Process notes

First day –
– Typed one paragraph from the Black Panther newspaper of 4 Nov 1972 into Google Translate. I went with 51 years ago, instead of 50.
– Sent the German output into a text-to-speech engine, PlayHT
– Paulstretch in Audacity & exported
– Dragged into Live and duplicated two more times
– Set warp markers to produce variations & panned two tracks L & R
– L & R tracks each treated to two instances of Arturia Tape Melo-Fi to get some crud distortion
– Center track treated to some widening in Live

Second day –
– Recorded a china cymbal. This was run into Ableton Live’s Spectral Resonator and other effects.
– Recorded a short series of walking bass notes using a Turser JTB-402. This was run through a modified Buffer Shuffler, iZotope’s Neutron and other effects.
– I duplicated this track and converted the second copy to MIDI for use in sidechaining.
– I froze/flattened the cymbal, speech and bass audio tracks
– I altered some of the things I did the day before with the speech tracks.
– Recorded a nylon-string guitar that was missing the low E and the D string. I retuned the second highest string, recorded something related to the bass track and enhanced this with Live’s grain delay.
– I split the bass audio track into two for hi/lo processing with some simple shelving EQ.

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Black Panther, Vol. 9, No. 3, November 4, 1972

A Matter Of Life Or Death, vote “no” on proposition 17, 4th paragraph, translated into German.

Historically, America has justified its use of the death penalty, both domestically and on a world-wide level with the so-called “deterrent” theory. This twisted logic has resulted in the slaughter of millions throughout the world and the development of more and more ingenious methods of killing human beings.

Historisch gesehen hat Amerika seine Anwendung der Todesstrafe sowohl im Inland als auch auf weltweiter Ebene mit der sogenannten „Abschreckungs“-Theorie gerechtfertigt. Diese verdrehte Logik hat zur Abschlachtung von Millionen Menschen auf der ganzen Welt und zur Entwicklung immer raffinierterer Methoden zur Tötung von Menschen geführt.

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This original version of “Begrabe Das Lied” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0618: Burying the Lede. The Assignment: Turn old news into new music.

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Recorded, mixed & mastered 19 Oct 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, outside.

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Process notes

Two words that mean “minimal” – “clean” and “essential.” These two I rendered through sound in this piece.

“Essential” made me think of Junto Project 0530: Minimally Viable Music. I’ve been finding many opportunities presented in later Juntos to touch back on that concept and the methods I used to complete that project.

I started outside on a relatively warm October night for New York/Long Island using iPad/Audiobus with Burns Audio Spectrum through some Bleass and AudioDamage plugins. Spectrum is a suite of iOS plugins that use open source code from Mutable Instruments.

I used two earlier short sections of this 36 minute piece. One was a false start, a recording of about one second. Both were placed into their own track in Ableton Live and using Live’s warp modes, “cleaned up” to produce something more intermittent, cleaner, more essential. Both were then treated to a number of Max For Live devices before being committed to flattened audio tracks and ultimately mastered with Ozone 9.

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This original version of “Sanitized For Your Own Good” was submitted as part of ​Disquiet Junto Project 0616: : Definition Jam. The Assignment: Explore, in music, the nuanced differences between two closely related words.

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