Recorded & mixed Jun 25 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.
Process notes – for this, I started with the template – the sounds – from a Smile Puppy track I did for Junto #0546 and used musical elements from a November 5, 2005 FL Studio fragment named “Spunker.”
I converted the FL Studio tracks to audio – my voice, a Moog sample and some drums – and then further converted that to MIDI melody or drums within Live. From there I started to pare back my elements and made a quick arrangement after letting it sit for a few hours.
**Word Prompt:** finding something valuable in the trash
**Music Prompt:** Assemble something musical out of discarded and disparate parts. They can be things on your hard drive or things in your head. They can be a part that got buried in a mix or even things you’ve used before. Try to make something new from this. Don’t just post something old. Don’t overthink about whether the parts will fit together or not. If it feels uncomfortable, you are probably on the right track.
Overall, don’t get too hung up and have fun.
Inspired by my approach to music in general and specifically towards a recent Disquiet Junto challenge.
“A Vacuumed Floor Will Just Get Dirty Again” by Yeast With Teeth
Conceived, recorded, mixed & mastered 19 Jun 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, outdoors. Includes a recording from 29 Oct 2005.
The sample I used here is my voice and was recorded on 29 Oct 2005. I loaded this into sEGments by Elliott Garage as a plugin within AUM. I also opened up a live mic, split between two channels. This was one of four recordings I have made like this in the past few days. Then I imported the four channel/tracks I recorded into Ableton Live for the final mix. Four tracks total.
More about the AUM session – On the same channel as sEGments, I used Audiodamage Other Desert Cities. The slices in sEGments were triggered by Corne Driesprong’s polybeat via MF Randomizer and Rozeta Scaler (F Minor Pentatonic, not that it really matters here). Other parameters throughout the session were controlled by 6 LFOs in Achilleas Sourlas mLFO.
One mic was going through Audiothing’s Crusher & Mantis and the other mic through Alexey Nadzharov’s soundfruuze and Bleass’ Delay. I also grabbed a live mix track of all of the above which was going through Audiothing’s Bubbles.
Ableton Live – Kilohearts dual delay, Ableton Spectral Resonator, Max for Live Color, K-Devices Shaper 2.
For this I used an iPad, AUM, mLFO, MidiFlow Randomizer, Beass Granulizer & Delay, a live mic in the backyard, a UPS guy, Rozeta Scaler, Ryan Robinson’s Zoa, AudioKit Digitalism 2000, Strng by Erik Sigth, Amazing Noises Gliderverb, K-Devices Shaper, Anthony DiFuria’s MoDelayrium ReverbiumUnus
I recorded this for Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories & Blister Pop Unlimited.
https://youtu.be/fot-FFRVfCE I’ve liked this album since I first heard it around 40 years ago. Testing some camera/video stuff here on YouTube too.
00:00 Intro
01:15 Previous albums
03:06 Album overview
03:55 Draw The Line
05:28 Wanna Know Why
06:47 Critical Mass etc
07:58 Get It Up
08:33 Bright Light Fright
08:59 Art Not = Artist
09:43 They Suck Now
10:30 Kings & Queens
11:39 Hand That Feeds
12:15 Sore Eyes
12:27 Saw Them Live
13:31 Yardbirds Things
14:34 Milk Cow Blues
15:29 Giorgio & Yardbirds
16:44 The guys in the band
20:12 Wrapping it up!
As part of the free portion of my Patreon/Discord, I try to post two prompts a month. Check this video or the free portion of my Discord to see more – such as a scanned example from Russo’s book.
Remember to use #Blisterpop if you post your entry anywhere!
**Word Prompt:** Any word associated with an animal digestive tract.
**Music Prompt:** Use the notes C, E, F in 3/4 6 note melody, not counting ties but counting slurs. Using your first note as the mid point and the last note as the end point for both lines, invert the melody in the same rhythm. You’ll end up with unison, dyad , dyad, dyad, unison.
I’ll screenshot an example using 7 notes in 4/4, but remember we only want five for this and in 3/4.
Then use that in a track or piece.
The example shown also gets into inexact inversion to keep it in key but that’s your choice, as is tempo and anything else I didn’t mention.
Easy way to do this is to write the melody on staff paper or in midi and look at the staff and count until you hit the next note, then count in the opposite direction for the “inverted” note. Just keep in mind that moving it up or down from that landing place is ok too. So if you count up two in the original melody, count down two for the inversion. If you don’t like that, go one more. You might like it now!
Overall, don’t get too hung up and have fun.
Inspired by an exercise from the William Russo book Composing Music.
Conceived, recorded 01 June 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, NY, outdoors.
This is a live mix done in AUM of a generative piece, edited down to 2 and a half minutes. This was performed in the backyard with percussion along with a track of AudioKit VHS Synth and a track of AudioKit Digitalism 2000.
Photo taken possibly in May or June, 2013 near Berner Middle School, Massapequa, NY, USA. Some of the photos on that roll look as early as 2009, so I am not sure.
Conceived, recorded 15 May 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, NY, outdoors.
This is a live mix done in AUM of a generative piece, edited down to three minutes. This was performed in the backyard with percussion – a table, a metal box, a shaker – and a friction mallet along with a track of SpaceCraft and another track of mood.
Conceived, recorded 07 May 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, NY.
Two tracks of Piano V3, Ableton Live & native device/effects.
This has been recorded for Brian Funk’s MPC (Music Production Club), in response to the following prompt by Brian – “Try to make a piece of music each day from May 1-7.”
https://youtu.be/jPUamwpIBBI I did the recording for this on 27 Apr 2023. This was Day 1173 in the ongoing 100 Day Project timeline. For this, I used ReasonVST, specifically Subtractor within Ableton Live.
I recorded & remixed this in Massapequa, NY for Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories & Blister Pop Unlimited.
I took the artwork photography on 12 Apr 2021, most likely in New York City, moving between the Guggenheim Museum on 5th Ave between 88th and 89th Streets and Matsu Sushi on 70th St, near 1st Ave.
Jimmy Lem - Blister Pop Unlimited 