Benn DeMole

Record a piece of music that sounds like a once healthy garden going to waste, growing wild, collapsing under its own weight, or some other form of decay. This piece is inspired by the life cycle of the herb Tagé.

A rare field recording of the mating dance of the Rosewood River Rovers. More on the 765th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Sonic Kin — The Assignment: Give space to the unheard voices of animals — at disquiet.com/0765.

More on the 761st weekly Disquiet Junto project, When Doves Smile — The Assignment: Make music for (anonymously) someone who’s angered or disappointed you — at disquiet.com/0761.

More on the 758th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Background Noise — The Assignment: Play into the distraction — at disquiet.com/0758. So the only sound near me that is consistent is the creek. If it was summer the cicadas as sometimes so loud it has interfered with recordings, and the neighbours would be more likely to be mowing or using farm machinery… Also I so love playing with the creek as in...

This piece was inspired by the Haiku poem: Delicate light upon the lake— Buddha's Birthday. By Nanako Washitani It was played entirely on the ASM Diosynth an electronic wind synthesizer. Mixed without any extra effects, just a bit of compression and EQ. The patches I used are: ChoirOohs, ChoirAahs, Expanse TO & AngelXjd2 TO. To find out more and participate, visit The Naviar haiku music challenge...

Disquiet Junto Project 0755: Give Way The Assignment: Combine two tracks. There is just one step for this project: To create a piece of music, combine two different tracks with an ear to how they give way to each other. The two tracks are: https://soundcloud.com/benn-demole/microsob-disquiet0429 & https://soundcloud.com/benn-demole/innowintersfear-voice-only-deslomol which is from https://soundclo...

....this week you record a solo piece of music, not a complete piece, but a piece that will be added to, potentially, by other musicians over the following two weeks. Next week, many if not most of the tracks recorded this week will become duets, thanks to the additions by musicians other than yourself — again, with space left intentionally. Then finally two weeks from now, other musicians will ad...

More on the 714th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Remix Yourself — The Assignment: Rework your own music as if someone else had — at https://disquiet.com/0714/. So this is a DJ Krush inspired remix of this piece: https://soundcloud.com/benn-demole/pulling-light-naviarhaiku601

More on the 712th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Zebra Code — The Assignment: What rhythm do you hear in a bar code? — at https://disquiet.com/0712/.

Inspired by the haiku: In spring sunlight the rows of tea bushes ripple like waves by Tōge Morita To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Disquiet Junto Project 0709: Overclocked The Assignment: Speed up a machine (or process) until it falters. Step 1: Think of a machine (or process) you use frequently. Step 2: Push that machine (or process) by speeding it up, until it begins to break down. Step 3: Record something making use of the sounds resulting from Step 2. More on the 709th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Overclocked — The Assi...

More on the 708th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Vocal Chords — The Assignment: Do something with layers of the sound of your voice. — at https://disquiet.com/0708/.

More on the 707th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Practice — The Assignment: Make music from how you make music — at https://disquiet.com/0707/.

It's been a while..so good to create in response again. The haiku: pulling light from the other world . . . the Milky Way by Yatsuka Ishihara Thanks Naviar.

More on the 676th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Sub Melody — The Assignment: Bury a slow melody deep inside a drone — at https://disquiet.com/0676/

Close microphone on the entrance to a bee hive, layered with harmonic extracts of the bees slowed down.

Following this weeks prompt I've replaced the flute with my voice in this piece: https://soundcloud.com/benn-demole/moongeese-naviarhaiku225?in=benn-demole/sets/moongeese-ep More on the 633rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Voice Swap — The Assignment: Rerecord all or part of one of your tracks using just your voice — at https://disquiet.com/0633/ The image associated with this track is a photo by...

Inspired by: in pre-dawn darkness the avant-garde soundtrack of orchestral rainfall AHaiku by Elliot Carson https://www.instagram.com/i.write.haiku/ With part of a picture by Lazarescu Alexandra https://unsplash.com/photos/vRiylUiR6ew Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Inspired by the haiku: Deep, dark Summer night A sudden shaft of moonlight Blesses the temple by: John Hinks https://soundcloud.com/flownblue Image extracted from one by: Joe Hu https://unsplash.com/photos/ZXaCeb7rwfE For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Inspired by a haiku: summer sky… rippling the silence a watersnake by Janice Doppler https://poets.drifting-sands-haibun.org/first-name-starts-with-j/janice-doppler/ Picture by Jackson Hendry https://unsplash.com/photos/kKpTHqM2K-c For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

I love the whistle sounds the flute can make before the full tone arrives. Here there is a ptich-shifting delay-listening to only the full tones, this then creates a melody from what I've played on the flute. More on this 611th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Music That Listens to Itself (The Assignment: Record a piece of music that repurposes itself as it proceeds), at: https://disquiet.com/0611/...

Disquiet Junto Project 0605: Fifty Fifty The Assignment: Compose a piece of music with as much silence as notes. There’s just one step to this project: Compose a piece of music with as much silence as notes. More on this 605th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Fifty Fifty (Compose a piece of music with as much silence as notes), at: https://disquiet.com/0605/ Thanks to Jason Richardson for having pro...

Thank you halF unusuaL! https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-numbered-disquiet0591-85bpm Bass added is in Dm. More on this 592nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Better Than One (The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0592/ About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-...

Last week I plugged in an old drive looking for something and also discovered a folder called "Solo Impro Sessions" recordings from the end of 2009. One of those contained the elements that I used to make this first layer. Where will it go from here?... 75.4754bpm More on this 591st weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Loneliest Number (The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio), at: https://...

I Started with: https://soundcloud.com/user-808842943/granular-disquiet0572 Then adjusted it's tempo to fit with: https://soundcloud.com/33per/rock-the-bells-disquiet0572 Then added some chimes I was given yesterday, and gave it all a polish. Thanks ksoar, and 33per!!! More on this 573rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Float Mode (The Assignment: Add material atop a pre-existing beat to form a com...