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Stasis Report: Deru ✚ Machinefabriek ✚ More

Six tracks newly added to the ambient playlist on Spotify and Google Play Music as of September 2, 2018

September 2, 2018September 2, 2018 / By Marc Weidenbaum

The latest update to my Stasis Report ambient-music playlist. It started out just on [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/user/dsqt/playlist/1YhR54cjP640J92AOxaoel?si=kDLQAGomSnKEqaMTBllKvg). As of two weeks ago, it’s also on [Google Play Music](https://play.google.com/music/playlist/AMaBXylvMU-QFhCR1_vMgMgwndCq6WD-bq1MPNrUfZ9zXbCPE5IGbMj8aWwsLhjdTtH0QbKDa5dZkKizJ2pUmTHJ4Ib9Ws1_5A%3D%3D). The following six tracks were added on Sunday, September 2. All the tracks are fairly new, with the exception of the Klara Lewis, which is posted in expectation of her upcoming new album.

✚ “Two High” off *Engel* by **Machinefabriek**. The self-released album seems to get louder and more insistent as it proceeds. This is the second track. The album is the score to a performance by Marta Alstadsæter and Kim-Jomi Fische: [machinefabriek.bandcamp.com](https://machinefabriek.bandcamp.com/album/engel).

✚ “Eventually” is off *Veriditas* by **Helios**, on Ghostly: [ghostly.com](https://ghostly.com/products/veriditas).

✚ “Opposite Day” from *Invisible Threads* by **Mark Van Hoen**, on Touch: [touch333.bandcamp.com](https://touch333.bandcamp.com/album/invisible-threads).

✚ “No One Cares as Much as You” is from the score to *Impulse*, by **Deru**, released by Lakeshore: [derusoundtrack.bandcamp.com](https://derusoundtrack.bandcamp.com/album/impulse-original-series-soundtrack).

✚ “Unseen” is from *FTS002* by **Vida Vojic** and **Chihei Hatakeyama**, released on First Terrace: [firstterracerecords.bandcamp.com](https://firstterracerecords.bandcamp.com/album/fts002).

✚ “Try” is from *Too*, the 2016 album by **Klara Lewis**: [klaralewis.bandcamp.com](https://klaralewis.bandcamp.com/album/too). Lewis has a new album (a collaboration with Simon Fisher Turner) due out later this month: [editionsmego.com](http://editionsmego.com/release/EMEGO-253). Both are on Editions Mego.

Usually some [Stasis Report](https://open.spotify.com/user/dsqt/playlist/1YhR54cjP640J92AOxaoel?si=kDLQAGomSnKEqaMTBllKvg) tracks are removed to make room for new tracks, but this week the Stasis Report was expanded to two hours from one and a half. Past tracks are in the [Stasis Archives](https://open.spotify.com/user/dsqt/playlist/7wQclXEfiEJ20KNIONJXGw?si=5RmtEbbSQcKNbK1ho2Vyog) playlist (currently only on Spotify).

Disquiet Junto Project 0348: Hot Mise en Abyme

The Assignment: Make a piece of music inspired by the art-historical term for fractal/recursion.

August 30, 2018September 6, 2018 / By Marc Weidenbaum

Each Thursday in the [Disquiet Junto group](https://disquiet.com/junto/), a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just over four days to upload a track in response to the assignment. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. (A SoundCloud account is helpful but not required.) There’s no pressure to do every project. It’s weekly so that you know it’s there, every Thursday through Monday, when you have the time.

Deadline: This project’s deadline is Monday, September 3, 2018, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are on. It was posted in the afternoon, California time, on Thursday, August 30, 2018.

Tracks are added to [the playlist](https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0348) for the duration of the project.

These are the instructions that went out to the group’s email list (at [tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto](http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto)):

**Disquiet Junto Project 0348: Hot Mise en Abyme**

The Assignment: Make a piece of music inspired by the art-historical term for fractal/recursion.

Step 1: There is a term in art, “mise en abyme.” It refers to instances when a work of art includes a copy of itself, maybe more than one copy. Consider how this term might apply to sound. (Do read up on “mise en abyme,” if it’s not familiar.)

Step 2: Record a short piece of music that applies the term “mise en abyme” to sound, based on your thoughts from Step 1.

Six More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0348” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your track.

Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0348” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation a project playlist.

Step 3: Upload your track. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your track.

Step 4: Post your track in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co:

[https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0348-hot-mise-en-abyme/](https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0348-hot-mise-en-abyme/)

Step 5: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Other Details:

Length: The length of your track is up to you.

Title/Tag: When posting your track, please include “disquiet0348” in the title of the track, and where applicable (on SoundCloud, for example) as a tag.

Upload: When participating in this project, post one finished track with the project tag, and be sure to include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

Download: Please consider setting your track as downloadable and allowing for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution, allowing for derivatives).

Linking: When posting the track online, please be sure to include this following information:

More on this 348th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Hot Mise en Abyme / The Assignment: Make a piece of music inspired by the art-historical term for fractal/recursion) at:

https://disquiet.com/0348/

A Collective of Two

A peek into a cloud atlas

August 29, 2018August 30, 2018 / By Marc Weidenbaum

The Oxford Ambient Collective is an individual, though here it’s also a duo, working in tandem with Encym. The music of “London Departures” is vast as only a bedroom beatmaker can craft — which is to say unimaginably — though here there are no beats, per se, just a vast, ever-quivering mass of light sounds. It’s full-on cloud mode. A glance at a “types of clouds” STEM page for elementary-school students suggests perhaps the cumulonimbus clouds: massive structures of humidity that form on hot days.

Track oroginally posted at [soundcloud.com/oxfordambient](https://soundcloud.com/oxfordambient/london-departures-collab-with-encym). More on the Oxford Ambient Collective, aka David Smith, at [oxfordambient.com](https://oxfordambient.com/) and [youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/user/oxfordambient). More from encym, aka Roland Reinke, at [encym.bandcamp.com](https://encym.bandcamp.com/).

What Sound Looks Like

An ongoing series cross-posted from instagram.com/dsqt

August 29, 2018 / By Marc Weidenbaum

If you arrive at the farmers market late, you can hear the sound art.

An ongoing series cross-posted from instagram.com/dsqt.

The Coloration of Ambient

From light to dark

August 28, 2018August 29, 2018 / By Marc Weidenbaum

Ahnornberg’s “no return” manages an unusual combination. It bears the lightness of classic ambient music — to be distinguished from classical ambient music, which might be taken to mean ambient music with a classical-music affect, like the work of Mary Lattimore, Christina Vantzou, or Nils Frahm — even as its tonality veers into darker territory. Dark ambient is also often dense ambient. That coloration is heard here, especially in its closing minutes, but even so it never loses the fragility of the earlier portions. What does disappear is the misty figment of a melody that initially wafts through.

Track originally posted at [soundcloud.com/ahornberg](https://soundcloud.com/ahornberg/no-return). Ahnornberg is based in Vienna, Austria. More at [ahornberg.bandcamp.com](https://ahornberg.bandcamp.com/).