# 0516 Disquiet Junto 230 Ghammar Rooftops
Ghammar Rooftops disquiet0230
**Production Notes**
Whenever I’m on vacation, I try to bring back some shortwave radio recordings. It‘s absolutely amazing what you can get out of the shortwave band - modular morse code, enchanting melodies, tons of Chinese wave salad and the occasional Muezzin - like this in the song - which still sound pretty far out to my ears.
I drew the volume according to the provided score, repeated it for a coda. Added some vocoder, reverb and slight sidechain compression.
Mixed with shitty earbuds, so it might sound somewhat over the top.
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**Disquiet Junto Project 0230: Design I**
Interpret a graphic score (never before performed or realized) from the mid-1970s.
These are the steps for the project:
Step 1: View the graphic score, by Glenn Sogge, at the following URL:
http://goo.gl/hOQOSg
Step 2: Record a piece of music that interprets the score as a work of musical notation.
Step 3: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.
Step 4: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.
Background: The score was provided by Junto participant Glenn Sogge. Here’s a bit about his background: “I had finished my BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago a couple years before. I had begun my studies at Northwestern University before that. I studied with Frédéric Rzewski at SAIC and had taken a music & theater course with Berio at NU. The periodical Source was a major inspiration as were the compositions of Cage. Being the son of a sculptor and wood worker, I suppose the interconnections of the plastic arts (space, time, materials) have always been an influence. With a smattering of jazz in my history, improvisation was important so open ended scores that gave the performers room to explore were of special interest. This piece was probably done in the last year or so before I stopped composing for about 35 years (I got seduced by computers and programming among other things.) My son facilitated my reentry to the world of electronic music with a Minibrute last summer and I have been burnishing the bits like crazy since then.”
Deadline: This project was posted in the late afternoon, California time, on Thursday, May 26, 2016, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, May 30, 2016.
Length: The length is up to you, though between one and three minutes feels about right.
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More on this 230th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Design I: Interpret a graphic score (never before performed or realized) from the mid-1970s” — at:
http://disquiet.com/0230/
The graphic score is by Glenn Sogge, more from whom at:
https://soundcloud.com/glenn-sogge/
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