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This Junto Profile is part of an ongoing series of short Q&As that provide some background on various individuals who participate regularly in the online Disquiet Junto music community.<\/em><\/p>\n What\u2019s your name?<\/strong> Jim Lemanowicz. I use Jimmy Lem frequently online, as well as Blisterpop.<\/p>\n Where are you located?<\/strong> I\u2019m from Massapequa, NY, USA. I lived in Queens for a few years as a child and I was born in West Germany on a US Air Force base.<\/p>\n What is your musical activity? <\/strong>Lately, I have been making more experimental, sometimes shapeless music with a willingness to delve into things I have felt uncomfortable with in the past. I started a wonderful habit of recording every day that helped me be more productive and, ultimately, I stuck with it until I believed in it, which took a while. In 2024, I released 6 albums on Bandcamp. At this point, I feel like I\u2019ve fully broken through and away from the hyper-vigilance of it all.<\/p>\n I have been fascinated with recorded things and playing them back since I was at least 9 or so, getting a tape recorder of my own in 1975. I have dipped into garage-punk, eurorack, long-form vocal pop, noise, groove boxes, samplers\/manipulation, playing instruments I could never figure out how to properly play, sound\/loop collages, instrumental rock, softsynths, a series of improv groups, guitar pedals for days, a Christmas tape in 1995, some semi-improvised, spoken-word projects as well as many other points in between. I was big on 4-track tapes in the late \u201980s until really breaking through with DAWs in the late \u201900s. I was trained on 2\u2033 tape at a studio\/school in Farmingdale, NY, that was once a 7-Eleven. What is one good musical habit?<\/strong> Getting out of your own way and avoiding hesitation. Looking backwards, much of what I see in my own musical past is so much more than what I actually followed through on, recorded, kept the recordings of, or somehow compromised by following other people\u2019s dreams. Anyway, if you have a thing that makes sounds and you like those sounds, you could almost be sure that you are not recording as much as you could be. Just hit \u201crecord.\u201d It\u2019s easy! To expand on the earlier question, since around 2017, I have tried to record something every day, albeit with gaps. I intermittently will assign a number to one recording every day, and I hit Day 1552 on 24 Jan 2025.<\/p>\n What are your online locations?<\/strong> I have subscribed on and off to a number of Patreon and other membership communities \u2014 Hainbach, Sarah Belle Reid, Brian Funk, Simon the Magpie, Andrew Huang, Todd Barton, Omri Cohen, Amulets \u2014 on top of regular visits to the Junto playlists\/lines<\/a> & Naviar\u2019s playlists<\/a>. Lately, if I am not online, I am either out on a bicycle, sitting in the sun or listening to records or tapes or Creel Pone CDs or wishing the weather was better. My own sites are music.blisterpop.com<\/a> and patreon.com\/blisterpop<\/a> with other destinations listed at linktr.ee\/blisterpop<\/a>. Between my own stuff and being in those communities, I am on Discord all the time. Lately, I have been removing myself from social media, but I consider Discord and Slack communities to be better for facilitating human connections.<\/p>\n What was a particularly meaningful Junto project?<\/strong> I\u2019d say the first one I participated in in real time \u2014 the one for Project 0530: Minimally Viable Music. I had a relatively simple idea to subtract audio from a recording, and I was able to do it and then make an album out of it by the next week. You have to understand that up until that point, I had been watching the Junto from afar. This idea really caught my attention and\u2026 I thought how far could I go?\u2026 then, I just let it happen. Like I was saying before \u2014 getting out of my own way.<\/p>\n \n
Electro-magnetic-acoustic, whatever you want to call it. I have no idea what a genre is. I mean, I get it, but I don\u2019t feel it.<\/p>\n