PROCESS:
Turned Kirschner and Popoff into my Crazy Horse and dialed up a tribute to Neil Young’s noise record Arc, the final side of the Arc/Weld live album of his 1991 Ragged Glory tour. Snipped about 2 1/2 mins of the duet, then layered a looped, distorted guitar over it. Couldn’t get the range on the fretboard I wanted in one take, so there are 2 takes twisted into this wreckage (so it’s, well, almost a live performance :^D).…
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Summer Echoes [2012]
highlights of this summer’s recordings…
The Know It Alls At Bloomingdale’s [almost disquiet0037-asrealasitgets1]
Was Upper East Side (like in a Warren Zevon song) in Manhattan on Sunday 16 September 2012 and captured a couple recordings at Bloomingdale’s. I flipped a coin to decide which to submit to the Junto and this one lost, but it was worth sharing.
This recording was made on the 8th (top) floor in the children’s section.…
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Bloomingdale’s Ascension [disquiet0037-asrealasitgets1]
Was Upper East Side (like in a Warren Zevon song) in Manhattan on Sunday 16 September 2012 and captured a couple recordings at Bloomingdale’s. I flipped a coin to decide which to submit to the Junto and this one won. This recording captures a journey from the 59th Street N/R/4/5/6 subway station under the store to the street.…
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review: doux, oui?
FAX MACHINE ANTHEMS (http://whiskeyclone.net), a blog to host/stream versions of Beck’s Song Reader songs, had some kind words on my cover for the Junto.
via: http://whiskeyclonenet.tumblr.com
…This is a superb full version of the preview, with “drums, bass, electric guitar (rhythm & lead), acoustic guitar, hammond b3 emulator.” Unlike some of the other fuller takes, he gets around the carnivalesque vibes, and is all the more successful for it.
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doux, oui? [disquiet0035-becksongreader]
PROCESS:
Off-the-cuff sight read. Kinda fun to record. Set the controls for the heart of the sun.
Instruments: drums, bass, electric guitar (rhythm & lead), acoustic guitar, hammond b3 emulator
Guitar rig: Jolie (cherry-red ES-335, customized by Peekamoose Guitars, www.peekamoose.com), Vox AC-15, Ibanez Screamer, Line-6 Pod-XT Flange/Wah/Phaser.
PROJECT:
The project this week is to perform a rendition of a piece of sheet music.…
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needle chase [disquiet0033-turntable]
was very intimidated by this week’s assignment. the turntable is really the only piece of audio playback equipment that gets standing ovations when rolled on stage. fake djs spin records where real djs play a turntable…
got on a giorgio moroder kick this weekend and borrowed the bassline and tempo from “chase” off the midnight express soundtrack.…
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friction and the flame [disquiet0031-onomatch]
Process:
Watched a few matches burn. Became fascinated with the moment of ignition and the friction behind the flame, so this piece hones in on that moment and those forces.
Attached contact mics to inside of a kitchen match box, directly under the striking surface. Scratching the striking surface with a match head (without igniting) produced the main beats.…
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dronewater falls [disquiet0029-countzero]
Project:
This week’s project is inspired by an aside that occurs at the opening of chapter 17 of William Gibson’s classic cyberpunk novel Count Zero, originally published in 1986.
Process:
I returned to the Prospect Park, Brooklyn, waterfall (pictured, with Sterling) that I used for the prior junto challenge of remixing Lee Rosevere (Thereflectors – Waterfall-love) and made a new recording with the garageband app on my iPhone.…
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textphony in d [disquiet0027-texting]
We continued the theme of “creative reuse” this week and were challenged to interpret a text file as sound.
Instructions:
“Please copy the instructions to this project and save them as a text file. You will then open that file in one or more pieces of audio-processing software. The resulting sound will serve as the foundation of your track.…
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unconsumption review of “the rime of the ancient pacific garbage patch”
Wonderful appearance of the Disquiet0026: Compos(t)ing project on the Unconsumption blog, run by Rob Walker, who also mentions my track as a highlight. So cool…
…As noted here the other day, the most recent installment of music/sound/art site Disquiet.com‘s ongoing series of “assignments” for electronic musician/composers had an Unconsumption-y theme: “Record the music to a PSA using sounds sampled from your garbage bin.”
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the rime of the ancient pacific garbage patch [disquiet0026-compos(t)ing]
The theme of this week’s disquiet junto project was creative reuse — call it recycling, or unconsumption, or upcycling, or compos(t)ing. Four objects from garbage pails at work or home were developed into an original musical track that would be used as background music for a PSA about recycling.
We were allowed to transform the sounds of these elements, but only lightly, so as to respect their inherent sonic properties.…
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the summer reflector
3oz reyka vodka
1/2oz st germain
1/2oz sorel hibiscus liqueur
1/2 lemon
tsp agave.
shake w/ ice.
fizz w/ 4oz club soda.
call pop [full version]
This was the first stab at soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info project #0024, which involved creating alert tones for phones (ringtone, email, text and event). It became too orchestrated, however, and I had to rework it to create what I eventually posted to the group: Thereflectors – Call-pop-disquiet0024.
This kinda became a fictional 80s sitcom theme, though, and seemed fun enough to share if only for that.…
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call pop [disquiet0024-alertsuite]
PROJECT:
This week’s junto project was about “functional music.” We were charged with creating four individual sounds that serve as alerts for digital communications. They will be in these categories:
1) email arrival, 2) incoming phone call, 3) new IM received, 4) calendar event alert
The goal is that the four alerts will work together as a suite — that is, that they will complement each other, yet be distinct and recognizable from each other.…
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sineenis vibratootarbiv [disquiet0023-palindrone]
This week’s disquiet.com junto project was about drones, and we were charged with composing a piece of drone music using five of twenty provided source tracks. The source tracks (link below) were a series of drones made by Mystified (aka Thomas Park: @mystifiedthomas) from kazoo, bottle, slide whistle, and didgeridoo.…
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tweed square [disquiet0020-nodebeat]
The 20th disquiet.com junto project in May 2012 explored the inherent creative limits of a mobile app. All participants employed the same app to complete the project.
Everyone working on this project used two instruments. One of those instruments was NodeBeat, an app available for iOS (iPhone, Touch, iPad), for Android, for Blackberry, and as a cross-platform (Flash) implementation.…
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sliver of sky [disquiet0019-rojiura]
…sliver of sky
where planes streak
birds fly
guide me to my dreams
hvac hum
rainfall drum
basement guitar practice strum
white noise cardboard pillowface flashes in windows,
light strobes and mortar shadows
in an updown walldance
as homework ends,
as bills are paid,
as security makes rounds,
as embraces lead to encounters.
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no brooklyn bound [disquiet0018-3×3]
sound 1: field recording – downtown new york city subway 6 train weekend service disruption announcement and surrounding ambience. recorded with iphone garageband.
sound 2: constructed beat – iphone garageband drum samples
sound 3: synth – programmed iphone animoog
minute 1: the drum is primary, backed by stabs and swoops of the synth and cut up portions of the subway announcement.…
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waterfall love [disquiet0017-transition]
My contribution to the 17th week of the disquiet.com junto. The challenge was to take 30 seconds of a field recording, and slowly and seamlessly transition it into 1 of 2 given pre-existing tracks. Sounds could be added and the source tracks manipulated in any way. The first five seconds of the field recording and the last 5 seconds of the pre-existing track, however, were to be left untouched, aside from fading in and out.…
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