Sandpaper scratch led me to a funk break while the die roll kept rattling in my head. The main sounds are pretty much straight from the source wavs, with a little compression to even them up, and a couple loops got some reverb and/or resonance for flesh and liquidity. Everything’s cut up by hand, laid over a timeline the old-fashioned way.…
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Jack Kirby’s 99th Dream [disquiet0014-oumupo]
…Time to make up your mind
Time will never fall behind
Time to make up your mind and close the doorShe draws you in, black and white
In a studio in the sky
She draws you eight times ninety-nine…Frames in time
And you will never escape that night
Until you make up your mind
And close the doorShould’ve paid off those bills
Should’ve laid off all those pills
Should’ve written one more word
Before you put your machine to sleepWhat the hell were you looking for
When you opened up that door?
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D.SCH [disquiet0013-wildUp]
For the 13th Disquiet Junto project, the Los Angeles classical chamber-music ensemble wild Up provided us individual stems from a live multi-track recording of the first movement of the Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a, by Dimitri Shostakovich. We were invited to make something new from this source material, but were asked to use only the source material — as few or as many of the source tracks as we desired.…
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manhattan bridge train [disquiet0011-motoring]
The 11th disquiet.com Junto project in March 2012 required me to make an original field recording, and to then make something of it. It focused on rhythm. I captured audio of an N train (from inside the train) going over the Manhattan Bridge as well as sounds from the Canal Street and Atlantic/Pacific Street stations in Manhattan and Brooklyn, respectively.…
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Disquiet Daydream – SoundCloud Spoken remix [disquiet0010-reflect]
remix of the soundcloud podcast w/ seams and marc weidenbaum:
Community-team – Soundcloud-speaks-001-disquiet
backing track is from the portion of the show that included emma hendrix’s disquiet 0004 project:
Emmahendrix – Nearly-there-disquiet0004
i started by sampling every instance in the show of marc saying a number and everything flowed out from that.…
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Dowsabel: One Dream To Another (remix of Flying Time)
Dowsabel (chris wells, Columbus, US) loves obsolete words, and he took his musical name from the Latin for sweet and beautiful. His music lives up to the promise in his name, and his remix of my remix of a collision of bird sounds and acoustic guitars provides exponential entertainment and purpose to my track (which is below his track notes).…
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flying time [disquiet0009-avian]
a thrush and an acoustic guitar. like a supercalafragalistic cartoon on your shoulder.
The source material for the 9th disquiet.com Junto project from March 2012 was provided from these two samples:
guitar:
“Chord progression on mic’d acoustic guitar. A Major, c# minor, b minor, E Major.”
avian:
“Song thrush on a spring evening, 17th of march 2007 in a forest north of Cologne, Germany.”…
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Static Waves [disquiet0007-subtract]
file under: “adventures in attenuation” and “modulated frequencies of amplitude.”
the original track was fed through an amplitude modulator on an automated send and all but the modulated signal was dropped out, leaving behind the propelled static of the descending amplitude fade.
The amplitude frequencies were modulated from 5000Hz to 0Hz in a smooth hi-lo fade across the length of the track.…
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Phonograph Serenade [disquiet 0006-cylinder]
my 2nd contribution to the disquiet junto. this one involved turn-of-the-20th-century edison cylinders, which i fed through resonance, delay and finished with a light flange. the drone reminds me of guitar picks gliding down piano strings, which is soothing to me (since home is a metallic-droning megatown).
shredded reflection 02112012a
Listening to the new Van Halen. The record makes me think of the early 80s and learning how to play the guitar and all the great VH soundtracked-times I had. So this afternoon, I prodded my past with a zapping-stick and searched on my first and only guitar teacher, an acidjazzfusion master named John Macey, whom I haven’t seen or heard from since the late 80s.…
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Alprazolam Dream #76c (Nearly There Copal Remix) [disquiet0004-mfischer]
a remix of marcus fischer’s “nearly there” stems, provided to the disquiet junto. my first contribution to this wonderful spark of collaborative creativity offered by marc weidenbaum, whom i’ve followed for years at disquiet.com. the track is a not-so-random but not-everyday dive into the ambient for me. looking forward to the junto taking me further out to space.
she still echoes (like a summer)
my wife often leaves for months to work on film projects, and her absence always gets me wistful. this track’s more about this feeling than anyone in particular.
…summer songs endless skies
a lifetime in each other’s eyes,
but that wave crashed on a midnight drive.
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