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Disquiet Junto Project 0517: Inside Out (Co/Exist 2 of 3)
The Assignment: Record a minute or two of civilization.

This is the second of a three-part project sequence. You can participate in all three parts, or any two of the three, or even just any one of them. Part one began on November 18 and ended on November 22, part two began on November 25, and part three will begin on December 2. Thanks to Alan Bland and Mark Lentczner for having proposed the project.

There is one step for this project: Record a minute or two of civilization: automobile traffic, jack hammers, conversations among people, refrigerator hums, electric toothbrushes, however it is that you might define civilization.

Note that the three-part sequence will eventually draw from this project’s results, so it’s helpful if you set your track for download so that other musicians can make use of it down the road.

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More on this 517th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Inside Out (Co/Exist 2 of 3) (The Assignment: Record a minute or two of civilization) — at: https://disquiet.com/0517/

This is the second of a three-part project sequence. You can participate in all three parts, or any two of the three, or even just any one of them. Part one began on November 18 and ended on November 22, part two began on November 25, and part three will begin on December 2. Thanks to Alan Bland and Mark Lentczner for having proposed the project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0517-inside-out-co-exist-2-of-3/

Disquiet Junto Project 0517: Inside Out (Co/Exist 2 of 3)

Field Recordings

My version of a classic Rush song from their 2112 album :)

Tears - Rush Cover

Gingerland

"Vino" out now, full EP "Sueños que Sobran" out in June via Nice Guys records.

vino

Sh*tfaced Again (M)

A minute of touch typing on a mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX Brown switches.

More on this 517th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Inside Out (Co/Exist 2 of 3) (The Assignment: Record a minute or two of civilization) — at: https://disquiet.com/0517/

Clickety Clack

Clickety Clack - Disquiet0517

This is one minute of a recording captured on the evening of April 17, 2021 at Cargill's Soybean Processing facility at 410 C Ave NE in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

More on this 517th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Outside In (Co/Exist 2 of 3) (The Assignment: Record a minute or two of nature) — at: https://disquiet.com/0517/

This is the second of a three-part project sequence. You can participate in all three parts, or any two of the three, or even just any one of them. Part one began on November 18 and ended on November 22, part two began on November 25, and part three will begin on December 2. Thanks to Alan Bland and Mark Lentczner for having proposed the project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Soy Protein Processing Plant (disquiet0517)

More on this 517th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Outside In (Co/Exist 2 of 3) (The Assignment: Record a minute or two of civilization) – at: https://disquiet.com/0517/

This is the second of a three-part project sequence. You can participate in all three parts, or any two of the three, or even just any one of them. Part one began on November 18 and ended on November 22, part two began on November 25, and part three will begin on December 2. Thanks to Alan Bland and Mark Lentczner for having proposed the project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0517-inside-out-co-exist-2-of-3/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

Radio Info (disquiet0517)

My submission to:
Disquiet Junto Project 0517: Inside Out (Co/Exist 2 of 3)
The Assignment: Record a minute or two of civilization.

More on this 517th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Inside Out (Co/Exist 2 of 3) (The Assignment: Record a minute or two of civilization) — at: https://disquiet.com/0517/

This is the second of a three-part project sequence. You can participate in all three parts, or any two of the three, or even just any one of them. Part one began on November 18 and ended on November 22, part two began on November 25, and part three will begin on December 2. Thanks to Alan Bland and Mark Lentczner for having proposed the project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Hospital Café (disquiet0517)

This is my contribution to Disquiet Junto Project 0517: Inside Out (Co/Exist 2 of 3). This week's assignment: record a minute or two of civilization (however you interptet "civilization").

This was recorded during a brief trip to Bilbao a couple of weeks ago.

Few things connote the idea of a place inhabited by humans better than the sounds of traffic and public transport. Public transport sounds tend to be very cyclic, rhythmical, but the beat of these mechanical escalators in Bilbao's metro peaked my curiosity. I was carrying luggage, but had just enough time to whip out my recorder and binaurals and go all the back up the escalators and down again. The sounds appeared to be a very apt welcome to a city known for its industrial heritage.

More on this 517th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Outside In (Co/Exist 1 of 3) (The Assignment: Record a minute or two of nature) — at: https://disquiet.com/0517/

This is the second of a three-part project sequence. You can participate in all three parts, or any two of the three, or even just any one of them. Part one began on November 18 and ended on November 22, part two began on November 25, and part three will begin on December 2. Thanks to Alan Bland and Mark Lentczner for having proposed the project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0517-inside-out-co-exist-2-of-3/

2021-11-14 Bilbao - Mechanical Escalators (disquiet0517)

Audio field recording captured by Leslie Rollins (337is).
 
Obscure & Relevant 2021, (CC BY-NC 3.0 US): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/

Living rurally has its perks except for when one is listening for sounds of civilization ... need something of the "natural world?" No problem! I'm swimming in it. Need some industrial sounds? A little more challenging ... especially when I travel to an even more remote destination in the hills of Pennsylvania to be with family. I wasn't sure what I was going to be able to capture for sounds of civilization as Amish buggies count as traffic noise, but they don't really have a predictable rush hour to make recording them easy. So I was surprised and delighted when I saw this family working their corn field on the side of the road just out of town. I stood less than 10 feet away from their machines as they drove by and looked at me like I was a bit of a fish out of water. I waved at them and they waved back. Mission accomplished!

More on this 517th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Inside Out (Co/Exist 2 of 3) (The Assignment: Record a minute or two of civilization) — at: https://disquiet.com/0517/

This is the second of a three-part project sequence. You can participate in all three parts, or any two of the three, or even just any one of them. Part one began on November 18 and ended on November 22, part two began on November 25, and part three will begin on December 2. Thanks to Alan Bland and Mark Lentczner for having proposed the project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0517-inside-out-co-exist-2-of-3/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

Case IH 9120 Axial - Flow Combine [disquiet0517]

Lisa and Blixa at Rosehill Cemetery 02/01/15

Fetch

A walk from my hotel in Tarapoto to the Easter Sunday Parade around the Plaza de Armas. Local youth groups, schools, business associations, and military branches join to march each Sunday. You can read more about this tradition here:

http://www.iquitosnews.com/page18a.html

I've left this recording unaltered with warts and all ... you can occasionally hear me asking people if I can have their permission to photograph them. In the last ten or so minutes of the recording I stood next to a military brass band playing patriotic numbers to an enthusiastic crowd of locals.

Día De Pascua (Easter Sunday Plaza de Armas Parade, Tarapoto Peru, 04/05/15)

On a windy, rainy day, the regional fútbol enthusiasts came to San Roque for a tournament. There were speeches, game balls and jerseys awarded, and more motor vehicles in town than I'd ever seen before. This regional band from Tarapoto kept the crowds in high spirits with their propulsive drumming and catchy melodies. During this recording you can hear enthusiasts whistling their approval from the park across the street. You can also hear the local government official trying to work out how to use the PA system with their voice drenched in reverb and the omnipresent Cumbia y Reggaeton blasting underneath it all. The overall effect is like some mad psychedelic sampling and voice modification a la PLATO & the Western Tradition in full improv mode.

Conjunto Tipico Sensacion (Tarapoto Bande)

For a video work featuring a processed version of this recording please visit: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uyPFlBOxoA

Recorded at dusk on Sunday April 12th in the first bend of the river back towards town just to the West of downtown San Roque: http://goo.gl/elJlHU

The right hydrophone was in about 2 feet of water where the water was really flowing from heavy rains on Saturday and Sunday. The left hydrophone was a few feet away from the right, closer to the shore, in a little pool about 8 inches deep.

Rio Cumbaza

A recording of wind moving the tall, brittle grasses which occupy the dividing line between the sandy shore and the beginning of dune elevation in Warren Dunes State Park. It was a blustery day with constant wind rustling the stalks. I was able to wedge the two contact microphones at the base of two clumps and they held them, almost like a clothes pin, while the wind whipped the tops. I was surprised how sharp and pointy the drier stems were as they jabbed me while I got the microphones in place.

Marram Grass

Dark Star Approximately

heart-open & earth-honoring 
synthesist & field-recordist 
journalist & dreamtime walker
visualist & connector
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The seemingly limitless manifestations that are observed during improvisational performance of electronic audiovisual materials drive me to seek collaborative interactions between compositional systems, machines, and myself. In holding space to facilitate an emergence of indeterminate phenomenon through analog synthesis, feedback systems, and field recordings, I share elements from multiple sources to celebrate shapes, patterns, and spaces.
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I hold BAs in Art and English from Andrews University, and am currently enrolled in the Electronic Integrated Arts MFA at Alfred University. I was an artist in residency in 2017 at Signal Culture in Owego New York and in 2015 at Sachaqa Centro De ARTE, San Roque Peru. My visual works, and live electronic improvisational performances, have been featured across Peru, at The MuseumsQuartier in Vienna, and throughout the Midwest of America.
 
Note: Much of the work here is subtle in nature and I encourage you to listen via headphones or using a decent system whenever possible. Most computer speakers will not reveal the tracks fully.  Unless otherwise noted in the track description, everything is recorded direct to stereo track live and on the fly with no overdubs. Thanks for stopping by and listening!

Case IH 9120 Axial - Flow Combine [disquiet0517]

337is (three three seven is)