As soon as I read Marc's email, I knew that my Doepfer sequential switch would be the star of the show this week. I fed three variations of a sound created in Elements into it as follows:

1-Raw Elements
2-Granularized Elements via Clouds
3-Basstravaganza courtesy of Warps having its way with Elements

Using Pressure Points' Touch Gate Out I controlled when the switch moved from one of the three spots. The trick, as I was working without my main rack, was I had no proper mixer to allow a subtle conclusion with all three variations playing at once. I routed things through the PM Mult and used it as a cheater mixer, and left the right side cable of the master outs unplugged until the culmination. 

Note: each time the switch moves, and in particular moving on or off the bass sound, there is a strong click. I like it and think it brings and interesting imperfection into play.

More on this 206th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Compose a track with a trio of through-lines that repeatedly alternate relative prominence”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/12/10/disquiet0206-threeswitches/

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http://disquiet.com/junto/

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https://flic.kr/p/2YdqLK

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I've Got At Least Three Problems (But A Switch Ain't One) [disquiet0206-threeswitches]

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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!

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

Biomusicologist, composer/multi-inst morgellons survivor, retired psychiatric music therapist MT-BC, metafiction author, moderates the CE5midmo orginization, strange attractor.

I've Got At Least Three Problems (But A Switch Ain't One) [disquiet0206-threeswitches]

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