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Disquiet Junto 0014: Sonic Narrative
 

Subject: This project, the 14th in the weekly Disquiet Junto series, is about sonic narrative. 
 

Instructions: You will re-tell a very short and simple story -- an anecdote really, an everyday slice of life -- utilizing sound. It will take the form of a single audio file uploaded to your Soundcloud account. You will construct this track in any manner you choose: with field recordings, music, effects, dialog, or a mix thereof. The story you will be re-telling is this single-page comic strip by Matt Madden:
 

http://goo.gl/6P7eL 
 

In the process of re-telling the story through sound, you may interpret it in any way you choose. You can do it as straight narrative, or do an abstract rendition, or retell it from another point of view, or contribute a score as if it were a movie, or a record series of foley cues. The choice is yours.
 

Background: Matt Madden's single-page comic is the template for a book he created titled 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style. In the book, Madden told that same story 99 different ways, each in a different comic-book style. For example, he told it as a superhero comic, he told it as a manga, he told it as experienced from upstairs, and he told it as if it were overheard at a bar. Madden did this in homage to the French writer Raymond Queneau's own Exercises in Style, which is a key text of the literary movement known as Oulipo. Oulipo approaches the act of writing with intentional constraints, and the movement's approach to creativity was a strong influence on the development of the Disquiet Junto. Oubapo is the name of the comics version of Oulipo. What we're up to is the musical version: Oumupo
 

Length: Please keep your piece to between two and seven minutes in length.
 

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term "disquiet0014-oumupo” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.
 

Download: As always, you don’t have to set your track for download, but it would be preferable.
 

Linking: When you post your track, please include this information:
 

More on Matt Madden and his book 99 Ways to Tell a Story at: 
 

http://mattmadden.com/
 
http://exercisesinstyle.com/
 

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info

what the hell was i looking for anyway [disquiet0014-oumupo]

for @disquiet junto #17 "transition"

Plan, in three steps: 

First step: At some point during the day, make a field recording of the world around you. Then select a 30-second segment from it. (Please, don't include other people's voices without their knowledge unless you are absolutely certain doing so is legal wherever it is you make the recording.) 

Second step: Choose one of the following two preexisting tracks and select a 30-second segment: 

Option 1: http://archive.org/download/zero130/01AControlledBurn.mp3 
Option 2: http://archive.org/download/WM074_900/WM074-03_64kb.mp3 

Third step: Create a new track in which your field recording can be heard to slowly transition into the preexisting track. You can add whatever you like to the new track, and you can transform the field recording and the preexisting track. However, the first five seconds of your field recording and the last 5 seconds of the pre-existing track should be left untouched, aside from fading in and out. The goal is for the transition to be as indiscernible, as seamless, as you can achieve in the time allotted for production. 

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This track includes a segment of "The Day Love Came In The Mail" by Lee Rosevere off the album Play 3 on the WM Recordings netlabel, thanks to Creative Commons license. More information at: 
http://archive.org/details/WM074_900 
http://www.wmrecordings.com/free-downloads/wm074-lee-rosevere-play-3 

and these fragments of E. E. Cummings' "29" from 50 Poems:

anyone lived in a pretty how town 
(with up so floating many bells down) 
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn't he danced his did.
[..]
stars rain sun moon
(and only the snow can begin to explain 
how children are apt to forget to remember 
with up so floating many bells down)
[..]

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info

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It's not a super-bona-fide field recording, i suppose; i was sitting outside reading some Cummings
(50 Poems, 29: anyone lived in a pretty how town ..)
i programmed supercollider.sf.net to cut that up, and the tail end of the Lee Rosevere track (thanks!)
and to play one cut of each in sync, with some randomness in the length of the cuts and the frequency of the beats.
Then faded out with the tail end of Rosevere.

with up so floating many bells down

Here's a track from my Rivers Home EP out on <a href="http://flamingpines.com/">Flaming Pines</a>.
Rivers Home is a series of ten EPs 
that you can buy as actual physical hand-crafted-by-http://soundcloud.com/katecarr objects,
each taking a different river as its subject.

--> http://flamingpines.com/releases.htm

Mine consists of five songs that tell a story about the Rhine, specifically <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loreley">Loreley</a>, but wait, 
also, due to a transdimensional manifold conduit, about the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chao_Phraya_River">Chao Phraya river</a>:

These songs are about a transdimensional manifold conduit 
that exists between the river Rhine near Loreley rock in the "11th century" 
and the river Chao Phraya near Ayutthaya some time in "the future" 
when dragons roam again. 

A traveller told me her story: 

In mists, I crossed the Rhine at Loreley 
I met a dragon there, that dragon came from far Siam 
I tried to tell the ferryman 
but he seemed not to understand 
And he, too, from my point of view, spoke in tongues 
I continued my journey without him 
but the sirens led me astray, though I turned back once 


http://www.flickr.com/photos/48773669@N02/7420196744/in/photostream/lightbox

Rivers Home

i tried to tell the ferryman

but you know it is a lie

i like http://soundcloud.com/groups/word-music and http://soundcloud.com/groups/ill-field recordings
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headphone music alert!
a financial failure to date, i rarely listen to my tracks via normal loudspeakers. Please enjoy them via headphones. (Accounts of pleasant extra-headphone affairs graciously received.)
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all is explained:
<a href="http://disquiet.com/2011/04/12/chopped-off-the-think-all-n4tural">The Self-Cutting (Up) MP3</a>
<a href="http://disquiet.com/2011/07/01/all-n4tural-beyond-the-ken">SPLENDIDLY ANEMIC FUNK</a>
<a href="http://disquiet.com/2011/12/15/all-n4tural-helpless">REVEALING THE GLITCH IN VOICE</a>
<a href="http://disquiet.com/2012/06/20/rawore-all-cousmatic">UNDER THE BRIDGE, REVISITED</a>
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51 anonymous downloads &minus; no plays &minus; from Senegal today. Is there a black market for all n4tural tapes?
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newer! 
<a href="http://flamingpines.com/releases.htm">Rivers Home: the final five</a>
a <a href="http://soundcloud.com/flaming-pines">Flaming Pines</a> series

with smashing artwork
worth the price alone.
Support hyper-independent labels!

a taste: 
http://soundcloud.com/flaming-pines/sets/rivers-home-final-five 
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new! <a href="http://flamingpines.com/releases.htm">Burning Palms</a>. a <a href="http://soundcloud.com/flaming-pines">Flaming Pines</a> compilation [confusing, huh!]
Now here, too: <a href="http://flamingpines.bandcamp.com/album/burning-palms">Burning Palms</a>
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thanks for the kind comments, kemosabes!
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