The easy part : the quietest room has all but the loudest door.
The hard part : working flat face down on the noise floor...

This may be a case where what I find adequately soothing is a little unnerving to others - hope not!

Nothing elaborate here outside the actual project description; mined the quiet sample period for harmonic content; pitched, concentrated and sequenced what I found.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0167: Placid Cell
Marking the 3rd anniversary of Bassel Khartabil’s incarceration, turn the silence of a room into something soothing.

This project is the second time that the Junto gathered its resources to pay tribute to the wrongfully imprisoned Creative Commons advocate and coder Bassel. Sunday, March 15, marks the third anniversary of Bassel’s incarceration in Syria.

In Bassel’s honor, this week we’ll make music by taking the loneliness of a small, closed room and making something beautiful and soothing from it.

Step 1: Go into the quietest room in your home and record the room’s tone. Also record the sound of the door being closed.

Step 2: Locate in that track a suitably quiet 10 consecutive seconds. Also locate the moment when the door is closed.

Step 3: Locate in those 10 seconds a handful of signature sonic events, moments, however small or subtle, that stand out from the general silence.

Step 4: Create an original composition that begins with the door being closed, proceeds through the 10 unadulterated seconds of room tone, and after which samples of those sonic events from Step 3 are transformed into something soothing. This being a project about isolation, you cannot add any external sound elements.

Step 5: Upload the combination of your accompaniment and the foundational track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 6: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This assignment was made in the evening, California time, on Thursday, March 12, 2015, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, March 16, 2015.

Length: The length of your finished work should be roughly between two and five minutes.

Upload: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, only upload one track for this assignment, and include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0167-freebassel” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting the track, please be sure to include this information:

More on this 167th Disquiet Junto project — “Marking the 3rd anniversary of Bassel Khartabil’s incarceration, turn the silence of a room into something soothing” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/03/12/disquiet0167-freebassel/

More on Bassel Khartabil at:

http://freebassel.org/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto

Two Point Four Square Meters [Disquiet Junto Project 0167: Placid Cell]

old enchanted coffee stain kingdom mapper suite deluxe

Short snippets from my upcoming tape "Self Portrait With Fever Dream" on Funeral Fog Records. http://funeralfogrecords.com/release/

Self Portrait With Fever Dream Tape Preview

track 3 hhhmmmm I did say shit or not, so here we are.

enjoy

tales of slavery sample from sampleswap.org


Mr Hughes Owes Me A Quarter(empty Rooms 0003)

Night night or night

Some things have no name

Downloading Lives Away - Fakebit Poly mashup, 2003

CRAZY COMPASS: Penza - Moscow, Russia (may 2018)
https://crazycompass.bandcamp.com/track/blueprints-with-somebody-bo

music, photo: Alexander Bozhday @somebody-bo
words, vocal: Nata Boundariver @crazycompass

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не спеша наносят чертежи
по которым мы сверяем жизнь
траектории охотников ведут
за добычу почитая труд

поздней ночью
заболочена
местность
засекречена
чем-то 
озабочена
вечность
обеспечена

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Photo by Alexander Bozhday "Болотные острова" may 2018
Look all session: https://vk.com/somebo?z=album78647378_253811050

full

Чертежи / blueprints (with Somebody Bo)

This is my first attempt to contribute to this Disquiet Junto project thing.  This week's project was to take two piano compositions by Nils Frahm, called "Do" and "Re", and remix them together.  Modifying the samples was allowed, but no new sounds could be added.

I decided to try doing something interesting as quickly as I could, with as little care as I could handle.  I threw the tracks into Ableton Live, sliced them into sample grids, and pitched several of the samples down in a haphazard manner, not paying attention to which i was choosing to modify.

Each composition was in its own track.  "Do" got a nice big load of reverb on it, plus a bit of treatment from Live's Beat Repeat plugin.  "Re" had 3 effects paths.  Path 1 filtered out all but some of the higher frequencies and added a HP filtered delay, path 2 had downsampling and LP filtering, and path 3 had a gated Beat Repeat.  Both tracks were sent a bit to a Send channel with heavy compression, "Re" was sent through another Send channel for a clean signal, and then everything was compressed a bit more.  I think compression is the coolest thing ever and I use it as much as I can because it makes me look cool, like smoking cigarettes.

This was all set up in a manner so I could press play and it could just keep going forever.  I guess that's what some folks call "generative".  I set an audio track to listen to the Master channel and armed it to record.  When I started recording, I discovered that I forgot to set it to NOT send audio back to the Master channel, and therefore got some crazy feedback.  I decided to just leave it be, and messed with the channel's amplitude to control the feedback.

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More on this 55th Disquiet Junto project at:

disquiet.com/2013/01/17/disquiet0055-twoscrews/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

Groups – Disquiet-junto

More on the Frahm project at:

reworked.nilsfrahm.com/

floppy arm flails [disquiet0055-twoscrews]

A path choked by nettles does not deter the bearer of a swinging scythe.

Two Point Four Square Meters [Disquiet Junto Project 0167: Placid Cell]

aScytheThroughNettles

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