Disquiet Junto Project 0433: Kit Bits

Memento Mori

The Earth Approaches

MicrowavedBulletsDon'tKillAliens PeopleDo

Ouroboros

Speedload/Id

I slightly modified the assignment (read: I misunderstood it at first and did something different) to portray how even a more-or–less okay piece of music can be degraded and subverted by being used as aural mogadon by a call centre, especially if you’ve been listening for 40 minutes and your ears are bleeding.

This uses a YouTube clip by Channel Swimmer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s6bv4yayOk which has 1hr10min of on-hold music, some of it quite fun listening. Most of this is based on progressively more degraded versions of the first piece, lasting a couple of minutes. I kept the whole thing and put the rest through a sliding stretch (several times) in order to bring down the time and turn it into an appropriately and increasingly featureless blur of sound.

The last degradation, using an Audacity distortion plugin I just discovered, is actually the sort of thing I would rather listen to if I had to be on hold for any length of time. That, or the sound of the relevant company’s CEO being flogged with red hot chains and rolled in salt.

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The Assignment: Record music intended to sound just as garbled as the hold music on a phone call.

Step 1: Think of a time when you were put on hold by customer service or waiting for a conference call to begin. Think about such a situation when the hold music sounded like it had been run through a washing machine, or put through a bit crusher, or photocopied 100 times in sequence before it got to your ear.

Step 2: Record a short piece of music intended to sound just as garbled as the hold music on a modern phone call. Think of this as “hold noise.”


More on this 423rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Hold Noise / The Assignment: Record music intended to sound just as garbled as the hold music on a phone call — at:

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Your call of despair may be monitored [disquiet0423]

Disquiet0433 - Kit Bits

More on this 433rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0433: Kit Bits — The Assignment: Create a kit’s worth of percussion samples — at:

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tsch [disquiet0433]

These old hose fittings have been sitting in my music box for years.  This Junto project was a great opportunity to do make percussion samples with them.

The separate files can be downloaded here:  http://auralmachine.com/junto/brass_threads_disquiet0433.zip

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Kit Bits (brass threads) (disquiet0433)

Drum samples, from the Volca Sample factory sounds, played through a tin biscuit box, in the shape of France, converted into a reverb/resonator. Recorded with the biscuit tin lid on and off through a ladder filter with a touch of resonance.
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tin kit bits (disquiet0433) open hi hat with lid

Disquiet0433

All sounds in this track were taken from this kit:
 https://soundcloud.com/spacelordmother/disquiet0433-kit-bits 
by @Spacelordmother
Sounds were processed using custom Max/MSP patches
(by me: https://cycling74.com/forums/sharing-is-for-asswipes-fart-noises-in-gen-aka-stutters-d ), and then edited, mixed and mastered in Logic. 
Love 🤗 & Cheers 🍻

More on this 434th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0434: Beat Kit — The Assignment: Create music with beats crafted by fellow Junto participants — at:

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RabidPandemicDisquietAlembic_[ disquiet0434 ]

Featuring the work of:

@bassling @DeDe @Sannicandro @Paul_Reiners @tristan_louth_robins @howthenightcame @chalkwalk @mode.analogue @Calmnesia @krakenkraft @baconpaul @joose @spacelordmother @krehg @RABID @Ausgesuchtestenohren @duckpow @mateo @PopGoblin @blunderspublik @the-participant @kspringer @jks @samarobryn @chaonaut @wasabicube @sevenism @BennDeMole @Jorg @synthetivv @morgulbee @Sam_Knot @fbusche @AuralAntithesis @Leonard_Bowman @brej @MikeJDayton @verosoma @square_wave @DetritusTabuIII and the kit @banabila made is TOTALLY SICK (though I didn't get it in time to use it) 

Also, I can't figure out if it's respectful, or totally obnoxious, that i tagged all of you in this.     
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More on this 434th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0434: Beat Kit — The Assignment: Create music with beats crafted by fellow Junto participants — at:

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every kit_disquiet0434

Modular Mayhem collaboration for Server Vs Server challenge May 2020

00:00 – intro by C
00:20 - Convenience Store by Dan Fingerman
02:37 - TwoMins by datalek
04:34 - electronic-tension by C
05:43 - Chasing Sand by MooseMan
08:06 - balipelogjam by CG_Funk
09:00 - AZBC-conduit by chaotician

Streampunks

More on this 453rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Dial Up (The Assignment: Imagine the technologically mediated First Contact through sound), at:

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Images associated with this project drawn from Flickr.com and used thanks to a Creative Commons license allowing for non-commercial adaptation:

Lars Hammar
https://flic.kr/p/cvLDjm
https://flic.kr/p/cwonUb

Marc West
https://flic.kr/p/84zPoL

Tom Coates
https://flic.kr/p/abPXeJ

Stuart
https://flic.kr/p/eBVyxk

Pedrik
https://flic.kr/p/asBiQk

Babak Fakhamzadeh
https://flic.kr/p/5mArtZ

Tom Blackwell
https://flic.kr/p/8pLFK8

Simon Bierwald
https://flic.kr/p/bh3RGr
https://flic.kr/p/bh4epp
https://flic.kr/p/bh4X2Z

Chris Maytag
https://flic.kr/p/BgSC

Alan
https://flic.kr/p/3jfJg

verysubmm
https://flic.kr/p/BcwmS

Smallbrainfield
https://flic.kr/p/8y3VLP

inkelv1122
https://flic.kr/p/6z2DEf

alpha fluid

halF dialuP [disquiet0453]

Aural Antithesis : An audio art project stationed in the Cascadian sector. Focusing on live modular synthesizer since 2013, but experimenting with many sound capable devices. Expect Noise, Ambient, Drone, experimental, circuit bent and electronic sounds.

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.

Disquiet0433

Aural Antithesis

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