Disquiet Junto Project 0632: Shear Wind  
The Assignment: Make the most of the disturbance within a field recording.

Step 1: Consider how when making a field recording, there can be disturbances in it, such as a passing car or plane, or a noise you didn’t notice until you listened back, or a malfunction in the recording equipment. A common such problem is wind shear. 

Step 2: Make a recording that has wind shear in it, perhaps by standing in the wind, or recording from a moving vehicle, or through some other technique. Or locate a pre-existing field recording with wind shear, perhaps on freesound.org.

Step 3: Make a piece of music employing the recording you made in Step 2, and make the wind shear a focus of the piece. That is, pay attention to, rather than avoid, this sound that you would likely in other circumstances identify as a shortcoming.

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Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, February_ 2, 2024, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, February 8, 2024.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0632: Shear Wind

Poem "Land's End" by Weldon Kees
Accessed here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53030/lands-end-56d231f9ebd38

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Marching Band at Lands End (disquiet0632)

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Shear Wind Drone (disquiet0632)

An original field recording made on the shore with wind shear & various glitches incorporated, modified using filters, a touch of delay & reverb, etc.

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Glitches Inc. (disquiet0632)

Disquiet Junto Project 0632: Shear Wind
The Assignment: Make the most of the disturbance within a field recording.

Something with frogs :-)

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Not Easy Being Green (disquiet0632)

The prompt for Disquiet Junto 0632, "Shear Wind", instructed us to take that awful wind-blowing-across-the-microphone sound and make it useful.

I live in a notoriously wind-swept city and the weather was cooperative, so I recorded several minutes of wind shear in my back yard with a stereo field recorder. I brought the recording into my DAW on three tracks, one reversed, and executed some glitch maneuvers to make them rhythmic. On top of everything is a Cmaj7 drone using a few layers of custom sampler instruments.

REMEMBER: Headphones are antennae, like an insect's, that pick up the thoughts of the composer.

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Recorded at NOSIGNAL Multimedia Labs, The Shambles

Disquiet Junto

A Picnic on a Cliff (disquiet0632)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 07 Jun 2019, 27 Oct 2021 & 09-10 Feb 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

Process notes

09 Feb 2024
I have a 5-track Live template for my Bubble Memory project name, so I loaded a windy backyard recording of a kalimba & a glass from Oct 2021 into that. I split the backyard recording into the two tracks I have set aside for field recordings. Each has tons of processing loaded in already. The template includes kick and snare parts so I started by creating a minimal beat that might hopefully hold this thing together and added some lesser probability to those notes. 

I also have a Simpler track in the template so I loaded some of the backyard recording into that one too. I found the entire thing too constantly noisy and wrote some ideas to my notes about gating & adjusting some of the effects before shutting down for the night.

10 Feb 2024
Loading this back up, I first worked on adding some gates to a few of the tracks to thin out the noise bits. I added an iAbyssal recording I made in 2019 to the final track in the template. Added sparingly both an Arpeggiator to the Simpler track & a Note Repeat to the drum track. Then I worked a bit on other automations, including panning. This felt like it was done and I rendered both a mastered and unmastered mix for later use and for this Junto. It still felt like wind to me.

Instruments & stuff - Ableton Live 12 & native devices, K-Devices Shaper 2 & Secta, iZotope Ozone 9, kalimba, wind, iAbyssal, iPhone, iPad, tabletop, bottle

Artwork: From the LIRR, NY, USA, 27 Jan 2011, by Jim Lemanowicz

©2019, 2021, 2024 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “Brown Paper Lips” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0632: Shear Wind. The Assignment: Make the most of the disturbance within a field recording.

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This track was originally released under the artist name "Bubble Memory."

Brown Paper Lips (disquiet0632)

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Brown Paper Lips (disquiet0632)

Jimmy Lem