My Disquiet Contributions 2014

More on this 110th Disquiet Junto project (“Celebrate the 100th birthday of that old cut-up, William S. Burroughs”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/02/06/disquiet0110-wsb100/

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Disquiet Junto Project 0110: WSB100

not much to say, found a suitable middle eastern percussion set, a synth sound and added a couple of effects. 

More on this 108th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a soundscape for the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra.”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/01/23/disquiet0108-freebassel/

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More on the campaign to free Bassel at

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Palmyra Palmyra [disquiet0108-freebassel]

decided to jot down a certain amount of places over the track where I wanted to place my sounds. After doing that I processed a theremin-ish synth sound, adding distortion, compression and delay. More on this 109th Disquiet Junto project (“Insert musical objects into an urban soundscape.”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/01/30/disquiet0109-cragheadsketch/

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eerie feet [disquiet0109-cragheadsketch]

My cut-up is derived from a article in Seven Days, an alt-weekly out of Burlington, VT. It details a dispute between neighbors about using residential space as a business workshop to build guitars. http://www.7dvt.com/2014disharmony-prospect-street-dispute-between-neighbors-strikes-sour-note

For the "chorus" I used the audio out-put from the image I databent for this track. 

The "verse" is from a no-input recording I did on my Tascam digital recorder. I simply ran an 1/8" cable from mic-in to line-out. The effect comes from adjusting the mic sensitivity. 

The "bridge" is from an improv session done on my squire fretless jazz bass. A cut-up of this recording is dispersed throughout the track.

The "beat" is also from a no-input recording. This time I ran the cable through my Behringer delay pedal. 

More at:  
http://subversiveintentions.wordpress.com

More on this 110th Disquiet Junto project (“Celebrate the 100th birthday of that old cut-up, William S. Burroughs”) at:


http://disquiet.com/2014/02/06/disquiet0110-wsb100/


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http://disquiet.com/?p=16588


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Disharmony Street Prospect (disquiet0110-wsb100)

From Göteborgs Posten. Ironically enough it was about closing down a drug rehab.

More on this 110th Disquiet Junto project (“Celebrate the 100th birthday of that old cut-up, William S. Burroughs”) at:



http://disquiet.com/2014/02/06/disquiet0110-wsb100/



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I used text to speech translation- acapella (changed the pitch of the male voice, reading in  Gothenburg dialect). Then I found an old sample recorded off the radio- a looped sequence from Mahler's Um Mitternacht (don't remember who the singer was), that made a nice background. To underline the structure of the song I added more radio- LW as a beat for the chorus, some noise for the bridge and piezo flax seeds as accents.



Vi har inte tillräckligt många psykiatriker- disquiet0110-wsb100

At the 100th birthday of William S. Burroughs, celebrating his literary legacy by employing one of his classic artistic subroutines, the cut-up. 
I've listed the strings from the Asahi news headlines at am 5:00 Feb 8 tokyo time. http://www.asahi.com/news/ 
and added my stock loop and simulated touching tape physically by setting ableton warp mode.

More on this 110th Disquiet Junto project (“Celebrate the 100th birthday of that old cut-up, William S. Burroughs”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/02/06/disquiet0110-wsb100/

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Asahi headlines Feb 8 [disquiet0110-wsb100]

For my reflection on the process of composing this piece, see:
http://bassling.blogspot.com/2014/02/disquiet-junto-110-celebrating-burroughs.html

More on this 110th Disquiet Junto project (“Celebrate the 100th birthday of that old cut-up, William S. Burroughs”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/02/06/disquiet0110-wsb100/

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Of Leeton yesterday morn [disquiet0110-wsb100]

I've been researching Laurie Anderson a lot recently. I decided to emulate her manner of speaking. (I think I failed in some ways). 

The text I used came from the front page of reddit. I've included the lines here:

1. Evolution Door

2. 1girl 1 cup

3. I once came home to a hostage situation.

4. This is what I’m expecting from the Sochi Opening Ceremony

5. Alaska primed to become third state to legalize retail marijuana

6. I have travelled the world with Toy Story’s Woody, taking pics for my son. At Heathrow, security just confiscated his “weapon”, keep the world safe boys…

7. TIL Yang (Lenovo's CEO) received a $3 million bonus as a reward for record profits, which he in-turn redistributed to about 10,000 of Lenovo's employees. He did same thing again in 2013.

8. Vøringsfossen, Norway. You can almost see the trolls and elves from here…

9. Flawless

10. In 3 words what would your hell be?

11. Women in Tokyo are threatening a sex boycott against any man who votes for the front-runner in this weekend's gubernatorial election, in protest at his claim that menstruation makes women unfit for government.

12. My nephew just made his first shot in little league basketball last night. 
I tried to make it memorable for him.

13. Olympic luger crashes, somehow recovers

14. Scientists in Japan have successfully induced human embryonic stem cells to spontaneously form developing brain tissues

15. What have you wondered about sleep?

16. Mongolian Smile

17. To the 'self-hating' gay fellow, don't worry about it…

18. TIL for the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta, homelessness was criminalized in the city. Those arrested during the Games were held for trial until after the event was over


There's a final system of music I chose not use because the track seemed to end after the bridge. This system forms the "underlying rumble" accompaniment for the speech.


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More on this 110th Disquiet Junto project (“Celebrate the 100th birthday of that old cut-up, William S. Burroughs”) at:



http://disquiet.com/2014/02/06/disquiet0110-wsb100/



More on the Disquiet Junto at:



http://disquiet.com/?p=16588



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i once came home to a hostage situation - "Disquiet Junto Project 0110: WSB100

Spanish text was taken from here: http://www.clarin.com/opinion/precios-cuide-Cadorna_0_1081691921.html - a political satirist view of Argentina. 

used Apple's text to speech functionality and recorded the audio. Added a synth+bass+beat track to accompany the audio. 

More on this 110th Disquiet Junto project (“Celebrate the 100th birthday of that old cut-up, William S. Burroughs”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/02/06/disquiet0110-wsb100/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

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Kadorna [disquiet0110-wsb100]

Thanks to a Creative Commons license, this track contains elements of music by Juan Manuel Castrillo (“Horizontales,” from the album by that name on the netlabel Impulsive Habitat), J. Surak (“Improvisation for Prepared Autoharp,” from the album If You Smell Gas on the netlabel Zeromoon), and Maddame Cell (“Auto Tempo 1,” from the album Autotempo on the netlabel Xylem).

More on this 111th Disquiet Junto project (“Rework work from Impulsive Habitat, Xylem, Zeromoon (via actsofsilence.com)”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/02/13/disquiet0111-actsofcommons/

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The source audio for this track is available for free download from these netlabel websites:

http://impulsivehabitat.com/releases/ihab084.htm

http://museumofmicrocassetteart.bandcamp.com/album/moma086-if-you-smell-gas

http://xylemrecords.bandcamp.com/album/autotempo

The audio was sourced from reviews posted originally at the excellent website actsofsilence.com, which is run by David Nemeth.

Pataphysics [disquiet0111-actsofcommons]

A drummer and a thief

25 years of drumming experience, interested in on-line projects to collaborate.
Percussion, electronic drum programming, acoustic drums.

Kadorna [disquiet0110-wsb100]

Carlos R