My Disquiet Contributions 2014

More on this 118th Disquiet Junto project — “What is the room tone of the Internet?” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/04/03/disquiet0118-internetroomtone/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Image associated with this Junto project used via a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/2af9A

Disquiet Junto Project 0118: That Ringing Sound

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/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

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http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

More on the campaign to free Bassel at

http://freebassel.org/


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/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

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eerie feet [disquiet0109-cragheadsketch]

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/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

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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]

“What is the room tone of the Internet?”

For this Junto, I envisioned being inside a CAT5 wire, with an 8P8C connector on the end, picking up a signal from somewhere to sending it to another place.  It's soundproof, because it's shielded, so there's no additional "real" room noise.  

The presence inside that CAT5 wire has to have a sound, and so here's what I think it is.

The recording is such that it can be listened to at different levels.  My suggestion for optimal listening would be a quiet place with very little actual "room noise".  Nice headphones.  And about 35% to 40% up on the volume.  I'll admit that it's still pretty quiet.  You can turn it up to 100% and hear it a bit better, but I would say that's too loud for what I'm doing here.  You also may feel more comfortable backing you sound down to an almost inaudible level.

To come up with this sound I made some recordings near the fan output of my aging laptop with a Zoom H1.  That was fed into Sound Forge, volume cut back probably 90%, and then a 15 second section copied to a new file.  15 seconds is fed into Paulstretch at 8x, and some tweaking in the Process tab but not much.  Render file.  Back to Sound Forge for length correction and pointless experimentation with fx.

It seems to me like the room tone inside that CAT5 would be a constant stream with minor variation.  A traveling sound.  Maybe kind of like disquiet0089-vger.  Hear mine of that:  http://markrushton.com/my-fickle-friend-the-solar-wind-disquiet0089-vger/

More on this 118th Disquiet Junto project — “What is the room tone of the Internet?” — at:  http://disquiet.com/2014/04/03/disquiet0118-internetroomtone/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:  http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:  http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

8P8C (disquiet0118-internetroomtone)

For track discussion see http://bassling.blogspot.com/2014/04/disquiet-junto-118-internet-room-tone.html

Image taken from http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/21x24o/the_best_thing_about_pregnant_women_is_the_free/

More on this 118th Disquiet Junto project — “What is the room tone of the Internet?” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/04/03/disquiet0118-internetroomtone/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Virtual realty [disquiet0118-internetroomtone]

**Production Notes**

Awoke at six in the morning today - way too early! I live right in the center of Munich, and usually it’s pretty noisy, but today the birds were chirping in my concrete backyard. Took my field recorder and sampled it. Added a drone and a light melody in Reaktor. 

Why? Because the internet is a great place to sing your song. 

Composing, arranging and mixing took 1 hour. Thanks for listening!

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**Disquiet Junto Project 0118: That Ringing Sound**


This week’s project is as follows. Please answer the following question by making an original recording: “What is the room tone of the Internet?”

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More on this 118th Disquiet Junto project — “What is the room tone of the Internet?” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/04/03/disquiet0118-internetroomtone/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Image associated with this Junto project used via a Creative Commons license:
https://flic.kr/p/2af9A

Chatter [disquiet0118-internetroomtone]

Even though I, as last week, still should be writing my paper, I wanted to post a sound for this weeks assignment. And this time it didn't take long…after reading Marc's email I took my dogs for a walk and was thinking, among other things, about the project for this week. I came to think of an electromagnetic recording of the server room I did  while ago at the music conservatory, where I study for my degree. It was done with a homemade coil pick up and a handheld recorder - walking around in the server room listening to all the different hardware. The original recording was +7 minute so I bend the rules a little by editing it to about 2 minutes.

  
Disquiet Junto Project 0118: That Ringing Sound

This week’s project is as follows. Please answer the following question by making an original recording: “What is the room tone of the Internet?”

When you’re done, upload the file to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud and describe your approach and process in the text field associated with the track. Listen to other members’ tracks as they appear in the Disquiet Junto feed on SoundCloud, and comment on them when you have the time.

Deadline: Monday, April 7, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: The length of your recording should be two minutes.

Information: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, 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.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0118-internetroomtone″ 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 118th Disquiet Junto project — “What is the room tone of the Internet?” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/04/03/disquiet0118-internetroomtone/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Image associated with this Junto project used via a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/2af9A

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“disquiet0118-internetroomtone″playing in the serverroom

Disquiet Junto Project 0118 - That Ringing Sound

Privacy ends now [disquiet0118-internetroomtone]


This started as one thing and ended as another, much like that odd little amphibian that crawled out of the primeval ocean.

I can’t think of a single invention, except perhaps the ‘nuclear device’, that has caused more paranoia, angst, division and discussion than the Internet.

The concept took me back to me filmmaking days. Always let the sound recordist get a few minutes of room tone, ‘atmos’ or location ambience. 

Basic track – the noise produced by “recording” the sound of my computer with Firefox open. A symbolic 2 minute blast of static, “tuned” somewhat with oscillator and delay, then repeated and further processed by being faded up from nothing over 2 minutes and  pitch dropped by 1 octave. Twice.

The rest is selected and random chunks of discussion from various discussion panels on Internet Privacy, featuring Edward Snowden. (And a nice drone made from a random word). All culled from the Internet, of course…


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This week’s project is as follows. Please answer the following question by making an original recording: “What is the room tone of the Internet?”
When you’re done, upload the file to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud and describe your approach and process in the text field associated with the track. Listen to other members’ tracks as they appear in the Disquiet Junto feed on SoundCloud, and comment on them when you have the time.

More on this 118th Disquiet Junto project — “What is the room tone of the Internet?” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/04/03/disquiet0118-internetroomtone/ 

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588


Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/    




Privacy ends now [disquiet0118-internetroomtone]

More on this 118th Disquiet Junto project — “What is the room tone of the Internet?” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/04/03/disquiet0118-internetroomtone/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Internet has Things [disquiet0118-internetroomtone]

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

Internet has Things [disquiet0118-internetroomtone]

Carlos R