Combines the sound of a squeaky door hinge (https://freesound.org/s/119724/) and tearing paper (https://freesound.org/s/67786/)

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Study For Steel And Paper

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Nazaré

Mirage

Heaven Adjacent

sound art for disquiet0647.


I started with a drone loop made with a broken casio keyboard. I then played the loop through a bluetooth bone conduction speaker. I’ve been experimenting with a cheap speaker and using it to vibrate other objects and record the vibrations with a contact mic. For this track I first used it on one of my litter sculptures that has a metal tin attatched. Each face of the tin sides gives a slightly different sound when the bone conduction speaker is moved around. I made two tracks like that and panned them hard left and right. The result is a subtle pulsing effect.

Then I made another two recordings of the speaker on top of a buckled crash cymbal. I left the speaker alone and let it slowly move across the cymbal by its own vibrations. Both are straight down the middle with no stereo effects, one is EQ’d to cut out a lot of the top end.


More on the 647th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Day Drone — The Assignment: Make some daylight drones for Drone Day — at https://disquiet.com/0647/

(morning ritual) kiss the fingers of the sun [disquiet0647]

Time fading, lingers in my chest. His warmth, a phantom ache. 🌟🐾

Bye Bye, Byrdie

Connections

Angel (2017) Anthology CD4 Track 13

2024-09-13

Atonement

Nabs Nebula - Good People

Recorded sounds provide a rich and extensive palette of colors and textures.  I like to glean what I can from single short samples of sound.  I particularly like squeaks and creaks.  Lately, I've become enamored with the enormous selection of vinyl records available on archive.org.

Study For Steel And Paper

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