Disquiet Junto

Disquiet Junto Project 0531: Noise Sculpt
The Assignment: Listen for a mirage of your music within white noise.

Step 1: You’ll be listening closely, intently to white noise (or some other noise type: pink, brown, the ocean, wind, etc.) for this project. Select a noise source.

Step 2: Listen closely for an extended period of time to the noise source you selected in Step 1. Try to get lost in it.

Step 3: Listen for music in the noise you selected in Step 1. Listen for some hint of — a mirage of — pattern or melody.

Step 4: Create an original piece of music that builds on the melody or pattern or other mirage of music you heard in Step 3.

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More on this 531st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Noise Sculpt (The Assignment: Listen for a mirage of your music within white noise) — at: https://disquiet.com/0531/

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Disquiet Junto Project 0531: Noise Sculpt

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More on this 515th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Talking Cure (The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room) — at: Disquiet Junto Project 0515: Talking Cure

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Image credit: Lamont Hall, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Waiting room, 1956. Public domain.

look after yourself (disquiet0515)

More on this 516th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Outside In (Co/Exist 1 of 3) (The Assignment: Record a minute or two of nature) – at: https://disquiet.com/0516/ 1

This is the first of a three-part project sequence. You can participate in all three parts, or any two of the three, or even just any one of them. Part one began on November 18, part two will begin on November 25, and part three will begin on December 2. Thanks to Alan Bland and Mark Lentczner for having proposed the project.

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Walthamstow Wetlands (disquiet0516)

More on this 517th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Inside Out (Co/Exist 2 of 3) (The Assignment: Record a minute or two of nature) – at: https://disquiet.com/0517/

This is the second of a three-part project sequence. You can participate in all three parts, or any two of the three, or even just any one of them. Part one began on November 18 and ended on November 22, part two began on November 25, and part three will begin on December 2. Thanks to Alan Bland and Mark Lentczner for having proposed the project.

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Piccadilly Circus, London (disquiet0517)

More on this 524th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Sunset Waveform (The Assignment: Read a photo like a graphic score) – at: https://disquiet.com/0524/

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(disquiet0524)

Field recordings, OP-1, Beads and Mimeophon.

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Major thanks to Eanna Butler for helping come up with this project:

More on this 529th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Squared Off (The Assignment: Explore the number 23) – at: https://disquiet.com/0529/

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(disquiet0529)

My submission to
Disquiet Junto Project 0531: Noise Sculpt
The Assignment: Listen for a mirage of your music within white noise.
More on this 531st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Noise Sculpt (The Assignment: Listen for a mirage of your music within white noise) — at: https://disquiet.com/0531/
More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Thanks to the following freesounders billkace, alienxxx, leck-crawlball and hewn-marrow!!!

The Sum Of Noise(disquiet0531)

Disquiet Junto Project 0531: Noise Sculpt
The Assignment: Listen for a mirage of your music within white noise.

I listened to an audio recording I made at a beach recently. Unfortunately, it was breezy, so I got bad wind noise occasionally on my phone's mic... But there's nothing more soothing to the soul of the sound than the North Atlantic's waves rolling to shore; an immersive sound in late evening. 

Thought of putting it thru some bitcrushing - heavy aliasing and digital quantisation errors cause little "pins and needles" appear in the sound.

So I took my partially-complete disquiet0353 piece (Warp & Weft / The Assignment: Read loom-woven fabric as a musical composition - disquiet.com/0353/). I used an extreme configuration of SonicPhoto.exe from skytopia.com as the source material here, over the source image from disquiet0353 (see https://imgur.com/a/f24WsDu). A very fine piece of software, well worth investigating. 
PaulStretch then of course accentuated it's vibe.
Put the result thru D16 Decimort, into alot of effect layers across 8 busses, playing alongside a Reaktor Prism patch, and an Arturia SEM track into a nice delay (PSP StompDelay).

Hope you enjoy. Thanks for listening!

Soak (disquiet0531)

I listened to blue noise almost all day. It made a lot of speech come up in my head, something like faraway speech, and some casual humming so i started with those. Played together, the noise seemed to have this character so i continued.

disquiet0531 BlueNoise

Among the themes Don DeLillo explores in his excellent novel White Noise is the miasma of uncertainty: a deep foreboding that eclipses human existence like a noxious cloud. The genius of the novel, which some argue to be DeLillo’s best work, is represented by moments of dry humor and domestic banality that poke through its chemically worrisome haze. Consider this passage by the story’s narrator:

“I opened the refrigerator door, peered into the freezer compartment. A strange crackling sound came off the plastic food wrap, the snug covering for half eaten things, the Ziploc sacks of livers and ribs, all gleaming with sleety crystals. A cold dry sizzle. A sound like some element breaking down, resolving itself into Freon vapors. An eerie static, insistent but near subliminal, that made me think of wintering souls, some form of dormant life approaching the threshold of perception.”

This is the intention Suss Müsik took with this week’s Junto assignment. The goal was to create a “cold dry sizzle … insistent but near subliminal, approaching the threshold of perception.” A disquieting yet enveloping calm. Various forms of white noise were recorded and altered using VCV Rack modules, with an external Chase Bliss Dark Worlds pedal adding extra tones. 

The piece, titled DeLillo, was recorded live to 8-track and mastered quickly. 

It must be mentioned that, as of this writing, the world is undergoing significant trauma. Suss Müsik is reminded of another passage from White Noise that feels oddly appropriate: “War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.” 

May peace be with us all.

More on this 531st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Noise Sculpt (The Assignment: Listen for a mirage of your music within white noise) — at: https://disquiet.com/0531/

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DeLillo [Disquiet0531]

Jamloop (disquiet0531)

More on this 531st weekly Disquiet Junto project – Noise Sculpt (The Assignment: Listen for a mirage of your music within white noise) – at: https://disquiet.com/0531/

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(disquiet0531)

David Stelfox