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Thanks to Malka Older for providing the audio and collaborating on this. Thanks to Alex Hawthorn for audio technical assistance. Additional information on the book in which Older's story will be collected (title: ... and Other Disasters) at http://www.masonjarpress.xyz/chapbooks-1/and-other-disasters.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0400: Sub Divided

I used a section of the vocal I visually liked, I recorded, looped, streeched, repeated on the same section slowed again. I then used the Roli to play in some wave sounds and clicks.I used vocal patch on a layered section of vocal. I added a few 808 on a few beats to simulate the heart.  

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Malka Older - The Divided -3:9 Disquiet0400Wolf

release date:29_08_2019  
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Malka Older – The Divided – Part 9 Disquiet0400

Its been a pleasure to partake in the Junto projects for over 4 years now! I've done about 50 in the 4 years so not so many but love the idea very much.  
For this just built a simple structur behind the track, just to back to text and words - not to take over. A few drum racks, some glitches and some effects and synth sounds. A quick process for me this one.

Malka Older – The Divided – Part 4/9 disquiet0400

Source voice recording processed with python using the same system from last week then arranged / edited / mixed with ardour 5. 

More on this 400th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sub Divided / The Assignment: Create a score to a Malka Older story using the author’s own voice as source audio — at:

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More on this 400th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sub Divided / The Assignment: Create a score to a Malka Older story using the author’s own voice as source audio — at:

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Malka Older – The Divided – Part 4.9 disquiet0400 - 8:29:19, 10.07 PM

Malka Older narrates her short story The Divided, with music accompaniment by Disquiet Junto participants. This is part 7 of the story. I minimally processed the author's voice, just some reverb and delay. I added several backing tracks to fit the sad narrative of this portion of the story.

Malka Older - The Divided - Part 7 of 9

Malka Older – The Divided – Part 7 of 9 Disquiet0400

A score for a segment of Malka Older's short story The Divided.
Created with Native Instruments Straylight and Spitfire Audio's British Drama Library.

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Malka Older – The Divided – Part 9/9 disquiet0400

Author Malka Older ( Infomocracy , Ninth Step Station , Orphan Black: The Next Chapter ) reading her own short story, “The Divided,”
Music and sound design for Part 1 out of 9.
Voice converted to midi triggering samples.
Tape delay infinite decay.
Some sound design with a Matrix12 and crystal bowls.

performed by DD August 30th 2019
photo by DD, Guggenheim Bilbao


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Malka Older – The Divided – Part 1/9 disquiet0400

Malka--what a great story. Thank you for this and for this deeply moving audio. I listened to it over and over as I got ready to approach this week's prompt. 

I chose #5 at random and listened to it a number of times--I started hearing a low-key, minimalist soundtrack behind it, and visualizing the wall jutting up out of the desert. The original audio was so stark and moving I couldn't see modifying it, so it's completely dry. I coded a backing electric piano track that randomly draws from a set of minor/augmented/diminished clusters, synched with a breakbeat loop that randomly samples itself (all coded in ChucK and uploaded to my Github: 

https://github.com/charliekramer/ChucK/blob/master/Malka%20Older%20–%20The%20Divided%20–%20Part%205:9%20disquiet0400.ck

https://github.com/charliekramer/ChucK/blob/master/Sample%20random%20looper.ck

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Malka Older – The Divided – Part 5/9 Disquiet0400

With thanks to both Malka and Marc for facilitating this wonderful Junto challenge. A real pleasure to be a part of it! 

I listened through the story reading several times and noted down some key observations and motifs. The sections that really clicked with me were 5 and 6, which reflected strong impressions of wide-scale desolation and collective resilience to the conditions that the walls imposed. I was particularly struck by the imagery of flowers (roses, cactus gardens) and shrines placed at the walls. A reflection of natural beauty, devotion and faith set against absolute devastation and bleakness. 

My source audio is derived from a segment of section 6 where Malka mentions the cactus garden. I stretched this audio out a little, so as to coax some harmonic artefacts from the speech and layered shorter clips against each other in tight loops with some resonators and filters patched in Max. First, I set pinched bandpass filters in and around ~400-500 Hz to create two harmonic drones; then, I set the filters up and around 8-10kHz to create a swirling, sibilant texture. Lastly, I mixed these audio tracks with the spoken text from section 6 in Logic X with a smidge of compression and EQ applied.

Submission notes:

Disquiet Junto Project 0400: Sub Divided
The Assignment: Create a score to a Malka Older story using the author’s own voice as source audio.

Step 1: The author Malka Older ( Infomocracy , Ninth Step Station , Orphan Black: The Next Chapter ) has generously recorded herself reading her own short story, “The Divided,” and made that recording available to the Disquiet Junto community for this project. Acquire the nine (roughly) one-minute segments of the recording in this zip file:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mgwx9fa9bwz76ll/0400-stems.zip 12

Step 2: Select one of the nine tracks at random.

Step 3: Listen to the entire story, which is about nine and a half minutes long. Consider the narrative sensibility of your assigned subset of that story.

Step 4: Create a score and sound design to accompany Older’s reading of her own short story in the track that you selected in Step 2. Primarily use Older’s own voice as the source material for your score — bend it, shape it, extract from it, and burnish it to your creative ends. Additional sonic elements, both musical and foley, are welcome, but a substantial percentage of the sound should be from Older’s own voice. Also: keep Older’s own reading audible and inteligible; don’t slow or speed or otherwise edit it. Your score should accompany the reading, not supplant it.

Step 5: This is important. Please title your track “Malka Older – The Divided – Part X/9 disquiet0400” where “X” is the segment number you were assigned. (Don’t include the quotation marks.)

Malka Older – The Divided – Part 6:9 Disquiet0400

Soundtrack for segment 6 of 9 was generated solely from the Malka Older's reading.  Processed in Supercollider and mixed in Ableton Live.

Malka Older The Divided Part6:9 (disquiet0400)

More on this 400th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sub Divided / The Assignment: Create a score to a Malka Older story using the author’s own voice as source audio — at:

https://disquiet.com/0400/

Thanks to Malka Older for providing the audio and collaborating on this. Thanks to Alex Hawthorn for audio technical assistance.

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Malka Older – The Divided – Part 7/9 disquiet0400

this is ¶radio hummingbird’s contribution to this week’s disquiet junto with the serial number 0400. congratulations for reaching this milestone with such ease. in short, the requirement for this contribution was to create a piece of music from, and including, a recorded read-out segment by Malka Older of her recent short story The Divided.

for this track, i referred to an online random number generator to assign one random section out of a total of nine to choose from. number three has, therefore, been the number of choice for this assignment.

at first i recorded read-out segment number three on an audio cassette. i feed this take through a cassette tape delay numerous times, one after another, until the source recording turned into a gnarling wall of crackling noise. separately, i prepared a 61 second endless tape loop from a separate recording of the original source audio. this loop, however, has been inserted into a 4-track recorder upside-down leading to the recording to be played back backwards. i then recorded a slowed down version of the tape delay onto another track of the running endless loop. both tracks have then additionally been recorded, slowed down once more, onto a third track of the endless loop.
the endless loop has then been feed through my modular synthesizer for processing with a number of filters as well as the glorious "Clouds" module by Mutable Instruments. all, of course, cv-controlled for further animation.

the final recording consists of four different tracks layered onto one another. 1) the source recording by Malka Older, 2) the processed endless tape loop out of the modular synthesizer, 3) the slowest possible take of the endless loop unprocessed and 4) the first noise recording from the repeatedly processed source audio from the tape delay.

mostly analogue. no daw, except for the final layering with no further digital processing added. easy.

please enjoy and to the next 400 disquiet junto assignments. hurray!:)

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_disquiet0400 [Malka Older – The Divided – Part 3/9]

Many thanks to Malka Older for providing both dialog and the words

Firstly I chose randomly audio section 9, doubling it and applying a stutter effect to the left channel. I then used Ableton to render the audio to MIDI via the melody function and assigned two synth voices. I did the same process to convert the audio to drum patterns and again assigned a voice. The last major component was adding a randomized drum pattern to accompany the more sporadic beat that resulted from the audio to MIDI conversion. Then it was just a case of arrangement, I gave the piece a drum based intro, then bringing in the synth parts before the dialog joins, and then after the dialog ends a bit of an instrumental roll-out before it fades.

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Malka Older – The Divided – Part 9/9 [Disquiet0400]

Music by Manu H, artwork by Malka F (true!) - Zuunzug 

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Malka Older – The Divided – Part 1/9 [Disquiet0400]

A great short story is a composite of small vignettes, like small sponges that expand when dipped in water. A skillful writer can generate a compelling, emotive result from mere fragments, allowing readers to fill in the blanks with their imaginations.

Such is the case with stem 7 of Malka Older’s “The Divided,” which retains a terse meaning even when taken out of context. It reads like a confessional recounted by someone who has seen and done too much, read by someone who is still coming to grips with what's happened.

For this short piece, Suss Müsik allowed the narrative to play center stage. Piano, electronics and a distant slide guitar serve as background. The image is a painting by artist C. Koustourlis.

This is Suss Müsik’s first Junto project in a while. Other work streams and life events have been distractions for most of the year. That said, the 400th consecutive event of anything is worth noting. 

Cheers to Marc for initializing and sustaining this strong community of like-minded collaborators. Thank you for letting Suss Müsik be a part of  your collective.

More on this 400th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sub Divided / The Assignment: Create a score to a Malka Older story using the author’s own voice as source audio — at:
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Thanks to Malka Older for providing the audio and collaborating on this. Thanks to Alex Hawthorn for audio technical assistance. 

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Malka Older – The Divided – Part 7/9 Disquiet0400

Uploaded as part of the Disquiet Junto 0400

Malka Older - The Divided - Part 6/9 disquiet0400

For this challenge, I used the original track (7/9) and I chopped samples in other track the audio in Live’s Drum Rack.
I used a synth for the background (light and shadow 3).
My idea was to thinking in “keywords”, and to do reorder with these keywords in the end.

congrats on 400!
i ran part 7 through iris2, i liked the sound it made and it kinda fit
found it really hard not to add any fx to the narration!
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Disquiet Junto Project 0400: Sub Divided
The Assignment: Create a score to a Malka Older story using the author’s own voice as source audio.

Step 1: The author Malka Older (Infomocracy, Ninth Step Station, Orphan Black: The Next Chapter) has generously recorded herself reading her own short story, “The Divided,” and made that recording available to the Disquiet Junto community for this project. Acquire the nine (roughly) one-minute segments of the recording in this zip file:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mgwx9fa9bwz76ll/0400-stems.zip

Step 2: Select one of the nine tracks at random.

Step 3: Listen to the entire story, which is about nine and a half minutes long. Consider the narrative sensibility of your assigned subset of that story.

Step 4: Create a score and sound design to accompany Older’s reading of her own short story in the track that you selected in Step 2. Primarily use Older’s own voice as the source material for your score — bend it, shape it, extract from it, and burnish it to your creative ends. Additional sonic elements, both musical and foley, are welcome, but a substantial percentage of the sound should be from Older’s own voice. Also: keep Older’s own reading audible and inteligible; don’t slow or speed or otherwise edit it. Your score should accompany the reading, not supplant it.

Step 5: This is important. Please title your track “Malka Older – The Divided – Part X/9 disquiet0400” where “X” is the segment number you were assigned. (Don’t include the quotation marks.)

Six More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.