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Disquiet Junto Project 0479: Truck Radio Rain

**Production Notes**

I used two snippets recorded in Mallorca on a shortwave radio, these were mostly used for the Kick, the percussive sounds and some noise parts in the middle. 

Hihats were made from a rain recording, which you can hear throughout the whole piece. 

Finally, I found a lorry driving past on freesound.org and used them as a pitch base for the whole track. 

Applied a ton of EQ, delays, reverbs, and transient designers. 

Again: That was fun!

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**Disquiet Junto Project 0479: Truck Radio Rain**

The Assignment: Locate three sound sources and make something with them.

Step 1: Locate online (freesound.org, for example) or record by yourself the following three sounds: a vehicle driving speedily, static between radio stations, and rain.

Step 2: Make an original piece of music using those three sounds. Do what you want with them, but only use those three sounds.

Background: “Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating,” John Cage said in his 1937 lecture, “The Future of Music: Credo.” He continued: “The sound of a truck at fifty miles per hour. Static between the stations. Rain. We want to capture and control these sounds, to use them, not as sound effects, but as musical instruments.” In this week’s Disquiet Junto project, we take the proposition literally.

Seven More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0479” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your tracks.

Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0479” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation of a project playlist.

Step 3: Upload your tracks. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your tracks.

Step 4: Post your tracks in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co:

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Step 5: Annotate your tracks with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: If posting on social media, please consider using the hashtag #disquietjunto so fellow participants are more likely to locate your communication.

Step 7: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

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Cage's Car [disquiet0479]

Disquiet Junto Project 0479: Truck Radio Rain

The Assignment: Locate three sound sources and make something with them.

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Anxiety FM (disquiet0479)

Track out of truck, radio, and rain sounds.

It Hurts / disquiet0479

A literal interpretation of John Cage's proposition:  “The sound of a truck at fifty miles per hour. Static between the stations. Rain. We want to capture and control these sounds, to use them, not as sound effects, but as musical instruments.” 
It comprises a number of short recordings of the above-mentioned elements, randomly assembled into three longer sequences played simultaneously.

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A Cage Collage (disquiet0479)

As per instructions I took a recording of a car driving past, rain on cobblestones and me live scanning a FM radio band on my field kit. I screwed around with the playback speed of the samples and fed parts of the audio into Rings and Beads. I had a relaxing jam in the conservatory watching birds flit across the bird feeders and feeling the sub bass rattle of a bus speeding down the main road.

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Tune In Tune Out (disquiet0479)

Disquiet Junto Project 0479: Truck Radio Rain. Locate three sound sources and make something with them.

The rain is from last year's summer, the car and tram noises (no trucks today, sorry) from todays stroll in the sun and the radio was recorded with an cheap (digital) old world receiver (via headphone output, which nearly drove me mad). A "melody" can be heared, which is me manually switching LW 279, 278, 277 … and back, which was kind of melodious (maybe more like a filter sweep). I wanted to add some websdr recordings from number stations but it did'nt work out. – Arrangement in a generative Live setup. The original was much longer, but (maybe after all that disturbing noise from the radios) I thought it's better below 3 minutes, because I'm not convinced. I feel like I need some new age pads now… 

If you want to have a tram: https://freesound.org/people/krakenkraft/sounds/562128/

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Rain Tram Radio [disquiet0479]

Six minutes or so of motorway noise, recorded near work on Friday morning / shortwave radio recordings made in the early hours of Saturday morning / a number of recordings of rain in my backyard, in town, at work, made since Christmas...

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i've tried to be Cageian, in that i've not really treated any of the sound sources, beyond fading them & placing them, a little bit of EQ * but * i've been particularly uncageian in that my choices were never really dispassionate - i rather vainly tried to arrange them * pleasingly *; chance was involved but wasn't always adhered to... perhaps it's self evident - but i kind of love all these sounds. even the traffic, as oppressive as it can feel sometimes , has a beutiful gauzy whoosh to it...

they're all three flows, these types of sounds, it seems to me. Yeah, they've a * start * & an * end* but their defining characteristics are more about a certain fairly relentless streaming, no? even if they flicker and lurch at the edges...

& it's this relentlessness that is my excuse for this piece going so long - i wanted the them to weave, intermingle. Pretty cheaply, i guess, i made a feature of the more percussive bursts of radio static (most, by no means all caused by my shifting between bands) but i was more interested in the way they keep going, flowing, all three somehow intense and meandering...

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marginal gloss [disquiet0479]

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radyo {Disquiet0479}

I set out to make this piece immersive.  I took a sound file of a truck passing by (right to left)and using Supercollider created several trucks of much bigger size by playing at different speeds and using a bandpass filter to add some pitch.  Similarly, a sound file of raindrops recorded from the cab interior and also pitched was also used in this piece throughout.  A file of radio tuning was also used and segmented into different pieces, panned and scattered, throughout the middle of the piece.  I kept it short to make it bearable. Thanks in advance for listening!

Convoy(disquiet0479)

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E. Piano Radio Codes (disquiet0479)

Hooray For Red Van (disquiet0479)

From Freesound 
154947__spectrm__radio-scanning-theremin-effect
134964__jjastr1__wipers
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More Songs About Windshield Wipers (disquiet0479)

John Cage “Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.”

Wherever We Are (disquiet0479)

bashford waltz - disquiet0479

* [The 14077 Project » Five with Beeps.wav](https://freesound.org/people/kwahmah_02/sounds/253040/) by kwahmah_02
* [Acceleration 3.wav](https://freesound.org/people/biholao/sounds/370276/) by biholao
* [CarCrash_heartbeat-SloMo.wav](https://freesound.org/people/Pertti.Orn/sounds/250965/) by Pertti.Orn
* [Rain » Heavy Rain](https://freesound.org/people/lebaston100/sounds/243628/) by lebaston100
* MRI sound from "Fundamental Neuroscience for Neuroimaging" course from Johns Hopkins University

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Truck Radio Rain - disquiet0479

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Our prompt was inspired by John Cage and we were to find samples of rain, cars driving, and static between radio stations or record them ourselves, then make a track with only those sounds.

The Junto is a place for me to try new (usually brand new) things and share results, no matter how rough they are. This track is a documentation of my first ever jam with Cheat Codes V2 run on my Norns Shield and controlled with Grid... Also the first time I ran the script... and read through the manual. This script has some depth and I need to dig in, but in the mean time, try to get through this awkwardly choppy amalgamation of sound.

Three Elements (disquiet0479)

homemade car, radio and rain samples manipulated in ChucK--successively slowed with pitch shocks and beat shortened. Thanks Marc for the prompt!  https://github.com/charliekramer/ChucK/blob/master/disquiet0479.ck


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Disquiet0479 Truck Radio Rain

“The sound of a truck at fifty miles per hour. Static between the stations. Rain. We want to capture and control these sounds, to use them, not as sound effects, but as musical instruments.” - John Cage

industrial park traffic, contact mic'd rain gutter, panasonic fm-dx noise

alea - (disquiet0479)

[disquiet0479] Scintilla

I loved the field recording/sample nature of this brief.
Straight away I knew I wanted to record all of the sounds myself, having a few in the sample archive already, but also needing to record some vehicle sounds on the day. During the morning's errands I drove my stupid hairdresser’s car like a berk, with the iPhone positioned inside the car. I few laps of town later and I had two recordings which I emailed back to the mainframe. In the PC I edited the iPhone recordings down to just the peak acceleration moments, and spilt them into individual files that I added to an SD card for the SP404 and again for the Music Thing Modular Radio Music eurorack module. 

I then set about searching my archives for rain sounds. Finding an old one I chopped it into granular parts in Cool Edit Pro, and modulated them individually. These were then EQed and sent to both SD cards again.
I also recorded this original rain recording to a tape loop that ended up plugged into a sample and hold module in the eurorack.

Finally I wanted to use some recordings I'd made of SDR radio, plenty included words/music, so I was cautious to avoid that, as per the brief (You are welcome to them [here](https://prrk-industries.bandcamp.com/) if that is your sort of thing). SDR is great because the listening filters can be very musical when used out of focus from major transmissions. There are all sorts of odd tones, pulses and drones to be found.

I played the piece as one take into Reaper, with the mixer spitting out separate feeds of MTM Radio Music and 2HP Play, both sent to Clouds and Phonic Taxidermist respectively. The heartbeat clock was set by a Korg SQ1, which sent random midi triggers to the SP404 for the rhythm and also to Marbles for the distribution of gates and cv to the other modules involved.

Great fun, a noisy and claustrophobic glitchcore sounding outcome, but one that kept me out of trouble on a Saturday afternoon!

Disquiet Junto Project 0479: Truck Radio Rain - disquiet0479

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.