Disquiet Junto Project 0670: Right of Way

The Assignment: Music for turn signals.

Step 1: Record the sound of a car’s turn signal (or, alternately, use a prerecorded one, for example at freesound.org).

Step 2: Improvise on top of the recording of the turn signal with as many or few layers of additional sound as you like, emphasizing rhythm (versus melody or harmony), and retain the original turn signal sound, so it is still audible for most if not all of your finished track

Background: This project is something of a callback to the 11th Disquiet Junto project, way back at the end of March 2012.

Deadline: Monday, November 4, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: https://disquiet.com/0670/

Disquiet Junto Project 0670: Right of Way

Disquiet Junto #0670 directed us to compose something rhythmic around the sound of a turn signal. I went one better and added windshield wipers. 

Polyrhythms, frequencies that are askew, and a tempo that seems to lurch like a figure in the fog. Maddeningly, nothing stays in sync for long.

Features physical modeling synth, samplers, and field recordings.

Enjoy “Three Lefts” on a long, nighttime drive with the windows down and the volume up. Recorded at NO SIGNAL Multimedia Lab in the Shambles, Chicago.

More about this week's Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0670

Three Lefts (disquiet0670)

Using the sound of the Ford KA right indicator to create a piece in BespokeSynth. See the accompanying video and download the patch to play with yourself from YouTube at https://youtu.be/70JQ0UMMtXs

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visuals & patch

halF indicatioN [disquiet0670]

This track was created from a short recording of a car turn signal with numerous repetitions, layers and effects, no other sounds added.
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Turn of Events (disquiet0670)

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Right of Way

Disquiet Junto | Right Of Way - disquiet0670

As per the instructions, the track starts and ends with the sound of a turn signal, which is then processed, cut up and re-arranged and then over ruled by a funky beat. Except the beat is interrupted by the occasional failed connection, to remind me of the dodgy sound systems I had in my car when I was young. And then the beat stops, the turn signal returns, first in bits and then steady and strong. I turn into my driveway, and I am home.

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**Disquiet Junto Project 0670: Right of Way**  
The Assignment: Music for turn signals.

Step 1: Record the sound of a car’s turn signal (or, alternately, use a prerecorded one, for example at [freesound.org 4](http://freesound.org/)).

Step 2: Improvise on top of the recording of the turn signal with as many or few layers of additional sound as you like, emphasizing rhythm (versus melody or harmony), and retain the original turn signal sound, so it is still audible for most if not all of your finished track

Background: This project is something of a callback to the 11th Disquiet Junto project, way back at the end of March 2012.

Track notes can be found here: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0670-right-of-way/69232/9

[Disquiet_Junto_0670] Exterior Cabin

So Close (disquiet0670)

This is my submission for this week's Disquiet Junto assignment.

More on the 670th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right of Way — The Assignment: Music for turn signals — at https://disquiet.com/0670/

20241102 [disquiet0670]

Driving a car can evoke different feelings. This improvised track aims to capture the feeling of driving through a beautiful, lonely landscape...

The background sounds are a car's indicator and two slowed down variations of that recording.

The sound is a short excerpt of a longer field recording of a drive, available on freesound at freesound.org/people/rosettastone22/sounds/551484/. Thanks for sharing!

The track was inspired by this week's Disquiet Junto Project:
More on the 670th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right of Way — The Assignment: Music for turn signals — at https://disquiet.com/0670/

Drive (Disquiet0670)

#fieldrecording #minimalism #ambient #fieldedelia #disquiet


Inspiration: Aphrodite’s Child, “The Battle of the Locusts” & “Do It”

Field recording (while I was parked) + effects + synth = fieldedelia!

With vocal intro, all recorded and mixed on my phone!




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Indicator: Intent (disquiet0670)

disquiet0670

Disquiet Junto Project 0670: Right of Way
The Assignment: Music for turn signals.

With an indicator, we either want to turn only left or only right, but in my head it was always left or right within the same indicator. So I added some undecided strings. And because life has many surprises in store that don't want to fit into the constant back and forth, these one too. 

Credits for used CC0 samples:
wesleywestmusic
https://freesound.org/people/wesleywestmusic/sounds/644427/
rafunzela
https://freesound.org/people/rafunzela/sounds/677998/

More on the 670th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right of Way — The Assignment: Music for turn signals — at https://disquiet.com/0670/
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0670-right-of-way/

undecisive [disquiet0670]

Disquiet Junto Project 0670: Right of Way
The Assignment: Music for turn signals.

Step 1: Record the sound of a car’s turn signal (or, alternately, use a prerecorded one, for example at freesound.org 7).

Step 2: Improvise on top of the recording of the turn signal with as many or few layers of additional sound as you like, emphasizing rhythm (versus melody or harmony), and retain the original turn signal sound, so it is still audible for most if not all of your finished track

Left turn - disquiet0670

Riffing around the sound of Suzuki Swift Sport indicators.
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contraindication (disquiet0670)

Disquiet Junto Project 0670: Right of Way
The Assignment: Music for turn signals.

Free samples and loops (old cars) from freesound.org and looperman.com.
Various rhythms distributed across the sound spectrum, filtered by different FXs.
The children's voices are produced by Speakerphone (1960 speaker IR).

The instrumental part, random/generative, is entrusted to the usual Reaktor ensembles: TG-8H, Skrewell....

Sicut transit gloria mundi.

Remember Charlie? [disquiet0670]

Sound created as part of #disquiet0670.

Photo by Lee Haywood on Flickr, used under Creative Commons licence.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ljhaywood/240769026/

Love in the Time of Seatbelts (disquiet0670)

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.