Disquiet Junto Project 0672: Day Break
The Assignment: Make a handful of sonic alerts for various purposes.

Step 1: You’re going to make alarm sounds. Think about the alarms and alerts — phone, egg timer, microwave, neighborhood church bells, etc. — that currently go off regularly in your life.

Step 2: Make a list of a handful of instances you want to create an alert for, like something urgent and something that’s a gentle reminder, and so forth. Maybe you have a different tone for each morning of the week?

Step 3: Record roughly five (more or less) sonic alerts for the purposes you decided upon in Step 2.

Step 4: Make one track with each of the alerts separated briefly by some silence. When posting the track online, be sure to list the intention behind each alert.

Deadline: Monday, November 18, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0672

Disquiet Junto Project 0672: Day Break

Disquiet Junto # 0672 was an invitation to create a series of alarm or notification sounds. Mine come with a story attached. 

Features synthetic voices, Alchemy synth, and arrhythmic percussion.

More about this week's Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0672

Iris Yeah (disquiet0672)

Quite randomly, this project reminded me of the well-known Shakespearean stage direction, which I have appropriated for the title. The track has little to do with Shakespeare but would certainly wake you up. It comprises six short sections and combines various alarm sounds with other noises, all assembled using Audacity and numerous effects, etc.

More on the 672nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Day Break — The Assignment: Make a handful of sonic alerts for various purposes — at https://disquiet.com/0672/

Alarums and Excursions (disquiet0672)

Disquiet Junto Project 0672: Day Break
The Assignment: Make a handful of sonic alerts for various purposes.

Step 1: You’re going to make alarm sounds. Think about the alarms and alerts — phone, egg timer, microwave, neighborhood church bells, etc. — that currently go off regularly in your life.

Step 2: Make a list of a handful of instances you want to create an alert for, like something urgent and something that’s a gentle reminder, and so forth. Maybe you have a different tone for each morning of the week?

Step 3: Record roughly five (more or less) sonic alerts for the purposes you decided upon in Step 2.

Step 4: Make one track with each of the alerts separated briefly by some silence. When posting the track online, be sure to list the intention behind each alert.



Assorted alarms - disquiet0672

Various stages of alarm, as a dysfunctional body responds to stimuli and sounds its distress.

disquiet0672 - Bodily Notifications

Disquiet Junto Project 0672: Day Break
The Assignment: Make a handful of sonic alerts for various purposes.

Thanks to PIXABAY.com (samples):

Drums: Reaktor Nuvex-Mini + EFX

FReeze VSTs: 	
Alex Harker HISSTools Freeze v1.0.1 Win Mac [FREE]
sand_stretch v2.0.0 (https://github.com/s4n7r0/sand_stretch/releases/)

Dystopic Mind.

Thanks for listening.

18/11/2024

APOlogies - disquiet0672

More on the 672nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Day Break — The Assignment: Make a handful of sonic alerts for various purposes — at https://disquiet.com/0672/

I'm Worried and Alarmed! (disquiet0672)

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.