The Assignment: Collaborate posthumously with the late Jeffrey (Nofi) Melton.

This track is a posthumous collaboration with Jeffrey Melton, aka Nofi, who passed away on March 30, 2013. It was recorded live in April 2013 atop a June 2012 Melton live recording.

More on this 66th Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/04/04/disquiet0066-nonofi/

More of Melton/Nofi’s music at:

http://www.nofi.org/

Read Melton’s obituary here:

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/fortwayne/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=163988588

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto Project 0066: Communing with Nofi

This track is a posthumous collaboration with Jeffrey Melton, aka Nofi, who passed away on March 30, 2013. It was recorded live in April 2013 atop a June 2012 Melton live recording.

I took 3 minutes between 54:23 and 57:23, a section with a strict rhythm and a crawling synth part.  My goal was to play off the strict rhythm.

My loops included a layering of the "plane" sounds and the "carfadeout" sound I created for Disquiet 64.  They were layered to go off-rhythm and out of phase.  

Also included are a couple of samples from my track "You've Got Less Time Than You Think" - which is a piece of music I made last year that I thought turned out rather well, the title of which is kind of a call to arms for me to get on with things - making sounds, art, or whatever, and to not worry about all the other noise of life.

"You've Got Less Time Than You Think" - https://soundcloud.com/markrushtoncom/youve-got-less-time-than-you

"Rochester Ridge (disquiet0064-halflive)" - http://soundcloud.com/markrushtoncom/rochester-ridge-disquiet0064

More on this 66th Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/04/04/disquiet0066-nonofi/

More of Melton/Nofi’s music at:

http://www.nofi.org/

Read Melton’s obituary here:

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/fortwayne/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=163988588

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Noise Of Life (disquiet0066-nofi)

This is a special project. Very nice Marc.
I turned off the lights and lit a candle to listen to Jeffrey's track. It was a pleasure getting lost in his sound.

This track was recorded in Ableton Live and mastered with iZotope's Ozone 5.
I used a bass guitar and ran it through Komplete's Guitar Rig 5. The patch is called Christal-MC and it provided the sweeping echo chorus pad sound off of the bass notes.

Thank you for listening.

This track is a posthumous collaboration with Jeffrey Melton, aka Nofi, who passed away on March 30, 2013. It was recorded live in April 2013 atop a June 2012 Melton live recording.

More on this 66th Disquiet Junto project at:

disquiet.com/2013/04/04/disquiet0066-nonofi/

More of Melton/Nofi’s music at:

www.nofi.org/

Read Melton’s obituary here:

www.legacy.com/obituaries/fortwa…amp;pid=163988588

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

Groups – Disquiet-junto





much too young to... [disquiet0066_nonofi]

This track is a posthumous collaboration with Jeffrey Melton, aka Nofi, who passed away on March 30, 2013. It was recorded live in April 2013 atop a June 2012 Melton live recording.

More on this 66th Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/04/04/disquiet0066-nonofi/

More of Melton/Nofi’s music at:
http://www.nofi.org/

Read Melton’s obituary here:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/fortwayne/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=163988588

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Thriller [disquiet0066-nonofi]

Very special project this week - very fine idea, Marc - happy to be part of it.
I fumbled around with the source for a while, found a part I liked, plus a few others I liked after bending them a bit - Paul Stretch shortened the track - I also used the very beginning as a layer...Time too play along, hmm tried a bunch of different things out: AM radio, a feedback box, Granulator in Ableton, E-Bow on guitar etc. etc. nothing worked for me....finally my old Strat through Abletons amp rack with plenty of dissonant noises...Couldn't really think of a title, so left it without 
This track is a posthumous collaboration with Jeffrey Melton, aka Nofi, who passed
away on March 30, 2013. It was recorded live in April 2013 atop a June 2012 Melton
live recording.
More on this 66th Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/04/04/disquiet0066-nonofi/
More of Melton/Nofi’s music at: http://www.nofi.org/
Read Melton’s obituary here:http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/fortwayne/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=163988588
More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/


“disquiet0066-nonofi”

This track is a posthumous collaboration with Jeffrey Melton, aka Nofi, who passed away on March 30, 2013. It was recorded live in April 2013 atop a June 2012 Melton live recording.

More on this 66th Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/04/04/disquiet0066-nonofi/

More of Melton/Nofi’s music at:

http://www.nofi.org/

Read Melton’s obituary here:

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/fortwayne/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=163988588

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Transmissions (disquiet0066-nonofi)

Recording process:

Took an excerpt from Jeffery Melton's Unwind piece and converted to mono so it is centered in the mix.

Recorded a quick loop using the Tempest Drum machine and looped playback during live performance on a Mopho X4 synth using the 'push it' button to create a drone with a simple melody over top the drone.

-May Jeffery rest in peace.

This track is a posthumous collaboration with Jeffrey Melton, aka Nofi, who passed away on March 30, 2013. It was recorded live in April 2013 atop a June 2012 Melton live recording.

More on this 66th Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/04/04/disquiet0066-nonofi/

More of Melton/Nofi’s music at:

http://www.nofi.org/

Read Melton’s obituary here:

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/fortwayne/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=163988588

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

excerpt from Unwind [disquiet0066-nonofi]

There is some version of Peter Gabriel's "I Don't Remember" that has an intro that's a noodly bit of triangle waves. That's kind of the sound I was going for here. I tweaked one of the presets on my Korg Z1 to add some square waves and noodled some. It's not very complicated. RIP Jeffrey.

[disquiet0066-nonofi] We Must Remember

I used a selection approximately from the 10- to 13-minute mark of @nofi's live performance, added some trombone samples processed through Pd, as well as my favorite piano software, toward the end adding some distortion to the piano track in reverse and at a varied speed. I also built up some additional intense-sounding reverb to Nofi's piece because it seemed to go with the mood as it was being transformed by the presence of my own music/sound/style.

This track is a posthumous collaboration with Jeffrey Melton, aka Nofi, who passed away on March 30, 2013. It was recorded live in April 2013 atop a June 2012 Melton live recording.

More on this 66th Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/04/04/disquiet0066-nonofi/

More of Melton/Nofi’s music at:

http://www.nofi.org/

Read Melton’s obituary here:

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/fortwayne/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=163988588

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/



Ad plures (a tribute to Jeffrey Melton) [disquiet0066-nonofi]

For my part in this track I recorded two passes playing live with the source material, sculpted them a bit through mixing, and processed each of the tracks to push it all back and into a bigger space.

This track is a posthumous collaboration with Jeffrey Melton, aka Nofi, who passed away on March 30, 2013. It was recorded live in April 2013 atop a June 2012 Melton live recording.

More on this 66th Disquiet Junto project at: http://disquiet.com/2013/04/04/disquiet0066-nonofi/

More of Melton/Nofi’s music at: http://www.nofi.org/

Read Melton’s obituary here: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/fortwayne/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=163988588

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Fi [disquiet0066-nonofi]

Chose a section of the track that had a distinctly New Orleans traditional groove. I duplicated the track to incorporate a guitar, a bass and some effects. I also recorded a small distorted loop in glockenspiel. The result is here to listen...

This track is a posthumous collaboration with Jeffrey Melton, aka Nofi, who passed away on March 30, 2013. It was recorded live in April 2013 atop a June 2012 Melton live recording.

More on this 66th Disquiet Junto project at:

disquiet.com/2013/04/04/disquiet0066-nonofi/

More of Melton/Nofi’s music at:

www.nofi.org/

Read Melton’s obituary here:

www.legacy.com/obituaries/fortwa…amp;pid=163988588

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

Groups – Disquiet-junto

La Nouvelle-Orléans [disquiet0066-nonofi]

Disquiet Junto Project 0066: Communing with Nofi

  Quoting Disquiet's Marc Weidenbaum, "This week’s project is a tribute to the late Jeffrey Melton, the talented musician, best known on SoundCloud and Twitter as @nofi. Melton passed away a few days ago, on March 30, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he lived with his wife and seven-year-old son. He was 42. Melton had been involved with the Disquiet Junto since the very first Junto project, back in January 2012, and he early on volunteered to create a Twitter list of the handles of participating Junto members.

"The theme of this project, the 66th in the weekly Disquiet Junto series, is “posthumous collaboration”: communing through music."  
Instructions:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info

Information:

I was shocked to hear of nofi's passing and certainly wanted to contribute somehow to provide my own (albeit small) tribute to a fellow musician.

My music-making ability and process has been fairly fractured over the past couple of days due to time constraints, and I'm still getting to grips with some of Live 9's quirks so I really didn't get as much done as I had hoped on my original conceptualising for this.

I arbitrarily picked a 4 minute section that finished soon after the 42 minute mark. It was pretty different remixing material that I would normally not approach (beats make me run a mile), but it felt a little trip-hoppy so I went down this route and slowed it down to 80bpm, albeit keeping in mind the need to record something live over it.

I created a little ambient guitar wash over the initial parts of the track and then brought in another more standard guitar part over a "break" later in the track. All artefacts were included, intentional or not.
 
Credits:

This track is a posthumous collaboration with Jeffrey Melton, aka Nofi, who passed away on March 30, 2013. It was recorded live in April 2013 atop a June 2012 Melton live recording.

Jeffrey Melton’s obituary: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/fortwayne/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=163988588

Photo: @echosonic.

More on this 66th Disquiet Junto project at:  http://disquiet.com/2013/04/04/disquiet0066-nonofi/

More of Melton/Nofi’s music at: http://www.nofi.org/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info

Requiescat in pace [disquiet0066-nonofi]

Went to random.org to get two random numbers: Got 72 and 227.  I interpreted this as "start 72 mins in, go for 227 seconds" and excerpted that in Audacity.

Loaded this into Ableton, treated the original excerpt slightly, and just played Strat with a couple of Ableton effects. Tried to play not so much 'with' the piece, as 'under' it.

RIP.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Disquiet Junto Project 0066: Communing with Nofi

This week’s project is a tribute to the late Jeffrey Melton, the talented musician, best known on SoundCloud and Twitter as @nofi. Melton passed away a few days ago, on March 30, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he lived with his wife and seven-year-old son. He was 42. Melton had been involved with the Disquiet Junto since the very first Junto project, back in January 2012, and he early on volunteered to create a Twitter list of the handles of participating Junto members.

The theme of this project, the 66th in the weekly Disquiet Junto series, is “posthumous collaboration”: communing through music.

These are the steps:

Step 1: Download the following live session of Jeffrey Melton performing. It was recorded in June of last year. Warning: it’s fairly sizable, at over 350 MBs:

http://nofi.org/media/2012-06-15-Unwind-live-session.mp3

Step 2: The track is quite long, so select a segment of between 2 and 5 minutes. The best way to go about this might be to do it at random (just put the needle down, as it were), but of course feel free to listen at length and select a favorite section.

Step 3: Once you have your extracted segment, set the opening of the track to fade in.

Step 4: Set the ending of the track to cut out suddenly.

Step 5: Listen to it several times, to get to know it.

Step 6: Record yourself performing live along with the segment you have selected. Any instrumentation is fine. Just no voice. Be sure to play alone for approximately 10 seconds after Melton’s performance cuts off.

Deadline: Monday, April 8, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your finished work should be the length determined in steps 2 and 6 above.

This track is a posthumous collaboration with Jeffrey Melton, aka Nofi, who passed away on March 30, 2013. It was recorded live in April 2013 atop a June 2012 Melton live recording.

More on this 66th Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/04/04/disquiet0066-nonofi/

More of Melton/Nofi’s music at:
http://www.nofi.org/

Read Melton’s obituary here:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/fortwayne/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=163988588

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

on the head of a pin [disquiet0066-nonofi]

met him pike hoses [disquiet0066-nonofi]

After jamming with tenor sax for a little while to the original piece, this section felt good to me, so grabbed it, did a hard edit at the end, and pressed record. Then added a little delay and reverb, and cut some holes in what I'd recorded, to give a little more space.

Image credit: Fir0002/Flagstaffotos and my own good self.

This track is a posthumous collaboration with Jeffrey Melton, aka Nofi, who passed away on March 30, 2013. It was recorded live in April 2013 atop a June 2012 Melton live recording.

More on this 66th Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/04/04/disquiet0066-nonofi/

More of Melton/Nofi’s music at:

http://www.nofi.org/

Read Melton’s obituary here:

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/fortwayne/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=163988588

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Sweet Popcorn & Salty Clouds (disquiet0066-nonofi)

i selected a five-minute section near 1:12:00 at semi-random and was getting ready to do something completely different but this frackn bird kept singing right over my right shoulder, it seemed like. i figured it might be the nofi bird, so went with that.


RIP @nofi aka Jeffrey Melton from Indiana, United States


. . . . .
 
Disquiet Junto Project 0066: Communing with Nofi
 
This week’s project is a tribute to the late Jeffrey Melton, the talented musician, best known on SoundCloud and Twitter as @nofi. Melton passed away a few days ago, on March 30, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he lived with his wife and seven-year-old son. He was 42. Melton had been involved with the Disquiet Junto since the very first Junto project, back in January 2012, and he early on volunteered to create a Twitter list of the handles of participating Junto members.
 
The theme of this project, the 66th in the weekly Disquiet Junto series, is “posthumous collaboration”: communing through music. 
 
These are the steps:
 
Step 1: Download the following live session of Jeffrey Melton performing. It was recorded in June of last year. Warning: it’s fairly sizable, at over 350 MBs: http://nofi.org/media/2012-06-15-Unwind-live-session.mp3 

Step 2: The track is quite long, so select a segment of between 2 and 5 minutes. The best way to go about this might be to do it at random (just put the needle down, as it were), but of course feel free to listen at length and select a favorite section.
 
Step 3: Once you have your extracted segment, set the opening of the track to fade in.

Step 4: Set the ending of the track to cut out suddenly.
 
Step 5: Listen to it several times, to get to know it.
 
Step 6: Record yourself performing live along with the segment you have selected. Any instrumentation is fine. Just no voice. Be sure to play alone for approximately 10 seconds after Melton’s performance cuts off.
 
Deadline: Monday, April 8, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your finished work should be the length determined in steps 2 and 6 above.

This track is a posthumous collaboration with Jeffrey Melton, aka Nofi, who passed away on March 30, 2013. It was recorded live in April 2013 atop a June 2012 Melton live recording.

More on this 66th Disquiet Junto project at: http://disquiet.com/2013/04/04/disquiet0066-nonofi/ 

More of Melton/Nofi’s music at: http://www.nofi.org 

Read Melton’s obituary here: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/fortwayne/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=163988588 

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info 

. . . . .

nofi bird [disquiet0066-nonofi]

I didnt know the late Jeffrey Melton in person - but it’s an honor to contribute to his music through this project. 

Took a piece of Jeffreys „Unwind“-Session (around 11:00). All drum-parts and several soundbits were made by several copies of the original, which I EQ’d, granulated, de-verbed, re-pitched and mangled in several ways. Added some NI Absynth 5 and Abletons Operator. 

* * * 

Disquiet Junto Project 0066: Communing with Nofi

This week’s project is a tribute to the late Jeffrey Melton, the talented musician, best known on SoundCloud and Twitter as @nofi. Melton passed away a few days ago, on March 30, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he lived with his wife and seven-year-old son. He was 42. Melton had been involved with the Disquiet Junto since the very first Junto project, back in January 2012, and he early on volunteered to create a Twitter list of the handles of participating Junto members.

The theme of this project, the 66th in the weekly Disquiet Junto series, is “posthumous collaboration”: communing through music.

These are the steps:

Step 1: Download the following live session of Jeffrey Melton performing. It was recorded in June of last year. Warning: it’s fairly sizable, at over 350 MBs: nofi.org/media/2012-06-15-Unwind-live-session.mp3

Step 2: The track is quite long, so select a segment of between 2 and 5 minutes. The best way to go about this might be to do it at random (just put the needle down, as it were), but of course feel free to listen at length and select a favorite section.

Step 3: Once you have your extracted segment, set the opening of the track to fade in.

Step 4: Set the ending of the track to cut out suddenly.

Step 5: Listen to it several times, to get to know it.

Step 6: Record yourself performing live along with the segment you have selected. Any instrumentation is fine. Just no voice. Be sure to play alone for approximately 10 seconds after Melton’s performance cuts off.

Deadline: Monday, April 8, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your finished work should be the length determined in steps 2 and 6 above.

This track is a posthumous collaboration with Jeffrey Melton, aka Nofi, who passed away on March 30, 2013. It was recorded live in April 2013 atop a June 2012 Melton live recording.

More on this 66th Disquiet Junto project at: disquiet.com/2013/04/04/disquiet0066-nonofi/

More of Melton/Nofi’s music at: www.nofi.org

Read Melton’s obituary here: www.legacy.com/obituaries/fortwa…amp;pid=163988588

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info


Stay [disquiet0066-nonofi]

Disquiet Junto Project 0066: Communing with Nofi 

This track is a posthumous collaboration with Jeffrey Melton, aka Nofi, who passed away on March 30, 2013. It was recorded live in April 2013 atop a June 2012 Melton live recording.

We were instructed to take an excerpt from one of Jeffrey's live recordings, listen to it a few times and then play live along to it and record the result.

While listening to it, I decided to record six instances directly into the Samplr app. I prepared each recording in different ways, allowing for further live tweaking later. I then recorded myself play along to the excerpt chosen.

Jeffrey may be gone, but his music will live on... and he is now forever nofi (in his own words: "a state of being-without-boundaries (i.e. boundless, stateless)."

RIP 


More on this 66th Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/04/04/disquiet0066-nonofi/

More of Melton/Nofi’s music at:

http://www.nofi.org/

Read Melton’s obituary here:

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/fortwayne/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=163988588

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

So long [disquiet0066-nonofi]

PROCESS:
@nofi was one of my first followers on SoundCloud from the Junto (I started with #0004). Over the last year, I admired and absorbed a lot of his work and we shared laughs a few times on Twitter. I feel lucky to have had even the most cursory electronic interaction with him.

All sound waves propagate forever, so when you play or perform the music of someone who's passed, you help them ride their own waves into the great beyond. I love this week's project for doing this.

This section of Jeffery's performance flashed me back to "Mercy Street," and I had thought to create some kind-of looking-glass instrumental version of that track out of his, but I only got through one line. Still, the title here is a reference to the last line of that song.

As I vamped, Jeffrey's piece ended up pulling me into some quiet changes and arriving me at an inside-out minor-key'd quotation of "Over The Rainbow" (even swtiching out my plectrum for an eBow between phrases). In the end, for better or worse, in a track where @nofi eventually quotes Michael Jackson, I answered with Peter Gabriel and Harold Arlen. Nothing/Everything/Something made sense.

wave of sadness
wave of sound
wave of joy
wave good bye

RIG:
Jolie (Peekamoose-customized cherry-red Gibson ES-335 Dot reissue), Ibanez Tube Screamer TS808, tc electronic flashback delay/looper, eBow, Line6 POD-XT (Marshall JCM 800 amp emulator with vintage plate reverb, Fender '65 Twin Reverb tremolo and ping-pong delay), MOTU 828mk2, Sony Acid 

PROJECT:
This week’s project is a tribute to the late Jeffrey Melton, the talented musician, best known on SoundCloud and Twitter as @nofi. Melton passed away a few days ago, on March 30, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he lived with his wife and seven-year-old son. He was 42. Melton had been involved with the Disquiet Junto since the very first Junto project, back in January 2012, and he early on volunteered to create a Twitter list of the handles of participating Junto members.

The theme of this project, the 66th in the weekly Disquiet Junto series, is “posthumous collaboration”: communing through music.

These are the steps:

Step 1: Download the following live session of Jeffrey Melton performing. It was recorded in June of last year. (Warning: it’s fairly sizable, at over 350 MBs):
nofi.org/media/2012-06-15-Unwind-live-session.mp3

Step 2: Select a segment of between 2 and 5 minutes.

Step 3: Set the opening of your track to fade in.

Step 4: Set the ending of your track to cut out suddenly.

Step 5: Listen to it several times, to get to know it.

Step 6: Record yourself performing live along with the segment you have selected. Any instrumentation is fine. Just no voice. Be sure to play alone for approximately 10 seconds after Melton’s perfor---

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More on this 66th Disquiet Junto project at:
disquiet.com/2013/04/04/disquiet0066-nonofi

More of Melton/Nofi’s music at:
www.nofi.org/

Read Melton’s obituary here:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailyherald/obituary.aspx?pid=160472168

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

riding waves [disquiet0066-nonofi]

The Assignment: Collaborate posthumously with the late Jeffrey (Nofi) Melton.
This track is a posthumous collaboration with Jeffrey Melton, aka Nofi, who passed away on March 30, 2013. It was recorded live in April 2013 atop a June 2012 Melton live recording.
More on this 66th Disquiet Junto project at:
disquiet.com/2013/04/04/disquiet0066-nonofi/
More of Melton/Nofi’s music at:
www.nofi.org/
Read Melton’s obituary here:
www.legacy.com/obituaries/fortwa…amp;pid=163988588
More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/



disquiet0066-nonofi : Jamming with Jeffrey

An excerpt of an Unwind session by nofi/Jeffrey Melton with a live performance I recorded in response.  Done as part of Disquiet Junto 66 as a posthumous collaboration.

Details about this:

I more or less did the needle drop approach to select an excerpt.  Roughly from around 24 minutes to 26 minutes into the original Unwind session (I liked the tempo slowdown in the subsequent minutes, but was unsure what to do with that).

I played along with the excerpt eleven times, in 3 or 4 different ways with different gizmos.  

What I used was the last thing I did, using a handheld humbucker plugged into a battery powered Radio Shack mini amp to amplify and create a feedback loop with a string on a homemade zither like contraption.   Such a thing is not unusual in what I do.

After the fact, I cheated many ways with mix automation, ducking down loud or not-so-useful parts of my track and pumping up quieter ones.  The Unwind excerpt has the abrupt end as set forth for J. 66,  but my track continuing on masks that.  From the end of the fade in until the cutout, the excerpt was at unity gain.

Names are dangerous, esp. for instrumentals, abstract works.  Indeed, I had many notions before I even downloaded the Unwind session, with very good reasons for each.  How very a priori, indeed.  I chose an entirely different one (for what any name is worth) that somehow related to the session name Unwind.  

All that said, this is one simple offering to join all the others created by the Junto participants.   For Jeffrey Melton and those of you closest who've known him best.

More generally about this Junto and Jeffrey Melton:

This track is a posthumous collaboration with Jeffrey Melton, aka Nofi, who passed away on March 30, 2013. It was recorded live in April 2013 atop a June 2012 Melton live recording.

More on this 66th Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/04/04/disquiet0066-nonofi/

More of Melton/Nofi’s music at:

http://www.nofi.org/

Read Melton’s obituary here:

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/fortwayne/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=163988588

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/


Arc Seconds Bend [disquiet0066-nonofi]

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album Selected Ambient Works Volume II 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.