I liked the droney musical background soundscape, and how it fits the AM voices. Wondering what did you use to record that layer? :)

for the disquiet junto //

processed sounds from freesound.org / based on an excerpt of a conversation between john cage and morton feldman

Transmission of Flesh and Blood

[disquiet0552] Transmission Of Flesh And Blood

More on this 552nd weekly Disquiet Junto project – The Radio in My Life (The Assignment: Record music in response to a John Cage and Morton Feldman conversation) – at: https://disquiet.com/0552/

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/

https://www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern

https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 2: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0552-the-radio-in-my-life/

Radio Life (disquiet0552)

More on this 552nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — The Radio in My Life (The Assignment: Record music in response to a John Cage and Morton Feldman conversation) — at: https://disquiet.com/0552/

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/
https://www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern
https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0552-the-radio-in-my-life/

Antenna

Disquiet Junto | The Radio in My Life [Antenna] - disquiet0552

the radio task is great
i went to the green with radio and guitar
made my own environment nice with playing guitar
then came the red radio

the red in the green(disquiet0552)

hard folia

halF radiO [disquiet0552]

Disquiet Junto Project 0552: The Radio in My Life
The Assignment: Record music in response to a John Cage and Morton Feldman conversation.

This was fun. I thought about intrusions. Mostly it's the loud street in front of my window and kids running in the flat above mine and people shouting at Siri, Alexa and OKgoogle in the backyard.

I checked my field recordings and there it was: the f… church bells. A bad ambient track, repeated relentlessly every sunday, never changing, a transcendent single-track playlist … 

I threw the field recoding of the bells into deCoda, and it calculated Aminor and 84bpm. I started a track from scratch with these parameters and improvised some beats and pads. The idea was to have a peaceful ambient track … that could be disturbed by acoustic intrusion of the church bells. 

The track seemed finished when I read the algorithm again and listened to the Cage-Feldman-Talk. I liked the pure oddity of the first minutes, so I added some parts of the beginning, accepting that this will draw focus to the conversation, so I didn't care that you don't understand much. 

Next sunday at seven, they will play my track …

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Track image credit: Ancient church in Lunigiana (Tuscany, Italy) by Daniele Levis Pelusi on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/rJo9jh9iORU

Talk samples credit: John Cage + Morton Feldman's Coffee-Sippin' ASMR Chat in a Room Full of Cigarette Smoke on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chEvxoypyUo

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More on this 552nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — The Radio in My Life (The Assignment: Record music in response to a John Cage and Morton Feldman conversation) — at: https://disquiet.com/0552/

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/
https://www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern
https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0552-the-radio-in-my-life/

Kraken Bandcamp Junto

Intrusive Bells [disquiet0552]

Radios. transistors, primitive people, rock'n'roll, intrusions, transitional points, noise of the environment.....
Anthropology and sociology of the contemporary musician in the 60s and 70s.
Unaware actors and protagonists of the last moments of the 20th century avant-garde. 
Before the collapse and the genetic mutation of the listener and the user of the daily / contemporary culture.

INTRUSIONS [disquiet0552]

When I first read this week’s call I wanted to elaborate on my aesthetic assumptions as Ossimuratore that verbal communication is corrupted music.

I was a bit struggling until I listened to @ostacoli-sonori’s INTRUSIONS. This made me realize something odd about my musical education: as many italian kids grown up in the seventies and eighties I didn’t study english until middle school, so I used to listen to a lot of foreign pop and rock music without understanding a word of the lyrics.

In this track I use an exerpt from a cult italian movie called Amici Miei where Conte Mascetti gives what has been since then popularized in Italy as supercazzola (i.e. gimmerick italian used to persuade someone).

The idea is that gimmerick language, by dropping its semantic transport function, can retain musical significance.

Made with NI Maschine+

More on this 552nd weekly Disquiet Junto project – The Radio in My Life (The Assignment: Record music in response to a John Cage and Morton Feldman conversation) – at: https://disquiet.com/0552/

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/

https://www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern

https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 2: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0552-the-radio-in-my-life/

Tarapia Tapioco (disquiet0552)

[disquiet0552] Sandcastles In The Aether

An interesting assignment. Since John Cage suggests it's kind of a ritual to "assimilate" disturbing influences and compares it to the (anthropological) idea of integrating fearsome animals by painting them, I thought I'd try with a few disturbances of my own. (Actually, I thought about this a little longer. It fits into several sociological models, e.g. Luhmann's theory of social systems: A system gets irritated by its environment and has to cope with that, by repulsion or by integration; Cage's approach is in the integrating spectrum. Or Rosa's theory of "Resonanz": We need modes and models of "Anverwandlung", roughly meaning non-forceful assimilation, to have a working, "resonant" relationship to 'our' world, else we experience growing "Entfremdung"/alienation.) 

My disturbances: The vacuum bot (my own fault); leaf blowers which get active every friday morning like clockwork in our apartment building (not my fault); and the news (well ... my fault to switch them on, I guess; and maybe we're all a little responsible for the content). So I recorded all those sounds, recorded a drone bed and arranged everything. The duration was set by the (unedited) vacuum bot sample. I tried to only slightly edit and manipulate the samples, but I felt a little LFO action on the frequencies was in order. My favorite news sample was the line "Die große Hitze", the great heat or heat wave, so this is the song's title - contrasting the leaf blowing, which in my opinion should only occur in autumn ... if at all.

Discussion: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0552-the-radio-in-my-life/57197

Disquiet0552 – The Radio In My Life (Die große Hitze)

Birds singing along to their radios is not what we expect from nature, but it is much better then the sound of traffic.

In this track nearly all birds in the wood have their own radio. And whenever they sing or hammer, they turn the volume of their radio higher... By a strange coincidence all radios play tracks by RabMusicLab.

The beautiful field-recording of all the birds in the forest https://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/514309/ was supplied by @klankbeeld (https://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/) under the https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. This gem inspired the whole track.

The following tracks are played by the birds' radios in order of appearance:
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/kwach
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/evening-contemplation
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/urban-traffic-folly
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/paper-time
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/musical-flora
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/machinery
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/bluebell-symphony
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/bedtime-for-musical-bots
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/minimally-viable-spring

This track was motivated by the Disquiet Junto Project 0552: Create a track were radio is unobstrusively intermingling with the surrounding sounds.

More on this 552nd weekly Disquiet Junto project – The Radio in My Life (The Assignment: Record music in response to a John Cage and Morton Feldman conversation) – at: https://disquiet.com/0552/

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/

https://www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern

https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 2: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0552-the-radio-in-my-life/

Birds with Radios - the lesser Evil (Disquiet0552)

During the early 1990s I studied Mathematics and Computer Science. The world wide web was still largely text-based and mostly empty. Today things are obviously different, though I still thoroughly enjoy art, design, cinema and music in all its forms. I have traveled all over the world for nearly two decades, visiting just over 140 countries. Japan is my favorite. All of this I attempt to incorporate into my music and art.

[disquiet0552] Sandcastles In The Aether

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