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Disquiet Junto Project 0623: Kinda Bluetooth
The Assignment: Experiment with the sonic qualities of a failing signal.

The end of a calendar year is often a time of reflection. With that in mind, this week we’re revisiting an old Disquiet Junto project from back in early 2019.

Step 1: Find some sort of Bluetooth-enabled audio connection that is available to you. It might be headphones or a microphone or some other device. The important thing is that audio can be sent to one device from another device by Bluetooth.

Step 2: Experiment with a sound sent via Bluetooth using the connection decided upon in Step 1. Work to find situations in which Bluetooth begins to fail — that is, where the sonic signature of that signal failure becomes apparent. This will likely be due to distance, but you may find other creative approaches to achieve the distortion.

Step 3: Use the situation(s) located in Step 2 as the basis for an original piece of music, stressing an audio signal and then recording the way that signal distorts due to the failure of Bluetooth.

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Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, December 11, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, December 7, 2023.

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More on this 623rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Kinda Bluetooth (The Assignment: Experiment with the sonic qualities of a failing signal), at: https://disquiet.com/0623/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0623-kinda-bluetooth/

Disquiet Junto Project 0623: Kinda Bluetooth

New Year’s Day–
that I’m still on this journey
unbelievable

haiku by Kobayashi Issa https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kobayashi-issa

picture by Annie Spratt https://unsplash.com/@anniespratt

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

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halF belieF [naviarhaiku469]

This track uses the latest - https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-dark-naviarhaiku518 - Naviar Haiku submission as a starting point for some bluetooth mangling ... All sounds you hear are derived from a recording of the remote headphone connection breaking up whilst playing the haiku original. You can see the 'recording setup' in the middle of the accompanying image.

More on this 623rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Kinda Bluetooth (The Assignment: Experiment with the sonic qualities of a failing signal), at: https://disquiet.com/0623/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0623-kinda-bluetooth/

halF bluetootH [disquiet0623]

Electronic sequence, an imitation of wireless signal decay, sounds from various sources.

More on this 623rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Kinda Bluetooth (The Assignment: Experiment with the sonic qualities of a failing signal), at: https://disquiet.com/0623/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0623-kinda-bluetooth/

Signal Degrade (disquiet0623)

More on this 623rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Kinda Bluetooth (The Assignment: Experiment with the sonic qualities of a failing signal), at: https://disquiet.com/0623/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0623-kinda-bluetooth/

Went To See The Dentist (To Fix my Bluetooth) disquiet0623

This was a fun one. I decided to make use of my "specdrums" set, which is composed of two blue tooth "rings" that respond to colours as a trigger for sounds contained within an app on my phone. My phone was tethered via blue tooth to my mixing console, so the process was basically me triggering samples from the "specdrums" library while walking in and out of my studio and "playing" the interrupted signals. I then conjured up the spirits of John Oswald and John Cage and chopped up the recorded tracks using chance and layered them in Logic. I then threw a few effects at the whole mess, again by chance and not design: StepFX, Space Designer, Spectral Gate, Spreader and Phat FX.

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