Disquiet Junto Project 0485: Strange Weather
The Assignment: Remix the pure sounds of Chris Kallmyer’s traveling wind chimes to your own musical purposes.

This is the second of two projects in a row we’re doing with artist Chris Kallmyer. You needn’t have participated in the previous one to do this one. First, some background: Kallmyer’s “Two hearts are better than one” is a pair of wind chimes, one of which is depicted in this week’s cover image, crisscrossing Los Angeles at the height of the pandemic. Installed at homes for week-long listening sessions, the chimes formed a duet across a city and provided intimate experiences with sound for 16 families sheltering at home. (More at chriskallmyer.com.)

Step 1: Chris has provided us with a recording of the wind chimes, a little over five minutes long. The audio was cleaned up by Alex Hawthorn to maximize the clarity of the chimes themselves, removing much of the background sound, thus situating the chimes in what might be thought of as a platonic space. Access the wav file at dropbox.com.

Step 2: Do what you wish this the chimes. Remix them to your musical heart’s content. The one request is that at least once in your recording, let the source audio be heard clearly.

My process:
All sounds generated from the source audio.  Samples chopped and sequenced in Renoise.

In an Abundance of Caution [Disquiet0485]

Using sounds from the surface of Mars: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/participate/sounds/?playlist=mars&item=rover-driving-filtered&type=mars 

More on this 486th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Earths Days (The Assignment: Celebrate Earth Day on or for another planet) — at: https://disquiet.com/0486/

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Image associated with this project is in the public domain courtesy of NASA. Image credit: Zolt Levay Photography: http://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2021/001/01EWXK6QFEF57A7W1RV6TC6ZZB

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I'm happy that this is my first collaboration with  Martin Kirwan (@martkirwan)!  I play the mandolin part on a drone track that Martin created. He also plays the e-bow part which is that great voice-like singing you can hear.
Here "Jor" refers to the form played in instrumental hindustani music where "chikaris" (the drone strings) are played in a pulsating manner, which I kind of mimic by playing the mandolin with delay.
Thank you Martin for your collaboration!

Martin Kirwan(@martkirwan):Drone, e-bow
Me: Mandolin

Photo: a picture I took from Grožnjan, a town in Istria.

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