**Production Notes**

I used two snippets recorded in Mallorca on a shortwave radio, these were mostly used for the Kick, the percussive sounds and some noise parts in the middle. 

Hihats were made from a rain recording, which you can hear throughout the whole piece. 

Finally, I found a lorry driving past on freesound.org and used them as a pitch base for the whole track. 

Applied a ton of EQ, delays, reverbs, and transient designers. 

Again: That was fun!

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**Disquiet Junto Project 0479: Truck Radio Rain**

The Assignment: Locate three sound sources and make something with them.

Step 1: Locate online (freesound.org, for example) or record by yourself the following three sounds: a vehicle driving speedily, static between radio stations, and rain.

Step 2: Make an original piece of music using those three sounds. Do what you want with them, but only use those three sounds.

Background: “Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating,” John Cage said in his 1937 lecture, “The Future of Music: Credo.” He continued: “The sound of a truck at fifty miles per hour. Static between the stations. Rain. We want to capture and control these sounds, to use them, not as sound effects, but as musical instruments.” In this week’s Disquiet Junto project, we take the proposition literally.

Seven More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0479” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your tracks.

Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0479” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation of a project playlist.

Step 3: Upload your tracks. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your tracks.

Step 4: Post your tracks in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co:

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Step 5: Annotate your tracks with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: If posting on social media, please consider using the hashtag #disquietjunto so fellow participants are more likely to locate your communication.

Step 7: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

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More on this 479th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Truck Radio Rain (The Assignment: Locate three sound sources and make something with them) — at:

https://disquiet.com/0479/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

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There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is by janwillemsen, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

Cage's Car [disquiet0479]

Disquiet Junto Project 0479: Truck Radio Rain

The Assignment: Locate three sound sources and make something with them.

More on this 479th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Truck Radio Rain (The Assignment: Locate three sound sources and make something with them) – at:

https://disquiet.com/0479/ 1

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

Subscribe to project announcements here:

https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/ 1

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0479-truck-radio-rain/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Anxiety FM (disquiet0479)

A literal interpretation of John Cage's proposition:  “The sound of a truck at fifty miles per hour. Static between the stations. Rain. We want to capture and control these sounds, to use them, not as sound effects, but as musical instruments.” 
It comprises a number of short recordings of the above-mentioned elements, randomly assembled into three longer sequences played simultaneously.

More on this 479th weekly Disdisquiet Junto project – Truck Radio Rain (The Assignment: Locate three sound sources and make something with them) – at:

https://disquiet.com/0479/ 1

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

Subscribe to project announcements here:

https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/ 1

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0479-truck-radio-rain/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is by janwillemsen, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/mNaAmA

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

A Cage Collage (disquiet0479)

“Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating,” John Cage said in his 1937 lecture, “The Future of Music: Credo.” He continued: “The sound of a truck at fifty miles per hour. Static between the stations. Rain. We want to capture and control these sounds, to use them, not as sound effects, but as musical instruments.” In this week’s Disquiet Junto project, we take the proposition literally.

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0479-truck-radio-rain/42403

Wherever Instruments (disquiet 0479)

For this challenge, Type Set, I used the sound of a keyboard typing the first two stanza's of Edgar Allan Poe's, 'The Raven' .  The typing was performed and recorded by my close collaborator, JC Petkovich, who used a JD40 which he built and dropped into a CNC'ed aluminum case. JC also added foam between the PCB and case to dampen the noise, the switches are Aqua Zilent switches which are also very quiet. The keyboard recording was then processed using Supercollider to "tune" the key sounds using a band pass filter. In addition,  recordings of raindrops as well ravens were also similarly processed and used in the final piece. The work was assembled and mixed in Ableton Live 10 and some software instruments were added.

TY PO(disquiet0483)

I started this many years ago, but I could never get it right.  This week's disquiet prompt gave me a reason to dust it off, dress it up and set it out here.

I Know Why Some Animals Eat Their Young (disquiet0488)

Old cassette recordings of guitar, glockenspiel, and viola sliced and diced by the awesome Shortcircuit plugin. Instruments performed by Simon Neufeld and Judith Klassen. Computer programmed by Simon.

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More on this 478th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Collage of Collages (The Assignment: Make a collage that will become part of a larger collage.) – at:
https://disquiet.com/0478/

The project is a collaboration with the radio show Kopfkino, initiated by Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka. More on Kopfkino at:
https://cba.fro.at/series/kopfkino 

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

Tape Collage by The Land [disquiet0478]

More on this 479th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Truck Radio Rain (The Assignment: Locate three sound sources and make something with them) – at:

https://disquiet.com/0479/ 1

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

Subscribe to project announcements here:

https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/ 1

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0479-truck-radio-rain/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is by janwillemsen, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/mNaAmA

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

E. Piano Radio Codes (disquiet0479)

bashford waltz - disquiet0479

More on this 479th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Truck Radio Rain (The Assignment: Locate three sound sources and make something with them) – at: https://disquiet.com/0479/

Our prompt was inspired by John Cage and we were to find samples of rain, cars driving, and static between radio stations or record them ourselves, then make a track with only those sounds.

The Junto is a place for me to try new (usually brand new) things and share results, no matter how rough they are. This track is a documentation of my first ever jam with Cheat Codes V2 run on my Norns Shield and controlled with Grid... Also the first time I ran the script... and read through the manual. This script has some depth and I need to dig in, but in the mean time, try to get through this awkwardly choppy amalgamation of sound.

Three Elements (disquiet0479)

“The sound of a truck at fifty miles per hour. Static between the stations. Rain. We want to capture and control these sounds, to use them, not as sound effects, but as musical instruments.” - John Cage

industrial park traffic, contact mic'd rain gutter, panasonic fm-dx noise

Wherever Instruments (disquiet 0479)

hardworking