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More on this 167th Disquiet Junto project — “Marking the 3rd anniversary of Bassel Khartabil’s incarceration, turn the silence of a room into something soothing” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/03/12/disquiet0167-freebassel/

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http://freebassel.org/

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Disquiet Junto Project 0167: Placid Cell

a rather overwrought, over-processed set of sounds; the ice rattling has been draggged, filtered, tweaked; the hiss is a consequence of recording 90 minutes of the ice melting and then speeding it up grossly, the sine-ish tone is from the cubes' rattling slowed down dramatically... that said i find it pleasing in its own way, even as i sort of wish it was more fluid, more mercurial. It is, as they say, what it is.

: : : Previous responses to this Junto assignment from earlier years are here https://soundcloud.com/jmmy-kpple/icsr & here https://soundcloud.com/jmmy-kpple/iicsr-disquiet0053-ice2013

More on this 157th Disquiet Junto project — “Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something of it.” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/01/01/disquiet0157-icemusic2015/

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iIicsr [disquiet0157 - Icemusic2015]

you'll be unsurprised to learn that somebody who makes the kind of aimless and wayward audio that's posted here has little patience with proper recipes and has an affection for the oleaginous, blended & pungent. So yeah i acquired some lemons, tinned chick peas and a jar of black olives took them home, drained two tins of chick peas and a generous number of the olives. In a pyrex dish i mixed a table spoon of wholegrain tahani with a lot of ground cumin, a little coriander, a smidge of turmeric, a generous amount of garlic pepper, a touch of paprika  & a slug of olive oil. I placed the chick peas and olives in the dish and chopped half a green chili over them. I subsequently started to blend the ingredients with a hand blender. I then added the juice of two lemons and a couple of cloves of garlic before blending further. Finally, i chopped the remainder of the chili and mixed that in for good measure. Sounds for each step/ingredient were recorded and then chopped brutally, arbitrarily and whimsically to make this percussive shamble. The hummus has been good on toast so far and will be eaten again later today with baked potatoes and pickled cabbage; i anticipate having hummus in my sandwiches at work until tuesday, possibly Wednesday. 

I believe this fulfills the criteria for this week's assignment.

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http://disquiet.com/2015/01/15/disquiet0159-kitchenhyperlapse/

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a distracted Tralfamadorian observes some guy making hummus [disquiet0159-kitchenhyperlapse]

Nothing much doing in Suburban tyneside at midnight - the lightest of drizzles [check that drip on mic thud 23 seconds in] the rattle of a piece of plastic we use to discourage cats from crapping in our pots, fairly distant traffic . . .

mind, i guess This time on a Sunday/Monday night is perfect; always stolen-seeming somehow.

i hope, following Marc's project description, that something interesting can be wrung out of this quite dull quiet audio.

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More on this 160th Disquiet Junto project — “Make a one-minute field recording starting right at midnight (wherever you are)” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/01/22/disquiet0160-oneminutepastmidnight/

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00:00 - 00:01 [approx] 260115 [disquiet0160-oneminutepastmidnight]

i selected little one, two, three seconds slivers from each of the tracks before making a wonky little semi-articulated beat out of them. I then dragged this pattern through a number of packages and filters and effects 'til it sounded suitably curious and immersive and hadn't quite renounced all sense of rhythm.[fwiw, it's designed to loop.]

More on this 161st Disquiet Junto project — “Create a new track from three tracks from three different netlabels” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/01/29/disquiet0161-netmixrelabel/

This track includes material from the songs “Dog Kiss” by Chtin Mara off the album Animus Animal Anima (Enough Records), “Qif Kiff” by Ayato & Natalia Kamia off the album Cluster (eg0cide Records), and “Espasmo” by Lingering Last Drops (Bump Foot). More on Enough at enoughrecords.scene.org. More on eg0cide at eg0cide.com. More on Bump Foot at bumpfoot.net. All work used courtesy of a Creative Commons license allowing for derivative use.

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Tic: Belmont Branigan [disquiet0161 - Netmixrelabel]

I uploaded an old and somewhat beloved junto submission [here's the original: https://soundcloud.com/jmmy-kpple/pretzel-1979-zone-26 here it is on GTiaB: http://static.echonest.com/girltalkinabox/go.html?trid=TRBJBMC14B600E8C98] and made a number of versions of more or less effectiveness.

i think Girl Talk in Box is designed foo proper music rather than my wayward cobblesounds; firm beats and consistent beats, melodic blocks and such. Still i enjoy this lightly perverse chopping and looping and hope you do to though i really won't blame you if you prefer to just listen to an infinite remix of Call Me Maybe [http://static.echonest.com/girltalkinabox/go.html?trid=TRORQWV13762CDDF4C] instead; i mean, why wouldn't You?

oh & clearly, i, uh, cheated & played with two sets of boxes at the same time; sincere insincere apologies Marc ;) [http://static.echonest.com/girltalkinabox/go.html?trid=TRFQKRE14B635ED24D]

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http://disquiet.com/2015/02/05/disquiet0162-juntoinabox/

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Pretzel (1979) Zone 26 (as Seen On Tv Juicer Boxmix) [disquiet0162 - Juntoinabox]

This is the inside of my bathroom, recorded on a Tascam DR-07 mkII. I edited the audio in ProTools 11. You can hear some cat sounds if you listen up!


More on this 167th Disquiet Junto project — “Marking the 3rd anniversary of Bassel Khartabil’s incarceration, turn the silence of a room into something soothing” — at:

disquiet.com/2015/03/12/disquiet0167-freebassel/

More on Bassel Khartabil at:

freebassel.org/

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disquiet.com/junto

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Placid Cell - [disquiet0167-freebassel]

created March 2015
@ dead_shrine

paulstretch/Ableton

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More on this 167th Disquiet Junto project — “Marking the 3rd anniversary of Bassel Khartabil’s incarceration, turn the silence of a room into something soothing” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/03/12/disquiet0167-freebassel/

More on Bassel Khartabil at:

http://freebassel.org/

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for_bassel(2015)[disquiet0167-freebassel]

The first 2 seconds you hear my bathroom's door closing.
The next 10 seconds you hear the silence in my bathroom.
Then a heartbeat evolves, made of a reflection of the closing door.
The chords, the lead melody and the bass sound are all made using the same microsound, a very short loop near the end of the silent part.
A shaker-like sound is made out of some noise, maybe my breath because I was in the room during the recording.
I used Bitwig's sampler, a lot of filters, some delays and Verberate for the plate-hall.
It took me about 2 hours to get the whole track done.
So I hope you enjoy it.

More on this 167th Disquiet Junto project — “Marking the 3rd anniversary of Bassel Khartabil’s incarceration, turn the silence of a room into something soothing” — at:
disquiet.com/2015/03/12/disquiet0167-freebassel/
More on Bassel Khartabil at:
http://freebassel.org/
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Bathroom Lullaby [disquiet0167-freebassel]

**Production Notes**

The most quiet room in our flat is a tiny walk-in wardrobe. I was just recording the sound of the door closing, when my daugher, which played Skyrim in the living room, cursed in frustration. 

I isolated that bit and mangled it with Ambient V_03 for a steady pulse. This treatment went into Reaktors Molekular-Effect-Plugin, which turns noises into sine waves. That’s where I got all the tonal bits from. 

Compressed, added a a bit of RC 48 Reverb... and that‘s not all....

... I really hope they free Bassel Kathabir. 

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**Disquiet Junto Project 0167: Placid Cell**


Marking the 3rd anniversary of Bassel Khartabil’s incarceration, turn the silence of a room into something soothing.

￼This project is the second time that the Junto gathered its resources to pay tribute to the wrongfully imprisoned Creative Commons advocate and coder Bassel. Sunday, March 15, marks the third anniversary of Bassel’s incarceration in Syria.

In Bassel’s honor, this week we’ll make music by taking the loneliness of a small, closed room and making something beautiful and soothing from it.

Step 1: Go into the quietest room in your home and record the room’s tone. Also record the sound of the door being closed.

Step 2: Locate in that track a suitably quiet 10 consecutive seconds. Also locate the moment when the door is closed.

Step 3: Locate in those 10 seconds a handful of signature sonic events, moments, however small or subtle, that stand out from the general silence.

Step 4: Create an original composition that begins with the door being closed, proceeds through the 10 unadulterated seconds of room tone, and after which samples of those sonic events from Step 3 are transformed into something soothing. This being a project about isolation, you cannot add any external sound elements.

Step 5: Upload the combination of your accompaniment and the foundational track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 6: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Length: The length of your finished work should be roughly between two and five minutes.

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More on this 167th Disquiet Junto project — “Marking the 3rd anniversary of Bassel Khartabil’s incarceration, turn the silence of a room into something soothing” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2015/03/12/disquiet0167-freebassel/

More on Bassel Khartabil at:
http://freebassel.org/

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Thoughts [disquiet0167-freebassel]

The quietest room in my flat is my bedroom; a small room at the end of the hall, filled - say two-thirds up - with, like, the second cheapest bed Ikea sold ten years ago, whatever that's called.

I set the recorder going before shutting the door and then sat on the edge of the bed whilst Alex lay reading. It was nigh-on silent, to the point that i thought about how bad my tinnitus could be said to be, and whether even that's what i could *hear*. I thought about the warm comfort of the room i was in and how it can be assumed to contrast with wherever Bassel Khartabil is obliged to remain. I thought about what to do with this silence which is as good as any afforded by my relatively cheap recorder. I thought about how it wasn't that great a silence; remembered the pleasing, amusing list of silent records in Craig Dworkin's No Medium; i even did my best to be blank, to think nothing, to do something like contemplate what it's like to be held prisoner...

To make the actual track i looped and tweaked various sections - the tens seconds immediately following the door's closing is repeated adn you can hear a dull click which is probably the door or possibly a button on my jeans hitting the edge of the bed repeated through much of the track; i slowed a section of the ten seconds down and these two percussive events begin to suggest something like a clock or clocks. Other sections of more pure silence were stretched and dragged and panned and sort of... suggest their presence in either left or right channel at various points in the track.

It's a clumsy, cheap and over-worked 'silence' and i can't imagine it truly soothing but it is also is an accurate picture of my inarticulacy in the face of the wider world and a literally mute but otherwise earnest plea for freedom for everybody held unjustly and against their will and wish for something peacable and calm in the hearts of everybody everywhere.

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http://freebassel.org/

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a number of the same quiet room [disquiet0167-freebassel]

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a number of the same quiet room [disquiet0167-freebassel]

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