Name: RF Elevator (disquiet0487) by Ambient Rushton
Duration: 38 s

Short track:  38 seconds

Now that the weather is warmer, I'm making an effort to collect more field recordings.

One downside of field recording is the risk of accidentally collecting RF interference, especially if you carry a mobile phone and you don't have a Faraday bag.

Every time I visit Jon Harnish at his apartment, I try to record my elevator ride up.  He lives on the 11th floor.  The sound is always different because the two elevators are usually working at the same time, but the other elevator is beeping and whirring at a different pace and more quietly in the background.

A recent recording I made was "ruined" by RF interference, but I kept it around mainly because of what Andy Warhol said about artistic leftovers in The Philosophy of Andy Warhol:  "I always like to work on leftovers, doing leftover things.  Things that were discarded, that everybody knew were no good, I always thought had a great potential..."


The initial edit is about 5 seconds long, and appears at the start of the piece.  It's me walking into the elevator, but there's all that RF interference buzzing in the recording.  That edit is looped all the way through.

After 5 seconds, I added a Korg IMS-20 for iPad loop I made over 10 years ago.  That's played three times.

Then I took edits of the RF interference loop and multi-tracked them, stacking them together in the final seconds after the Korg loop ends for a blaze of cacaphony.

It's just a snapshot, but this little piece has a "funky industrial jazzy" thing going on.

And the photo's somewhat appropriate.  That's a shot of downtown Cedar Rapids from Jon's apartment.  The colorful building is the Alliant Energy building, all lit up.  And the weird lights in the sky are reflections from inside the apartment on the window glass.

Wear good headphones when listening.

More on this 487th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Carillon Quotidian (Assignment: Turn a recurring sound from your life into music) — at: https://disquiet.com/0487/

This project was developed by Marty Petkovich (aka K Joule) as part of the celebration of the upcoming 500th consecutive weekly Disquiet Junto project.

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

RF Elevator (disquiet0487)

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More on this 628th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Alchemical Brothers — The Assignment: Explore an aspect of the ancient occult science using music — at: https://disquiet.com/0628/

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The image associated with this project is a detail from a 16th century alchemical text in the public domain.

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Available at Haxorhax.com

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