Disquiet Junto Set 2014 (Mark Rushton)

More on this 110th Disquiet Junto project (“Celebrate the 100th birthday of that old cut-up, William S. Burroughs”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/02/06/disquiet0110-wsb100/

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http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

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Disquiet Junto Project 0110: WSB100

More on this 123rd Disquiet Junto project — “Help Gizmodo record the soundscape of the home of the future” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/05/08/disquiet0123-homeofthefuture/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

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More on the Gizmodo Home of the Future at:

http://homeofthefuture.gizmodo.com/

Disquiet Junto Project 0123: All Tomorrow’s Domesticity

“Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something of it” 

Like last year, I used the Samplr app for iPad for processing the ice recording. 

Two standard ice cubes from a freezer tray were put in an 8 ounce drinking glass and nervously shaken in front of a Zoom H1.

Once the loop was in Samplr, I created six views but only used three.  The sample was lowered four octaves in each view and reverb added.  I recorded it live after I found a mix that I liked.

This year I wanted something more restrained, but with an underlying amount of tension.  The background sounds like it's bubbling.

The picture is by me, taken a few days ago as I drove by the Buddha on a hill along Scott Boulevard near my home in Iowa City.  I watched this Buddha get carved all summer long by numerous people working in the hot sun.  Now it's ridiculously cold out with winter and the Buddha looks like a giant snowman in that landscape.

For more about my music, visit:  http://markrushton.com/

More on this 105th Disquiet Junto project (“Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something of it”) at:  http://disquiet.com/2014/01/02/disquiet0105-ice2014/

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The Nervous Rhythm (disquiet0105-ice2014)

For this week’s project, use the sound of a wind chime as the rhythmic foundation for a track.

Back in 2007 I recorded some wind chimes at a private residence near Toddville, Iowa.  Unfortunately, most of the recording was unusable for a variety of reasons:  the wind kicked up, plus I also captured the sounds of a shooting range a couple miles south of the residence.  The recording was made with my old Sony Minidisc recorder and unprotected binaural microphones, likely one of the last recordings I made this way before I got a Zoom H2.

However, I kept the audio around.  It got on a hard drive, then a backup drive, and it was labeled, so it was easy to find.

8 seconds.  That was the longest and best segment of audio from about 45 minutes that wasn't ruined by wind or gunfire.

I loaded the file into Samplr on my iPad Air and came up with the track fairly quickly.  This recording was done live to a Zoom H1, and I was tweaking it all the way through so you'll notice some slight changes and a couple of noticeable shifts.

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More on this 107th Disquiet Junto project (“Use a wind chime as the rhythmic foundation for a track.”) at:  http://disquiet.com/2014/01/16/disquiet0107-aeolianmetrics/

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The Momentary (disquiet0107-aeolianmetrics)

My cut-up is derived from a article in Seven Days, an alt-weekly out of Burlington, VT. It details a dispute between neighbors about using residential space as a business workshop to build guitars. http://www.7dvt.com/2014disharmony-prospect-street-dispute-between-neighbors-strikes-sour-note

For the "chorus" I used the audio out-put from the image I databent for this track. 

The "verse" is from a no-input recording I did on my Tascam digital recorder. I simply ran an 1/8" cable from mic-in to line-out. The effect comes from adjusting the mic sensitivity. 

The "bridge" is from an improv session done on my squire fretless jazz bass. A cut-up of this recording is dispersed throughout the track.

The "beat" is also from a no-input recording. This time I ran the cable through my Behringer delay pedal. 

More at:  
http://subversiveintentions.wordpress.com

More on this 110th Disquiet Junto project (“Celebrate the 100th birthday of that old cut-up, William S. Burroughs”) at:


http://disquiet.com/2014/02/06/disquiet0110-wsb100/


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Disharmony Street Prospect (disquiet0110-wsb100)

From Göteborgs Posten. Ironically enough it was about closing down a drug rehab.

More on this 110th Disquiet Junto project (“Celebrate the 100th birthday of that old cut-up, William S. Burroughs”) at:



http://disquiet.com/2014/02/06/disquiet0110-wsb100/



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I used text to speech translation- acapella (changed the pitch of the male voice, reading in  Gothenburg dialect). Then I found an old sample recorded off the radio- a looped sequence from Mahler's Um Mitternacht (don't remember who the singer was), that made a nice background. To underline the structure of the song I added more radio- LW as a beat for the chorus, some noise for the bridge and piezo flax seeds as accents.



Vi har inte tillräckligt många psykiatriker- disquiet0110-wsb100

At the 100th birthday of William S. Burroughs, celebrating his literary legacy by employing one of his classic artistic subroutines, the cut-up. 
I've listed the strings from the Asahi news headlines at am 5:00 Feb 8 tokyo time. http://www.asahi.com/news/ 
and added my stock loop and simulated touching tape physically by setting ableton warp mode.

More on this 110th Disquiet Junto project (“Celebrate the 100th birthday of that old cut-up, William S. Burroughs”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/02/06/disquiet0110-wsb100/

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Asahi headlines Feb 8 [disquiet0110-wsb100]

For my reflection on the process of composing this piece, see:
http://bassling.blogspot.com/2014/02/disquiet-junto-110-celebrating-burroughs.html

More on this 110th Disquiet Junto project (“Celebrate the 100th birthday of that old cut-up, William S. Burroughs”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/02/06/disquiet0110-wsb100/

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Of Leeton yesterday morn [disquiet0110-wsb100]

I've been researching Laurie Anderson a lot recently. I decided to emulate her manner of speaking. (I think I failed in some ways). 

The text I used came from the front page of reddit. I've included the lines here:

1. Evolution Door

2. 1girl 1 cup

3. I once came home to a hostage situation.

4. This is what I’m expecting from the Sochi Opening Ceremony

5. Alaska primed to become third state to legalize retail marijuana

6. I have travelled the world with Toy Story’s Woody, taking pics for my son. At Heathrow, security just confiscated his “weapon”, keep the world safe boys…

7. TIL Yang (Lenovo's CEO) received a $3 million bonus as a reward for record profits, which he in-turn redistributed to about 10,000 of Lenovo's employees. He did same thing again in 2013.

8. Vøringsfossen, Norway. You can almost see the trolls and elves from here…

9. Flawless

10. In 3 words what would your hell be?

11. Women in Tokyo are threatening a sex boycott against any man who votes for the front-runner in this weekend's gubernatorial election, in protest at his claim that menstruation makes women unfit for government.

12. My nephew just made his first shot in little league basketball last night. 
I tried to make it memorable for him.

13. Olympic luger crashes, somehow recovers

14. Scientists in Japan have successfully induced human embryonic stem cells to spontaneously form developing brain tissues

15. What have you wondered about sleep?

16. Mongolian Smile

17. To the 'self-hating' gay fellow, don't worry about it…

18. TIL for the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta, homelessness was criminalized in the city. Those arrested during the Games were held for trial until after the event was over


There's a final system of music I chose not use because the track seemed to end after the bridge. This system forms the "underlying rumble" accompaniment for the speech.


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More on this 110th Disquiet Junto project (“Celebrate the 100th birthday of that old cut-up, William S. Burroughs”) at:



http://disquiet.com/2014/02/06/disquiet0110-wsb100/



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http://disquiet.com/?p=16588



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i once came home to a hostage situation - "Disquiet Junto Project 0110: WSB100

My musical senses are in an industrial/noise mode recently.

I used Samplr on my iPad Air.  Made several different recordings.  Arranged the recordings in Sony Acid until I created something I liked.

For more about me and my music, visit http://www.markrushton.com

In addition to what I have here at Soundcloud, I now have all my commercially available recordings at YouTube for free streaming:  https://www.youtube.com/user/markrushtoncom

Thanks to a Creative Commons license, this track contains elements of music by Juan Manuel Castrillo (“Horizontales,” from the album by that name on the netlabel Impulsive Habitat), J. Surak (“Improvisation for Prepared Autoharp,” from the album If You Smell Gas on the netlabel Zeromoon), and Maddame Cell (“Auto Tempo 1,” from the album Autotempo on the netlabel Xylem).

More on this 111th Disquiet Junto project (“Rework work from Impulsive Habitat, Xylem, Zeromoon (via actsofsilence.com)”) at:  http://disquiet.com/2014/02/13/disquiet0111-actsofcommons/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:  http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

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The source audio for this track is available for free download from these netlabel websites:

http://impulsivehabitat.com/releases/ihab084.htm

http://museumofmicrocassetteart.bandcamp.com/album/moma086-if-you-smell-gas

http://xylemrecords.bandcamp.com/album/autotempo

The audio was sourced from reviews posted originally at the excellent website actsofsilence.com, which is run by David Nemeth.

Industry (disquiet0111-actsofcommons)

This week’s project is a celebration of the new album by Dave Seidel, who also goes by Mysterybear. Titled ~60 Hz, it just came out on the great Irritable Hedgehog record label.

I got the five pieces, converted them to WAV files, extracted about 30 seconds of each file, and loaded them into Samplr on my iPad.

Eventually I crafted the files into the following track, which is rather bass heavy, has a bit of reverb, and is rhythmic.  Wear good headphones while listening.

In my own work recently, I've been creating more longer-form ambient-ish singles, so I took the entire five minutes to create something that zones me out.  

The title is an anagram of Dave Seidel's name.

Pic is from my local grocery store.  Can't remember when, maybe a month or two ago.  It's been a long cold winter here in Iowa City, Iowa.

For more about me and my music, visit http://www.markrushton.com

Or sign up for my mailing list at:  http://mailinglist.markrushton.com

More on this 114th Disquiet Junto project — “Combine elements of Dave Seidel’s album ~60 Hz (Irritable Hedgehog)” — at:  http://disquiet.com/2014/03/06/disquiet0114-60hz/

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The source audio is from Dave Seidel’s ~60 Hz album, released on the Irritable Hedgehog record label. More on the album at:  http://recordings.irritablehedgehog.com/album/dave-seidel-60-hz

Leaded Vise (disquiet0114-60hz)

This week's project instructions:  "It is understood that one should brush one’s teeth for two minutes: half a minute each for front and back, top and bottom. Compose a piece of music made of four portions, each 30 seconds in length, each 30-second segment intended to direct a segment of the brushing The music should be placid enough to be listenable to at night and in the morning. The juncture between each 30-second segment should signal to the listener to rotate from one portion of the mouth to the next."

I've been using a Braun Oral-B electric toothbrush for the past several years.  It's a Triumph Professional, 5000 Series.  It's pretty neat.  Wireless charging.  There's a timer/clock you can look at that uses Bluetooth to communicate with the brush.  Got it real cheap through my dentist office - probably $59 after discount and rebate.  They cost more in retail stores and online.  Heads are reasonably priced, available anywhere, and last a long time.

And it's got this vibration notification every 30 seconds to switch brushing quadrants in your mouth.  Just like the Junto instructions!

Before I get into how I created this track, I must preach about the importance of using a quality electric toothbrush like this Braun Oral-B that I have, and a story about how I got to this opinion.

Growing up, I used a manual toothbrush.  I flossed.  But every time I'd go to the dentist there would be problems.  You know:  gum issues, cavities, plaque and calculus buildup.  It was difficult to impress the hygienists or the dentist, no matter how much effort I put in.

Then, when I was living in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a decade ago, I went to a dentist office near my then-home that turned out to be a huge scam.  The practice had a new building, fancy equipment, flat screen TVs everywhere, and all the dentists were younger - and obviously heavily in debt as a result!  There was a constant hard sell of extra services that showed "practice management" was being employed to wring out every last dollar of their customers.  I was told that my gums were totally falling apart, and that I needed prescription strength chlorhexidine gluconate rinse, which tasted disgusting, and "deep cleaning" of each tooth (at a cost then of $40 a tooth!).

After researching the problem myself, I learned that probably all I needed to do was buy a decent electric toothbrush.  I bought one the office offered, an expensive Rota-Dent model.  It helped my teeth considerably, although I later wasn't so impressed with the difficulty of finding the model's expensive replacement heads.  Even after I brushed with the new electric toothbrush and my gums showed improvement, the practice still wanted to drain my wallet with every half-baked scheme and rinse they could offer.  So I switched dentists (to a small plain office with one dentist), got a second opinion, and the new dentist schooled me on what they had tried to do.

When I moved to Iowa City in 2007, I found a single-dentist practice near my house and they've never tried to up-sell me on anything.  At the checkout desk, they displayed the Braun Oral-B unit at a reasonable price, so I got one and have been very happy with it ever since.  Cleanings go smoothly.  It thrills me to no end to have the dentist peer into my mouth for a couple of minutes after the hygienist is done and declare "Everything's great!"  It's become the norm.  

Obviously, I planned to use a recording of my electric toothbrush in the soundtrack.  I made several recordings with a Zoom H1 and loaded them into the Samplr app on my iPad Air.  After creating four different projects and coming up with a different "sound" for each, I recorded two minutes of each project direct to the Zoom H1.

The audio created in Samplr was then put into my usual DAW, Sony Acid Pro, with 30 seconds selected from each segment, and I thought I'd embellish it a bit with some old loop library samples.  As you'll hear in the track, I went for beats, breaks, and bass - which I've used in the past but not so much lately.

Each 30 second segment had a plan.  Since I normally go the 2 minute distance with my electric toothbrush in the morning, this piece should be considered mainly a "morning" soundtrack.

The first 30 seconds slowly gets started with upright bass and a simple groove before fading into an obvious break.  In the background is the drone audio created in Samplr.

The second 30 seconds features a different drone with sub bass and a slightly crisper beat.

The third 30 second section doubles up the drones, offsets the sub bass, and changes up the beat with a bit of horn punctuation.

The final 30 seconds brings back the gentler beat and on-beat sub bass with the drone continuing to hover overhead until a fade out at the 2 minute mark.

The same drum break is used at 30, 60, and 90 seconds.  I equate this with my Braun Oral-B using the same pulse rhythm for each similarly spaced notification to change brushing quadrants in my mouth.  After 2 minutes, the Braun Oral-B uses a more elaborate pulsating break, but since the total track time is 2 minutes I figured I would just drop the beat near the end and fade it out.

The photo is an Instagram-filtered closeup of the LCD charge indicator on my brush.

More on this 116th Disquiet Junto project — “Record a score for daily dental hygiene” — at:  http://disquiet.com/2014/03/20/disquiet0116-brushx4/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:  http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

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Triumph (disquiet0116-brushx4)

Year 2044 in the kitchen of a high rise building...you switch on the RoboWini and attach the little bot onto the windows. Off, it goes cleaning, making minimal hums and trippy noises along the way! 

Step A: I rolled the dice.
Step B: Got myself number 6.
Step C: I was messing around with the sound generator, Skrewell in Reaktor. Found an interesting sound and recorded it. Next, I recorded the beep sounds when I pressed the buttons of my washing machine. Transferred the recordings to my Logic Pro and experimented with reverb and delay to the sounds. 

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More on this 123rd Disquiet Junto project — “Help Gizmodo.com record the soundscape of the home of the future” — at: http://disquiet.com/2014/05/08/disquiet0123-homeofthefuture/

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disquiet.com/?p=16588

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homeofthefuture.gizmodo.com/

RoboWini [ disquiet0123-homeofthefuture ]

Domestic Scenario selected by roll of virtual dice,(created with 3 simple lines of code in Processing)
Domestic Scenario No5."food replicator / 3D printer combo"
I imagined this domestic kitchen of 2044 in a wealthy building full of all the latest gadgets ,that all generate algorithmic ambient music and attempt to sing their messages to you.( virtual synths, metasynth resynthesis of own voice,etc)
I have to add that I imagine a food replicator may as well just print you out a tablet or injection for that matter of vitamins, mineral, fibre etc....BUT I personally favour homegrown seasonal produce and hope that we can find better ways for this to continue!

"a track of what you think that object will sound like, in the context of daily life at home three decades from now, in the year 2044. This means both the sound of the device in question, as well as the location (kitchen, bedroom, living room, etc.) in which the device would be present. This domestic soundscape should be between approximately 90 seconds in length"


More on this 123rd Disquiet Junto project — “Help Gizmodo.com record the soundscape of the home of the future” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/05/08/disquiet0123-homeofthefuture/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588
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Your Dinner is Ready(2044)_disquiet0123-homeofthefuture

Disquiet Junto Project 0123: All Tomorrow’s Domesticity

The Brundle Factor [disquiet0123-homeofthefuture]


<b>Welcome to the Weyland-Yutani Matterport V1.7  Now you’ve read the manual and signed the all risks waiver, you’re ready to transport yourself to one of our many designated Matterport Receivers. (Note: Attempting to transport to a non-designated receiver, or an off-grid station, will void your warranty and may result in death or worse.) 

Weyland-Yutani apologises for the sonic levels that may be present during transportation. Gravity wave manipulation requires many terawatts of energy and may also produce transient instabilities in dense matter. It is strongly suggested that you place any metal objects in the basket provided. Please use the ear plugs, flash goggles and genital protection provided and have a nice trip!</b>

Somehow I doubt that we’ll be teleporting to work in 2044. Anyway, to obtain the sounds required, I built such a device in my garage. Now I can’t find most of the cat. Turns out you need a small nuclear reactor (the bass hum) to supply the power needed just to activate the device. And opening wormholes turns out to be a noisy process, especially the part where the gravity waves are turned into Mobius strips. NB: This is an edited version – the device actually takes about ten minutes to reach operating power, and can cause time to move backwards. Handy if you’re late for work!


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This week we’re helping Gizmodo.com explore what the future sounds like. Specifically we’ll be creating the sounds of the future of domestic life. From May 17 to May 21, Gizmodo is staging “an immersive, real-life” depiction of “the urban home of tomorrow” in New York’s SoHo neighborhood, at 268 Mulberry Street (that’s near the Broadway-Lafayette stop, for locals and visitors). It’ll be free to visit the site. Sounds produced for this week’s Disquiet Junto will be considered for playback in the Gizmodo installation.
So, here’s how the project works. In order to get a variety of potential tomorrows, you will be randomly assigned an aspect of the home of the future. Here are the steps:

Step A. Roll a single, six-sided die.
Step B. The result of that roll determines which of the following household devices is assigned to you:
1: refrigerator
2: washer/dryer
3: home security system
4: solar energy generator
5: food replicator / 3D printer combo
6: [make up something that doesn't yet exist]

Step C. Compose a track of what you think that object will sound like, in the context of daily life at home three decades from now, in the year 2044. This means both the sound of the device in question, as well as the location (kitchen, bedroom, living room, etc.) in which the device would be present. This domestic soundscape should be between approximately 90 seconds in length. Er, and because this is an event for the general public, please keep option 6 family-friendly. Thanks.

More on this 123rd Disquiet Junto project — “Help Gizmodo.com record the soundscape of the home of the future” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/05/08/disquiet0123-homeofthefuture/ 

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588


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The Brundle Factor [disquiet0123-homeofthefuture]

Creating how household devices in 2044 will sound like.
die resulted  5: food replicator / 3D printer combo

just wrote a SF short:
7AM, A businessman is busy preparing at morning. 
This is a secondhand food replicator and not maintained well. 
so, The printer gets glitched again. 
He ends up with eating weird shape of breads and eggs…
hurry up to office.

More on this 123rd Disquiet Junto project — “Help Gizmodo.com record the soundscape of the home of the future” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/05/08/disquiet0123-homeofthefuture/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/?p=16588
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http://homeofthefuture.gizmodo.com/

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Printing out my breakfast, 2044 [disquiet0123-homeofthefuture]

Over the past few months, Joel David Palmer (World Abounding) and I had been trying to get together to meet for the first time and create sounds, but we kept getting delayed by work, life, and facility schedules that didn't cross.  I was finally able to rent a 4 hour block at the Environmental Education Center (EEC) at the rather unglamorously-named "East Side Recycling Center" in Iowa City on Sunday, May 11th - Mother's Day - at the only slot they had available:  7:30am to 11:30am.

The EEC is a very nice space:  high ceilings, glass walls, bamboo floors, and lots of echo.  Jon Harnish and I recorded here in June 2013.  The building is only a couple years old, but is LEED "Platinum" Certified, which means LED lighting, solar panels, "garden" walls and roof, waterless urinals, and so forth.  It definitely wants to be the building of tomorrow.

One thing I noticed in the kitchenette area of the EEC was that they had a typical compressor-based refrigerator with the usual rattle and high-pitched sound when operating.  And while I didn't have a die to roll for this week's Junto choice, I chose to identify the sound of a refrigerator 30 years in the future in the context of daily life.  This choice was solely because of my encounter with the compressor-based fridge sitting in a LEED "Platinum" building of today.

I definitely think refrigerators in 30 years will be mostly, if not totally, silent.  There has been a lot of advancement in "solid state" technology for cooling in the past decade, in particular studying the magnetocaloric effect at Iowa State University, ferroelectric polymers at Penn State, and other advancements in Peltier devices (thermoelectric cooling).

Some of today's high-end refrigerators feature lcd screens with wifi and apps, including audio services like Pandora, and of course there are companies that make "fridge mounts" for various tablets, so sound or music for personal space soundtracks be can accessed already.

But when fridges are silent, will we miss that extra sound?  Some might.  Think about all the people with cell phones with ringtones that could use any sound, but they opt for the old-school ringing bell on landline phones of the past.

That's where we come in.  We'll already have sounds created that are variations on old appliances or spaces.  Maybe not exact replicas, because they can be too harsh or annoying, but our own twist on present day "appliance music".

When Joel and I discussed the possibility of recording something for this week's Junto, we agreed that we'd take an edit from what we recorded and present it in our own individual way.

This 90 second piece offers "refrigerator compressor" replacement, "cooking sound", and other grey or brown noises seemingly blended from HVAC systems and faucets.

I think the future of most homes is towards more silent or quieter machines, but I suspect a niche will be created where nostalgia for boutique "old sounds" that are processed and smoothed into a more pleasing ambient soundtrack has some demand.

Mark Rushton - two iPads, Samplr
Joel David Palmer - Ableton-processed guitar 

More on this 123rd Disquiet Junto project — “Help Gizmodo.com record the soundscape of the home of the future” — at:  http://disquiet.com/2014/05/08/disquiet0123-homeofthefuture/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:  http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

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Imitation of Noise (disquiet0123-homeofthefuture)

Mark Rushton