For this week’s Junto I chose to add thin layers to Insula Dulcamara’s ‘Tiny Phases’ track: https://soundcloud.com/insuladulcamara-726539207/tiny-phase-disquiet0215-tinyrhythms?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0215

I have been playing with homemade tape loops (https://www.instagram.com/p/BBfzyFMND3b/) and the Nanoloop app (http://nanoloop.com) a lot lately, and thought the very thin layer of tape would be a perfect fit for this week’s project.

I put Insula Dulcamara’s track on repeat and played around in Nanoloop until I had two loops: one a series of bleeps and bloops, and another a slower, layered drone.

One by one I recorded these into my cassette tape recorder (a Sony TCM-200DV) onto the tape loop, and then captured the tape loop audio into Ableton at three different speeds using the recorder’s built-in speed control wheel.

After these three I captured what was on the flip-side of the tape: a recording of me plucking a few guitar strings. I pitched this to be in tune with the other loops.

I arranged the bleeping nano-tape-loop to rhythmically juxtapose the original track, and then brought in the other drone-y tape loops one at a time.

Photo for this track by me. It’s the tape loop I used for this track laid on top of my iPhone open to the Nanoloop app.

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More on this 216th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“The Assignment: Add a thin foundational bed to beats of pin-prick audio”) at:

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Overcast [disquiet0216-thinlayers]

Matthew McVickar