Name: disquiet0699_attribution by Nat Lyon
Duration: 2 min 30 s
Description: The third part. First part, Leon Clowes (piano). Second part, Maccaniche del Suono (percussion). Third part, Nat Lyon (reverb guitar).

sound art for disquiet0697.

More on the 697th weekly Disquiet Junto project, First Third — The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0697/



unmaking music (disquiet0697)

The third part. First part, Leon Clowes (piano). Second part, Maccaniche del Suono (percussion). Third part, Nat Lyon (reverb guitar).

disquiet0699_attribution

A solo acoustic charango performed by me looking through the windows on my studio.
Two microphones, a great sounding room, some convolution reverb added.

Photo: the view through my windows this morning 29/May/2025

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0700-view-frame/

through my window - disquiet0700

sound art for disquiet0700.

More on the 700th weekly Disquiet Junto project, View Frame — The Assignment: Share a peek out your window and some sounds inspired by the view — at https://disquiet.com/0700/

green presence (disquiet0700)

More on the 700th weekly Disquiet Junto project, View Frame — The Assignment: Share a peek out your window and some sounds inspired by the view — at https://disquiet.com/0700/

This is a collage of environmental sounds in the village you can see in the cover image.

Disquiet0700 - Ferenbalm

I used a section of the vocal I visually liked, I recorded, looped, streeched, repeated on the same section slowed again. I then used the Roli to play in some wave sounds and clicks.I used vocal patch on a layered section of vocal. I added a few 808 on a few beats to simulate the heart.  

More on this 400th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sub Divided / The Assignment: Create a score to a Malka Older story using the author’s own voice as source audio — at:

https://disquiet.com/0400/

Thanks to Malka Older for providing the audio and collaborating on this. Thanks to Alex Hawthorn for audio technical assistance.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0400-sub-divided/

Malka Older - The Divided -3:9 Disquiet0400Wolf

Malka Older – The Divided – Part 4.9 disquiet0400 - 8:29:19, 10.07 PM

Malka--what a great story. Thank you for this and for this deeply moving audio. I listened to it over and over as I got ready to approach this week's prompt. 

I chose #5 at random and listened to it a number of times--I started hearing a low-key, minimalist soundtrack behind it, and visualizing the wall jutting up out of the desert. The original audio was so stark and moving I couldn't see modifying it, so it's completely dry. I coded a backing electric piano track that randomly draws from a set of minor/augmented/diminished clusters, synched with a breakbeat loop that randomly samples itself (all coded in ChucK and uploaded to my Github: 

https://github.com/charliekramer/ChucK/blob/master/Malka%20Older%20–%20The%20Divided%20–%20Part%205:9%20disquiet0400.ck

https://github.com/charliekramer/ChucK/blob/master/Sample%20random%20looper.ck

More on this 400th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sub Divided / The Assignment: Create a score to a Malka Older story using the author’s own voice as source audio — at:

https://disquiet.com/0400/

Thanks to Malka Older for providing the audio and collaborating on this. Thanks to Alex Hawthorn for audio technical assistance.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0400-sub-divided/

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

Malka Older – The Divided – Part 5/9 Disquiet0400

With thanks to both Malka and Marc for facilitating this wonderful Junto challenge. A real pleasure to be a part of it! 

I listened through the story reading several times and noted down some key observations and motifs. The sections that really clicked with me were 5 and 6, which reflected strong impressions of wide-scale desolation and collective resilience to the conditions that the walls imposed. I was particularly struck by the imagery of flowers (roses, cactus gardens) and shrines placed at the walls. A reflection of natural beauty, devotion and faith set against absolute devastation and bleakness. 

My source audio is derived from a segment of section 6 where Malka mentions the cactus garden. I stretched this audio out a little, so as to coax some harmonic artefacts from the speech and layered shorter clips against each other in tight loops with some resonators and filters patched in Max. First, I set pinched bandpass filters in and around ~400-500 Hz to create two harmonic drones; then, I set the filters up and around 8-10kHz to create a swirling, sibilant texture. Lastly, I mixed these audio tracks with the spoken text from section 6 in Logic X with a smidge of compression and EQ applied.

Submission notes:

Disquiet Junto Project 0400: Sub Divided
The Assignment: Create a score to a Malka Older story using the author’s own voice as source audio.

Step 1: The author Malka Older ( Infomocracy , Ninth Step Station , Orphan Black: The Next Chapter ) has generously recorded herself reading her own short story, “The Divided,” and made that recording available to the Disquiet Junto community for this project. Acquire the nine (roughly) one-minute segments of the recording in this zip file:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mgwx9fa9bwz76ll/0400-stems.zip 12

Step 2: Select one of the nine tracks at random.

Step 3: Listen to the entire story, which is about nine and a half minutes long. Consider the narrative sensibility of your assigned subset of that story.

Step 4: Create a score and sound design to accompany Older’s reading of her own short story in the track that you selected in Step 2. Primarily use Older’s own voice as the source material for your score — bend it, shape it, extract from it, and burnish it to your creative ends. Additional sonic elements, both musical and foley, are welcome, but a substantial percentage of the sound should be from Older’s own voice. Also: keep Older’s own reading audible and inteligible; don’t slow or speed or otherwise edit it. Your score should accompany the reading, not supplant it.

Step 5: This is important. Please title your track “Malka Older – The Divided – Part X/9 disquiet0400” where “X” is the segment number you were assigned. (Don’t include the quotation marks.)

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