Disquiet Junto Project 0231: Field Complement
The Assignment: Compose a piece to align with, from memory, 60 seconds of everyday sound.


The field recording is a group of children at a local beach with occasional sounds of wind and traffic. I derived the timing notes back in my studio by putting the audio into Audacity and noting the time and shape of some particularly loud utterences as well as a car passing by.  

The composed piece is a tone recorded on a reel to reel tape recorder. I moved the tape by hand back and forth across the playback head while referring to the notes trying to catch specific moments and shapes and adding a bit of improvisation in between (sort of a human voltage follower). Some came out well, some not at all. The output of the recorder went through a voltage controlled delay modulated with a stepped random voltage that roughly grainularizes the sound. I aligned the tracks so the composed piece follows a bit behind the field recording. Sounds like electronic seagulls.

Equipment employed: iPad (for field recording), Ampex 601 tape deck, voltage controlled delay (Ray Wilson design), Wogglebug (for random, stepped modulation). Assembled in Audacity. 

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Field Complement [disquiet0231]

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“One can only arrive at the experience of the transcendental – if it is reached at all – when one is oneself in a position of un-knowing, that is, of humility; namely, while remaining in the world of technê he or she begins to venerate a certain kind of experience, acquires it, makes it one’s own, realizes it, sustains it, repeats it – without burdening its sense, its essence with its own great questions.” - László Krasznahorkai, “The Acropolis in Sunglasses”

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I make electronic ambient and drone music using modular synthesis to explore themes of nature, space, isolation, man/machine interaction, and the borders of the sleep/wake cycle.

Field Complement [disquiet0231]

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