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Disquiet Junto Project 0231: Field Complement

I guess Marc wants us all to break our piggy banks and buy some field recording gear. I mean that's good, some of my best friends are field recorders. I used this crowd noise from freesound 189821__blaukreuz__goal. I chose it because it definitely had some different things going on, even a little James Brown. I trimmed it to a minute. I made notes of when the crowd comes in for the goal and some of the cheering spikes. I chose the Auturia B-3 organ cause it goes well with sports cheers here in America even though this took place in Germany. I had to use the stop watch on my cell phone because my keyboard doesn't face the screen. I just played with my organ watching the the time. I knew I wouldn't sync exactly but I wanted to match the mood and the end part ended up syncing well. I like this idea very much cause there is no way to sync to everything as our memories are not stopwatches but ghosts.
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Goal! (disquiet0231)

See http://bassling.blogspot.com/2016/06/disquiet-junto-0231-field-complement.html for track discussion and video.

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Rainy Day [disquiet0231]

The hardest part of this project for me was finding a good place to make a field recording! I tried a number of places near where I live, but found myself searching for quieter and quieter places, just so that there were few enough sounds going on that I could pay proper attention to them. I experimented with a number of methods for notetaking during the recording, but settled on simply jotting a few indicators of sounds as they came to my attention against a series of time markers on graph paper.

One thing I decided fairly early on was that I wanted one element of the composed part of the track to be a spoken text describing sounds happening on the field recording. I wrote these out on a sheet of paper against a column of ten-second intervals and got my wife (who had not been present at the making of nor heard the field recording) to read it out a couple of times. By doing this I created a disconnect between actual events, my notating of them, my recolection of them, and their recounting, so that events and thier description don't necessarily coincide. The three cello tracks are to varying degrees reflections of the sounds in the recording and my response to them.

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On Federation Road [Disquiet0231]

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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