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Disquiet Junto Project 0274: Broken Sound

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Disquiet Junto Project 0238: Magnifying Contact
The Assignment: Record a piece of music, emphasizing the sounds of production over the music itself.

Open the case, assemble the instrument, check the reed, wind up the metronome...

Got out my bassoon and recorded the first thing that came out. I wanted to start the piece with the sound of the bassoon fading into a dreamy texture. I captured a few notes and stretched them to make a long A minor drone to go under other sounds.  The minor second (e to f-natural) ended up sounding really dark and mysterious. Layered the notes and faded them in and out using the envelope tool in Audacity. 

I went back and recorded a bunch of key clicks and instrument noises and stretched them a bit to blur the sound. They came out sounding like gasps! Added an intro and ending.

This turned out sounding really different from my original plan but I went with it. A bassoon in need of exorcism. Use headphones for maximum heavy breathing. 

Recorded on a Zoom H5. Edited in Audacity. 

Thanks to carroll27 on Freesound.org for the metronome sound. 

Creative Commons license granted. 

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The Performance, "Strumento Infestato" for bassoon and processed sounds [disquiet0238]

Black Rain [Gomel 1986]
Submitted to Naviar Records/Clouded Lands Gomel 1986 project.
 
Artillery shells carrying silver iodide explode over Gomel seeding clouds to precipitate radiation from the atmosphere before it drifts towards Moscow. It was described as black rain. Alerts and news bulletins follow. The final voice is Gorbachov's announcement of the disaster. 

You Tube news compilation excerpts were from NewsFromUkraine.  Distant artillery sounds thanks to: Aegersum on Freesound.org.

Black Rain [Gomel 1986]

I imported an .exe file as raw audio in audacity, added delay and reverb.

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Broken Sound (disquiet0274)

Disquiet Junto Project 0274.
It's broken. Took a broken synth, added broken female vocals, earned Broken Sound aka Raum 2.
Blended cover by Kent Schimke, twechie and James St. John; all under Creative Commons CC-by.

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RuediRena - Raum 2 - disquiet0274

What is the sound of sounds

sounding indefinite fist in face again and

sound of the surprise of it coming

from nowhere, of breaking the arm

on a small fall in your own house,

a respiratory failure, wound opening like a little mouth.

We inhabit the brutal. We are shattered everyday.

We look askew. Head broken floor array, light

array, great distances, life goals.

Staked upon every border,

guardians. Protections have many faces.

Misuse of the face as a streaming

desire. Solution posted: “Get rid of all the niggers.”


The state exacts its controls.

That the pepper spray happens against kneeling children—

That the search for the secret leaker is unyielding—

If you want, you can make a myopic focus, concentrate

on a shone shadow or drift off into space
The Broken Sound Movement began originally as assignment given by the enigmatic Marc Weidenbaum to his infamous "Junto" in early 2017. The assignment soon became the soundtrack to a world wide political/philosophical movement with the motto "If it ain't broke, break that bitch!". In no way a call to Nihilism, instead it was a call to understand the true brokenness of all things. That all things are not just temporal but also really useless. The Broken Sound movement held no higher power or ruling social class responsible for this "brokenness" but instead celebrated the broken and cast out objects as mirrors that reflected the "hot holy mess" of humanity. Perfection as a goal wasn't just laughable but something to be ridiculed as "pie in the sky". Proponents were known to have large gatherings where people would bring perfectly good consumer goods and destroy them in large hydraulic presses after which they destroyed the hydraulic presses. The movement never really gained much momentum as most people thought of the movement as "Broken  Brainers". The movement finally died out except for a "lunatic fringe" led by the zealot Les Squeegee. He famously ordered his followers to smash his his penis in a press at which point everybody decided that things had gotten way out of hand and went home and resumed a consumer based existence.
More on this 274th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Broken Sound: Record a piece of music in the genre called ‘broken sound’” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0274/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

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

Image associated with this project is by Marc Weidenbaum:

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[What is the sound ... ] By Dawn Lundy Martin(disquiet0274)

Disquiet Junto Project 0274: Broken Sound

For years I've been making what I call "junk music". (This pretty much encapsulates my whole output in general, but I use it more specifically to refer to music thats created in a certain way.) I choose, more or less at random, little chunks from samples, small broken bits of sound, junk, and then throw them together and see what works. While the sound isn't broken in its elemental form, the sounds are broken fragments melded together, rearranged to make something else. Anyway, my take on it. :)

This week I grabbed a bunch of guitar riffs, chopped them up, played them out until I got something that started to sound interesting. Converted the resultant loop to MIDI via Melodyne, shaved off the top leaving only the lower notes to create the bass part, added some uneven beats, a mangled arp based on the converted MIDI and a few little extras. 

Its six minutes long but feels much longer. 

The Assignment: Record a piece of music in the genre called “broken sound.”

Step 1: Imagine there is a genre called “broken sound.” Not “broken beats,” not “sound art,” but “broken sound.”

Step 2: Imagine what might characterize the “broken sound” genre.

Step 3: Create an original piece of music in the genre called “broken sound.”

APOB - Broken Music [disquiet0274]

broke the sound in different ways but wanted it to still retain some cohesion
the beat is from https://aiexperiments.withgoogle.com/drum-machine/view/ which is huge fun to play with. i kept the pattern the same and clicked shuffle a lot for different sounds. except when it got to ~1:50 and that great beat comes from nowhere.. was hard to change it then..
the synth is crystal, contorted with lots of lfo modulation. broken further by saving as an 8kbps mp3 , then fed thru a lot of guitar distortion.  same bpm as the beat
(the original synth sound is still low down in the mix too)
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Osteo Fractus: Fantasy for Broken Bones and Piano [disquiet0274]

Disquiet Junto Project 0274: Broken Sound
The Assignment: Record a piece of music in the genre called "broken sound".

A brief improvisation using the sounds of broken bones and piano. Created on an iPad with Samplr and Garageband. Broken bone sounds courtesy of batman6661 and qubodup on
freesound.org.

Asilomar, Pacific Grove, California, March 30, 2017.

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Osteo Fractus- Fantasy For Broken Bones And Piano [disquiet0274]

Naviar Haiku 190, Disquiet 0295
Poisoned Waterhole, for 2 pianos (naviarhaiku190)[disquiet0295]

For Western Riverina Arts and the Crossing Streams project.

Poisoned Waterhole:
Violent disregard echoes.
Keenly felt today.

Poison Waterhole Creek near Narrandera owes its name to a tragic story (one of many) which happened when Europeans claimed the land, 200 years ago. In the 1830s, several groups of Aboriginal families used to camp by the waterhole. Annoyed and eager to get rid of them, the local homestead owner poisoned the waterhole, killing many of them.

Haiku by Peita Vincent https://www.frankandearnest.com.au/our-story. Image by Jason Richardson http://bassling.blogspot.co.uk.

Poisoned Waterhole, for 2 pianos (naviarhaiku190)[disquiet0295]

Disquiet Junto Project 0362: Operational Surrealism
The Assignment: Make a piece of music informed by a key text from the art movement.

The Sewing Machine and the Umbrella for Piano and Percussion disquiet0362

Particles of Me for Mallets and Strings (naviarhaiku270)

snowing
through the blizzard
particles of me

haiku by Alan Summers www.callofthepage.org
picture by Ian Battaglia https://unsplash.com/@ianjbattaglia