Actor

More on this 618th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Burying the Lede (The Assignment: Turn old news into new music), at: Disquiet Junto Project 0618: Burying the Lede – Disquiet

About the Disquiet Junto: Disquiet Junto F.A.Q. – Disquiet 1

Subscribe to project announcements: Disquiet Junto by Marc Weidenbaum (Disquiet.com) 1

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 4: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0618-burying-the-lede/

End Of An Era -Disquiet0618

This track started from a newspaper article (published in November 1973 in my home country). I processed it through a text-to-speech software and use it as a base to improvise melodies and rhythms. I then extracted elements that I liked and arranged them into the final piece.

The goal was to make the voice less audible as the track progresses. To achieve this, I used different set of effects on each sections of the track.

Original article : https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1973/11/03/entre-la-peur-et-l-espoir_2546275_1819218.html

More on this 618th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Burying the Lede (The Assignment: Turn old news into new music), at: https://disquiet.com/0618/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0618-burying-the-lede/

Between Fear and Hope (disquiet0618)

More on this 626th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Audio Journal 2023 — The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments — at: https://disquiet.com/0626/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0626-audio-journal-2023/

Audio Journal 2023

Disquiet Junto | Audio Journal 2023 - disquiet0626

A sequence of recorded sounds transmuted using occult practices.

More on this 628th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Alchemical Brothers — The Assignment: Explore an aspect of the ancient occult science using music — at: https://disquiet.com/0628/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0628-alchemical-brothers/

The image associated with this project is a detail from a 16th century alchemical text in the public domain.

Occult Transmutation (disquiet0628)

More on this 628th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Alchemical Brothers — The Assignment: Explore an aspect of the ancient occult science using music — at: https://disquiet.com/0628/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0628-alchemical-brothers/

The image associated with this project is a detail from a 16th century alchemical text in the public domain.

Turning Bullshit Into Gold (disquiet0628)

Due to winter weather in my area, I've been taking the bus.  I have a 5 minute drive to the mall where I park and then hop on an express bus for the 12 mile ride to work in downtown Des Moines.  Leaving the car behind and taking the bus is a transformative process for me because I haven't taken public transportation and been at the mercy of schedules in a long time, so it's a change.  I do appreciate the time on the bus, and I always open my iPad to sketch out some music projects, listening in earbuds.

And that's how this piece started - on the bus.  I have to compose with all the noise and heated air rushing around me.  After I get home, I run it through my boxes, and turn it into something else.  In that way, it's a kind of alchemy.

The title, "Rode Here on the Bus" is a direct lift of the beginning lyric of "Dreams Tonite" by Alvvays.  "Now you're one of us, it was magic hour."  Yep, transformative - and alchemy is a kind of magic.

A rare full track from me.  Usually I cap them at 30 or 60 seconds.

Wear good headphones.  I like Grados.  I own three pairs.

More about me at https://www.markrushton.com

Follow me on Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/3o7In5aHAnzK7WYGHY5Khx?si=bsotBYbgRb2uRZOSMDzMYQ

More on this 628th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Alchemical Brothers — The Assignment: Explore an aspect of the ancient occult science using music — at: https://disquiet.com/0628/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0628-alchemical-brothers/

Rode Here On The Bus (disquiet0628)

sound art for disquiet0628.

"The operation of Separation in which the black, earthbound Soul Bird splits into two white birds that retrieve the saved remains of Calcination and Dissolution."

Found objects:
Cassette audio book of Jonathan Livingstone Seagull read by the author Richard Bach. (I found this cassette over a decade ago)
Metal grill from an electric fire.
Two metal feet for baths in the shape of eagles claws. (Found on the Thursday morning of the Disquiet Junto)
Seagull feather.

I strummed the grill with the feather and clanged the metal feet.
I made a random word collage with the cassette and panned one lot of voices hard left and another hard right to create two birds from one.
The word collage was made by fast forwarding and pressing play on a tape deck. Lots and lots of layers. Some recorded with contact mics attached to the speakers, some jammed underneath and some attached to the metal grill which was jammed under the speaker.

One of the phrases that appeared in the collage was “if you wish to learn” which is where the track title comes from.

No effects, just the objects and some EQing.

More on this 628th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Alchemical Brothers — The Assignment: Explore an aspect of the ancient occult science using music — at: https://disquiet.com/0628/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0628-alchemical-brothers/

if you wish to learn (disquiet0628)

Disquiet Junto Project 0628: Alchemical Brothers
The Assignment: Explore an aspect of the ancient occult science using music.

Ugh… I had a lot of ideas about alchemy, sound, music, art these last few days. Many thoughts that refuse — as I now try to put them to paper — te gel into some sort of coherent whole. 
Thoughts about how contemporary electronic music is the most ‘alchemic’ of musical traditions - focussed as it is on mutation and transformation of timbres, rather than on combining various unchanging parts -- as someone composing for orchestra would do. About timbral transformation as rather fundamental for how I approach many of the things I make. About how sound has this ‘Proustian' quality of making us remember places, people, events, in fundamentally different ways than the way that for example telling a story triggers memories. About how art can use sounds and their effect on memory to transform our attention in our (daily) lives, separating our perception from the many layers of thought, expectation, ideas, stories, meanings we attach to them. About how filter coffee machines can sound like a fairytale alchemist’s laboratory…

Anyway, here’s the piece. It uses a software audio device I programmed to remove/separate the first 8 partials of a sound. Basically, what it does is use pitch detection to set the frequencies of a series of notch filters. It’s rather crude and far from perfect, especially if you use it with polyphonic material. This leads to some interesting sonic results. Playing zither into it will make it sometimes sound like a cymbal. And mixing the transformed and dry sound of a piano, produces some quite interesting sounds: a bit like the instrument was run through a bandpass filter, but with some unusual timbral effects.
I combined these processed instruments with processed (granular delayed) field recordings from my usual morning routine: making coffee. It’s a bit of a gift to future me (and my housemates), perhaps hearing this little sketch some years into the future and remembering the house, and these mornings when all is still (and these days cold and dark).

More on this 628th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Alchemical Brothers — The Assignment: Explore an aspect of the ancient occult science using music — at: https://disquiet.com/0628/

if you wish to learn (disquiet0628)

Raincat