There's a tree house in my backyard, through the floor of which pass two massive Douglas Fir trees.  When the wind blows, the construction sings.

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Outside In (crankloop) (disquiet0516)

Field recording of the Steavenson River, Buxton, Australia.
The bird calls are typical in a dry schlerophyll forest biome - kookaburras, parrots, fantails, thornbills, rosellas and whistlers.

Steavensons [disquiet0516]

River stream ( disquiet0516 )

This is one minute of a recording captured on the evening of April 17, 2021 at Cargill's Soybean Processing facility at 410 C Ave NE in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

More on this 517th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Outside In (Co/Exist 2 of 3) (The Assignment: Record a minute or two of nature) — at: https://disquiet.com/0517/

This is the second of a three-part project sequence. You can participate in all three parts, or any two of the three, or even just any one of them. Part one began on November 18 and ended on November 22, part two began on November 25, and part three will begin on December 2. Thanks to Alan Bland and Mark Lentczner for having proposed the project.

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Soy Protein Processing Plant (disquiet0517)

More on this 517th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Outside In (Co/Exist 2 of 3) (The Assignment: Record a minute or two of civilization) – at: https://disquiet.com/0517/

This is the second of a three-part project sequence. You can participate in all three parts, or any two of the three, or even just any one of them. Part one began on November 18 and ended on November 22, part two began on November 25, and part three will begin on December 2. Thanks to Alan Bland and Mark Lentczner for having proposed the project.

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Radio Info (disquiet0517)

This is my contribution to Disquiet Junto Project 0517: Inside Out (Co/Exist 2 of 3). This week's assignment: record a minute or two of civilization (however you interptet "civilization").

This was recorded during a brief trip to Bilbao a couple of weeks ago.

Few things connote the idea of a place inhabited by humans better than the sounds of traffic and public transport. Public transport sounds tend to be very cyclic, rhythmical, but the beat of these mechanical escalators in Bilbao's metro peaked my curiosity. I was carrying luggage, but had just enough time to whip out my recorder and binaurals and go all the back up the escalators and down again. The sounds appeared to be a very apt welcome to a city known for its industrial heritage.

More on this 517th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Outside In (Co/Exist 1 of 3) (The Assignment: Record a minute or two of nature) — at: https://disquiet.com/0517/

This is the second of a three-part project sequence. You can participate in all three parts, or any two of the three, or even just any one of them. Part one began on November 18 and ended on November 22, part two began on November 25, and part three will begin on December 2. Thanks to Alan Bland and Mark Lentczner for having proposed the project.

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2021-11-14 Bilbao - Mechanical Escalators (disquiet0517)

Recording of ambient sound in a building for disquiet0517

civilisation disquiet0517

Disquiet Junto Project 0517: Inside Out (Co/Exist 2 of 3)

The Assignment: Record a minute or two of civilization.

This is the second of a three-part project sequence. You can participate in all three parts, or any two of the three, or even just any one of them. Part one began on November 18 and ended on November 22, part two began on November 25, and part three will begin on December 2. Thanks to Alan (@morgulbee) Bland and Mark (@mzero) Lentczner for having proposed the project.

There is one step for this project: Record a minute or two of civilization: automobile traffic, jack hammers, conversations among people, refrigerator hums, electric toothbrushes, however it is that you might define civilization.

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Track notes:

This is a short binaural recording I made this morning in Pityarilla, the traditional Kaurna name for a section of the parklands to the south of the Adelaide CBD. I'd originally intended to make a recording in the city centre as everyone scrambles to do their xmas shopping, but as I passed through the parklands, I thought an intersection of lots of different sounds (natural and anthropogenic) - with a fair bit of acoustic transparency - might be the way to go. I think it adequately documents a beautiful late-Spring Saturday morning in Adelaide. 

A bit about the location itself: A narrow creek runs through through the park and a few years ago the banks were widened, filled with large rocks and reeds, and also revegetated with native plants. It's a huge improvement on the sad little creek that once wound its way past trash, decaying willows and other unwelcome non-native vegetation. Since this Adelaide Spring has been one of the wettest in over a decade, the creek is still full of water in late November, just on the cusp of Summer heat. It's also got frogs now! Spotted Grass Frogs (Limnodynastes tasmaniensi) - with big thanks to Jeremy Hegge for correctly identifying the species here. You can hear them throughout this recording.

The recording was made from a circular footbridge with benches on either side. I positioned the Zoom VR-03 on the bench facing the creek in an easterly direction. The Marshmallow Playground is adjacent to the creek and along with the aforementioned frogs, you will hear a children's birthday party, whilst a bicycle and people pass over the bridge. Birds feature on the near-periphery, and the thrum of morning traffic can be heard further afield.

[disquiet0517] Pityarilla frogs (Spotted Grass Frogs) [feat. civilisation](binaural rendering)

Field recording made on a local bus.

More on this 517th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Inside Out (Co/Exist 2 of 3) (The Assignment: Record a minute or two of civilization) — at: https://disquiet.com/0517/

This is the second of a three-part project sequence. You can participate in all three parts, or any two of the three, or even just any one of them. Part one began on November 18 and ended on November 22, part two began on November 25, and part three will begin on December 2. Thanks to Alan Bland and Mark Lentczner for having proposed the project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Bus (disquiet0517)

A few minutes of civilisation - walking around town with a Tascam on 27 November.

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More on this 517th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Inside Out (Co/Exist 2 of 3) (The Assignment: Record a minute or two of civilization) – at: https://disquiet.com/0517/

This is the second of a three-part project sequence. You can participate in all three parts, or any two of the three, or even just any one of them. Part one began on November 18 and ended on November 22, part two began on November 25, and part three will begin on December 2. Thanks to Alan Bland and Mark Lentczner for having proposed the project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 2: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0517-inside-out-co-exist-2-of-3/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

disquiet0517 - 'go barry'

Part 3 of this assignment (after recording bits of ‘nature’ and of ‘civiliztion’ in parts 1 and 2): Combine sounds of nature and civilization.

Going through the recordings people submitted for parts 1 and 2, I really fell in love with the sounds of Sandhill Cranes someone recorded for part 1: https://soundcloud.com/morgulbee/chatters-and-honks-disquiet0516
I combined these chattering birds with the sound of chattering  students in a college atrium: https://soundcloud.com/lazenbeeindustries/civilisation-disquiet0517aiff
And added a bit of these (delightfully odd) vocal samples as well:
https://soundcloud.com/psycolapso/voice-and-communication

So, what’s going on here? Are there birds in this atrium? Are the students and birds talking to each other? Are the chanting?

More on this 518th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Inside Out (Co/Exist 3 of 3) (The Assignment: Combine sounds of nature and civilization) — at: https://disquiet.com/0518/

Extending Boundaries (Disquiet 0518)

Abstract Sound Structures, Musique Concrète & Live Electronics.
Experimental abstract animation videos.
It is my aim to create and/or edit my tracks & videos using free or open-source software only.
Influences include: J.S. Bach, John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Giacinto Scelsi, Mauricio Kagel, Conlon Nancarrow, Christian Wolff, Harry Partch, Luc Ferrari, Morton Feldman, Cornelius Cardew, Bernard Parmegiani, Ana-Maria Avram, David Tudor, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Renaissance Polyphony.
All my work is published under a Creative Commons licence & can be freely downloaded (as wav) or remixed.

Bus (disquiet0517)

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