Disquiet Junto Project 0598: Mixmaster Mic
The Assignment: Record the same sound with multiple mics; mix the results.

Step 1: This project will require some preparation. You’re going to need a few different microphones, so consider what’s available — not just a standard mic, but your phone, laptop, maybe even a domestic surveillance device, etc. Maybe you can borrow a few mics from friends.

Step 2: Record a single sound source — an acoustic or electric instrument, a field recording — using all those microphones assembled in Step 1. Optimally you can set everything up and record simultaneously once. Or you can do so in batches — or one at a time. If not recording with all the mics at once, try to re-produce the same source sound each time through, as closely as possible, so the recordings will more or less match up.

Step 3: Make a piece of music that involves switching between and combining all the microphone recordings you made in Step 2. Light processing is allowed.

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, June 19, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, June 15, 2023.

More on this 598th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mixmaster Mic (The Assignment: Record the same sound with multiple mics; mix the results), at: https://disquiet.com/0598/

The image to the “cover” of this project is from an 1880 U.S. patent.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0598: Mixmaster Mic

This was a fun one. As it was a cloudy day, I was moodier than usual. So I opted for some dark and melancholic sounds from the Lyra, Buchla Easel and a bit of brightness from the Wing Pinger. The Easel and Wing Pinger where fead into a decaying tape loop effect. For the recording I set up my phone in another room, a zoom recorder in the studio, my laptop (recording directly into Logic) and direct to my Tascam recorder. I then played back part of the result and recorded with a really crappy dictaphone from the previous century and then played that back into another channel on Logic through my laptops internal microphone. Aside from minimal panning, I did not add any effects and decided to keep the squeaks and rummaging noises as I went from place to place to turn on the various recorders.

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More on this 598th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mixmaster Mic (The Assignment: Record the same sound with multiple mics; mix the results), at: https://disquiet.com/0598/

The image to the “cover” of this project is from an 1880 U.S. patent.

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-0598-mixmaster-mic/

Lowah (disquiet0598)

For this project I made a recording in a small bathroom with open window with for different mics in 4 different positions. The mics were: built in mic of a Dell Latitude E7440 laptop, built in mic of a Huawei P smart smartphone, a Zoom H5 and a Zoom H2N in stereo surround mode. The recording was made simultaneously with all 4 mics. Then I played these recordings simultaneously in Ableton, muting and activating them in different constellations and slightly processing them with GRM tools Evolution, Reson and Band Pass. https://inagrm.com/en/store

More on this 598th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mixmaster Mic (The Assignment: Record the same sound with multiple mics; mix the results), at: https://disquiet.com/0598/

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-0598-mixmaster-mic/

Listening in a Small Room (4 mic mix) [disquiet0598]

A multiple recording made with found instruments, a little reverb added.

More on this 598th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mixmaster Mic (The Assignment: Record the same sound with multiple mics; mix the results), at: https://disquiet.com/0598/

The image to the “cover” of this project is from an 1880 U.S. patent.

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-0598-mixmaster-mic/

Polymic (disquiet0598)

Disquiet Junto Project 0598: Mixmaster Mic
The Assignment: Record the same sound with multiple mics; mix the results.
More info on Disquiet Junto: disquiet.com/0598

Inspired by Eliane Radigue and this interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dByqwi7Jvbo&t=1310s) where she sometimes mentions Larsen effect I wondered what effect could glass have on capturing sound and feedback.
I also took this opportunity to shake a bit of rust off my double bass playing.

I placed a glass with a contact mic attached on it on one of my loudspeakers and panned it 20 Right. 
I then put a glass covering the capsule of my SM-58 Beta and panned it 16 Left.
I then boosted the loudspeaker volume and improvised over an E drone. In the center a clean recording off my Underwood pickup.
A little bit of editing, EQ and ValhallaPlate reverb in Ableton.
Contact mic can be heard solo from 1:45 to 1:56.
From 2:45 to the end, while the Underwood pickup fades, you can hear the sound of SM-58 Beta.

Double Glass (disquiet0598)

More on this 598th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mixmaster Mic (The Assignment: Record the same sound with multiple mics; mix the results), at: https://disquiet.com/0598/



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

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

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Harbour's Twin (disquiet0598)

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.

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