*full track https://hearthis.at/sevenism/what-my-name-is-disquiet0186-myname/ *

Lickfold.
No not lickford, nickford, pickfood.. lickfold.. l-i-c-k-f-o-l-d.
got a lot of grief about my surname at school, but i like it now, it's unusual and dad's traced it back to the 13th century!

the music is composed only from the sample of me saying lickfold
track 1: my name slowly faded out (pitched to 77%)
track 2: paulstretched 1000%
track 3: track 2 cloned, pitched up 400%, phased
track 4: track 2 cloned, sped up x2, repeated
track 5: track 4 cloned, sped up x2, repeated, 2nd half tremelo'd and echoed

oh yeah the artwork was done with weavesilk.com writing my surname.. looks like me going into an mri scanner!


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Disquiet Junto Project 0186: My Name
Explore the sonic contours of a word you’ve spelled out loud frequently: your name.

These are the steps in this week’s project, which is a micro-exploration of the techniques employed by the composer Scott Johnson. It’s also about various spectra of repetition.

Step 1: Record the sound of you spelling your own name. Best to do just one word, either your first name or last name — whichever you’ve been more likely to enunciate clearly over the years.

Step 2: Slow the recording just a bit, to maybe 75% of the original speed. Adjust to your own taste, but don’t slow it too much: Your name should still be “audibly legible.”

Step 3: Listen very closely to the segment. Note the melodic shape, the rhythm, the inherent grace moments, other granular aspects specific to how you say your name.

Step 4: Record a short piece of music that emulates those shapes, that rhythm, those grace moments, and so forth.

Step 5: Set a loop of the newly composed piece of music over a loop of you repeating your name. Repeat for between 30 seconds and a minute.

Step 6: Go back and tweak the composed music over the length of the work.

Step 7: Set it so that the volume of you saying your name decreases, so that by the end of the length of the piece your name is no longer audible, with just the music remaining.

More on this 186th Disquiet Junto project (“Explore the sonic contours of a word you’ve spelled out loud frequently: your name”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/07/23/disquiet0186-myname/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

what? my name is.. (disquiet0186-myname) (shortened)

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