Original jpg data imported, stretched and tweaked in Audacity, three versions of which were then run through Traktor and looped/effected in real-time. 

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More on this 83rd Disquiet Junto project, in which a page from recently declassified documents related to NSA collection of telephone metadata records is treated as a graphically notated score, at:

disquiet.com/2013/08/01/disquiet0083-redacted/


Full document at:

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Fiberoptic [disquiet0083-redacted]

Recorded live, one take.

 iMaschine iPhone app running live into Audacity, then a quick edit.  

Was thinking: height, majesty, austerity of the architecture at the time. 

There's a more harrowing ten-minute long, 4-decks, stretched out drone version I did using the finished version in Traktor as well, but I'll save that for another time!

#FREEBASSEL 

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More on this 108th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a soundscape for the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra.”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/01/23/disquiet0108-freebassel/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

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More on the campaign to free Bassel at

http://freebassel.org/

For their collaboration on this project, special thanks to: Niki Korth, Barry Threw, and Jon Phillips.

Bassel Columns 1 [disquiet0108-freebassel]

Hello fellow Juntonians, long time, no hear! 

I've been teaching myself Ableton Live and fiddling around on an Akai APC Key 25 recently, so this project provided a good learning opportunity. 

Here, two presets were separated into elements A, B and C and FX'ed up to my liking, then I recorded it in one go with no overdubs - a good clip launching/timing exercise.  Each element was 10 seconds long but had reverb tails of varying lengths so the borders between A, B and C may be fuzzy. 

More on this 237th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Build a 90-second composition from three 10-second segments” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0237/

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aAbBCc  [disquiet 0237]

Animoog through a Zoom MS-70 CDR Multistomp pedal. Segments jammed out over morning coffee, the favorite bits pulled apart,(re)constructed and layered  in the evening.  Headphones or LOUD recommended. 
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http://disquiet.com/0240/

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The image associated with this project is by Michel Banabila, and is used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/94muSj

Two Skies [ disquiet0240 ]

A simple two-note loop made in GarageBand, run through delay and plate reverb in ToneStack, cleaned up and layered in Audacity. I wanted the reverb to do the talking, and have it build in terms of shimmer and size--- there's an almost cinematic tension to it that I found compelling; a montage, a slow tracking shot across a room, a barren landscape, something dramatic ... 

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More on this 241st weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Compose a piece of music in which the material processed is secondary to the processing” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0241/

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The image associated with this project is by Nadar, and is used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/iaNB

Magnetic Hands

Magnetic Hands [ disquiet0241 ]

Whenever I watch Blade Runner, I always enjoy the quieter, interstitial moments- Holden and his thermos and cigarette, Deckard snooping in the hotel room, wrapped in a blanket on his balcony, firing up the Esper machine, lights from a passing Off-World ad ship through the blinds, various elevator rides ---  as much as I love Vangelis’s score (even the saxophones) I really love the background ambience away from all of the action.  And so...

I started by running scenes from the movie itself through a delay pedal (I have the director's cut on my iPhone) in search of textures or essences but scrapped that approach and dis/re-assembled some pre-existing fragments that I recorded in Filtatron and Animoog (commute jamz!), then fleshed everything out with new layers in Audacity: some field recordings plus Orbita, Roli Noise apps and  Monotron Delay.


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You Were Made As Well As We Could Make You [disquiet0243]

Thinking about a pal's smiley little newborn, I aimed for something gentle, optimistic with a bright, ascendant—almost floating, happy dreamtime feel.

Made using Orbita for iOS with a little bit of Moodscape run through my Zoom MS-70 CDR pedal, recorded and then reconstructed over the weekend in Audacity. A little rough around the edges, but...
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More on this 250th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Soothing Sounds for Junto: Make some peaceful music for an infant child” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0250/

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Rattle photo lightly adapted from one by Daniel Goude, used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

flic.kr/p/5qoWZk

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Dreamtime For Ren PTS I -III { disquiet0250 }

Hunting for ghosts on shortwave radio. 
All sounds sourced from  http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ on 12/16/16, edited, collaged and layered in Audacity with no added fx.

Doing research/assembling source materials for this week's Junto project was extra enjoyable as it meant a return to an old pastime from childhood:  listening to and capturing shortwave radio late into the night. 

A big part of shortwave's appeal is how the sounds and voices coming in and out of focus always read to me as haunted-  creepy and mesmerising in equal measure; The Conet Project made perfect sense when I first heard of it. 

I used to be fascinated by these sounds when I was a kid, rolling the dial millimeter by millimeter on a  Citizen dual tape boombox with two SW bands. I used to make pause tapes of stuff I would find: Voice of America, world music, cold war propaganda, evangelists and that creepy time clock. Sometimes I'd play two tapes at the same time and record them onto a different tape machine. 
These pre-to-mid-adolescent tape collages are probably in a box somewhere in Manitoba, so this week's project felt like an homage to those times, and an opportunity to dive back into a process that reaches back a few decades, directly connected to my current practice of making, tweaking, finding and documenting odd sounds.

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More on this 259th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Signals Lost: Summon up a horror story in sound” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0259/

The text that inspired this is from the book Lost Signals, from by Perpetual Publishing out of San Antonio, Texas. More details on the book at:

perpetualpublishing.com/product/lost-signals/

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(DISQUIET0259) Start 2016 - 12 - 16T16 - 19 - 54Z 4689.8kHz

Handmade cassette tape loops and repeat/looper/pitch control function abuse of a Sony TCM-900 tape recorder, cut up and multitracked in Audacity. Initially I was thinking of "broken music" in terms of sampling the little click/fissure on a tape loop, but then ended up multi-tracking a bunch of short one-minute sessions, cut them into sections and put them together into a short-and-to-the-point little ditty, for now. I like this one enough to expand it later. 

 Enjoy!

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The Genre of Broken Sound (Disquiet Junto Project 0274)

[image] Disquiet Junto Project 0274: Broken Sound 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...
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Image associated with this project is by Marc Weidenbaum:

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BRKNMSC (disquiet0274)

13-minute recording of objects thru the Hear app feeding back on itself thru FX pedals, then cut into sections and layered in Audacity. 
 
This project brought up thoughts of my home county's own negligence. 
See: 
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/07/24/disability-board-approves-mercury-poisoning-claims-from-grassy-narrows-first-nation.html
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More on this 295th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Disregard Echoes: Make music inspired by a haiku, reflecting on Australian history — at:

https://disquiet.com/0295/

Thanks to Jason Richardson, who proposed the project; Naviar Records, which is collaborating with Richardson on a series of haiku, as part of the ongoing Naviar Haiku community; Peita Vincent, who wrote this haiku; and Western Riverina Arts, which is hosting an exhibit that will include music from the haiku series.

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Photo associated with this project is by Jason Richardson.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/indigenous-water/article31589755/

Narrandera (disquiet0295 DisregardEchoes)

A Canadian in Nara, Japan who makes ambient, drone, electroacoustic & field recording-based work. 
Tapes on Metaphysical Circuits & Midnight Circles. Split w/Amulets on Tandem Tapes out soon. 
Comp tracks on Metaphysical Circuits (DK), Patient Sounds, Darker Days Ahead (USA), Niceshopsu (JP). 
Art director/curator for Muzan Editions, a cassette label focussing on ambient, drone, sound art
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:::RIYL:::Small noises, uncertain forms, improvised healing rituals and clumsy attempts at levitation.
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