This morning I took a recording of me walking the dog through the local park (there's an encounter with a fellow dog walker round the 2:05 min mark).
I then followed the assignment's instructions and kept the unprocessed recording in the left channel and then experimented with chains of filters and delays and distortion on the right channel until I got something I found pleasing (on headphones at least).
 I was tempted to bend the recording into a completely unrecognisable noise but having the original in the left channel kinda served as a tethering back to reality.
 I also like how you can perform your own DIY remix of processed and unprocessed audio by fiddling with the balance control on the stereo.

This week’s project is about everyday sound and processing the present.

Step 1: Read all the steps before initiating the project.

Step 2: Trace a path on a map that will take about three minutes to walk and that will end where it began.

Step 3: Walk that route and record the sounds you experience.

Step 4: Create an original monaural recording that is the result of that field recording being processed without the recording being edited or otherwise shortened, lengthened, or reorganized. This result should, naturally, be the same length as the source recording.

Step 5: Create a track that has the original audio in the left channel and the processed audio in the right channel.

Step 6: Upload the finished track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 7: Listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Length: Your finished work should be about three minutes long.

Deadline: This assignment was made in the evening, California time, on Thursday, November 6, with 11:59pm on the following Monday, November 10, 2014, as the deadline.

Upload: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, only upload one track for this assignment, and include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0149-processingthepresent″ in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting the track, please be sure to include this information:

More on this 149th Disquiet Junto project — “Take a walk around the block and make something from it″ — at:

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Perro Y Campo (disquiet0149-processingthepresent)

See http://bassling.blogspot.com/2014/11/disquiet-junto-149-pine-ave.html for track discussion forthcoming and video.

More on this 149th Disquiet Junto project — “Take a walk around the block and make something from it″ — at:
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Pine Ave [disquiet0149-processingthepresent]

3 minutes of me walking around my work, which is surrounded by trees but abuts a busy highway. 

Tremolo
Compression
Beat Repeat
Downsample
Reverb

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More on this 149th Disquiet Junto project — “Take a walk around the block and make something from it″ — at:

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More on the Disquiet Junto at:

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270 Hiss [disquiet0149-processingthepresent]

I got lucky with this recording.

I had to go down to the Iowa City Public Library to pick up Kindertotenwald, a book of prose poems by Franz Wright, which is the basis for David Sylvian's long form composition "there is a light that enters houses with no other house in sight", which is a collaboration between Wright and Sylvian, and also had contributions from Christian Fennesz and John Tilbury.  The library was kind enough to purchase a copy at my request.

In addition to this, I had a book to return, which I did at the outdoor drop, and that's where I started the recording.  I've picked up reserved books many times at the ICPL and you don't need a librarian to fetch it (it's self-serve), so it's almost always a breeze.  I figured I could go from the outdoor drop, get my reserved book, and come back out to the outdoor drop in 3 minutes, and I was right.

The library's always busy as it's located in downtown Iowa City right by the Pedestrian Mall, a closed road walkway near the University of Iowa campus.  

Once I scoped the self-checkout area, I saw a family from Africa with several children trying to finish and I chose a station right by them, hoping to pick up their voices - which were not speaking English.  The youngest one became upset and the parents finished quickly and scurried him away, and I knew I had audio gold.

After that, it's a nice comedown with the wind, the automatic doors, occasional voices, and leaves that I walked through.

I did very little processing.  Just a touch of reverb and some delay.  I liked the way the beeps at 1:08 and 1:13 turned out, and that was that.

I've done this sort of thing before with field recordings made in downtown Iowa City.  An example would be the track "On The Town" from my album Hide Yourself In Plain Sight:  https://markrushton.bandcamp.com/track/on-the-town

More on this 149th Disquiet Junto project — “Take a walk around the block and make something from it″ — at:  http://disquiet.com/2014/11/06/disquiet0149-processingthepresent/
 
More on the Disquiet Junto at: http://disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:  http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

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Photo associated with this project by Jerolek and used thanks to a Creative Commons license:  https://flic.kr/p/9piCmd

Getting Kindertotenwald (disquiet0149-processingthepresent)

I wanted to stack more firewood today and figured one load would take about 3 minutes round trip. It seemed to encapsulate the nature of my recent walks, that being fall.

Processed channel was the original recording run through wah>phaser>comb filter>reverb

http://disquiet.com/2014/11/06/disquiet0149-processingthepresent/

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Getting Firewood [disquiet0149-processingthepresent]

A walk around our local church as we remember the tragedy of 100 years of war and all those lost. Both civilian and soldier, we do not forget.

Some granular processing was applied to the recordings on the right channel. 

http://disquiet.com/2014/11/06/disquiet0149-processingthepresent/

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Remembrance Sunday [disquiet0149 - Processingthepresent]

I amped up some reverb in a couple places and had a resonator resonating on C throughout. also, a bit of delay on one part. Otherwise, a very short walk down a sporadically busy street.

chimes in beginning and end from front door.


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More on this 149th Disquiet Junto project — “Take a walk around the block and make something from it″ — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/11/06/disquiet0149-processingthepresent/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

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https://flic.kr/p/9piCmd

valinda circuit [disquiet0149-processingthepresent]

The source material for this track is a field recording of my wife and I walking through the park near our house, reaching the other side, and doubling back by the end.  The processing I did was three layers of time-varying granulation, where small windowed snippets of input sound were mixed into the output with a certain amount of randomization.
The result is that sometimes the processed sound events in the right channel follow the original in the left channel like an echo, and sometimes they precede the original like some kind of premonition.
The processing was done with the RTcmix software package, using John Gibson's GRANULATE instrument.

More on this 149th Disquiet Junto project — “Take a walk around the block and make something from it″ — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/11/06/disquiet0149-processingthepresent/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

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https://flic.kr/p/9piCmd


Park Circle Mix [disquiet0149-processingthepresent]

Left channel: Field recording from the Pompidou Centre, Paris, November 7, 2014. 
Right channel: Field recording processed in Audacity.

Karin walked around the courtyard in front of the Pompidou; people were talking, one musician was playing the digeridoo, others steel drums, and there was a lot of wind. "Ghosts of June 1832" refers to the June Rebellion, barricades for which were constructed at the nearby Church of Saint-Merri

More on this 149th Disquiet Junto project — “Take a walk around the block and make something from it″ — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/11/06/disquiet0149-processingthepresent/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
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Pompidou Centre (Ghosts of June 1832) - Disquiet149

Created for Disquiet Junto project 149 Processing the present. Following the directions I made a short feild  recording of me getting out of my car walking around a small parking area in  my small suburban town then returning to my car. The left channel is the un-processed recording the righ channel is the processed version. I processed the recording with Absynth and ValhallaShimmer as well as some eq and multi band copression.
More on this 149th Disquiet Junto project — “Take a walk around the block and make something from it″ — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/11/06/disquiet0149-processingthepresent/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto

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Downtown Suburbia (disquiet0149-processingthepresent

I'm not disciplined enough to put forth effort into a recording, and so this is what we get.

Since the debut SHAKES in 2004 Bassling has been appealing to 'lovers of lower frequencies' with his music and experiments in various forms of sonic manipulation.

The release of YOUR in 2007 heralded an increasing interest in using acoustic sound sources to create electronic dance music, in part influenced by the opportunity to work with Western Australian artist Alan Lamb as part of the 2006 Unsound Festival.

Lamb's installation outside Wagga Wagga, known as 'The Wires', became the focus of VIBRATING STRING in 2010 and his use of piezo contact microphones became a key influence on Bassling's recent album celebrating the 2012 centenary of Leeton: FOR 100 YEARS

The 2013 album WHILE collects tracks produced for the Disquiet Junto; while the piece Reimagining The Murrumbidgee features riverside ambiance collected to create a soundtrack for an exhibition of the same name.

Download Bassling at http://bassling.bandcamp.com/

Born and raised in Southern California, Douglas studied composition at U.C.L.A, Indiana University, and Columbia University.  Among his teachers were Paul Reale, Frederick Fox, Jack Beeson, Chou Wen-chung, and Mario Davidovsky.

"I'm worse at what I do best
And for this gift, I feel blessed"

If you like my stuff please keep an eye on my Bandcamp/youtube or catch me on instagram 

Releases 


always have always will

https://forelight.bandcamp.com/album/always-have-always-will


Cozy Up Time

https://forelight.bandcamp.com/album/cozy-up-time

4//lIGhT//McLean - I

https://forelight.bandcamp.com/album/4-light-mclean-i


Collected Electronic Works 

https://forelight.bandcamp.com/album/collected-electronic-works-2021-2024


Various Erosions (available on cassette and digital download at):
https://couriersound.bandcamp.com/album/various-erosions

3 visual experiments - 

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMTvEW3kLo89zB7_cCfscjc4M9eAeN2QW&si=cZabs9pUZ-x0E2IN

Earthquake relief charity compilation:

https://aquietroom.bandcamp.com/album/50000-charity-for-earthquake-victims

#saveukraine charity compilation contribution: https://aquietroom.bandcamp.com/album/saveukraine-charity-for-unicef

Soundcloud EPs 1-3 
https://forelight.bandcamp.com/album/soundcloud-eps-1-3

Meditation I&II: https://forelight.bandcamp.com/album/meditation-i-ii

gossamer single (name your price): https://forelight.bandcamp.com/album/gossamer 

Liminal Noise - 10 Years Of Culture As A Dare compilation
https://liminalnoiserecords.bandcamp.com/album/ln015-culture-as-a-dare-compilation

Courier Sound - Silhouette Cameo 3 Compilation(4//lIGhT appears on Digital Release Only): https://couriersound.bandcamp.com/album/silhouette-cameo-3

A/V set broadcast as part of Culture As A Dare! Festival 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcGuUrFb8pU&t

Antenna Research is Karin Kross (@hangingfire) and Bruce Levenstein (@brucelev). 

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