This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0618: Burying the Lede

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0618 discussion thread:

Having lived and worked most of my life in the San Francisco Bay Area, I selected a descriptive New York Times article from March 1, 1970, about the colorful salt evaporation ponds located in South San Francisco Bay "Coast Salt Flats: New Ecological Battlefield". The article examines the battle between industry, developers, and conservationists. 50+ years after the article was published, some of the wetlands have been restored, but the conflict still continues.

I recorded from Chrome's Read Aloud text-to-speech reader to a Tascam DR-100MKIII. I then processed the audio four times using Calsynth Monsoon (Clouds clone) with different settings, and placed them on four tracks in Ableton Live. From there, I added reverb/delay effects, as well as a track with sliced samples of the original unprocessed audio using Ableton's Simpler. Created additional tracks using Slate+Ash Choreographs, Sugar Bytes Aparillo, Jogging House Sonic Beds Vol. 1, PaulXStretch, and AudioThing Noises.

Although I no longer live in Northern California, it was cool to create a piece that links to an area that’s part of my history. This turned out to have more of a darker vibe than I would have liked, but in the end, I enjoyed putting this together and am good with the result. 
 
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Even On Clear Days [disquiet0618]

[disquiet0618] Free Way

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End Of An Era -Disquiet0618

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Disquiet0618 - Squirrels

Having failed to find anything but football results for the city of my birth on my birthdate, I looked to my adoptive country for the same day, and came across an article in the Christchurch Press, which I found interesting. The article describes Mrs Vivian Lynn's art, inspired by cabbage trees and Pacific coastlines. I was particularly taken by the quote that "too often, art lovers are confused and baffled by critics' remarks and 'see with their ears'". I imagined how music turns this on its head, and we can be encouraged to 'hear with our eyes' if we're not careful.

Inspired By Cabbage Trees, appeared in the Press (Volume CVI, Issue 31186) - article text is used under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. Copyright Stuff Limited.

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inspired by cabbage trees (disquiet0618)

Disquiet Junto Project 0618: Burying the Lede
The Assignment: Turn old news into new music.

I googled for local newspapers from 1973 and found a review of a Pink Floyd concert (Dark Side Of The Moon, which is one of only a small number of CDs I still own) in Munich on Oct 15th 1973 in the daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. I used some middle part of the review, which describes the sound and talks about how Pink Floyd integrates noise in music. I used ttsmp3.com to read it in bad german. I added the speech to a ambience layer that has something of a concert atmo and of something nois-ish, both not well integrated.

The 1973 newspaper I found was this:
https://www.pulse-and-spirit.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/PF-1973-Munich.jpg - the article was written by journalist Michael Frank, who must then have been around 26 (and still wrote for the same newspaper some years ago). Today we might no longer imagine, what kind of ultra hot shit this album must have been at that time. 

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Track image by Stability AI.

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Die Fahrt Der Galaktischen Riesen [disquiet0618]

This track was created for the Disquiet Junto project 0618 (details see below): A 50 year old local newspaper-article was to be read, accompanied by music.
I found an article from 28th October 1973 from the "Seckenheimer Bote" (Seckenheim is 5 km away from where I live). It is available here
https://druckschriften-digital.marchivum.de/zd/periodical/zoom/510335.
The article announced a concert of Zarah Leander in Seckenheim, as part of the farewell tour of the then 66 year old Swedish singer and actress.
Zarah Leander is still known for her song "Ich weiss, es wird einmal ein Wunder geschehen" (https://soundcloud.com/zarah-leander-official/ich-weiss-es-wird-212274359) from 1942. This influenced the choice of music for this track.


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About the Disquiet Junto: Disquiet Junto F.A.Q. – Disquiet 1

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Zarah (Disquiet0618)

Irish harp and text to speech of a newspaper article

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disquiet0618 - Interment Benefit 4

Sinny: shaker, tambourine, cowbell, samboga blocks, rattle, hamper, iKaossilator and SpaceCraft apps, synth and xylophone programming

InspectorJ: rooster sample

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Pumpkin Poaching (disquiet0618)

Text from the article "Animals killed in Billerica Blaze" from the Boston Globe, November 4, 1974, converted to audio then stretched very simplistically, layered and distorted, etc.

Made for Disquiet Junto 618.

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Billerica Blaze [ disquiet0618 ]

Disquiet Junto projects and other sonic experimentations. For additional compositions, check out my main account, https://soundcloud.com/sinnyseven.

Somewhere on the California Central Coast

During the early 1990s I studied Mathematics and Computer Science. The world wide web was still largely text-based and mostly empty. Today things are obviously different, though I still thoroughly enjoy art, design, cinema and music in all its forms. I have traveled all over the world for nearly two decades, visiting just over 140 countries. Japan is my favorite. All of this I attempt to incorporate into my music and art.

Music is not only a hobby, but a place of refuge.  
There are mostly ios creations but I'll play some guitar and what not here and there.  Sound is a giant sand box.  On going battle with hoarding got me an odd collection of instruments which I should learn how to record better.  I would be interested in more collaborations so inbox me if interested.  Good thing it wasn't the Apocalypse theres too much cool music I still have to hear :)  


Check out these folks while your listening:
http://soundcloud.com/apapdop
http://soundcloud.com/doucetephemere
http://soundcloud.com/vanmorrison
http://soundcloud.com/michaelw-2



Drummer and Digital Musician. Creating an experiment in sound while exploring my own unique style. Useing rhythm and sound design .Give me a listen and let me know what you think.  vgmrmojo@outlook.com   vgmrmojo@gmail.com

Ambient electronica, Berlin School, Chillout & Kosmische Space Musik from Munich, Germany. ► Soundcloud is my musical diary - expect lightfooted drafts, soundchecks, playthings & misfits here. ► Go Bandcamp for finished pieces & more serious musical works.

RabMusicLab produces instrumental music of various genres from classical to electronic without shying away from excursions into pop or experimental music. The tracks are published for the pleasure, entertainment and inspiration of every listener.

RabMusicLab loves to participate in the Disquiet Junto Projects of https://soundcloud.com/disquiet to fuel his creativity . All tracks that have "disquiet" in the title were created as response to these projects. Further informations can be found in the respective track-information,

All images used are photographs by RabMusicLab, unless otherwise indicated in the track-informations.

A math person making and modifying sounds with custom code, Csound, homemade electronics.

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