Brilliant Westy. Love the song and the way you dealt with the subject. Awesome guitar too!!! :-)

Man, this is intense. I was very much hoping you'd participate in this week's project, but decided not to put any pressure on. Thanks.

@masayaozaki: awesome. thanks. xclnt seeing you sunday, too.

In every way, this is brilliantly done--your compassionate and thoughtful response to the subject matter, your adhering to the spirit of  Burroughs, and your nimble musical ability to create something this good on a deadline.

quite excellent tune here. The best tune Lou Reed didn't write.

@jonmonteverde: awesome you connected to this. <3 the junto for who, as much or more than what, it's brought into my life.

More on this 110th Disquiet Junto project (“Celebrate the 100th birthday of that old cut-up, William S. Burroughs”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/02/06/disquiet0110-wsb100/

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http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

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Disquiet Junto Project 0110: WSB100

All the samples are from http://inbflat.net/ and I just put them together in a way that sounds good to me. It's pretty hard to make something that sounds bad from that website though :)

B Flat

improvised guitar drones, loops and melody lines over beats. 

guitar / amp:
jolie (gibson es-335 dot reissue, peekamoose custom electronics)
vox ac4c1-bl tube combo

efx chain:
(ebow -->) earthquaker "warden" compressor --> ehx pog2 --> ehx freeze --> ibanez ts-808 tube screamer --> small sound/big sound mini overdrive --> tc electronic flashback delay+looper --> strymon blue-sky reverberator --> line6 pod xt phaser modeler

software / hardware:
sony acid, motu 828mk2, XP

title is reference to jack kerouac's "list of essentials" in his <i>belief & technique for modern prose</i>:
17. write in recollection and amazement for yourself

bandcamp

prologue: in recollection and amazement

My cut-up is derived from a article in Seven Days, an alt-weekly out of Burlington, VT. It details a dispute between neighbors about using residential space as a business workshop to build guitars. http://www.7dvt.com/2014disharmony-prospect-street-dispute-between-neighbors-strikes-sour-note

For the "chorus" I used the audio out-put from the image I databent for this track. 

The "verse" is from a no-input recording I did on my Tascam digital recorder. I simply ran an 1/8" cable from mic-in to line-out. The effect comes from adjusting the mic sensitivity. 

The "bridge" is from an improv session done on my squire fretless jazz bass. A cut-up of this recording is dispersed throughout the track.

The "beat" is also from a no-input recording. This time I ran the cable through my Behringer delay pedal. 

More at:  
http://subversiveintentions.wordpress.com

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http://disquiet.com/2014/02/06/disquiet0110-wsb100/


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Disharmony Street Prospect (disquiet0110-wsb100)

From Göteborgs Posten. Ironically enough it was about closing down a drug rehab.

More on this 110th Disquiet Junto project (“Celebrate the 100th birthday of that old cut-up, William S. Burroughs”) at:



http://disquiet.com/2014/02/06/disquiet0110-wsb100/



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I used text to speech translation- acapella (changed the pitch of the male voice, reading in  Gothenburg dialect). Then I found an old sample recorded off the radio- a looped sequence from Mahler's Um Mitternacht (don't remember who the singer was), that made a nice background. To underline the structure of the song I added more radio- LW as a beat for the chorus, some noise for the bridge and piezo flax seeds as accents.



Vi har inte tillräckligt många psykiatriker- disquiet0110-wsb100

At the 100th birthday of William S. Burroughs, celebrating his literary legacy by employing one of his classic artistic subroutines, the cut-up. 
I've listed the strings from the Asahi news headlines at am 5:00 Feb 8 tokyo time. http://www.asahi.com/news/ 
and added my stock loop and simulated touching tape physically by setting ableton warp mode.

More on this 110th Disquiet Junto project (“Celebrate the 100th birthday of that old cut-up, William S. Burroughs”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/02/06/disquiet0110-wsb100/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

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Asahi headlines Feb 8 [disquiet0110-wsb100]

For my reflection on the process of composing this piece, see:
http://bassling.blogspot.com/2014/02/disquiet-junto-110-celebrating-burroughs.html

More on this 110th Disquiet Junto project (“Celebrate the 100th birthday of that old cut-up, William S. Burroughs”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/02/06/disquiet0110-wsb100/

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Of Leeton yesterday morn [disquiet0110-wsb100]

I've been researching Laurie Anderson a lot recently. I decided to emulate her manner of speaking. (I think I failed in some ways). 

The text I used came from the front page of reddit. I've included the lines here:

1. Evolution Door

2. 1girl 1 cup

3. I once came home to a hostage situation.

4. This is what I’m expecting from the Sochi Opening Ceremony

5. Alaska primed to become third state to legalize retail marijuana

6. I have travelled the world with Toy Story’s Woody, taking pics for my son. At Heathrow, security just confiscated his “weapon”, keep the world safe boys…

7. TIL Yang (Lenovo's CEO) received a $3 million bonus as a reward for record profits, which he in-turn redistributed to about 10,000 of Lenovo's employees. He did same thing again in 2013.

8. Vøringsfossen, Norway. You can almost see the trolls and elves from here…

9. Flawless

10. In 3 words what would your hell be?

11. Women in Tokyo are threatening a sex boycott against any man who votes for the front-runner in this weekend's gubernatorial election, in protest at his claim that menstruation makes women unfit for government.

12. My nephew just made his first shot in little league basketball last night. 
I tried to make it memorable for him.

13. Olympic luger crashes, somehow recovers

14. Scientists in Japan have successfully induced human embryonic stem cells to spontaneously form developing brain tissues

15. What have you wondered about sleep?

16. Mongolian Smile

17. To the 'self-hating' gay fellow, don't worry about it…

18. TIL for the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta, homelessness was criminalized in the city. Those arrested during the Games were held for trial until after the event was over


There's a final system of music I chose not use because the track seemed to end after the bridge. This system forms the "underlying rumble" accompaniment for the speech.


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More on this 110th Disquiet Junto project (“Celebrate the 100th birthday of that old cut-up, William S. Burroughs”) at:



http://disquiet.com/2014/02/06/disquiet0110-wsb100/



More on the Disquiet Junto at:



http://disquiet.com/?p=16588



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i once came home to a hostage situation - "Disquiet Junto Project 0110: WSB100

source article:
http://nypost.com/2014/02/09/hoffmans-accused-dealer-i-couldve-saved-him/

This New York Post headline ("I Could Have Saved Him") screamed at me from a newsstand on 5th Avenue and 9th Street in Brooklyn a couple days after receiving this week's challenge, and I couldn't shake it. As the weekend closed, I looked at the front pages of all the other papers in town with this challenge in mind, including a couple hyperlocal rags (NY Times, NY Observer, NY Daily News, Brooklyn Eagle, Park Slope Courier, etc...), but no other story stuck with me like this one, falling lock-step into the context of this Junto challenge celebrating the 100th birthday of William S. Burroughs. 

Philip Seymour Hoffman's heroin dealer has convinced himself that he could have prevented Hoffman's death had he been shooting up with him. The brief interview has overtones of a Burroughs scene and, for sure, this guy - a jazz musician with a penchant for junk - is a character straight out of the Naked Lunch Interzone.

I cut words from a lot of the sentences to fit the flow of the song, but this didn't seem to violate the spirit of the assignment. Burroughs used so many ellipses in his writing that it's hard to tell if he ever published a single sentence in its logical order. His style gave me some air cover.

Put a simple, dumb rock song together tonight to prop up the words. Psyched to get it in just under the wire. One live guitar track, one live synth and a vocal (one-take with one punch-in) over drum/bass loops arranged in Acid. I've been cycling through E-G-A and E-D-A progressions recently, and this track runs around those while capo'ed on the second fret for the D-form E-chord.

The "problem" with tabloids like the Post, though, is that we would never have gotten a cover story on a living Philip Seymour Hoffman with the headline "We Should Save Him Today." We only get the rubberneck aftermath lead-if-it-bleeds crimson journalism. The Interzone, indeed. Hi ho.

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LYRICS

3. “I could’ve saved him.” (x4)

14. You wouldn’t know he was an Oscar winner.
10. When asked if he had ever sold Hoffman drugs
5. He said “If I was with him, it wouldn’t have happened.” 
7. He said he had known the 46-year-old “Capote” star for about a year.

3. “I could’ve saved him.” (x4)

8. Hoffman injected
18. He claims he last saw Hoffman — high — in October.
11. “When we got together, we talked about books. 
4. “If I knew he was in town, I would’ve said, ‘Hey, let’s make an AA meeting.’ 

3. “I could’ve saved him.” (x4)

6. “Not under my guard.”
17. The star’s final, four-month struggle against drugs.
12. And art. 
9. 73 bags of heroin found in a Greenwich Village apartment. 

15. He loved his kids. (x4)

3. “I could’ve saved him.” (x4)

13. “He was a normal guy. 
2. “He was my friend.
16. “I offer my condolences to his family.
1. “I didn’t kill him — and I could’ve saved him.”

3. “I could’ve saved him,” jazz musician and admitted junkie Robert Vineberg said, wearing a gray prison jumpsuit and hunching pensively at a red table in a Rikers Island jail visiting area.

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RIG

guitar:
Jolie (Gibson ES335 dot reissue, custom peekamoose.com electronics), Earthquaker The Warden compressor, Ibanez Screamer TS808, tc electronic Flashback delay (tape setting), Strymon BlueSky reverberator, VOX AC15 (mic'ed via a Sennheiser MD412-ii) 

synth:
Sunrizer for iPad (ht http://soundcloud.com/shredderghost)

vocals:
AKG C3000B condenser mic, Lexicon rack delay 

drum/bass:
samples (one shots & loops)

interface:
MOTU 828mk2 interface, Acid Pro 7.0, Windows XP

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PROJECT

Step 1: 
Take the lead article from your local newspaper and write down the first 18 sentences on separate slips of paper — or, if you prefer, extract the first 18 lines on separate strips of paper.

Step 2: 
Label these pieces of text from 1 to 18.

Step 3: 
Either read them out loud or use text-to-speech and record them.

Step 4: 
Construct the vocal of a song using the material. Sequence the vocal in the following order. Note that text element 3 serves as the chorus and text element 15 serves as the bridge. The remaining elements are in random sets of four, with no repetition.

3 3 3 3
14 10 5 7
3 3 3 3
8 18 11 4
3 3 3 3
6 17 12 9
15 15 15 15
3 3 3 3
13 2 16 1
3 3 3 3

Add music, whatever instrumentation you choose, to flesh this out into a proper song.

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More on this 110th Disquiet Junto project (“Celebrate the 100th birthday of that old cut-up, William S. Burroughs”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/02/06/disquiet0110-wsb100/

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http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

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welcome to the interzone [disquiet0110-wsb100]

Original track here https://soundcloud.com/user-524526704/disquiet-junto-0367-trio

More on this 368th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Engage Duo / The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio, adding to a pre-existing track.) at:

https://disquiet.com/0368/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0368-engage-duo/

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is adapted (edited, color altered, text added) from a photo by Anna J and is used via Flickr thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/gcojn

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Engage Duo (disquiet0368)

I used https://soundcloud.com/jesuisgentil/spoons-disquiet0367 as the track on which to base the new composition on. It features two soft synths playing arpeggios with automation to give them movement. I used a random number generator to find the spoons track. Really happy with it.

Revolving Spoons // Disquiet0368

Northwoods + droney drone ~~** Disquiet0368

i used this lovely acoustic piece https://soundcloud.com/carlin-mclellan-751824513/texas-disquiet0367

played along with a mountain dulcimer, duplicated and pitched down, bit of preverb, reverb. recorded on my phone.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0368: Engage Duo
The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio, adding to a pre-existing track.

Step 1: This week’s Disquiet Junto project is the second in a sequence that explores and encourages asynchronous collaboration. This week you will be adding music to a pre-existing track, which you will source from the previous week’s Junto project (disquiet.com/0367). Note that you aren’t creating a duet — you’re creating the second third of what will eventually be a trio. Keep this in mind.

Step 2: The plan is for you to record a short and original piece of music, on any instrumentation of your choice, as a complement to the pre-existing track. First, however, you must select the piece of music to which you will be adding your own music. There are more than 40 tracks to choose from, almost all of them in this playlist:

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0367

And at least one more is available as part of a video in this discussion thread from last week:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0367-trio-initiate/

To select a track, you can listen through all that and choose one, or you can use a random number generator. (Note: it’s perfectly fine if more than one person uses the same original track as the basis for their piece.)

Step 3: Record a short piece of music, roughly the length of the piece of music you selected in Step 2. Your track should complement the piece from Step 2, and leave room for an eventual third piece of music. When composing and recording your part, do not alter the original piece of music at all, except to pan the original fully to the left. In your finished audio track, your part should be panned fully to the right. To be clear: the track you upload won’t be your piece of music alone; it will be a combination of the track from Step 2 and yours.

Carlin McLellan's mate Mark + sevenism - Texas Nexus (disquiet0368)

The second week of a three-week Disquiet Junto collaboration project. I used the random number generator at random.org to select OHELEM's electric sitar drone track from last week. I added synthesized choir voices to continue the hypnotic meditative feel.

Trio the Second

Trio The Second - Disquiet0368

This track is part of the Disquiet Junto Project #0368. The objective of this step of the project is to choose another participant's musical submission from last week and record an additional accompaniment, with the idea that there will be one more addition next week. The new part is intended to be panned hard right.

More information on this project can be found here:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0368-engage-duo/19077

Tunnelwater's original track can be found here:
https://soundcloud.com/user-524526704/disquiet-junto-0367-trio

Wind in the Lavender (Disquiet0368)

Existing track was already perfect but I could hear a piano slowly fading in, so that's what I added. 
I just made a simple repeated piano part using a VST piano - The Maverick (Native Instruments). I cut the highs and lows and put it in mono to try to leave space for everything. 
Added a VHS effect (AfroDJMac)to everything to make it feel nice and floating...

More on this 369th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Final Solo / The Assignment: Record the final third of a trio, adding to a pre-existing track, based itself on a prior pre-existing track) at:

https://disquiet.com/0369/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0369-final-solo/

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is adapted (edited, color altered, text added) from a photo by Anna J and is used via Flickr thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/gcojn

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

disquiet0369 Spooning underwater w/ TOTAL ENERGY & GENTIL

Sounds captured during several walks around lockdown Manhattan during the COVID-19 crisis in March 2020. Birds, sirens, ebbs and flows, does the city sound like a sea in parts? and a stray accordionist with Lara's Theme somewhere across the park. An oil tank truck struggles to reengage after stopping near the hospital, fossil fuel memories surging into the present.

This piece premiered as part of "Radio Free Plague Ship" Audio Zine (https://secretvenue.org/events/plagueship) on April 17, 2020.

NYC soundwalk COVID-19

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

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