Made for the Disquiet Junto #496

This track incorporates a guitar recording originally used in a piece of mine called Sweet Thing, which can be heard at the following link:
https://c-reider.bandcamp.com/track/sweet-thing

The guitar recording was layered and fed through a few different granular processes.  A few generative synth items were added to the mix.

Instructions for Disquiet Junto #496

Step 1: Think of something you’ve recorded in the past that you want to revisit.

Step 2: Isolate one part of the original recording. The optimal option, though by no means the only approach, is something that runs for the length of the track, such as a a rhythmic element or a specific instrument. It’s certainly understandable if the isolation effort isn’t clinical. Other remnants of the source audio are fine.

Step 3: Compose a new track around the material isolated in Step 2.

enamel

enamel (disquiet0496)

A reduction of five source files provided by Mysterybear.
More about the reduction process here: http://www.vuzhmusic.com/blog/2012/07/03/reduction/
This process was a participation in the Disquiet Junto number 114.

Photo is by Paul Engler. http://flic.kr/p/4bhEab Licensed CC BY NC SA
Ten strobes at sixty hertz, ten second exposure.
More on this 114th Disquiet Junto project — “Combine elements of Dave Seidel’s album ~60 Hz (Irritable Hedgehog)” — at:



http://disquiet.com/2014/03/06/disquiet0114-60hz/


More on the Disquiet Junto at:



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


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


The source audio is from Dave Seidel’s ~60 Hz album, released on the Irritable Hedgehog record label. More on the album at:



http://recordings.irritablehedgehog.com/album/dave-seidel-60-hz


Sixty Bear Reduction [disquiet0114-60hz]

An idea quickly realized.
This is a direct hommage to David Lynch's Rabbits.

Script was written by a neural net.  

Foley sounds were acquired from Freesound.org users:
Rvgerxini
AUDACITIER
MAJ061785
dkiller2204
joshs
EminYILDIRIM
kyles
diidiintle_99
MWsfx
schots
tryl

the door

I originally did this piece for  Disquiet's compilation "Despite the Downturn: An Answer Album" 
The music was a musical interpretation of the illustration by Jeremy Traum that accompanies this clip.
More about the project here:
http://disquiet.com/2010/05/03/despite-the-downturn/

This is a more concise edit of the original, I think it works a little better.  Was thinking of this piece after listening to some Ligeti.  The piano recording I sampled wasn't actually Ligeti though.

Original description:
"Broadly, my concept when planning/recording 'StaffGrabbing' was to portray the disorder of a system that may once have been in order, and a 'rude intrusion' that hastens the breakdown. The two sound-sources I chose to use were a recording of solo piano, and a hip-hop beat. The color wash in Jeremy Traum's illustration gave me an excuse to start with a nice drone extruded from the piano sound-source, because, come on, who doesn't like a nice drone? In a separate process, the piano recording was temporally distorted by shuffling chunks in an audio editor; this edit was run through a filterbank. The hip-hop beat was also temporally distorted with nonlinear time-stretching. I like the result because it evokes the lazy, slouching walk of someone with their pants hanging down too low. At the end, the notes all pile up in a big distorted mess on the floor." 



Staffgrabbing (edit)

Created by appropriating and transforming sounds made by other artists who licensed their work to allow remixing.



More on this 124th Disquiet Junto project — “Recombinate work from the netlabels addSensor, As4cords, and Audiotalaia” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/05/15/disquiet0124-deriveandthrive/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

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

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

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The source audio for this track is available for free download from these three netlabel websites:

More on Erissoma’s “The miracle in the human brain” at:

http://www.addsensor.com/addsensor_html.htm

More on Kayaka’s “O” at

https://archive.org/details/Kayaka-Cp

More on D’Incise’s “Graphein” at

http://www.audiotalaia.net/catalogue/at071-dincise/

Amnesia Kiss [disquiet0124-deriveandthrive]

I'm glad this Junto project came up because I've been wanting to begin work on a new idea I had that utilizes one of my processes, and this was enough of a prompt to make a first-draft experiment.  I may soon undertake a larger project of this kind of thing.  

The Junto project asks for "a specific technique that you are proud of having developed, perfected, or in some way folded into your work."  The technique I'm demonstrating here is called 'reduction'.  I've described this process at length here: 
http://www.vuzhmusic.com/blog/2012/07/03/reduction/
There was also a recent article in Percorsi Musicali about it:
http://ettoregarzia.blogspot.com/2014/08/systems-aesthetics-in-contemporary.html

Thumbnail sketch: reduction is an iterative process using a sample-reduce noise reduction algorithm.  

This particular work begins with 4 complex waveforms.  
2 of them are based on 43Hz sine tones that modulate over 75 seconds and 82 seconds respectively. The modulation is between two eq setups.
The other 2 are based on 50Hz sine tones that modulate as above.  
Two reductions were done using the two 82 second modulations as the impulse and the two 75 second modulations as the target.  

The results were combined in multitracker, with compression, noise reduction and a little EQ.  

More on this 139th Disquiet Junto project — “Create and upload a track that exemplifies one key creative process you’ve developed″ — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/08/28/disquiet0139-techtechnique/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

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Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

The image is a spectrogram of a small section of the sound.

43 And 50 (4 Complex Waves, Simple Reduction)[disquiet0139-techtechnique]

My approach here is very similar to another recent SoundCloud upload called Tape Players and Room Sound (amplified inactivity), in that it involves recording and re-recording on tape.  I first recorded some the white noise of two stereos playing the radio in-between stations onto a tape recorder, then I recorded that sound again onto another tape while the previous tape played nearby.  Then I recorded that sound yet again onto a third tape while the previous two tapes played on two other tape players nearby.  

We are all going to goddamned get sued for illegally covering this composition.  

More on this 147th Disquiet Junto project — “Record 8 seconds of white noise in your own personal style″ — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/10/23/disquiet0147-slightnoise/

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/

Track 3 (unauthorized Taylor Swift Cover) [disquiet0147-slightnoise]

This was a collage I made to use in a Halloween performance a few years ago.  The guy putting the show together wanted something "spooky", so I sampled a bunch of sounds from those tacky Halloween sound collections and made this.  This is an excerpt from a long piece that doesn't do much more than this (it wasn't ever really meant to be listened to alone, but for live treatments)

Spookymix (edit)

Derived from two "lockgrooves" made by Tom Anderson and John Magill. 
The title is an anagram of Anderson Magill.  

Here are links to the two tracks I used: 
Louvre Grok by Tom Anderson 21
https://soundcloud.com/tom-anderson-18/louvre-grok-disquiet0153-groovelock

Quark Quark Quark Quark by JohnMagill
https://soundcloud.com/johnmagill/quark-quark-quark-quark-disquiet0153-groovelock

This was done for the 154th Disquiet Junto, (although I couldn't resolve the piece in under 2 minutes dammit).  




More on this 154th Disquiet Junto project — “Create a track from two locked grooves” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/12/11/disquiet0154-grooveunlocked/

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/


Orange Sand Mill [disquiet0154-grooveunlocked]

a piece of music written in 29/16 time for the Disquiet Junto.

started and completed September 19, 2024

 https://disquiet.com/0664/

median plane [disquiet0664]

i don't know if this fits the project, and i don't know if it sounds good, it was very rushed... it needs work, but it's deadline time.
i finished it rapidly before bedtime.  

done for Disquiet Junto #665

The Assignment: Record a track in honor of the late Achim Szepanski, founder of Mille Plateaux

092624

092624 [disquiet0665]

Using the browser 808 clone at http://html5drummachine.com I activated each beat on the kick set at 120bpm.  I did this in my Firefox browser and in my Chrome browser.  Both played at once producing phase effects.  Toward the end minor adjustments were made to tempo & pitch of the kick.  

More on this 169th Disquiet Junto project — “Make a track using only an HTML5 drum machine” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/03/26/disquiet0169-html505/

More on the drum machine at:

http://html5drummachine.com/

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:

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Browserdrumdrone120 [disquiet0169-html505]

Using the browser 808 clone at html5drummachine.com I activated each beat on the kick set at 239bpm (the fastest available for this browser drum machine). I did this in my Firefox browser and in my Chrome browser. Both played at once producing phase effects. Toward the end minor adjustments were made to the pitch of the kick in Firefox, causing the HTML5 audio for the Firefox version to crash, so you can only hear the Chrome version at the end.  

More on this 169th Disquiet Junto project — “Make a track using only an HTML5 drum machine” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/03/26/disquiet0169-html505/

More on the drum machine at:

http://html5drummachine.com/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

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Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

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Browserdrumdrone239

Boing - Om - Bwahhh

From an idea posed by Tobias Reber, of degrading sound files by repeatedly encoding and re-encoding them.His idea was to use SoundCloud's compression as the filter.That's a very good idea, but in this case, I instead used iTunes mp3 compression, set at 128 kbps.The original sound file was a ten second white noise blast.
It is here as the first ten seconds, then the second ten seconds is the first encoding, and each subsequent ten seconds is the next iteration of the file which came before re-encoded at 128 kbps, until the twentieth time.
By the end, according to the spectrum, there is virtually no information above 16000 Hz, but this is obviously much more than just a low-pass filter.
If I had a fancy paid SoundCloud account, maybe I'd re-upload this file twenty times, to test Tobias' original idea!


Recursive MP3 Encoding (for Tobias Reber)

Socialism is Evil

Done for the Disquiet Junto #213, in which 3 field recordings captured by Charles Lindsay were used as sound sources.

The three files were stretched to seven minutes, then I performed some of my Reduction process to them (extreme noise reduction), and this revealed a rhythmic pulse in one of the tracks, which became the dominant sound in my mix.
More about Reduction here:
http://www.vuzhmusic.com/blog/2012/07/03/reduction/

The photo is by Flickr user Paco CT, licensed CC BY NC SA
https://www.flickr.com/photos/paco_calvino/3285401384/in/photolist-61jxns-7U58Tm-3N8xwo-nnaqKw-bjgnMH-5XPEF-iSbpVy-ejXz5a-bQP93g-4aropF-2oh6cp-8DSiQ8-pmvRjL-4pgEgi-dqBJ5-fwWnqw-sxKmB-6QujH1-4RuFSG-cNB7HW-noN2im-9rd7VW-yPnVFm-ei9wjh-4yrJVe-5C3BW2-gRnZU4-9mwQA4-jdZWz-eduaD-gJCp8y-ukYJfk-8qHQSe-59UZ5t-fmtegp-62tYyy-D7dC-yMQZx-bXD3qj-6qiGUX-kcY1uF-AF7yg4-8ksbwj-PeRSu-cNBFEw-7mRKCK-dXRfqS-dPKBKH-7dVoS7-6owufq


More on this 213th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“The Assignment: Combine three field recordings from artist Charles Lindsay to explore and express notions of perceived techno-organic intelligence”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2016/01/28/disquiet0213-complexsignatures/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/
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Hiddenness [disquiet0213-complexsignatures]

This was my first ever live performance.  
Setup was (in order of appearance):
* Induction mic'ed electric fields into Reverb
* Handmade tine instruments (2 of them)
* Aluminum cooling radiator for an old Mac motherboard into reverb
* Bad Vibes synth into Pod V2 into Gristleizer into NanoCompressor
* Audible Disease Infection 3 synth
*AM Radio into noise gate into Audible Disease Convulsion 2 pedal into reverb

Performance was July 5, 2012 at Bizarre Bazaar in Fort Collins, Colorado.  I opened for Radere and Andrew Weathers Ensemble.

Thanks to Ryan Emmett for setting it up (and DJing) and to Zehr for live sound.

C. Reider - July 5, 2012 at Bizarre Bazaar (live)

This is a performance of Yoko Ono's composition "Lighting Piece", written in 1955 for which the sole instruction is "Light a match and watch till it goes out." 

It was performed and recorded for the Disquiet Junto group.
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info

It is interesting that group leader Marc Weidenbaum chose a composition by Ono that does not suggest sound and listening at all, but rather vision.  I gave this some thought before proceeding with my interpretation of the work. 

For my performance, I set a single match in front on the microphone (Zoom H4n), and used a magnifying glass to concentrate the sun's rays on the tip of the match, starting from the 'bottom' side, slowly using the sun to 'observe' / burn the length of the match.

I had to use eye protection when recording this track to protect from the extremely bright sun spot.  

The image is by an unknown artist.  I would be happy to give credit, but it wasn't given where I found it.

Here is the original set of instructions for this Junto project:

Disquiet Junto Project 0031: Ono's Match

This week's project takes the opportunity to focus on the art movement known as Fluxus. We'll use as the starting point a 1955 composition by Yoko Ono. Her work is titled "Lighting Piece" and it consists of a single, simple sentence: "Light a match and watch till it goes out." It is one of a number of pieces that Ono produced as part of Fluxus. For this week's Disquiet Junto project, please interpret her instruction as closely or as loosely as you choose.

Deadline: Monday, August 6, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your finished work should be as long or short as you wish to make it, though longer than a five minutes seems unlikely.

Information: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, 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 "disquiet0031-onomatch” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

Download: As always, you don’t have to set your track for download, but it would be preferable.

Linking: When posting the track please include this information:

More on the 30th Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2012/08/02/disquiet0031-onomatch/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info 


Sun as Simulacrum of the Eye (Lighting Piece) [disquiet0031-onomatch]

Ramble On

Sounds about things losing form.Sounds about things getting blurry.Sounds about entropy.

Equal parts conveyor belt and frog swamp.

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