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Contributor: Scott Fybush

96.7 WLJY/Whiting, WI WJXA 2004 UNKNOWN CUT #

In response to Disquiet Junto Project 0502: Global Swarming
The Assignment: Create a swarm of imaginary insects.

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Conceptual Process: The title comes from the protagonist of Franz Kafka's Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis) - Gregor Samsa, who awoke one morning to find himself transformed into a "monstrous vermin" "insect" "cockroach"... a variety of English translations for the original "Ungeheueres Ungeziefer" which is difficult to translate (and the translation of which has been heavily discussed, here's a nice overview if you're not already familiar: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/on-translating-kafkas-the-metamorphosis). I have a lot of empathy for Gregor which extends to empathy for insects in general whereby I try to resist the instinct to be disturbed by them - so I initially set off on this trying to make a "swarm" from the Juntonian insect bank that was not disturbing or frightening, and was instead either empathetic or like a cool bug party that I'd like to join. After about 5 minutes of editing, the bug party became a cacophony and then whittled down into something slightly more disturbing, or at least intense in a way that is uncomfortable at several points. I couldn't escape the notion of an encounter with a swarm of insects, however unique and beautifully imaginary they are, being disturbing, unnerving, uncomfortable. So I went with it, trying to make something where the listener (and protagonist in the story of this swarm) might be disturbed a few times as the swarm gets closer and swells around them, but is ultimately left in a state of some relief, and curiosity once the swarm decides to move on. Because doesn't the swarm sound a bit like mechanical insects, potentially like a swarm of man-made insect-drones that could be surveilling millions of dimensions of your physical and mental existence? What do they want? What are they looking for? But at least they didn't investigate for long and decide to keep moving - but what data did they capture, or might they have captured something more, or other, than data...?

Technical Process: Selected the insects listed below. Made 4 different test tracks with several loops of each insect, and various effects on each layer of each insect. Played with the balance so it sounds a bit like they are coming from one side, enveloping you in a few swells, then move along to the other side and off into the distance. Then layered the 4 tests tracks on top of each other. 

This track features several varieties of the following insects from the schwärmeliche Junto-Menagerie, and includes no other sounds:

- Clint B - bromdihydorchlorphenylbenzodiazepine fuzz locust
- ausgesuchtestenohren - swarm behaviour
- bbob drake - organCrickets_forMusikfestivalSchwärme 0494 

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More on this 502nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Global Swarming (The Assignment: Create a swarm of imaginary insects) — at: https://disquiet.com/0502/

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/
https://www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern
https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0502-global-swarming/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this project is by David Hoffman, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/aePCyj

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

Für Gregor_disquiet0502

WWWQ - Q100 'Atlanta, GA' (2006) - Z100 NRG Re-Sings - Main Cuts

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More on this 515th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Talking Cure (The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room) — at: Disquiet Junto Project 0515: Talking Cure

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0515-talking-cure/

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Image credit: Lamont Hall, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Waiting room, 1956. Public domain.

look after yourself (disquiet0515)

Disquiet Junto Project 0517: Inside Out (Co/Exist 2 of 3). The Assignment: Record a minute or two of civilization.

The king of civilization devices: the washing machine! If you watch a scene in a science fiction movie, let's say some Klingons in a Bird of Prey (or: Spock on Vulcan) and can't imagine a washing machine in this world, then you know: This is no civilization. (But look for Androids washing at the river …)

Recorded with a Zoom H4n. Six cycles of waiting and cycling.

around 96bpm (for a cycle of 2)

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Cover based on Photo by IAmATeapot on Unsplash
https://unsplash.com/photos/dTV2rwTyXFs

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More on this 517th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Outside In (Co/Exist 1 of 3) (The Assignment: Record a minute or two of nature) — at: https://disquiet.com/0517/

This is the second of a three-part project sequence. You can participate in all three parts, or any two of the three, or even just any one of them. Part one began on November 18 and ended on November 22, part two began on November 25, and part three will begin on December 2. Thanks to Alan Bland and Mark Lentczner for having proposed the project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0517-inside-out-co-exist-2-of-3/

Outside In: A Washing Machine [disquiet0517]

Disquiet Junto Project 0517: Inside Out (Co/Exist 2 of 3)

The Assignment: Record a minute or two of civilization.

This is the second of a three-part project sequence. You can participate in all three parts, or any two of the three, or even just any one of them. Part one began on November 18 and ended on November 22, part two began on November 25, and part three will begin on December 2. Thanks to Alan (@morgulbee) Bland and Mark (@mzero) Lentczner for having proposed the project.

There is one step for this project: Record a minute or two of civilization: automobile traffic, jack hammers, conversations among people, refrigerator hums, electric toothbrushes, however it is that you might define civilization.

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Track notes:

This is a short binaural recording I made this morning in Pityarilla, the traditional Kaurna name for a section of the parklands to the south of the Adelaide CBD. I'd originally intended to make a recording in the city centre as everyone scrambles to do their xmas shopping, but as I passed through the parklands, I thought an intersection of lots of different sounds (natural and anthropogenic) - with a fair bit of acoustic transparency - might be the way to go. I think it adequately documents a beautiful late-Spring Saturday morning in Adelaide. 

A bit about the location itself: A narrow creek runs through through the park and a few years ago the banks were widened, filled with large rocks and reeds, and also revegetated with native plants. It's a huge improvement on the sad little creek that once wound its way past trash, decaying willows and other unwelcome non-native vegetation. Since this Adelaide Spring has been one of the wettest in over a decade, the creek is still full of water in late November, just on the cusp of Summer heat. It's also got frogs now! Spotted Grass Frogs (Limnodynastes tasmaniensi) - with big thanks to Jeremy Hegge for correctly identifying the species here. You can hear them throughout this recording.

The recording was made from a circular footbridge with benches on either side. I positioned the Zoom VR-03 on the bench facing the creek in an easterly direction. The Marshmallow Playground is adjacent to the creek and along with the aforementioned frogs, you will hear a children's birthday party, whilst a bicycle and people pass over the bridge. Birds feature on the near-periphery, and the thrum of morning traffic can be heard further afield.

[disquiet0517] Pityarilla frogs (Spotted Grass Frogs) [feat. civilisation](binaural rendering)

Field recording made on a local bus.

More on this 517th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Inside Out (Co/Exist 2 of 3) (The Assignment: Record a minute or two of civilization) — at: https://disquiet.com/0517/

This is the second of a three-part project sequence. You can participate in all three parts, or any two of the three, or even just any one of them. Part one began on November 18 and ended on November 22, part two began on November 25, and part three will begin on December 2. Thanks to Alan Bland and Mark Lentczner for having proposed the project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0517-inside-out-co-exist-2-of-3/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

Bus (disquiet0517)

SXRRY [LoopDiggers Sunday Roulette N° 70]

På börsen är vi närmare toppen än botten men det känns inte så i många bolag och BP funderar över varför. John känner stor oro över att de fina åren kan vara över för många pga lätta jämförelsetal. Johan gör en återblick på några case och ser intressanta saker och slutligen ett bråk om framtiden för ett vinbolag. Lyssna!

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Avsnitt 434 - Den stora oron

Rushes in Winter (naviarhaiku576)

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.

Outside In: A Washing Machine [disquiet0517]

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