Disquiet Junto Project 0670: Right of Way

The Assignment: Music for turn signals.

Step 1: Record the sound of a car’s turn signal (or, alternately, use a prerecorded one, for example at freesound.org).

Step 2: Improvise on top of the recording of the turn signal with as many or few layers of additional sound as you like, emphasizing rhythm (versus melody or harmony), and retain the original turn signal sound, so it is still audible for most if not all of your finished track

Background: This project is something of a callback to the 11th Disquiet Junto project, way back at the end of March 2012.

Deadline: Monday, November 4, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: https://disquiet.com/0670/

Disquiet Junto Project 0670: Right of Way

Disquiet Junto #0670 directed us to compose something rhythmic around the sound of a turn signal. I went one better and added windshield wipers. 

Polyrhythms, frequencies that are askew, and a tempo that seems to lurch like a figure in the fog. Maddeningly, nothing stays in sync for long.

Features physical modeling synth, samplers, and field recordings.

Enjoy “Three Lefts” on a long, nighttime drive with the windows down and the volume up. Recorded at NO SIGNAL Multimedia Lab in the Shambles, Chicago.

More about this week's Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0670

Three Lefts (disquiet0670)

Using the sound of the Ford KA right indicator to create a piece in BespokeSynth. See the accompanying video and download the patch to play with yourself from YouTube at https://youtu.be/70JQ0UMMtXs

More on the 670th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right of Way — The Assignment: Music for turn signals — at https://disquiet.com/0670/

visuals & patch

halF indicatioN [disquiet0670]

This track was created from a short recording of a car turn signal with numerous repetitions, layers and effects, no other sounds added.
More on the 670th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right of Way — The Assignment: Music for turn signals — at https://disquiet.com/0670/

Turn of Events (disquiet0670)

More on the 670th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right of Way — The Assignment: Music for turn signals — at https://disquiet.com/0670/

Right of Way

Disquiet Junto | Right Of Way - disquiet0670

As per the instructions, the track starts and ends with the sound of a turn signal, which is then processed, cut up and re-arranged and then over ruled by a funky beat. Except the beat is interrupted by the occasional failed connection, to remind me of the dodgy sound systems I had in my car when I was young. And then the beat stops, the turn signal returns, first in bits and then steady and strong. I turn into my driveway, and I am home.

disquiet270

Disquiet Junto Project 0670: Right of Way
The Assignment: Music for turn signals.

With an indicator, we either want to turn only left or only right, but in my head it was always left or right within the same indicator. So I added some undecided strings. And because life has many surprises in store that don't want to fit into the constant back and forth, these one too. 

Credits for used CC0 samples:
wesleywestmusic
https://freesound.org/people/wesleywestmusic/sounds/644427/
rafunzela
https://freesound.org/people/rafunzela/sounds/677998/

More on the 670th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right of Way — The Assignment: Music for turn signals — at https://disquiet.com/0670/
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undecisive [disquiet0670]

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.

undecisive [disquiet0670]

Krakenkraft & Etherkraken