Time & Space 5

Christ Illusion

Catalyst (Album Version)

**Production Notes**

A year ago, we replaced our fridge. It was frosty, grumpy, mean and extremely loud fridge, which started to scream just when the family sat down at the kitchen table. So we decided to get a ultra-super-ultrasonic-quiet one. Good for our ears, bad for this assignment. 

I started with a field recording on full levels, but there was … nothing. I left the fridge open for a minute, so finally I got a slight hum. Not very convincing. So I took a device for recording electromagnetic fields and went over the fridge for a minute. Voila, noise galore. 

Next, I let Ableton extract the harmonies of these electromagnetic pulses. I added Kontakt Una Corda and several plugins from Applied Acoustic Systems. 

The result reminded me somehow of Alva Noto somehow, standing in front of our old fridge, grabbing a beer.

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**Disquiet Junto Project 0224: Cold Embrace**

Make music with the sound of a refrigerator as its foundation.

This week’s project was inspired, in part, by an April 13, 2016, talk that the artist Jeff Kolar gave to students in the class on sound that I teach.

Step 1: Record the sound of a refrigerator, preferably the one in your own kitchen.

Step 2: Listen to the recording to get a sense of the hum, the tonality, and the rhythm or rhythms inherent in that audio.

Step 3: Create an original piece of music augmenting that tonality and rhythm. It’s preferable you simple add material to the field recording, but you can also use the field recording as source material.

Step 7: Upload your completed track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 8: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 9: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This project was posted in the afternoon, California time, on Thursday, April 14, 2016, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, April 18, 2016.

Length: The length is up to you, though between one and three minutes feels about right.

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Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting the track, please be sure to include this information:

More on this 224th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Make music with the sound of a refrigerator as its foundation.”) at:

http://disquiet.com/0224/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

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The image associated with this project is by Timothy Allen and is used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/yQWAr/

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Yo-Yo Ma