Disquiet Junto Project 0313: Audio Journal 2017

jks · 2017-12-31T10:21:49.610Z

as much as i <3 <3 <3 this regular recurring project, listening to the playlist has a terrifying aspect; like, all these sounds, all these individual years, and the supreme difficulty in keeping up…

ikjoyce · 2017-12-31T11:51:08.446Z

It is like having an extreme form of ADHD, as all this content zooms by, rapidly switching focus. 2017 felt like it sped by at record speed, this playlist feels suitably fast!

petemaskreplica · 2017-12-31T15:32:32.281Z

2017 was a strange year for me. It feels like I managed to get very little done, although one of the good things about doing this Junto project is that it helps me realise I did more than I thought.

The early part of the year was moslty taken up with putting an EP togetehr, the middle and latter part with putting together a performance piece and gearing up for my first solo gig for a while in October, so most of the tracks I’ve used for this relate to one of those:

January: part of a track called “Prayer and Void” created for a Cities and Memory project
February: Extract from a performance with John Richards and students from Trinity Laban
March: track from my EP The Optimist, recorded (mostly) in March
April: field recording of a stream in Wales
May: part of an arrangment of a folk song, “The month of May” (also from the Optimist EP)
June: cello improv
July: guitar improv
August: stretched fragment of Beeethoven, part of materials I was assembling for my piece “Exit Music”
September: Cello loop
October: improv, preparing for a solo gig
November: the exit from Exit Music. This performance was a stressful experience for all kinds of reasons, not least a tech failure that brought down the quadrophonic drones that were a major part of the texture. Hopefully I’ll get to do it again somewhere and realise it properly.
December: Part of the track I contributed to the Linear Obsessional compilation A View from a Hill

I always feel bad that I don’t get time to do more of these, but it’s good to know it’s there. Happy New Year everyone!

cmcavoy · 2017-12-31T17:15:02.556Z

https://soundcloud.com/missushardy/disquiet0313-old-long-since

More detailed notes in the Soundcloud description, but in short,

January - London
February - Larry Gales
March - Pinewood Derby
April - India / London concrete
May - Tilt a Whirl
June - Rehearsal
July - Noise
August - India
September - My son on the modular
October - My son and I collaborating
November - Lunch and learn
December - Hotel carpet

Happy New Year everyone!

acoustic_mirror · 2017-12-31T19:43:13.271Z

https://soundcloud.com/acoustic_mirror/a-year-in-60-seconds-disquiet0313

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2017 was a long, intense, and busy year. Not something I can summarise in a paragraph, but, lo and behold, Marc Weidenbaum’s Disquiet Junto project came to the rescue at the last minute.
So, there you go - this is my year in sound, condensed (compressed?) to 60 seconds.

Happy New Ear, everyone!

(((o)))

[00:00:00] January: Oblique Soundwalks
First project of the year. This is from a series of soundwalks produced in Cuenca, Spain, in January, following the (non-)guidance of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies. To be released Real Soon Now.

[00:00:05] February: Ghostwalk #01 - Atocha
First in a series of works based on field recordings from important sites of memory - memoryscapes. This was broadcast as part of the Radiophrenia 2017 broadcast later in the year.

[00:00:10] March: Hellschreiber
A first attempt at working with the audio versions of CAPTCHA systems. This became part of Wavefarm’s Short Waves / Long Distance programme.

[00:00:15] April: Radiowalk
More “walks”. This time trying out algorithmic walks through the SW radio spectrum. This project didn’t go very far, but eventually it evolved into my contribution to #disquiet0292.

[00:00:20] May: Timepiece/Leap
Something to do with time. And clocks. And leap seconds. Never got anywhere with this. Still, I have been having a go at it at least once a year since 2016 - so it’s here because I’m certain I will get back to it sometime in 2018. On the positive side, I learned how to programme all manner of clocks in Pure Data. For what it’s worth.

[00:00:25] June: (sub)
This was commissioned by Saout Radio for their Saout Africa(s) programme on documenta 14 Public Radio. It’s about language, and the kinds of things we do with language.

[00:00:30] July: Antiprótesis
A raw take from a summer artist residence in Espacio Tangente, Burgos, Spain, with Elisa Arteta and José Otero. We were exploring movement, listening, and sound. Some of this should get a release, at some point.

[00:00:35] August: Estépar (Ghostwalk #02)
Another Ghostwalk, another memoryscape. This time in Estépar - the site of the mass graves of civilians massacred by Franco’s regime during the Spanish Civil War. This was included in WLD-Barcelona’s Listening Room, and later broadcast as part of Radiophrenia 2017.

[00:00:40] September: Cabeza de Estado a -60dB
The annual Christmas speech by the king of Spain, normalized to -60dB. This was part of the escuchatorio:silencio broadcast. I still believe there’s a lot of unexplored territory in sonic vandalism.

[00:00:45] October: El Triángulo
In October, “El Triángulo”, an experimental programme of music education, kicked off at CA2M, Móstoles (Madrid). More news about this Real Soon Now.

[00:00:50] November: Máster-LAV
Me and my students at Máster-LAV, improvising and generally messing around with field recordings after a full morning of soundwalks at a Madrid marketplace.

[00:00:55] December: Sleep
A quick evening soundwalk in the snow. This was a contribution to a sound project by La Cosa Preziosa. To be released sometime in 2018.[quote=“acoustic_mirror, post:34, topic:10800, full:true”]