#12

Same boat - the only bluetooth audio thingy I have - that I know of - is a phone<>car connection. That has never glitched.
I tried to do something like this project with a bluetooth speaker (that I no longer have) in Iceland during a storm - I have no idea whether that’s a legit bluetooth destroyer, but it was basically on or off: either the signal was there and sounded normal (or as normal as bluetooth audio ever sounds), or it just wasn’t there. Couldn’t get it to break up or glitch.
So I’ll just be listening - it will be interesting to see how the bluetooth-enabled here manage to mangle the signal!

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#13

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#14

Cheers everyone!

Blauglichtu (disquiet0378)

Not many bluetooth devices in my life, so the choice was easy. Set up the bluetooth soundbar in front of a mic and start playing a synth on the iPad while moving further away from said soundbar. Oh wait, instruments don’t play through bluetooth. Okay plan B. Dig through the Audioshare folder for samples, music, noodling and various field recordings. Now find the distance sweet spot for connectivity (other end of the house), and start dancing, walking, blocking and driving everyone insane with noise. Take one eight minute recording into Cubasis, find the interesting bits and make them more unbearable with effects. A little eq on the 1st track, Shimmerfx verb on the 2nd, mild case of Replicant2 on the 3rd, stereo width on the 4th and an undulating send to a Leslie cabinet. A really quick and dirty submission. No, really really dirty. Like if you suffered from a form of audio epilepsy and listened to this, your lawyers would get you everything I own. And my family.
Preemptive apologies to any listeners :open_mouth:

Thanks Marc for the quick and fun prompt, just what I needed after a somewhat disastrous day :-/

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#15

When I saw Marc’s signal loss tweet, the first thing that came to mind was all my bad cables, mics and plugs. Absolute signal degradation nirvana :joy:

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#16

Hey All, I recently joined the 21st century and switched from a flip to a smartphone, mainly for the damn texting everyone does but also to take pictures and video of my crime scenes. So I went with calling that phone from a wireless landline and going through my Zoom G3 stompbox,interface and walking out of the house a ways. Some decay but mostly it was the stompbox but then I went in and added a boatload of ableton fx’s that I never use to amp up the decay. I think this is a great assignment for learning to mangle audio in a specific way. I think it sounds like what a bluetooth decay would actually sound like.

Peace, Hugh

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#17

This reminds me of how in The Conversation, Walter Murch wasn’t sure what the decay of digital audio recordings sounded like, so he made it up:

I thought, "It’s slightly logical that Harry Caul would have a digital setup of some kind. In fact, the only way he would be able to do what he does—remove an overlay of drums and reveal a voice behind—is by some kind of digital subtraction. Along that line I thought, “If he’s recording and the signal goes off, it would be interesting if, when it went off, the digital algorithm that underlays it is revealed.” Instead of the signal just getting weaker or instead of it getting staticy, it could somehow begin to break down into its digital elements. I found a synthesizer and sent the voices through it. I processed them—the control track—with square waves and various other things to get what was an approximate indication, to me anyway, of a digital signal. The motive was everything that I’ve just been talking about. The means was sending the voice through an Arp synthesizer, a fairly state-of-the-art analog synthesizer for 1973.

That’s from an interview of friend of mine did with him. Full text here:

http://www2.york.psu.edu/~jmj3/murchfq.htm

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#18

So, I managed to get things set up pretty easily: laptop playing .wav file >> android phone as speaker >> old iPhone as recorder >> back into Ableton for volume, EQ, etc. Unfortunately, I think that the software I was using (SoundWire) was running over Wi-Fi rather than BlueTooth. Well, just when I wanted my Wi-Fi to misbehave … it was running smoother than ever!! So, I simultaneously played three HD YouTube videos on my laptop, and (I think) that got me the breakdown I wanted. The original track is a guitar improvisation I made last week using @ithkaa’s beautiful “Ultomaton” software. In the above (edited) track, we get a crackle around 10s and then contact is lost around 26s. Apologies in advance for the poor sound quality.

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#19

i got a splashproof argos bluetooth speaker that turned out to be ‘unsuitable for bathroom use’ i ignored that so the bluetooth doesnt work anymore.

it does make a nice high pitched whine and crackled when paired to my phone. i play these unadorned at the start then tried to make something more musical as it progresses

processed only in audacity

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#20

Have the luck to stay these days at „rewire“ in Den Haag(www.rewirefestival.nl/).
Recorded my track in the morning at the hotel, streamed the basic track from my phone to my little bluetooth speakers, than i walked outside the room till the connecting failed, recorded the speakers in the room only with iPad micros.
Than i worked it out in cubasis.
Have fun
Grüße aus Den Haag

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#21

The playlist is now rolling:

#22

Again - great fun! Thank you for these challenges!

“elec trek” is a piece for computer, glitchy beats and bluetooth loudspeaker - moving out of range….

I hooked up a fairly ok bluetooth speaker, and send a small beat + pads from Ableton out through this speaker, and wandered around my studio to find dead-spots, dragging along a microphone equipped phone (SM88).

I tried to combine some of the “best” bad connections with the original material, adding “ethereals” from NI Reaktor and Eventide.

Happy weekend, all!

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#23

Song created on iOS using Addictive Synth and Enso loopers. I played the song from my phone over a bluetooth speaker in the back of the house and then walked until I could hear it breaking up. Recorded on a DR-40 field recorder in the backyard for more ambience (and wind apparently).

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#24

Took a field recording of some birds and a small synth piece. Looked up some glitch routines with bluetooth and found the water bucket trick.

I had a phone I could lose (older one) so put the recording into the phone, ziplock bagged it, and got one or two good intermittent glitches out of the recording (fun to find!) looped them and then put together into this small piece. If you’ve been following these as a story, this track is the morning following the evening’s activity of the last five or six Junto prompts.

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#25

Thanks for posting this - The Conversation is the coolest film on recording gear ever made. What a great interview.

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#26

Blue tooth speaker restricted by:

  • metal box
  • hand
  • distance

Synth: Ripplemaker

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#27

Awesome video!! Love when you put it in the can! That’s truly playful and cool, man.

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#28

“bluetooth decay” - I think I want this delay/distortion unit in my rig… Sounds great!

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#29

The concept of Transhumanism was first introduced in 1990 by Max More, who optimistically suggested that human capability would soon be augmented by our embrace of augmentative technologies. He wasn’t wrong; examples are all around us in the form of genetic engineering, artificial intelligence and biometric nanotechnology. A more common example might be the way hearing aids and cochlear implants enhance humans’ ability to interpret sounds.

“We favor morphological freedom,” said More. “[We support] the right to modify and enhance one’s body, cognition and emotions.” Suss Müsik agrees. There are, however, ethical and social considerations. If a computer is not yet able to interpret context, then how can it be trusted to accurately convey an emotion? At what point should a machine be permitted to redefine the trust we place in our own senses? While a hearing aid provides wonderful benefits, it also somewhat distorts our concept of auditory range. If a tree falls in the forest and we can’t hear it without a device, can we honestly say that it made a sound? Riddle that awhile.

These are weighty topics, and Suss Müsik hasn’t even mentioned yet how our studio’s Bluetooth UE ROLL speaker (ironically nicknamed “Ultimate Ears”) tends to stutter when a connected device is moved out of range. This was the basis for this week’s Junto. For this piece, two ambient fields were performed and recorded through the UE ROLL straight to disk. The recordings were then sped up to create a base rhythm. Woodwinds, strings, percussion and piano were added afterward.

The vocal is Apple’s “Samantha” VoiceOver reciting an email created by Google’s Natural Language API. The vocal was recorded twice, each through a separate Moog synth module, then patched through a glitch filter at the same rate as the Bluetooth-derived tempo.

The piece is titled Exhumanism. The Creative Commons image is of a British gutta-percha hearing aid made sometime between 1840 and 1910. Thank you to artist and collaborator H. Bean for providing the text, which appears below:

I will be there in a few minutes and I’ll be there.
I will be there in a few minutes and I’ll be there up to today.
And I will be there in a few minutes and I’ll be there up to today and tomorrow.
And I will be there at the same time as the one I have.
The one I have is a good time to come by and see you soon.
I will be there to have a great day and I will be there at the same time as the one I have is a good time to come by and see you guys.
You guys how are you doing today and how are you doing today and how are you doing.
You have a good day and time and have you been up to today and tomorrow.
And tomorrow is the last day of the month and I have a few questions.
I have a few questions about what I am not sure.
I have a few questions about how I am not sure if I can make it to the meeting tonight but I can tomorrow.
If you want to do it in the morning and I will be there is a lot of work to do and I will be there at the same time and place and I’ll be back up to the outside.
And it is the best part about being able to see it and not the same as the one I have.
The one I have is a good time to come by and see you soon.
And have a great day and I will be there at the same time as they.
You know if you are interested in the morning so I can yes I can.
Yes I can.

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#30

Suss Müsik’s Bluetooth speaker simply stops working when a device is moved out of range, so we worked with that. And yeah – cables over wireless any day of the week.

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#31

Beautiful origami on the table

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