#57

I hope no one else came up with this same idea. Of course John Cage did it better than me with 4’33".

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#58

I really liked the unexpected ending, especially the water sounds.

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#59

I started out with a collage of interesting (to me) swishy, swirly sounds, but it wasn’t doing much for me. Because of the Robert Rauschenberg reference in the description, it seemed like this project needed some underlying conceptual (and visually informed) framework to tell a story. So…

I used background sounds of the planet. Starting with nature… birds, wind, water, insects, etc. I gradually added human introduced sounds… traffic, aircraft, leaf blowers, motorized watercraft, etc. Then other continuous sounds produced by mechanical and electronic equipment… escalators, modems, maker bots, disk drives, etc. Then added the background noise from space.
There is some processing with granular reverbs, filters, and delays.
Fade out back to nature and background radiation sounds. Then the silence of the probable coming extinction… the piece is 4 minutes and 33 seconds.

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#60

Wow - I really, really like this. Wonderful work. :+1:

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#61

Dove into my haphazard collection of statics for this one. Field recordings include a radiator, the (above-ground) train, the (below-ground) train tunnel, a helicopter, and a selection of midcentury radio statics swept up from the cutting room floor. Then I split them up and rearranged them, repeating some short ones to make longer things. No other processing; it didn’t seem to want it.

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#62

I’m staying on an Island in a river.
I remembered it was Monday and I hadn’t check email so didn’t know what this weekends Diquiet Junto was.
I was about to do the vacuuming.
I was cooking at the time.
The sliding door has a cool sound.
I recorded things.
I looked at Robert Rauschenberg’s works.
I collaged my recordings in Logic X.
I uploaded:

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#63

Created white noise in Animoog, by chaoticaly modulating the waveshapes then filtering. And cutting and pasting it together in the daw.

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#64

May I ask what video editing tool you used to make this?

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#65

Disquiet0398
Junk Drawer Full of Noise
• Key: E major BPM: 75 Time signature: 4/4 DAW: Reaper
• Instruments:
• Plug-ins: AudioPaint
• So my idea here was to take several different sound sources and then process them into noise
• Randomly chose the Key of the project and the tempo
• Ran the chosen sound source files thru the Audio Paint software
• Used Reaper to put it all together

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#66


Had some fun pushing some sounds into overdrive while trying to emphasise how a sound collage could be physically sculpted, jagged edges, stacked chunks forming roughly arranged segments of a whole

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#67

Well, here goes:

https://soundcloud.com/acoustic_mirror/erased-disquiet0398?in=acoustic_mirror/sets/disquiet-junto

The title of this is “Erased”. Some research pointed me to Robert Rauschenberg’s “Erased de Kooning Drawing” from 1953. Apparently, the then young Rauschenberg managed to convince De Kooning to give him a drawing to erase by showing up at his doorstep with a bottle of whisky. Anyway, the resulting visual piece (and the original De Kooning drawing, later “recovered” via an infra-red scan" at the SF MoMa) proved sufficiently eerie for me.

(More on Rauschenberg’s piece here: https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/98.298/ )

The “rauschen” noises here were generated by processing both Rauschenberg’s erasure and De Kooning’s original via the VirtualANS synth: an emulator of the legendary AMS “visual” synth used in the former USSR between the 1930’s and 1950’s.

An interesting experience: rather strange, considering that I have Gigabytes of all sorts of “rauschen” noises lying around in my hard drives.

Best,

K.

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#68

hi there!
Long time since I last partcipated. I’ve been missing the freedom to create (and suck).

Process: I’ve been doing field recordings all summer. So I tried to pick some “rauschen” as an investigation into texture while still keeping the sounds natural and recognizeable.
The sounds are:
Rain - different rains actually, even some vintage rains from a few years back :wink: . recorded with iphone
Waves on beach - zoom h2
wind noise in iphone-mic sliced in Ableton simpler and played by some random sequencer
radio static - switching between stations.
footsteps on a pebble beach

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#69

The videos were brought together in Final Cut.

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#70

For this challenge, I recorded 12 samples each using a Marbeau Synth Nonlinear Pattern Generator, a BugBrand Board Chirper, and a Tocante Bistab. To create the collage, I used Giorgio Sancristoforo’s Variations software. In Ableton Live, I sped up the collage file by 100% and applied Audiority XenoVerb,

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#71

I made a simple collage of four processed recordings, one of which was a piece for Junto #29. Coincidentally I chose the same title as Sevenism’s piece - Sough. It means: 1) the rustling sound of wind and waves, and 2) a drainage channel for a mine - something that would make a nice rauschen sound.

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#72

First, I recorded several sources of white noise, beginning with every single air purifier and air conditioning unit in my house, and ending with sitting on a park bench surrounded by rustling wind, cicadas, and rush hour traffic.

Then, I chose a few to layer them together, trying to implement the style of Rauschenberg’s collages into an audio framework. I kept the drone of an air conditioning unit in the background to represent the continuous duration someone spends examining a piece of visual art and a dripping appliance as percussion to try to capture the textures of Rauschenberg’s work.

To me, the main element of these collages was repetition - repetition of colors, shapes, or figures. So I added a top line and tried to filter the frequencies in a descending fashion over and over again…but that didn’t quite work. Ultimately, I realized I was staying on one “sound” too long to feel like repetition, so I pasted in more of the sounds I had collected in a pattern. Then I added Ableton’s Beat Repeat and randomized Frequency Shifter to add some more “shapes.” That felt right!

Overall I’m content with this (not bad for four hours’ work). It sounds like noise music (which I like) but hints at a more formal underlying structure.

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#73

thunder, insects, a German woman, barking dogs, Nantucket surf- this is my rauschen. disquiet-0398: https://soundcloud.com/nat-lyon/disquiet-0398-rauschen

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#74

disquiet0398

Title of Track: RauschenBern433

Inspired by John Cage’s 4’33" and the concept of “rauschen” as white noise, this is a track at moderate volume intended to act as a frame for listening to a “performance” of 4’33". I had a podcast a few years ago, where I posted numerous location-specific ambient recordings, duration of 4’33", as performances. This new track is made of a layered collage of some of those tracks, plus new layers freshly recorded.

Sources:

Cicadas, highway rest stop, Hwy 39, central Illinois
Ocean surf, Patrick’s Point State Park, northern California
Ambient sound in the redwood forest, Crescent City, California
Ocean surf, Humbug Mountain State Park, Oregon

“Endless,” a granular synthesis track generated from ambient noise, Chicago, IL (central mix)

backyard 1, including interstate highway noise, Ypsilanti, MI (air 1)
backyard 2, including interstate highway noise, Ypsilanti, MI (air 1)
sequential short recordings: fan noise, traffic noise, cicadas, wind (earth)
bathroom faucet and shower (water 1)
tea kettle rising to boil, then shutting off (water, fire)

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#75

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#76

A sound collage of FM-broadcasting noise i made with an old radio. A tribute to the times when i was a young boy, awake in the middle of the night, searching on my radio frequencies from outerspace.

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