#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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#77

For “il rumore della spiaggia” I grabbed recordings from my archive, all recorded in the Italian village of Pisciotta (SA). These include the sound of the sea, rocks on the beach, insects in the surrounding hillsides, electrical hums and drones, and cars and scooters in the distance. I mixed them, entirely unprocessed, with just editing, panning, and fades.

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#78

Hey All, I saw this and thought if you’re into modular this looks way cool.What I like is it also uploads your sounds to freesound also building the data base. Peace, Hugh

https://blog.freesound.org/?p=1026

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#79

I think this wins my “favorite track title” award this Junto.

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#81

I could not think of what I wanted to use for this project, but I knew what I wanted to do: layer a bunch of samples, nicely arranged in time and space, via Garageband.

I finally had the inspiration when I turned off the fan that’s been running almost continuously in my room this summer. Fan noises! I hit up Freesound for a ton of samples, and then started dragging them onto the timeline, tweaking EQ and adding effects as seemed appropriate.

I ended up with a “noise rondo”, which I find very relaxing.

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#82

Hi all! I’m finally getting a moment to chime in from the Musikfestival Bern side of the collaboration. I’m still listening my way through the 60 tracks - it’s overwhelming both in scope, diversity and originality. Thank you all so much for participating. When I approached @disquiet for a collab back in March I obviously had no idea we’d be getting such a response! Here’s what I have planned. We will have a full day of public workshops, listening events at the tent pictured in the 0399 image. I have reserved three hours for the Junto, one for each week. I knew I’d have to make a selection, but since we got 60 contributions for the first project I had another idea: would you be OK with me making a mix with one minute from each track? Or would anyone of you be interested in doing that? (I haven’t yet checked if all pieces are available for download). I’m interested in hearing from the group. Otherwise I will have to make hard choices and select a few pieces/excerpts to play during that hour.

Looking forward to hearing from you! I can also be reached on Twitter @tobiasreber or via email at t.reber@musikfestivalbern. If any of you are Switzerland, let me know and let’s meet up on Friday 13th! :slight_smile:

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