here’s mine:
this is ¶radio hummingbird’s contribution to this week’s disquiet junto with the serial number 0400. congratulations for reaching this milestone with such ease. in short, the requirement for this contribution was to create a piece of music from, and including, a recorded read-out segment by Malka Older of her recent short story The Divided.
for this track, i referred to an online random number generator to assign one random section out of a total of nine to choose from. number three has, therefore, been the number of choice for this assignment.
at first i recorded read-out segment number three on an audio cassette. i feed this take through a cassette tape delay numerous times, one after another, until the source recording turned into a gnarling wall of crackling noise. separately, i prepared a 61 second endless tape loop from a separate recording of the original source audio. this loop, however, has been inserted into a 4-track recorder upside-down leading to the recording to be played back backwards. i then recorded a slowed down version of the tape delay onto another track of the running endless loop. both tracks have then additionally been recorded, slowed down once more, onto a third track of the endless loop.
the endless loop has then been feed through my modular synthesizer for processing with a number of filters as well as the glorious “Clouds” module by Mutable Instruments. all, of course, cv-controlled for further animation.
the final recording consists of four different tracks layered onto one another. 1) the source recording by Malka Older, 2) the processed endless tape loop out of the modular synthesizer, 3) the slowest possible take of the endless loop unprocessed and 4) the first noise recording from the repeatedly processed source audio from the tape delay.
mostly analogue. no daw, except for the final layering with no further digital processing added. easy.
please enjoy and to the next 400 disquiet junto assignments. hurray!
edit: and here is the obligatory instagram vid:
