#21

My contribution this week:

I chose the mixed frogs and ducks from Another Neglected Hobby: Disquiet Junto Project 0437: Echo Relocation which is already a mix of two field recordings. I realize just now that I picked from the wrong playlist. well, now it is like this.

I played it from speakers on the opposite side of the windows, and placed the recorder on the window sill facing outside to the backyard.
The peacefulness of the mixed frogs and ducks seems to be gone now, some church bells were ringing at that time, making the soundscape more of a religious construction site or something.

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#22

Recording of @GLSmyth’s Disquiet0437 (Frogs at the pond) playing in our kitchen from a Pixel 4 smartphone while making a cappuccino with our Nespresso machine, recorded on a Sony PCM-M10.

Cat watering fountain and wife coughing in the background.

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#23

It sounds like it is the middle of the night and you have gotten up to get a cup of cappuccino to help you sleep. (g) Thanks!

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#24

i selected 5 random recordings (forgot which ones sorry!), took random 1 minute segments, then played them in random order through a cheap thrift store amp and rerecorded the result. i forgot the windscreen for the recorder but decided to forgo judgement and roll with it. the blowing grass blends with the recording nicely and its hard to tell what is coming from where. for anyone interested, the recording was made on figueroa mountain near los alamos, ca.

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#25

Hah! Thanks. I’m pleased with how it came out given how little I did to prepare for it. I put the Pixel on one corner of the kitchen on the counter, and the studio recorder on the stove across from it, which is detached from the counter the Nespresso was on, so I didn’t pick up any rattle. I was surprised how “outside” the sound turned out to be.

My wife loves your recording, by the way. She’s asked me to play it three or four times today.

#26

I randomly selected “Disquiet0436 - temple through park” by @GretchenJude, played it through a set of EV ZLX-12P speakers in my garage with the door open and recorded it with a Tascam DR-05 digital recorder. I I took the result and dropped it into ableton, cut off everything under 40Hz with an EQ, added a limiter due to some harsh pops in the recording, and then turned everything up. Also faded the first and last second of the recording in ableton.

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#27

10.30pm on our deck in the Deering Center neighborhood of Portland, Maine. I setup a bluetooth speaker at one end and a zoom h4n at the other. 52 degrees, end of the first actual warm weekend we’ve had. You can still hear the peepers in a small pond a couple blocks away. I selected a few recordings from the 0436 playlist mostly based on whether they featured bird sounds, which I wanted to hear at night. I played roughly one minute each of the following tracks, excepting the last one which ran about 2.5 minutes. You can hear a neighborhood cat jump/fall at around the five minute mark.

@derangement caustic_gates — disquiet0436 - 7am window
@Forelight 4//lIGhT — Disquiet0436 7am Friday Morning
@karst karst — budapest zero four hundred [disquiet0436]
@Gretchen_Jude GretchenJude — Disquiet0436 - temple through park
@morgulbee morgulbee — Emergency Warning System Test With Birdsong, Boulder, Colorado - disquiet0436
@rrizzi rizzi — disquiet0436 Sirene May 6th 2020 At Noon

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#28

The piano(?) sounds so nice at around the 2:00 mark.

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#29

yes i believe it is a piano. that is one of my favorite parts as well.

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#30

Love the drone effect from the tube. Reminded me a little of this quarantine project by Id M Theft Able here in Maine:

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#31

I like the metaphor of bringing two places (and their listeners) together in these times of “distance”.

I employed the recording by Ohm Research called “aoao (Disquiet 0436)” within this piece.

I liked the combination of birds and natural sound with the “intrusion” of industry and machines in their recording; I took this recording up to my rooftop in a residential neighborhood in the East Bay, and played it from a small Jawbone speaker into a stainless steel bowl. My Nagra field recorder was positioned over the bowl, and balance between the recording and the ambience of my neighborhood was fixed by moving the bowl farther or closer to the recorder.

But because there is something of a metaphor in this piece (to my mind, anyway) I couldn’t just stop at layering the two different environments. The current shelter-in-place order is having two effects on me: first, it has shattered my previous sense of the passage of time, mostly due to prolonged periods of “waiting” and repetition, and secondly, it has created new routines which we are enacting every day, patterns and activities that are forming new “ruts” in the road of life. In honor of these two impressions, the piece presented here uses resonating comb filters and has had it’s original time scale manipulated. Junto rules are made to be played with…

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#32

I love this series of videos.

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#33

My contribution to this weeks Junto https://soundcloud.com/rizzi/disquiet0437-monday-may-18th-layered-realities
What a great assignment this week… Right up my alley - and the third in row ( years since that happened)

I have mostly been working with field recordings in my own artistic expression for the past 10 years or so. During this period I have been trying a lot of different approaches to manipulate the recordings, much like a photographer (sometimes/maybe) would with his images - with filters, by adding to the photo - being with other photos (or part thereof) by painting on top, by scratching etc…

One of the things I found worked for me, is layering. I made a bunch of different pieces that I titled “Layered Realities” Basically it’s multiple recordings on top of each other - sometimes different techniques from the same place - sometimes same technique from different places.

Anyway for this weeks Junto I choose four recordings from the list that had a different soundscape from the one in my environment.

These are the ones I used:

  1. Detritus Tabu3 ’s No-Voice Memo Accidentally Sent to Boss (disquiet Field Recording)disquiet0436”

  2. Radio Hummingbird’s _disquiet0436 (2020-05-09 0550am)

  3. morgulbee’s Emergency Warning System Test With Birdsong, Boulder, Colorado - disquiet0436

  4. GL Smyth’s Frogs at the pond (disquiet0436)

I placed 4 JBL Clip speakers connected to 4 iPads around my garden and recorded this new sonic environment with my Sone PCM D100 recorder.

The recording starts with me shutting the backdoor to the house and walking from speaker to speaker pausing a little each place. After leaving the final station “Frogs at the pond” I stand still for about 30 seconds - more or less in the middle of the the four sounds. Finally I’m walking back to the backdoor … took two runs to get the balance right.

I liked it so much, that I made a video after the fact with my phone - unfortunately there’s a lot of wind noise, so I haven’t done more with it - and the timing between the sound recording and video was off so I couldn’t even layer the two…

I had a lot of fun with this one. Enjoy

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#34

I think I’m in love with this

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#35

used @samarobryn 's track https://samarobryn.bandcamp.com/track/barrier-frustration-disquiet-0436

wanted sounds from the other side of earth

her staffy freaked out the cats in my garden but not audibly so

noisy kids / birds / chimes in my neighbourhood this afternoon

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#36

My first Junto in a long time! Great to get back on the horse, as it were. I used @vgmrmojo’s recording from last week and, using binaural earbuds, positioned myself on the couch, about 8’ from my desk and reference monitors. I recorded the natural ambience for a short while before starting the track. I kept my head stationary for the first three quarters of the track, but wanted to get some variation in the ambience, so I got up and went to the fridge and walked around a bit.

Best with headphones:

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#38


I recalled how I heard the emergency warning system on a Tuesday morning in Chicago some years back. Listening to the ‘morgulbee’ recording https://soundcloud.com/morgulbee/emergency-warning-system-test-boulder-colorado?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0436
It was that memory reflex that one sometimes has that made me hone in on this piece. It made me want to play with the original to set it in place where I now reside, and this time on an outdoor balcony, but the sound pressure changes subtly from inside to outside.

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#39

I used a random number generator and ended up with Gretchen Jude’s “Home to Temple” (Gretchenjude – Disquiet0436-home-to-temple), which I had actually already enjoyed listening to last week.

I busted out my new Orange mini-amp and recorded it at 6 in the evening (when the local birds get a little frantic). I was able to get her soundscape audible within mine, enjoying the synchronicities between the two.

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#40

Since I learned about the junto, it has become sort of a habit for me to play the playlist each week while sometimes I work at my desk and my family will do stuff around the house. So that is exactly what I recorded today, me listening to the list at my work table and my family doing stuff around. It was special for me while I did it, and I liked the results, although after reading some of the processes people have shared in this thread I kind of regret not having given it more thought. Anyway after I recorded a good chunk, I listened to the result and selected what for me was the most interesting minute and a half. That chunk coincided with Gretchen Jude’s Temple Through Park, which is such an amazing recording! I named it Temple Through Park in the Kitchen because I think you can hear a lot of that outside park in contrast with the kitchen sounds and voices, and I find that contrast appealing.

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#41

her staffy freaked out the cats in my garden but not audibly so

HAHA that’s gold! Thanks for sharing!

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