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Disquiet Junto Project 0476: IAH Forecast

The Assignment: Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it.

Step 1: This is the cover of your next single:

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Step 2: Now record your single.

Note: The photo was shot in Houston, Texas, by Robert Boyd and is used with his permission.

Seven More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0476” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your tracks.

Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0476” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation of a project playlist.

Step 3: Upload your tracks. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your tracks.

Step 4: Post your tracks in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0476-iah-forecast/

Step 5: Annotate your tracks with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: If posting on social media, please consider using the hashtag #disquietjunto so fellow participants are more likely to locate your communication.

Step 7: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Additional Details:

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, February 15, 2021, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, February 11, 2021.

Length: The length is up to you. However you picture it.

Title/Tag: When posting your tracks, please include “disquiet0476” in the title of the tracks, and where applicable (on SoundCloud, for example) as a tag.

Upload: When participating in this project, be sure to include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

Download: It is always best to set your track as downloadable and allowing for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution, allowing for derivatives).

For context, when posting the track online, please be sure to include this following information:

More on this 476th weekly Disquiet Junto project – IAH Forecast (The Assignment: Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it.) – at:

https://disquiet.com/0476/

The image that is the source of this project is by Robert Boyd (www.thegreatgodpanisdead.com) and has been used with his permission.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0476-iah-forecast/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

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And the project is now live.

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Perfect timing this week!
I was loading up my DAW to make some music as the Disquiet Email came in… so seemed the perfect thing to do.

I went with the flow with this one… I went with some foggy sounding synth and pulled out an old field recording from the A11 dual carrageway by the Norfolk / Suffolk border. I let the field recording play and just improvised some synth at once over the top. I recorded that in 1 take and then went to the arrangement.
I added a drum rack - an effect on the whole thing… making a nice dubby slow rhythm. It picks up a level or two and I added some other elements of synth and ambience. It was quick and simple to make. This was a good fun experiement to do.

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I lived in Houston for 9 months in 1997. Lived and worked on Westheimer Rd. I worked near River Oaks at a tech startup. My wife worked somewhat nearby on Greenway Plaza at what is now Invesco.

The food in Houston was excellent. One time, Dusty Hill from ZZ Top was behind us in line at a BBQ joint and ordered “a quart of jambalaya”. Yes, he was dressed like he was on stage. I thought it was the perfect Texas moment. Although a close second was going out with Ann’s co-workers to somebody’s horse farm in the country and one her co-workers rode a horse backwards very fast. Nice people.

There should be more cars on whatever road this is. I remember the traffic was crazy. And the air often smelled of gas, the result of being close to oil refineries.

This track is a combination of several pieces of mine: Aleodeology’s “Time Travel Destination in the Past”, “Simulated Gravity”, “Aleodeological Travel”, and “Empty Interstate Due to Microaggressions”, along with my side band Vibrating Wires’ “The Long Drive Out”, “The Path to REM Sleep”, and “Southwestern Desert” - and some field recordings of rain that I recorded.

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