This is playful, as the Junto instructions requested, but perhaps a bit sour. Or annoyed, in intent if not in sound (I have very mixed feelings about program sound and things as not sufficient as themselves to be heard etc.).
In the moment and over the long haul it seems we (or some of the bigger us we call "we") forget that technology is not magic. Nor is it voodoo curses.
Not even only slightly knowing what lives inside our gadgets and gizmos can become an excuse for blind and fearful reaction to any widget someone slaps together out of good faith curiosity. Yes, such ignorance & reaction leaves me feeling very sour.
But moving just beyond that: Most of these sounds are unheard emanations or sounds but not as they are usually heard. Most are electromagnetic fields (EMF) picked up from say a computer or the Zoom H4 digital recorder I use or an old electric motor driven clock radio or a battery powered quartz wall clock. All of these are actual or figurative clocks and/or have some aspect that is spoken of as a clock. The processor speed and such like--don't misunderstand me. Tho' I don't rely on movies to tell me a clock from a suspect device, I'm neither a tech nor an engineer. A 14 year old knows more about such things than I do.
There's also the sound of a struck clock chime from an empty mantle clock body found in a Goodwill. The wood body, the metal back plate, the chime bar still mounted inside, yes--but no clockworks, no face. In the mix, I cheated and swallowed up a few (okay, fine: all) of the transients to make the sustain tones float in. Just to be wicked (that is to be clear, via the simple use of the GarageBand software that came with a circa 2010 iMac--the sort of stuff that surrounds us daily).
So everything's a clock. A few kind of clocks, short of going organic, like working in a pulse beat. Well, hey, if I only had a heart . . .
It's enough that the EMF was "played" real time in volume and character by where my flesh and blood hand would move the receiving phone tap pickup (thank you very much, ancient Radio Shack).
Some clocks are most irregular. And yet they are clocks. You standing on one now. Kind of. It's as if one is always in the midst of so much in the physical world, humanly actuated and not, that one would have to be educated to become aware of it. Say, perhaps, in school.
Short track description for those keeping score at home: Paint brush striking chime in empty mantle clock; iMac EMF picked up by phone tap coil into gray Realistic mini amp; melted faux woodgrain GE Clock Radio EMF picked up like above; quartz battery powered wall clock EMF ditto; Zoom H4 Handy Recorder EMF likewise.
BTW, the track image is a scan of the innards of aforementioned Realistic mini amp framed in the aforementioned empty mantle clock. Now you know . . .
More on this 194th Disquiet Junto project (“Record the sound of a clock and make something playful and sweet out of it”) at:
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