This week's Disquiet Junto asked us to consider what our favorite instrument might sound like while dreaming. To create this piece I patched a dense and complicated structure on my modular synthesizer with a goal of having as many modules as possible blinking, flashing, and participating. I recorded the sound of the patch here if you're interested in checking it out:
https://soundcloud.com/337is/disquieting-preparing-to-dream
Then, while recording that patch, I broke out a stereo pair of coil pickups which allow me to record electronic sounds emanating from devices and the environment. I moved the coils around the various modules in use for the patch and recorded the sound of them functioning to create the other composition. These sounds cannot normally be perceived or heard, and I imagine them as the subconscious of my modular synth. And the subconscious is home to dream. I added a bit of reverb to the recording to imply the depth of headspace in dreaming states.
More on this 181st Disquiet Junto project (“Imagine your favorite instrument is dreaming while it sleeps — what does it sound like?”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2015/06/18/disquiet0181-instrumentaldream/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/junto/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
http://disquiet.com/forums/
(NOTE: I did not use this image and instead created my own) Image associated with this project by Tim Patterson used thanks to a Creative Commons license:
https://flic.kr/p/7bhwdM