I listened to the first thirty seconds of each of last week's submissions, and ended up picking "Tired Machines", "Hexhead", and "Il trio mutilato" as my sources, and I decided that I'd use Hexhead's signature motif as the focal point for my track.
I clipped off the first thirty seconds of each source track in Fission, and further snipped up the Hexhead and Tired Machines clips into two and three smaller clips, respectively, to capture the specific musical gestures in each.
I then tossed these into the shredder with Forester, doing several takes until I got some source materials I really liked. I chose to use the "clumped" trees, and mostly used manual placement of the playhead; there were a couple of short segments where I allowed the head to wander at random. The shortened clips made it easier to get output that featured twisted echoes of each of the source tracks.
I loaded both the resulting takes into Audacity and abused noise reduction to thin out and distort the first take by selecting a dense but not very interesting section of the track and using that as the noise to be removed. I then applied that noise profile to the other take to get some crunchy spectral distortion.
I then selected sections of both takes and used repeated applications of Audacity's sliding tempo/pitch plugin to stretch and compress them, and mixed the two takes together into a final track, adding some silence to line everything up.
More on this 234th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Make a remix of three tracks of a remix of three tracks, courtesy of a Creative Commons license” — at:
http://disquiet.com/0234/
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Thanks to Audio Obscura (aka Neil Stringfellow) for proposing this week’s project.
