### 0617 0617 Disquiet Junto 284 Calderon Hondo I
Calderon Hondo I disquiet0284
**Production Notes**
Edited a short piece from of the original material. Put this in my trusty ambient v03 for some granular base. Added pieces of the original material with some ping pong delays (Objeq Delay from AAS) and some hall. Mixed and mastered with cheap earbuds, so forgive me any strange frequencies.
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**Disquiet Junto Project 0284: Creative Commonfield**
Make ambient music from the sound of clay bowls.
Step 1: We’ll be making ambient recordings this week based on source audio from the artist Chris Kallmyer. He recorded the music using bells and bowls he constructed from clay sourced on the banks of the Mississippi River in St. Louis. Download the source audio from here:
https://goo.gl/Jb5CGU
Note: That file is an MP3. If you’d like to use a larger, higher-fidelity recording, I’ll have it available later today. Just shoot me an email at marc@disquiet.com.
Step 2: The goal is to make recordings that can also be played in the San Francisco gallery FraenkelLAB, where Kallmyer’s work is currently on display as part of the exhibit “Listening Is a Luxury.” I’ll be giving a talk there on Friday, June 16, and I’ll have some of the music audible in the background as well as before and after the talk.
Step 3: Among Kallmyer’s sonic objects made from the St. Louis clay are ceramic bowls. When making a piece of music from the source audio please do the following: (A) use no additional source audio, (B) aim for a sound that is just as gentle as the source audio, (C) consider using stereo effects to reflect the circular shape of the bowls. (Note: I might make an edit of the tracks — a ceramic chime mixtape, as it were — for the event.)
Five More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:
Step 1: If you hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to include the project tag “disquiet0284” (no spaces) in the name of your track. If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to my locating the tracks and creating a playlist of them.
Step 2: Upload your track. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your track.
Step 3: In the following discussion thread at llllllll.co please consider posting your track:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0284-creative-commonfield/
Step 4: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.
Step 5: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.
Deadline: This project’s deadline is 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, June 12, 2017. This project was posted in the late morning, California time, on Thursday, June 8, 2017.
Length: The length is entirely up to the participant, though roughly three minutes is suggested.
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More on this 284th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Creative Commonfield: Make ambient music from the sound of clay bowls. — at:
https://disquiet.com/0284/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://disquiet.com/junto/
Subscribe to project announcements here:
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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0284-creative-commonfield/
There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.
Image courtesy of fraenkelgallery.com and the artist Chris Kallmyer, who created the bowls and the source audio. More from Kallmyer at:
http://www.chriskallmyer.com/
