Rauschenberg seemed to be a fan of Dadaist Kurt Schwitters (as do I), hence the idea of a collage. A collage needs to have "cut outs" on a "picture frame".
A websdr recording from http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ is the frame, starting getting from narrow band to wide band and back to get some variation and acoustic frame borders.
As cut-outs, I used different field recordings of rauschen-like noises (rain, wind, park, water, electronics), destroyed them by cutting them and collaged them back on the frame. Plus some FX, mostly reverb, just to place the sounds in a virtual room and to enhance the feeling of scrap artwork.
(All this destroys the idea of "avoiding short individual non-tonal sounds by using rauschen" and I felt subversive for a few seconds. ;-)
As natural rauschen does seldom come without none-noise, you may hear a couple having fun and a woodpecker (the latter recorded in the english garden in Munich, Germany).
More on this 398th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Rauschen Bern / The Assignment: Make music by making a collage of noises — at:
https://disquiet.com/0398/
This week’s project is the first of three being done in collaboration with Musikfestival Bern, which runs in Switzerland from September 11 – 15, 2019. More details at:
https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://disquiet.com/junto/
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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0398-rauschen-bern/
Image based on
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snow_television_and_Furrier%27s_shop.jpg
from "Kürschner" (CC0 / Public Domain)
