Disquiet Junto Project 0268: Walking Music
Way back, when the world was young… okay, about 6 years ago, I bought a small portable recorder, a Tascam. During my walk around the suburb I lived in at the time, I recorded a section of about 4 minutes while walking alongside the train tracks, hoping to get some train sounds. This is that recording. I’ve reduced the worst of the handling noise as much as possible. There’s only one edit, a sharp knock that was just too loud to suppress, otherwise it as as recorded…
…then multi-tracked, treated with EQ and reverb. Two sections have some enhancement via Soundscaper, and an underlying bass drone taken from the enhanced section and stretched. The intro and outro are taken from a completely different track, just because they seemed to fit, and they gave it a bit more ‘musicality’.
The three featured sounds are two trucks zooming past inches away (there is no footpath), and a very fast train. The shoes I was wearing had hard rubber soles and sort of “rang”, which gives my steps an odd tonality. (If you can hear them for all the reverb!)
For headphones, or a big, dark room.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0268: Walking Music
Take a stroll and describe it in sound, paying tribute to the late manga great Jiro Taniguchi.
Step 1: This week’s project pays tribute to Jiro Taniguchi, the great Japanese manga creator whose numerous works include an adaptation of a Natsume Sōseki novel, dark crime stories, and a widely celebrated and largely dialog-free volume titled The Walking Man. The Walking Man in particular is the inspiration for this week’s Junto project. Taniguchi died on February 11, 2017, at the age of 69.
Step 2: Take a leisurely stroll and record — whether through sound or observation, or both – what you see and experience.
Step 3: Create a short piece of music that reflects the route and experiences of your walk in Step 2.
More on this 268th weekly Disquiet Junto project, “Walking Musi: Take a stroll and describe it in sound, paying tribute to the late manga great Jiro Taniguchi”:
http://disquiet.com/0268/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
