Expansion X Contraction [disquiet0224-coldembrace]
In summer my fridge makes more noise than a samba band. Now that it’s autumn, it’s whisper quiet. So I made sure the motor was running and put the recorder INSIDE the fridge. I think the few sharp clicks you can hear, and which became part of the various treatments, were actually the effect of the cold on the plastic body of the recorder. Oh well.
So, the basic recording, with handling noise edited out, is the foundation.
Two more full length tracks were produced by tempo compressing the sample to 10 seconds and then stretching it back out to full length, (hence the title) using tonality and harmonics settings to obtain the “organ” drone. This was done using Paulstretch, a vastly underrated piece of software imo :)
The first click was used to produce the industrial percussive sounds in the middle. The odd melodic passages near the beginning and ending were made by manipulating the sample using The Mangle as a real time instrument.
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Make music with the sound of a refrigerator as its foundation.
This week’s project was inspired, in part, by an April 13, 2016, talk that the artist Jeff Kolar gave to students in the class on sound that I teach.
Step 1: Record the sound of a refrigerator, preferably the one in your own kitchen.
Step 2: Listen to the recording to get a sense of the hum, the tonality, and the rhythm or rhythms inherent in that audio.
Step 3: Create an original piece of music augmenting that tonality and rhythm. It’s preferable you simple add material to the field recording, but you can also use the field recording as source material.
More on this 224th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Make music with the sound of a refrigerator as its foundation.”) at:
http://disquiet.com/0224/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
