Malka Older – The Divided – Part 5/9 disquiet0400
I used the voice track of Part 5 to create 4 ambient backgrounds. One normal, processed to a soft blur. This was also overlaid in slightly reverbed form. Another was reversed and likewise processed, then bass boosted and dropped an octave. Another was put through a convoluter and overlaid, though at a subliminal level.
The second half was duplicated and processed through a corkscrew plugin, then also overlaid at very low volume.
Finally a one minute section of an old Luminth recording was chosen and used as a ‘musical’ backing.
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The Assignment: Create a score to a Malka Older story using the author’s own voice as source audio.
Step 1: The author Malka Older (Infomocracy, Ninth Step Station, Orphan Black: The Next Chapter) has generously recorded herself reading her own short story, “The Divided,” and made that recording available to the Disquiet Junto community for this project. Acquire the nine (roughly) one-minute segments of the recording in this zip file:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mgwx9fa9bwz76ll/0400-stems.zip
Step 2: Select one of the nine tracks at random.
Step 3: Listen to the entire story, which is about nine and a half minutes long. Consider the narrative sensibility of your assigned subset of that story.
Step 4: Create a score and sound design to accompany Older’s reading of her own short story in the track that you selected in Step 2. Primarily use Older’s own voice as the source material for your score — bend it, shape it, extract from it, and burnish it to your creative ends. Additional sonic elements, both musical and foley, are welcome, but a substantial percentage of the sound should be from Older’s own voice. Also: keep Older’s own reading audible and inteligible; don’t slow or speed or otherwise edit it. Your score should accompany the reading, not supplant it.
More on this 400th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sub Divided / The Assignment: Create a score to a Malka Older story using the author’s own voice as source audio — at:
https://disquiet.com/0400/
Thanks to Malka Older for providing the audio and collaborating on this. Thanks to Alex Hawthorn for audio technical assistance.
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