Missing Audio Data Block Files [disquiet 0239]
I was working on a track for an ambientonline challenge and… something happened to it. Somewhere between renaming it and reloading it, most of it vanished, leaving a few odd spots of disembodied sound - probably about 12 seconds total in a 12 minute track - in either channel and huge lots of silence. I could have probably dug for it in Audacity’s temp files, but I took it as a sign after reading the disquiet assignment – the track being deceased, rather than the software (though my ancient computer is probably heading the same way).
I cut out a lot of the silence and cloned it with reversed stereo, merged what remained into one track, reduced its tempo to about 20 seconds then multi-tracked it, staggering the tracks, reversing some and adding 2 stretched versions (one reversed) with added reverb.
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The Assignment: Compose a short composition in memoriam for a piece of recently deceased software.
Please note the instructions below, in light of SoundCloud closing down its Groups functionality.
Project Steps:
Step 1: Compose a short composition in memoriam for a piece of recently deceased software.
Five More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done :
Step 1: Upload your completed track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud (this task will continue until the August 22 sunsetting of that service). It’s here:
https://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Step 2: This is a new task, if you’ve done a Junto project previously. In the comment field to the track mention @disquiet. This will ping me to add the track to a playlist.
Step 3: Per the instructions below, be sure to tag your track #disquiet0239
More on this 239th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Compose a short composition in memoriam for a piece of recently deceased software” — at:
http://disquiet.com/0239/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
