Disquiet Junto Project 0190: Missed Connections
Noncompliance [disquiet0190-missedconnections]
I hadn’t listened to any of last week’s Junto works, so I chose two tracks quickly without listening to any, based solely on what I already knew of the work of their creators:
https://soundcloud.com/thereflectors/c-swells?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet0189-tonelayer
and
https://soundcloud.com/analoc/0815-disquiet-junto-189-fripps?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet0189-tonelayer
I looped an excerpt of about 18 seconds from the first (runs from 1:15 to 2:45) and one of about 1.5 seconds from the second (runs from 0:07 to 2:10) Both of these are fairly primitive, with annoying clicks which I tried to disguise. (I was working in a hurry).
I mixed both original complete tracks together and fed the result into ambient v.0.3 This runs from beginning to end.
I also processed the mixed track in an Audacity plugin called Convoluter. This was used twice, once forward and once in reverse. It provides the blips and bloops, beginning at 0:17 and ending at 2:37)
Not sure if both loop layers were supposed to run throughout (they don’t) and I added two layers in step 5 instead of one, so I haven’t obeyed the instructions to the letter – hence the tongue-in-cheek title.
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*Disquiet Junto Project 0190: Missed Connections* Set two disjointed loops atop each other, and then add sonic glue.
Last week’s project involved using loops to accrue layers. This week’s project involves layering loops. You needn’t have participated in last week’s project to participate in this week’s.
These are the steps:
Step 1: Choose two tracks from last week’s Disquiet Junto project. Be sure to use tracks that include a license that allows for non-commercial reworking. If you’re not sure, either choose a different track, or inquire with the musician. the project is here:
https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet0189-tonelayer
Step 2: From each of those two tracks, select one loop-able segment. Be sure the segments are of different lengths.
Step 3: Create a long string of each of the two loops from Step 2 by repeating them over and over. That is: make one long string of AAAAA… and make one long string of BBBBB…, where A and B are the two loops. (That is: Do not go ABABAB.)
Step 4: Layer the two tracks resulting from Step 3 for a single track of about one to two minutes in length.
Step 5: Add one element of your own to the result of Step 4 that serves to combine the two disparate loops into one composition.
Step 6: Record a document of these layered loops lasting approximately one to two minutes in length (longer is certainly fine).
More on this 190th Disquiet Junto project (“Set two out-of-sync loops atop each other, and then add sonic glue”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2015/08/20/disquiet0190-missedconnections/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
