One Percent Disjunction [disquiet0264]
I thought I’d approach this by exploring the inside of a stretch, rather than just absorbing the overall drone effect. Not sure if it worked, but it was fun.
I took a 3 second sample from a piece I was working on. I used Audacity’s Sliding Time Scale effect on it. This stretches the sample unevenly, pulling only from one end, as it were. When the result was just over three minutes long, I reversed it.
I duplicated the track and then pitched it down by 1% - that is by 0.01 of a tone. This helps create the phasing and movement you hear in the track. I also mixed these together and laid the mix as another track, but out of phase by 0.01 of a second.
A reverb version of the mixed tracks was also laid (in phase).
The ending was made by stretching the original sample out 12x using Audacity’s simplified version of Paulstretch.
The track image was made by applying similar principles to Marc’s email image, using paint.net
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Disquiet Junto Project 0264: Time Travel
Record a piece of music that plays with the perception of time.
Step 1: Recorded music is, generally speaking, a fixed object. It’s a document. It proceeds linearly, over time. It is, in the terminology of fine art, “time-based.” That said, music has the power to change one’s perception of time. Slowing and speeding tempo alone can alter a listener’s understanding of what is happening. Backward masking, sublimated hints of themes yet to come, the sound of a tape in fast forward mode — those are just a few ways that a composer can suggest that time is not moving linearly. Now, consider for a moment the tools available to give an impression of time doing things other than proceeding in a steady forward motion.
Step 2: Record a short piece of music that takes time travel as its theme, using ideas that resulted from the consideration in Step 1.
Five More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:
Step 1: If you hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to include the project tag “disquiet0264″ (no spaces) in the name of your track. If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to my locating the tracks and creating a playlist of them.
Step 2: Upload your track. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your track.
Step 3: In the following discussion thread at llllllll.co please consider posting your track:
http://llllllll.co/t/music-for-time-travelers-disquiet-junto-project-0264/6157/
More on this 264th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Time Travel: Record a piece of music that plays with the perception of time”:
http://disquiet.com/0264/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
