See https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet0200-kadreyscore
Okay… I drew a 2, so I had a listen and then fed Richard into the granulator (ambient v.3) and had a ball scrambling his voice for about 16 minutes. Then I took a few seconds here, a second there, a whisker somewhere else, processed them in a somewhat random, ‘let’s-see-what-happens’ fashion and created a few small effects. Let’s face it, 60 seconds isn’t a lot to work with, especially when you are used to 25 minutes tracks!
I also double-tracked Richard’s voice and added a touch of reverb, being careful not to distort time & space too much, though I did edit out the two hesitations in his read.
The only sound not drawn from Richard’s voice is the short melodic drone right at the end.
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Create a score to a Richard Kadrey short story — using his own voice as source audio.
Richard Kadrey is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim supernatural noir books. The eighth book in the series, The Perdition Score, will be out in July 2016. Some of his other books include The Everything Box, Metrophage, Butcher Bird, Dead Set, and the graphic novel Accelerate. Sandman Slim was included in Amazon’s “100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime.” More from Kadrey at richardkadrey.com, facebook.com/richard.kadrey, and twitter.com/Richard_Kadrey.
These are the 5 steps in the project:
Step 1: The author Richard Kadrey (Sandman Slim, Metrophage) has recorded himself reading seven separate one-minute segments of a short story that can be listened to in any sequence. Choose a number from 1 to 7. The tool at the top of this page is useful:
http://www.randomnumbergenerator.com/
Step 2: Download the numerical track from this following playlist. The tracks are listed from “MUDROSTI 1” through “MUDROSTI 7.” Download the one that correlates with the number resulting from Step 1 of this project.
https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/richard-kadrey-mudrosti-junto/s-H7sas
Step 3: Create a score to accompany Kadrey’s reading of his own short story in the track that you got in Step 2. Primarily use Kadrey’s own voice as the source material for your score — bend it, shape it, extract from it, and burnish it to your will. Additional sonic elements, both musical and foley, are welcome, but a substantial percentage of the sound should be from Kadrey’s own voice. Also: keep Kadrey’s own reading audible and inteligible; don’t slow or speed or otherwise edit it. Your score should accompany his reading, not thoroughly supplant it.
Step 4: Upload your completed track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud. Include the term “disquiet0200-kadreyscoreX” in the title of your track, where X is the number of the track you were assigned (1 through 7).
More on this 200th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a score to a Richard Kadrey short story — using his own voice as source audio”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2015/10/29/disquiet0200-kadreyscore/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
