i mean this - “rauschen” is noise in the sense of white noise, waterfall noise, background noise, static, wind in trees, rain, etc. The blurred, diffuse, continuous kind of noise, not short individual non-tonal sounds. - is almost exactly my shit. Line hum, shortwave radio, rustle [etymologically related to 'rauschen'?], hiss and fizz. All the good things. & that's before Marc even gets around to invoking Robert Rauschenberg, somebody whose work has captivated me since i was an arty little brat in high school. His works density and elegance, the strange utopian gleanings in the collage work,the comfort with mess and scrabble; the ability to find strange trash-inflected grace in the available shambles...
So yeah, for good or ill, this project appealed d e e p l y and i have hours and hours of recordings to chop and blend, overlay, crash, paste. So yeah, there's not much method beyond digging through my memory cards looking for the suitable muted crackles, rumbles and clicks. There's a lot of rain here - it's been wet & i have this vague fantasy of starting a podcast of rain recordings - but also vending machines, basement ventilation outlets, pumpkin seeds (yeah, i know, always with the pumpkin seeds), a waterfall, freshly recorded radio static and wear rumble. I made a point of minimising interventions beyond chopping, layering, rearranging; one sample is slowed down but in the main the only effects applied are tweaking the eq levels on some of the recordings and some forced panning here and there.
More on this 398th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Rauschen Bern / The Assignment: Make music by making a collage of noises — at:
https://disquiet.com/0398/ 1
This week’s project is the first of three being done in collaboration with Musikfestival Bern, which runs in Switzerland from September 11 – 15, 2019. More details at:
https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/ 2
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
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