uploaded just to upload something i guess; i've been round this and round this - partially 'cause i built it to loop but also out of vague and uninspired paralysis too...
our fridge is alarmingly quiet - it's bundled with the flat at *least* ten years old and scarcely a premium purchase but for all it's cracks and unergonomic fittings it works more or less silently. A says it's noisy at night but i've never noticed. So there's that.
Or at least, there's this - one of the fridges at work; industrial - uh, more accurately retail - second hand and - pleasingly to these twentieth century ears - noisy as anything.
So yeah, i record a few minutes of the fridge heard here when i should've been working [it was an evening shift on Friday, it was quiet but yeah, still, art-shirk in full effect] and spent much of the rest of the weekend listening to it, attempting to accompany it. My gut instinct would've been to just upload it as it is, 'cause seriously, what's to add? Especially if you take Marc's instructions to heart - "It’s preferable you simple add material to the field recording, but you can also use the field recording as source material" - I mean I rarely feel i augment anything so much as i tinker, interfere, muck about. [entropic, right? right.]
but yeah, i made cued up a bunch of more or less annoying sine waves [disturbing A's TV watching the other night and revealing strange resonances in the flat's construction/topography] which you can hear gradually fade in here. I rather liked the abrupt shut off & rather like the idea of making something which doesn't quite loop neatly, loop neatly.
&, bonus, now it's uploaded the version playable is compressed, obv., so adds a whole new set of unintentional artefacts to the sound, it isn't really the sound, i guess; a lesson in dabbling with popular distribution channels & high frequency sonics if ever there was one. Download the .wav if you want to hear what i think it actually sounds like. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So yeah. Hm.
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