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krsewardNTSC-disquiet0458Started in good faith with the proper shifting, but soon slipped into variable drive.
My own predilections aside, still haunted by some dim recollection of reading long ago popular magazine articles about the forthcoming variable ratio transmissions that were going to make automobiles super efficient.
So herein it went from shifting gears to tweaking ratios. If anything nearly so rational.
And, NTSC, the title is itself an old joke.
NTSC was the North American analog color TV standard (as PAL was in Europe), which has a proper name, but was jokingly said to stand for “Never The Same Color”. And so i...2020-10-0901 min
krsewardMargin Smoke - disquiet0456Not a sight reading muso of note, and a half baked skeptic to boot re the many many differences in sight and sound as humanly rendered and perceived, just dug into a jpeg of Agnes Martin and clipped out the ragged margins toward some nefarious end which I later decided against.
So, clippings, editions, distortions, revisions to create 2 minutes of drone & such that may or may not capture either the spirit or the letter of what Agnes Martin has laid down. The above visual mess about was fed into and generally messed about via the ever fun idiomatics of Virtual...2020-09-2502 min
krsewardDeroost-disquiet0396Recording my humming an original melody/riff/whatnot into old hand me down padlike gizmo. Manipulated and rerecorded in GliderVerb running on said gizmo. Edited for length & levels with fades in and out, then normalized—all in Audacity running on actual if ageing computer.
So the manipulations were initially done in real time with a portion of that real time rerecording selected to make this. Clarity/statement of original melody not at all a priority nor is this a classicist aiming for a theme and variations approach. The distended bits of the melody were as much a basic source material as...2019-08-0301 min
krsewardStateInvariable-disquiet0381Used handy VCV Rack virtual modular. Tried various limited systems but settled on using 2 VFX oscillators with a bunch of VCV Fundamental Modules, LFO-2 and Mixer. The Bento Box module set proposed in the Shared System had other options but they didn’t seem necessary here.
The VFX oscillators allow for modulations aplenty, which were not used here. The detune/multiple voice/spread functions alone created undulating stereo spread drones. Then LFOs drove the mixer levels and other LFOs modulated those LFOs. The sometimes audio range interactions added higher frequency squelch sounds. No filter was used as the fundamental tones we...2019-04-1901 min
krsewardNo 13-disquiet0340Mixdown of multiple tracks recorded live in a handy stairwell circa where there might be a 13th floor, if such things were allowed to be.
Individual tracks were each recorded to mono on smphone running Titanium Recorder (consult your local G00gL3 P1@y dealer). Smphn was in slightly different locations for each track and/or the gizmo recorded was in a different spot in same basic acoustic space.
Recorded were a Monotron, a toy echo mic, a voice (together and apart). Also a three AM radio theremin setup consisting of a venerable transistor radio and Walkman set to AM...2018-07-0602 min
krsewardShake Loose-disquiet0334My being no Glenn Branca, soldiered forth anyway in honor of what he's done. Started with one actuator (an electric toothbrush) and 4 resonators (a pewter pitcher, a ceramic fruit bowl, a bowl-like bit of clear plastic packaging, and a metal mixing bowl). Recordings of those physical interactions got messed about by a smartphone program, Reelwave, that emulates varispeed playback of a open reel tape deck. All that was played through a found karaoke machine with built-in echo and recorded to ten tracks (twice my usual--to fit in with the "massive" Glenn Branca theme of this Junto), then mixed down to...2018-05-2506 min
krsewardPage - disquiet0326Created with recordings of record needle sound(most, not all, from cueing records). Plus Noise Maschine running on smphn, Oscillator and ToyTone on padlike gizmo.
More on this 326th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Wave Turntable: In collaboration with composer Danny Clay, make music for his exhibit with artist Jon Fischer using only sine waves and turntable surface noise) at:
https://disquiet.com/0326/
More on Clay and Fischer at:
http://dclaymusic.com
http://feather2pixels.com
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://disquiet.com/junto/2018-03-3002 min
krsewardJ300 - disquiet0300These days more into drone and tone than chords and such, just messed with 3 notes: A, E and B. Not necessary in any hard order/inversion/octave assignment, though the underlining idea was a stack of fifths--so very loosely, again, A, E, B.
All instruments used were Android phone apps tracked live DI. Sound Effects Generator, S.A.M.M.I. (in drone mode) and Keuwl Music Pad. Used note to frequency charts to tune these instruments to concert pitch notes. Or thereabouts. Specified notes and pitches aren't a usual thing for what I do, but I worked to keep...2017-09-2901 min
krsewardThis Possessive-disquiet0279Noticing some accidentally stretched out text in the Google Books preview of the Berio text, decided to try stretching a clipping of the chosen word, "teaching", including the preceding apostrophe and "s" and the question mark afterward. So: " 's teaching? "
Then the text clipping, rotated, stretched and edited, was loaded into Virtual ANS and further messed with there before being exported as a WAV. The icon image for this upload is an 800 pixel square approximation of what happened to the text.
Most times, what I do in VANS is rendered to play back at a s-l-o-w pace (reaching 5-7 minutes...2017-05-0501 min
krsewardRead Again-disquiet0265No kind of virtuoso performer, I messed and multitracked.
Three tracks were of items in the chosen kitchen drawer, mostly metal kitchen measuring cups and spoons, recorded open air in the drawer itself.
Two tracks were of the drawer as read by PhonoPaper, a fun smartphone cousin to the multiplatform Virtual ANS program. One track read the light and dark values of the drawer and converted them on the fly into sound, another partly used a still capture of the drawer (sometimes playing, sometimes cued in real time) and more the drawer of items as read in real time.
PhonoPaper:
...2017-01-2902 min
krsewardWell On-disquiet0256The selected space and its sounds were not performed in or with so much, as recorded and later messed with on the fly.
The basic recording included some tapping of hollow square metal posts and keys dragging on metal tube hand railing or against cinderblock walls. All this in a multi-story apartment stairwell as recorded with a humble sm'phone running Titanium Recorder.
Later on, using Gleetchlab3, various parts of the recording were looped and played back at varispeed--most often much slower speeds to pitch down the sounds and stretch out the ambience.
The mix was trimmed in Audacity.
More on...2016-11-2703 min
krsewardReef Building - disquiet0240The drone, as it was and was to become, was created via Particularity 1.01 running on a venerable PPC Mac laptop and recorded from the computer's headphones out to the inputs of a Zoom H4 Handy Recorder. That recording was normalized and trimmed in Audacity.
About Particularity:
https://chrisjeffs.blogspot.com/2010/06/particularity.html
More on this 240th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Compose a piece of music in which a drone slowly, imperceptibly, gives way to something rhythmic and/or melodic” — at:
http://disquiet.com/0240/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/junto/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/grou...2016-08-0801 min
krsewardMuskrat Offset - Disquiet0232Kwik version is most tracks were done with a Realistic Electronic Reverb (really a short delay passing as reverb) set up to feedback. It has two sets of mono outputs and inputs. One each for mic can be connected for fdbk., and another set for line level. The line level out can send out the resulting din of patching the mic out into the mic in, which is what I did--simple, easy peasy no-input fun.
The RER line output was played through a venerable gray Realistic mini amp and recorded open air to several separate tracks.
Another set up was...2016-06-1401 min
krseward4th Of Other - Disquiet0229As is often the case, the Junto idea is something to leap off of in the direction of what I would generally do when doing a Junto. Doing something simple/quick/trashy with something on hand that I don't otherwise use too much. And then philosophize too much about the whys and wherefores.
I bent or broke the Murch fourthworlding by:
--recording the source sound (the raking of a metal box fan's grill face, open air feedback of recording set up) in pretty much the same room in which it was later rerecorded at 4x speed playback
--never playing the...2016-05-2001 min
krsewardBoxing Day Minute [disquiet0208 - Insitu]The only way I can do a Junto is to cheat like mad. In and out of the bounds of good faith, this is a clipping of a longer, live noise improvisation.
My appointed place was the home office where I often mix, if not usually record in.
The room, like so many and so much, won't be around forever. It's all ephemeral. As much so as a Boxing Day afternoon on a bus or in a park etc etc. And since allowed tools like laptops are like worlds within worlds unto themselves, figure I had Iatitude.
The time (roughly 1:30...2015-12-2601 min
krsewardThSunKin [disquiet0200 - Kadreyscore7]Made in Gleetchlab 3 using the spectrafilter and granulator and reverb treated loop of "the Sun Kin-"
The loop is played spectrally and sometimes in speed but the emphasis is use the bit of Kadrey's voice as a sound source with which to do a very slow motion improvisation.
Done together with Kadrey's reading and improvised in real time, there is no separate score. Here we have a "mixture of rat and Louie dreams".
Normalized, trimmed and faded out in Audacity.
More on this 200th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a score to a Richard Kadrey short story — using his own voice as s...2015-10-3101 min
krsewardSoft Sink Rising [disquiet0194 - Clockplay]This is playful, as the Junto instructions requested, but perhaps a bit sour. Or annoyed, in intent if not in sound (I have very mixed feelings about program sound and things as not sufficient as themselves to be heard etc.).
In the moment and over the long haul it seems we (or some of the bigger us we call "we") forget that technology is not magic. Nor is it voodoo curses.
Not even only slightly knowing what lives inside our gadgets and gizmos can become an excuse for blind and fearful reaction to any widget someone slaps together out of...2015-09-2002 min
krsewardCableFromNowhere [disquiet0189-tonelayer]As live looping was requested, I went for that. Since it's well past one minute long, feel free to only listen to a minute. Not sure if this is as attack free as asked for, but it leans toward texture, layering, build up.
My instrument was an interactive combination fairly characteristic of my ongoing goofy tech approach. That is to use:
--something cheep
--something I already have
--something in a way not originally intended
--something in odd combination with something else
--something somehow altered by the overall interaction with other somethings
[I could envision many T-shirt ready slogans like "ZERO...2015-08-1502 min