120 – A to B


 
This piece is my contribution to the Disquiet Junto project (#17) for this week. Here are the directions that we were given:
 
Plan, in three steps:
 
First step: At some point during the day, make a field recording of the world around you. Then select a 30-second segment from it. (Please, don’t include other people’s voices without their knowledge unless you are absolutely certain doing so is legal wherever it is you make the recording.)
 
Second step: Choose one of the following two preexisting tracks and select a 30-second segment:
 
Option 1: http://archive.org/download/zero130/01AControlledBurn.mp3
Option 2: http://archive.org/download/WM074_900/WM074-03_64kb.mp3
 
Third step: Create a new track in which your field recording can be heard to slowly transition into the preexisting track. You can add whatever you like to the new track, and you can transform the field recording and the preexisting track. However, the first five seconds of your field recording and the last 5 seconds of the pre-existing track should be left untouched, aside from fading in and out. The goal is for the transition to be as indiscernible, as seamless, as you can achieve in the time allotted for production.
 
I recorded the sound of myself cleaning my mirrors this weekend. This is not the easiest sound to transition from. I found that the squeaky sound turned into a jungle-like soundscape after I granulated, transposed, delayed, and pitch shifted it. I slowly brought in one of the pieces we could choose from called “The Day Love Came In The Mail” by Lee Rosevere.
 
I’m not sure how much I like this piece, since I created it in about 1 and 1/2 hours. The Junto is teaching me that sometimes you need to simply do things, experiment, and not judge so much. That is not to say you shouldn’t care about the outcome, but sometimes we are crippled by our own censorship and perfectionism.
 
This track includes a segment of “The Day Love Came In The Mail” by Lee Rosevere off the album Play 3 on the WM Recordings netlabel, thanks to Creative Commons license. More information at:
http://archive.org/details/WM074_900
http://www.wmrecordings.com/free-downloads/wm074-lee-rosevere-play-3/
 
More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info
 

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