209 – Noise to Signal


 

For this Disquiet Junto project, the assignment was to take some recorded silence and turn it into a piece. It is an interesting concept that John Cage explored, especially in his piece, 4’33.
 
To achieve this, I recorded the input of my MOTU 828 interface and then normalized the audio track. This gave me a very noisy and hissy sounding file. This is hinted at in the beginning of this piece and fades away.
 
I manipulated the audio using Paulstretch to extract tones and frequencies, which were transposed and granulated using KT Granulator. I also used the bitcrusher in Logic on a track to add some texture to the piece.
 
More on the 30th Disquiet Junto project at:
http://disquiet.com/2012/07/26/disquiet0030-nonsilent/
 
More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info/
 

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