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Stomp on the Flower [disquiet0012-cutpaste]

This was created for the < href="soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet...uiet-junto"; title="Disquiet Junto">Disquiet Junto. The mission was to create a new track from two 1928 recordings using ONLY a 'cut and paste' technique.

I took the two original samples and edited loops of my favourite bits of each track, using Audacity. I initially tried to re-arrange the loops in various ways, but didn't like the results. I then tried to export the loops to my Electribe SX in order to automatically time-slice them. This didn't work in any usable way, and left the samples sounding modified.

So, instead, I treated the waveforms as actual tape to cut up, much like old-school film editing and splicing. I was going to avoiding repeating, looping or copying any sections of audio, but the results proved too boring, so I used a few repeats.

I also avoided using fade-outs, fade-ins or any other kind of editing except for cutting, pasting and copying. However, I was working with the loops I initially created in Audacity, and I had already amplified the volume a little and applied microscopic fades to the beginning and end of the loops to remove clicks, so in that sense, I cheated myself a little.

Anyway, the whole thing was created exclusively in Audacity. Details of the samples used are below.

The image is a combination of these two images:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-Whiternoise-_Dead_flowers,_P%C3%A9re_Lachaise_Cemetery.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil...lected_boot.jpg

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This is the original assignment: "The 12th weekly Junto project requires you to take two existing recordings and to make something new by combining them. You will accomplish this solely by using "cut and paste," and you will only use audio from the two provided source tracks. By "cut and paste" it is meant that you will use segments, however brief or lengthy, in the construction of your track. (You will not otherwise transform them: i.e., you won't slow, speed, or process them.) This project explores two matters. One is the historically important technique of cut and paste. The other is alternate conceptions of "rural" sensibilities: while both recordings date from 1928, one is from the American south, while the other is a Slovenian folk song."

The two source tracks originally made available at:

archive.org/details/Stomp
archive.org/details/Michael_La...-Rezeda_Czardas

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

< class="no-ajaxloader" href="//app.hearthis.at/l.php?url=http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto" title="Disquiet Junto">Disquiet Junto