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chill bill [disquiet0110-wsb100]

The first article on my local news site's web page was the following:
salemnews.com/local/x126267858...ative-Therapies
Copied the first 18 sentences into TextEdit. Used the native speech synthesizer to read out the 18 sentences. Used Audacity to cut up the 18 sentences into fragments (i.e. cut up was done in the audio domain). Used Ableton Live to arrange the fragments into the required order. Added several beats and instruments throughout to turn it into a "song".

released under creative commons.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0110: WSB100

The day before this project began marked the 100th birthday of William S. Burroughs, who passed away in 1997. We celebrate his literary legacy by employing one of his classic artistic subroutines, the cut-up. (Special thanks to C. Reider of Vuzh Music for the centennial reminder.)

These are the steps:

Step 1: Take the lead article from your local newspaper and write down the first 18 sentences on separate slips of paper — or, if you prefer, extract the first 18 lines on separate strips of paper.

Step 2: Label these pieces of text from 1 to 18.

Step 3: Either read them out loud or use text-to-speech and record them.

Step 4: Construct the vocal of a song using the material. Sequence the vocal in the following order. Note that text element 3 serves as the chorus and text element 15 serves as the bridge. The remaining elements are in random sets of four, with no repetition.

3 3 3 3
14 10 5 7
3 3 3 3
8 18 11 4
3 3 3 3
6 17 12 9
15 15 15 15
3 3 3 3
13 2 16 1
3 3 3 3

Add music, whatever instrumentation you choose, to flesh this out into a proper song.

Step 5: When posting the track be sure to include a link to the originating source article. If you cut up the text by hand, please include photos of your process.

Deadline: Monday, February 10, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: Your finished work should be between 1 minute and 4 minutes.

More on this 110th Disquiet Junto project (“Celebrate the 100th birthday of that old cut-up, William S. Burroughs”) at:
disquiet.com/2014/02/06/disqui...uiet0110-wsb100

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
disquiet.com/?p=16588

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