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horror in sudbury [disquiet0158-syllablegumbo]

Meet Ms. Debbie Murray. A perfectly normal, average citizen of Sudbury, Massachusetts. But shortly after buying her ticket to see Garth Brooks at the TD North Garden... she realized that she had double booked.

The Boston Globe is there.

Submitted, for your approval...

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This piece was done in audio mulch.

Selected the article, recorded a reading of the text, and ran the voice through a dl granulator (with parameters manipulated in real time). Then two "rhythm" tracks (processed guitar) far off in the distance. Then an MS20 (emulated). Arranged and processed the sounds a little, then mixed down to this.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0158: Syllable Gumbo
The Assignment: Go from noise to signal with words.

Quite often Disquiet Junto projects actively avoid the human voice. This week’s project engages directly with the voice, and with language.

Step 1: Select the least important story on the front page of your local newspaper or the home page of your local newspaper’s website.

Step 2: Select the first or first two sentences of that story. Combined the resulting text should have between roughly 15 and 25 words.

Step 3: Record yourself, or someone else, reading the text aloud. You can use text-to-speech, though it is by no means required.

Step 4: Break the recording from step 3 into tiny parts.

Step 5: Produce an original piece of music in which the randomized “noise” of those tiny parts heard out of order slowly, over the course of one or two minutes, comes to form the full original statement.

Step 6: Add tonal and rhythmic material to the results of step 5.

Step 7: Upload the finished track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 8: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, January 12, 2015.

Length: The length of your finished work should be between one minute and two minutes.

More on this 158th Disquiet Junto project — “Go from noise to signal with words” — at:

disquiet.com/2015/01/08/disqui...8-syllablegumbo

More on the Disquiet Junto at:disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:disquiet.com/forums

Photo associated with this project by Beanbag Amerika used via Creative Commons license: flic.kr/p/uvuHK