Other the bell mechanical
the purposes of reason [disquiet0098-wovenaudiobio]

Rolled a virtual 3 on random.org.

Wrote three texts of the appropriate lengths, recorded in Live and moved only the starting point to line up the texts. No real processing beyond compression and vol/pan.

The background music is my previous disquiet junto track, done for [disquiet0093-netlabelhybrid] (it strangely fit)

The Text:
100 words

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this morning i had a sense that
it was time to make a change.
nothing had felt quite right or true
for a very long time.
on my way to the drive through coffee place,
i drove past three road construction sites
the road was
all torn up, chunks of asphalt, concrete, ripped open.
and you could see places where the rebar had been ripped up,
bent back, exposed to the sun like a giant vivesected ribcage.
and i remembered the story of all those
unfortunate stray dogs, back in the 1600s, abducted
by decartes for the purposes of reason.

　
90 words

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this morning i had a sense that
there were invisible mice running around my room.
of course there were no actual real live invisible mice
running around my room, but i had just been dreaming
about my two cats running around the house,
and in the dream they had been chasing
invisible mice around my room. and i had just
woken up from this dream where my two cats
had been running around, chasing invisible mice
around my room.
and in waking up, i had made
the invisible mice disappear.

　
80 words

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this morning i had a sense that
it was time to make a change.
i had woken up to a semi-lucid dream
of cats chasing invisible mice and driven to lurid images
of early medicine performed in renasissance ampethetres
for no particular reason.
when i got home,
the old woman i found rummaging through my trash
on the sidewalk apologized to me.
i said 'its ok, have a good one' and went upstairs.
(if that was a test,
i failed).
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Disquiet Junto 0098: Woven Audiobiography

The steps for this week’s project are as follows:

Step A: Choose a number from 1 through 6. You can roll a die or use an online number generator, or come to a decision on your own.

Step B: Write a 100-word text beginning with one of the following phrases, depending on the number you selected. Where there are brackets fill them in with the appropriate information.

“I was born in [ ] and I like …”
“My name is [ ] and I was thinking …”
“This morning I had a sense that …”
“Try as I might, the same thing …”
“The last book I read was and …”
“On a Sunday morning I usually …”
Step C: Write a 90-word text beginning with the same phrase.

Step D: Write an 80-word text beginning with the same phrase.

Step E: Record yourself reading the three texts as three separate tracks. Record each at the same pace. Speak slowly and take an extended pause after any period.

Step F: Layer the three tracks into one track. They should all begin at the same point and the first few words should, more or less, overlap to the point of being indistinguishable.

Step G: Take a couple passed through audio, lightly balancing relative volume levels to emphasize key phrases or, for that matter, to enhance the low-key cacophony.

Step H: If you desire to, weave in one tonal element, though not so loud as to overpower the speaking.

Deadline: Monday, November 18, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your track’s length will be determined by the longest of your three recordings.

More on this 98th Disquiet Junto project, in which three original spoken texts are combined into one track, at:
disquiet.com/2013/11/14/disqui...8-wovenaudiobio

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto