Each Thursday evening at the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just over four days to upload a track in response to the assignment. Membership to the Junto is open: just join and participate.
This week’s project is a shared-sample one, which is to say everyone will work from the same initial sound source. The shared sample for this project is the jingle, or sound logo, or opening cue, or theme song — or, in the term preferred by the famed BBC Radiophonic Workshop, the “signature tune” — for the Radius broadcast/podcast, an avant-garde radio program out of Chicago run by Jeff Kolar (who was, by the way, one of the performers at the Chicago Disquiet Junto show back in April). The first time I listened to one of the Radius programs, I mistook the opening sound as part of the featured presentation. Only the second time I listened to a Radius program did I realize that the initial 14 seconds were, in fact, the show’s opening cue, or jingle. While I’ve always enjoyed listening to the Radius series, I am sometimes disappointed that such a great sound ends after less than a quarter of a minute’s playing time. So, I wondered what it would sound like if that cue were, in fact, the starting point for a composition.
The idea for the project also came out of some research I’ve been doing on the idea of the jingle, which was once the hallmark of commercial advertising, but has faced something of a rocky road as consumers have (supposedly — I have mixed feelings about this subject) gotten more media savvy. In this case, we’re exploring the concept of the theme song bleeding into the feature presentation.
The assignment was made early in the afternoon, California time, on Thursday, August 23, with 11:59pm on the following Monday, August 27, as the deadline. View a search return for all the entries as they are posted: disquiet0034-theradius. Or check out the set (posted a the top of this post) at soundcloud.com/disquiet.
The above image is the logo for the Radius.
These are the instructions that went out to the group’s email list (at tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto). They appear below translated into German, Japanese, and Spanish, courtesy of Tobias Reber, Naoyuki Sasanami, and Norma Listman, respectively:
Disquiet Junto Project 0034: Radius Joint. . . . .This is a shared-sample project. The sample is the opening jingle (or “sound logo”) for the excellent Chicago-based series called Radius. The series is broadcast in Chicago at 88.9 FM. Its jingle is titled “Radius loop.”
You will make an original piece of music in which the sample will serve as your sole sound source. Your track will open with the jingle/logo running in full. As it comes to a close, you will segue into an original piece of music built from a transformation of that jingle/logo. You can transform this source audio as you please, but you cannot include any additional sounds.
The jingle/logo, which is just 14 seconds long, can be downloaded from here:
http://theradius.us/about
Background: The Radius show’s goal is “to support work that engages the tonal and public spaces of the electromagnetic spectrum.” The goal of this Disquiet Junto project is to explore the idea of a radio show’s theme song, its jingle/logo; we’ll do this by imagining that the jingle/logo is in fact the subject of such a show’s entire content, rather than simply its opening introduction.
Deadline: Monday, August 27, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: Your finished work should be between 2 and 4 minutes in length.
Information: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto.
Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0034-theradius”in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.
Download: As always, you don’t have to set your track for download, but it would be preferable.
Linking: When posting the track, please include this information:
The source audio for this track is the jingle, or sound logo, for the Radius broadcast series, based in Chicago. More info at:
http://theradius.us/
More on this 34th Disquiet Junto project at:
Disquiet Junto Project 0034: Radius JointMore details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info
Project in German:
Disquiet Junto Projekt 0034: Radius Joint. . . . .In diesem Projekt wird es um die Arbeit mit einem zur Verfügung gestellten Sample gehen. Bei dem Sample (oder “Sound-Logo”) handelt es sich um das Opener-Jingle der Radio-Sendereihe “Radius”, die im Raum Chicago auf der FM-Frequenz 88.9 gesendet wird. Der Titel des Jingles ist “Radius loop”.
Die Aufgabe besteht nun darin, ein eigenes Musikstück zu komponieren, als dessen einzige Klangquelle “Radius loop” dient. Am Anfang des Stücks soll das komplette Jingle stehen. Wenn dieses langsam ausklingt, gestaltest du einen Übergang in deine eigene Komposition aus dem transformierten Jingle-Material. Du kannst das Sample so stark verfremden wie du willst, aber keine anderen Klangquellen verwenden.
Das 14 Sekunden lange Jingle/Logo kann unter dem folgenden Link heruntergeladen werden:
http://theradius.us/about
Hintergrund des Projekts: “Radius” hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, “Werken, die die tonalen und öffentlichen Teile des elektromagnetischen Spektrums erkunden, eine Plattform zu geben”. Ziel dieses Disquiet Junto-Projekts ist es, das Jingle einer Sendung zu erkunden – als ob das Jingle der ganze Inhalt der Sendung wäre, und nicht bloss das Eröffnungsmoment.
Deadline: Montag, 27. August, 23.59 Uhr wo immer du bist.
Dauer: Das Stück sollte zwischen 2-4 Minuten dauern.
Information: Bitte füge dem Stück eine Beschreibung deines Arbeitsprozesses bei, wenn du es auf Soundcould veröffentlichst – mit Planung, Komposition und Aufnahme. Diese Beschreibung ist ein zentrales Element im kommunikativen Prozess innerhalb der Disquiet Junto.
Titel/Tags: Versehe deinen Track mit dem Tag “disqiet0034-theradius” wenn du es der Disquiet Junto-Gruppe auf Soundcloud beifügst.
Download: Wie üblich wäre es schön wenn du deinen Track downloadbar machen würdest, aber es wird nicht erwartet.
Verlinken: Füge deiner Track-Beschreibung bitte auch die folgende Information bei:
The source audio for this track is the jingle, or sound logo, for the Radius broadcast series, based in Chicago. More info at:
http://theradius.us/
More on this 34th Disquiet Junto project at:
Disquiet Junto Project 0034: Radius JointMore details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info
Project in Japanese:
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http://theradius.us/about
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More on this 34th Disquiet Junto project at:
Disquiet Junto Project 0034: Radius JointMore details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info
Project in Spanish:
Disquiet Junto Proyecto 0034 Radius JointEste es un proyecto de compartido de sampleo. El sonido a samplear es el sonido que ablre (“sonifo logo”) la excelente serie de radio en Chicago, Radius. El programa se transmite en Chicago en el 88.9 de FM radio.
El objetivo es hacer una pieza musical, para la que dicho sonido te servirá como la unica fuente sonora. Tu track deberá abrir con y usar los 14 segundos de tu fuente sonora. Cuando este llegando esta este llegando a su final, deberá seguirla otra pieza compuesta por ti, a partir de tu fuente original. Puedes transformarla como tu quieras, pero no puedes aumentar otros sonidos.
El “Sonido Logo”dura solo 14 segundos y lo puedes bajar aquÃ:
http://theradius.us/about
Antecedentes:
El objetivo de “The Radius”es apoyar obras y trabajo que exploran el espectro electromagnético, con respecto a tono y espacios publicos. El objetivo de Disquiet Junto, es explorar la idea del “Sonido Logo”, para lo cual imaginaremos que dicho sonido sera el tema y contenido de un programa entero.
Fecha limite: Lunes 27 de Agosto a las 11:59pm del lugar donde te encuentres.
Duración: Favor de mantener tu pieza de dos a cuatro minutos.
Información: Incluir una descripción de tu proceso de plantación, composición, y grabacion. Tu información es esencial para la comunicacion en Disquiet Junto.
Titulo: Por favor incluye el termino “disquiet0034-theradius”en el titulo de tu track cuando lo subas al grupo Disquiet Junto en Soundcloud.com, también usalo como tu tag cuando lo quieras buscar.
Descarga: Es preferible que tu mezcla se pueda descargar, pero no es necesario ( es tu decisión).
La fuente del audio para este proyecto y para mas información:
http://theradius.us/
Mas sobre Disquiet Junto 34:
Disquiet Junto Project 0034: Radius JointEnlaces: Cuando subas tu track, por favor incluye la siguiente información:
Mas información en Disquiet Junto:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info
Am I hearing this right? All I hear are some static-y “footsteps” with a faint high-pitched whine in between. Is that is?
That is it, yes. There’s more on the source of those rhythmic static “footsteps” (I enjoy that comparison) here:
https://disquiet.com/2011/07/22/radius-loop-jeff-kolar/