My San Jose Museum of Art installation, seen through Alan Rath’s Thumper V.
Cross-posted from instagram.com/dsqt.
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An ongoing series cross-posted from instagram.com/dsqt
Valentine’s Day Is for the Birds
... and whales and high Arctic male bearded seals
Michelle Fournet writes regularly about bioacoustics at her [oregonstate.edu](http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/bioacoustics/) blog, where she has, among other things, recounted [a trip to Antarctica on a Korean ice breaker](http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/bioacoustics/?tag=antarctica) to recover an ocean-bottom hydrophone. (I mentioned this a couple months ago in my [This Week in Sound](http://tinyletter.com/disquiet/letters/disquiet-2014-12-10-this-week-in-sound) email newsletter.) She shares the blog with several other people, who have covered such topics as constructive uses of social media in the sciences and, with good regularity, [“Sound Bites” highlights from their field of study](http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/bioacoustics/?cat=215886). Today Fournet took the opportunity to share field recordings of love songs from red-winged blackbirds and the high Arctic male bearded seal, whose repertoire she correctly describes as “strange” — both in its alien otherness, and in its emotive familiarity
Right now, as of this typing, the Oregon State Research Collective for Applied Acoustics has all of two followers for its [SoundCloud account](https://soundcloud.com/oregonstate_labs). Let’s try to fix that.
Tracks originally posted at [oregonstate.edu](http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/bioacoustics/2015/02/13/songs-season/) and [soundcloud.com/oregonstate_labs](https://soundcloud.com/oregonstate_labs/redwinged).
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An ongoing series cross-posted from instagram.com/dsqt
Doorbell, so-many-options edition. #soundstudies #ui #ux
Cross-posted from instagram.com/dsqt.
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An ongoing series cross-posted from instagram.com/dsqt
The arrival of a new module. #eurorack
Cross-posted from instagram.com/dsqt.
Disquiet Junto Project 0163: Layering Minutes After Midnight
The Assignment: Create a new late-night ambience with sounds from a handful of pre-existing field recordings.
Each Thursday in [the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.com](https://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/) and [at Disquiet.com](https://disquiet.com/tag/junto/), 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 in the Junto is open: just join and participate.
Tracks will be added to this set for the duration of the project:
This assignment was made in the early evening, California time, on Thursday, February 12, 2015, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, February 16, 2015.
These are the instructions that went out to the group’s email list (at [tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto](http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto)):
Disquiet Junto Project 0163: Layering Silence After Midnight
The Assignment: Create a new late-night ambience with sounds from a handful of pre-existing field recordings.
This project is the second in what will be an ongoing occasional series that focus on late-night ambience. Collectively these nocturnal endeavors are being called “One Minute Past Midnight.” No one’s work will be repurposed without their permission, and it’s appreciated if you post your track with a Creative Commons license that allows for non-commercial reuse and sharing.
The steps for this project are as follows:
Step 1: Revisit project #0160 from January 22, 2015, in which field recordings were made of the sound one minute past midnight:
https://disquiet.com/0160/
Step 2: Locate segments that are especially quiet and meditative — and confirm that they are available for creative reuse. Many should have a Creative Commons license stating such, and if you’re not sure just check with the responsible Junto participant.
Step 3: Using segments from three different tracks from the January 22 project, create a new work of sound that layers the pre-existing material into something new, something nocturnal. Keep the length of your final piece to one minute
Step 4: Upload the finished track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.
Step 5: Be sure to include link/mentions regarding the source tracks.
Step 6: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.
Deadline: This assignment was made in the early evening, California time, on Thursday, February 12, 2015, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, February 16, 2015.
Length: The length of your finished work should be one minute.
Upload: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, only upload one track for this assignment, and 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. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.
Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0163-layeringminutes”in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.
Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).
Linking: When posting the track, please be sure to include this information:
More on this 163rd Disquiet Junto project — “Create a new late-night ambience with sounds from a handful of pre-existing field recordings”— at:
Disquiet Junto Project 0163: Layering Minutes After Midnight
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://disquiet.com/junto
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
https://disquiet.com/forums/
Image associated with this project by Matthias Ripp, used via Creative Commons license:
