I use speech-to-text (or STT) a lot when I go for walks, in order to record stray thoughts and have them converted automatically into typed-out words, but I guess last night down by the ocean was windier than I thought it was, because this morning when I looked at what had been transcribed, I was greeted by incomprehensible Beat poetry:
At the base of these five, at least five cranes over there would clip us. We’ve got nothing stuck to it. So more gestation over there. We’re trying to track our rails. The birds seem to have had real times. They seem to be trying to do it. And they look more like they are. How about this coming in for a while? It’s like they’re about to go out of the way. They’re going to have an upside down or a little peak up towards the stop. We think they were paid like nothing so much is. More than one plongers or something. It’s something we’ve got to mention here. Neither is going to take the other down. It’s like they want to come at each thing and exercise. They never will. Just for payment. It’s for what? What?
The Assignment: Interpret wood grain as a graphic score.
/ By Marc Weidenbaum
Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions.
Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. (A SoundCloud account is helpful but not required.) There’s no pressure to do every project. The Junto is weekly so that you know it’s there, every Thursday through Monday, when your time and interest align.
Disquiet Junto Project 0690: Knot Bad The Assignment: Interpret wood grain as a graphic score.
Step 1: Find a piece of wood, the grain of which captures your imagination.
Step 2: Consider how the shapes of the grain might be interpreted as a graphically notated score. (If you are not familiar with the concept of a graphic score, read up.)
Step 3: Record a piece of music in which you interpret the grain of the wood you selected in Step 1 as a graphic score.
Tasks Upon Completion:
Label: Include “disquiet0690” (no spaces/quotes) in the name of your track.
Upload: Post your track to a public account (SoundCloud preferred but by no means required). It’s best to focus on one track, but if you post more than one, clarify which is the “main” rendition.
License: It’s preferred (but not required) to set your track as downloadable and allowing for attributed remixing (i.e., an attribution Creative Commons license).
Please Include When Posting Your Track:
More on the 690th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Knot Bad — The Assignment: Interpret wood grain as a graphic score — at https://disquiet.com/0690/
What’s not to love? The slapdash base board, the off-kilter placement of the three buttons (bonus points for same make and model), the makeshift adhesive-and-marker smudges, the “we dare you to steal them” vibe of the screwed-in metal straps, the anarchy-adjacent bit of graffiti on the left, the typography of the three numbers, and of course the helpful inclusion of hash/pound symbols.
