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Lurker [disquiet0030-nonsilent]
from Disquiet Junto Hosted by Carl Ritger
For this week's Junto project, we were instructed to explore John Cage's notion of silence, specifically in the context of recorded silence. As such, I chose to delve deeper into a technique I've used in my recent live performances, taking advantage of the microphonic nature of guitar pick-ups and the ways in which they interact with magnetic tape. However, instead of using a tape recording of a found sound or location, I instead simply inserted a fresh mini-cassette into my handheld recorder and used the pick-ups as a means to amplify that "silence" into something more substantial. I then ran that signal through my pedal board and proceeded to capture several takes of the resulting textures with a digital recording device. These layers were ultimately combined in Ableton and submitted to further processing, resulting in the wooly mass of textural sonics I have chosen to call "Lurker." An interesting exercise in discerning the edges of perception and crafting music without the use of melody or traditional form... More on the 30th Disquiet Junto project at: http://disquiet.com/2012/07/26/disquiet0030-nonsilent/ More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info/
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