The only way I can do a Junto is to cheat like mad. In and out of the bounds of good faith, this is a clipping of a longer, live noise improvisation.

My appointed place was the home office where I often mix, if not usually record in.

The room, like so many and so much, won't be around forever. It's all ephemeral. As much so as a Boxing Day afternoon on a bus or in a park etc etc. And since allowed tools like laptops are like worlds within worlds unto themselves, figure I had Iatitude.

The time (roughly 1:30PM [UTC-5:00], 26 Dec 2015) was whenever I could pull it all together.

There was much failed space here. An aluminum foil disposable serving pan or two, a pair of paper/metal canisters joined by a spring to either bottom--it was all neat looking (pics, um, here https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.884348028330786.1073741845.394608890638038&type=1&l=ec3f3d8d3f) but not really audible here. Inside each canister was an old electric toothbrush not quite running but pulsing on dying batteries. A free range humbucker pickup is running through a grey Realistic mini amp. Overall, one sometimes hears the inductive pulse of one of the electric toothbrushes and sometimes hears the inductive feedback of the mini amp's innards being picked up by the humbucker.

Under "too much video" file these links:

Do you see what I hear is the video of everything done for the In Situ after the setting up. The roughly one minute portion of a live 2 track recording in the same room will be posted as the actual Junto track starts about 6 minutes into this video. The Junto submission having been recorded via a different apparatus (Zoom H4) in a different part of the room, it's not likely to sound the same as the mono, lo res video. How very in situ:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_CwamUt610

Intercession is the longer, even more diffuse video of setting up for the above:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgxvas_LIJM

Other setups in action:

--humble toy mic plugged into toy mixer/amp with added speed control for tremelo/"echo" effect. Ergo pulsing feedback tones.

--Realistic Stereo Amplified Listener plugged into toy AM radio transmitter and picked up by old RCA cassette player/radio set to AM, yellow flashlight/radio and black tabletop cass./radio. Ergo more open air feedback.

--Another player is a toy echo mic that interacts with one gadget or another. Or just feeds back with other provocations.


Over the course of the main video I try to drag all the players into the camera's view just to give some idea what's happening. Some idea.

Meanwhile, the big face boombox might be familiar from other recent noisy videos like

Box of Xmas Past:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4rcyg1-oKk

Or, Jacob Marley's Boombox:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wkei38-XeI

It's been an empty shell for a while--and soon due for the trash bin. Yes, even hoarders throw stuff out. But it needed its shot at the interwebs beforehand. The other two vids are darker and starker. This one's more the sunshine side of it.

That must cover about everything.

Re In Situ philosophizing: There's feedback via open air, induction and AM transmission/reception. Discuss ad libidum.

Again with the photos:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.884348028330786.1073741845.394608890638038&type=1&l=ec3f3d8d3f



Additional info:
More on this 208th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Record a composition in place using only the sounds around you”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/12/24/disquiet0208-insitu/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

Ver todos los episodios