Started in good faith with the proper shifting, but soon slipped into variable drive.

My own predilections aside, still haunted by some dim recollection of reading long ago popular magazine articles about the forthcoming variable ratio transmissions that were going to make automobiles super efficient.

So herein it went from shifting gears to tweaking ratios. If anything nearly so rational.

And, NTSC, the title is itself an old joke.

NTSC was the North American analog color TV standard (as PAL was in Europe), which has a proper name, but was jokingly said to stand for “Never The Same Color”. And so it goes here. That any notion of distinct parts that shift to make a whole just ends up melting into something much more like tone driven drone. Within a minute. Oh, yeah.

All parts recorded live and then mixed. Some are voices, at least one is a Korg Monotron, some are recorded through a toy echo mic. some are recorded from smphn apps (Sound Effect Generator, Wiisp Synth, Granular). Variety being the spice of whatnot.

More on this 458th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phrase Shift (The Assignment: Make music in a sequence of parts with shared element), at:

https://disquiet.com/0458/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

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Image associated with this project is by Thomas Hawk and used via Flickr thanks to a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

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