Last week I was in Kandos to contribute to RealArtWorks' residency for Cementa.
They're a post-disability collective based in Lismore and I was tasked with collecting sounds for a musical project.
This is my third play with some of my contact microphone recordings and you can see that I've manipulated loops, while adding a few filters too.
The Disquiet Junto assignment this week: Do something you’ve been putting off.
I'd been meaning to get started working with recordings made at Kandos Museum, which were collected using a contact microphone as part of RealArtWorks residency for Cementa.
Knowing the first remix is the hardest, I thought I'd throw all the samples together and get an idea how they sound.
Almost as soon as I recognised there was only so much I could manage with this track, I moved onto another and got a better result.
But you have to start somewhere, so I appreciated the Junto prompt to get this process started.
We're heading into autumn and I recently returned from a holiday at the beach.
It was hard to travel back over the mountain.
This carpet python was also enjoying the late summer sunshine.
The Disquiet Junto assignment this week is to "Turn a recurring sound from your life into music."
It arrived as the mild summer seems to have given way to a mild winter, so I've been running the air-conditioner during the day to bring warm air into the house.
(During summer I run it at night to bring cool air in and sometimes, when it's really hot, I use the evaporative air-conditioning.)
When I stepped outside on Friday to record the hum of the fan, I noticed other activities around the house.
You can hear passing traffic and my neighbour was particularly shrill, but I also listened to the dripping of the tap -- which we let drip as birds will drink from it.
Then I noticed how the ants have been frenzied around 3pm and will disperse by the time my kids return home from school, which is kinda mysterious.
The ants are way more active than me!
As for the music, I wanted to do something with the glockenspiel that was part of my unsatisfactory Junto response last week.
That instrument sorta lends itself to being a carillon.
And I also wanted to record drums and tried to match the tempo of the dripping tap.
The Disquiet Junto activity this week is to "Record a piece of music or sound celebrating Earth Day for or as if on another planet."
I had an idea to generate a piece of music from a recording of this xylophone I like in Griffith.
After playing around with the samples for a couple of hours, I feel like I've admitted defeat.
So the title refers to the graffiti I've seen that says "Earth without art is eh"!
The Disquiet Junto assignment this week is to "Remix the pure sounds of Chris Kallmyer’s traveling wind chimes to your own musical purposes."
The title "Strange Weather" brought to mind a story I shared at my Good Friday screening, which details the Earth's first ice age.
Remembering that I had video of my reading, I set to remixing Kallmyer's wind chimes by lazily reversing the recording and let the glorious Valhalla Shimmer reverb do the heavy lifting.
