Disquiet Junto 0365 2018 Tracker
My Disquiet Junto audio journal includes one second from sixty videos produced during the year.
Disquiet Junto 0363 Gymnopédie Rats
The Junto this week asks for "Erik Satie’s 'Gymnopédie No. 1' in your chosen genre," which triggered some existential angst for me.
What genre am I?
Disquiet Junto 0362 Operational Surrealism
The Disquiet Junto this week develops a Surreal idea:
Make something as “beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella.”
The image of the sewing-machine and umbrella reveals their similar curves; and the dissecting-table to me suggests an editing suite.
Anyway, I started looking at the videos in my Disquiet Junto folder and noticed two that were similar length and tempo and key and, then a penny dropped, water themed.
Sunrise
Playing with a few recordings and using the drums as a gate for the bassline, which has also been warped up a couple of octaves and reversed.
Hairy tunnel
Some months ago Gavin was offering this big hairy kick drum and I had to have it
The sound in this video came off my Rode Videomic, then passed through EQ and compression.
Disquiet Junto 0361 Zork Diaries
Step 1: Zork is the title of one of the earliest interactive text adventure games. The complete text of a spoiler-laden full run of the game is at the following URL, housed at Georgia Tech, or the Georgia Institute of Technology:
http://bitly.com/junto-zork
Step 2: If you’re not familiar with Zork and/or with interactive text adventures, consider reading up. Otherwise, just think of the script as exactly that: the bare-bones narrative of a story. Step 3: Compose a score (along with, if possible, sound effects) for the first page or so of Zork. It is suggested that you begin with the fifth line of provided text (“West of House”) and end about a page down, where it reads “The door reluctantly opens to reveal a rickety staircase descending into darkness.”
Zork is a similar age to an old MIDI soundcard I have, which was designed to accompany early computer games.
The piano sounds it produces led me to consider a soundtrack like that for a 'silent' movie for Zork.
My accompaniment starts with the title screen, which looked awesome back in the day, then follows up to the arrival in the attic.
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