Disquiet Junto 0450: Texture Analysis
The Assignment: Create a piece of music from sounds related to working with rocks.
This project is the third of three that are being done over the course of as many months in collaboration with the 2020 Musikfestival Bern, which will be held in Switzerland from September 2 through 6 under the motto “Tektonik” (“Tectonics”). We are working at the invitation of Tobias Reber, an early Junto participant, who is in charge of the educational activities of the festival. This is the second year in a row that the Junto has collaborated with Musikfestival Bern. Select recordings resulting from these three Disquiet Junto projects will be played on a listening booth at the Steinatelier on September 5, as well as being aired on Radio RaBe (rabe.ch), an independent local radio station partnering with the festival.
Step 1: Download the field recordings made at Carlo Bernasconi AG, a company that has been working in stone for over a century. The sounds range from machines to manual tools to spatial ambience.
Step 2: Listen for aspects of the recordings that attract your ears. Focus on textures in particular.
Step 3: Create a piece of music combining elements from as few or as many as you chose in Step 2.
And … I forgot to include, in the previous email, the link to the source audio for this week’s project, all recorded by Tobias Reber. Sorry. It’s been a long day, and a long year. The link is here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/e3xo7qpydat4x2r/AAAPAs5QJVWcNWTrrScEnejta?dl=0
My Process:
Looking through the source files I instantly locked on to a rhythmic loop and begun building on it and tweaking and layering ambience.
Fellow Junto Participant @Kiggler joined me on Discord to suggest rearrangements and changes that dramatically improved the flow of the track.
All sounds are from the provided source audio (except for the kick drum).
Created in Bitwig.