BETTER OFF TED

This track treats a photo by Yojiro Imasaka as its score. More on Imasaka at: http://yojiroimasaka.com. 

View original image: http://disquiet.com/images/2012/2012.05/2012.05-yojiroimasaka.jpg

The music you hear emanates from the windows. It includes the sound of someone banging on the pipes and metalwork. I tried to interpret the windows’s variation in size from left to right as a direct influence in this track’s complexity and velocity. 

Audio recorded between May 10-14. 

Features extensive use of The Harvestman’s feedback console (Evin 209 + Stilton Adapter) with pedal chain. Rhythms created with Double Andore influencing Piston Honda and Polivoks VCF. Others…

All in all, 7 individual modular takes were recorded. The original final edit to this track was over 6 minutes in length. In order meet the 4 minute track duration requirement and represent the many floors of windows in the image, I divided the track in half and faded the 2 regions into one another. 

Edits and changes to time created in Logic Pro. 

I used my usual array of stock Logic plugins and one instance of D16 Toraverb.

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto

Track 1: Acoustic guitar through Tyme Sefari. 
Track 2: Hertz Donut drone. 
Track 3: Piston Honda manipulation.

A sonic interperataion of an excerpt from Matt Madden’s single-page comic:

Harvestman Modular, 5by5’s “The Critical Path” excerpt.

Background: Matt Madden’s single-page comic is the template for a book he created titled 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style. In the book, Madden told that same story 99 different ways, each in a different comic-book style. For example, he told it as a superhero comic, he told it as a manga, he told it as experienced from upstairs, and he told it as if it were overheard at a bar. Madden did this in homage to the French writer Raymond Queneau’s own Exercises in Style, which is a key text of the literary movement known as Oulipo. Oulipo approaches the act of writing with intentional constraints, and the movement’s approach to creativity was a strong influence on the development of the Disquiet Junto. Oubapo is the name of the comics version of Oulipo. What we’re up to is the musical version: Oumupo

More on Matt Madden and his book 99 Ways to Tell a Story at:
http://mattmadden.com/
http://exercisesinstyle.com/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

It’s with great pleasure that I am able to announce my inclusion in the formidable Futuresequence series, SEQUENCE. Taken from my upcoming full length on Quonset Digital, Recordings for Ensoniq Fizmo’s P64 has been featured on SEQUENCE3. The immense track listing includes work from some of my favorite ambient/drone artists and clocks in at over 4 hours in duration. A definite must-have for 2012.