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INSTAGR/AM/BIENT: 25 Sonic Postcards

25 tracks, 1.06.51 disquiet on December 28, 2011 17:45

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  1. Go to track Marcus Fischer: "Up Above the Hill-Sky"
    1. Marcus Fischer: "Up Above the Hill-Sky" 3.00 4690 plays
  2. Go to track Christopher Bissonnette: "Downwards"
    2. Christopher Bissonnette: "Downwards" 2.17 2381 plays
  3. Go to track Dead Wood: "Warming"
    3. Dead Wood: "Warming" 2.26 1829 plays
  4. Go to track Oootini: "My Other Lens Is a Leica"
    4. Oootini: "My Other Lens Is a Leica" 3.00 1451 plays
  5. Go to track Ronny Nibblets: "Slap My Halyards"
    5. Ronny Nibblets: "Slap My Halyards" 2.48 1210 plays
  6. Go to track Radere: "Snow Noise (Overhead)"
    6. Radere: "Snow Noise (Overhead)" 2.46 1176 plays
  7. Go to track Benjamin Dauer: "In Reference to Time"
    7. Benjamin Dauer: "In Reference to Time" 3.00 1015 plays
  8. Go to track Earsmack: "So This Is How It Ends"
    8. Earsmack: "So This Is How It Ends" 3.00 968 plays
  9. Go to track Smyth: "The Space Between"
    9. Smyth: "The Space Between" 2.52 906 plays
  10. Go to track Evan Cordes: "At the Window"
    10. Evan Cordes: "At the Window" 3.04 797 plays
  11. Go to track J Butler: "Sundown"
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  12. Go to track Warren Craghead III: "Some Found Things"
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  13. Go to track Mark Rushton: "Float"
    13. Mark Rushton: "Float" 2.17 667 plays
  14. Go to track Atlastop: "A Bursting Yellow Heart Landed in the Collapsible Forest"
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  15. Go to track Richard Ginns: "Mauldeth Rise"
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  16. Go to track Simon Scott: "Agra"
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  17. Go to track Steiner: "A Place I Used to Call Home"
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  18. Go to track The OO-Ray: "Silhouettes"
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  19. Go to track Ted James: "You're Trying to Focus, but It's Too Far Away"
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  20. Go to track Tom Vourtsis: "Black Eyes"
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  21. Go to track Linda Aubry Bullock: "Near Cedar"
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  24. Go to track Naoyuki Sasanami: "Fugetsu"
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    Tags: instagram field recording photography ambient creative commons netlabel phonography

    INSTAGR/AM/BIENT: 25 ambient musicians created original sonic postcards in response to one another’s evocative Instagram photos.

    . . . . .

    Get a free PDF booklet to accompany the album at archive.org.

    Download all 25 MP3s for free at http://www.archive.org/details/Instagrambient.

    More on the project at Disquiet.com.

    . . . . .

    AN INTRODUCTION TO INSTAGR/AM/BIENT

    Photos shared with the popular software Instagram are usually square in format, not unlike the cover to a record album. The format leads inevitably to a question: if a given image were the cover to a record album, what would the album’s music sound like?

    Instagr/am/bient is a response to that question. The project involves 25 musicians with ambient inclinations. Each of the musicians contributed an Instagram photo, and in turn each of the musicians recorded an original track in response to one of the photos contributed by another of the project’s participants. The tracks are sonic postcards. They are pieces of music whose relative brevity—all are between one and three minutes in length—is designed to correlate with the economical, ephemeral nature of an Instagram photo.

    The result of the 25 musicians’ collective efforts is an investigation into the intersection of technology, aesthetics, and artistic process. What parallels exist, for example, between the visual filters that Instagram provides users to transform their photos and the sound-processing tools employed by electronic musicians?

    In many cases here, the musicians employ sonic field recordings as source material for their music. In the case of both their photos and their compositions (photography in one case, phonography in the other), documents are altered to emphasize their atmospheric qualities: to eke a modest art out of the everyday.

    Marc Weidenbaum
    December 2011
    San Francisco, California
    marc@disquiet.com

    . . . . .

    A Disquiet.com Project
    Commissioned by Marc Weidenbaum

    Design/Boondesign.com
    Cover Photo/Brian Scott

    This project in no way intends to imply any formal association with Instagram.

    This release is licensed/ Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0).

    Released by: Disquiet.com
    Release date: Dec 28, 2011
    The set "INSTAGR/AM/BIENT: 25 Sonic Postcards" by disquiet is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
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