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INSTAGR/AM/BIENT: 25 Sonic Postcards

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

  1. 1. Marcus Fischer: "Up Above the Hill-Sky" 3.00 8752 plays
  2. 2. Christopher Bissonnette: "Downwards" 2.17 4181 plays
  3. 3. Dead Wood: "Warming" 2.26 3142 plays
  4. 4. Oootini: "My Other Lens Is a Leica" 3.00 2656 plays
  5. 5. Ronny Nibblets: "Slap My Halyards" 2.48 2107 plays
  6. 6. Radere: "Snow Noise (Overhead)" 2.46 1959 plays
  7. 7. Benjamin Dauer: "In Reference to Time" 3.00 1669 plays
  8. 8. Earsmack: "So This Is How It Ends" 3.00 1548 plays
  9. 9. Smyth: "The Space Between" 2.52 1468 plays
  10. 10. Evan Cordes: "At the Window" 3.04 1262 plays
  11. 11. J Butler: "Sundown" 2.30 1029 plays
  12. 12. Warren Craghead III: "Some Found Things" 2.14 941 plays
  13. 13. Mark Rushton: "Float" 2.17 1000 plays
  14. 14. Atlastop: "A Bursting Yellow Heart Landed in the Collapsible Forest" 3.00 966 plays
  15. 15. Richard Ginns: "Mauldeth Rise" 3.00 884 plays
  16. 16. Simon Scott: "Agra" 2.23 1032 plays
  17. 17. Steiner: "A Place I Used to Call Home" 3.00 1185 plays
  18. 18. The OO-Ray: "Silhouettes" 2.44 996 plays
  19. 19. Ted James: "You're Trying to Focus, but It's Too Far Away" 2.55 934 plays
  20. 20. Tom Vourtsis: "Black Eyes" 2.59 622 plays
  21. 21. Linda Aubry Bullock: "Near Cedar" 1.15 603 plays
  22. 22. Wooden Walls: "Meter Maid" 2.17 691 plays
  23. 23. XYZR_KX: "Fly" 2.44 771 plays
  24. 24. Naoyuki Sasanami: "Fugetsu" 2.17 641 plays
  25. 25. Christopher Olson: "Swanoji" 2.52 574 plays

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

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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.

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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

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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

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