Wellesley Tupelo [ disquiet0326 - waveturntable ] by Belly Full Of Stars

published on 2018-04-05T07:41:19Z

Wellesley Tupelo [ disquiet0326 - waveturntable ] Created for the Disquiet Junto Project 0326: Wave Turntable @disquiet The project: In collaboration with composer Danny Clay, make music for his exhibit with artist Jon Fischer using only sine waves and turntable surface noise. Among the many eclectic finds in my late grandfather's record collection is a personally inscripted copy of a 1961 album by the college acapella group The Wellesley Tupelos. Given its (apparently) personal nature, its nicely noisy-looking coat of dust, and its antiqued choir warbles, it seemed like the perfect record for this project. To capture the surface noise/vibrations, I first tried a contact mic attached to the innermost groove of the record, while dropping the needle on the first track (Bahama Mama). After my twisting cable pulled the mic off the vinyl, I tried attaching it to the tone arm, instead. All of the vinyl surface noise sounds in this piece are from that recording. For the sine tones, I pared down an EP preset on a Casio VZ-10m to a single oscillator, and removed any modulators. I recorded four tracks, playing live while adjusting the main envelop attack and sustain from the Casio's front panel. There are only few edits and looping of the vinyl tracks done post recording, along with a little bit of panning, and levels for the mix. The end result feels a bit like old vinyl meets slightly random tape loops - lines of similar thought that happen to be playing together, but maybe not all at the same speed. More on this 326th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Wave Turntable: In collaboration with composer Danny Clay, make music for his exhibit with artist Jon Fischer using only sine waves and turntable surface noise) at: https://disquiet.com/0326/ More on Clay and Fischer at: http://dclaymusic.com http://feather2pixels.com More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ Subscribe to project announcements here: http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/ Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0326-wave-turntable/ There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.