Time's Up [disquiet0264] by dascott

When I thought about music which "plays with the perception of time", I thought of rhythms and expectations about them. This gave me the idea for the "interrupted clock" at the beginning. That lead to the need for winding sounds. Chimes I put in because I love them. I also played around with forward and reverse time (chimes are good for this), including an old trick where you run sounds backward into a reverb and then reverse that track to get backwards reverb but forward sounds (the first 3 winding sounds do this). Things start to fall apart as the two clocks not only fall out of sync, but both start to lose their regular timing. Frantic winding does not help, and everything comes to an abrupt end, commented on by the final chime.

I recorded the clock ticks with a "Blue" USB mike, using an old wind-up travel clock for one, and my radio-synched kitchen clock for the other. Sounds were processed using the RTcmix software toolbox.

My thanks go to to the following contributors at Freesound.org for the winding and chimes sounds listed:
jacobsteel:
http://www.freesound.org/people/jacobsteel/sounds/243610/download/243610__jacobsteel__clock-winding.aiff
Kinoton:
http://www.freesound.org/people/Kinoton/sounds/347139/download/347139__kinoton__antique-fireplace-clock-bell-one-strike.wav
BiancaBothaPure:
http://www.freesound.org/people/BiancaBothaPure/sounds/365779/download/365779__biancabothapure__winding-up-a-clock.wav
daveincamas:
http://www.freesound.org/people/daveincamas/sounds/44099/download/44099__daveincamas__onechime.wav

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