The Kite Prison (disquiet0290) by ikjoyce

For this week's Junto, I was struggling to come up with an idea. So I took an old poem that I wrote about writer's block - in which I used a collection of odd phrases and juxtapositions that I had been keeping for band-names / track titles. I had a female voice from http://www.fromtexttospeech.com/ read out the text and then looped a few phrases - placing them in line with the audio like a series of echoes. Each one has its own volume curve, panning, and different reverb. I had the original text play alone, then start echoing with a key phrase, before having only the echoed phrases play without the original text. I then used a male voice to read a re-worked version of the poem, which has a more structured form. So the whole piece represents the creative process - from an initial idea, through the mental processing and reworking of the ideas, and then the final piece.

More on this 290th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Text-to-Beat: Use computer-generated speech as the rhythmic foundation for a track. — at:

https://disquiet.com/0290/

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Image associated with this project is by Flickr member Jordan, used thanks to a (note: No Derivatives) Creative Commons license:

flic.kr/p/6vQoMS

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