mateimartainment [disquiet0068-deriv] by lordofoverstock

Each 20 second segment of music was burned to a CD-R and scratched by hand, then played on a CD player through a mixer and into the computer. This technique, most notably popularized by Markus Popp of Oval (though practiced by innumerable artists) takes a skilled hand when dealing with a CD-R, which lacks the protective layer that gives the scratcher some leeway before the disc is unplayable. Unfortunately this happened with the first sample I tried it with, so instead I layered it in Ableton to create an ambient bed for the track. The other two samples were mangled by my screwdriver, captured in Audacity, and the most interesting parts were extracted. Due to the time constraints of the Disquiet Junto project, I arranged the song in one pass, from beginning to end, over the course of an hour. I'm interested in the random nature of the glitches created by skipping CDs, and the three source tracks were a great way to experiment with this phenomena. No new material or effects were used in this track.

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More on this 68th Disquiet Junto project, the intent of which is to draw attention to the benefits of a Creative Commons license allowing for derivative works, at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/04/18/disquiet0068-deriv/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

This track is composed from material extracted from three pre-existing tracks (“The Find Beauty, Even in the Mundane,” “Immaterial Girl,” “Libertarian Entertainment Automaton”) by C. Reider, all of which were released on the album The Conjuncts on the deriv.cc netlabel, and were themselves derived from the following: “Garden City” and “Ventilation” from Tulse Hill by Hannah Marshall; “LichenWall” from Gardening by Steve Moyes; “Eighteen Events” from Not One Nor by Daniel Barbiero; “Awkward Customer” from [m2012/30-09] by Restive; “cues two three” and “cue six” from Cue Sheet by Sighup; “Sending Dreams to She Downstream” from Pocket Suite by He Can Jog; “The Palsgraf Scale” from Weights and Measures by Gurdonark; “Bonus Track” from Pale by Leo Bettinelli and Pol Nieva; “Haunted Grace” from Haunted Grace on SoundCloud by Jess Lemont a.k.a. Be A Waterwolf; “Ochiita” from Gently Annoying by Xesús Valle; and “Once More With Intellect” from [m2012/30-09] by Restive.